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CHAUCER AUCTIONS PRESENTS Concorde, Space and Military Autographs, Artifacts and Memorabilia FRIDAY 25th JULY STARTING AT 5pm Hosted live on Invaluable, Easy Live Auction, The Saleroom & Live Auctioneers Chaucer Covers Visit our website to view all our Webster House, 24 Jesmond Street stock, register for email offers and Folkestone, Kent. CT19 5QW our live online auctions. Freephone Number: 0800 170 1314 A.F.T.A.L. [email protected] Approved Dealer www.ChaucerCovers.com RARE CONCORDE, SPACE & MILITARY ONLINE LIVE MEMORABILIA AUCTION FRIDAY 25th JULY STARTING AT 5pm On Friday 25th July at 5:00pm we are holding a fantastic live auction of 150 lots of rare Concorde, Space, Aviation and Military memorabilia and autographs. Highlights include the personal collection of Concorde memorabilia from former Chief Pilot Captain Mike Bannister. It includes a rare Mach Meter which seldom come on the Market. The last two have both sold for over £25000. A tyre section used in meetings with CAA & UK, French Governments to get Concorde back into service. A large damaged turbine blade which caused an engine shut down. Pitot Nose Probe, Oil Gauge plus many other pieces and autographed covers, photos and presentations. If you collect rare space autographs we have an Apollo 13 flown map signed by Fred Haise, Stunning colour photo signed by the Apollo XI crew of Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and Buzz Aldrin, Signed photos from Every Apollo Mission, Yuri Gagarin, Edward White, Gus Grissom and Twelve photos signed by every Moonwalker. Military & Aviation collectors will be astounded by the Winston Churchill, Werner Von Braun, Charles Lindburg, Orville & Wilbur Wright, Amelia Earhart, Luftwaffe autographs, fighter aces and a Men of the Battle of Book signed by 250 pilots. We are accepting commission bids to place on your behalf, email, post or you can register and place bids online. For this auction we can also accept telephone bids during the auction. To set this up please call us on 0800 170 1314. Viewing Day We are also finalising the details of a viewing session of some of the rare framed items and the Concorde artifacts. Mike Bannister himself will be hosting the viewing day! We are holding this on the 24th July at the Regus Offices on the 1st floor at the new Cobham Services between junction 9 and 10 on the M25. These services can be accessed by both directions from the M25. If you would like more details about this viewing or to make an appointment for a viewing give us a call on 0800 170 1314. This auction is being held live across four platforms: Invaluable: www.invaluable.com The Saleroom: www.the-saleroom.com Live Auctioneers: www.liveauctioneers.com Easy Live Auction: www.easyliveauction.com Winning lots will be sent by secure delivery with suitable packaging, to anywhere in the world. For more details you can find our terms and conditions on the reverse of the bidding form. For more details on any lot, or information regarding the bidding process, call 0800 170 1314. Autographs, Concorde and Space Memorabilia 1: Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein signed Christmas GBP 170 - 250 Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein signed Christmas card. A 10cm x 12cm Christmas card from The War Office 1946, and clearly signed in blue ink by Montgomery of Alemein. Nice condition, Small ribbon (red/blue) holds the inner picture page to the card outer, which also has the embossed image of a lion on a crown. Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed Monty and the Spartan General was a British Army officer. He saw action in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded. During the Second World War he commanded the Eighth Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert until the final Allied victory in Tunisia. This command included the Battle of El Alamein, a turning point in the Western Desert Campaign. He subsequently commanded the Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy. He was in command of all Allied ground forces during Operation Overlord from the initial landings until after the Battle of Normandy. He then continued in command of the 21st Army Group for the rest of the campaign in North West Europe. As such he was the principal field commander for the failed airborne attempt to bridge the Rhine at Arnhem and the Allied Rhine crossing. On 4 May 1945 he took the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath in northern Germany. After the war he became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in Germany and then Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Good condition 2: Charles Lindburg signed US Postal cover. A 24cm x GBP 750 - 1,000 Charles Lindburg signed US Postal cover. A 24cm x 10.5cm cover dated sept 22 1929 and signed by Lindberg in black on the front. Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. As a 25-year-old U.S. Air Mail pilot, Lindbergh emerged suddenly from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on May 20–21, 1927, made from Roosevelt Field in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles (5,800 km), in the single-seat, single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis. As a result of this flight, Lindbergh was the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next. Lindbergh, a U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve officer, was also awarded the nation's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lindbergh used his fame to promote the development of both commercial aviation and Air Mail services in the United States and the Americas. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles, Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what was soon dubbed the "Crime of the Century". It was described by journalist H.L. Mencken, as ". the biggest story since the resurrection." The kidnapping eventually led to the Lindbergh family's being "driven into voluntary exile" in Europe, to which they sailed in secrecy from New York under assumed names in late December 1935 to "seek a safe, secluded residence away from the tremendous public hysteria" in America. The Lindbergh’s returned to the United States in April 1939. Before the United States formally entered World War II, Lindbergh had been an outspoken advocate of keeping the U.S. out of the world conflict, as had his father, Congressman Charles August Lindbergh, during World War I. Although Lindbergh was a leader in the anti-war America First movement, he nevertheless strongly supported the war effort after Pearl Harbour and flew 50 combat missions in the Pacific Theatre of World War II as a civilian consultant even though President Franklin D. Roosevelt had refused to reinstate his Army Air Corps colonel's commission that he had resigned in April 1941. In his later years, Lindbergh became a prolific prize-winning author, international explorer, inventor and environmentalist. Good condition 3: Indira Gandhi, signed rare RAF Escape from S E Asia FDC GBP 220 - 380 Indira Gandhi, signed rare RAF Escape from S E Asia FDC Signed by Mrs Indira Gandhi, in full Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (born November 19, 1917, Allahabad, India—died October 31, 1984, New Delhi), politician who served as prime minister of India for three consecutive terms (1966–77) and a fourth term from 1980 until she was assassinated in 1984. Very rare. Only 4 such covers so signed. Authenticated by Hans Rossbach. Excellent Condition. 4: Winston Churchill signed photo. A 19cm x 25cm b/w press GBP 1,000 - 1,500 Winston Churchill signed photo. A 19cm x 25cm b/w press photo dating from a visit he made to Ayr in Scotland in 1947. The image has been clearly signed by Churchill in a light area at the bottom of the photo. Comes complete with a letter signed by Colonel Thomas Moore (dated Sept 1947) to Inspector J Muir of Ayr Constabulary about the visit. Image is in good condition with only some minor surface creasing to the upper image. Estimate 5: Werner Von Braun signed photo. Hand signed 4x6 glossy GBP 300 - 400 Werner Von Braun signed photo. Hand signed 4x6 glossy portrait from 1962 with enclosed NASA letter by his secretary certifying authenticity - comes with original mailing envelope, too! German rocket engineer and space architect. He was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany during World War II and, subsequently, in the United States. Good condition Bid Live Online at LiveAuctioneers.com Page 1 Autographs, Concorde and Space Memorabilia 6: Orville & Wilbur Wright signature piece framed and GBP 3,000 - 4,000 Orville & Wilbur Wright signature piece framed and mounted. 3 x 2 inch irregularly cut signature piece professionally framed and mounted with b/w photo and biographical plaque. The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are credited[ with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903. From 1905 to 1907, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.
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