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.
A.R.P Training Manual No.1 - Basic Training In Air
Air Raid Precautions Training Manual No.1 (3rd Impression) - Basic Training In Air Raid Precautions. Card cover booklet of 86 pages with illustrations in very good condition, published 1940 by HMSO.
Air Raid Precautions To Be Taken By Users Of Ammon
Four page leaflet issued by the Ministry of Home Security and published 1940 by HMSO - Air Raid Precautions To Be Taken By Users Of Ammonia. Leaflet is in good clean condition.
Air Raid Shelters - Report Of The Lord Privy Seal
Air Raid Shelters - Report of the Lord Privy Seal\'s Conference. 26 page pamphlet published 1939 by the HMSO. The report contents includes - nature of attack, blackouts, dispersed shelters, degree of protection, etc. The booklet is sound and readable but has damp staining.
R.A.F Other Ranks Side Cap - 1940
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 with a couple of small area of damage (See photos), these early untouched caps are getting hard to find.
1941 - ARP - Lamp.
1941 dated A.R.P lamp with hood, in excellent unissued condition with just some slight scratches to black painted finish. Manufactures stamp and date to hood - CES. Co, ARP 1941, Geo.VI cypher.
1930s D.Lewis Ltd Leather Flying Helmet.
Pre-war leather flying helmet by D.Lewis Ltd London these private purchase helmets were often used by the RAF for training. The helmet is in used condition with service wear, the chamois lining is sound but rather grubby, the leather is very good and supple, good early manufactures label. The leather fitting for use with gosport tubes are in good order. Nice used helmet which displays well.
1918 Xmas Card - 50th (Northumbrian) Divisional Ar
World War One 1918 Christmas Card - 50th (Northumbrian) Divisional Artillery. Card is in used condition retaining good colour, crease / fold to top of card.
Royal Canadian Air Force Cap Badge.
Wartime brass Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) cap badge. In good used condition, Kings Crown with two loops fixing to reverse.
Aircrew Battle Dress Jacket - 1943.
Suits, Aircrew Blouses - Size 6 (Height 5ft 6 Inches, Breast 38/39, Waist 34) Dated 1943, manufactured by Long Brothers. The jacket is in very good used condition with just slight service wear, it is missing two metal buttons, one very small hole to left sleeve. Clear label. Original medal ribbons. Flight - Lieutenant rank insignia. Overall a good mid war example which displays well.
Four Log Books to Air Gunner / Pilot Fl/Lt Brown.
Four log books to Fl/Lt F.C Brown RAF covering the period April 1940 to 1968 starting his career as air gunner then training as pilot in June 1943. During his time with 24 OTU RAF Honeybourne he took part in 2 operations on Germany during July 1942, Hamburg and Dusseldorf as rear gunner flying Whitley. April 1941 with 15 OTU based RAF Harwell operation to Le Touquet and Brest France. With 38 Squadron in the Middle East he completed numerous operations, he also received a telex from the A.O.C which reads - for Sgt Barnes (Pilot) - My heartiest congratulations on the magnificent courage shown by yourself and your crew last evening. the courage shown by you all is in the highest traditions of our service. I trust you will soon be fit and well again. With 161 Squadron based at RAF Tempsford on the 22nd May 1944 he completed \"Opeartions as Detailed\" with pilot F/Lt Affleck who had complete a number of agents drop off and pick up, further research required. With 31 Squadron numerous supply drops to the 14th Army in Burma. Log 1 - covers the period - 1940 - 1942 - Air Gunner. Log 2 - cover the period - 1943 - 1945 - Pilot Logs 3 & 4 - Covers the period 1946 - 1968 Civilian Airline Pilot. Total RAF Flying Hours Recorded - 1568 Hours. Log Book 1 - Training begins April 1940 with No 1 A.A.S RAF Manby. July 1940 to April 1941 saw ferrying duties being carried out throughout the UK. 4/10/40 his aircraft crash at Tugwell Farm near Alnwick entry in log reads - Due to poor visibility pilot landed aircraft field near Alnwick, weather cleared 40 minutes and in take off Anson hit boundary hedge and was damaged. Pilot and self uninjured passenger broke leg. 15 OTU RAF Harwell 13th April 1941 _ Operations Le Touquet France . Wellington 1252. 24th April 1941 Operations Brest. May 1941 transferred to the Middle East with 37 Squadron were he carried a large number of operations. July 1942 returned to UK and joined 24 OTU RAF Honeybourne on Whitley two operations carried out on Germany 28 / 31 July. Log Book 2 - June 1943 saw pilot training begin with No19 EFTS. Qualified as pilot November 1943 \"Above Average\" January 1944 joined 161 Squadron RAF Tempsford carrying numerous training exercises, May 22nd 1944 \"Operations as Details\" 161 squadron were engaged in dropping supplies and agents over occupied Europe. August to October 1944 flying training with No3 Advance Flying Unit. From December 1944 to the end of the war with 31 Squadron in the Far East flying Dakotas on supply drops to the 14th Army in Burma. Operational hours flown with 31 Squadron 429.20. Log books 3 & 4 civil aviation covers the period 1946 to 1968 listing hundreds of flights flying civil aircraft for Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd plus other airlines. All logs are in good used sound condition with all correct stamps and signatures. Good set of interesting log books in need of further research on his career during the war.