The Bombardment of Hartlepool - CD Rom Useful Research Resource

A CDD Rom player required, cannot recall the contents but they were extensive and useful for anybody interested in this WW1 attack on the Hartlepools. Sold as seen.

Will post to a UK address only.

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Code: 69716

Jersey Militia Headdress Postcards and Stamp Set - Dated 1972

First Day of issue set, each stamp franked with a 27th June 1972 cancellation mark and gummed to a photographic postcard of the relevant headdess / helmet depicted on the stamp in question. Postally blank and in excellent condition (slight foxing to reverse of a couple cards). An interesting set.

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Code: 69715

WW2 Italian Campaign Christmas Card from Sicily 1943 - RASC Solder attributed

A small printed card showing Mount Etna and a the Sicilian port of Catania. From a member of B Platoon, 404 Gen Transport Co, RASC, CMF. Looks like a date of 31 Jan stamped to front. Generally good condition. I am unable to work out the surname of the sender.

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Code: 69713

WW1 Daily Mail Series 10, Postcard No 75 - A British Heavy Gun in Action

Postally unused. In good condition.

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Code: 69712

Edwardian 8th Royal Irish Hussars Drum Horse Postcard

Postably unused. In good overall condition, minor corner wear, one small corner crease. Thin red line in sky looks like a print error.

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Code: 69711

HMS Medusa 2nd Class Cruiser Royal Navy Atmospheric Postcard

HMS MEDUSA was a Marathon class Protected Cruiser Royal Navy. Built for the Royal Navy in 1888, she became a guard or harbour ship in 1910. Sold out of the service in 1920.

Postally used, EDVII stamp. Some corner wear otherwise in good condition.

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Code: 69709

1977 Silver Jubilee - Telescopic Viewer novelty - Interesting and rare

Entitled "Tim's Telescopic View of Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee 1952 - 1977". It has a viewing hole that takes your eye down through an animated procession from Admiralty Arch in London down the Mall to Buckingham Palace, and has the Queen and Prince Philip in their state coach with all the pagentry of London advancing towards you.

In very good condition, with some edge rubbin...  read more

Code: 52431

WW1 Patriotic Silk Embroidered Postcard - Honour to the Aviators RFC / RNAS

A very scarce card with its original card insert. Postally unused but has a message written on it - to my wife. In great condition for age.

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Code: 58093

Paperwork to a Soldier and Sailor! Arthur Charles Nixon

An interesting set of paperwork including group photograph to a man who served in both the Army and as a Merchant Seaman, comprising:

1) Victorian British Army Soldiers Small Book (Army Form B50) - 18052 Arthur Nixon, Royal Artillery and 98th Battery Royal Field Artillery who enlisted on 15th January 1897. Born in Newcastle, he enlisted in Liverpool for 7 years with the Colours ...  read more

Code: 68845

British Army Soldiers Small Book (Army Form B50) - Sidney George Day, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) - 1910

Issued to either regular soldiers or those volunteering for the Special Reserve once attested and intended to be kept on the person of the individual and kept up to date during service by the commanding officer of the Squadron, Troop, Battery, or Company to which the man belonged. Printed by Gale & Polden for the HMSO and dated 1910. In the inside pocket is included a rare loose leaflet (split...  read more

Code: 68362