Single-Owner Collections

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 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 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.

"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."

A large collection of later 19th century and mainly early 20th century shooting related ephemera, including billheads, invoices, advertising material and trade catalogues, including examples related to Ward & Sons Birmingham, Richard Walker, Webley & Scott Limited, Westley Richards & Co Ltd and Wilkinson Sword Co Ltd, all within an album. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

"A large collection of scarce later 19th century and mainly early to mid 20th century shooting related ephemera connected with game hunting estates, including letters and correspondence regarding purchase and rental, including the Highland Sportsman Shooting and Estate Agency ""The Scottish Register"" Walker, Fraser & Steele, letters regarding game hunting, including examples concerning poaching and the illegal killing of game, various rent reminders and tenancy correspondence. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector."

A large collection of later 20th century gun and shooting related trade catalogues and advertising brochures, including Holland & Holland Ltd, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd, Kynoch & Co Limited, Westley Richards, Edgar Bros and two unusual Tullis Russell The Papermakers three-dimensional model advertising cartridge display boxes. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A collection of various 19th and 20th century licences, tax forms and inhabited house duty tickets, including a George IV contract of compositions duty for the Cumberland Ward, Cumberland, agreed with John Sturdy for one pound, nine shillings and fivepence, various assessed taxes tickets circa 1830s to 1840s and a group of licences for male servants, carriages, armorial bearings and dogs. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A large collection of scarce 19th and 20th century ephemera relating to dogs, including a collection of Certificate of Exemption from Duty tickets, a Borough of Worthing Dogs Act 1906 & Dogs Order of 1906 regarding the wearing of collars on the highway or public resort, a group of licence reminders and a Borough of Arundel Nuisance by Dogs public order poster, issued by the Town Clerk Geoffrey Campbell. Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.

A collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the Tailwaggers Club, including a group of twenty metal dog tags with embossed names and details, a group of certificates and awards, various guides and handbooks and associated research notes, together with a collection of Kennel Club permits for field trials and licences for dog shows, mostly later 20th century, and a large collection of Kennel Club certificates etc, all within three albums.  Provenance: the property of a Hampshire private collector.