Lot: 41
Festival of Britain 1951 ephemera including programmes, leaflets, guides, FDCs, folding Map, pack of PPCs, etc. Includes Sherlock Holmes Exhibition (two different brochures + entrance ticket), Met Office Weather Reports (2), Telegram, Brighton Festival programme, two special service bus tickets, napkin and serviette. Mainly VG/VF (42). Also two modern items.
Lot: 42
Simmer & Tonkin Post Cards and related collectibles of the Festival of Britain, 2001; Design in the Festival, Council of Industrial Design, 1951; and eighteen related works, including set of 13 volumes of About Britain 1951, (all bar one in d/jkts); plus Perkins & Tonkin Postcards of the British Empire Exhibition Wembley 1924 & 1925, 1994, in d/jkt. VG/VF (21)
Lot: 43
Festival of Britain 1951 memorabilia comprising metal teapots (2), five items of cutlery, a rare egg-timer, tea caddy, small dish, set of 6 shot glasses, a glass tankard and ceramic mug. VG/VF (18 items)
Lot: 44
Festival of Britain 1951 memorabilia including two brushes, propelling pencil in decorated brass case, horse brass, pocket watch (needing attention), a tie and tie-clip, letter-openers (2), etc. Mostly VG/VF (11 items)
Lot: 45
Festival of Britain 1951 memorabilia comprising ladies' compacts (2 different), leather wallet and card holder, cigarette case, three tins (one for Ardath ‘State Express' cigarettes), large glass ash tray, and a match-book. Good to VF (10 items)
Lot: 46
Festival of Britain 1951 memorabilia comprising boxed jigsaws (3 different, one with a piece missing), a 78 rpm. record Sound Picture of Great Britain, and a Taylor Walker & Co beermat inscribed on reverse, The George, Pinner, 1951. Fair to fine.
Lot: 47
Johhny Dankworth, Cleo Laine and the Johnny Dankworth Seven, an autographed PPC of the 1951 Festival of Britain, signed on reverse by all nine members of the famous jazz band. [Cleo Laine joined the Johnny Dankworth Seven in 1951]
Lot: 48
Twentieth Century Society publications on Architecture including Festival of Britain, Post-War Houses, Housing the Twentieth Century Nation, and Industrial Architecture; together with three English Heritage titles including England's Schools. All softbacks, fine, no inscriptions. (16)
Lot: 49
Album of 1950s photos & postcards of Film Stars and some other entertainers, with several Doris Day, plus Henry Fonda, David Niven, Frank Sinatra, Gene Autrey, Shelley Winters, Ingrid Bergman, Lucille Ball, Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, James Mason, James Stewart, Betty Hutton (signed), Abbott & Costello (signed), and many other famous names. Held in with corner mounts & removable. Largely VG/VF (120)
Lot: 50
Album of Entertainers' signed photos, flyers and cuttings, including Gareth Gates, James Stewart, Dulcie Gray, David Bradley and various others. (56)
Lot: 51
Album of signed photos & cuttings, some with multiple signatures; including Eddie Izzard, Robert Morley, Rhydian, Joss Ackland, Kevin Costner, Rupert Everett, Tom Courtenay, and various others. (60 items)
Lot: 52
Alan Rickman: fine autographed 8 x 10” photo, in his role as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films.
Lot: 53
Cillian Murphy: fine autographed 10 x 8” photo, star of Oppenheimer, here in his role of Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders
Lot: 54
Music related autographs, mostly signed promotional photos of pop bands including Rock Follies, plus few radio DJs, some signed on reverse. Mixed condition. (27 items, multiple signatures)
Lot: 55
Album of signed photos & pages; the photos include Judi Dench, Dora Bryan, Richard Clayderman, Derek Jacobi, Susannah York & Robert Powell (signed flyer), Millicent Martin (signed cutting), & various others. (86 signatures)
Lot: 56
Album of signed photos and cuttings including Peter Adamson, Emma Thompson, Gabrielle Drake, Sylvia Syms, Cannon & Ball, Tom Courtenay, Jenny Seagrave, Neil Morrisey, Frank Carson, Barry Cryer, Zoe Wanamaker, Beryl Reid and many other well-known. (70)
Lot: 57
Autographs in five small albums, many ‘back to back'; includes Keith Michell, Robin Ray, Nigel Havers, Peter Eyre, Hywel Bennett, Michelle Dotrice, Hayley Mills, Lena Zavaroni, Harry Secombe, Paul Scofield, Tom Conti, Billie Whitelaw, Tommy Trinder, Ian Lavender, and many other well-known. Mixed condition – tape stains, some pages removed. (Few 100)
Lot: 58
Around the World Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, c.1905, boxed set of 75 photographic stereographs plus the related booklet, three other stereographs and a viewer. VG/VF
Lot: 59
Englebert Koempfer An Account of Japan, London, 1853 (abridged version); bound with Voltaire The History of Charles the Twelfth, Alison Essays on the Nature & Principles of Taste, 1853, and three other titles. Half-leather, gilt; ownership label & signature to front endpaper. VG
Lot: 60
Travel ephemera, 1920s to 1970s, mainly European, with Shipping and Rail tickets, brochures, guides etc, including P.&O., Thomas Cook, Swiss companies, and others. (abt. 137 items)