Lot: 1
Bookmarks 1890s to 1980s, a collection including various fabric types, the book trade, railways, insurance, tobacco etc, good proportion pre-1950. Some light duplication. (93)
Lot: 2
Ephemera & softback publications with much 19th Century; including an 1808 edition of The Liverpool Courier, business cards, few programmes, leaflets, few trade catalogues, invitations etc; plus crests, publicity labels etc laid down on cards, some modern GB presentation packs and many other items. (Qty)
Lot: 5
Selection of late-18th Century County Maps comprising Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire Ridings (3), Essex, and Bedfordshire; plus various engravings and a Victorian woven silk bookmark. Fair-fine (18 items)
Lot: 6
Ephemera and some softback publications, 1890s to 1960s, with much Transport interest especially UK Railways, plus various programmes, greetings cards, advertising interest, etc. (100s) (Approx.7 kilos)
Lot: 7
Collection of 19th and early-20th Century Crests in exercise book, mostly displaying coats of arms, some laid down but mostly attached with stamp sheet edging. Many attractive items. (100s)
Lot: 12
Printers' Devices, Emblems, Head and Tailpieces, c.1650-1750, a selection laid down on old album pages; mostly 17th Century wood-engravings, some later on copper, the album pages with some foxing also affecting three of the woodcuts. One endorsed in pencil 1657, another Venice 1736. Between 4.3 x 7.2cm and 18.5 x 16.3cm. (23)
Lot: 23
A small display on Fingerprints, written up on leaves including Fingerprints from a 1936 burglary, photographic enlargements, and elimination fingerprints of victims of crime. Fine
Lot: 24
Exhibition publicity labels on letterheads 1929-1953 from a variety of firms, six different, duplicated, many late-1930s. VG/Fine (25)
Lot: 57
The 1926 General Strike, pair of anti-strike posters, one issued in the name of Sir John Simon M.P., each 36 x 24”, with folds; and a [Liverpool] Daily Post billboard poster concerning the Mersey Pilot Boat Disaster. VG (3)
Lot: 80
Documents and booklets pertaining to 2209589 Sgt. C.W. Heaps, air gunner, RAF, including flight log book 1944-46, plus later items including Lancashire County Cricket Club. Mixed condition. (Qty.)
Lot: 124
Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables for November 1842. Large single sheet (poster size, 36 x24”), the Birmingham & Derby Jctn.Rly highlighted with a pink w/colour frame. Folds, peripheral faults (no loss of text). VG. Scarce
Lot: 125
London, Brighton & South Coast Railway 1894 Timetable, 8pp, folding, small ink mark in margin of one page; attractive stand-up model publicity cards for excursions to Portsmouth 1908 and Hastings 1910, latter with small tear; a related holiday brochure (small faults); and an L.B.S.C. Rly. ‘Named Locomotives' card endorsed 1913. Scarce group.
Lot: 127
Road Transport interest including showroom brochure for Ford ‘Thames' Commercial Vehicles 1950; early leaflets for Ford motor-cars (2); 1946 programme for Motor Car Parade, London; 1939 publicity card for Aston Martin 15/98; and other items. Fair to VF (14)
Lot: 128
Shipping ephemera & softbacks including WW2 Ships' Plans (2) for armed Transport Ferries, both cloth-bound; White Star publicity leaflets (7, two different); souvenir brochure for R.M.S. Queen Mary in fair condition; and others. (34 items)
Lot: 138
Motor Car showroom brochures (8) and related leaflets (3), late-1950s, with some duplication. VG/VF. Also cover only for a 1930s showroom brochure for MG sports cars.
Lot: 139
Motoring ephemera and softback publications; including Earls Court Motor Show catalogues for 1951, 1956 and 1958; Morris Eight Workshop Manual 1948; many Invoices/Billheads from wide range of companies, 1960s/70s; Halfords catalogue 1955; Oulton Park motor-racing programmes 1955 & 1956; Belle Vue Stock Car racing programme 1954; rare Kathanode Batteries for Delivery Vehicles trade catalogue 1939, 28pp; qty. of Tax Discs and MOT certifcates; and other items, a few unrelated. Fair to VF (Large qty).
Lot: 148
Henry Walmsley & Son, Tobacconists, Manchester. A collection of ephemera including wrappers (53, three different), photographs (4), and a packet of Country Girl ‘Dance' cigarettes. VG/VF
Lot: 149
Imperial Tobacco Co. Poster Competition Entry Forms, 8pp, folding, with colour illustrations. VG. (18, the same).
Lot: 157
Postcards (abt.200) and ephemera in album & loose with many greetings cards, plus actresses, cats, comic and others. Mixed condition. (abt.250 items)
Lot: 208
Late-WW2 Safe Conduct air-drop leaflet dropped by the Allies over occupied territory, German text on reverse; and a 1942 Post Card said to be posted from the Warsaw Ghetto to France with faint JUDENRAT WARSCHAU cachet upper left. (2)