Auction Lots

Country Pursuits, Sporting Guns, Taxidermy & Militaria

15/01/2021

Over three hundred lots including a most interesting collection of taxidermy, guns and shooting accessories from a private country pursuits museum. Edged weapons, sporting and collectable guns including a fine 20-bore double barrel flintlock gun by Rolfe of Birmingham estimated at £7000 – 9000, medals and other general militaria.

Lot 3031

Hitler Adolf: Mein Kampf. 1939 Hurst & Blackett. Two volumes in one. English text. Blue cloth/gilt b...

Hitler Adolf: Mein Kampf. 1939 Hurst & Blackett. Two volumes in one. English text. Blue cloth/gilt binding.

10029

SOLD £150

Lot 3034

Nineteen modern books including The Western Front Experience by Gary Sheffield in slip case, boxed s...

Nineteen modern books including The Western Front Experience by Gary Sheffield in slip case, boxed set of three on WW1 etc; together with a boxed set of 20th Century Warfare CD-ROMS etc

B35726

SOLD £40

Lot 3091

Two albums of postcards and ephemera relating to American aircraft and aviation; and a similar large...

Two albums of postcards and ephemera relating to American aircraft and aviation; and a similar larger album for German aircraft and aviation. From the collection of the late Leslie Benson (3)

9071

SOLD £110

Lot 3092

Three albums containing over five hundred and sixty postcards of aircraft and aviation related subje...

Three albums containing over five hundred and sixty postcards of aircraft and aviation related subjects including real photographic and printed aeroplanes, PHQ cards, Aircraft Recognition, posters, balloon barrage, crews and groups, memorials, propaganda etc; together with some shipping and topographical. From the collection of the late Leslie Benson (3)

9231

SOLD £120

Lot 3093

Two albums containing over one thousand postcards of aircraft, aviation and naval interest including...

Two albums containing over one thousand postcards of aircraft, aviation and naval interest including real photographic and printed studies of aeroplanes and ships including military and commercial aircraft in flight, on the ground and under construction, naval warships at sea and under fire etc. From the collection of the late Leslie Benson (2)

9071

SOLD £200

Lot 3094

Five modern albums containing over three hundred and ninety early 20th century and later postcards o...

Five modern albums containing over three hundred and ninety early 20th century and later postcards of aeronautical interest including real photographic and printed WW2, military and commercial aircraft on the ground and in flight, comic, posters, seaplanes, helicopters etc. From the collection of the late Leslie Benson. (97)

10071

SOLD £80

Lot 3095

Seven modern albums containing over six hundred postcards and ephemera of aeronautical interest incl...

Seven modern albums containing over six hundred postcards and ephemera of aeronautical interest including real photographic and printed WW2, military and commercial aircraft, reproduction posters, Concorde (30), greeting cards, large scale etc. From the collection of the late Leslie Benson.

9071

SOLD £180

Lot 3171

Field Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein: Normandy to the Baltic. c1946. Complete with forty...

Field Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein: Normandy to the Baltic. c1946. Complete with forty-six plans and three diagrams in pockets front and rear; Eisenhower Dwight D.: Crusade in Europe. 1948; Butcher Harry C.: Three Years With Eisenhower. 1946; and Forbes Patrick: 6th Guards Tank Brigade. The Story of Guardsmen in Churchill Tanks (4)

10071

SOLD £45

Lot 3176

Scots Guards - ten copies of The Scots Guard Magazine, complete run 1964-73; twenty-eight copies of ...

Scots Guards - ten copies of The Scots Guard Magazine, complete run 1964-73; twenty-eight copies of Scots Guards/Third Guards Club Annual Report, complete run 1947-74; A Short History of the Scots Guards. Two volumes. 1642-1962 and 1642-82; Famous Regiments - The Scots Guards; and quantity of invitations to various annual dinners, Buckingham Palace garden parties etc

10071

SOLD £25

Lot 3177

Maurice Major-General Sir F.: The History of the Scots Guards from the Creation of the Regiment to t...

Maurice Major-General Sir F.: The History of the Scots Guards from the Creation of the Regiment to the Great War. 1934. Two volumes; Erskine David: The Scots Guards 1919-1955. Unclipped dustjacket; and Forbes Patrick: 6th Guards Tank Brigade. The Story of Guardsmen in Churchill Tanks (4)

9066

SOLD £80

Lot 3178

Whitehouse A.G.J.: Hell in the Heavens. The Adventures of an aerial gunner in the Royal Flying Corps...

Whitehouse A.G.J.: Hell in the Heavens. The Adventures of an aerial gunner in the Royal Flying Corps. 1938. Dustjacket; and Wings Flying Thrills (2)

10084

SOLD £25

Lot 3180

Ziegler Frank H.: The Story of 609 Squadron Under the White Rose. 1993. Laid-in sheet of fourteen si...

Ziegler Frank H.: The Story of 609 Squadron Under the White Rose. 1993. Laid-in sheet of fourteen signatures to fep entitled 'Fighter Pilots of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945', with unclipped dustjacket.

B5655

SOLD £25

Lot 3235

Gillon Captain Stair: The Story of the 29th Division. 1925; Higginson General Sir George: Seventy-On...

Gillon Captain Stair: The Story of the 29th Division. 1925; Higginson General Sir George: Seventy-One Years of a Guardsman's Life. 1916. Presentation copy signed by the author; Millais J.G.: Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous DSO.1919; Fraser-Tytler Lieut.-Col. Neil: Field Guns in France; three other books of military interest; and an unframed coloured sketch of a 9th Lancer signed Caran-Rouge 1907 together with two related books

9414

SOLD £45

Lot 3236

Quantity of books and booklets of military interest including A Heart's Odyssey by Neil Macvicar wit...

Quantity of books and booklets of military interest including A Heart's Odyssey by Neil Macvicar with manuscript letter from the author; A History of the British Cavalry. Two volumes; The Irish Guards in the Great War by Rudyard Kipling. Two volumes; works on Montgomery and Group Captain Cheshire etc

9319

SOLD £75