Four Day Auction of Books, Stamps & Three Artists’ Studio, Sporting & Militaria with Furniture & Interiors (Macclesfield)(#216) 15/02/2022 10:00 AM GMT CLOSED Auction Information PDF Catalogue Advanced Search ▼ Items per page 122448 Advanced Search Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Musical Instruments & Mechanical Music Exhibitions and Expositions Silver Militaria: Section 2 Firearms Clocks: Longcase Clocks Pictures: Prints, Etchings, Engravings & Maps Glass Bronze and Other Sculptures Militaria: Helmets, Uniforms & Equipment Watches: Pocket Watches Books Garden and Architectural Doulton Ethnic & Tribal Art Plated Items Militaria: Section 1 Firearms Clocks: Wall Clocks Pictures: Traditional Watercolours Asian Art: Oriental & Eastern Works of Art Furniture: Reproduction Metalware Militaria Jewellery: Costume Jewellery Ephemera Carpets & Rugs Beswick Scientific Instruments Ceramics Militaria: Guns Clocks: Mantel clocks Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Watercolours Asian Art: Chinese Works of Art Furniture: Arts and Crafts & 20th Century Design Textiles Taxidermy Jewellery Stamps Lighting Pictures: Traditional Oils Collectors' Items Ceramic Figures Militaria: Edged Weapons Clocks: Carriage Clocks Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Oils Asian Art: Japanese Works of Art Furniture: Oak & Vernacular Toys & Games: Toys Sporting Coins Sporting: Shooting Accessories Barometers Pictures: Northern & 20th Century Prints Automobilia Decorative Arts Militaria: Medals, Badges & Buttons Watches: Wristwatches Wines & Spirits Studio Ceramics Furniture: Traditional Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Auctioneer All auctioneersLiverpooltest Lot Number Results: Viewing items 433-480 of 3033. View Lot 420 GB; rare large collection of 214 QV 1850s used penny red stars on four stock sheets, unsorted for colour variations, watermarks & perforations, huge cat value. View details Estimate£60 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED Lot 421 CANADA; QV to KG VI mint and used collection on loose album pages, all in Hawid mounts, plus stock card, some early stamps mixed condition but includes used 1850s Beavers, large selection of Dominion QV Heads, SG 39, SG 42 & SG 149 plus mint SG 160, SG 161, SG 163 and 1903 1c to 20c, approx. 170 stamps in total with very high cat. value. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£120StatusCLOSED Lot 422 GB; large QV - QE II used accumulation in a ring binder and two stock books, includes some CI and regional issues, also, small box containing large quantity of loose QE II stamps in envelopes, considerable duplication but with approx. 2,500 stamps in total. View details Estimate£40 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED Lot 423 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH; two stock books and one ring binder containing early to modern mainly used accumulation, some higher values and mint sets and singles noted, including Nigeria 1938 2/6d & Papua 1952 10/- (umm), some duplication with approx. 2,000 stamps in total. View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£45StatusCLOSED Lot 424 GB AND BRITISH EMPIRE; an old-time collection in Favourite loose-leaf album, mainly QV - KG V issues, mostly used but some mint, strength in GB, Australia and India with a number of better value stamps noted, over 1,000 stamps in total. View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Lot 425 Cinderella box with assortment of philatelic ephemera, including two old SG stamp catalogues, QE II Silver Jubilee album (partly-filled), SG Book of Stamp Collecting plus various other booklets, stamp magazines, air mail letters and Royal MS, also, several packs of UMM mint stamps, two shoe boxes full of stamps on and off paper (one box GB commemoratives, the other RoW stamps) and a biscuit tin of GB definitves on paper. View details Estimate£20 - £30Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Lot 426 WORLD (including GB & Commonwealth); extensive mixed used collection in fourteen mixed condition ring binders and albuplus cardboard box of loose stamps, many sorted into country envelopes, mostly post-WWII issues but some better older values also noted, many thousands of stamps. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£70StatusCLOSED Lot 427 GB; QV to QE II mint and used collection in SG stock book, including small selection of different Penny Red plates, early issues mostly used with many later QE II UMM singles & sets with face value greater than 100, also, 1948 Silver Wedding 1 and 1951 2/6d, 5/- & 10/-, all UMM, includes some CI & Regional issues, approx. 600 stamps. View details Estimate£60 - £80Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Lot 428 WORLD (incl. GB & Commonwealth) - large mixed ollection in 17 old albums & stockbooks, most partially-filled. Wide variety of material from QV period to modern, mostly used with some modern GB mint. Strength in Italy, Spain and USA with good range of 1930s & 1940s issues. Some better QV-KG V GB & Empire values noted, 1d reds (incl. imperf., blue paper & red stars), 4d vermillion, KG V Seahorse 2/6d & 5/-, 1939 set to 1 etc. Large quantity of stamps in total. View details Estimate£80 - £100Winning Bid£190StatusCLOSED Lot 429 FALKLANDS; a small collection of QV - KG VI mint & used on 2 stock pages. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£70StatusCLOSED Lot 430 WORLD (incl. GB & Commonwealth) - mixed collection of stamps & FDCs. 4 old albums with mainly British Empire QV - KG VI mostly used stamps. 2 albums of RoW stamps, early to modern. Also, one album of mostly GB FDCs from 1950s - 1980s and a few loose presentation packs. View details Estimate£180 - £250Winning Bid£220StatusCLOSED Lot 431 GB & COMMONWEALTH; collection in five albums plus stamps loose on pages, QV - QE II, mostly used with strength in GB and Australia. View details Estimate£100 - £120Winning Bid£70StatusCLOSED Lot 432 WORLD (incl. GB & Commonwealth); an old time collection in 11 albums, mint & used QV - QE II period, also a quantity of GB & Commonwealth stamps loose and on pages plus large number of world stamps sorted into country envelopes with several small boxes of loose stamps, some useful GB QV and Australian States issues noted. View details Estimate£140 - £180Winning Bid£320StatusCLOSED Condition ReportHuge quantity of stamps - inspection recommended. Lot 433 GB large collection of PHQ cards, loose and in packs, many hundreds in 2 plastic boxes. View details Estimate£200 - £300StatusUnsold Lot 434 WORLD (incl.GB & Commonwealth) - mint & used accumulation of QV period to modern material in 7 albums, several small stock books, packets & loose, Some interesting older stamps noted. Also, 1968 SG catalogue. View details Estimate£80 - £100Winning Bid£280StatusCLOSED Lot 435 World (incl. GB & Commonwealth) - used collection in old album plus small quantity of FDCs View details Estimate£20 - £30Winning Bid£70StatusCLOSED Lot 436 WORLD collection (incl. GB & Commonwealth) in 3 old albums, mainly used older issues. View details Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£60StatusCLOSED Lot 437 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH - 1949 postal union collection complete, 310 stamps unmounted with only one set SWA mounted. View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£180StatusCLOSED Lot 438 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH - collection in two Ideal albums, QV to KGV mint and used. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£190StatusCLOSED Lot 439 GB - QE II all mint pre-decimal collection in two albums with Defins, Comms, Blocks, Phosphors, Coils, Many 1000's with sets and singles. View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£180StatusCLOSED Lot 440 GB - mixed box of QV to QEII used and mint stamps in Windsor album, on loose leaves plus kiloware. View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED Lot 441 TITANIC INTEREST, A.R. RAMSBOTTOM; watercolour, 'The White Star Line Titanic, The Largest Vessel in the World', with various text and vignette of Captain Smith, with further drawings to the reverse, 23 x 29.5cm, unframed. Footnote; this is a contemporary watercolour drawn by Ramsbottom and was purchased from Messrs Dominic Winters in 1996, where a footnote in the catalogue details Amos Robert Ramsbottom, born New Zealand 1889, came to England in 1899, settled in Manchester and became unemployed View details Estimate£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot 442 TITANIC; a large quantity of ephemera including first day covers signed by survivors, an original flyer for a 'Grand Benefit Concert', a number of reproduced telegrams, etc. View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£340StatusCLOSED Lot 443 MANCHESTER INTEREST; a 19th century printed silk advertising notice for Ancoats Bazaar in aid of St Andrew's Church with ‘The Sale of Useful and Ornamental Work in the Town Hall, King-Street, Manchester’, the notice states that the proceeds of the bazaar will be devoted to the ‘liquidation of debt’ of 480 on the Sunday School and also the debt of 300 on the organ of the church, 32.5cm x 24cm (1). View details Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold Condition ReportThe silk has been folded, probably since new, and has light wear and marks t the edges. Considering age the condition is good. Lot 444 BELLE VUE CIRCUS, MANCHESTER; a collection of ten circus posters comprising a slim poster for 20th December 1968 to 8th February 1969, a '38th International Circus Poster' for December 22nd to February 4th (x5), a '20th Annual International Circus' poster from Friday 24th December, a '39th International Celebration Circus' from December 21st to February 3rd, and two later Psychedelic Circus International posters, the largest 76 x 51cm (10). View details Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£180StatusCLOSED Condition ReportAll with general wear at the edge, some creasing and they have been rolled for some time. Some with folding at corners and others with some staining here and there. The edge wear to a couple is heavier than on others. Lot 445 BELLE VUE CIRCUS, MANCHESTER; four circus posters, two for the '38th International Circus' dated December 22nd to February 4th and two for the '39th International Celebration Circus' (4). View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£100StatusCLOSED Condition ReportAll with some edge wear, light browning and old fold marks. Lot 446 BELLE VUE; three circus posters, each printed in black and red on yellow paper, the first for 'Mammoth Circus', the second for 'The 2nd Mammoth Circus' c1930/31 and the third for 'The Super Summer Season Circus', each 76 x 51cm, unframed, together with a smaller Belle Vue Circus printed bill advertising 'The Jungle', c1937/38 (4). View details Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£230StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe smaller playbill with creasing to both right corners and folded horizontally through the middle. The '2nd Mammoth Xmas Circus' poster with a hole to the bottom middle, a loss to the top right corner and top left corners and with creases and wear at edge. The 'Mammoth Circus' poster folded in four ways and with creases to all corners and slightly grubby. A few small tears at the edge also. This poster is c1929/30. The 'Super Summer Season' poster with general creasing throughout and some nicks at the edge and a heavier patch of wear to the upper right section, with some discolouration here. Lot 447 BELLE VUE CIRCUS MANCHESTER; a collection of fifty circus programmes and related ephemera items dated between 1929 and 1982, to include 'The Great Carmo Circus' 'Belle Vue Circus December 23rd 1929 to January 18th 1930', a folded circus bill for the year 1943/44, 'A Gigantic International Circus' theatre programme for 1946-7, 'A 14th Annual Circus Season' programme for 1942-43, housed in three folders, with three Belle Vue information booklets (6). View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£280StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe Belle Vue Circus 1940-41 programme is a facsimile print. Lot 448 BELLE VUE ZOO; five vintage zoo advertising posters comprising one decorated with the 'Diving Tiger', one with a female trumpeter and three with giraffes, largest 76 x 51cm (5). View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSED Condition ReportSome posters with foxing, all with general wear at the edges and with old crease lines and fold lines. Some chipping at the edges and some tears at the edges. Lot 449 BELLE VUE CIRCUS MANCHESTER; a collection of eight printed circus bills, each printed by W. E. Berry Ltd, Bradford, advertising such acts as 'Sensational Wild Animal Group', 'Charles Illeneb's Acrobatic Polar Bears', 'Captain Sidney House and His Fantastic Jungle Queens', 'Magnificent Jungle Group of Lions and Leopards', 'Chipperfields Magnificent Performing Panthers', 'Mancy Illeneb and Her Five Jungle Tigers', 'The Astonishing Mascotts' and 'Luigi Gerardi and His Famous Lions', each 51 x 32cm, View details Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£320StatusCLOSED Condition ReportAll of the posters a little grubby, two more so than the others. All with general creasing and wear at the edges, one with two small Sellotape marks to the bottom corners and one with staining to the right hand side. One of the 1982 posters is badly worn at the edge. Lot 450 BELLE VUE CIRCUS; seven vintage circus bills comprising five 1930s/40s bills advertising such acts as 'Another Wild Animal Sensation: Fearless François Scholz With the Most Wonderful Group of Animals in Circusdom', 'Strassburger's Grand Cavalcade of Twelve of the World's Most Beautiful Liberty Horses', 'De Garcia's Wonderful Performing Elephants', a Fifteenth Season bill advertising 'Six Grand Pachyderms in Elephant Battle' and 'Hagenbeck's Famous Group of Liberty Horses', 74 x 25cm, with a simi View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£720StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe King's Hall poster with large losses to both left corners and creased throughout, with chipping, etc. The additional poster with some small tears at edge and general creasing. The other posters with general creases, fold lines, some light stains and some small tears. Lot 451 BELLE VUE ZOO; five vintage posters comprising one decorated with a hippopotamus, one titled 'Zoo Park' and decorated with three bears, another titled 'Zoo Park' and decorated with a monkey and booklets, a green, yellow and black printed poster decorated with monkeys, and a further poster decorated with a kangaroo and joey outside a castle (5). View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£700StatusCLOSED Condition ReportAll with some edge wear and all with old creasings, etc. The poster with the kangaroo has a stain to the middle of the poster. The poster with the hippopotamus has some folded tears and other small tears. All posters with some small nicks at the edge and general tears, etc. Lot 452 QUEEN'S THEATRE, SPRING GARDENS MANCHESTER; a 19th century theatre bill for 'The Haymarket Company and Twelfth Night', 27.5 x 14cm, with a Royal Holborn Theatre of Varieties bill for 'A Special Engagement of Alice Atherton', c.1896, 20 x 13cm, a New Hippodrome Middlesbrough 'Grand Opening Monday August 17th 1908' printed material programme, a Hippodrome Empire small theatre bill, together with a circus print and a limited edition pencil print of the Theatre Royal, St Peter's Square, Stockport. View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 453 A collection of ninety early 20th century and later Manchester theatre programmes, circus programmes and related ephemera, to include Roberts Brothers, Hulme Hippodrome, Grand Junction Theatre, The Salford Royal Hippodrome, Metropole Theatre, Belle Vue souvenir programme for 'The Relief of Lucknow', for the season 1955, Grand Junction Theatre, Kings Theatre, Gaiety Theatre, The New Queen's Theatre and another for The Empire Liverpool dated Monday April 17th 1939, with a personal appearance by Ge View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£120StatusCLOSED Lot 453A AFTER RUTH SANDYS; 'For the Zoo', an original London Underground poster, depicting a sealion, linen backed, 100 x 62cm, unframed. View details Estimate£400 - £600Winning Bid£520StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe poster has been rolled up for some time, there is a horizontal crease running above the title of the poster and there is wear to all edges, with Sellotape marks and creasing to the top two corners and other creases here and there throughout and is lightly grubby. Some Sellotape remains to the top two corners. Lot 453B AFTER HERRY-PERRY (HEATHER PERRY, 1893-1962); 'The Zoo', an original linen backed alphabet London Underground poster, 100 x 62.5cm. View details Estimate£400 - £600Winning Bid£400StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThere are two horizontal fold lines to the bottom above and within the Underground naming. Other creasing throughout the poster and with some marks to the surface, wear to all of the edges, some pinhole marks, etc. Overall, a little tired. Paper tabs to each of the corners. Lot 454 A very large collection of navigational charts and instructional naval charts predominantly early to mid 20th century featuring both British coastline and worldwide and including Cape of Good Hope, Bay of Fundy, Delagoa Bay to Cape Guardafui, Mae Nam Chao Phraya featuring Bangkok Harbour and Bangkok New Harbour, etc. Provenance: These come from the collection of retired naval instructor and many of the charts have annotated notes upon them. View details Estimate£300 - £500StatusUnsold Condition ReportToo many to count and provide a detailed condition report. We recommend viewing in person. Lot 455 An unusual early to mid 19th century passport for Sir John Stewart dated 1st April 1836, also an auction bill for 1871 on behalf of William Cargill listing the contents of the vessel resting in Glasgow dock, both framed and glazed (2). View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Lot 455A LOCAL INTEREST; a late 18th century handwritten letter by Joseph Brindley, regarding a property gift/acknowledgment of ownership, dated 19th November 1790. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£95StatusCLOSED Lot 456 CHIPPERFIELD'S CIRCUS; a circus poster for Castleford and Pontefract, 66 x 51cm. View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Condition ReportLower left corner with a brown stain, old fold lines here and there and general light wear to the edge. Lot 457 Five full sheets of caricature postcards, together with two framed montages of cigarette silks and reproduction cards. View details Estimate£20 - £40StatusUnsold Lot 458 MARVEL; a collection of ten comics comprising The Amazing Spiderman, number 218 July 02457, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spiderman, number 54 May 02199, The Avengers, number 78 July and number 73 February, X-Men, number 1 Oct, $1.50, Strange Tales, number 132 May, The Invincible Iron Man, number 13 May and number 36 April, The Mighty Thor, number 137 February and number 135 December, and The Incredible Hulk, number 124 February, together with two graphic novels. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Lot 459 A collection of Manchester and other circus and theatre memorabilia items, comprising a Belle Vue Circus bill, a theatre bill for the Palace Theatre Oxford Street, Manchester, dated Monday June 26th 1939, 88 x 28cm, a theatre bill for the Palace Blackpool, dated Monday December 28th 1936 and listing 'Harry Roy and His Band', a theatre bill for the Aldershot Hippodrome, dated Monday November 9th 1931 and publicising 'Florrie Forde', with nine black and white photographic reprints of circus acts, View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Lot 460 THE SUNDAY TIMES; a group of six limited edition posters from the 2000 run produced as newly coloured lithographs with notes on the six artists, in card wallet. View details Estimate£30 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Lot 461 ARTHUR DELANEY; limited edition print 'Ardwick Empire', numbered 275/850, 38 x 46.5cm, framed and glazed. View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Condition ReportPaper is very slightly undulated in the frame, but otherwise image is clean and bright. Frame with some light scuffs. Lot 462 ASTLEY'S CIRCUS; an early 19th century printed circus bill dated Monday April 15th 1833, with 'The Siege of Troy or The Giant Horse of Sinon', 37 x 24cm, framed and glazed. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£240StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe bill has been cropped at the edges and is closely cropped at the top to the lettering and the bottom part of the lettering is lacking. There are brown tape marks visible throughout the edges. Lot 463 A collection of ten theatre playbills from the North West region, comprising Kemble Theatre with a production of 'Dick Whittington', the bill mounted with a picture of Dick Whittington and His Cat by Albert Morrow, 88 x 28.5cm, a theatre bill for Oldham Palace, for Monday November 26th 1934 and promoting 'The World Famous Comedian Wilkie Bard', a theatre playbill for New Theatre Royale Oldham, dated Monday October 2nd 1939, listing a production of 'Pack Up Your Troubles', a further theatre playb View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe large Arcadia poster has a large chip to the top left corner, however the piece is present. There are other tears and creases throughout the edge of this poster. The Empire Birmingham poster has many creases throughout and heavy wear to the edging and some tears. All other posters with some tears, creases, a few small chips and general age wear throughout. Lot 464 THEATRE-ROYAL LIVERPOOL; two 19th century theatre bills, the larger dated June 15th 1830 and titled for 'The Elephant of Siam and Fire Fiend', the smaller dated Tuesday May 26th 1929 and titled for 'School for Scandal', the larger 37 x 16cm, the smaller 33 x 19cm, both framed and glaze (2). View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Condition ReportPaper lightly toned to both, but each is closely framed to the edge, or to the edge of the mount, so it is not possible to see the edge of he paper. The smaller playbill with a slight blemish to the paper, above the name of 'Vining' on the lower section. 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