Sworders: Out of the Ordinary, A1243, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Date: August 19, 2025 - August 19, 2025

Page Size: 153 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
237		A Crimes de la Commune photomontage photograph	c.1873	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
243		'Why Aren't YOU in Khaki? You'll be Wanted. Enlist at Once' a rare original First World War Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster, no. 65		GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 182.00
245		A Second World War National Fire Service and Civil Defence flag or banner	c.1940s	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
247		A Polish Second World War girls' school photo album	c.1940s	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
249		An RAF Second World War propaganda poster	c.1940	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 208.00
253		A Stalag VIIIB prisoner of war photo album	c.1940-1945	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 390.00
254		A collection of Second World War photographs of German POWs in America	c.1944	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
255		Stalag 11, a collection of Second World War prisoner of war camp photographs	c.1940s	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
270		A scratch-built skittles set	c.1940	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 338.00
271		A painted wooden squirrel cage	early 20th century	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
272		Three folk art items	20th century	GBP 100.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
273		A metal folk art counterbalance toy	early 20th century	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 234.00
274		Dutch Naive School 20th century Dutch bar interior	oil on canvas 50 x 60cm	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 286.00
275		A fallow deer stag's head wall mount	early 20th century	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 312.00
276		An American folk art carved bust	early 20th century	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
277		A Norwegian kjenge or ale bowl	19th century	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 494.00
278	Nelda Utilini (d.2013)	Rags to Riches', a folk art style painting of a '1923 May Queen'	painting	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 234.00
279		Cunard Cruises - Nassau' c.1960s	c.1960s	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 390.00
280		Marine Fishes of the Gulf and South Atlantic' c.1979	c.1979	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
281		Marine Fishes of the North Atlantic' c.1979	c.1979	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
302		A post-mortem photograph	early 20th century	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
303		Death Row', a pencil drawing of Micky and Minnie Mouse dancing by San Quentin 'death row' prisoner		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
305		After Jan Toorop 'The Holy Father'	1927	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
311		A View of the New discover'd Island of Ulietea...' 1788, discovered by Captain James Cook on July 20, 1769	1788	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 104.00
312		A large Indian panoramic photograph	early 20th century	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 234.00

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