Single-Owner Collections

A large collection of 20th century shooting accessories, including cartridge bags, cartridge belts, various pull-throughs and a small group of shotgun speed-loading tools. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A mid to late 19th Century Adam's Patent revolver with later wood grip (relic found condition, overall losses, rust, old cleaning), together with a small collection of gun related items, including a group of late 19th century musket and rifle lead shot, a shot maker's crucible with turned wood handle and a group of gun flints, and an African arrow, probably early 20th century. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A large collection of 20th century cartridge and associated boxes and tins, including air rifle, rifle and shotgun, some flat-packed for storage. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A collection of early to mid-20th century ephemera relating to shooting and game hunting, including billheads, invoices, trade catalogues and advertising inserts, mainly of ammunition interest, including Eley Brothers, William Griffiths and Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd, all within an album. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A large collection of mainly early to mid-20th century ephemera related to game farming, including billheads, invoices, trade catalogues and advertising material, including Gilbertson & Page 'Gilpa' Game and Dog Foods, M. Robb Game Farm Liphook and Spratts, all within two albums. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A collection of mainly early to mid-20th century game cards and ephemera relating to shooting, including cards for Dale Park Arundel, Cowdray Park, Elvedon, Hever Castle, Somerley, Dynevor Castle and Dunecht, many with ink-written entries describing game killed, date and quantity, all within an album. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A collection of scarce late 19th and 20th century shotgun and firearm licences and related ephemera, including examples from Hereford 1875 to Frank James, Chester Hollingworth Hall to Ernest Taylor, Lancaster 1918 to George Ashley and Liverpool 1935 to John Code, all within an album. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A large collection of mainly late 19th century and early to mid-20th century ephemera relating to shooting and game hunting, including billheads, invoices, trade catalogues and advertising material, including Alex Martin, Thomas Owen & Co Ltd, Dean, Adams and Dean, W. Darlow Bedford and Chilworth Gunpowder Co Ltd, all within two albums. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A collection of various scarce 19th and 20th century licences, including an example for one male servant, dated 1873, costing fifteen shillings, name indistinct, another for one male servant, dated 1905, costing fifteen shillings, for the Marquis of Lothian, another for one male servant, dated 1912, costing fifteen shillings, for Lady A. Lawes-Wittewronge, and various carriage and car licences, most with ink-written details, all within an album. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A collection of scarce 19th and 20th century game killing and dealers' licences, including examples dated 1824, 1826, 1841, 1886, 1924 and 1965, all within an album. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A large collection of early to mid-20th century ephemera relating to shooting, game hunting, explosives and cartridges, including billheads, invoices and advertising inserts, including Nobel's Explosives Company Limited, Nobel Industries Limited, Parker-Hale, Schultze Gunpowder Co Ltd, Trent Guns and Cartridges Grimsby, Western Cartridge Company and Joseph Long & Sons, all within two albums. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A collection of mainly early to mid-20th century ephemera relating to shooting, game hunting and cartridges, including billheads, invoices, advertising books and inserts, including E.J. Churchill, Cogswell & Harrison Ltd, Brady Bros Ltd and Henry Atkin Ltd, all within two folders. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A collection of mainly early to mid-20th century ephemera relating to shooting, game hunting and cartridges, including billheads, invoices, trade catalogues and advertising inserts, including James Purdey & Sons Ltd, Parker-Hale Limited, William Powell, William Franter, Trent Guns and Cartridges Limited and E.M. Reilly & Co, all within a folder. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A large collection of mainly early to mid-20th century trade catalogues relating to shooting and game hunting, including W.J. George Dover, Dixon Sheffield, John Dickson & Sons Edinburgh, Westley Richards, W. Darlow Bedford, Gun-Craft, G. & S. Holloway Birmingham, Lightwood & Sons Ltd, Webley & Scott and Frank Dyke & Co Ltd, part loose, part within an album. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A large collection of ephemera relating to B.S.A. Guns Ltd, including billheads, trade catalogues, advertising inserts and a scarce yellow and black printed advertising poster for B.S.A. shotguns, 30cm x 25cm. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A large collection of early to mid-20th century trade catalogues and ephemera relating to Parker-Hale, including an Alfred J. Parker 1937 catalogue and a Parker-Hale 1950 catalogue. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A large collection of ephemera relating to Kynoch and Eley Kynoch, including a group of eighteen early 20th century photographic and printed postcards relating to Kynoch, including Hotel Kynoch Canvey Island and six printed Birmingham 'Win the War Day' September 21st 1918, each detailed with Kynoch lorries and staff, trade catalogues, advertising material, invoices and billheads. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

An extensive collection of Victorian and later dog licences dating from the late 1860s to the 1980s, each of printed paper/card with ink-written details of area and owner, including an example detailed to Lieutenant Colonel Frederick William Burroughs, all within two albums, together with a book 'Licences and Related Ephemera of Great Britain' by R.H. Champion, E.J. Hitchings and E.A. Hall. Note: Lieutenant Colonel Frederick William Burroughs (1831-1905) served throughout the Crimean War and was present at the Battle of Alma and the Battle of Balaclava, commanding the left centre company of his regiment, on which Kinglake bestowed the name of 'The Thin Red Line'. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

"A small collection of early 20th century shooting related advertising material and novelties, including two Robert Churchill 1930 Edition flicker books No. XXV, a Parker-Hale Instruction Manual on Service Rifles 24th Edition 1958, a 1900s novelty chromolithograph trade card in the form of a bullet and a small showcard advertising ""E.C."" No. 3 Sporting Powder, 24.5cm x 30.5cm, with suspension holes. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector."