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A collection of various mid 20th century WWII black and white press photographs showing severe bomb damage to London including various scenes of Londoner`s during and after air raids.

A collection of various mid 20th century WWII black and white press photographs showing severe bomb damage to London including various scenes of Londoner`s during and after air raids (larger size).

6 Dinky Aircraft. Avro York airliner (70a) in silver with ‘G-A GJC’ registration, complete with original propellers, boxed. Spitfire MK2 (719) with battery powered propeller in camouflage livery. Messerschmitt ME109 also battery powered in desert sand camouflage livery. Hawker Harrier GR M1 (722) in light metallic blue/green camouflage livery. A Phantom MK2 in unusual light brown/green camouflage livery, with bomb. Plus a Jaguar M.R.C.A. (Multi Role Combat Aircraft) in grey/green camouflage livery. GC-VGC minor chipping.

Ernest Procter (1886-1935) The bomb-damaged west front of the church at Peronne, France black chalk and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, signed, inscribed and dated January 1919 lower left, inscribed on old label verso 50 x 32 cm (19 1/2 x 12 1/2 in)

A group of four Second World War medals, comprising 1939-45 Star, Burma Star, Defence Medal and War Medal, with the corresponding dress miniature medals, R.A.F. officer`s cap badge, bomb aimer`s wing, two parachute wings, Burma Star Association lapel badge, shoulder tabs, photographs, etc, all relating to Flight Lieutenant Albert J. Cassell R.A.F. Airborne Control Unit.

A late Victorian novelty silver and enamelled double ended scent flask, modelled as a bomb shell, makers, H.M. Emanuel & Son, Chester, 1900, 3.5in.

An aerial photograph taken by the Luftwaffe showing a 1000Kg and a 500Kg bomb dropping

Two similar photos showing London with bomb hits and a view over Hendon

Two Luftwaffe aerial photographs showing London, and the West India docks, including bomb damage

WWI British aircraft joystick with machine gun / bomb release button on end, marked John Roberts A.I.D, 61cm high

1950`s RAF bomb aimers control box dated 1955

Postcards - loose selection mainly early 1900s and undivided backs. Topographical cards from Europe and Asia plus a quantity of cards of Trinidad, French bomb damage, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, also English cards including real photographs Croydon lifeboat - carnival 1908 (3) Purley Tram Terminus, Frinton-on-Sea beach huts, plus a selection of greetings cards (qty)

Postcards in album and loose, including Louis Wain, I Knew It All the Time, poster type Regina margarine and conserves Le Soleil, East Bergholt Charabanc and other cards, crowds and fairground 1904, Kings Lynn railway smash, 1907, bomb crater in Coggeshall 1915, 1912 military funeral procession Bexhill. 1906 HMS Renown in Portsmouth, Lowestoft bombardment 1916, steam roller with men and horse and cart Woodbridge, other social history cards and topographical cards (qty)

Postcards loose accumulation including a selection of Southwold views and real photographs of Royal Sussex cyclists in Southwold leaving Southwold 1.7.15 Street Parade, on the beach 5.6.15, plus others, Military vehicles, Lowestoft bombardment, bomb crater and onlookers, April 16th air raid at Reydon, Post Office Leighton, Railway interior, Leighton, holiday makers outside `Angles` boarding establishment 1920, photo by Geo.Austin, local photographer, Leigh on Sea, Beach 1926 and Osbourne Cocklesheds with customers 1926, Mabel Lucie Attwell (x3), 1936 passengers on board Mauretania, greetings etc, reverse of some cards is correspondence between Royal Sussex soldier and his sweetheart (qty)

San Marino RAF bombing tragedy on 26th June 1944 brown figured leather photograph album containing graphic images of civilian victims and bomb damage to buildings (qty)

Clarice Cliff Bizarre, bomb-shaped dressing table vase with metal collar in crinoline lady/idyll pattern, in pastel pink and blue. Ht. 5 ins.

Clarice Cliff Bizarre, Bomb shaped vase, Blue chintz. Ht. 5.75 ins. (restored)

A Second World War `Bomber Command`, `Tallboy Bomb`, Flight Engineers Flying Log Book (1898127 F/E Sgt R.E. Phillips), October1944 - June 1945 Units Served - Dates - Aircraft Flown 1661 H.C.U. Winthorpe - 18/10/44 - 29/11/44 Stirling 5 L.F.S. Syerston - 13/12/44 - 09/01/45 Lancaster I:II 9 Sdrn. Bardney - 09/01/45 Lancaster I Extracts from log: 22nd March 1945 - `Breman : 1 Tallboy` 23rd March 1945 - `Bad Oeynhausen : 1 Tallboy` 27th March 1945 - `Farge : 1 Tallboy` The Tallboy or Bomb Medium Capacity 12,000lb, was an earthquake bomb developed by Barnes Wallis and brought into operation by the British in 1944. It weighed five tons, was carried by Avro Lancaster Bombers, and was extremely effective against hardened concrete structures, including V2 missile sites, U-Boat pens, etc Specifications Weight - 5,443 Kg (12,000lb) Length - 6.35m (21ft) Diameter - 950mm (38in.) `It was an extraordinary weapon, an apparent contradiction in terms, since it had at one and the same time the explosive force of a large high-capacity blast bomb and the penetrating power of an armour-piercing bomb. On the ground it was capable of displacing a million cubic feet (29,000 m3) of earth and made a crater which it would have taken 5,000 tons of earth to fill. It was ballistically perfect and in consequence had a very high terminal velocity, variously estimated at 3,600 and 3,700 feet (1,100m) per second (1,100-1,130m/s or about 2,500 mph/4,000 km/h), which was of course, a good deal faster than sound so that, as with the V2 rocket, the noise of its fall would be heard after the explosion` W.J. Lawrence, No 5 Bomber Group

A safety pin for a bomb with instruction tag attached and a Naval Action ration tin

A Britains `Soldiers in Action` set No.1612, British Infantry (Bomb Throwing) with Gas Masks, comprising officer and seven men, khaki uniforms, boxed (officer with broken sword); and Britains `Soldiers in Action` set No.1611, [British Infantry] Gas Mask Men (crawling), comprising eight men, khaki uniforms, boxed (box lid with two split corners), (2).

Twenty Three Boxed and Carded Unmade Airfix Plastic Model Kits, comprising eleven Collectors Series 54mm Cavalrymen, eleven carded Collectors Series Infantrymen, Bren Carrier and a Bomb Ketch by Pyro

A shellcase 18 PR MK1 dated 1906, another 1939 and another marked BSA Machine & Co, a 1943 mortar bomb and a 1942 practice bomb (5)

Fleur de Lys brass panel from House of Commons Debating Chamber, retrieved after bomb damage on 10 May 1941 and given to Guy Eden, measuring approximately 21 by 9 inches.

Greene, Graham. The Human Factor, first edition, Bodley Head, London 1978. Cloth, dustjacket, octavo; with Doctor Fischer of Geneva, or The Bomb Party, first edition, Bodley Head, London 1980. Cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and Getting to Know the General. The Story of An Involvement, first edition, Bodley Head, London 1984. Boards, dustjacket, octavo; also Rendell, Ruth. Harm Done, limited edition 41/99, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, Scorpion Press, Blakeney 1999. Quarter leatherette, octavo; Carey, Peter. The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, first edition, Faber & Faber, London 1994. Boards, dustjacket, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo; Rushdie, Salman. The Moor`s Last Sigh, first edition, Cape, London 1995. Boards, dustjacket, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo; and eleven other assorted works, two of them signed, (17).

2 WWII A1 posters: “Back Them Up” bombers over target “Heavy Bombers of the RAF often fly total distance of near 1,200 miles..... to bomb the industrial towns of North Italy”; and “ATS: cook for the troops” cook making biscuits; in a sleeve. Near VGC (minor folding creases)

A quantity of Carltonware ceramics to include a Dreadnought HMS Tiger, Arcadian Stamford Elephant, Hastings Bomb, Two Limoges candlesticks, a Poole pottery doormouse and two ceramic pin cushions. (20)

Keith Murray for Wedgwood; a moonstone bomb vase c.1940.

Carlton crested model of german incendiary bomb similar officers cap, shell and four other pieces

Second World War Royal Canadian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, Bomb Aimer officers tunic, with cloth insignia, brass buttons by Waterbury, medal ribands and M.I.D. oakleaf

Great War period German stick bomb (inert!); shell case; three walking sticks; American Remington bayonet, stamped `1917`, in its leather scabbard (6)

An early 20th century photograph album including demolition/bomb damage London, railways etc

A Malayan Kris, with ten wave damascened steel blade and carved wood grip, with wood and brass scabbard; a Very Similar Kris and Scabbard, a stiletto dagger and a deactivated fuse bomb. (4)

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. Blue fountain pen ink signature (`Barnes Wallis`) on a 12mo card, with several additional words and date 3rd October 1966 in his hand. A brief printed biography and small newspaper article are neatly affixed at the base of the card. About VG

WORLD WAR II: A miscellaneous selection of signed pieces, cards, T.Ls.S. etc., by various military officers and other officials associated with World War II, comprising Graves Erskine, Roy Geiger (2), William Halsey, Hisatsune Sakomizu, Lord Halifax (2) and John J. Pershing. Also including an amusing T.L.S. by 1st Lieutenant Dudley V. Darling of the 12th Army Group, one page, small 4to, n.p. (Berlin), n.d. (August 1945), to Dear Prexy, on Adolf Hitler`s printed stationery, in part, `This paper is straight from the Fuhrer`s desk in the much bomb blasted Reichschancellery. For all I know this paper might have Adolph`s (sic) fingerprints all over it....Berlin is quite an exciting place to be at this time when the Big Three are meeting. As a press censor I follow all the press parties that follow the big fellows around. As a result I have practically mingled with Truman, Churchill, Stimson, "Ike", Bradley, Patton, and a host of others. Joe`s guards make it impossible to get near enough to even see him so my experience with him will always be second hand.` Together with a typed carbon copy of Prexy`s letter of reply, thanking Darling for the curiosity. Generally VG, 9

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. Bold blue fountain pen ink signature (`Barnes Wallis`) and date 21st June 1968 in his hand on a 12mo card. VG

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. Bold blue fountain pen ink signature (`Barnes Wallis`) with four additional words and date, July 1971, in his hand on a small 8vo sheet of paper. At the base of the page Wallis has added a pencil note in his hand, `Regret no photograph available. B.N.W.` VG

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. Bold blue fountain pen ink signature (`B. N. Wallis`) and two additional words in his hand on a small 8vo sheet of paper. VG

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. Blue fountain pen ink signature (`with all good wishes from Barnes Wallis`) on a slip of paper neatly removed from the conclusion of a letter. A very minor stain just affects a few letters of the signature. Together with similar signed pieces by Leonard Cheshire VC and Arthur T. Harris. Each of the signatures have been lightly mounted beneath photographs of the three men. G to about VG, 3

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. Signed 6.5 x 7 photograph depicting Wallis standing in a three quarter length pose behind his desk in his study. A large model of an aircraft appears before him. Photograph by Vickers Ltd. Signed (`Barnes Wallis`) in fountain pen ink with his name alone to a very dark area at the base of the image. VG

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. Signed 6.5 x 7 photograph of Wallis standing in a three quarter length behind his desk in his study. On the desk before him appears a model of an aircraft. Signed (`Barnes Wallis`) in dark blue fountain pen ink across a clear area at the base of the image. One very slight, extremely minor corner crease, otherwise EX

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. T.L.S., Barnes Wallis, one page, 4to, Weybridge, Surrey, 25th March 1971, to Mr. T. Hargreaves, on the printed stationery of British Aircraft Corporation Limited. Wallis states that he will sign his correspondent`s cover if Hargreaves will send £2 to the RAF 617 Squadron at Scampton. He continues to explain, `The envelopes signed by me command a much higher price, and I think it is only fair that all covers bearing my signature should cost the same, as all the money raised is to help the Royal Air Force Museum.` VG

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. T.L.S., B. N. Wallis, one page, 8vo, Effingham, Surrey, 2nd September 1971, to Mr. T. Hargreaves. Wallis informs his correspondent that he shall be pleased to sign his RAF cover commemorating 617 Squadron if he sends it to him. VG

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. A.L.S., Barnes Wallis, one page, 4to, Effingham, Surrey, 13th September 1971, to Mr. Hargreaves, on the printed stationery of the British Aircraft Corporation Ltd (printed heading neatly crossed through by Wallis). Wallis thanks his correspondent for their cheque for £2 and remarks `I have made this payable to the Commanding Officer 617 Sqn. at Scampton with a note to explain how it comes through me...` VG

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. A.L.S., Barnes Wallis, two pages, White Hill House, Effingham, Surrey, 15th July 1973, to `Dear David`. Wallis thanks his correspondent for the trouble he has taken in trying to obtain leads for his pencil, remarking `My wife reminds me that we have a friend who lives in Boston (Mass) & I will send him the little carton which did contain spare leads, but bears no address, but only the trade name of Norma. Perhaps a Boston shop will either have leads or know the address of the shop in New York where I got the original.` Two very small tears appear to the lower edge, not affecting the text or signature, VG

WALLIS BARNES: (1887-1979) English Scientist & Inventor of the bouncing bomb used in Operation Chastise (The Dambusters Raid), 16th May 1943. Brief T.L.S., B. N. Wallis, one page, 4to, Effingham, Surrey, 18th July 1979, to John Simmons. Wallis thanks his correspondent for their letter and remarks `I was most interested to learn of your collection of letters.` VG

ENOLA GAY: An 8 x 10 photograph consisting of two images, one of the Little Boy atomic bomb and the other showing its effect on Hiroshima, 6th August 1945, individually signed by four crew members of the Enola Gay, Paul Tibbets (pilot), Thomas Ferebee (bombardier), Dutch Van Kirk (navigator) and Dick Nelson (radio). Each have signed the image in blue ink to clear areas. Together with a First Day Cover commemorating V-J Day, signed by the American World War II pilot James Doolittle with his name alone to a clear area. Postally cancelled Washington DC, 2nd September 1945. VG to EX, 2

TIBBETS PAUL: (1915-2007) American Brigadier General in the United States Air Force, pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare. Signed 8 x 10 photograph of Tibbets standing in a full length pose, wearing flying overalls, close to the Enola Gay. Signed in blue ink to a clear area of the image, `Paul Tibbets, Pilot, 6 Aug. 1945`. Together with a small selection of other autographs relating to the Enola Gay comprising a signed First Day Cover by Tibbets commemorating World War II, individual cheques completed and signed by Thomas Ferebee and Richard Nelson, and a composite 10 x 8 photograph showing different images of Bockscar etc. signed by Fred J. Olivi. VG to EX, 5

TIBBETS PAUL: (1915-2007) American Brigadier General in the United States Air Force, pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare. Signed 10 x 8 photograph depicting Tibbets standing in a full length pose, in uniform, with the Enola Gay in the immediate background. Signed in blue ink by Tibbets to a clear area at the head of the image, adding `Pilot, 6 Aug. 1945` in his hand alongside his signature. Together with a signed hardback edition of Return of the Enola Gay by Paul Tibbets, published by Enola Gay Remembered Inc., Pennsylvania, 1998. Signed by Tibbets with his name alone in blue ink beneath the frontispiece illustration showing him standing alongside Theodore J. Van Kirk and Thomas Ferebee at the side of the Enola Gay. Accompanied by the dust jacket. VG to EX, 2

TIBBETS PAUL: (1915-2007) American Brigadier General in the United States Air Force, pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare. Signed 10 x 8 photograph depicting the Enola Gay on a runway. Signed in blue ink by Tibbets to a clear area at the head of the image, adding `Pilot, 6 Aug. 1945` in his hand alongside his signature. Together with a signed hardback edition of Return of the Enola Gay by Paul Tibbets, published by Enola Gay Remembered Inc., Pennsylvania, 1998. Signed by Tibbets with his name alone in blue ink beneath the frontispiece illustration showing him standing alongside Theodore J. Van Kirk and Thomas Ferebee at the side of the Enola Gay. Accompanied by the dust jacket. VG to EX, 2

TIBBETS PAUL: (1915-2007) American Brigadier General in the United States Air Force, pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare. Signed First Day Cover commemorating the introduction of the Boeing B-29 to the Royal Air Force, 22nd March 1950, and featuring a colour design of the aircraft. Signed by Tibbets with his name alone in black ink. Postally cancelled 25th June 1982. Together with James H. Doolittle (1896-1993) American Pioneer Aviator, served as a Major General of the USAAF in World War II, leading the Doolittle Raiders. Signed First Day Cover commemorating the 40th anniversary of the First Operational Use of the Mitchell by the Royal Air Force. Signed by Doolittle with his name alone in black ink to a clear area. Postally cancelled 1984. VG, 2

An artillery shell, a Mills bomb and a mortar shell

24 Revell, Monogram and other kits including 1:32 Bristol Beaufighter Mk IF, DH Mosquito, Lancaster with secret Dam Buster bomb, 1:48 Spitfire, DC10 Airbus, Caravelle, Focke Wulf Fw 200 Condor. Minor/some wear to boxes/bags, some need cleaning. Contents as new unmade (not checked in detail)..

2 WWII A1 posters: “Hit Back by Doing War Work” on background of bomb devastated buildings; “Make Do and Mend - Go through your Wardrobe” young housewife examining torn clothes with a view to mending them, by Donia Machshen; in a sleeve. Near VGC. First item Plate 8

2 WWII A1 posters: “Keep Mum, she’s not so dumb” RAF sergeant Air Gunner talking to blonde girl - “Careless talk costs lives”; “How to tackle a fire bomb” indoors and outdoors. GC (minor folding creases). First item Plate 9

A quantity of Third Reich press and publicity photographs, mostly relating to Hitler Youth, comprising 20 full plate size showing camps, marches, parades and some bomb damaged buildings; 40 half plate size of similar subjects, but also including Hitler Youth visit to Japan; and 18 others, including several signed protrait postcards and one of Me 110s over the Eifel Tower. GC. An interesting lot

A PAIR OF GOLD BOMB SHAPED DROP EARRINGS.

A cutaway model of a unexploded 25lb bomb, two Air Ministry dials, one marked Milliamps, the other marked Voltmeter and a coal shovel made from a 105mm shell case (4).

TRIANG - a quantity of assorted boxed and unboxed loco`s, wagons, coaches, station buildings etc including R351 Electra no.27000; R341 Searchlight Wagon, boxed; R239 Bomb Transporter, boxed and other related items (a lot)

Postcards in black album, a selection of Suffolk cards including real photographs, views and landmarks, towns and villages, Lowestoft bomb damage, social history etc (qty)

WORLD WAR II "STICKY BOMB" (INCOMPLETE)