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Page of Deal England's Glory back from Goodwin Sands watercolour and gouache, signed and titled lower right verso a pasted label inscribed in ink 'Back from the Goodwins - Plate III - Lugger, England's Glory, Deal, Kent. Crew - Adams, Parker, Thomas, Le Page, Williams, Johns, Ford' and a pencil inscription, 'Smugglers Boat 1873'. 12½ x 20¼ in. (32 x 52 cm) Condition - Some damage around the edges * 'England's Glory' was one of Deal, Walmer and Kingsdown's thirty or so 'Deal luggers', which operated until the beginning of the 20th century. It was one of Britain's most famous of Britain's beach boats because it had a reputation second to none for the saving of life at sea. About 40' long and with a beam of 13', luggers had a forepeak under which it was possible to sleep. They were used for salvage work of all kinds and at a time when Deal boatmen were acknowledged pilots they would also sail down to the West Country to find ships coming up Channel in need of a pilot. Being a crewman was hazardous - between 1860 and 1887 53 local boatmen lost their lives. 'England's Glory' received many awards for services rendered to ships in distress, off the the Goodwin Sands in particular. Crews were interchangeable and it is possible that the Adams listed in the key on the reverse of the painting was Thomas Adams, who was the only survivor of another lugger, the 'Pride of the Sea', which was driven on to rocks near Shanklin in hurricane force winds in the winter of 1887. 

Collection of over sixty metal badges Bridgend & District Darts League 1946-7, Rainbow League, Surrey Special Constabulary, Air Ministry Constabulary, Herefordshire, Somersetshire & Lincolnshire Constabularies, Metropolitan Police, Life Boys, City of Armagh R.S.C., Orpington Rovers FC, Barnardos, Manx Rally Marshall badge, NUPE, Liverpool Salvage Corps, Railway Service L.N.E.R, Red Cross Society, Ark Club, St. John Ambulance Association Great Western Railway Centre, National Union of Railwaymen, Railway Convalescent Homes, RSPCA, Boy Scouts, Boys Brigade, Royal Life Saving Society, Women's Royal Voluntary Service, Girls Friendly Society, A.C.C. for King & Country enamel award & ribbon and Man of Kent & Kentish Man enamel award & ribbon 

Industrial Salvage - a workshop trolley on castors, 72cm x 84cm x 46cm;  Tools - early 20th century fruitwood loppers,  a late 19th century vice, pillar drill base and drill bits

Local Industrial Salvage - various cast metal Donald Doncaster forge signage letters and numbers etc

Ecclesiastical salvage - various early 20th century church organ pipes, painted in slate blue,tallest approximately 4ft high

Industrial Salvage - four substantial factory lights

Architectural Salvage - a marble sign, Cheshire

Ships Bell. Brass bell salvaged from SS Elrfida 1889, which sank off the North East Coast following a collision with SS Glenlee on December 1906. The Bell is lacking clapper. Comes with Salvage information and history of the original owners. height 32 cm, mouth 30cmSHIPPING £38.00 PLUS VAT (UK ONLY)

Ecclesiastical Salvage - an early 20th century pitch pine church pew, 81.5cm high, 197cm wide, 53cm deep

Architectural Salvage, eleven matching 19th century Art Nouveau ceramic tiles Reg design Number 52218, each approximately 15 x 15cm

James II (1685-88), silver Crown, 1687 TERTIO, second laureate and draped bust left, legend and toothed border surrounding, IACOBVS. II. DEI. GRATIA, rev. crowned cruciform shields, seven strings to Irish harp, garter star at centre, date either side of top crown, MAG. BR. FRA. ET. HIB REX., edge inscribed in raised letters, +.DECVS. ET. TVTAMEN. . ANNO. REGNI. TERTIO.+, 30.19g (Bull 743; ESC 78; S.3407). Attractively toned and well struck on a broad flan for this issue, has been slabbed and graded by NGC as AU58.NGC certification 8368384-001.A major influx of silver came into the mint for coinage during 1687, as a successful sea salvage operation of a treasure from the Spanish ship the Nuestra Señora de la Concepcion had occurred off the East Coast of North America. Remarkable in that the ship had sank some forty years before and had broken up over the Ambrosia Bank Shoal. William Phips was in charge of the successful recovery and delivery of some 25 tonnes of silver, which was made to the Mint in June 1687. Two commemorative medallions were produced in connection with the event, the "Silver Shoals" medal depicting on the reverse the wrecked hull of the ship and the salvagers approaching, and a second medal depicting Lord Albemarle whose Treasure hunting company had financed the expedition, with Neptune on the reverse. Perhaps this is why much of the silver coinage of James II often shows haymarking and flaws, as the silver used had been immersed in saltwater for some 40 years before refining, annealing, and striking.The coins were also rushed in their production as 25 tonnes of silver amounting to £205,536 of coin, was to be processed making weaknesses prevalent across the larger denominations. This input from the salvage was four fifths of the silver output in coin for 1687.The Latin legends translate as on the obverse "James the Second by the Grace of God," and abbreviated on the reverse as "King of Great Britain, France and Ireland." Additionally on the edge as "An ornament and a safeguard, in the third year of the reign."

OSTEN-SACKEN FABIAN GOTTLIEB VON: (1752-1837) Baltic-German Field Marshal and General of the Russian Army. He governed Paris during the city's brief occupation by the anti-French coalition in 1814 and a second time in 1815. A.L.S., `Sacken´, one page, folio, Paris, 7th June 1816, to Count Pierre Dupont de l´Étang, in French. Osten-Sacken asks for a favour to his correspondent regarding a person he wishes to recommend, stating `Monsieur le comte, J´ai l´honneur de vous prier d´écouter avec obligeance Monsieur de Beaudot, chevalier de St. louis et de le traiter aussi favorablement que vous pourrez; c´est la derniere preuve que j´aurai peut-être l´honneur de réclamer de Votre Excellence mais c´est celle à laquelle je tiens davantage puisque j´ai des obligations personnelles à la famille respectable à laquelle appartient Monsieur de Beaudot...´ (Translation: "Sir Count, I have the honour to ask you to listen kindly to Monsieur de Beaudot, Knight of St. Louis, and to treat him as favourably as you can; this is the last proof that I may have the honour of requesting from Your Excellency, but it is the one to which I hold more since I have personal obligations to the respectable family to which Monsieur de Beaudot belongs...") Bearing at the base a red wax seal in fine condition. Very small minor creasing to the deges, otherwise GPierre Dupont de l´Étang (1765-1840) French Army officer, Nobleman and Politician who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Dupont de l´Étang was defeated in the Battle of Bailen after his Swiss troops deserted and returned to their former allegiance. Painfully wounded in the hip, Dupont felt constrained to capitulate. Altogether 17.600 French soldiers laid down their arms in the disaster. Madrid fell to the resurgent Spanish forces and this soon compelled Napoleon to intervene with his Grand Army in order to salvage the situation. Dupont fell into the Emperor's disgrace. Dupont was sent before a cout-martial, deprived of his rank and title, and imprisoned from 1812 to 1814. Released only by the initial Restoration, he was employed by Louis XVIII in a military command, which he lost on the return of Napoleon during the Hundred Days. But the Second Restoration saw him reinstated to the army and appointed a member of the conseil privé of Louis XVIII. Between April and December 1814, he was Minsiter of war.

Architectural Salvage - A vintage floor mounted heated metal towel rail, 106.5cm high x 92.5cm wide.

The Second War bomb and mine disposal George Medal awarded to Lieutenant S. E. Jenner, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, whose gallant work encompassed the Coventry Blitz of November 1940 George Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Elec Lieut Stanley Edmund Jenner, RNVR.) mounted on original investiture pin, nearly extremely fine £2,800-£3,400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Penrith Farmers and Kidds, March 2000. G.M. London Gazette 27 June 1941: ‘For gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty,’ The original recommendation states: ‘This officer in November 1940 rendered safe three unexploded enemy mines, two at Coventry and one near the R.A.F. Station, Wythall. One mine, which fell in Humphrey Barton Road, Coventry, called for particular courage and coolness. It first had to be towed out of a hole by rope before it could be dealt with, and this task was made more harassing by an unexploded bomb within 10 yards. During this operation Lieutenant Jenner was ably helped by A.B. Tuckwell, G.C., who showed his usual complete disregard of danger.’ Stanley Edmund Jenner was educated at St. Dunstan’s College, London, and was a playing member of Aldershot Rugby Football Club in the mid-1930s. Commissioned as an Electrical Sub Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in September 1940, he was quickly enrolled as a bomb and mine disposal officer at the shore establishment H.M.S. Lucifer. An account of some of his subsequent ‘incidents’ appeared in the Reader’s Digest in September 1942: ‘The land [parachute] mine is wholly unpredictable. If one fails to explode in the usual 22 seconds, it is impossible to guess when its mechanism may suddenly start. Lieutenant Stanley E. Jenner, for example, once rushed off to deal with a mine which had crashed through two upper stories of a Birmingham flour warehouse and was lying on the sixth floor. “I didn’t like the situation at all,” he told me. “Moving it was out of the question and working on it there meant that I had no chance of escape if it should show signs of going off. “Well, I started to work and in about an hour the mechanism suddenly began ticking – the Nazi rattlesnake’s usual 22-second warning. I fell downstairs in a hurry, expecting next step would find me on my way to Kingdon Come in a cloud of flour. But nothing happened, so after a bit I went back upstairs and found that the ticking had stopped. Thirty minutes later the mechanism went into action once more. Again I moved out in a hurry. “This time, when nothing happened, I sat down and smoked a cigarette. I couldn’t leave the mine there, of course – flour is too valuable in England. So back I went for a third try. When the ticking started again 15 minutes later, I stuck on the job as though nothing was wrong. It stopped again and in two hours the mine was as innocent as a baby.” ’ The recommendation for Jenner’s G.M. refers to two parachute mines that he rendered safe in Coventry in November 1940, most likely after the most devastating Luftwaffe raid of them all on the night of the 14th-15th, when the city was attacked by 500 aircraft. But omitted from the recommendation is the following incident, as also described in The Reader’s Digest: ‘Sometimes a deactivating job can be completed in 30 or 40 minutes. Other mines require four of five hours of nerve-racking effort. In one mine that fell on Coventry, Lieutenant Jenner told me, gadgets were not where he expected to find them; the colour of the wires had been changed; things stuck; the whole internal set up seemed to have been altered – and there he was all alone with it in a vast area of gutted buildings. Suddenly the clock started ticking and Jenner raced towards an underground shelter which he had selected in advance. When the explosion came, he was completely buried but they dug him out unharmed.’ Jenner was advanced to Lieutenant in January 1941 and gazetted for his G.M. in June, but it would not be until May 1943 that he was able to attend an investiture. In the interim, for a subsequent act of gallantry in disposing of a UXB aboard the M.V. Empire Salvage, he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 2 September 1941, refers). The UXB may well have been one dropped by the Fleet Air Arm on 15 June 1941, when the ex-Dutch ship was in the service of the Kriegsmarine. She was then boarded and taken as a prize. Sold with his Royal Society of St. George membership certificate, dated 8 October 1941, and an original copy of the above quoted edition of The Reader’s Digest.

The extremely rare Second War ‘V.C. action’ honorary D.S.M. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant E. Obelkevitch, United States Navy, who was decorated for his gallantry in the famous assault on Oran harbour in November 1942, when he saved numerous lives aboard the stricken ex-U.S. cutter H.M.S. Hartland Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Mr. E. Obelkevitch. Gnr. U.S.N. H.M.S. Hartland.) impressed naming; U.S.A., Medal for Military Merit; U.S.A., Purple Heart; U.S.A., Navy Long Service; U.S.A., Defense; U.S.A., Campaign; U.S.A., European, African and Middle East Campaign,with three bronze stars; U.S.A., War Medal, these seven American awards added for display purposes and mounted for display in precedence to the D.S.M., extremely fine (8) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Just 17 honorary awards of the D.S.M. were made to the United States Navy in the Second World War. Such awards were not gazetted but the original recommendation signed by Admiral of the Fleet ‘ABC’ Cunningham at Algiers on 13 October 1943 states: ‘On 8 November 1942, H.M.S. Hartland, flying the British and United States Ensigns, entered Oran under heavy fire in an attempt to prevent the sabotage of the port. Gunner Obelkevitch was leader of a boarding party. When this unit was wiped out by the explosion of a shell, he attempted to organise a hopeless attempt to extinguish the fires. His courage and initiative were an outstanding example and inspiration. He was ultimately instrumental in saving many lives of wounded men and remained on board after the deck was red hot and the ship in danger of blowing up at any moment.’ Edward Obelkevitch was born in Dickson City, Pennsylvania on 13 August 1900, and joined the United States Navy in December 1918. A Gunner (T.) by the time of the Second World War, he was appointed to command a boarding party from the ex-U.S. cutter H.M.S. Hartland in the famous attack on the port of Oran on 8 November 1942, for which action Captain F. T. Peters, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., overall commander of the operation in H.M.S. Walney, was awarded the Victoria Cross. Described as a ‘miniature Zeebrugge’ the assault on Oran resulted in terrible casualties, both Hartland and Walney being sunk by a torrent of point-blank fire. In his book The Turn of the Road, ex-naval officer Sir Lewis Ritchie describes the unfolding scene of carnage as Hartland came under withering fire, and pays tribute to Obelkevitch’s gallant deeds: ‘In the meanwhile, Hartland had been picked up in the searchlight and came under a devastating fire from the shore battery. The entire guns’ crews were wiped out and a steam pipe was severed, drowning everything in the noise of escaping steam. The Captain was temporarily blinded by a splinter and wounded in the leg, and before he could recover, Hartland struck the breakwater. Regaining the sight of one eye, he put the engines astern and manoeuvred his ship through the entrance, heading her for the appointed objective; this brought Hartland under point-blank fire from a French destroyer. Shells burst in the motor-room and all power failed; they also burst in the spaces where troops were waiting assembled to land, transforming them into a shambles. With fires raging fore and aft, Hartland’s way carried her alongside the mole. Lieutenant-Commander Dickey, U.S.N., calling on his men to follow him, leaped ashore to attempt to seize a trawler alongside. Only one unwounded man was able to follow him. The dead lay heaped so thick on the upper deck that the wounded could not get at the hoses to fight the fires. The First Lieutenant, Lieutenant V. A. Hickson, R.N., made a gallant effort to pass a wire ashore, but there was no one left to man it effectively. The wind now caught the ship and she began to drift helplessly out into the harbour. Lieutenant Hickson blundered forward through a tempest of machine-gun bullets and let go the anchor. The flames, funnel-high, lit the White Ensign and “Old Glory” at peak and masthead above the careless sprawling dead, and tinged the smoke rolling away to leeward across the quiet waters of the harbour with a fierce and bloody glare. As if appalled at the sight of this blazing sacrifice, the French at last ceased fire. Then, and not until then, Lieutenant-Commander Billot gave the order to abandon ship. The deck was red hot: blinded with blood and twice more wounded, he clung to the rail, summoning strength to leave the ship. Lieutenant E. G. Lawrence, R.N.V.R., and Gunner Obelkevitch, U.S.N., who had fought the fires almost single-handed to the last, swam ashore, seized the French trawler’s dingy by force, paddled her with floorboards back to where their Captain clung to a scramble net. They hauled him into the boat and he urged them in a whisper to pull for the open sea and freedom. He was fainting from his wounds; they had only the floorboards with which to row and were covered in every direction by rifles and machine-guns … they were taken prisoner as they landed.’ Obelkevitch was held by the Vichy-French until the advancing Allies liberated him a few days later, following which he was promoted to Chief Gunner and awarded the British D.S.M. A qualified diver, he was subsequently commissioned Lieutenant and served out the war as a salvage officer. Obelkevitch retired from the U.S. Navy in April 1949, and died in California in March 1971. Sold with extensive copied research.

The scarce Great War D.S.C. group of five awarded to Acting Flight Commander C. C. ‘Jumbo’ Carlisle, Royal Naval Air Service, late Merchant Navy, one of the more unusual characters of ‘The Spider Web’ Sea-plane Flight at Felixstowe Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., the reverse hallmarked London 1917; 1914-15 Star (Flt. S. Lt. C. C. Carlisle, R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Flt. Cr. C. C. Carlisle. R.N.A.S.); Denmark, Medal for Heroic Deeds, silver, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £1,400-£1,800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Butterfield’s Auction, U.S.A., June 2000. D.S.C. London Gazette 1 May 1918: ‘For zeal and devotion to duty between 1 July and 31 December 1917.’ The original recommendation states: ‘This officer has served on this station [R.N.A.S. Felixstowe] since August 1915 and has been consistent in carrying out his varied duties in a thorough and capable manner. I consider his influence on this station to have been highly valuable to the Service and most deserving of recognition.’ Cyril Campbell Carlisle was born in Liverpool on 14 March 1880, and originally served in the Merchant Navy, having been apprenticed to Nicholson & McGill in February 1896. He was awarded the Norwegian Medal for Heroic Deeds in respect of the rescue of the crew of the barque Varuna in 1902 and he gained his 1st Mate’s Certificate in the following year. His subsequent Master’s Certificate was obtained at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in August 1906, but on joining the Royal Naval Air Service in May 1915, he listed his current employment as that of a manager of a petroleum company in West Africa. Having undertaken pilot training at R.N.A.S. Chingford - seemingly without success, one report stating ‘he will never improve as a pilot’ - Carlisle was posted to R.N.A.S. Felixstowe for duty as ‘senior watch keeper and motor boats’ in January 1916. Subsequently described as ‘an exceptional officer with great ability to command,’ he was advanced to Flight Lieutenant in October 1916 and given charge of ‘seaplane lighters and motor boats.’ And apart from his detachment to Houton Bay ‘in connection with the America Seaplane’ in April 1917, he appears to have remained likewise employed until the war’s end. Having been advanced to Acting Flight Commander in March 1918, he transferred to the Royal Air Force in the rank of Captain and served in 70 Wing and in France. Carlisle emigrated to Canada in the 1920s but died back in the U.K. at Brighton, Sussex, in July 1969. A much liked and unusual character, some of Cyril Carlisle’s antics are recounted in The Spider Web, The Romance of a Flying-Boat War Flight, by ‘P.I.X.’, published in 1919, an amusing account of R.N.A.S. Felixstowe during the war, but, as the following extracts might illustrate, ‘Jumbo’ had an important part to play: ‘C. C. Carlisle, the Old Man of the Sea, or Jumbo, as he was called, because of his appearance and methods on the football field, was an institution on the station. He was in charge of the working party which did all the pulley-hauley work, and of the piratical crews of the motor-boats who looked after the flying- boats when they were on the water of the harbour. He had all sorts of fascinating model sheerlegs and derricks for training his men, and on occasion headed the salvage crew or the wrecking gang. He was a merchant service officer who had spent thirteen years at sea, part of the time fetching oil from Patagonia, and it was rumoured that he had also fetched from that salubrious spot his picturesque language. Some weekend trippers to Felixstowe, standing outside the barbed wire enclosing the beach, after watching and hearing, with eyes popping out and ears flapping, the unconscious Jumbo handling a working party bringing In the Porte Baby, wrote an anonymous letter to the Commanding Officer complaining of the earache, and adding, “it was Sunday too." This effusion was signed " A Disgusted Visitor." It was quite evident that the writer had never been with our armies in Flanders.’ ‘The new year [1918] opened badly. On the 2nd, in a thirty-knot wind, Gordon took off the harbour in a new type boat. As he rose from the water a petrol pipe failed, and not having height to turn he landed her outside down wind. She touched the water at a rate of knots, her bottom split open, and she sank in shallow water. Before she sank Gordon and his crew were taken off by a motor-boat. The Old Man of the Sea organised a salvage party. Jumbo boiled about in the sheds setting alight his trusty henchmen, and collected an amazing assortment of wire cables, ropes, balks of timber, flares, anchors, and what else I know not. The station tug Grampus, the steam hissing from her safety-valve through the zeal of her fireman (for the usual unexciting job of the crew was to bring bread and beef from Shotley, and this was an adventure), took the O.M.O.T.S.'s pet, the flat- bottomed salvage barge, in tow. They took it out and anchored it to windward of the wreck, but nothing further could be done until low water, which was at nine o'clock. In the darkness of the night, in the shadow of the sheds, Jumbo collected his piratical crew and packed them into the Grampus. I asked to be taken along, and we all shoved out through the guardships into the open sea. We could not get near the barge owing to the shallow water, and Jumbo forsook us, climbing with five of his satellites into a small dinghy, which, perilously overloaded, bobbed away over the heavy sea into the darkness. A long wait. The tug was rolling and tossing in the steep waves. A drizzling rain was falling. There were no shore lights, and the night was pitch-black. And then there was a glare of light in the distance, Jumbo had lit one of the acetylene flares on the stern of the salvage barge. The glare increased, and presently a light came bobbing over the water towards the tug, - it was a lantern in the bow of the dinghy. I climbed across and was ferried to the scene of activity. It was a weird sight. Five hissing acetylene flares surrounded the wreck with a fierce glow. Intense darkness all around, and in the brilliant pool of light a section of tossing waves, the flying-boat with her lower wings showing on the surface of the water, and the oilskin-clad men working on her. The wind was dying down, and as the tide fell the force of the waves was broken by the shoals over which they had already passed and by the barge. Jumbo took a short wire rope, with a wire hawser attached midway between the two ends, and had it worked down from the bow beneath the flying-boat. The ends were made fast to the engine bearer-struts, the men tying the knots under water, as the tide was now rising. Other men had made and fitted a wire sling for each engine, and to these two lines were made fast and taken to the barge. The slack in the wire hawser and the two lines was hauled in, and as the incoming tide raised the barge the flying-boat was lifted clear of the bottom. As soon as the water was deep enough Jumbo had the anchor heaved up and two motor-boats took the barge in tow. The flying-boat, supported on the surface by its lower wings moving through the water, followed after. It was towed by the two lines attached to the engines, the wire bridle under the bow preventing it nose-diving. The Old Man of the Sea processioned into the harbour in triumph. First the Grampus, then the two motor-boats, then the barge, and finally the flying-boat....

Industrial Salvage - a pair of metal and formica folding workshop chairs

Industrial Salvage - four substantial factory lights

Architectural Salvage and Folk Art - a 19th century wrought iron well head superstructure, crested by a cockerel, flanked by spires and scrolls, wrythen, arched frame, 172cm high, 99.5cm wide overall

Industrial salvage - a Weiss, London wall mounted machinist's lamp, height and angle adjustable, 90cm high, the projecting arm extending to approx. 75cm; a Reif Dresden machinist's wall mounted scissor lamp; an E.D.L. Lens Lite wall mounted adjustable magnifying lamp (3)

A smoking stand carved from the timber of H.M.S. Warspite. H-19cm x 11.HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed during the First World War in 1915, she was assigned to the Grand Fleet and participated in the Battle of Jutland. During the Second World War, Warspite was involved in the Norwegian Campaign in early 1940 and was transferred to the Mediterranean later that year. The ship bombarded German positions during the Normandy landings and on Walcheren Island in 1944. These actions earned her the most battle honours ever awarded to an individual ship in the Royal Navy. For this and other reasons, Warspite gained the nickname the "Grand Old Lady" after a comment made by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham in 1943 while she was his flagship. She was scrapped in 1947 and eventually broken up on Marazion beach. According to the contractors, it remains the largest salvage operation ever carried out in British waters.

A British Military ship's bell from the coastal salvage vessel Kinbrace, height 28cm, diameter 27cm

Architectural Salvage - Early 20th century cast iron feeding trough. Of rectangular form with twin sections having gallery ends of arched form. Measures approx: 22x84x33cm

A MODEL SALVAGE TUG BOAT, 'ZWARTE ZEE' OF ROTTERDAM of principally plastic construction, the superstructure painted white with sand yellow masts, the deck painted green, the hull painted black over red oxide, fitted with an electric motor, 88cm long, in a wood travel / storage case.

Military hand and pocket books, including R.A.F, Army and NavyField Service Pocket Book 1926 (corrected up to August 1925); with a War Establishments leaflet, City of Edinburgh (Fortress) Royal Engineers, 28 York Place, Edinburgh ink stamps, including several fold-out coloured plates clipped down board coversGunnery Drill Book (Book II) 1913, again with several platesR.A.F Pocket Book 1937, reprinted in India July 1942 by N.W.R. Printing Press, Moghalpura, named to F/Lt J.W. Lowcock 142 Repair and Salvage Unit (F.R.D)Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (D.E.M.S) Pocket Book stamped Maritime R.A.F 1942Handbook for the 13-Pr Q.F. Mark V. Gun on Mark 1 Mounting, 1916, inscribed to H.M Transport, F.M Phillips, Gunlayer, with red ink stamp for Naval Officer in Charge of Defensive Armaments, 10th May 1917, 53 Bothwell StreetHandbook for the 18-PR Q.F Gun, Landservice, 1913, reprinted with amendments 1914 (poor condition with loose bindings, tatty cover and dog-eared pages), stamped for 5 'B' Reserve Brigade R.F.ABritish Transport Commission Instruction in regard to Acceptance and Conveyance by Rail of Armoured Fighting Vechicles, revised edition cancelling April 1944 Booklet, March 1957Artillery Training Vol. II, Gunnery, 1934Textbook of Ballistics and Gunnery, Part 1, 1938 (9)

Architectural Salvage - A Renaissance 16th / 17th century hand carved stone fountain head. The fountainhead depicting a male bearded face to front with elongated vessel to back.Measures approx. 30cm x 70cm x 40cm.

Industrial Salvage - stage lighting - a pair of large Major lighting/spotlight rigs, each comprising nine lamps, approx. 188cm long (2)

Industrial Salvage - stage lighting - a large lighting/spotlight rig, comprising ten adjustable lamps, 207cm long; another, smaller, four light rig, 93cm long (2)

Retail Salvage - advertising - a large metal and perspex rectangular projecting shop wall sign, 'WATCH REPAIRS', red letters on opaque ground, illuminated interior, 46cm high, 131cm wide, 21cm deep

Maritime Salvage - a teak  letter opener made from the Teak of HMS Iron Duke, Admiral Jellicoe's Flagship at the battle of Jutland in 1916;  a Westmister School cane;  Automobilia Interest - three AA car badges;  another, Wales The 26 gun Eurydice sank off the Isle of Wight during a severe snow storm in 1878, with the loss of 317 out of 319 crew, making her loss one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in the Royal Navy's history

A cast bronze piece of architectural salvage depicting a classical lady, 18th/19th century, 31cm.

(Shipping Line Histories) A wonderful collection. Scarce works 'Bugsier, Reederei und Bergungs A. G. Shipping, Towage and Salvage Company, Hamberg. Nordischer Bergungsverein, Northern Salvage Association, Hamberg. W. Schuchmann, Bremerhaven,' printed paper wraps with small tears and nibbles, string bound, ex libris label Courtney Library, top fore edge corner dog eared throughout, forty seven b+w photographic illustrations tipped in, with descriptive text in German and English, three colour maps, good to very good, scarce, Drudkerei-Gesellschaft Hartung & Co, Hamburg, [c.1927]; 'Seventy Adventurous Years. The Story of the Bank Line 1885-1955,' Blue cloth, ex libris, illustrated throughout, fine, reprinted from The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph, Liverpool, 1956; A. H. John. 'A Liverpool Merchant House. Being the History of Alfred Booth and Company,' first edition, unclipped dj, ex libris, fine, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1959; George Blake. 'The Ben Line. The History of Wm. Thomson & Co. of Leith and Edinburgh, and of the Ships owned and Managed by them 1825-1955,' first edition, ex libris, clipped dj, plates, fine, Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1956; 'The Michail A Karageorgis Group of Companies,' full faux leather with gilt decoration to front board, ex libris, illustrated throughout, fine, rare, no imprint or date; With a large collection of other works including the Donaldson Line, Eagle Tankers, Canadian Pacific, Chapman of Newcastle, The Constantine Group, Cory Fleet, Rederiaktieselskabet Dannebrog &c. &c. too many to list. (30+)

Architectural salvage and Garden - a pair of large circular metal hanging baskets, 70cm diameter x approx. 24cm deep, (2).

Architectural salvage- antique cast iron grill cover, approx. 127 cm x 33 cm

A WWII brass tankard, from salvage metal from the battlefields of North Africa, engraved with a map of Africa showing the landings in 1942 in Morocco, through to the end of the African campaign on the 13th May 1943, 12cm high.

Corgi Juniors Chevrolet Vans, seventy plus examples, in various liveries including Jaws (5), Wimpy (4), Golden Eagle (5), Derendinger, Swissair, Rivella, Young's, Fire Ball (2), Fire Salvage (2), Superman (2) and others, three in original packaging, F-E, boxes F (70+)

Architectural salvage - a large collection of antique terracotta roofing tiles, many impressed Dreadnought. Approximately 200 + tiles. (B.P. 21% + VAT)

Architectural salvage and Garden - a pair of large circular metal hanging baskets, 70cm diameter x approx. 24cm deep, (2).

Architectural Salvage - an arched pitch pine door, bold ironwork hinges, 195cm x 83cm

Architectural Salvage - an early carved softwood Corinthian column order capital fragment in the manner of a portico, Athens, picked out in gilt, 31cm x 28cm x 13cm

A Samsung Home Cinema System : Samsung QE75Q7FAMTXXU 75" television set (control box & separate screen), complete with One Connect cable, with smart remote control handset as well as standard remote control handset, together with a Samsung MS 750 soundbar, with remote control handset, also a Samsung UBD-K8500 Blu-Ray disc player, with remote control handset, with a Samsung No Gap Wall Mount model WMN-M21E and twin suspension brackets for the soundbar, complete with all fixings, cables and user manuals. CONDITION REPORT: Please Note : This is a salvage lot as the screen (not the separate control box) is currently faulted. Initially the screen went off and with a replacement main PCB and a replacement One Connect cable the screen came back on. After an hour the screen went off again and no further repairs were attempted. The soundbar and Blu-Ray player are in working order.

Original vintage World War Two poster - Salvage saves shipping - featuring a group of soldiers in a rowing boat, a submarine and a sinking ship with smoke billowing above. Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Geo Gibbons. Fair condition, staining, creasing, tears, small paper losses. Country of issue: UK, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 38x25, year of printing: 1940s.

Original vintage World War Two poster - Notice. Under the Salvage of Waste Materials Order No. 2 made by the Minister of Supply S.R.O. 1942/No. 336, dated 25th February, 1942. Waste paper and cardboard must not be destroyed, thrown away or mixed with refuse. Any person disregarding this Order is liable to prosecution. Every scrap of paper that is not required for essential domestic or other purposes, should be disposed of for Salvage. The reverse of the poster features a blank letter template instructing to put the poster on display, signed off J. C. Dawes Controller of Salvage. Printed for H.M Stationery Office by Wm Brown & Co LTD. Good condition, creasing, tears, fold, minor staining, double sided. Country of issue: UK, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 37x25, year of printing: 1942.

Architectural Salvage and Folk Art - a 19th century wrought iron well head superstructure, crested by a cockerel, flanked by spires and scrolls, wrythen, arched frame, 172cm high, 99.5cm wide overall

Industrial Salvage - a suite of three cast iron framed bar or machinist’s stools, circular wooden seats, the tallest 61cm high

Lord Nelson related medals (7): 1905 Trafalgar Centenary gilt copper medalet EF/VF in glazed collar (missing one panel); a "Foudroyant" salvage copper medal 1897 VF-GVF; a small picture pendant c.early 20thC; Death of Nelson 1805 brass medalet VF; Nelson Centenary aluminium perpetual calendar medal 1904-1925 nEF; an antique hollow electrotype of the Death of Nelson medal by T. Webb, nEF; and The Nelson Society 76.75g hallmarked silver-gilt facsimile of the Large Naval Gold Medal, EF cased with cert and ribbon.

Architectural salvage, A pair of opaline glass light shades with another similar example.

Architectural salvage - An antique Romesse cast iron pot-bellied stove.

Architectural salvage and advertising - a cast iron factory plaque ‘Brooks and Doxey, of Manchester, 1908’, 46.5cm x 68cm; four steam engine glass gauge protectors, the largest 32.5cm long, others smaller, and spare glass panes.

Architectural Salvage - a Rococo style six section, three-bar cast iron radiator, 117cm high x 48cm wide x 23cm deep; another matching five section radiator, 117cm high x 41cm deep, (2).

A maritime Dutch East India Company V.O.C. (Vereenigde Oost-indische Compagnie ) silver ingot bar 1739. The silver ingot was salvaged from the shipwreck of the Rooswijk in 2004. The ingot having V.O.C conjoined stamp with A for Amsterdam, together with assay masters stamp of a rampant goat. Measures approx 16.3cm long. Weight approx. 1960g / 69.13 ozt / 1260.30 dwt. Salvage tag number: RK04A0270Notes: The Rooswijk, a VOC (Vereenigde Oost-indische Compagnie) ship was built in 1737. The Rooswijk sank on the second trip. On the 9th January 1740, whilst on a voyage from Texel (in the Netherlands) to Batavia it faced a storm that left no survivors. There were 237 crew members, and an unknown number of passengers that lost their lives and many chests full of coins and silver ingots that sank to the bottom of the water. The Rooswijk sank on the Goodwin sands off the coast of Kent, a notoriously treacherous stretch of water, where the sands constantly shift with the tides making them hard to navigate. Many ships have been wrecked there. In January 1740, a chest full of letters and the crew’s personal effects washed ashore. The English government realised that the ship had sunk to the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Kent. These letters were the last words written before the Rooswijk sank. In December 2004, the sands that had swallowed the wreck of the Rooswijk changed in such a way that they allowed amateur diver Ken Welling to find the treasure of the Rooswijk. The recovery was made public in 2005. Organised by the Dutch and British governments and the scientific expedition was led by Rex Cowan.The cargo was primarily in the form of silver ingots and “coins of eight,” Mexican Reales from the 1720s and 1730s. The Dutch had little to offer in Asia but silver and gold. Therefore VOC ships had to sail to Asia with silver bars and gold coins to pay for Asian goods. The bars were cast in private factories, run by assayers, from melted-down silver coins, mainly Spanish American “Reales”. Once in Asia, these bars were melted down again and minted into coins and silver objects that could be used to pay for purchases in the East. Some of the dive team were given silver ingots salvaged from the wreckage as payment for their work.Notes: The Rooswijk, a VOC (Vereenigde Oost-indische Compagnie) ship was built in 1737. The Rooswijk sank on the second trip. On the 9th January 1740, whilst on a voyage from Texel (in the Netherlands) to Batavia it faced a storm that left no survivors. There were 237 crew members, and an unknown number of passengers that lost their lives and many chests full of coins and silver ingots that sank to the bottom of the water. The Rooswijk sank on the Goodwin sands off the coast of Kent, a notoriously treacherous stretch of water, where the sands constantly shift with the tides making them hard to navigate. Many ships have been wrecked there. In January 1740, a chest full of letters and the crew’s personal effects washed ashore. The English government realised that the ship had sunk to the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Kent. These letters were the last words written before the Rooswijk sank. In December 2004, the sands that had swallowed the wreck of the Rooswijk changed in such a way that they allowed amateur diver Ken Welling to find the treasure of the Rooswijk. The recovery was made public in 2005. Organised by the Dutch and British governments and the scientific expedition was led by Rex Cowan.The cargo was primarily in the form of silver ingots and “coins of eight,” Mexican Reales from the 1720s and 1730s. The Dutch had little to offer in Asia but silver and gold. Therefore VOC ships had to sail to Asia with silver bars and gold coins to pay for Asian goods. The bars were cast in private factories, run by assayers, from melted-down silver coins, mainly Spanish American “Reales”. Once in Asia, these bars were melted down again and minted into coins and silver objects that could be used to pay for purchases in the East. Some of the dive team were given silver ingots salvaged from the wreckage as payment for their work.

Wicker baskets;   a set of three brass fireside implements; a half fluted helmet shaped coal bucket;  an industrial salvage wall clock, 57cm high;  lamps and shades;  etc  **being sold for chairty**

Maritime Salvage - a teak  letter opener made from the Teak of HMS Iron Duke, Admiral Jellicoe's Flagship at the battle of Jutland in 1916;  etc  The 26 gun Eurydice sank off the Isle of Wight during a severe snow storm in 1878, with the loss of 317 out of 319 crew, making her loss one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in the Royal Navy's history

Architectural Salvage - a Victorian fire surround, painted white, outer measurements 135cm x 165.5cm x 28cm, inner measurements 99cm x 98cm

Salvage - various 18th century and later lock plates, window catches, coat hooks etc

Salvage - a Ransomes of Ipswich mower; chimney pots; a metal trough; reconstituted stone garden trough; corner hay rack; etc

Taxidermy: A Cased Late Victorian Tope or School Shark (Botaurus stellaris), circa 1870-1900, a full mount preserved shark, set above a painted simulated sea bed, enclosed within a later perspex five-panel table display case, 151.5cm by 30cm by 52.5cm, previously featured on Sky's Discovery + Salvage Hunters: The Restorers, search on YouTube for relevant episode, restoration carried out by ex Rowland Ward employee Chris Elliotthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDXximeGynM

Architectural salvage: a quantity of 19th-century cast window catches and casement stays/fasteners together with a quantity of early-mid 20th century silvered metal handles (2 trays)

One of Only 20 Copies [James Joyce] Cole (Stephen)ed. & Fogarty (Anne) contributor The Works of Master Poldy, 2 vols., D. (Distillers Press & Salvage Press) 2013, Limited Edn., No. 5/20 Deluxe Edition, together with Portfolio of  Limited Prints Signed  by the Artist Jamie Murphy, in leather back and cloth backed boards in matching slipcase. (1)

Photographs, China, Japan and Korea, The China Fleet, Naval Review, 1935, an album of photos showing the visit of H.M.S. Cornwall on 2nd May 1935 to Amoy, South China. Includes a Programme of Events, a large photo of the ship, annotated images of Hong Kong showing butcher, stone breakers, road cleaners, Chinese theatre, transport, funeral, wheel barrows with sails, street barbers, Singapore, The Great Wall, Wei-Hai-Wei, Shanghai, nuns and monks, Tokyo, salvage of Chinese naval launch, Cornwall in Whampoa Dock, Hakone, Kobe, Yokohama, Peking, Tsingtao, Iloilo, Manila, Amoy, Seoul, internal shots of ship, planes leaving and returning to the ship, troops and much more. A unique and fascinating lot all presented, corner mounted, in a hand painted oriental album. HMS Cornwall was eventually sunk by Japanese dive bombers on April 5th 1942 (gd)