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COACHING & TOLL ROADS. – A very rare George II toll pass. [Great Britain:] 1744. A folding dark-brown calf and paper pass (69 x 54mm.) The left inner cover with applied paper label with 19 lines of letterpress text beneath the letterpress heading ‘Gate-Keepers Orders’ with manuscript signature at foot ‘Tho: Ripley’, the right inner cover with gilt tooled border incorporating ‘The Kings Private Roads’, ‘G II R’, ‘MDCCXLIV’ and ‘No 1020’ all surrounding a central area blocked in blind with an official stamp. The outer covers with borders decorated in single fillet and dog-tooth roll tools, contained within original black shagreen two-part slip-case, lined in red velvet. Provenance: the Tyrwhitt Drake family and thence by descent.

Spiderman: rare unused free gift from Pow! comic of an iron-on Spiderman transfer sheet, ink stamp 28th January 1957, 220mm by 155mm

BECHUANALAND - 1938 Revenue-Revenue £1 black and green block of forty seven and a damaged 10s postage stamp, used on piece and tied by 24 strikes of the DEEDS REGISTRY/BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE oval datestamp for 11 Sep 1954, each adhesive additionally initialled in pen, a few stamps with faults but the majority fine, a most impressive and rare piece, Barefoot 45, cat £7,050

BECHUANALAND - 1938 Revenue-Revenue £1 black and green irregular block of fifteen and six 1s postage stamp, used on piece and tied by 11 strikes of the DEEDS REGISTRY/BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE oval datestamp for 11 Sep 1954, each adhesive additionally initialled in pen, a most impressive and rare piece, Barefoot 45, cat £2,250

TRINIDAD - 1852-60 Second issue (1d) pale blue on thin paper (SG 15) large margins, used with light '1' numeral, minor wrinkling but much above average for this rare stamp, BPA cert (2004)

TRINIDAD - Specimens: Small group comprising 1896-1906 2½d, 1901-06 2½d, 1904-09 1d rose-red, 2½d blue and 1s purple and blue each overprinted 'Specimen' and showing constant var broken 'M' (pos.41 of setting) (SG 117s, 128s, 135s, 137s, 142s), odd minor fault, fresh part o.g. to u/m, a rare group each stamp being one of only 12 possible

A rare large Wemyss pottery pig, circa 1900, painted with pink cabbage roses, thistles and shamrock, modelled seated on its haunches, impressed factory mark 'Wemyss Ware R.H. & S.' with puce printed retailer's stamp, 42cm long (some restoration to tail and ears). Note: it is unusual to see pigs of this size painted with roses, thistles and shamrocks, normally the decoration consists of one type of flower. A similar example was sold by Sotheby's at their Gleneagles sale, 26th August 2003, Lot 321.

1840 1d plate 4: BE three very small to large margins showing portion of adjoining stamp at left but slightly cut into at top, used on piece with light indistinct red MC and additionally tied by bold Upton C Penny Post cancel in black (Spec AS23ya), vertical crease through stamp but a rare combination, cat £2,000

1840 1d red-brown 'Rainbow' trial with ragged void corner, three small to large margins, cut into at right, 'used' with a trial pin cancellation which has punctured and abraided the design also with a horizontal cut which slices through the stamp between the left and right borders and through the Queen's neck, slight paper adhesion on rear and small crease in top right corner, very rare trial cancellation

1867-83 Watermark Anchor: Blued paper £5 orange (SG 133) lettered CI, light diagonal bend and minor wrinkles, used with Southampton cds for JY 8 82 and light box cancel in violet, some slight soiling nevertheless a good example of this rare stamp, cat £12,000

Booklet: 1982 £1.43 Holiday Postcard (Golden Hind) booklet, margin at left, with error phosphor completely omitted (SG FN3A var), perfs slightly trimmed at right otherwise full all round, trivial impression on stamp 1/1 visible from reverse, fine and an extremely rare booklet

A rare Great War East Africa operations C.M.G. group of nine awarded to Colonel C. U. Price, Indian Army, C.O. of Jacob’s Rifles and a successful Column Commander whose forces captured Dar-es-Salaam in September 1916 the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (Lieut., 3/Baluch L.I.); China 1900, no clasp (Captain, 30/Baluch L.I.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., 1/130 Baluchis); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Col.); Delhi Durbar 1903, impressed naming, ‘Colonel C. V. Price, 130th Baluchis’; Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed as issued; Russian Order of St. Anne, 3rd class breast badge, with swords, by Osipov, St. Petersburg, gold and enamel, manufacturer’s initials on reverse, ‘56’ zolotnik mark for 1909-17 on eyelet, and other stamp marks on sword hilts, generally good very fine (9) £3500-4000 c.M.G. London Gazette 26 June 1916. mention in despatches London Gazette 30 June 1916, 7 March 1918 and 6 August 1918 (all East Africa). russian Order of St. Anne London Gazette 15 February 1917. charles Uvedale Price was born in May 1868 and was educated at the United Services College, Westward Ho! and the R.M.C., Sandhurst. Originally commissioned into the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in February 1888, he transferred to the Indian Army in January 1890 and served in the Zhob Valley on the North West Frontier in the same year, afterwards gaining an appointment as a Wing Officer in the 30th Regiment of Bombay Infantry (3rd Baluchis). in January 1897, however, he was attached to the 27th Bombay Infantry (1st Baluchis) as Adjutant, and went on to win his first campaign medal with them in the Uganda operations of 1897-98. During this latter campaign he was engaged against the Sudanese mutineers, including the operations at Jeruba and Kijangute, and in Budda and Ankoli, gaining a mention in despatches. shortly afterwards he sailed for China, and served as a Captain in the course of the Boxer Rebellion. Then in 1903, back in India, Price attended the Delhi Durbar, attached as a Political Officer to His Highness the Mir of Khairpur. He was advanced to Major in February 1906. appointed a Double Company Commander in the 130th K.G.O. Baluchis (Jacob’s Rifles) in October 1911, Price assumed command of the regiment in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1915, and went on to serve with distinction in the operations in East Africa. in July 1915, in the fighting in the Mbuyuni region, he was appointed to the command of the flanking column, comprising Jacob’s Rifles, the 4th K.A.R. and Cole’s Scouts, sent by Brigadier-General Malleson to envelop the enemy’s left. Carrying out a well timed circuitous night march, Price attacked at daybreak on the 14th, but by 8 a.m. his force was checked by strong enemy resistance, and it became necessary to await more positive news from the main attacking force to the Germans’ front. This initiative, however, also lost momentum, and by the time Malleson’s order to call off the assault reached Price, his force had been under a lively hostile fire for at least an hour. Unperturbed, Price disengaged and ‘brought away his force in a steady and well-executed withdrawal, with slight loss’ (Official history refers). in early July 1916, as C.O. of a 500-strong force, comprising the 5th Light Infantry and a company of the 101st Grenadiers, Price was given the task of capturing Tanga. Carrying out a successful landing on the southern shore of Manza Bay on the 5th, he moved his force inland towards Amboni, ‘which was reached next day after disposing of some slight resistance on the way’. And on the 7th, he and his men crossed the Zigi River, the final natural barrier between them and their goal. Tanga, however, was found to have been deserted by the enemy, although some had remained behind in the surrounding bush from where they sniped at the British with good effect. Flushing out such opposition by means of frequent patrolling, Price moved on to Kange on the 17th. then in early August, he was given overall command of two columns, numbering in total some 1400 men, to secure the crossings of the Wami River. This he successfully accomplished in little more than a week, thereby assisting in opening up the way forward to attack Dar-es-Salaam. For the final advance on the seat of government and principal port of German East Africa, Price’s force was bolstered in strength by some 500 men and equipped with 20 machine-guns. The whole was assembled at Bagamoyo at the end of the month, and on the 31st, in two columns, it advanced on Dar-es-Salaam, while two smaller parties penetrated north to secure the railway line and some important bridges. Just four days later, having encountered little opposition, Price’s main force was assembled on the heights near Mabibo, from which the port could be seen less than three miles away. And early on that morning, after the Royal Navy had despatched a delegation aboard the Echo with a formal summons to surrender, the 129th Baluchis, which had acted as Price’s advanced guard throughout the operation, entered and took over the town. Once again, the Germans had made a hasty retreat, leaving behind 80 hospital patients and 370 non-combatants. for his part in some of the above related operations in German East Africa, Price was awarded the C.M.G and mentioned in despatches, in addition to gaining appointment to the Russian Order of St Anne. And in the later operations of that theatre of war between 1917-18, he again distinguished himself and was twice more the recipient of a ‘mention’. The Colonel, who retired to South Africa, died in May 1956. £3500-£4000

Frank Wright Bourdillon, NEAC (1851-1924) IN THE WHEAT-FIELD signed, 26 x 38cm Bourdillon's newly rediscovered In the Wheat-field, undoubtedly painted en plein air is likely to date from 1885, when he was living at Oxford. He left for Cornwall in May 1886 settling first at Polperro and moving soon to Newlyn where he became a respected and popular member of the small group of painters around Stanhope Forbes. In the Wheat-field is one of several 'lost' pictures, small lyrical landscapes, recorded in the artist's notebook, other titles of which include When the Lark Sings and A Cornish Lane. Bourdillon came from an old Huguenot family and was brought up in India. Fascinated by birds and drawing he travelled to England and entered the Slade School, prior to spending a year in Paris in 1883-4. Bourdillon's work is rare as, quite suddenly, in 1892 he gave up painting and returned to India to become a missionary. See Fox (C) and F Greenacre, Artists of the Newlyn School, exhibition catalogue, 1979, pp227-233. Mellors & Kirk acknowledges the assistance of Francis Greenacre, who has commented on the work on the basis of a photograph. ++Two or possibly three minor old gum repairs to small holes or tears which could be easily rectified. Some accretion of surface dust and grime but in generally fine condition. NoT relined or patched and on the original stretchers. On the reverse of the canvas the artist's stencilled initials and the oval ink stamp of PAUL FOINET the Parisian artist's colour man, in what is presumably the original giltwood and composition reeded frame with on the reverse an illegible fragmentary label

**A RARE 40 BORE INDIAN FOUR-SHOT PERCUSSION CARBINE IN THE ENGLISH TASTE, MID-19TH CENTURY with octagonal twist sighted barrels inscribed with a spurious signature on the top rib and with an arsenal inscription on the top right hand barrel, the breeches inlaid with gold lines and with a gold-lined maker's stamp resembling the letters 'H. Nock', engraved case-hardened tang, back-action locks engraved with border ornament, foliage and a spurious signature, engraved case-hardened hammers, the lower hammers sprung and pivoting away from the nipple for firing the upper barrel, figured half-stock (small chips, cracked beneath the lock), chequered grip, engraved steel trigger-guard and butt-plate, and white metal barrel bolt escutcheons (later ramrod) 57cm; 22 3/8in barrels

R.A.M.I.: 1964 two fold with addendum page illustrating eighteen models (some grafitti), 1965, 1966 six-fold colour cencertina catalogue, 1968 colour booklet illustrating thirty-eight moedls and rare R.A.M.I./Ziss blue printed two-fold leaflet illustrating R.A.M.I. models 1 to 19 and three additional Ziss models with ink stamp 'Hermann Kurtz, Marketplatz, Stuttgart', G-VG (5)

A rare Great War period D.C.M. group of nine attributed to Gunner M. Kriz, a Czech Legionnaire Czech War Cross 1918; Czech Revolutionary Medal 1918; Czech Victory Medal 1918; Czech F.I.D.A.C. Medal for Veterans of the Great War; Czech Commemorative Cross for Volunteers 1918-19; Czech Zborov Memorial Medal 1917-47; Czech Bachmac Memorial Medal 1918-48; Austria, Empire, Karl Troop Cross 1916; Great Britain, Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R., unnamed as issued to foreign nationals, this last with refixed suspension claw, generally very fine or better (9) £1200-1500 As is nearly always the case, no verification has been found for this particular award of the D.C.M., but it is worth noting that Abbott & Tamplin state some 290 such decorations were issued to Czech Legionnaires. Miloslav Kriz was born in Marsovicich, in the district of Benesov, near Prague in April 1888, and joined the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1910. Sent out to the Eastern Front on the outbreak of hostilities, he was wounded and taken prisoner at Tschemenovka in July 1915, and signed up for the Czech Legions at a P.O.W. camp near Kiev in October 1916. Assigned to the 4th Company of the 1st Gunner Regiment, he subsequently fought in the famous battle of Zborov in July 1917, and afterwards in the actions at Kungut, Omsk, Nikolsk, Usurrijsk, Perm, and Tagil, in addition to other skirmishes against the Bolsheviks. In February 1918, having been posted to a reserve unit, he participated in the engagements fought during the Siberian retreat, all the way to Vladivostok, and was finally demobilised back in Czechoslovakia in March 1920, having returned there via Canada and Western Europe. Kriz died on 18 March 1937, so presumably his Zborov and Bachmac Medals were issued posthumously at a later date. Sold with his original Ministry of Defence, Czech Legions Office service certificate, bearing an official stamp, signature and the date 18 March 1937, together with a contemporary portrait photograph, in uniform, by F. Wokac of Roznov.

5 ROYAL DOULTON BUNNYKINS FIGURES: RARE POLICEMAN WITH SCHOOLMASTER D.B. 60 STAMP, COWBOY, INDIAN, POLICEMEN, SCHOOL MASTER

Bibliography--Dibdin, T.F.. An introduction to the knowledge of rare and valuable editions of the Greek and Latin classics, 1827, 2 volumes, 8vo, fourth edition, 1 engraved plate, contemporary calf, Signet Library gilt stamp on covers, neatly rebacked; Ibid. The library companion, 1824, 8vo, half calf gilt, black morocco label, some light spotting; Ramsay, Allan The gentle shepherd. Glasgow: A. Foulis, 1788, 4to, engraved portrait, 12 plates, 18pp. engraved music, half calf, spine gilt (4)

Bank of England, Nairne £100, Manchester, 4 May 1911, Y/27 17907, purple 'Manchester and Salford Savings Bank' stamp and black ink notation to obv. and black ink notation to rev., otherwise good fine or better, rare

Bank of England, Nairne £50, Manchester, 2 July 1913, 2/X 74479, purple stamp, noticeable soiling and a number of numeric black ink notations to obv., a few black ink notations to rev., normal deckle edge to right hand side and some wrinkling to paper, otherwise about fine, rare

18th Century Irish Army List A list of the officers of the army and marines... Dublin: War Office, 1799, 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt, rebacked, marbled endpapers, ink stamp of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment on front endpaper Note: There is also a Dublin reprint of the Annual Army List, but whether it appeared each year is uncertain. Copies are very rare, the only ones known to the writer being for the years 1755-57; 1759-63; 1767; 1771; 1773; 1783;1789-90; & 1798-9. (White, A.S. Vol. XXv, pp.119-20)

Doyle, Arthur Conan A study in scarlet. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1888, first edition, first impression, with youuger for younger in preface, 6 plates, 14pp. of advertisements at end, late nineteenth century green pebbledash cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, faint library stamp on endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription at head of title, inscription shaved, adhesion to page 8-9 affecting six words and creating two small holes to inner margin of page 7/8, lacking the two pp. advertisements at beginning, a few page corners slightly creased Note: The very rare first edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's first book. A study in scarlet was first published in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887. Conan Doyle was paid £25 for the complete copyright by Ward Lock and Co. after the work had been rejected by the Cornhill Magazine, Arrowsmith's of Bristol and Warne. It marks the first appearance in print of both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

TWO PRIMED BRASS 4-BORE CASES; two 10-bore brass primed cases; a rare 8-bore brass cartridge with "Ejector" head-stamp; a rare 12-bore brass cartridge of stepped form by Greener, dated 1940; another brass 12-bore cartridge by Greener with "Police Gun" head-stamp; a Purdey 20-bore paper factory crimped case; an Eley 12-bore cartridge case marked for blank; and a 14-bore paper Eley loaded cartridge. (Qty)

A stamp collection of New South Wales containing many rare stamps from 1850 including several varieties of the earliest stamps through most Victorian issues to 1900 very high catalogue value

Faria y Sousa (Manuel de) Asia Portuguesa 3 vol. first edition engraved titles with architectural border woodcut initials engraved portrait in text in each vol. 10 engraved and 8 woodcut views all folding woodcut portraits most full-page vol.1 & 2 lacking final blank leaf a few contemporary ink marginalia titles shaved and soiled with small ink stamp of owner in red at head some worming with slight loss including to one folding engraved map some browning and spotting modern calf spines gilt in compartments with morocco labels [Cordier Sinica 2309; Palau 86692] folio Lisbon Henrique Valente de Oliveira 1666-75. ***Important account of the Portuguese empire in Asia. The views are of Santa Elena Cochim Cananor Sofala Goa Malaca Ormuz Baçaim Chaul & Dio in vol.1; Mocanbique Daman Manar Mangalor Onor & Barcalor in vol.2; Mascate & Macao in vol.3. The views appear to vary from copy to copy: some do not contain St.Helena but do Sofala this copy does not include Quiloa which is found in other copies. Rare to find all three volumes..

A rare Venini Fazzoletto blue 'Handkerchief' vase circa 1953, with blue latticino design, with acid stamp to base. This has an early acid stamp for Venini in an oval, 180mm high and 193mm wide

Traveling Post Office Postal Covers, a complete set in an album together with a hardback book 'The British Traveling Post Office' by Peter Johnson. The set comprises 32 first day covers bearing Cuneos Famous Trains stamps individually cancelled with the date stamp of all 32 TPOs in existence at that time, on 22nd January 1985. These date stamps were unique to each TPO and only used for letters actually posted into the carriage at the station (or at a few 'late posting' boxes on major stations) With the recent demise of the TPO, this is a rare opportunity to own a significant piece of British transport history

A rare silver novelty stamp moistener Chester 1912 makers mark Samuel Levi in the form of Ali Sloper with an extended tongue set on a triangular base 2.5in (6cm) high. * Ali Sloper was a popular late Victorian cartoon character.

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, USA and American Interest Medals, William Pitt, the elder, The Repeal of the Stamp Act, small ‘Gilt’ Brass Medal [1766], bust of Pitt left, wearing buttoned jacket, RIGHT HONOURABLE WILL PITT / ESQ., rev legend in seven lines, THE MAN WHO HAVING SAVED THE PARENT PLEADED WITH SUCCESS FOR HER CHILDREN, 31mm (BHM 105, R4; Betts -, cf 518 for obverse; EPM 1890/2). Nearly extremely fine and excessively rare. BHM records a single specimen in the British Museum

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, TURKEY, the Ottoman Empire and the wars against them, 1682, Great Britain/Morocco, The Treaty of Peace and Commerce between Britain and Algiers, Silver Medal, by George Bower, bust of Named Hamet to right wearing turban, rev panorama of the port of city of Tunis, Peace, naked, reclines on clouds above, NON EGET MAURI IACULIS, 40mm, the edge stamped with a minute letter C, probably a continental duty stamp (MI 585/261). Good very fine and excessively rare. Kaid Mohammed benHaduOttur [Named Hamet], was Morocco's second Ambassador to London, appointed in 1682, and he made a deep impression on London society because of his exotic dress, his courtesy and his horsemanship. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society and visited Oxford University. One of the most famous English painters of the day, Sir Godfrey Kneller, painted him on his horse in Hyde Park. The Treaty of Peace and Commerce between Britain and Algiers was signed on 23rd March 1882, and dealt primarily with protections for piracy and the rights of British subjects in Algiers. It was renewed and enlarged several times between 1686 and 1800. The reverse legend, which translates as “It needs not the javelins of the Moors”, is taken from Horace. The specimen in the British Museum is recorded as being an electrotype from the Ducal Library in Gotha.

ISLAMIC COINS, Barakzai, Silver Seal Stamp, in the name of ‘Abd al-Rahman, dated 1310h/1892, bala ‘abd al-rahman ibn ‘aziz khan in centre, Þd d1892 around, 30mm x 25mm. Good very fine, a rare and unusual item.

A rare 1840 early May dated penny black on cover sent from York to Evesham and redirected to Tewkesbury dated 8th May (3rd day of issue) cat. #3500 (some tears in cover well away from stamp and reverse postmark). Robson Lowe auction 4th September 1975 659 with original folder

A RARE BESWICK BEATRIX POTTER 'TOM KITTEN' PLAQUE, gold back stamp, 13cm high.

Trade catalogue. British and Indian Army Sadlery &c., by J.W. Eldrid & Co., 21 Fore Street, Cripplegate, London, n.d., c. 1850s, hand-col. litho. title and fifty-six litho. plts. incl. many tinted, showing the firms products, descriptions and product codes, twenty full-page plts. of horses and harnesses, the remainder multiple images to a plt., products incl. bridles, saddles, belts, boots, steel picks, whips and whip thongs, harness furniture, saddle trees, buckles, belts, rosettes and ornaments, furniture and tools, etc., some occ. soiling, title soiled and split at lower margin, hinges weak, orig. cloth with Eldrid's oval gilt address stamp to upper cover, soiling and some wear, oblong folio A very rare item and apparently complete. (1)

Sowerby James. The British Miscellany or coloured figures of new rare or little know animal subjects. London 1804-06 8vo 76 hand coloured plates bound with original paper covers to rear quarter morocco gilt rubbed upper board loose backstrip loose occasional foxing some waterstaining to rear offsetting; Rye E.C. British Beetles. London 1866 8vo 16 coloured plates full purple cloth gilt gilt stamp on upper board backstrip faded and stained corners bumped (2).

Archibald Knox (1864-1933) A rare Cymric silver-mounted decanter, for Liberty & Co. circa 1903, the ovoid green glass body, probably James Powell & Sons, with tall cylindrical neck and applied ribbed band, the silver collar, decorated with Celtic knotwork, having a shaped spout and curved handle, the stopper with tapering handle similarly decorated, hallmarked Birmingham 1903, makers stamp 'L&C', 'Cymric' (2) 25.5cm high

"A rare Beswick pottery Beatrix Potter figures - “Duchess"" - The black glazed figure of a standing cat holding a bouquet of flowers, on circular base, 3.75ins high (with Beswick England back stamp in gilt to base, worded “Beatrix Potter’s Duchess"" and printed “F. Warne & Co Ltd Copyright"" in gilt to base)"

A RARE CASED PAIR OF EDWARDIAN KESWICK SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS (KSIA) SERVING SPOONS of late Medieval type, each having a planished fig-shaped bowl, tapering facetted shaft and acorn finial, hallmarked Chester, 1905, with oval KSIA stamp, 16cm, (6.3in) long, in original plush-lined grey cloth case, named internally "Keswick School of Industrial Arts" in gilt blackletter

A quantity of Victorian and later GB stamps on stock cards including line engraved issues, Penny Reds, Queen Elizabeth II high values in corner and other blocks of four, mainly used Channel Islands and Isle of Man, a collection of airmail and aviation stamps in a red stock book together with airline postcards, sundry other stamp exhibitions in packets and a rare airmail magazine for 1944 together with a useful set of softback Stanley Gibbons Stamps of the World Volumes 1-4, 2004

Zanzibar, Order of the Brilliant Star, Sultan Khalife (I) bin Said type (1888-90), Third Class neck Badge, 90mm. x 56mm., silver-gilt and enamel, stamp marks on Badge and suspension loop, two ball finials bent, slight enamel damage, very fine, rare

A rare .65" Tower flintlock artillery carbine, c. 1780, 52" overall, barrel 37" with Tower proofs, rounded lock with swan neck cock, the plate with inspector's stamp and engraved with crowned GR and Tower, slender walnut fullstock with bulbous fore end, the butt with indistinct inspector's stamp and ordnance storekeeper's mark, regulation brass mounts, original steel ramrod and sling swivels. GWO & C (surface rust to steel parts with some light pitting, some bruising, minor damage, and old patched repair to stock) (Please see lot 946 for image)

A rare early stock and sear-matchlock for a military musket or light wallgun, German or Styrian,circa 1560-70 probably beechwood, now blackened, with broad full length fore-end of pentagonal section with bevelled edges, slotted for a recoil-stop towards the front and with provision for two barrel pins, tapering in steps along the underside at the muzzle, cut with a fluted chevron beneath the breech, a fluted ramp behind the breech and with a recess for the pan, with low 'fishtail' butt of robust section slightly recessed for the cheek, its original forward-acting sear-lock retained by a pair of screws entering from the right and with an early red painted finish, small trigger, and iron trigger-guard (cracked between the lock and the breech and also opposite the lock); the stock and lock of a military matchlock musket, German, circa 1620-30, of beechwood, full length and with a narrow 'fishtail' butt, the latter with contemporary arsenal stamp, 'ED' within a heart, studded with brass rosettes above the lock, and fitted with an iron band over the ramrod channel (the lock and mounts rusted, the butt with an early working repair); another stock for a military musket, dated 1622, full length, with provision for a large rhomboid lock, perhaps of dummy wheel-lock type, and with strongly formed triangular butt, the latter with two large arsenal stamps on the left, one 'ED' within a heart, the other shield-shaped and filled with the letters 'PLo' over a rosette, and incised with both the date and the owner's name 'Philippia' on the right (3) the first 142.2 cm; 56 in

Tasmania 1892-99 £1 green and yellow, marginal block of 4 from the right of the sheet, good colour, full original gum. A rare multiple of this scarce stamp. Stanley Gibbons No. 225.

St. Lucia 1881 Postal Fiscal Stamp 'SHILLING STAMP', orange, with the surcharge variety 'SHILDING' for 'SHILLING' officially corrected with the use of red ink. Tied by the St. Lucia code 'C' date-stamp of 11 December 1896 on a small envelope registered to Barbados. Oval-framed 'R', manuscript reference number '7559' and Barbados arrival date-stamp on the reverse. Some envelope creasing but good appearance and rare. When purchased from Stanley Gibbons Ltd., it was stated that only two examples had been recorded. Stanley Gibbons No. F4b variety.

A rare Clarice Cliff 'Bonjour' shape tea set, "Green Cowslip" pattern, consisting of two cups, saucers and side plates, teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl, Bizarre back-stamp in black

Chesney (Lt-Col. F.R.). The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by Order of the British Government, in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by Geographical and Historical Notices of the Regions Situated between the Rivers Nile and Indus, 2 vols., [all published and without the rare slipcase containing fourteen folding maps], 1850, half-titles present, forty-nine tinted litho. plts. incl. one folding, lacks two leaves of preface in vol. 1 (supplied in photocopy), ex-lib copy with indelible ink stamp to verso of each title, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, worn on spines, thick 8vo, together with Andrew (W.P.), Memoir of the Euphrates Valley Route to India; with Official Correspondence, 1857, half-title present, two folding maps, orig. cloth gilt, soiled and worn, 8vo. General Francis Rawdon Chesney (1789-1872), was a major influence on the expansion of the British Empire in the 19th century. In 1829 he made a tour of inspection in Egypt and Syria during the course of which he was able to prove that from an engineering point of view, and contrary to the conclusions reached earlier by Napoleon's surveyors, the construction of a Suez Canal was perfectly feasible. It was on the strength of Chesney's Report that Dr. Lesseps later built the canal and it was Lesseps himself who styled Chesney the 'Father of the Suez Canal', in 1869. (3)

LOWE, EDWARD JOSEPH. Ferns: British and Exotic. 8vols., 1872. 479 coloured plates; A NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW AND RARE FERNS. 1871. 72 coloured plates. Together 9 vols., 8vo., uniform half green morocco gilt, a.e.g. (stamp of Clova House on titles) (9)

a rare scottish heart-butt snaphaunce belt pistol made entirely of steel, dated 1645 with sighted multi-stage barrel formed with four raised mouldings and flared octagonal muzzle, engraved with the date ahead of a slotted ramp at the base of the breech and inset with a small silver rectangle towards the muzzle, bevelled lock with maker's stamp ( rubbed), the pan incorporating a disc fence engraved with an expanded flowerhead and fitted with sliding cover, the cock decorated with a matching flowerhead and the arm of the battery cut with a Celtic serpentine motif ( the sear, tumbler and mainspring all working replacements, presumably early 18th Century), with slender stock cut with simple dentil mouldings along the fore-end, strongly pronounced heart-shaped pommel, slotted small ramrod-pipe, and openwork cubic trigger and pricker en suite with the jaw screw of the cock ( the belt hook, ramrod, one side-nail and the bodkin from the pricker all missing) 40cm., 15.75in The heart-shaped pommel was a regional development of the so-called lemon pommel popularised by Scottish pistol makers within the first quarter of the 17th Century. The heart-shaped pommel appears to have originated exclusively in the centres of production in the Scottish eastern lowlands, such as Inverness, Elgin, Aberdeen and Dundee.

a rare pair of brescian flintlock holster pistols by Claudio Bereta (sic.), circa 1690-1700 with ridged chevron-fluted barrels chiselled with leaves in low relief in front of the girdle and at the base of the breech, formed with a short round section at the median, octagonal breeches each cut with recessed panels and raised partially fluted edges, and stamped 'Lazarino' between a single trefoil stamp front and rear, signed rounded locks each chiselled with a dragon entwined with foliage in relief on the tail, the cocks decorated en suite (one top jaw and jaw screw replaced, one steel with small repair), figured walnut full stocks carved with acanthus mouldings (both fore-ends with numerous small repairs, each with a small section replaced at the muzzle), inset with steel plaques behind the ramrod-pipe, the barrel tang and about the trigger, all chiselled en suite with the locks and mounts, involving flowerheads and monsters' head terminals, and the pommels each centering on a chiselled spiralling expanded flowerhead ( the pommels each with very minor holes, ramrods replaced) (2) 48.9cm., 19.25in Claudio Beretta was born in 1658/9. It is stated in his tax-return of 1687 that he and his younger brothers Francesco and Domenico were archibugiari; subsequent tax records for 1720 and 1723 describe him as a flintlockmaker. Firearms signed with Claudio Beretta's full name are rare; pistols thus signed are preserved in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (3.0.295/ 5945) and in the Kremlin Armoury, Moscow (inv. 1886).

* Zeppelin. A collection of eight postcards, including a rare unused Austrian 1933 special airmail Zeppelin card with 10g printed postage stamp, plus one card of a Zeppelin over Bregenz inscribed with passenger list in pencil and dated 28 August 1911, another of the Graf Zeppelin over Vienna dated 20-8-29 and others including the 'Sachsen'. (8)

* Zeppelin. An extremely rare coloured postcard of an early Zeppelin over Vienna, after a painting by Danilo Watz, with numerous signatures in pencil and ink including Graf Zeppelin, August Krem, Schiller and others, dated 18-12-1910, with Franz Joseph 5 Heller stamp and cancellation. (1)

Murdoch (W.G.Burn) From Edinburgh to the Antarctic, first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author, illustrations, folding map, 32pp. Advertisements at end, ink library stamp on half-title and title, hinges broken, original pictorial cloth, extremities rubbed, lower cover very slightly cockled, [Spence 825; Taurus 12], 8vo, London & New York, 1894. Rare with a fine presentation inscription on the half-title to the Caledonian United Service Club Library giving details of the expedition and the whales encountered, with two sketches of whales (Finner and Right).

[Le Fanu, J. Sheridan]. Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery, 1st ed., Dublin, James McGlashan, 1851, half title present, frontis. and two of three eng. plts. by Phiz (lacks plt. opposite p.99), library stamp to title, recent calf gilt, small 8vo. Sadleir 1376. Rare. (1)

A RARE CASED SET OF SIX GEORGE V KESWICK SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS (KSIA) SILVER TEASPOONS of late Medieval style type with facetted shafts having acorn knops, and planished fig-shaped bowls, each with oval "KSIA" stamp and hallmarked Chester 1918, in original fitted plush lined pink cloth case, the lid interior named "Keswick School of Industrial Arts" in gilt blackletter

A very rare 1883 (1st August) Brentford first day Parcel Post label, the only known example bearing one shilling orange-brown (plate 13 S.G.163), circular date-stamp with another cancel along the side (some soiling not affecting adhesive); sold together with a National Postal Museum, London, letter discussing its rarity.

DAFFYS ELIXIR BOTTLE. 4.5 ins tall, dark olive green glass, rectangular shape with bevelled corners, base cross hinged, short neck with crude applied lip. Embossed to front TRUE/ DAFFYS/ ELIXIR to rear DICEY/ & CO/ NO 10 BOW/ CHURCH/ YARD/ LONDON with SEE THAT/ THE WORDS/ DICEY & CO/ ARE PRINTED/ IN THE/ STAMP in script style lettering to bevelled corners. Half inch crack to neck does not greatly detract from this rare, small size example. Superb crude narrow neck. NR.

A Catalogue of the Magnificent, Rare, and Valuable Library (Fonthill Abbey) ... also, of The Books of Prints, Galleries of Art, Curious Missals and Manuscripts, The Persian and Chinese Drawings ... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Phillips, at the Abbey, On Tuesday, the 9th of September, 1823, tall 8vo (235 x 150mm.), London, J. Moyes, engraved frontispiece plate of Fonthill Abbey, list of subscribers at end, faded King's College London library stamp on title, later red half morocco, spine lettered in gilt. Subscribers Copy

A gorget for Prussian Officers of the Staff Guard, Grand Headquarters, after 1914. Brass, nickel plated. White enamel medallion with black/gold Prussian eagle. Screw connected fire-gilt border of trophies with royal crown. Red cloth liner, the attachment hook with manufacturer's stamp "C.E.Juncker Berlin". En suite underlined chain for obverse mounting. Height 14 cm. An extremely rare gorget in an unusually fine state of preservation. €3,000.00

A model 1862 Infantry needlefire rifle. Erfurt 1865. Rifled barrel in 15.1 mm calibre with adjustable rear sight. Manufacturer's stamp "Erfurt B.G. Mod. 62" as well as the dates "1865" and "1867". Wooden stamped stock with brass furniture, the iron butt plate has the unit designation "I.R.3.109". Iron ramrod. All parts stamped with matching serial numbers "5452". Length 136 cm. In addition, the extremely rare take-down tool with acceptance mark. Rare Prussian infantry rifle carried in the Franco-German war 1870/71 in unmodified original condition. €1,500.00

Bentley 8-Litre Enclosed Limousine Factory PhotographWith coachwork by Park Ward, c1929/30. Sepia toned featuring car outside a private residence with Bentley Motors Ltd stamp to rear giving details of body and also photographers stamp. Rare item in excellent condition.