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A Victorian burr walnut veneered games compendium, the hinged cover inset a vacant brass plaque, revealing a leather covered folding chess/backgammon board, and a brass plaque inscribed H.Rodr icues, 42 Piccadilly London, two lift out trays with cards, cribbage board, turned ivory draughts, Bezique score markers, a pair of turned treen dice shakers, carved ivory markers, bone dominoes, the hinged front, satinwood veneered, fitted natural and red stained ivory chess pieces, registration lozenge for 29th Nov. 1869

EPHEMERAL MISCELLANY comprising an elaborate late Victorian valentine of silvered paper lace with floral application etc. in the original postally used box, and a few other cards; a London, Brighton and South-Coast railway timetable for the Paris Exhibition, 1878; Mae St.John Bramhall's "Japanese Jingles", Tokyo, 1891; two large coloured charts "Official Crests" & "Official Medals" of the British Army, Gale & Polden, c. 1900; and 5 other items.

QUEEN VICTORIA'S DIAMOND JUBILEE 1897: Two substantial albums compiled by Helen Maude Nicholson being "Recollections of the Jubilee 1897". The folio half red morocco bound volumes containing numerous items e.g. an embossed card in gold and colours; a photograph by Downey on embossed mount; various pamphlets; coloured route map of procession; 7 full-plate original photographs, of the procession and crowds in London, of the Queen reviewing the Colonial troops, the naval review etc; a coloured portrait by W.Nicholson; specimens of Jubilee menus; Xmas cards; special Jubilee issues of magazines, with many large folding panoramas; and a 16-page 4to Spink's catalogue of "Commemorative Medals for the Sexagenary of Her Majesty's Reign 1897", this partly printed in gold and colours. With, inset in velvet inside lower cover of one volume and retained by clips, 10 actual medals comprising 8 listed in the Spink's catalogue, (all with the bust of Victoria by Bowker to the obverse and appropriate relief to the reverse) i.e. No.1 "Empire Medal" (3-ins) No.2 "Royal Family" , No.3 "Primates of England", No.4 "Prime Ministers", No. 5 "British Commerce", No. 6 "The Army & Navy" (all 2-ins), No. 13 "Heirs to the Throne", & No.15 "Peace" (both 1.5ins.) All these in white metal. Together with two Royal Mint medals, the large in bronze, the small in silver. Also two cross shaped gilt medals with ribbons. Together with, loosely inserted, various items relating to the Queen's funeral including 6 very large original photographs of the cortege. Upwards of 75 items.

BURMA: An oblong folio album containing 180 original photographs, mostly postcard size, some smaller, largely taken in Burma ca. 1910; all captioned in ink on the mounts. Subjects include "In a Burmese Prison", "Girls school at Mandalay", "Up the Irrawaddy Mandalay to Bhamo", individual Burmese portraits, and portraits of the photographer's travelling companions, etc. Including a page of 13 snapshot photographs headed "On the Road to China" and five pages (35-photographs) headed "Camp at Namkan"[in the Burmese Shan States] these captioned "Col. Wang says good-bye after calling on Capt. Pritchard", "Mr Rose prepared to receive the Toa-Tai", "The Chinese officials arrive to do business", "Chinese Shan Women", etc. 24-photographs relate to "First Camping Expedition, on Western side of the Irrawaddy". Half-morocco; binding broken. Together with photographs of Rangoon and a number taken en route, e.g. Colombo, Suez, and a few water-colour drawings, sketches, a menu of a "Banquet given by the English to the Chinese" (in English & Chinese) and "Chinese visiting cards" etc. At end upwards of 100 further photographs, dated 1911-12, these however domestic subjects taken in England. Together with a later large map printed on linen and coloured entitled "Map of Maymo Rides showing also Notified Area and Reserve Boundaries in Neighbourhood" by T.S.Thompson, Div. Forest Officer. Scale 4 inches to the mile. Size 31 x 24 inches. Numbered "G.B.C.P.O. - No.5. C.F.N.G., 14-8-1936.19 04 10.V".

VICTORIAN VALENTINES: An album containing 112 19th Century greetings cards including 23 'paper lace' Valentines, some with lifting flaps and applied decoration. Together with a few photographs, prints, scraps, and manuscript verse. 4to, contemporary half morocco; spine worn. 1871 and later.

STEREO CARDS: a collection of 126 miscellaneous stereo cards, various subjects, some topographical, many comic, some of young women en deshabille with titles such as "The Artist's Model" and "Bedtime". Together with a simple hand-held wooden viewer. ca. late 19th and early 20th Century.

MILITARY: an album containing 50 'real photo.' postcards, mostly of the 10th London Regt. on a route march, e.g. 'Leaving Hatfield for Gaddesdon', 'Somewhere in Hemel Hempstead' etc. Also camp scene at Crowborough, group and individual photographs, camp of the 4th London Inf. Brigade at Crickhowell, 1913. Together with a few other cards, photographs, and two drawings. All slotted into a contemporary album; binding worn. Ca. 1913; together with a small number of regimental badges, buttons, etc.

MISCELLANEOUS: an album, worn & dishevelled, containing, slotted-in or loose, 113 picture postcards including shipping, railways, greetings and topographical. Early 20th Century. Together with another album containing 88 generally later cards, mostly sepia views.

MISCELLANEOUS: an album containing, slotted in, 291 picture postcards being mostly British topographical but including 12 pre-WW1 cards of Mombassa. The cards generally ca. 1910 -1920's. Folio, decorative cloth; spine worn.

MISCELLANEOUS: a folio album containing 256 picture postcards, mostly British topographical; early 20th Cent. Together with another small album containing approx. 140 similar cards including two 'real photo.' of Sidcup Golf Club.

AUSTRALIA: a collection of 186 picture postcards, almost entirely topographical, and all of Australian subjects including many of West Australia. ca. 1900-1930's. Many postally used. Together with four correspondence cards.

Taddys; British Medals and Ribbons (10), British Medals and Decorations, Series 2 (8), Prominent Footballers (1). 19 cards.

Cricketers, real photo; Godfrey Phillips, small size, brown back (24), Pinnace, miniature size (10); Guinea Gold (2). 36 cards.

Stereoscope Engraved Viewer, ebonised wood, repaired with approximately eighty stereoscope cards and a box of six glass lantern plates.

Interesting collection of cigarette cards, trade cards and post cards including approx. 20 Famous Boxers. 1 box

Two albums of postcards, misc. subjects approx. 400 cards. 2 albums

Five albums of interesting Post Cards, the majority received by a local family circa 1900 - 1930, approx. 650 cards including 100 Staffs/Cheshire region, also 2 albums of photographs. 5 albums

12 World War I silk embroidered postcards, 12 similar printed cards and 1 other (25).

Victorian gilt brass mounted burr walnut dome top games box, cover decorated with playing cards, 26cm x 18cm, and a larger Victorian walnut work box (2).

Two albums of cigarette cards, including Player's cards depicting dogs, and two albums of topographical postcards

CECIL ALDIN Figures playing cards coloured print, 33cm x 49cm (13" x 19.25") signed in pencil and numbered 95

Edwardian album of over 170 mainly Edwardian postcards including 18 Tom Browne, 'Hold to Light', 1904 Fison's fertiliser advert card and 1 other, Bonzo and numerous comical cards.

Large collection of assorted postcards including numerous humorous and greetings, Pears Bubbles, Walfords Welsh Maids tour 1912/13 and several Worldwide cards.

The Perfecscope stereoscopic viewer with approx 250 viewing cards

Various sets of playing cards including Dan Dare and Flight and Dominoes

L. Ruet after J. L. E. Meissonier, pair of signed engravings of figures playing cards outside a tavern, and soldiers in a courtyard

An Alexandra picture fronted Tobacco Tin containing original cigarettes, 1937 Coronation Tin with original Nut Brown Tobacco, and a set of American Red Cross Aviator Playing Cards.

A red album containing a quantity of silk postcards, (Regimental and Corps etc.), Victorian Valentine Cards and silk handkerchiefs.

Four Christmas Cards, H.M.S. Dorsetshire 1938 - 5th Crusier Squadron, (with postcard photograph), a similar lot Africa Station, H.M.S. Frobisher and other Indian Execution photograph and various other photographs, etc.

A Quantity of Stamps, and tea cards (box)

A Quantity of Stamps, and tea cards

An Album of Cigarette Cards, and various loose cigarette cards (box)

A quantity of books and a quantity of albums of cigarette cards.

Three old stamp albums, a folder of unframed watercolours and a pack of playing cards.

FOUR PACKS OF SIX UNUSED LAKE DISTRICT POSTCARDS, "The Ullswater Series of Watercolour Post-Cards from drawings by Edward G.Hobley ARCA", Nos 1-4, publi-shed by the Ullswater Navigation & Transit Coy.Ltd., each in original printed coloured paper envelope

William Wilson. SEVEN THIRD QUARTER 19TH-CENTURY PAMPHLETS, Some with woodcut illustrations to the title pages, six about 17cm x 19.5cm, (6.75in x 3.75in), one smaller, folded, mostly uncut, comprising: The Complete Art of Fortune Telling by Cards, The Modern Jest Book, A New Collection of Prime Jokes, etc, The Surprising History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk, Dreadful Wreck of the 'Litchfield', Man-of-War, on the Coast of Barbary, The Shipwreck of Captain Leighton.

Dicken's family connection: A VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK, inscribed on the fly leaf Evelyn Elizabeth Dickens, 1893, and probably compiled by her, containing 65 pages, all but 8 of which having scraps, greetings cards, etc. of the period, laid down, bound in half red morocco,gilt, 31cm x 26cm, (12.25in x 10.25in).

AN EDWARDIAN ART-NOUVEAU STYLE PICTURE POSTCARD ALBUM containing approx- imately 166 contemporary and later postcards including topographical views, Lakes and elsewhere advertising, (Fry's Chocolate, Royal Enfield Bicycles), Mabel Lucie Attwell (12), Louis Wain, (2), Seaside humourous etc, Baribal (1), Greetings cards, novelty etc.

A VICTORIAN CARD BOX with embossed borders, the lid centred by a metal framed coloured fruit under glass depicting figures round a camp fire, 23cm x 15.5cm, (9in x 6in) containing a variety of greeting cards of the same period comprising: 11 Valentine cards, some padded with perfumed sachets, some with lace doyley effect, 3 New Year cards, and 4 others, (22)

TEN VARIOUS STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC CARDS comprising a late 19th-century view of Ludgate Hill, London, 1887 by J.F.Jarvis Washington D.C., six various by Underwood & Underwood, Baltimore & Liverpool, two novelty by Strohmeyer & Wyman, N.Y., and another by the Littleton View Co, New Hampshire, (10)

A 1920s ALBUM OF WILL'S CIGARETTE CARDS, comprising a full set (25) of Cinema Stars 1st Series, another 25 of the 2nd Series (both complete, 50 in all)a full set (50) of Roses, a full set (50) of Engineering Wonders, a full set (50) of British Butterflies, 48 (of 50) Garden Flowers, 27 (of 50) Household Hints,plus a few sundries, in a period album with Tobler Chocolate "stamps" to the inside covers

SIX LATE VICTORIAN EMBOSSED FUNERAL CARDS dated 1868 to 1901, some silvered or gilt-enriched, various sizes and frames

A LARGE COLLECTION (APPROXIMATELY 400) LOOSE POSTCARDS, early to mid 20th-century, mainly comprising views of churches and castles of various counties, sold with a full inventory (of 405 cards, listed by county, princi- pally East Anglia, Yorkshire and Scotland, up to ten cards of other counties - full list faxed on request)

SEVEN VICTORIAN/EDWARDIAN GREETINGS CARDS mainly with floral-decorated "lace" doylie work, various (7)

Two enamel counter trays, Bilston, circa 1775, each oval with openwork sides, one painted with a pastoral landscape within flowers, 12.7cm, 5in; the other with coins and playing cards, sides restored, 12cm, 4in

A VICTORIAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL CARD CASE with blue card and moir_ silklined "concertina" interior, (complete with cards of Mr and Mrs Alex. Ross), the hinged front having an engraved escutcheon with flowers and ownership cypher

A mid 19th century rosewood playing card compendium, the four boxes applied with brass playing cards engraved with each suit and flanking a screw handle which holds down a removable tray, 31.5cm wide

A mid 19th century Tunbridge ware playing card box, the rectangular cribbage board lid marquetried with flowers on satinwood, the interior with two compartments for playing cards and another central, 25cm wide

Three Tunbridge ware boxes, each with floral inlaid tops, one with lift up lid containing playing cards, the largest 12cm wide (3)

Assorted Victorian scraps, early 20th century postcards, cigarette cards and other ephemera, a lot.

A collection of Victorian greetings cards, birthday cards, Christmas cards and other printed ephemera, including die-cut examples, a lot.

An album containing Edwardian postcards including humorous examples and greetings cards.

An album of Edwardian postcards including Actresses, Tucks greetings cards and others, another album of cards, two scrap albums and various greetings cards and ephemera.

An album containing a collection of birthday and greetings cards, for Christmas, Easter etc.,including many Mabel Lucy Atwell examples and another similar album (cards stuck down).

A quantity of cigarette cards, including Churchman, Modern Wonders, Boxing Personalities, R & J Hill, Views of Interest and various others. A Lot.

Players 'Cricketers' 1938, various other cigarette cards mostly in albums, some loose and some pre-decimal coinage.

Various cigarette cards and albums.

Godfrey Phillips, International Caps, Gallagher Ltd. Film Partners, Park Drive, Stars of Screen and Stage, and various other cigarette and trade cards, a lot.

Five postcards featuring RMS Queen Mary and other ships; together with menu cards and other printed memorabilia, all relating to the White Star and Cunard Shipping Lines. (qty.)

Three postcard albums containing greetings cards, ships, W.W.I. silks, photographs and postcards of the Royal Naval detachment, a woven silk card depicting R.M.S. Andania, etc. (approximately 120)