Lot: 1
Victorian Scrap Album, large format, elaborate decorated cloth, including an impressive range of large and some giant scraps, with a superb full-page Father Christmas, plus clowns, children, animals, caricatures etc, together with chromo-litho greetings cards, and cuttings from a children's book. Inner hinging cracked. 46 sides with 100s of items. 37 x 27.5cm.
Lot: 2
Victorian Scrap album of French origin, landscape quarto, decorated cloth, with 100s of 19th Century Tade Cards and chromo-litho scraps laid down on 76 pages, some with faults but largely good condition with very many attractive items, album with worn front hinge.
Lot: 3
Collection of In Memoriam cards (65) plus related ephemera, and various greeting cards, 1880s to 1930s with some better items noted. Several In Memoriam cards of Cambridgeshire or Essex origin. Mainly good to VF. Housed in modern album. (145)
Lot: 6
Bookplates with many 19th Century armorial and some later pictorial types; duplication and some mixed condition. (74)
Lot: 7
Box of advertisements taken from mainly 1940s issues of Country Life, plus some earlier from other magazines, mostly Motoring, Tobacco and Alcohol. Clean lot. (100s)
Lot: 8
Softback publications especially guide books and local history, 1920s to 1980s, plus assorted ephemera from 19th Century with billheads, some fashion plates, and other items with few autographs. Mixed condition. (Qty, about 5.5 kilos)
Lot: 35
In Memoriam cards 1858-1915 plus few later, mainly families in Rochdale, Heywood, Portwood and Elworth. Good to fine. (29)
Lot: 58
Motoring Advertisements c.1910-1960, extracted from issues of the Saturday Evening Post 1928-30 (44, artwork by McClelland Barclay), Illustrated London News, The Graphic, The Autocar and others. Together with 11 adverts for other products. Mostly good/fine. (115)
Lot: 118
Assortment including men's watches (5, requiring attention); a 1967 woven silk of The Wizard, Nether Alderley; gold-plated nail-trimmers; Kodachrome View-Master reels (17) together with boxed viewer; railway PPCs; few bags of circulated UK Coins with some pre-1947 silver; and other items. (Qty.)