Dominic Winter SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS All lots are offered subject to the Conditions of Sales and Business exhibited in the saleroom. A buyer’s premium of 19.5% of the hammer price is payable by the buyers of all lots, except those lots asterisked, in which case the buyer’s premium is 23.40% Lots marked with a cross (+) are subject to VAT on the hammer price as well as the premium AUTOMOBILIA & MOTORING LITERATURE VINTAGE BICYCLES MARITIME & RAILWAYS, TOYS & MODELS In association with Transport Collector Auctions Thursday 12 November 2015 Lots 1-416 commencing at 11am SMEDALS, STAMPS & COINS MILITARIA & MILITARY EPHEMERA AVIATION MEMORABILIA Friday 13 November 2015 Lots 417-820 commencing at 12 noon Viewing: Tuesday 10 November & Wednesday 11 November, 9am-7pm and morning of sale from 9am Payment may be made while the sale is in progress: please see the cashier in the auction office. Customers are asked to pay cash or establish a credit reference with the Auctioneers prior to the sale. Please ensure that all commission bids reach us by 10am on the morning of sale. Telephone bids only accepted for lots with estimated value greater than £300 and should reach us by 9am on morning of sale Results will be posted on our website immediately after the sale. Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ Tel: 01285 860006 Fax: 01285 862461 www.dominicwinter.co.uk [email protected] For directions on how to find us, please refer to map at rear of this catalogue James Jenkins. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies, [1815] £700-1,000 Military Books & Regimental Histories Wednesday 11 November FORTHCOMING SALES Wednesday 11 November Travel, Natural History & Botanical Books Angling & Sporting Art Bibles & Early Printed Books Military Books & Regimental Histories Wednesday 16 December Printed Books, Maps & Documents Science, Medicine & Cookery Thursday 17 December Children’s & Illustrated Books Dolls, Toys & Games Modern First Editions Wednesday 27 January Printed Books, Maps & Documents Entries are invited for the above sales: please contact one of our specialist staff for further advice Our Spring Transport & Military sale will be held on April 2016. For all enquiries and new entries please contact Henry Meadows (Aviation, Military, Stamps & Coins) or Peter Card of TCA (Motoring, Cycling & Transport). For further information and consignment advice, please contact the main office or speak to one of our specialists. Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ Dominic Winter SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS CONTENTS DAY ONE Automobilia & Motoring Literature 1-249 Bicycles, Tricycles & Early Cycling Memorabilia 250-343 Maritime Prints, Drawings & Collectables 344-360 Railway Ephemera & Railwayana 361-372 Toys & Models 373-416 DAY TWO Coins 417-464 Stamps & Postal History 465-498 Aviation Memorabilia 499-631 Military Ephemera 632-640 Militaria 641-709 Medals 710-732 Dutton Collection 733-820 AUTOMOBILIA & MOTORING LITERATURE To commence at 11am While all care has been taken with the 6* Armstrong Siddeley. A seated Sphinx magazine and book cataloguing, all mascot, having good detail, in cast buyers are advised to inspect the lots for aluminium and mounted on a brass cap, any inconsistencies before bidding. 8cm high (1) £40-80 4* Mallory Park Motor Racing Circuit. Four members’ badges for 1964 (2), 1965 and 1966, and four guest lapel badges for the same years, all with good enamels, cords and safety pins (8) £40-60 1* Brooklands Automobile Racing Club. A full member’s motor-car badge, numbered 745 verso, with good enamels, depicting two racing cars at high speed beneath the members’ bridge, the image designed by F. Gordon-Crosby, although the surface is a little scratched, the enamel is in remarkably good order, save for a small 7* Vulcan Motor Eng. Co. A rare 1920s chip to the top right corner, the chromium- Vulcan motor-car mascot, being a nickel- plating has oxidised plated example with good detail, and cast (1) £200-300 onto an internal threaded radiator cap, good original condition, 12cm high 5* Brighton & Hove Motor Club ‘Speed (1) £120-180 Trials 1933’. An entrant’s dashboard plaque with a racing car in profile and two armorials in coloured enamels, inscribed ‘E.C.E. Baragwanath’, also, a chromium- plated Eagle mascot, missing its threaded mounting stud, the former in good fettle, mounted on a shaped display stand Edwin Charles (Ted) Baragwanath was an enthusiastic racer of large-engined motorcycles 2* Brooklands Automobile Racing Club. at Brooklands in the 1920s, and has a challenge Five guest lapel badges, two for 1933 cup named after him, still in circulation today. numbered 1161; two for 1935 numbered (2) £40-80 658, and an example for 1939 numbered 427, all with good enamels and original safety pins, also, two delivery boxes for 1937 numbered 481 and 1938 numbered 405, each in good order with card inserts, but several split corners (7) £200-300 3* Alvis. A set of The Alvis Cars Ltd. 8* Rolls-Royce 40/50hp mascot. An promotional cocktail sticks, each having the original late ‘Silver Ghost’ or pre-1928 Alvis triangle motif in red enamel, mounted ‘Phantom I’ mascot, a good original ‘Spirit on German silver sticks, housed in their of Ecstasy’ of solid German silver original fitted presentation box, with a faux construction with excellent detail and crocodile-skin covering, sound condition, in features, inscribed ‘Charles Sykes, Rolls- need of a little cleaning Royce Ltd Feb 1911’, fitted to an original (1) £40-60 40/50hp radiator cap, and display-mounted, the mascot, 30.5cm high Lot 6 (1) £600-800 5 15* Cleveland Discol. A rare double-sided three-colour hanging enamel sign, with surface wear, some rusting around the mounting holes and edge chipping, 18 x 30in (1) £200-400 11* Automobile Association member’s 9* ‘Speed Nymph’. An original motor-car badge. A type 1 circa 1906 example mascot by Augustine & Emile Lejeune, the numbered 1475, and correctly no largest of the three sizes available from its inscription verso, and no ‘Secretary’ script, introduction in 1919, this example in good, nickel-plated on brass, showing the signs sound condition, inscribed AEL and Desmo of distress that only age can inflict, some (indistinct), the retailer on the rear of the abrasions and scratching, otherwise a dais, chromium-plating in excellent delight condition, rusted mounting stud, 71cm (1) £150-250 high, not display-mounted 12* Automobile Association. A large (1) £120-160 circa 1914 full member’s badge, numbered 115969, plated and in fine condition, 70cm high (1) £60-90 16* Morris Sales & Service. A double- sided, five colour enamel sign with its 13* Automobile Association. A type 7 original steel hanging bracket, in delightful commercial member’s badge numbered condition, albeit in need of cleaning, 73cm V252386, with a central AA motif against a diameter basket-weave background, 10cm high (1) £400-600 (1) £40-60 10* R.A.C. Full Member’s Badge. A very rare, circa 1907, type No 1 badge, numbered A379, hollow-cast, being the dashboard-mounted type with a flat rectangle dais, the centre with a profile of the club’s royal patron, Edward VII, with a rectangular union flag verso, within a spoked wheel supported by the god 17* Motor Acetyphote. Three pre-1909 Mercury with correct split wings, topped examples of acetylene gas-powered by the King’s crown, later chromium- motorcycle or forecar lamps manufactured plating, enamels good, generally sound and by Joseph Lucas Limited, each with useable, 17cm high 14* Veteran Ash Trays. A complementary carrying bails, burners and fittings, in need (1) £140-180 and matched pair of ash receptacles, of the of restoration type mounted in limousines, each with a (3) £120-180 detailed intaglio image; ‘Regarde St Christophe’ and ‘La lecon De Flute’, both inscribed B. Wicker Germany, nickel-silver finish, in sound order, but with an ash guard and slide-mount missing (2) £100-200 6 20* A motor-car oil-powered lamp, 18* Four oil-powered lamps. A Premier being a Duco style, off-side fitting with all Lamp and Engineering Co. miner’s safety component parts, lacquered brass finish, lamp, having a threaded oil reservoir, hand also, a Lucas steel and brass hand lamp, controls and etched glass shade, a with a carrying bail, 14cm plano-convex Duntaffell cart lamp with its correct oil front glass and oil reservoir, both in need of illuminant, a square pattern oil side lamp refurbishment, but sound and a British Rail, clear, red and green (2) £80-120 guards hand lamp with a near perfect black 22* W. H. Tilley Floodlight. An impressive enamel finish, all in good, sound condition and large free-standing paraffin-powered (4) £80-120 lamp from the renowned Tilley Company, this lamp appears complete with a wooden handle pressure pump, mantle (still available) carrying handle, stand and patented crack-free front glass, retaining its original black enamel finish, it stands 66cm high, possesses instructions for use and appears to be in working order The name Tilley became a generic word for a kerosene lamp during the Great War. (1) £100-150 23* Candle-Powered Carriage Lamps. A sided-pair of French-manufactured, square- pattern lamps by Montel & Cie of Marseille, dating from the Edwardian period, they feature bevel-edged and shaped front and side glasses with an etched monogram 21* Cabin Bulkhead Lamp. ‘MT’ in the centre of each forward-facing 19* Street Danger Lamp. A rare oil- Manufactured by the 1868-founded glass, pin-lock hinging side doors, candle