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244* WWII Relic. A rare WWII Luftwaffe EL Receiver by Lorenz c.1939-45, the long wave receiver box stamped EL with various control buttons and plug in points, 18cm high x 21.5cm wide x 21cm deep, showing signs of probable battle damage Sold with a note from the vendor detailing provenance. Purchased by the vendors father at a livestock market in the 1940s. The seller was raising money for injured service men and claimed it had been recovered from a downed aircraft, there is a hole on the front which could well be a bullet hole? These receivers were used extensively by the Luftwaffe during WWII notably on long distance bombers such as the Ju88 and HeIII (1) £400 - £600
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247* WWII Spitfire. A WWII Artificial Horizon from a Spitfire or Hurricane, Type Mk.1.B., dated 1942 with stores ref no ‘6A/1519 27545/42’ with paper label attached, reconditioned in 1953, with original mounting screws and related information tags (1)
£100 - £150
248* WWII Thermos. A British Army thermos flask used by Paratroopers, dated 1945 in padded webbing case, 37cm high (1)
245* WWII Relics. A collection of Dornier relics, presented in a display case with printed label inscribed ‘Dornier Do 17Z-3 Piece of fuselage from Dornier 2683 which crashed at Boconnoc Woods. Liskeard on 9th November 1940’, frame size 28 x 32cm
£100 - £150
The cause of this crash is unknown but the aircraft circled the district for some time, then crashed and blew up on impact being completely wrecked with the loss of all 4 crew. (1) £100 - £150
246* WWII Relics. A WWII Spitfire tail wheel, various markings including ‘4.00-3 1/2 Electrically Conducting, 26cm diameter, together with part of an Ordnance Survey of Great Britain Aeronautical Map of the South West of England, framed and glazed, inscribed verso ‘Spitfire 140 Sqn crashed 24.4.42 at Winchelsea Sussex P/o CB Barber, Part of Pilots Map’ additionally inscribed ‘Based at RAF Benson No X4784’, frame size 30 x 65cm plus a Hurricane tail wheel
249* Zodiac Airship. A pre WWI French watercolour on paper titled ‘Le Zodiac III’, showing an airship above a Belgian hangar with a lady waving it off, signed lower left with artists initials HB and dated 1913, image size 33.5 x 91cm, period oak frame, glazed, frame size 55 x 111cm
47734 Pilot Officer Charles Bertram Barber of Armthorpe, Yorkshire served during WWII with 140 Squadron, he was killed on 24 April 1942 and is buried in Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Churchyard Extension, Nottinghamshire (3) £150 - £200 Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 20% (Lots marked * 24% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)
Zodiac III was built in 1913 for the Belgian Army (1)
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£300 - £500