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Collectables, Cigarette Cards, Stamps, Postcards, & Ephemera

Here at Special Auction Services we hold regular Cigarette & Trade Card, Stamps, Postcard and Ephemera auctions throughout the year.

Each sale consists of an extensive range of ephemera including Cigarette and Trade Cards, Stamps, Postcards and other Collectables.

Experience and knowledge allows us to give you expert and comprehensive advice when selling. Prior to the auction a professional, colour online catalogue is produced and publicised worldwide to ensure that your items reach the excellent prices they deserve.

Our consultants are available and eager to offer friendly and honest advice to any buyers with questions regarding items for sale, prior, during or post auction.

Any enquiries regarding buying or selling and for more information please contact our specialists Thomas Forrester or Adam Inglut on 01635 580595 or via our contact us page.

 

Auction highlights

  • DAY ONE: Military & Collectables Auction
  • 30th July 2024

Lot 10

An Edison Standard Phonograph

Price realised

£1,300 plus BP

Lot 479

Charles I, oval gilt badge

Price realised

£4,200 plus BP

Lot 286

A Brass Spectroscope by John Browning

Price realised

£400 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • DAY One: Military & Collectables Auction
  • 21st November 2023

Lot 7

A 1920s Marconi Receiver Type A.D.7

Price realised

£1,200 plus BP

Lot 318

An unusual Knobkerrie/ Club

Price realised

£1,600 plus BP

Lot 373

Wenger - Giant, the 2007 World Record Swiss Army penknife

Price realised

£1,600 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • TWO DAY: Military & Collectables Auction (Day One)
  • 8th August 2023

Lot 27

Coin operated Gramophone, a penny-in-slot Gramophone by the Gramophone Company

Price realised

£3,000 plus BP

Lot 349

A Tribal War Club

Price realised

£1,900 plus BP

Lot 389

Taxidermy, Brown Trout (Salmo Trutta), in naturalistic setting, by J.Cooper & Sons

Price realised

£800 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • TWO DAY: Military & Collectables Auction - Day One
  • 10th May 2023

Lot 33

A 'Cure For Rheumatism Coleman's Mustard Oil enamel sign

Price realised

£260 plus BP

Lot 227

A H Franks & Sons Beauties Cigarette Cards

Price realised

£1,600 plus BP

Lot 464

A group of nine vintage enamelled car dash badges

Price realised

£550 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Military & Collectables Auction: DAY ONE
  • 14th February 2023

Lot 40

A J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd glazed display, By Special Royal Appointment' for Frys Choice Chocolate

Price realised

£650 plus BP

Lot 4

A coin-operated 15½ inch upright Polyphon disc musical box

Price realised

£1,400 plus BP

Lot 376

A collection of plated and white metal lighters, including Christian, Dior, Thorens, Dunhill, Meta, Mosda, Parker, Ronson, and many more

Price realised

£600 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Collector’s & Militaria Auction, Featuring Part 2 of the Keith Routledge Churchilliana Collection
  • 8th November 2022

Lot 59

Bournville Cocoa, By Test, The Best, enamel advertising side by Cadbury Bournville Eng

Price realised

£380 plus BP

Lot 171

Odd Cigarette Cards and Trade Cards 1900-1930, various examples

Price realised

£900 plus BP

Lot 345

A Limited Edition Camel Couple Collection Zippo Lighter set

Price realised

£320 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • Collectors Auction - Day one
  • 9th August 2022

Lot 101

An Edison Opera phonograph, No. 1878

Price realised

£2000 plus BP

Lot 151

1950s/1960s Bubble Gum Cards

Price realised

£800 plus BP

Lot 332

A polished Coco De Mer

Price realised

£460 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • The Collectors Auction - Day Two
  • 9th February 2022

Lot 576

An Irving Air Chute Parachute Harness, Back Pad Type complete with Air Ministry Parachute

Price realised

£1,900 plus BP

Lot 582

A WWII Air Ministry marked B-Type brown leather flying helmet

Price realised

£1,900 plus BP

Lot 663

1st S.A.S attributed Special Air Service cloth shoulder titles

Price realised

£1,900 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • The Collectors Auction - Day One
  • 8th February 2022

Lot 159

1950s pub advertising signs

Price realised

£1,400 plus BP

Lot 246

Hardy's Alnwick Patent fly reel

Price realised

£1,300 plus BP

Lot 374

Victorian British and later stamp album

Price realised

£2,000 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • The Collectors Auction - Day Two
  • 13th October 2021

Lot 549

An assortment of flint and weaponary items

Price realised

£1,400 plus BP

Lot 555

Osteology, A human skeleton

Price realised

£1,400 plus BP

Lot 655

35mm Monochrome Negatives of UK Buses,

Price realised

£1,550 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • The Collectors Auction - Day One
  • 12th October 2021

Lot 79

ranta Belsky, a bronzed resin figure of Winston Churchill

Price realised

£500 plus BP

Lot 305

A Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) awarded to Warrant Officer Lawrence Kenneth Kevan

Price realised

£1,700 plus BP

Lot 336

A 16th Century and later suit of armour, he close helmet with pronounced visor of Spanish Influence

Price realised

£9,500 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • The Collectors Auction
  • 22nd June 2021

Lot 47

1903 Four Barrel Gatling Gun

Price realised

£650 plus BP

Lot 451

Cricket Handbill 1827

Price realised

£2,000 plus BP

Lot 516

18th Century embroidered silk Love Token

Price realised

£1,500 plus BP

Auction highlights

  • The Collectors Auction
  • 30th March 2021

121

Royal Scottish Regiment dress pouch

Price realised

£850

396

A 1796 Heavy Cavalry sword

Price realised

£1,200

471

A Magnetic Detector

Price realised

£4,000

Auction highlights

  • The Collectors Auction
  • 30th March 2021

75

A restored Castrol Motor Oil Dispenser

Price realised

£1,200

40

A Bell Fruit Gum Company One Arm Bandit

Price realised

£800

78

An Avery Hardoll petrol pump

Price realised

£2,700

Auction highlights

  • Collectors Auction Day One
  • 12th January 2021

Lot 251

A US Army Signals Corps Converter Cipher

Price realised

£1,200

Lot 99

A piece of possibly a Messerschmitt plane

Price realised

£1,600

Lot 133

An Order of the Indian Empire medal group

Price realised

£1,300

Auction highlights

  • Collectors Auction Day Two
  • 13th January 2021

Lot 510

A group of ten WWI crested tanks

Price realised

£600

Lot 531

A large collection of military crested china

Price realised

£1,000

Lot 527

A collection of 30 Military crested china pieces

Price realised

£550

Auction highlights

  • Collectors Auction
  • 13th October 2020

Lot 82

Cigarette Cards, a large collection of various sets

Price realised

£1,600

Lot 246

An extensive collection of vintage unused Marmite jars,

Price realised

£230

Lot 516

A Third Reich Germany Adolf Hitler silver 'Blood Medal

Price realised

£3,000

Auction highlights

  • The Zippo Lighter Collection Part One
  • 14th July 2020

Lot 58

Camel Zippo Lighter Artist Pack Design, the eight-lighter set comprising Camel at Sea, Japanese, Camel Evolution, Art Deco, Flying Castle, Desert Design, Camel with Pants and Hat and Camel Aztec, only 100 sets made for the South African market, unused (8)

Price realised

£1,200

Lot 64

The Camel Zippo Lighter International Series, also known as the '19', comprising Riverbend on black and purple, Desert Mirage on green and black, Desert Moonrise, Camel Volcano on navy and blue, Cream European Red Pack, Brass European Red Pack, Green Whirlpool on quick silver and brush chrome

Price realised

£1,600

Lot 74

Camel Zippo Lighter International Series, seventeen of the series known as the '19', missing Camel Volcano Navy Blue and Green Whirlpool Quick Silver, all marked 1999, unused (17)

Price realised

£1,200

Auction highlights

  • Collectors
  • 14th May 2020
Cigarette Cards, a large collection of various manufacturers,

Cigarette Cards, a large collection of various manufacturers,

Cigarette Cards, a large collection of various manufacturers, to include Players, Wills, Ogdens, Wix & Son and many, covering numerous subject matter, in folders and loose (qty)

Price realised

£2,800

A well presented collection of British stamps, with two Penny Blacks

A well presented collection of British stamps, with two Penny Blacks

A well presented collection of British stamps, with two Penny Blacks, one a HK, the other RI, with other Victorian and Edwardian examples, through two modern mint stamps (1)

Price realised

£420

Ephemera, 'trade advertising' scrap album

Ephemera, 'trade advertising' scrap album

folio, circa 1900, many chromolitho, including Oakey's, Churchman's, Maypole Soap, one folding, Van Houten's Cocoa, Lux, Liebig, Hudson's Soap, Cherry Blossom, Florador Food and Bird's Egg Powder, pp 60

Price realised

£440

Auction highlights

  • Cigarette Cards, Postcards and Ephemera
Ephemera, Giles, an early  (1950's) large original  Cartoon drawing in ink entitled " I want to go home"

Ephemera, Giles, an early (1950's) large original Cartoon drawing in ink entitled " I want to go home"

Price realised

£1400

Postcards, a large interesting collection of approx 1200 loose early cards inc, Sudan, Italy, Belgium, Australia, UK, many social history

Postcards, a large interesting collection of approx 1200 loose early cards inc, Sudan, Italy, Belgium, Australia, UK, many social history

Price realised

£480

Trade Cards, Football, Topps Chewing Gum, Footballers Blue Back

Trade Cards, Football, Topps Chewing Gum, Footballers Blue Back

Price realised

£240

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