Note Collection (page 2)

London from St Paul s
London, looking east towards Monument and Tower Bridge, from the top of St. Pauls Cathedral. Note the bomb sites still in evidence after the World War Two blitz

Map / Asia / East Indies
India and its neighbours : note that Burma is named India beyond the Ganges

Wreck of Sir Hiram Maxim?s steam-driven aeroplane. Note?
Wreck of Sir Hiram Maxim?s steam-driven aeroplane. Note the bent axle which was damaged by excessive upward pressure on the antilift rails used to prevent the aeroplane leaving the ground

Hiller YH-32 Hornet 55-4963
United States Army - Hiller YH-32-UH Hornet 55-4963 (msn 7), at an air display on a US Naval Air Station, (note the single-bladed tail-rotor and the hand-held starting engine)

Wallis & Steevens Road Roller OU5979
Wallis & Steevens Road Roller, regn. OU5979, number 8065 at Southampton. Built in 1930 by Wallis & Steevens of Basingstoke. (Note : the spelling of Steevens is correct) Date: 24 June 1972

Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine HO5601
Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine, regn. HO5601, 7294, The Sheaf of Arrows at Buckfastleigh. Built in 1912 by Wallis & Steevens at Basingstoke, powered by a 6 Nhp single cylinder steam engine

Grumman G-79 XF9F-2 Panther 122477, 3rdt prototype of the F9F and second XF9F-2, powered by a Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet, taxiing for take-off at the Naval Air Test Centre Patuxent River, Maryland

Brown 1931 Southdown Skysailer towed back to launch point
The Brown 1931 Southdown Skysailer being towed back to the launch point at Ditchling Beacon, by a 1929 REO flying Cloud, imported from the United States

Scheibe SF 25A Motor Falke G-AVIZ (msn 4552). Note that this early Motor-Falke had high-set wings with optional balancing wheels attached to the lugs visible on the fuselage sides

Dassault-Breguet Mystere 20 1st prototype F-WLKB at the 1964 Paris Air Show, shown with the two 3, 300 lbf Pratt & Whitney JT12A-8 turbojet engines originally fitted

de Havilland Venom prototype VV612. The prototype Venom F.1 was produced by fitting moderately swept wings on the fuselage and tail of a Vampire FB.5 whilst on the production line

Tunisia - Tunis - Street Snake Charmer with a pair of cobras - note the French colonial men and women watching on (from a safe distance). Date: circa 1907

Portrait of a young Dayak Woman - Sarawak, Malaysia - note the elongated earlobes stretched with multiple heavy metal circle earrings. Date: 1952

1935 Ford Model 48 Phaeton 4-door cabriolet, regn 1088, in the desert, somewhere in a Middle Eastern desert. (Note: less than 1% of model 48 production was of the 4-door Phaeton cabriolet marque)

Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II 0010 - AGT
Aviation legere de l'armee de Terre - Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II 0010 / AGT (msn F406-0010), at the Royal International Air Tattoo - RAF Fairford 21 to 30 July 1994

Republic P-47C Thunderbolt
United States Air Force - Republic P-47C Thunderbolt being refuelled at the refuelling point on an advanced Landing Ground in France, late 1944

Douglas F3D-2 Skyknight on USS Antietam CVA-36
United States Navy - Douglas F3D-2 Skyknight performing touch and goes on the newly installed Angled Deck of USS Antietam CVA-36

I'm Going To Get Lit Up
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for I'm Going To Get Lit Up, words and music by Hubert Gregg, from the musical Strike A New Note

Speaking To A Crowd
This sketch shows a man speaking to a crowd of people of various descriptions, asking to be lent a note of 100 Francs. Date: circa 1901

My Valentine - young woman with a love note Date: 1863

Pekingese dog, by Harry Rountree
Pekingese dog, original etching by Harry Rountree (see 12270549 for reverse image). Date: circa 1930

Head of a Woman
A portrait painting showing the head of a woman, with slightly downcast eyes, indicating a note of sadness. Date: circa 1915

The Yellow Note
A portrait painting of a casually seated woman wearing a distinctive yellow outfit and holding flowers of the same colour. Her bright red had makes for a strong contrast. Date: circa 1915

HIMS Aurora
Imperial Russian Navy - HIMS Aurora, Pallada-class protected cruiser. A detail showing the forward funnel, foremast and bridge citadel. (This ship has been preserved at St. Petersburg)

Charles Lightoller archive, three notebooks
Charles Lightoller archive collection of three handwritten note and code books used during WW1, and WW2. The first two are handwritten books of code and marine information

Space Memorabilia - Joan Aldrin collection
Space Memorabilia - rare Apollo 11 signed first day cover, comes directly from the collection of Joan Aldrin. The Apollo 11 signed cover has a 10 cent First Man On The Moon postage stamp

Space Memorabilia - Apollo 11 first day cover
Space Memorabilia - rare Apollo 11 signed first day cover, comes directly from the collection of Joan Aldrin. The Apollo 11 signed cover has a 10 cent First Man On The Moon postage stamp

RMS Titanic - letter in Swedish, Carl Asplund, victim
RMS Titanic - Lillian Asplund Collection - a letter written in Swedish, including the words of an old Swedish song, and mentioning his son Oscar. Recovered from Carl Asplund's body

RMS Lusitania - handwritten letter on printed stationery
RMS Lusitania - letter written on board the Lusitania by Stewardess Ann Roberts on the outward leg of the journey that would culminate in the loss of the Lusitania

Henry III granting licence to dig coal in 1234. Different historical moments when coal was first noted to be used. The King is seen here giving permission to men in Newcastle to dig coal

Preface to Martial's Epigrammata by Merula
Two attached folios, paper, probably the endpaper and first leaf of a volume. Folio 1, which would have been the endpaper

Table of Moveable Feasts and De Partibus Orationis
Two leaves, one large and one small, both paper. The larger leaf is a Tabula des festes mobilibus (table of moveable feasts) and the smaller leaf is an explanatory note in the same hand

Virginal, or Dietrich's Erste Ausfahrt (Fragment)
Fragment of a bifolium from the Virginal or Dietrich's Erste Ausfahrt (Dietrich's First Departure), parchment. An epic poem from the Dietrich cycle

Advertisment for Debrett's Peerage. With a photograph of the book, and photomontage with illustrations, of titled men of note. Designed by Zec

Dornier-Bell UH-1D 71+57
Luftwaffe - Dornier-Bell UH-1D 71+57 (msn 8217), of Hubschraubertransportgeschwader 64, at Castle Ashby for the 5th World Helicopter Championships, on 26 June 1986, with competition number 22'

Piasecki H-25A Army Mule 622 (msn 51, Model PV-18, ex 51-16622), at the international Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare

Grandfather's Dream of Christmas Date: 1858

Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star 52-9734
Lockheed T-33A-5-LO 52-9734 (msn 580-7959), on display at the Air Power Park and Museum (near Langley Air Force Base), Hampton, Virginia

Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR. 3 XV779 AB
Royal Air Force - Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3 XV779 AB (msn 712029), of No.3 Fighter Squadron, at RAF Gutersloh, during an engine ground run after a CSDU-Alternator change

Yakovlev Yak-18T SSSR-81434 (msn 368), at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1975, with airshow serial 368'

Antonov An-28 SSSR-48015 (msn 04), at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1979. (Note: CCCP in Cyrillic script = SSSR = USSR = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Date: 1979

Antonov An-32 SSSR-83966, of Aeroflot, at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1977. (Note: CCCP in Cyrillic script = SSSR = USSR = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Date: 1977

Yakovlev Yak-42 SSSR-42303, the prototype Yak-42, at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1977, with airshow serial 342'

Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR. 1 XV744 at St, Pancras
Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1 XV744 (712007), of the Harrier Operational Conversion Unit, at St, Pancras Station coal-yard, for the 1969 Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Air Race. Flown by Sqn. Ldr

Kazan Helicopters Mi-17M SSSR-95448, at the SBAC Farnborough International Air Show in September 1992. (Note: Soviet Union registrations used the Cyrillic letters CCCP = SSSR = USSR = Union of Soviet)

Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR. 1A undergoing an engine change
Royal Air Force - A Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1A of No.3 Squadron undergoing an engine change in the field, under the cover of an inflatable hide, during Exercise Heath Fir in Germany

Lockheed P-3A Orion 150605 Paisano Tres (Project Magnet)
United States Navy - Lockheed P-3A-30-LO Orion 150605 (msn 185-5057, base code LP, call-sign 5'), of VP-49, at the 1965 Paris Air Show

Agusta-Bell AB. 205A MM80441
Aeronautica Militare - Agusta-Bell AB.205A MM80441 (msn 4007), on 20 June 1965 at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget Airport

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