Отображение 1921–1936 из 4821
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#222 – Great War Letter Archive of Colonel W W Melville Canadian Engineers (Лот: 6125)
Ставки принимаются через менеджераGreat War Letter Archive of Colonel W W Melville Canadian Engineers, consisting of fifty-four uncensored letters of Col. WW Melville, Canadian Engineers, between September 1914 and September 1915. Mixing in the highest military and political circles his frank comments on officers and those conducting the war are revealing. Extracts include: ’11/Dec/14. Salisbury Plain, Larkhill. I have 2500 men at work erecting steel stables for 17,000 horses’. ‘7/May/15. NE France, Under fire of all kinds for 12 days, the Battle of Ypres was the big thing and such slaughter. Repaired town’s water supply and built 5 large bridges. One night we built 1200 yards of trench within 200 yards of German lines where they had broken through it, it took 2200 men to do it’. ’10/Aug/15, Had dinner with Maj. Genl Sam Hughes, Prince Alexander of Teck and Sir Max Aitken. Sam H. is very sore that we discarded the Ross Rifle; the Canadian Contingent all have new Lee Enfields, the Ross did not stand hard usage’. In generally good condition, torn envelopes; with 15 hand-written pages of abbreviated extracts. Also 19 condolence letters on his son’s death. (73 items) Worthy of personal viewing.
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#222 – WWII GERMAN LUFTWAFFE M-35 DOUBLE-DECAL HELMET (Лот: 7574)
Ставки принимаются через менеджераWWII GERMAN LUFTWAFFE M-35 DOUBLE-DECAL HELMET, 85% of the eagle decal is intact & 90% of the State colors which is hand painted, approx.. 85% of its smooth blue-gray paint remains, shell size ‘Q66’ & batch number is ‘4295’, aluminum band, brown leather liner & a nice chin-strap, VG++
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#222 – Rare Victorian 1st Royal Guernsey Militia Officers Home Service Helmet Plate (Лот: 8814)
Ставки принимаются через менеджераRare Victorian 1st Royal Guernsey Militia Officers Home Service Helmet Plate, gilt metal officers universal pattern helmet plate with the additional scrolls and centre with coat of arms and strung bugle below with number ‘1’ to the centre. Three part regimental scroll to the lower section. Three lug fittings to the reverse of the plate.
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#222 – Victorian Royal Engineers Officers Full Dress Cocked Hat Belonging to Colonel Hampton Lewis Royal Anglesey Engineers (Лот: 10288)
Ставки принимаются через менеджераVictorian Royal Engineers Officers Full Dress Cocked Hat Belonging to Colonel Hampton Lewis Royal Anglesey Engineers, fine example of an officers full dress cocked hat with gilt braid and single gilt Victorian Royal Engineers button. Tan leather sweatband and crimson cloth lining with gilt tooled Hawkes & Co tailors details. Housed in its japanned storage tin with brass name plate.
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#223 – WW2 JAPANESE SIGNED PRAYER FLAG AND INSIGNIA GROUPING (Лот: 5554)
Ставки принимаются через менеджераWW2 JAPANESE SIGNED PRAYER FLAG AND INSIGNIA GROUPING, fine example of a Japanese cotton silk prayer flag with black ink signatures / prayers, including ‘Pray Long Live Your Warrior Luck’. Accompanied by some cloth insignia items, bank note and pills bottle in canister. Some fading and decolouration to the flag but generally still a good example
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#223 – Possibly Unique and Historically Important WWI Photographic Archive of Jack Turner, Royal Canadian Artillery (Лот: 6126)
Аукцион завершенМинимальная цена продажи 2 000 £ не достигнутаPossibly Unique and Historically Important WWI Photographic Archive of Jack Turner, Royal Canadian Artillery, consisting of approximately 510 original photographs taken illicitly by Corporal B H (Jack) Turner, 2nd Canadian Siege Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery. The photographs portray the unit’s service at the Somme, Vimy, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Lens, Arras, Canal du Nord, Cambrai, Valenciennes, Mons, Cologne and England. The images cover daily routines, comrades, trenches, guns in action, graves, carnage in the mud, German prisoners and much more. Most of the high quality contact prints (approximately 5.7 cm. square) were processed and printed by candlelight at the Front, and his German camera and equipment were hidden in the gun limbers, he wrote home in code for more film according to his daughter. Four hundred and thirty-three prints are contained in five albums and 73 prints are loose, most have his hand-written descriptions on the reverse. Accompanying the albums are also six large format (c.25 x 27cm.) photographs processed and mounted by him post-War and a large hand-coloured (40 x 47 cm.) photograpgh of four of his comrades; His annotated copy of ‘A History of the Second Canadian Siege Battery, June 1915-May 1919’ by Harold H Simpson with several of his own and official photos added. Jack and his unit were from Prince Edward Island, Canada and after the War, Jack became a farmer returning to photography only in the 1960s when he used a shed as a darkroom for his larger prints. This grouping is probably the best photographic archive we have ever had the pleasure to bring to market, the images capture all the horrors of WW1. Front line photography is extremely rare to find as cameras were restricted in the front lines due to the fear of the horrors of trench warfare getting back home and harming the war effort. This archive is a must for any serious collector, historian or institution
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#223 – KRIEGSMARINE M-18 TRANSITIONAL HELMET (Лот: 7575)
Аукцион завершенМинимальная цена продажи 1 200 $ не достигнутаKRIEGSMARINE M-18 TRANSITIONAL HELMET, 90% of its gold toned decal remains, 80% of its very green almost black paint is intact, ‘ET66’,has a nice M-31 liner looks like it may have been replaced as its aluminum band has some damage, partial chin-strap, overall G+
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#223 – Rare Victorian 3rd Guernsey Militia Officers Home Service Helmet (Лот: 10289)
Ставки принимаются через менеджераRare Victorian 3rd Guernsey Militia Officers Home Service Helmet, fine green cloth covered cork home service pattern helmet with gilt metal officers regimental helmet plate, centre with crest of Guernsey and scroll ‘DIEX AIE’ above and below stung bugle with ‘3’ to the centre and three part scroll ‘ROYAL GUERNSEY MILITIA’. Rosette side bosses with linked gilt metal chin scales, cruciform spike base with rosette fittings. Interior with tan leather sweatband and crimson lining. Paper label to the inside of the shell with inked details, ‘III I Com L J Lloyd C4/8 casy’. Housed in metal storage tin. Late Rod Flood collection.
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#223 – WW2 British Service Dress & Battle Dress Uniform Pair of Captain C F H Shepherd Royal Artillery / Glider Pilot (Лот: 11969)
Ставки принимаются через менеджераWW2 British Service Dress & Battle Dress Uniform Pair of Captain C F H Shepherd Royal Artillery / Glider Pilot, the service dress being a fine quality four pocket example with army flyers (Glider pilots) embroidered wings to the breast with bullion wire centre section, these above Africa star medal ribbon and single mounted MID bronze oak leaf. Royal Artillery officers buttons, collar badges and brass rank pips to the shoulders. Bronze Hertfordshire stag badges to the shoulders. Interior with 1940 dated tailors label with inked name ‘C F H SHEPHERD’. The battle dress being a later war issue, Canadian made with date which appears to be 1943, embroidered Glider pilots wings to the breast and medal ribbons for service in Africa and Italy, again with the MID oak leaf on a plain ribbon (1939-45 war medal not conceived yet), the arms with Royal Artillery arm of service strips and the shoulders with bronze rank pips. Inked name inside the BD, ‘Capt Shepard RA’. Some mothing to one arm but otherwise good condition. We would assume that Captain Shepherd / Shepard was involved in Artillery observation flying, which would indicate the issue of the Glider / Army flying wings. Worthy of research.
