Highlights of Metalware, Collectors Items, Ephemera, Fabrics, Toys, Curios etc at auction

550 A letter from Mount Everest Base Camp signed by all members of the British 1936 Everest Expedition dated "1st May 1936" - together with covering letter from Team leader Hugh Rutledge explaining to the requestee of the signatures that this was the highest point they could offer autographs as above base camp the team is scattered and writing are limited to diary entries alone

553 Palitoy, a set of ten Pippa Dolls, seven standards (1 x Pippa, 2 x Marie, 2 x Britt, 2 x Princess Pippa), three dancing ( Marie and two broken at the torso Tammies), together with a selection of outfits and 2 beds

548 An extensive collection of autographs mainly collected in the 1930's contained in a leather bound folio to include Rudyard Kipling, Don Bradman, Gordon Richards, Malcolm Campbell, Baden Powell, Olave Baden-Powell, Prince Philip of Greece, Field Marshall Montgomery, General De Gaulle, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Stanley Baldwin, Wing Commander F F E Yeo-Thomas, Dr Michael Ramsey (Archbishop of Canterbury), the 1935 South African Cricket Team, Field Marshall Allenby, Norman Birkett, Augustus John, Anthony Eden, Viscount Snowdon, Margaret Scriven and others, together with one other album including a small collection of signed photographs including George Robey as Falstaff and Sonja Fleurie

526 A George V Royal Mail telegraph pole post box 50cm h x 19cm w x 31cm d, complete with 2 keys

538 Comoy's of London, six pipes, all marked Selected Straight Grain numbers 13, 28, 112, 133, 245, 292, all contained in a plush presentation box

457 Three 19th Century painted peg dolls 2 x 9cm (with articulated limbs) and 3cm (sizes excluding dress)

431 An electric EMG Handmade Gramophone Mark IX circa 1932, with 22inch diameter papier mache horn, copper Grape Street plaque stating model 495, contained in fitted oak case, missing soundbox/pickup, electrics are untested

405 A group of 4 medals to 3341 Leading Stoker, later Stoker Petty Officer T Lewis Royal Navy, comprising a 1914-15 Star, British War medal, Victory medal and Imperial Russian Order of St George

459 A Polish Cross of Valour together with a silver Polish Air Force wings

423 **Vanessa Pooley FRBS (born 1958), a verdigris bronze sculpture "Neo Geo" limited edition no.6 of 12, signed VP 31cm h **Please note - Artists Resale Rights may be payable on this lot

492 A George VI issue Air Force Cross dated 1941, un-named, as issued, with attributable strip of typed paper, marked Squadron Leader R J C Nedwill AFC RAF, cased, together with typed reference marked No.4 S.F.T.S Iraq Squadron Leader Richard John Cortney Nedwill (34169)

479 A family group of medals, Father, Son, Daughter and Son-in-Law. A group of 4 medals to 1958 Sergeant, later Major Arthur Hearsey 1st Royal West Kent Regiment and Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry comprising Egypt Medal 1882-1889 with 1 bar The Nile 1884-1885, named to Sergeant, India General Service medal 1896 with 2 bars Punjab Frontier 1897-1898 and Tiraha 1897-1898, privately engraved and possibly re-named to Lieutenant A Hearsey 11DCLI, Khediv's Star 1884-86 complete with ribbon bar, Baltic medal 1856 un-named as issued, a posthumous group of 3 medals to 1585 Private Harold Garnet Hearsey 4th Battalion Australian Imperial Force comprising 1914-15 Star, British War medal and Victory medal, together with Death plaque (killed in action at Gallipoli) a pair to E Hearsey VAD comprising British War medal and Victory medal in original paper carton, a pair British War medal and Victory medal to 13941 R Trememan deck hand Royal Naval Reserve, complete with 2 portrait photographs of the Major Hearsey, 2 portrait photographs of R Trememan and a small collection of research and photographs

597 Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, 1st Peacock edition pub. George Allen London 1894, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, bound in green cloth with gilt peacock design, 8vo

421 A "Cadbury's Chocolates, Delicious and Wholesome, Made at Bourneville", blue and white enamelled advertising sign, 92cm h x 61cm w

528 A good pair of Meiji period Japanese bronze vases with gilt, silver and copper decoration depicting figures in boats amongst lilies and flowers 14cm

352 A George VI issue Distinguished Service Cross dated 1945, un-named, as issued, hallmarked London 1948, contained in original Garrards case

516 Stamps, Great Britain decimal mint commemoratives, 1970's-2009 many cylinder blocks, miniature sheets, some varieties including 2002 Christmas 2nd class imperforate pair, plus used, contained in 14 stock books, high face value

568 H E Hervey, 6 fabric collages and watercolours of animals - Robin and Blue Tit, short tailed voles, rabbit, snow bunting, robin and young and young tawny owls, all framed and labelled to the reverse 13cm together with Joy Morehead a fabric collage of birds in flight 12cm diam. framed

689 Churchill, Sir Winston Spencer. The Second World War in 6 volumes, Cassel & Co London , bound in red morocco by Bumpus, gilt lined with Persian Lion and Sun motif to centre cover, gilt book block, 8vo, Vol I - The Gathering Storm, signed and dated 1955, 2nd ed. 1949, Vol II - Their Finest Hour, initialled WSC, 3rd ed. 1951, Vol III - The Grand Alliance, initialled WSC, 1st ed. 1950, Vol IV - The Hinge of Fate, initialled WSC, 1st ed, 1951, Vol V - Closing The Ring, initialled WSC, 1st ed, 1952, Vol VI - Triumph & Tragedy, initialled WSC, 1st ed, 1954. Included is a letter dated 14 January 1947 on Chartwell headed paper signed by Churchill to F. Burrows of the Law firm Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Co thanking the recipient for a 5000 pound cheque and their services. Provenance - The books were given to the vendors Grandfather by Winston Churchill as thanks for legal services undertaken when the vendors grandfather was a legal clerk at Nicholl, Manisty and Co Solicitors.

555 Lorenzo Quinn, born Italy 1966, a bronzed figure of gentleman standing on a railway line, raised on an oak plaque 42cm h x

503 A late 19th century Staunton wooden chess set, all contained in a fitted mahogany box with hinged lid marked Staunton Chessmen