Photographs, Autographs and Ephemera

FOOTBALL PROGRAMME. A 1925 F.A. English Cup Final Tie: Sheffield United v Cardiff City programme and ticket stub for the Standing Enclosure H56.

FOOTBALL PROGRAMME. A 1927 F.A. Challenge Cup Final Tie: Arsenal v Cardiff City programme and ticket stub for the West Standing Enclosure H56.

FOOTBALL PROGRAMME. A 1929 F.A. Challenge Cup Final Tie: Bolton Wanderers v Portsmouth programme and ticket stub for the West Standing Enclosure G66.

FOOTBALL PROGRAMME. A 1930 F.A. Challenge Cup Final Tie: Arsenal v Huddersfield Town programme and ticket stub for the East Standing Enclosure C15.

FOOTBALL PROGRAMME. A 1948 F.A. Challenge Cup Final Tie: Blackpool v Manchester United programme and ticket stub for the East Standing Enclosure D7.

SUSSEX. A small group of ephemera relating to East and West Sussex, including an autograph by the Mayor of Worthing, a card advertising Bourner & Co of Uckfield, a stamp for Pevensey Pageant, a Railway Voucher for Brighton Competitive Musical Festival, a luggage tag for Haywards Heath Station and a waistcoat-shaped advertising pamphlet for Lewis, Hyland & Co.

PANORAMA. A scarce George III wind-out paper horse racing panorama titled 'Going to Epsom Races', by Henry Alken, bearing partial paper label detailing 'A Ludicrous Amusement Consisting of Modern Costume, Characters, Dandies, Equipages and Horsemanship... 1819', the continuous strip mounted to a spindle and contained within a turned boxwood case with ring turned handle, the exterior with similar applied etching with aquatint, total length of strip 453cm (some wear and faults).

ADVERTISING. A small advertising booklet containing 17 postcard-size photographs relating to Cerebos House in Willesden, and Cerebos salt manufacturers, all titled, including 'Main Entrance', 'Railway Siding', 'General Office', 'Loading Dock' and 'View of Garage'.

PHOTOGRAPHS. A group of 19 black and white photographs by Roger Mayne, mid-20th century, the majority social history scenes or portraits, 25cm x 17.5cm and smaller, most with photographer's stamp verso.

PHOTOGRAPHS. Two albums containing an impressive collection of approximately 443 cartes-de-visite photographs and 4 cabinet cards, many of politicians, royalty, other prominent persons, family groups, children and views, as well as military, sport and overseas interest, including the American presidents: George Washington, Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Franklin, Rutherford Bichard Hayes and James Abram Garfield; American Civil War figures: Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, George Gordon Meade, Philip Henry Sheridan and Fitz Henry Warren; as well as Napoleon III, John Baldwin Buckstone, Sir Robert Peel, Otto von Bismarck, Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, Dr Elisha Kane, Otto later King of Greece, Franz Joseph I, Ira D. Sankey, Dwight Lyman Moody, Wilhelm I, Sir Eswin Landseer, Charles Kingsley, Abdulaziz 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, The Daoguang Emperor, Empress Xiaoquancheng, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Dom Pedro II, Henry Stanley, Alfred Tennyson, Florence Nightingale, Sir Richard Owen, Sir William Gull, Tom Thumb and 'The Two Headed Nightingale'.

DONALD CAMPBELL. A photograph album compiled by Herbert Tunstall, including a signed photograph by Donald Campbell and a few other photographs of Campbell and Bluebird on Coniston Waters, leaves 22cm x 32cm, the remainder of the album relating to Tunstall's personal life and his passion for fishing. Note: an advertising card towards the album shows that Tunstall worked for The Palmer Tyre Ltd.

PHOTOGRAPHS. Two albums containing approximately 332 small-format photographs of Asia, including China, Hong Kong and Singapore, compiled by Walter P. Ness while on HM Submarine L7 and L20 between 1923 and 1926, leaves 25.5cm x 31.5cm, the majority of the photographs captioned.

PHOTOGRAPHS. An album containing 22 hand-coloured photographs of Japanese scenes and people circa 1880, sheet size approximately 9cm x 13cm.

PHOTOGRAPHS. A collection of 14 photographs of St Ives and nearby areas by Francis Frith and Co, 19th century, sheet size approximately 14.5cm x 20cm.

PHOTOGRAPHS. An album containing approximately 111 mounted photographs of the HMS Discovery, mostly annotated and dated 1937, leaf size approximately 22.5 x 14cm.

AUTOGRAPHS. A group of 35 autograph letters signed (a.l.s.) predominantly replying to invitations from, or relating to the Temperance Society, including a letter by Joseph Toynbee and another that mentions Frederick Douglas.

AUTOGRAPHS. A first edition copy of 'Top of the Bill, The Story of The London Palladium' by Ian Bevan, published in 1952, dedicated to George Cooper (Stage Door Keeper at the Palladium) and signed by the author and many performers, including Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Terry Thomas, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Jack Hylton, Johnnie Ray, Val Parnell and Pat Kirkwood, leather-bound.

AUTOGRAPHS. A group of seven typed letters signed by Albert Victor Nicholas Louis Francis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, all addressed to 'Dear Mr James', dated 2nd September 1972 to 5th May 1978, all relating to Mountbatten becoming an honorary chief of the Canadian Blackfoot, Peigan, Sarcy and Stoney tribes, together with another letter from Mountbatten's private secretary and a black and white photograph.

AUTOGRAPHS. A collection of approximately 45 autographed album leaves signed by Charles Hawtrey, Ella Fitzgerald, Enid Blyton, Dennis Price and others, together with a clipped signature of Queen Victoria.