Sold Gallery
These pages display a number of the rare items that I have had the pleasure of selling. To view more details and a larger photograph please click on the thumbnail picture.
1st Allied Airborne Army Embroidered Insignia.
A good quality wartime in unissued condition English made embroidered 1st Allied Airborne Army badge. The First Allied Airborne Army took part in the airborne operation in North Western Europe in September 1944.
Navigators Flying Log Book - 159 Squadron RAF.
Navigators flying log book to 162225 P.J Hogan covering the period September 1943 to July 1945. Training commenced September 18th 1943 with 66 Air School based at Youngsfield Cape Town as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in South Africa. Training continue through 1943 and qualified as a navigator in 1944 also took part in Staff Navigation Instructors Course at Queenstown. December 1944 saw him transferred to South East Asia Command joining 159 Squadron RAF heavy bomber squadron flying Liberators in the Far East. During May 1945 and July 1945 Hogan took part in nine operation, targets were bridges, shipping strikes, mining and AA sites. These operation are described in more detail in Colin Pateman book B-24 Bridge Busters over Burma. This South Africa style issue log book is in very good condition clearly written with all correct signatures.
A.R.P - Gas Rattle.
Air Raid Precautions issue gas or alarm rattle, a very good clean example in working order, dated and maker marked - B & E Ltd - A.R.P 1941.
WW1 Imperial German Wallet and Education Book
WW1 German money holder / wallet with paper iron cross to front, comes with owners civil education certificate / booklet 1914 dated. Both items in good used condition.
3rd Indian Division. (The Chindits)
3rd Indian Division widely known as the Chindits, excellent quality embroidered insignia. Retains its original press - stud fixings to reverse. Part of the 14th army under the command of Major - General Orde Wingate DSO.
Colditz P.O.W Officers Service Dress Tunic
Colditz interest khaki officers service dress tunic with Kings Crown silvered and gilt 4th Hussars collars, bullion embroidered Lt Col rank, WW2 medal ribbons and plain brass ball buttons. Clear tailored label for Rogers & Company London and named and dated to Capt P.W Dollar (later Major) 2nd November 1934. Tunic is in good clean condition with just a few small moth nips (treated). Major Peter Webster Dollar 4th Hussars 2nd Armoured Division served in Greece and was captured at Corinth in Greece on 9th May 1941. He was imprisoned in Germany for the next 4 years. He was a persistent escaped using various tunnel attempts. Do to this attitude he was sent to Colditz arriving 14/1/43. During this time he was court marshalled by the Germans for insulting a German Officer. Major Dollar awarded MID oak leaf for repeated attempts to escape while in enemy hands, August 1943.
R.A.F Other Ranks Side Cap - 1940 Dated
Early wartime Royal Air Force other ranks side cap with its original RAF brass badge and stores reference label dated 1940. The cap is in sound used condition and is a little grubby, these early untouched caps are getting hard to find.
Save Waste Paper - Help Win The War Bookmark.
Double sided paper \"Save Waste Paper\" bookmark in good clean condition, entitled - Help win the war and on reverse save waste paper.
Bulletelle - WW1 Game For Use In The Trenches.
Bulletelle a WW1 period game described by the manufactures - This game, easily portable, and entirely manipulated by the hand, can be played in any position. Its a ideal game for playing on board ship, in a railway carriage, or in the trenches etc. In very good condition for its age with full direction to reverse and in working order. A game based on Bagatelle a billiard\'s derived game for getting balls into holes of varying degree of difficulty.
R.A.F Web Equipment Cleaner.
Small tin of \"Ye Olde Oak\" Web Equipment Cleaner (small amount of original contents remain) retains its original RAF stores label - Web Equipment Cleaner 2ozs, R.A.F Blue Grey - A.M Ref No 23/284.