Ephemera Jan 2006
MILITARY & AVIATION
1. AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS A fine collection of wartime leaflets and notices issued by the Government for public information including hanging card to enter details of nearest Warden’s Post, First Aid Post, air raid signals, fire precautions etc, War Emergency Information and Instructions folding leaflet, If the Invader Comes (June 1940), Message by the Prime Minister (Sept 1940), General Hints and Particulars of Articles for your Refuge Room Obtainable from Boots the Chemist, Immobilisation of Motor Vehicles in the Event of Invasion (1941), Danger of Invasion – Compulsory Registration of School Children (1941), What to do about Gas (1941), If Hitler Uses Blister Gas (1942), Phosphorous and other Bombs Now being Used by the Enemy (1942), Danger of Small Anti-Personnel Bomb, illustrated (1943), Anti-Personnel Bombs are being Used (1943), Revised Instructions of Attacking Incendiary Bombs (1944), Fire Prevention Regulations (Borough of Worthing 1942), also a 12-page booklet ‘KEEP THIS WITH YOU ALWAYS’. General condition is very good – the odd one or two with minor foxing. A lot of 14 items that conjures up the dark days of the war. Unrepeatable at £50
2. DAILY TELEGRAPH GAZETEER WAR MAP OF WESTERN EUROPE World War One folding map on linen published by Geographia Ltd, 10 miles to the inch, fair £3
3. DAILY TELEGRAPH WAR MAP No 3 Scandinavia and the Baltic States and Finland, very large folding map, scale 52 miles to the inch, Mannerheim Line and ‘other defences’ marked, in very good condition £5
4. DAILY EXPRESS WAR MAP - WESTERN ZONE c1944 taking in England, France, Low Countries, Germany, Denmark, Norway, a large folding map with protected areas marked in south and eastern England, pre-invasion bombing by the Allies, strategic roads etc. Illustrated with Allied military leaders. Very fair condition £4
5. ROOF OVER BRITAIN The Official story of the AA defences 1939-42, prepared by the Ministry of Aviation, HMSO 1943, 88pp illustrated £4
6. PALESTINE by James Parkes, an Oxford Pamphlet 1941, 32pp, good condition £2
7. WARSHIP WEEK Leaflet urging the public to ‘Save and lend for all we’re worth in War Savings … War Savings Are Warships’. With 4-verse poem ‘Give Us More Ships’ by Gilbert Frankau £4
8. ATLANTIC BRIDGE The Official account of RAF Transport Command’s Ocean Ferry during World War 2, HMSO 1945, 75pp illustrated, fair condition £5
9. VICTORY BALL at the Royal Naval Barracks Portsmouth, 14th June 1946, printed supper menu with two punch holes £2
10. BRITISH TROOPS IN AUSTRIA Searchlight Tattoo at Schonbrunn Palace in aid of the children of Vienna June 1946, programme in English and German, cover damaged and folded down centre as it has been posted to London with Field Post Office cancel 1st July 1946, still a collectable item £4
11. ARMY UNIFORMS OF WORLD WAR 2 by Andrew Mollo, published by Blandford Press 1974, 183-page hardback plus colour plates with 257 illustrations by Malcolm McGregor, very good condition £4
12. KIRKHAM PIE ANNUAL Published by Education Section, RAF Kirkham, 80pp with illustrated cover in colour by Raymond Malmstrom, a very professional job with good articles and well illustrated. Very good condition apart from the usual rusty staples £9
13. HOUSEHOLD BRIGADE MAGAZINE I have two copies, Summer 1946 and Autumn 1946, former with Victory Procession and ‘On Guard at Nuremburg’ (war crimes trials), latter with ‘Twenty Years in the Foreign Legion’, Sudan Defence Force etc Each £4 or pair for £7
14. THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL at Edinburgh Castle, 36-page souvenir booklet printed and published by Valentine & Son Ltd with sepia photographs of the memorials, attractive cover, no date but probably late 1940s, very good condition £4
15. THE SCHNEIDER TROPHY CONTEST 50th Anniversary Weekend Sept 1981, official souvenir programme of flying at Calshot, 28pp illustrated £2
16. THE HAZARDS TO MAN OF NUCLEAR AND ALLIED RADIATIONS HMSO 1956, 128pp, presented to Parliament June 1956, including the nature of radiation, the effects on the health of the individual, genetic effects, radiation from natural sources, occupational exposure, contamination, nuclear warfare etc. Staples have rusted and now missing, otherwise good £4
NAVAL & SHIPPING
17. PLYMOUTH NAVY WEEK 1934 Poster measuring approx 7in x 12in illustrated with a warship and inviting the public to ‘COME AND SEE US’ and listing attractions including Drake’s Golden Hind Afloat. Reverse has a map of Plymouth and local information. In remarkably fine condition £10
18. THE NAVAL ROLE IN MODERN WARFARE by Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, an Oxford Pamphlet 1940, 32pp in good condition £2
19. NAVAL COMRADESHIP YEAR BOOK 1951-52 Published by the Croydon branch of the Royal Naval Association. Card cover with portrait of the King, centre pages with decorations and medals in colour, illustrations, articles, adverts, fair/good condition £4
20. ATLANTIC TRANSPORT LINE Dinner menu card 29th November 1931, front illustrated with s s Minnetonka. Gives abstract of log London – New York via Boulogne, 3217 miles in 8 days. Repaired but interesting £5
21. UNION CASTLE LINE Luncheon menu RMMV Capetown Castle 28th May 1961, front illustrated with Basutoland pipe smoker, good condition £2
22. P & O WALLET plastic with compartments for your travellers cheques and foreign currency, quite smart, unused £2
RAIL TRANSPORT
23. SEACOMBE, HOYLAKE & DEESIDE RAILWAY Four pages from the ‘Train Book’ showing numbers of passengers traveling on certain trains (not many!) and receipts (not much!), Memo from Birkenhead Docks re Free Passes on headed Company notepaper (with coat of arms), Consignment Notes (3), Requisition for Contract Tickets (2), Way Bill, Left Luggage ticket, Daily Summary of cash receipts and remittances at Docks. An interesting and scarce lot from a small railway in the 1890s £40
24. CHESHIRE LINES COMMITTEE Parcel Way Bill, Advice of goods (2) and a Consignment Note, 1880s/90s, fair to good, 4 items £7
25. CHESHIRE LINES COMMITTEE Dalkeith Limited Edition series (numbered 1407), composite set of six showing routes and stations in illustrated envelope, fine £5
26. MERSEY RAILWAY 1890s printed ticket for the carriage of dogs from Liverpool Low Level to Docks, has filing holes £4 Ticket for carriage of flowers £3
27. WIRRAL RAILWAY 1890s printed Parcels Way Bills/Consignments Notes from Birkenhead Docks to various stations, each £4 or 5 for £15
28. WIRRAL RAILWAY 1890s printed ticket for Horse/Carriage/Dog ticket from Birkenhead Docks £4
29. WIRRAL RAILWAY ATHLETIC CLUB Penny Guessing Competition for an 18 carat gold watch, ‘What time did the watch stop?’. Printed entry form with 59 entrants, 1897, fair condition £5
30. LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY Advice of Goods – Birkenhead station, also a letter from Widnes Local Board Surveyors Dept, 1880s, pair for £5
31. LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY 1905 single sheet with map of the complete system and connections (Euston-Carlisle, Holyhead, Leeds, Bristol, Swansea Cardiff etc), reverse with an advert for weekend and tourist tickets, very good condition £5
32. LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY Two dividend certificates 1910 and 1918, pair £3
33. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD & LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY Foreign Voucher 1896 from Guide Bridge station £4
34. LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY 1893 Telegraphic Despatch from Yeoford Station to Exeter, 1895 form for Summary of Traffic, c1900 form for dividends and interest and two typed letters 1904 re certificates, all on headed notepaper, 5 items £7
35. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY Early handbill 22nd January 1903 advertising half day excursion from Bristol Temple Meads to Weymouth, good condition for age, scarce £5
36. MIDLAND RAILWAY Three dividend certificates (one is a debenture) 1905-15, also an unused Parcels Way Bill, lot for £5
37. SOMERSET & DORSET JOINT LINE Two advice notes of arrival of cider at Wincanton 1909-10 and a 1956 consignment note from Evercreech for one pigeon £4
38. SOUTHERN RAILWAY Selection of luggage labels including Charing Cross, London Bridge, Clapham Junction, New Cross, Sheerness, Woolwich Arsenal, St Leonards Warrior Square etc. 16 labels £7
39. RUSSELL’S PORTSMOUTH ABC TRAVEL GUIDE wartime edition (December 1942) giving services by rail and steamer to the Isle of Wight, the Midlands and North with timetables, fares and map, adverts for hotels, shops etc, fair condition £5
40. BATH & DISTRICT ABC RAIL AND BUS GUIDE 128-page handbook of timetables, rail map and adverts. I have two copies in collectable condition, June and October 1950, each £4; or pair for £7
41. AUTOMATIC TRAIN CONTROL Illustrated booklet issued by the LMS in 1947 describing the purpose and working of the signaling system £6
42. BRITISH RAILWAYS RULE BOOK 1950 Includes amendments authorized up to October 1961, 280pp plus index, also various supplements £5
43. CHEAP DAY TICKETS between Bedford and Kentish Town and various stations from 1st Jan 1962 until further notice, handbill £2
44. ABC OF SOUTHERN LOCOMOTIVES published by Ian Allan June 1945, illustrated, quite a lot of underlining of numbers (belonged to a keen Bournemouth spotter!), fair £5
45. ABC OF SOUTHERN LOCOCMOTIVES published by Ian Allan 1048, illustrated, underlining and some writing, fair £3
46. ABC OF BRITISH ELECTRIC TRAINS published by Ian Allan January 1948, illustrated, with route maps, takes in London and suburban, Lancaster, Liverpool, Wirral, Mersey, Manchester, Tyneside, Swansea, Manx and others. Interesting guide in quite good condition £8
47. ABC OF BRITISH RAILWAYS LOCOMOTIVES Part 2, Southern Region diesel and electric, published by Ian Allan, 1954, additions in ink £5
48. BLUEBELL RAILWAY 1960s handbook, 32pp illustrated, with full history well produced in excellent condition. Also Southern Railway leaflet 1963 advertising cheap tickets to Sheffield Park (Bluebell Line) from London, Brighton, Worthing etc. Pair £4
49. THE CAMBRIAN COAST Illustrated brochure with map and artistic cover published by British Railways c1950s with ticket information £5
50. THE WORLD’S SMALLEST PUBLIC RAILWAY by OJ Morris, published by Ian Allan Ltd 1946, 64-page illustrated handbook of the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in good condition £8
51. LYNTON & BARNSTAPLE RAILWAY Two sets of six Dalkeith cards, one the limited edition R7 issued in the early 1980s (now scarce), the other S41 later series. Both art drawn showing locomotives, trains, stations at Lynton and Barnstaple, viaduct, route map etc. Each set in special illustrated envelope. Pair in fine condition £10
52. PARIS METRO MAP folding card in colour, very good condition, no date £4
53. ‘THE EMPIRE BUILDER’ Lovely colourful folding brochure of this train ‘Fastest and Finest between Chicago and Seattle’. Pictures the great domes and Pullman accommodation, 1957, very good condition £4
ROAD TRANSPORT
54. ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB Small card of car index marks, May 1919 £4
55. MORRIS FOURTEEN-SIX Operation manual 1937, 125pp illustrated, usual grubby cover but a reasonable copy £5
56. ROADCRAFT: The Police Drivers’ Manual published by HMSO in 1961, 77pp with diagrams. Covers physical and mental requirements, car control, signals, road observation, acceleration, braking, skidding etc. Very good condition £5
57. LONDON TRANSPORT Wartime Bus Map (folding) of the Central Area with details of 254 routes giving terminal points, frequency of service, times for full journey with notes about the blackout, also indexed, November 1940. Minor staining but a good collectable item £8
58. UNITED COUNTIES EXPRESS SERVICES Brochure with time and fare tables Nottingham – Northampton – London, 1963 £4
59. RAPID PULLMAN SERVICES OF PARIS 4-page brochure illustrated with one of their impressive passenger vehicles, gives various itineraries and excursions, all text in French £3
STAGE AND SCREEN
60. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET Souvenir programme for the play ‘The Little Minister’ by J M Barrie, 1898, hard covers, opens up to reveal 15 black and white sketches 11in x 7.5in by famous artist PHIL MAY of actors in character who took part, also black and white prints of the theatre exterior, J M Barrie and three others making this complete (difficult to find intact). Spine damaged and covers worn at edges. A rarity £25
61. THEATRE POSTER Kings Theatre, Elmbank Street, Charing Cross, announcing final weeks of ‘Half Past Eight’, a musical cocktail of song, dance, laughter, October 1942, 13in x 25in, very good condition £6
62. PICTUREGOER ‘FAMOUS FILMS’ SUPPLEMENT Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in ‘Saratoga’, 16pp, 1937 just after the death of Harlow, good condition £5
63. MY FAIR LADY Souvenir hardback 1958 lavishly illustrated of the famous musical at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane with biographies of the cast: Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway, Robert Coote, Zena Dare etc. Excellent condition £7
64. THE AMAZING ELVIS PRESLEY is the title of this 1958 magazine in the Fans’ Star Library series published by Amalgamated Press Ltd, 64 pages packed with news and information on Elvis backed up by dozens of pictures. Some wear to cover and some splitting at fold but very collectable £12
65. THE BEATLES BOOK Monthly magazine for September 1964 with lots of pictures of the famous four and news of their activities £5
66. BLACK AND WHITE MINSTREL SHOW Late 1960s programme of this record breaking show at the Victoria Palace, good condition £2
67. AN EVENING WITH TOMMY STEELE Prince of Wales Theatre 11th October 1979, programme in very good condition £3
68. THE STORY OF THE MAKING OF BEN HUR by MGM. Lots of colour pictures, short biographies of the actors and tells you how it was done, good condition £5
69. THE TALE OF SOUTH PACIFIC Hardback of Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s great musical published by Lehmann in 1958, 44pp profusely illustrated with articles on the stage show and the film, superb condition £8
70. DECCA RECORDING ARTISTS Two b&w cards (postcard size) of Maria Reining and Sena Jurinac, good condition £4
71. BERTRAM MILLS CIRCUS Programme for Olympia season 1952-53, coloured cover with sea lion and penguins has become detached, otherwise good. Numerous black and white sketches of the acts by Joan Wanklyn £5
72. BERTRAM MILLS CIRCUS Summer season 1954 programme including Danish Knabstrupps, Musical Chimpanzees, Alexander’s lions, tigers and leopard, Shetland and Palomino Ponies etc, good condition £5
73. BILLY SMART’S CIRCUS Handbill illustrated with Joan, the only cycling elephant in the world, comes to Kings Park Bournemouth c1953, very good condition £3
74. TOM ARNOLD’S HARRINGAY CIRCUS 1953 illustrated souvenir programme with Charles Shadwell and the Grand Circus Orchestra, Grand Elephant Octette, Swiss Stratosphere Sensation etc. good condition £6
| 75. WIMPEY ‘ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST CLOWNS’ Small poster showing some of his acts while touring America in the 1950s, photograph with three shots of him on a penny farthing cycle (creased), 1956 newspaper cutting and two lengthy letters from him, one written at Chicago 1966 with a lovely illustrated notepaper heading. Lot £5
AUTOGRAPHS 76. AUTOGRAPH ALBUM OF NOTABLE PEOPLE Collected mainly in the 1940s/50s it includes W R Morris (Lord Nuffield), Lord Dowding, Lord Birdwood, Sir John Harding, Alan Bullock, Basil Henriques (London magistrate), George Cansdale, Charles Wheeler (BBC), Alistaire Mars, Basil Spence. Politicians include two Speakers of the House of Commons (George Thomas and Horace King), ‘Bessie’ Braddock, Jennie Lee, the flamboyant Gerald Nabarro, Tony Greenwood, William Wells, John Peyton, Fred Bellenger, Ralph Morley. There are religious leaders including W R (Dean) Inge, the Bishops of Jamaica and Rhodesia and other clerics. The world of entertainment includes members of massed brass bands (Alex Mortimer, Frank Wright and others) and Manuela Sykes. Famous painter of horses and President of the Royal Academy Sir Alfred Munnings is a scarce autograph as are many of the others. The collection consists of almost a hundred signatures and in many cases printed biographical details are included. These are loose giving an untidy look but a little time spent on the collection would improve the presentation. A fine and interesting collection from 50 years ago! £145 77. ALS A selection of letters dated between 1742 and 1850, all written in French, some from nobility, some lengthy and an excellent lot for research. Six have postal markings including 38/DOLE, DOLE double circle, BESANCON double circle, Paris date stamps etc. 12 items £30 78. LESLIE HUTCHINSON (‘HUTCH’) cabaret star, signed booklet of ‘Coming Attractions’ at the Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth, ‘Cordial wishes from Hutch 1933’ £6 79. MICHAEL REDGRAVE signed piece £3 80. KEN DODD signed and inscribed colour photo 4in x 6in £4 81. CHUTER EDE Home Secretary in the 1945 Labour Government, typed letter signed Sept 1964, re a cover for a crested teapot £6 SPORT 82. CRICKET Illustrated articles culled from magazines 1893-99 including one by Pelham Warner ‘English Cricketers Abroad’, one by C B Fry illustrated with him batting for Sussex plus other articles on 19th century cricket to interest the enthusiast £5 83. THE GILLETTE BOOK OF CRICKET AND FOOTBALL edited by Gordon Ross, published by Frederick Muller 1963, 207-page hardback, packed with facts and figures, photoplates, good condition £5 84. 1953 TEST MATCH England v Australia at the Oval, official score card with most of the scores printed in (Hutton 82, May 39, Hassett 53, Lindwall 62, Trueman 4 for 86) £3 85. MCC SCORE CARDS May 1962 and May 1964, both v Surrey at Lords, some scores filled in. Players taking part included Sobers, Titmus, Ingleby Mackenzie, Cowdrey, Boycott, Stewart, Edrich, Barrington, Lock etc. Good condition, pair £7 86. SURREY v GLAMORGAN Four score cards involving these clubs (1962, 1964, 1967, 1971), all at the Oval. Players included Edrich, Barrington, Lock, Stewart, Parkhouse, Rees, Hedges etc. Good condition, 4 for £10 87. ESSEX v SURREY Score card August 1964 at Leyton, a few scores filled in, players include Bear, Edmeads, Bailey, Fletcher, Edrich, Arnold etc, Very good condition £3 88. SURREY v WEST INDIES Two score cards May 1963 and July 1963 at the Oval, some scores filled in. Players included Stewart, Edrich, Barrington, Kanhai, Sobers, Worrell, Valentine etc. Both in good condition £7 89. SURREY v LANCASHIRE Two score cards August 1963 and August 1965 at the Oval, former has scores filled in, other with printed scores. Players included Stewart, Edrich, Lock, Edwards, Pullar, Green, Grieves, Statham etc, both good condition £6 90. SURREY v PAKISTAN Score card June 1962 at the Oval, some scores filled in, players included Stewart, Edrich, May, Loader, Butt, Mohammed, Ahmed, Burki etc, good condition £4 91. SURREY v ESSEX Three score cards 1962, 1964, and 1966, some scores filled in, players include Stewart, Edrich, Barrington, Loader, Lock, Bailey, Taylor, Edmeades etc. Good condition £8 92. SURREY v DERBYSHIRE Three score cards 1963, 1964, 1967, many scores filled in (all of 1963 and 1964). Players included Stewart, Edrich, Barrington, Lock, Gibbs, Lee, Rhodes, Jackson etc. Good condition £8 93. SURREY COUNTY CRICKET CLUB Small quantity of score cards mainly 1960s including four v Notts and four second eleven, fair to good, , 18 in all £16 94. LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB 21 John Player League score cards, nearly all home matches, two Benson & Hedges (one home, one away) in which the Club participated during the years 1970-75. Many scores filled in in pencil, good condition £25 95. NEWS CHRONICLE CRICKET ANNUALS for 1954 and 1955 by Crawford White, both with 160 pages of articles and statistics, latter with small fault to lower spine, otherwise good, pair £4 96. RAICH CARTER’S SOCCER STAR Weekly football magazine, I have a run of 13 copies from 1953 with articles and pictures of the soccer scene over 50 years ago. Raich Carter was an England international, played outside right for Sunderland and Derby County before, during and after the second world war, won an FA Cup medal in 1946 with Derby, later went to Hull City. All in good condition £18 97. TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR F C A selection of programmes from seasons 1965-66 to 1975-76, the great days of Greaves, Clayton, Mullery, Mackay, Jennings, Chivers, Peters, Perryman, Kinnear and England. 20 programmes including one FA Cup match and a Youth, others all Division One £15 98. FULHAM F C A selection of programmes 1967-68 (7) and 1983 (3) including three Cup matches, others Division 1 or 2. Players included Bobby Robson, Johnny Haynes, Allan Clarke, Steve Earle, Macedo, later period Sean O’Driscoll, Ray Houghton etc. 10 programmes £9 99. NEWCASTLE UNITED F C A selection of programmes from the 1974-75 season, 9 Division One and one Cup. Players included McDermott, Macdonald, Kenedy, Nattrass, Tudor, Hibbert, Keeley. Lot for £9 100. COVENTRY CITY F C A selection of programmes from 1970 to 1976, League and Cup matches, 28 programmes £20 101. NOTTINGHAM FOREST F C A selection of programmes from the 1974-75 season, 5 Division 2, one Cup. Players included O’Neill, Bowyer, Martin, O’Kane. 6 programmes £5 102. NOTTINGHAM FOREST F C v WEST BROM 3rd September 1968 played at Meadow Lane (Notts County’s ground) following the disastrous fire at the City Ground. One programme £3 103. WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS F C A selection of programmes 1968 to 1978, League and Cup matches including 1969 America Tour Special. Players included Bailey, O’Grady, McCalliog, Dougan, Parkin, Parkes. 30 programmes £25 104. BRITISH LIONS v THE REST 1986 programme played at Cardiff Arms Park 16th April £2 EPHEMERA & MISCELLANEA 105. ROYALTY Special numbers of the Illustrated London News for May 4 1935 (Silver Jubilee Number), November 9 1935 (Duke & Duchess of Gloucester Wedding Number), January 25 1936 (Death of King George V) and February 1 1936 (Lying in State and Funeral). Lavish quartet in good condition £25 106. CITY OF LEICESTER JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS !935 Official Programme with a survey of the activities of several corporation departments, very good condition £7 107. ROYAL TOURS The Queen’s visits to Commonwealth countries in the 1950s recorded in souvenir booklets published by Pitkin Pictorials Ltd. These include Royal Tour of Kenya in 1952 when her father King George VI died whilst she was away (pictures of her arrival back in London being greeted by sorrowing prime minister Churchill), Southern Rhodesia in 1953, Australia and New Zealand in 1954 recorded in four separate books, and Nigeria in 1956. All highly illustrated. 7 books £25 108. ROYAL HOUSEHOLD SOCIAL CLUB, BUCKINGHAM PALACE Programme for 15th December 1952 including music by Sydney Thompson and his orchestra, colour illustration on front, produced by Raphael Tuck, lovely £7 109. 1951 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN South Bank Exhibition catalogue, HMSO 95pp plus 64pp of adverts, illustrated, plans etc, very good condition except for the usual rust staples £9 110. 1953 CORONATION CELEBRATIONS in the Borough of Heston & Isleworth with programme of events, very good condition £4 111. ROYAL WEDDING The Princess Margaret and Mr Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey 6 May 1960, Approved Souvenir Programme in very good condition £4 112. 1977 SILVER JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS by the Port 0f London Authority, souvenir brochure and programme including River Progress on the Thames, River Pageant, Firework Displays etc, very good condition £5 113. CITY LIVERY CLUB Annual Banquet at the London Guildhall 21st November 1956 with four pages of the Arms of the Livery Companies (79 in all including mercers, haberdashers, vintners, pewterers, chandlers, blacksmiths etc), also history of the Club, index of names, seating plan, menu etc. Most elaborate, ribbon tie, excellent condition £7 114. BANQUETS AND DINNERS A lovely selection held at the London Guildhall or Mansion House including a reception to the President of the Republic of Portugal 1955 and Lord Mayor’s Banquets 1950-65, all very elaborate, mostly with ribbon ties, a total of 7 items in excellent condition (and difficult to find like this) £20 115. BUTCHER’S ACCOUNT BOOK Thos Reeve, Butcher, 109 High Road, Chiswick, ‘Purveyor to Her Majesty’, in gold lettering with royal coat of arms on front, late Victorian, unused in good condition £7 116. CHRISTMAS CARDS SENT BY SIR MARTIN GILLIAT during the 1960s-80s, mainly official Royal Household and King’s Royal Rifle Corps cards to friends, some with personal messages, 45 cards in all £30 117. POLITICAL CARTOON BY KEM Christmas and New Year card 1948 from Kem, folding cartoon showing Churchill, Atlee, Bevin, Stalin, Molotov, Marshall, and others, some dressed as Santa Claus, good item in fine condition £8 118. 1953 CALENDAR mounted on card 8in x 8in with a photograph of Winchester Coach Station, with hanging ribbon, very good condition £4 119. HIS MAJESTY’S COLONIAL SERVICE 48-page handbook for those wishing to join the service pre-war although it was published by the Colonial Office in March 1945 – with the approach of peace they were obviously requiring new entrants. Gives details of application and selection, eligibility, training, establishments and emoluments etc. Rusty staples, otherwise good £7 120. 1914 RECEPTION at the De Montfort Hall Leicester by the Mayor and Mayoress to the teachers of Leicester, folding card with programme of music, humorous items (song in Lancashire dialect ‘Coom whoam to the childer an me’) and menu (potted salmon sandwiches). Aren’t you glad you weren’ t there £4 121. QUEEN’S COLLEGE Invitation to the Commemoration Service 1st May 1898 in fair condition £5 122. MADAME TUSSAUD’S EXHIBITION 1944 catalogue of exhibits (344) and Chamber of Horrors (84), usual rusty staple but quite good £4 123. ELECTRICITY (FACTORIES ACT) SPECIAL REGULATIONS 1908 AND 1944 under the Factories Acts 1937 and 1948, very large poster setting out the detailed regulations for display in relevant work places, folded, excellent condition £4 124. AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS, MACHINISTS, MILLWRIGHTS, SMITHS AND PATTERN MAKERS Membership card of Albert Edward Hindley, fitter, with seal of the Southwark branch, January 1871, hardback, minor staining but good for age £7 125. POST OFFICE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Booklet of Technical Pamphlets for Workmen, subject: Wireless Transmission and Reception, HMSO 1935, 75pp illustrated, good condition £5 126. UNION OF POST OFFICE WORKERS Annual Conference Brighton May 1936, 4-page programme in good condition £4 127. TRADE UNION POLICY IN THE WAR AGAINST FASCISM 24-page booklet published by the Communist Party of Great Britain in Dec 1942, gtood condition £5 128. ACHIEVE IT TOGETHER London Communist Special publication 1946 when the application of the Communist Party for the affiliation with the Labour Party came up, 8pp illustrated in fair condition £5 129. BRITAIN’S CRISIS A London Communist Special, 8pp illustrated, views of the British Communists in the 1947 crisis, fair £5 130. THE BATTLE FOR OUTPUT 1947 Full text of the White Paper ‘Economic Survey for 1947’ with a forword by the PM (Atlee) with charts, diagrams, graphs, very good condition £5 131. WESTMINSTER CITIZEN 8-page illustrated newspaper from the Conservative Party, October 1948 £3 132. NIKITA KRUSCHEV A selection of Press photos of varying sizes of the Russian leader meeting the people, speech making, posing with Chinese Communists etc, 9 photos £15 133. ROYAL GLOUCESTER LODGE Installation Banquet of Bro Jas Fewings as Worshipful Master at the Masonic Hall Southampton 10th Jan 1889, menu and toasts, good condition £5 134. MASONIC Upton Cross Chapter Installation Meetings, June 1943 and June 1946, both four pages with principals and officers, names and addresses of members etc, also statement of cash account 1945-46, good condition, 3 items £5 135. UNITED GRAND LODGE Certificate with seal for an initiation into Freemasonry September 1986 in the Jubilee Lodge Bournemouth plus two related items £5 136. UNITED GRAND LODGE Certificate with seal and signatures for an initiation into Freemasonry April 1935 in the Thalia Lodge London £4 137. THE MIRROR of Literature, Amusement and Instruction, magazine issue 681 for September 13th 1834, with two engravings and an article on the Isle of Wight, other articles on the Crisis at Waterloo, Cashmere Goat etc, loose stitching but intact £4 138. OUR OWN MAGAZINE A monthly magazine for young people, published by the Children’s Special Service Mission, containing high-minded articles and stories and has some illustrations. Not often seen, I can offer the complete year of 1914 bound into one volume. The illustrated binding is worn but contents excellent £7 139. THE MAGNET LIBRARY 1916 issue featuring Harry Wharton and the boys of Greyfriars in a long complete school story. I have a few copies in very good condition which I can offer at £4 each or SPECIAL OFFER of 3 for £10 including one with Billy Bunter! 140. THE PENNY POPULAR weekly magazine c1917 each with three complete stories: Harry Wharton, Jimmy Silver and Tom Merry, each £4 or 3 for £10 (one featuring Bunter) 141. FELIX REVE Comic in book form published by Hachette in France 1935, 32pp, illustrations by Pat Sullivan. Includes La Vengeance des Mites, Vendu!, Le Cambrioleur, La Poudre Magique etc. Illustrated cover, boards a little soiled, contents very good £10 142. LE JOURNAL DE MICKEY French edition of Mickey Mouse Weekly, five copies from 1953-54 numbers 83 to 87, coloured covers by Walt Disney, all text in French, good collectable condition £15 143. MECCANO MAGAZINE for July 1931 with articles on First Flight Australia – England illustrated with the flown cover, Exploring Antarctic, liner Empress of Britain, railway and engineering news, Meccano model of railway breakdown crane, stamp gossip, adverts etc. Excellent condition £7 144. DAILY MAIL FREE INSURANCE Certificate states Miss E Shepherd is registered for benefits under the free insurance scheme 1931 such as £5,000 for being killed in a railway accident and numerous other awards £3 145. 1900 DIARY One month per page, unused, rusty staple but good for age £4 146. ‘PERHAPS TODAY’ CALENDAR FOR 1951 Page per month, each month has a Biblical text and a short sermon, with Christian Wishes from Pastor and Mrs Francis of Swansea, very good condition £5 147. JOHN MYSTERY SINGING CARD complete with a record which ‘will play on any machine’. This one is a Christmas card but there are cards for all occasions ‘all written, composed and directed by John Mystery in person’. Also a booklet on ‘How to play the miracle miniature plastic records. No date, very good condition £7 148. SAND PICTURE Brading Church from coloured sands on the Isle of Wight, postcard size, unfortunately foxed, but must be worth £3 149. BOVRIL ‘MULTIPLAN’ or the Scholar’s Calculator, a card with windows which moves up and down to show your tables with the reminder ‘Ask Mother for Bovril’, very good condition £5 |
| 150. THE STORY OF OUTSPAN Coloured brochure of 1954 showing how oranges get from South Africa to your shopping basket, fine £3
151. DOCTOR’S ORDERS A Family Doctor Special published by the BMA c1964 with articles such as what time should children go to bed, lots of fresh air and plenty of exercise, healthy appetites, active people need sugar the pure energy food, planning your meals, recipes etc. Some nice adverts including Camp coffee, Hovis, Bovril, Primula, Eucryl, Start-rite, Paddipads and others, 48pp well illustrated £4 152. STAMP CATALOGUE from William S Lincoln, ‘The Oldest Established Stamp Dealer in the World’, 1911/12 with offers of stamps of Newfoundland, Tripoli, Montenegro, Servia etc. Also offers the Lincoln Stamp album for seven shillings and sixpence, fair £4 153. TELEGRAMMES A selection of French telegrammes used between 1881 and 1947, various markings and a 1927 Dechirer, Lot £20 154. NATIONAL SAVINGS CERTIFICATES 1935 booklet explaining what they are, how to buy and who may buy them, maximum number held, obtaining repayment, growth in value etc. Staples missing, otherwise very good condition £7 155. NATIONAL SAVINGS CERTIFICATES 1935 folding leaflet on ‘How They Grow in Value’ £4 156. NATIONAL SAVINGS Folding card with happy smiling young child on front, opens up to reveal spaces for Savings stamps and weight record table of child from birth up to 12 months £3 157. POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK BOOKS Five books with entries, one with four one shilling Savings stamps affixed postmarked Hailsham 1920-22, the others with written entries 1919-31, 1926-35, 1935, 1956-60, 5 for £12 158. POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK 4-page leaflet giving details of Immediate Annuities c1950s, also a 1936 leaflet giving details about the Bank, both very good condition, pair £5 159. PREMIUM SAVINGS BONDS Folding leaflet introducing Premium Bonds on sale 1st November 1956 (is it really nearly 50 years since ERNIE appeared). Gives details of prizes (top prize £1,000) and answers to other questions about the Bonds £4 160. KESWICK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’S SHOW 1931 Catalogue of entires 30pp including local adverts, good condition £4 161. OUR NATIONAL FLAG Folding brochure in colour How to Display and Respect It and an envelope containing two paper flags which you can proudly fly from your automobile antenna. No prizes for guessing the country but if you need a clue it’s got stars and stripes £5 162. CHROMOLITHO PRINT 6in x 8in from Infant’s Magazine c1900 of young girl bathing her black dolly ‘He won’t come clean’, signed Wansey Smith £5 163. ISAAC PITMAN SHORTHAND The Phonographic Reporter or Reporter’s Companion, An Adaptation of Phonography to Verbatim Reporting by Isaac Pitman and published by Pitmans 1886, 96pp packed with shorthand lessons for the reporter, also a booklet Reporting Exercises (Reporter’s Companion) published by Pitman 1885, 36pp, latter in very good condition, former a little stained but very collectable. Very scarce pair, seldom offered £20 164. TAUNTON TRADE SCHOOL, SOUTHAMPTON Programme of Speech Night in December 1899 (School founded 1760, new buildings 1899), 20pp with a most decorative card cover. Gives boys’ achievements, prizes and certificates etc. Minor faults but very scarce £15 165. WINCHESTER COLLEGE SONG BOOK Small hardback published by P & G Wells 1919 with over 80 songs they were singing at the end of the first world war such as A Hunting We Will Go, Come Lasses and Lads, Road To Mandalay, British Grenadiers etc. Reasonable condition £4 166. ORPHANS AND RAGGED SCHOOLS A plea for more workers to help these unfortunates although they can only expect as little as half a crown a week in the school in Madras, India. Four-page leaflet with Biblical texts in good condition, January 1904 £4 167. CAMPCRAFT FOR GIRL GUIDES 1933 first edition published by the Girl Guides Association, 304pp illustrated, 4in x 6in, boards slightly stained, contents good £5 168. SONGS FOR GIRL GUIDES from the British Commonwealth and Empire selected by Mary Chater and published by the Girl Guides Association 1959, small 32-page handbook with words and music including Waltzing Mathilda, Sare Mare and others, excellent condition £4 169. WOLF CUB ENROLMENT CARD in the name of Brian Mahony of 1st Kalafrana Pack, Malta, 1952, nice colourful design showing wolf cubs in a variety of activities £5 170. THE CUB BOOK by Lord Baden-Powell, published by C Arthur Pearson 1953 revised reprint, 80pp illustrated, good condition £4 171. CHILD’S PARTY INVITATION for January 6th 1911 (no boys admitted, beds provided for girls from a distance) illustrated in colour with children, cut-away type, good condition £5 172. VERE FOSTER’S COPY BOOK 24pp produced by Blackie & Son with different styles of alphabetical lettering, unused in good condition £4 173. BBC BROADCASTS TO SCHOOLS Three well illustrated booklets of 1951 in the series ‘Living in the Country’, all in very good condition, lot £5 174. HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN SURREY by Eric Parker with many illustrations by Hugh Thomson, published by MacMillan 1935 (second pocket edition revised) with index 452pp, damage to spine and wear to boards, contents very good and a delightful book to the lover of Surrey, modestly priced at £5 175. VOYSEY’S RURAL RAMBLES Book One published 1927 taking in routes round Dorking, Reigate, Gomshall, Holmbury, Betchworth, Friday Street, Leigh etc with six full page illustrations. With 23 rambles in all giving mileages and points of interest (wonder if they’re still there?). Good condition £3 176. STAR RAMBLES FOR HIKERS Volume 2, South of the Thames, published by the News Chronicle Publications 1931, 128pp with 25 illustrated rambles, slight foxing at back £4 177. THE WHARFE Number one in the Yorkshire Rivers series c1890, 43pp 5in x 7in hardback with large folding strip map with bird’s eye view of the river and roads adjoining, slight wear to boards but contents very good, scarce £9 178. MORE YORKSHIRE MOTOR RUNS published by the Yorkshire Evening Post 1936 with maps to guide you. If you were lucky enough to have a car you could have done these 20 runs, fair condition £3 179. CYCLIST’S TOURING CLUB Handbook and Guide for 1938 compiled and published by the C T C, 424pp including CTC hotels, farm, boarding and refreshment houses, camp sites, chief consuls, repairers and much other info, Good condition £9 180. DORSET AND ENVIRONS W H Smith’s Reduced Ordnance map c1912, mounted on cloth folding to 4in x 6in, average condition for age £4 181. R A C COUNTY ROAD MAP AND GAZETTEER number 15, Glos, Monmouth & Herefordshire 1937, 72pp with maps, places of interest, opening times, admission fees, some adverts. Good condition £3 182. THE TRAVELLER’S POCKET REFERENCE to the 20th Century Health and Pleasure Resorts of Europe, 1934 edition, published by Anglo-Continental & International Publishing Offices Ltd, 264pp. This is the book you consulted if you were taking your hols in Juan-les-Pins, Freiberg, Carlsbad, Zermatt, Dinant or even Brighton. Hundreds of resorts are listed, with maps, distances, climate, seasons, hotels, amenities (golf courses), garages etc. A mine of information, especially for the well-heeled tourist, good condition £10 183. TOWER OF LONDON Two early guides, one published 1919 by Rec W J Loftie (authorized) with two plans and twelve full page illustrations plus text, the other 1931 with five full page illustrations, folding plan and text, a few minor faults, pair £5 184. MUSEUM OF CARRIAGES at Maidstone, official guide 1959 32pp, 20 illustrations of carriages and their history, good condition £3 185. THE BOURNVILLE STORY Well illustrated 33-page booklet £3 186. SUNSHINE HOLIDAY CAMP Printed menu for the week which appears to be lacking in choice although ‘extra bread will be served at all meals on request’, also 38 postcard-size photos of happy campers, entrants for the bathing beauty contest, waitresses and other staff, 1959. Location of the camp is not given but ‘Island’ is mentioned (Isle of Wight?) £6 187. ISLINGTON EPHEMERA Theatre and entertainments programmes of the 1950s put on by Islington Players, also Annual Arts Festival Reception 1954, 10 items £5 188. LOUGHTON FAIR, ESSEX Held in 1948 to honour the men and women who served in the forces during the war, programme gives all the events taking place between 28th June and 3rd July, a little wear to cover, otherwise good £4 189. REIGATE, SURREY Photographic reproductions (on photographic paper) of the town from the mid Victorian period to 1930s. There are some delightful scenes including the old Post Office with postmen and delivery cart outside, butcher’s shop with meat hanging, a few busy thoroughfares with shops – Lipton’s, Maypole, tobacconist, Hunts greengrocer’s, upholsterers, milliners, chemist, Northover’s House Furnishers, a couple of restaurants, the Hippodrome, Cinema Royal showing Flame of Love and Forbidden Love, Swan Hotel, Old Wheel Hotel, Lesbourne Hotel selling fine Reigate Ales, and more. Traffic is interesting – early cars and horse-drawn. There’s a lovely snow scene with early bus, a large parade of soldiers with rifles from the Great War watched by large crowds and finally Reigate Borough Police, thirty good men and true, constables, sergeants and inspector. The black and white photos are of excellent quality and each measures 8in x 6in. Quite delightful, 15 photos £40 190. CAMBRIDGE & DISTRICT CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD Rules of the Employees’ Thrift Fund, 12pp, 131 £2 191. BROCKENHURST LIGHTING Printed notice of 1895 giving list of subscriptions (3 guineas down to six pence) to provide the village with lighting. Cost of 10 lamps was £30 but more were needed…. Some creasing and tears but quite collectable £4 192. THE PAGEANT OF PLYMOUTH HOE by Crispin Gill and staged in the Royal Citadel Upon Plymouth Hoe, July 18th – 25th 1953 (Coronation year). Lavish 64-page booklet/programme setting out the history of Plymouth in detail, also programme of events. Impressive illustrated coloured cover. Excellent condition £8 193. A CHRONOLOGY OF JERSEY by Ralph Mollet published by Societe Jersiaise, fourth edition 1954, 105pp, all with happenings on the island from c250,000 BC to 1954 AD, illustrated paper cover, ex-lib, very good condition £4 194. CHANNEL ISLANDS Bartholomew’s contoured map folding on linen, including Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and Jethou, no date but original price was 5 shillings, very good condition £5 195. BERGEN, NORWAY Folding panorama in colour, very nice with artist’s view of Funicular on cover £2 196. A METALWORK NOTEBOOK Illustrated with all kinds of tools and articles to make, 40pp published by Cassell & Co c1925, good condition £4 197. THE CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPE Its uses as an aid to Radio Service by W E Miller, 1943 44-page handbook published by the Wireless & Electrical Trader £4 198. PYKE’S ANIMATED PHOTOGRAPHS Oxford Street, London. Mounted photograph of a lady 2.5in x 2in, bend the end slowly and her expressions alter from smiling to serious. Patent applied for. No idea of the date (somebody tell me), good condition £10 199. SHERATON HOTELS Guest folder containing eleven sheets of printed notepaper (5 different hotels) plus envelopes £3 200. ABSTINENCE PLEDGE Two certificates, one from the Band of Hope 1908, other from the British Women’s Temperence Association 1906, both with signed Pledges to abstain from all intoxicating liquors. Latter has a tiny tear. Pair £9 201. TEAPOTS Small picture book number 9 from the Victoria & Albert Museum 1948 with full page illustrations of 28 teapots (pottery and porcelain) £2 202. CHARLES DICKENS BIOGRAPHY 16-page illustrated booklet of the great writer published by Andrus and Andrus of Holborn Viaduct London with three pages devoted to their pharmaceutical products: Hemaboloids=Arseniated (increases red blood corpuscles, tones up system) etc. Good condition £4 203. THE AGRICULTURAL NOTE-BOOK Agricultural facts and figures for farmers and farming students by Primrose McConnell B Sc, published by Crosby Lockwood & Son 1930, 540pp plus index, gilt-edged pages. Most comprehensive on every aspect of farming, good condition £6 204. WADHURST (SUSSEX) FAT STOCK SHOW Handwritten Entrance Fee book 1921 – 38, Minute book Nov 1938 – Dec 1939 and 1950 – 52, also a 1954 catalogue. Lot £6 205. WADHURST CHARTER CELEBRATIONS 1953 Souvenir programme of the events, historic Pageant and Exhibition catalogue, 3 items £6 206. PHOTOGRAPHY Nebro catalogue for 1952, 80pp well illustrated with photographic products (Aldis, Ferrania etc); 80-page ‘The Johnson Way to Better Photography 1950s; also 64-page catalogue of accessories from the same period. Lot for £7 207. SPECIMEN TRAVELLERS’ CHEQUES for £2, £5, £10, £20 and £50, Lloyds Bank, each overprinted CANCELLED, fine lot, only £8 208. VERY FINE LINEN HANDKERCHIEF handstitched embroidered motif, edge with drawn threadwork and hand sewn hem £6 209. SOUVENIR HANDKERCHIEF from the Museum of Costume, Eridge Castle, with silhouette of lady with bustle printed in black on fine cotton £5 POSTAL 210. SIR JOHN HENNIKER HEATON - POSTAL REFORMER 1st Baronet 1848 – 1914, part letter ‘With high regard, most faithfully yours, J Henniker Heaton’ addressed to C Wyndham Murray. A rare autograph £25 211. EDWARD GEORGE VILLIERS STANLEY 1865 – 1948 17th Earl of Derby and POSTMASTER GENERAL 1903-05. Typewritten signed letter, embossed with HIS MAJESTY’S POSTMASTER GENERAL 14th Jan 1904 to Wyndham Murray concerning an appointment at a Bath sub post office. Excellent condition £18 212. 1796 COVER No contents, addressed to the Earl of Breadalbane at Teymouth with a lightly struck large FREE in red, backstamped with Scottish Bishop Mark, red wax seal £4 213. 1829 ENTIRE LETTER from a solicitor at Grays Inn with London dated backstamp, addressed to Coventry, postage paid one shilling and sixpence £6 214. 1830 COVER with FREE frank in red and signed (Lord) STOWELL, addressed to Bracknell, London backstamp, red wax seal, small tears £4 215. 1834 ENTIRE Statement of account addressed to Rose Bros, Wellington, Somerset, two shillings and sixpence postage in manuscript, Lombard Street backstamp 17 Feb 1834 £7 216. 1840 ENTIRE LETTER to Wem with a fair strike of OSWESTRY circ date stamp and manuscript ‘1’ (penny) in red £6 217. 1842 ENTIRE LETTER to Wem with SHREWSBURY dated double arcs backstamp, penny paid in manuscript £6 218. 1844 ENVELOPE used from Brackley to Winslow (Bucks) with good clear date stamps of both towns, red wax seal, stamp missing £4 219. 1854 ENVELOPE used with 1d Red imperf (3 margins) to Edinburgh backstamped with STIRLING and EDINBURGH circ date stamps plus a part strike of the scarce BRIDGE OF ALLAN in blue £8 220. 1861 NEAT ENVELOPE postally used with 1d Red ‘Stars’ and Canterbury duplex, backstamped Margate cds, good condition £4 221. 1865 MOURNING ENVELOPE used with 1d Red Plate and BRIGHTON duplex, backstamped London cds £5 222. POST OFFICE CIRCULAR 30th October 1946 (pages 487 to 506) Sub-Postmaster’s Edition, with Service Honours for those serving in the armed forces, abolition of marriage bar in the Civil Service, job vacancies, savings facilities, money order services, telegraphs, amendments to Post Office Guide, foreign money etc. Also circular for 6th November (pages 507 to 518) with Roll of Honour, appointments, amendments etc. Both circulars for £8 223. STAMP COLLECTING - JUNIOR EDITION Monthly magazine from Vallancey Press with articles and adverts (approvals, offers, 1925 Wembley set mint for half a crown etc). Four different copies from 1932 £4 BOOKS 224. EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY by Mark Twain, published by Harper & Brothers, 1904 FIRST EDITION, 89pp Original publisher’s red cloth, wear to boards, damage at top of spine. Contents good with full page illustrations in black and white by F Strothmann £15 |
| 225. THE TOY BOOK OF BIRDS AND BEASTS published by the Religious Tract Society c1870, original blue cloth with elaborate gilt decorations, pictorial onlay of horse being shod (slightly damaged), all edges gilt with a little wear to boards. Most attractive book with 24 colour plates £40
226. THE SWEET AND TOUCHING TALE OF FLEUR & BLANCHEFLEUR: A Medieval Legend Published by Daniel O’Connor 1922, 64pp, original grey cloth in very good condition, with 37 delightful colour illustrations by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, a very well preserved volume! £25 227. THE ZOO: A Sketchbook published by A & C Black c1915 with 24 delightful sketches of London Zoo animals by A W Peters, one per page, no text, cloth covers with pictorial onlay, good condition £12 228. THE ANIMAL PICTURE BOOK FOR KIND LITTLE PEOPLE published by Ward Lock & Co c1896, large format 64pp, very well illustrated with black and white sketches, cover with coloured illustration, some wear. A fair copy £8 229. LITTLE FOLKS: A Magazine for the Young bound into one volume, Cassell & Co Ltd 1891, 428pp well illustrated, with 10 pages of adverts and index, fair condition, contents good £8 PICTURE POSTCARDS 230. DORSETS’ MUSKETRY PARTY Lined up on a parade ground, location not given, large building in background, WW1 period or earlier, real photographic card a little faded and very small blemish on face, otherwise very good unused £6 231. MILITARY GROUP Uniformed soldiers outside very large building which bears the notice SPECIAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE TONIGHT AT 7 - SEATS 6d AND 3d, believed to be Woodcote Park Camp, Epsom, WW1 period. Real photographic card, very good unused £10 232. ROYAL NAVAL & MILITARY TOURNAMENT The musical ride being performed at Olympia before a large audience, real photographic card by Gale & Polden, no date, very good unused £6 233. WORLD WAR ONE CARTOON ‘I’m in a mess’ states the military man covered in jam from the spilt Belgian pot but the French, English and Russian pots remain intact. Bamforth b&w card in the ‘War Cartoons’ series, postally used Nov 1914, good condition £7 234. O T C MYTCHETT North Farnborough camp showing tents and long line of soldiers with their kit laid out and inspection taking place c1928, fine unused £9 235. STOWE CAMP, BUCKS with group of tents in deep snow after snowstorm on 26th April 1908, also a card of a military church parade. Both cards are photographic and postmarked with large skeleton type cancel STOWEPARK CAMP BUCKINGHAM May 1908. Scarce pair £18 236. ARMY FOOTBALL TEAM wearing a mixture of kits and uniforms! Real photographic card WW1 period. Pencilled on back is ‘Millbrook, Southampton’. Good unused £4 237. ‘FEED THE GUNS’ War Bonds Exhibition in Trafalgar Square showing soldiers and a windmill, postally used with the Feed the Guns special machine cancel £5 238. WAR BOND CAMPAIGN POSTCARD issued by the National War Savings Committee, shows heavy gun under camouflage, good unused £4 239. BLERIOT’S AEROPLANE on which he crossed the Channel from Calais to Dover 25 July 1909, Tucks b&w card with plane and portrait of Bleriot, reverse with details, produced for Selfridges where it was on display, fine condition £14 240. SUPERMARINE AVIATION Advertising card from Vickers Ltd showing the Supermarine S6 winner of the 1929 Schneider Trophy, giving details on back of speed records. Real photographic card in very good condition £10 241. EMPRESS OF IRELAND Lovely coloured card of the liner which sank with the loss of over 1,000 lives just after leaving Quebec in May 1914 when she was in collision with a Norwegian vessel. Very good unused £7 242. 1902 CORONATION PROCESSION b&w vignetted card with undivided back used at London 1902 addressed to Sweden with Upsala date stamp, good condition £3 243. TOTTON RAILWAY STATION showing both platforms and passengers waiting, adjoining large advertising board for Fry & Son, Builders, Plumbers, Decorators. Postally used with TOTTON SOUTHAMPTON single circle date stamp 17 July 1916, this card is in superb condition. A gem for £25 244. WETHERBY RAILWAY STATION described as ‘new’ on this b&w card in the ‘Dainty’ series used with a Wetherby squared circle 1910. Shows both platforms and station staff. Very good apart from minor corner scuffs £10 245. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY COMPANY’S CENTRAL STATION HOTEL GLASGOW An early vignetted view of this large imposing hotel, nicely coloured in good condition £4 246. RAILWAY TUNNELS Severn Tunnel with GWR train emerging, coloured card by Alpha, plus Ventilating Shaft in Kilsby Tunnel, official LNWR card, both in fair/good condition, pair £5 247. G W R LOCOMOTIVE Glen compound ‘La France’ in immaculate condition on an official GWR card, very fine unused £5 248. THE COLLIER LAD cloth capped miner with poem of four verses, B&w card in the ‘National’ series, unused but back damaged £3 249. GIPSY ENCAMPMENT in the New Forest, lovely coloured card showing lady and four children outside their tent, one child in a cart. Very good condition postally used with Brockenhurst circ date stamp August 1910 £18 250. BLACKFOOT INDIANS A colourful group watching the Scalp Dance, early Canadian card with minor scuffing £6 251. BUFFALO BILL’S WILD WEST B&w of Chief Lone Bear, undivided back card postally used 1903, minor corner crease £16 252. MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL Little boy: ‘Nuffing Ever Comes Off Wif Me ‘cept Buttons! Two corners scuffed and stamp removed £3 253. GIRLS SKIPPING Four of them skipping in rather long dresses make a colourful picture. Fine unused card by Tuck in their ‘Fun and Frolic’ series £3 254. CHINESE CHILDREN AT PLAY Fourteen of them, each clasping another round the waist, b&w used at London 1907, good condition £4 255. DRESSED CATS Two coloured cards, one with cat washing up in pinny used 1950, other with broom sweeping up. Pair in good condition £5 256. ‘HIS MASTER’S VOICE’ The exhibit of the Gramophone Company Ltd at the British Empire Exhibition Wembley in 1924 showing the very large stand and the famous ‘dog listening to gramophone’. Photographic card but unfortunately a few faults including two very small pieces missing at bottom. Must be a scarce card though £4 257. MOUNTED TOWN CRIER ‘The only mounted town crier in England’ on his horse, in uniform and bell, at Ilfracombe in 1910, unused with light crease £6 258. ‘PLAY PICTORIAL’ Tucks set of ten of ‘Monsieur Beaucaire’, played by Lewis Waller, b&w cards each postally used to same addressee at Roehampton in May 1903 with a few interesting messages, very good condition, nice set £15 259. DIANA WATTS Set of six b&w cards of the actress in different roles, unused in very fine condition £8 260. INTER-VARSITY DEBATE Photographic card with large group of well-dressed people at the 1913 debate, published by Ward of Manchester, good unused £6 261. DAILY MAIL IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION 1930 showing arched terrace and pool court, coloured photographic card by Capt EWJ Payne, unused, good condition £3 262. TINSELLED CARDS Train crossing Forth Bridge, London Whitehall, Lichfield Cathedral and an event at Edinburgh Castle plus two greetings cards, all early tinseled cards in very good condition. Six for £10 263. RICKSHAWS FOR HIRE Dozens of them on this b&w card, each with a boy attendant, good unused, perforations at left (from a booklet) £3 BRITISH TOPOGRAPHICAL POSTCARDS 264. HAMPSTEAD Heath Street with good shop views, in particular Hygienic Dairies where their van emblazoned with HYGIENIC BAKERY is parked outside. Tinted card good unused £10 265. EALING New Broadway with shops and approaching tram, postally used 1910, good condition £6 266. WEST HAM Caister Park Road with a very long row of terraced houses, approaching horse and cart (street cleaning?), real photographic, a little corner creasing otherwise good unused £5 267. WOODFORD WELLS, ESSEX The Turnpike with distant horse-drawn vehicles, fine unused photographic card £8 268. HADLEIGH Old bus with driver in the village with Tea Gardens offering White’s Mineral Waters. Real photographic but creasing and a bit grubby but interesting £3 269. TILLINGHAM Sleepy Essex village although the commercial inn (‘Good Stabling’) is flying a flag, early b&w card, very good unused £6 270. REDHILL, SURREY Market Hall, imposing building with 1930s cars outside, photographic used with machine cancel Reigate & Redhill 1950, top right corner creases £4 271. THORNTON HEATH Beulah Road with shops including barbers advertising Shaving, b&w used 1920, lower left corner crease otherwise very good £5 272. LIMPSFIELD, SURREY General view of the village taken from an elevated position showing a shop (Post Office?) and the village pump, b&w vignetted card used at Croydon 1903, good condition £9 273. FARNHAM, SURREY The Borough with good shop views and shoppers, nice b&w card used 1914, good condition £6 274. MOLESEY, SURREY Walton Road with good shop views and shoppers, b&w in good condition, unused £6 275. GODSTONE, SURREY Village pond and Clayton Arms, b&w postally used 1907, minor corner creasing £3 276. OUTWOOD, SURREY Two windmills side by side make an impressive sight on this coloured card by Shurey, very good unused £7 277. BOXMOOR, HERTS Shothanger Common showing one of the lodges (message refers), real photographic card used at Hemel Hempstead August 1930, small corner crease, otherwise very good £5 278. HITCHIN Broad Street showing chapel, tea rooms and Game, Fish & Poultry Mart, nice b&w by Photochrom postally used 1913, good condition £6 279. WATFORD Fire Station, Victorian style architecture, doors closed so no engines visible but quite a scarce card in the Wyndham series, b&w, Used but stamp removed and small faults £5 280. WALTHAM CROSS Street scene showing monument, Falcon Hotel (‘Livery Stables’) and a commercial hotel with stabling, nice photographic card by Hunt, creasing barely susceptible, unused £5 281. NAPSBURY MILITARY HOSPITAL Large building in its own grounds, used at St Albans 1917, small tear at base £2 282. HENLOW, BEDS Hartleys Fruit Farm showing the 50 acre section, ‘A vista of black currant bushes’ as this advertising card puts it. B&w card unused, fair £4 283. TURVEY, BEDS Newton Lane with two men chatting and three children posing, cottages in view, Very nice photographic card by local photographer B Wiggins, used with Turvey circ date stamp 1913, two fairly minor corner creases £9 284. READING Two cards of Huntley & Palmer’s Factory with workers streaming out, one used in Canada c1910, the other used, at Ealing 1926, both with small faults, pair £5 285. ASCOT High Street with various shops and distant transport, coloured card in good unused condition £6 286. CHALFONT ST GILES The Green showing shops including Paynes Stores Tobacconists who are also hairdressers, also a hardware shop and others, photographic used 1947, crease £3 287. NEWPORT PAGNELL High Street North with a few houses and shops but no people! B&w from local publisher, used at the town 1917, good condition £5 288. CHOLSEY, OXON Nice village scene with cottages and children, real photographic used at Ramsbury 1916, corner creases £5 289. CHIPPING NORTON, OXON Market Street with Post Office and shops, real photographic from Packer’s Studio postally used 1921. Crease at right and a little scuffing at corners £7 290. CHATHAM Royal Naval Barracks, three real photographic cards by Gale & Polden, two exteriors, one interior (barrack room), c1913, all unused in excellent condition. Quality lot £12 291. FOLKESTONE Warren Railway Station with steam train at platform and two coaches visible, small refreshment room with ‘Teas’, zig-zag up the cliffs, b&w card used c1920 (indistinct postmark), minor creasing £8 292. FOLKESTONE Gardens and War Memorial, sepia in the Kingsway series postally used 1929 with the penny PUC commemorative stamp, seldom seen on postcards, good £4 293. PEGWELL BAY, KENT Convalescent Home by the seafront, Frith coloured card used 1913 with two corner faults £2 294. WALMER Busy scene at the Barracks with naval band marching through the entrance gates and large crowd of onlookers, obviously some special occasion. The coloured card is in the Wyndham series and postally used 1904, good condition £6 295. NEW ROMNEY Photographic multi-view by Valentines with five views including two of the miniature railway, used 1954, good condition £2 296. CHILHAM, KENT The Square, Frith sepia card used 1924, slight postmark offset on front £3 297. BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA, KENT The Green, b&w in good unused condition £4 298. GROOMBRIDGE Village view showing cottages, this card has been issued by Greys Cigarettes (this is number 43), good unused £4 299. CHESTFIELD, KENT The Barn Tea Rooms, b&w card printed for the proprietress (sitting in the garden), unused with a small closed tear £3 |
| 300. DYMCHURCH Smith’s Stores and a few village people c1905, b&w very good unused £4
301. ROBERTSBRIDGE High Street with Seven Stars Hotel, shops and horse and cart, unused, good condition £4 302. HAWKHURST Highgate with outfitter’s shop, distant horse and cab and signpost, fair/good £3 303. SOUTHBOROUGH Church and Pennington Road with two little girls, coloured card by Welch, unused in very good condition £4 304. HAYES COMMON, KENT Two coloured art drawn cards by S Johnson, attractive, both Tucks Oilettes, unused, fair condition £3 305. FARNBOROUGH, HANTS Lynchford Road with a middle distance view of the shops and some horse-drawn traffic, b&w card used 1st Jan 1908, good £7 306. THE WALLOPS, HANTS Photographic type card with seven multi-views including churches, cottages, war memorial, postally used 1926, very good condition £5 307. DIBDEN PURLIEU, HANTS Beaulieu Road showing shop selling cigarettes and does printing and developing, photographic card 1956 £4 308. LYMINGTON B&w write-away of Walhampton postally used 1903, good average £5 309. BOURNEMOUTH Aerial view of Beales departmental store, fine photographic card used in the 1960s £3 310. BOURNEMOUTH Tram terminus at Fisherman’s Walk Southbourne showing two middle distance trams, also the Picture House which is showing ‘Aloma of the South Seas’, interesting 1930s card in good condition £7 311. SANDBANKS Real photographic c1926 of the New Refreshment Rooms and Huts before it was really developed and before the millionaires and Max Bygraves moved in. Shows beach huts, sand dunes and a distant view of the brand spanking new Refreshment Rooms, unused, very good condition £7 312. CHILDE OKEFORD, DORSET The Common with winding lane and cottages, photographic card by local photographer W Diffey c1905, a couple of tiny pinholes but a good collectable card £5 313. SHAFTESBURY St James lane with horse and cart, local photoprint by Pearson & Son, unused in very good condition £4 314. WEYMOUTH New Town Bridge in sparkling condition just after it opened. It’s still there of course but looking its age now. Postally used 1932 in very good condition £6 315. ABBOTSBURY Rodden Row with a group (mainly children) posing for the photographer and postally used at Weymouth in 1910, also a deserted Market Street c1922, both b&w cards by local publisher J F Gibbons, fair to good, pair £6 316. RADSTOCK, SOMERSET General view of the village, Frith sepia card in very good unused condition £3 317. COMPTON BISHOP, SOMERSET Row of houses on a country lane, real photographic used 1922 at Axbridge, good condition £7 318. TAUNTON Two good street scenes, Fore Street and Bridge Street, both coloured, latter by Stengal, both have good shop views, shoppers, horse transport etc. Very nice pair in good unused condition £9 319. BRISTOL Early view of St Augustine’s Bridge with a few trams, cabs and horse transport, various buildings including London Life Insurance Office, advert for Players cigs etc. Undivided back postally used July 1903, good condition £6 320. BRISTOL A later view of St Augustine’s Bridge with trams and other ancient transport, passenger steamer ss Cazelle with notice FARE 1d TO HOTWELLS. This is a Valentines photographic type card postally used c1914, good condition £6 321. BRISTOL Cumberland Basin with a few ships taken from an elevated position so good view of the area, b&w card used 1906, one small corner crease £4 322. BROADWAY Entrance to the village with a couple of 1930s cars and the Swan Hotel, b&w photographic, good unused £3 323. WORCESTER Cards of Foregate Street, The Cross and Shire Hall, latter with four horse-drawn cabs used 1906, other two with busy streets, interesting trio in good condition £10 324. PETERCHURCH, HEREFORD View of the village from Brown’s Hill by local photographer Palin of Dorstone, postally used with single circular Peterchurch date stamp 1909, a little faded otherwise excellent £6 325. BIRMINGHAM POST OFFICE Two similar views, one b&w by Ettlinger, other in the ‘Gold Framed Sepia’ series by Tuck, both very good unused condition, pair £7 326. EAST MOSELEY Cow Common with houses and a pond (Is this in the Birmingham area?). B&w unused in very good condition £4 327. WOLVERHAMPTON Busy Victoria Street with good shop views, real photographic by Lilywhite, used 1924, good condition £7 328. DUDLEY Market Place with stalls, coloured Shurey card unused, also Market Place without stalls but showing a few shops and pub selling Butler & Co’s Famous Ales in 1910 (later Mitchells and Butler). Latter card surprisingly used in Canada. Good pair £7 329. GRANTCHESTER, CAMBS Village view with cottages and 1950s car, real photographic in very good condition £4 330. LEICESTER Gallowtree Gate with busy shops and tram number 32, this is an unusual framed photographic card used 1909 in very good condition £6 331. GRANTHAM old Grammar School on early undivided back b&w card postally used at the town in 1906, good condition £5 332. MELTON MOWBRAY Furnace Road, two depressing looking rows of terraced houses where I wouldn’t like to live, b&w card by Gibson used June 1909 with ASFORDBY HILL/MELTON MOWBRAY single ring date stamp, good condition £6 333. MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE The Cross with children, adults and half a dozen sheep wandering along! Used 17 July 1906 with both the Mansfield and Mansfield Woodhouse circ date stamps. Good condition £8 334. MABLETHORPE Crowds of people at the railway station, some crossing by the footbridge for their week at the seaside, photographic by Lilywhite used in the 1920s (postmark indistinct). Has a surface mark but quite collectable £3 335. HAMSTALL RIDWARE, STAFFS Watch Tower and Church, real photographic, good unused, minor scuffing £3 336. LIVERPOOL Busy Church Street with crowds of shoppers, big shops including Piano and Organ Emporium, and two trams, b&w very good unused £5 337. MANCHESTER Market Street with horse-drawn delivery carts, trams and shoppers, a lively scene, sepia card in fair to good condition, postally used with British Empire Exhibition slogan postmark 1923 £5 338. BURY Kay Gardens, real photographic in very good unused condition £3 339. ST ANNES ON THE SEA St Annes Road West with shops, shoppers and horse transport, b&w card good unused £4 340. CLEVELEYS, LANCS Promenade Terrace, a row of large three storey houses, fine unused photographic £7 341. HALIFAX Crown Street with good shop views (Helliwell’s are having a linen clearance sale, policeman keeping his eye on things), coloured card in the ‘Court’ series postally used Sept 1904, good £6 342. ILKLEY The Grove with shops and a middle distance view of early car, used 1912 but postmark offset on front £2 343. SILSDEN, YORKS Bolton Road with houses and church, b&w used at Leeds 1904, small repair, otherwise good £4 344. MASHAM, YORKS Quarry Gill with a sedate group in horse and carriage, photographic card in fair condition £3 345. LOCKERBIE Meet of horses and hounds at the Lockerbie House Hotel 1930s-40s, real photographic £5 346. ASHINGTON, NORTHUMBERLAND The Miners’ Hall, large stone building, with double-fronted fruiterer and confectioner next door, coloured card postally used 1905, two corner creases £4 347. ROTHBURY, NORTHUMBERLAND Silverton Terrace, middle distance view taken from an elevated position also showing various buildings and a bridge (railway?). Photographic card with light crease £4 348. NEWPORT, MON Newport Bridge with pedestrians and horse and cart, view of buildings on opposite side, coloured card in very good unused condition £4 349. ABERDARE good aerial view of the town (or part of it), real photographic card used 1927 in very good condition £5 350. ANGLESEY TREARDDUR BAY, Lion Rock RHOSNEIGR and ABERFFRAW. First two real photographic postally used 1921 and 1960, latter b&w with general view of the village used with Aberffraw circ date stamp 1917. Good/very good condition. Trio £8 351. LESLIE, FIFE Flax Mill at Walkerton, sepia card showing the works and several large chimneys, postally used with Leslie single ring 1920, light crease £5 352. CORTACHY, ANGUS Horse and carriage with passengers outside the Dykehead Hotel, Valentines b&w card used 1907, good condition £5 353. ISLE OF MAN Tuck’s photographic multi-view with 8 different views and embossed ‘three legs’, used 1906, small corner crease £3 354. JERSEY Beresford Street showing shops and old transport, an early card but used on 29 Jan 1942 with two halfpenny stamps of Jersey – the FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. Very good condition £8 |
