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99 Manuscript military parole ledger, 1760-61, recording dates, locations, orders, and names of field officers & quarter guards on duty. Locations include Leicester, Coventry, Birmingham, Lichfield, Nuneaton, Coleshill, Hertford, Denbigh, London, Granby, Hambleton, Windsor, York, Chester, and others. Small quarto, contemporary vellum, laid paper, copiously filled with inscriptions in various hands on 166 pages (83 leaves). Contents generally well-preserved with some toning from age, occasional mark £1,000 - £1,500
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107 Valentine, c.1830, addressed to Master Frank Hart of Pepper Street, Nottingham. Manuscript romantic verse with central ink & watercolour motif with love hearts and applied border, paper bearing manufacturer's watermark (Hagar & Son 1825), 'Old custom tells us that we may / Write to our sweethearts on this day...Then with this my name I sign / And so remain your Valentine.' Folded as sent with remnants of wax seal, torn upon opening (through address), otherwise well-preserved with general toning 25 £50 - £80
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133 Railway. An archive of railway ledgers, 1900s to 1930s, recording letters forwarded to chief mechanical engineers; repairs/fitting/building of steel boilers, firebox plates, cylinders, axles & tyres; boiler inspection reports. Predominantly N.E.R. & L.N.E.R., Darlington. Most volumes bound in half-calf or half-morocco. Contents of ledgers is generally good, the bindings are worn, some heavily, sold as found with all faults (31) 400 £500 - £1,000
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