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THE DROPPING OF THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA. A Green safety plug and a red arming plug from L-11, "Little Boy", the First Atomic Bomb dropped on Japan.. Each plug made of composite metal and wood, 3 inches long and 1 inch in diameter, each housed in a custom shadow box with original annotated inspection tags mounted on the reverse. The label for the red plug an inspection card for L-11 signed and dated 7/31/45, and the card for the green plug a written statement signed by both Doll ans Jeppson.. Sold for US$100,075 inc. premium

BATTLE OF BASTOGNE: A UNIQUE PAIR OF ROAD SIGNS FROM A CRUCIAL CROSS-ROADS OUTSIDE BASTOGNE. Belgium made: Damaged in the Battle for Bastogne, December 1944 - January 1945.. Sold for US$31,325 inc. premium

D-DAY FLAGS FLOWN FROM THE TUGBOAT ATR-3. [In action off Normandy from June 6th to mid July 1944.]. Sold for US$10,075 inc. premium

BOXER REBELLION: IMPERIAL CHINESE ARMY BANNERS. [China: c.1900-1901.]. Sold for US$9,450 inc. premium

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: THE FIRST AMERICAN FLAG TO BE RAISED IN THE PHILIPPINES. [Raised at Camp Dewey, Manilla Bay, Luzon, Philippines: July 1898.]. Sold for US$6,075 inc. premium

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Conflicts of the 19th & 20th Centuries

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1 — US FRIGATE CONSTITUTION. A Collection of prints, documents and artefacts pertaining to the US Frigate Constitution.

2 — CIVIL WAR ERA: 13-STAR NAVAL ENSIGN, 4-5-4 PATTERN. [USA: 1862-72.]

3 — MEXICAN WAR PRESENTATION SWORD. [NICHOLS, WILLIAM A. 1818-1869.] Springfield, MA, N.P. Ames Manufacturing Company, 1847.

4¤ — 13 STAR U.S. NAVY NATIONAL FLAG FOR THE BRIG "RIVAL". United States: In Naval Use 1851-63.

5¤ — SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: THE FIRST AMERICAN FLAG TO BE RAISED IN THE PHILIPPINES. [Raised at Camp Dewey, Manilla Bay, Luzon, Philippines: July 1898.]

6¤ — SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: SPANISH CAPTURED FLAGS. Spanish Merchant Marine Flag. [Captured in the Philippines, c.1898.]

7¤ — PHILIPPINES: SULTAN OF SULU INSURRECTION FLAG. [Philippines: c. 1897-99.]

8¤ — FILIPINO-AMERICAN WAR: TRIBAL BANNER. [Southern Philippines: 1890s.]

9¤ — FILIPINO-AMERICAN WAR: EARLY NATIONAL PHILIPPINE FLAGS. c. 1899-1902.

10¤ — FILIPINO-AMERICAN WAR: GUERILLA FORCES FLAG. [Philippines; c. 1898-1902.]

11¤ — BOXER REBELLION: CHINESE IMPERIAL ARMY DESIGNATING BANNERS. "Mounted Artillery 9th Unit." [China: captured Peking? c.1900-1901.]

12¤ — BOXER REBELLION: IMPERIAL CHINESE ARMY BANNERS. [China: c.1900-1901.]

13 — SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: BATTLE OF SANTIAGO FLAG. Cuba: Flag dated July 3, 1898.

14 — 2nd ANGLO-BOER WAR: ROSENTHAL'S PANORAMAS AND THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH. Rosenthal, Joseph. A Collection of 9 gelatin silver panoramic prints of the British Army in South Africa. [South Africa: 1899-1901.]

15 — CHURCHILL, WINSTON. 1874-1965. Three letters: 1. Autograph Letter Signed ("Winston S. Churchill"),

16 — THE RED BARON: RICHTOFEN, MANFRED VON. 1892-1918. Portrait Postcard Signed ("Frhr v. Richthofen"),

17¤ — WORLD WAR I: 2ND U.S. LIBERTY BOND POSTERS. De Land, Eugenie. Before Sunset. Buy a US Government Bond of the 2nd liberty Loan of 1917. [Washington D.C.: US Dept of the Treasury, October 1917.]

18¤ — WORLD WAR I: U.S. MARINE RECRUITMENT POSTERS. CHRISTY, HOWARD CHANDLER. 1873-1952. If You Want to Fight, Join the Marines. United States: 1918.

19¤ — WORLD WAR I: U.S. "SUPPORT FOR THE WAR" POSTERS. Books wanted for our men in Camp and over there. Take your gifts to the Public Library. New York: The Gill Engraving Company, [1918].

20 — WORLD WAR I ROYAL FLYING CORPS TRAINING POSTERS. London: Air Technical Services, 1918-19.

21 — WORLD WAR I: PATTON, GEORGE S. 1885-1945. WOOD, LEONARD. 1860-1927. Universal Military Training, Volume I. New York: B.F. Collier & Son, 1917.

22 — SUN YAT-SEN [SUN ZHONGSHAN]. 1866-1925 [Commemorative banner on the death of Sun Yat-Sen.] Vancouver: c.1925.

23 — CHINESE CIVIL WAR: A YALE-CHINA ASSOCIATION ARCHIVE. Anthony, B Kenneth. Faculty of Yale-in-China. An extensive archive on life and events in China, gelatin silver prints, correspondence, postcards and ephemera. China: 1928-1931.

24 — SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR: SEIGE OF SHANGHAI. Ah Fong Studio. The Sino-Japanese Hostilities. Shanghai. Shanghai: August to November, 1937

25 — ENGINEER'S DRAWING OF THE SIKORSKY S-40 FLYING BOAT. Linsrery, J. "Sikorsky 4 Engined Passengers & Mail Amphibion. Type S-40." Sikorsky Aviation Corp, dated 5/23/29.

26 — MEDITERRANEAN THEATER: BRITISH NAVAL LOG BOOK, 1938-1940. Journal for use of Midshipmen. British Ship, at sea, January 24th 1938 to January 7th 1940.

27 — MEDITERRANEAN THEATER: BRITISH NAVAL MESSAGES. Collection of 47 Naval messages from C in C Mediterranean Station to HMS Malaya and HMS Maidstone. The Mediterranean Theater, May 24th 1938 to June 6th 1940.

28 — THE WINTER WAR IN FINLAND, 1939-1940. MYDANS, CARL. 1907-2004. An Archive of approximately 200 photographs,

29 — OSS/SOE CLANDESTINE PENCIL DAGGER. [England: Makers mark J. Chambers, Manufactured for MI9, c.1940-45.]

30 — CLANDESTINE OSS PIPE DAGGER. [USA: c. 1941-45].

31 — RAF: SILK AND MULBERRY PAPER ESCAPE MAPS. [RAF Silk Escape Map.] [England: Air Ministry, c.1941.]

32 — THE GREAT ESCAPE: STALAG LUFT III. HUMPHREYS, EDGAR. 1914-1944. Group of 8 postcards and a portrait photograph of "Great Escape" participant Edgar Humphreys,

33 — A FRENCH RESISTANCE FOUNTAIN PEN SPIKE. [England; c.1940-45.]

34 — US "CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS" POSTER. Reference and Training Chart. Reproduced by 956th Engr. Top. Co[mpany]: C. 1942.

35 — BASE FLAG FOR MARSTON MOOR, YORKSHIRE. [Ministry of Defence, England]: dated [19]43.

36 — STARS AND STRIPES, MEDITERRANEAN ISSUE. US Department of Defense, Italy edition: June 1 1944 - November 9th 1944.

37 — WARTIME HISTORICAL DIARY FOR 1944. STAMIR, CAPTAIN C.L. [Wartime Historical Diary for 1944.] England: dated January 1st to November 8th, 1944.

38 — RAF SERVICE SCRAP ALBUM IN INDIA. "Scrap Book. Overseas 1943-1945." New Delhi, Calcutta and elsewhere, November 1942 to December 1945.

39 — SOUTH EAST ASIAN THEATER: BRITISH INDIAN ARMY PHOTOGRAPHS. A collection of 44 photographs of war in South East Asia. India: C. 1942-45.

40 — GERMAN KRIEGSMARINE NAVAL SIGNAL PENNANT. [Germany: c.1939-45.]

41 — OPERATION OVERLORD: WESTERN BASE SECTION PLAN. Operation Overlord Plan "C" XXIX District - WBS. United States Army: dated 8 March 1944.

42 — D-DAY FLAG: A BLOWN-OUT US COAST GUARD FLAG FOR LCI(L)-86. US Made: Flown during the Landings in Normandy, June 6th 1944 onwards.

43 — D-DAY FLAGS FLOWN FROM THE TUGBOAT ATR-3. [In action off Normandy from June 6th to mid July 1944.]

44 — D-DAY: A 48-STAR AMERICAN FLAG FROM THE 237TH ENGINEER BATTALION. [Landed Utah Beach, June 6th 1944.]

45 — D-Day Landings, Utah Beach. A Landing Craft Propeller. Recovered from Utah Beach, June 8th 1976.

46 — D-DAY: MEDICAL FIRST AID POST FLAG. [Gifted by a Medical officer of the 61st Medical Battalion to a Mr Besain, near St Laurent sur Mer, Normandy, June 1944.]

47 — GERMAN REICH LABOR SERVICE FLAG [RAD]. Captured June 1944.

48 — INVASION OF EUROPE: US INFANTRY BATTLE DAMAGED FLAG. [USA: 1944-45.]

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1 —
US FRIGATE CONSTITUTION.
A Collection of prints, documents and artefacts pertaining to the US Frigate Constitution.

2 —
CIVIL WAR ERA: 13-STAR NAVAL ENSIGN, 4-5-4 PATTERN.
[USA: 1862-72.]

3 —
MEXICAN WAR PRESENTATION SWORD.
[NICHOLS, WILLIAM A. 1818-1869.] Springfield, MA, N.P. Ames Manufacturing Company, 1847.

4^¤ —
13 STAR U.S. NAVY NATIONAL FLAG FOR THE BRIG "RIVAL".
United States: In Naval Use 1851-63.

5^¤ —
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: THE FIRST AMERICAN FLAG TO BE RAISED IN THE PHILIPPINES.
[Raised at Camp Dewey, Manilla Bay, Luzon, Philippines: July 1898.]

6^¤ —
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: SPANISH CAPTURED FLAGS.
Spanish Merchant Marine Flag. [Captured in the Philippines, c.1898.]

7^¤ —
PHILIPPINES: SULTAN OF SULU INSURRECTION FLAG.
[Philippines: c. 1897-99.]

8^¤ —
FILIPINO-AMERICAN WAR: TRIBAL BANNER.
[Southern Philippines: 1890s.]

9^¤ —
FILIPINO-AMERICAN WAR: EARLY NATIONAL PHILIPPINE FLAGS.
c. 1899-1902.

10^¤ —
FILIPINO-AMERICAN WAR: GUERILLA FORCES FLAG.
[Philippines; c. 1898-1902.]

11^¤ —
BOXER REBELLION: CHINESE IMPERIAL ARMY DESIGNATING BANNERS.
"Mounted Artillery 9th Unit." [China: captured Peking? c.1900-1901.]

12^¤ —
BOXER REBELLION: IMPERIAL CHINESE ARMY BANNERS.
[China: c.1900-1901.]

13 —
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: BATTLE OF SANTIAGO FLAG.
Cuba: Flag dated July 3, 1898.

14 —
2nd ANGLO-BOER WAR: ROSENTHAL'S PANORAMAS AND THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH.
Rosenthal, Joseph.
A Collection of 9 gelatin silver panoramic prints of the British Army in South Africa. [South Africa: 1899-1901.]

15 —
CHURCHILL, WINSTON. 1874-1965.
Three letters:
1. Autograph Letter Signed ("Winston S. Churchill"),

16 —
THE RED BARON: RICHTOFEN, MANFRED VON. 1892-1918.
Portrait Postcard Signed ("Frhr v. Richthofen"),

17^¤ —
WORLD WAR I: 2ND U.S. LIBERTY BOND POSTERS.
De Land, Eugenie.
Before Sunset. Buy a US Government Bond of the 2nd liberty Loan of 1917. [Washington D.C.: US Dept of the Treasury, October 1917.]

18^¤ —
WORLD WAR I: U.S. MARINE RECRUITMENT POSTERS.
CHRISTY, HOWARD CHANDLER. 1873-1952.
If You Want to Fight, Join the Marines. United States: 1918.

19^¤ —
WORLD WAR I: U.S. "SUPPORT FOR THE WAR" POSTERS.
Books wanted for our men in Camp and over there. Take your gifts to the Public Library. New York: The Gill Engraving Company, [1918].

20 —
WORLD WAR I ROYAL FLYING CORPS TRAINING POSTERS.
London: Air Technical Services, 1918-19.

21 —
WORLD WAR I: PATTON, GEORGE S. 1885-1945.
WOOD, LEONARD. 1860-1927.
Universal Military Training, Volume I. New York: B.F. Collier & Son, 1917.

22 —
SUN YAT-SEN [SUN ZHONGSHAN]. 1866-1925
[Commemorative banner on the death of Sun Yat-Sen.] Vancouver: c.1925.

23 —
CHINESE CIVIL WAR: A YALE-CHINA ASSOCIATION ARCHIVE.
Anthony, B Kenneth. Faculty of Yale-in-China.
An extensive archive on life and events in China, gelatin silver prints, correspondence, postcards and ephemera. China: 1928-1931.

24 —
SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR: SEIGE OF SHANGHAI.
Ah Fong Studio.
The Sino-Japanese Hostilities. Shanghai. Shanghai: August to November, 1937

25 —
ENGINEER'S DRAWING OF THE SIKORSKY S-40 FLYING BOAT.
Linsrery, J.
"Sikorsky 4 Engined Passengers & Mail Amphibion. Type S-40." Sikorsky Aviation Corp, dated 5/23/29.

26 —
MEDITERRANEAN THEATER: BRITISH NAVAL LOG BOOK, 1938-1940.
Journal for use of Midshipmen. British Ship, at sea, January 24th 1938 to January 7th 1940.

27 —
MEDITERRANEAN THEATER: BRITISH NAVAL MESSAGES.
Collection of 47 Naval messages from C in C Mediterranean Station to HMS Malaya and HMS Maidstone. The Mediterranean Theater, May 24th 1938 to June 6th 1940.

28 —
THE WINTER WAR IN FINLAND, 1939-1940.
MYDANS, CARL. 1907-2004.
An Archive of approximately 200 photographs,

29 —
OSS/SOE CLANDESTINE PENCIL DAGGER.
[England: Makers mark J. Chambers, Manufactured for MI9, c.1940-45.]

30 —
CLANDESTINE OSS PIPE DAGGER.
[USA: c. 1941-45].

31 —
RAF: SILK AND MULBERRY PAPER ESCAPE MAPS.
[RAF Silk Escape Map.] [England: Air Ministry, c.1941.]

32 —
THE GREAT ESCAPE: STALAG LUFT III.
HUMPHREYS, EDGAR. 1914-1944.
Group of 8 postcards and a portrait photograph of "Great Escape" participant Edgar Humphreys,

33 —
A FRENCH RESISTANCE FOUNTAIN PEN SPIKE.
[England; c.1940-45.]

34 —
US "CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS" POSTER.
Reference and Training Chart. Reproduced by 956th Engr. Top. Co[mpany]: C. 1942.

35 —
BASE FLAG FOR MARSTON MOOR, YORKSHIRE.
[Ministry of Defence, England]: dated [19]43.

36 —
STARS AND STRIPES, MEDITERRANEAN ISSUE.
US Department of Defense, Italy edition: June 1 1944 - November 9th 1944.

37 —
WARTIME HISTORICAL DIARY FOR 1944.
STAMIR, CAPTAIN C.L.
[Wartime Historical Diary for 1944.] England: dated January 1st to November 8th, 1944.

38 —
RAF SERVICE SCRAP ALBUM IN INDIA.
"Scrap Book. Overseas 1943-1945." New Delhi, Calcutta and elsewhere, November 1942 to December 1945.

39 —
SOUTH EAST ASIAN THEATER: BRITISH INDIAN ARMY PHOTOGRAPHS.
A collection of 44 photographs of war in South East Asia. India: C. 1942-45.

40 —
GERMAN KRIEGSMARINE NAVAL SIGNAL PENNANT.
[Germany: c.1939-45.]

41 —
OPERATION OVERLORD: WESTERN BASE SECTION PLAN.
Operation Overlord Plan "C" XXIX District - WBS. United States Army: dated 8 March 1944.

42 —
D-DAY FLAG: A BLOWN-OUT US COAST GUARD FLAG FOR LCI(L)-86.
US Made: Flown during the Landings in Normandy, June 6th 1944 onwards.

43 —
D-DAY FLAGS FLOWN FROM THE TUGBOAT ATR-3.
[In action off Normandy from June 6th to mid July 1944.]

44 —
D-DAY: A 48-STAR AMERICAN FLAG FROM THE 237TH ENGINEER BATTALION.
[Landed Utah Beach, June 6th 1944.]

45 —
D-Day Landings, Utah Beach.
A Landing Craft Propeller. Recovered from Utah Beach, June 8th 1976.

46 —
D-DAY: MEDICAL FIRST AID POST FLAG.
[Gifted by a Medical officer of the 61st Medical Battalion to a Mr Besain, near St Laurent sur Mer, Normandy, June 1944.]

47 —
GERMAN REICH LABOR SERVICE FLAG [RAD].
Captured June 1944.

48 —
INVASION OF EUROPE: US INFANTRY BATTLE DAMAGED FLAG.
[USA: 1944-45.]