Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers: Collector's Auction to include Toys, Postcards, Stamps, Coins, Whisky, Wine & Spirits, Medals & Militaria, 31926a, Edinburgh

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 19, 2026 - March 19, 2026
Page Size: 82 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1323

Postcard collection held in large format ring binder album containing over 500 postcards, most topographical

N/A GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 49.60
1324

Postcard collection held in green album containing over 100 postcards, most Dorset topographical

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.20
1325

Collection of around 90 photographs of 1950s Gold Coast (Dominion of Ghana)

1950s GBP 40.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
1326

Postcard collection comprising over 250 postcards held in two albums to include real photographic portraits, The Bungalows Shoreham, Collett Day, ...

N/A GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 62.00
1327

Large collection of modern colour picture postcards. Cigarette cards to include Railway Engines, Modern Naval Craft, Film Stars, Birds & Their Young,...

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.20
1328

Collection of over 400 foreign postcards, mostly French topographical views to include Exposition Universelle De Gand 1913, Rouen, Nice, Amiens, Cancale, Paris etc.

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
1329

Collection of over 600 postcards, mostly British topographical to include Brecon Beacons, Dartmoor, Sandringham Gardens, ...

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.20
1330

Shoebox containing picture postcard booklets to include Alger, Venice, Nazareth, Bergen, Cape Town, Paris, Holy Land, Seville, ...

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
1331

Shoebox containing over 500 postcards, mostly foreign to include Alexandria Harbour, Tangier, Tillamook Lighthouse Oregon, Central Park New York, ...

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.20
1332

Shoebox containing over 500 postcards, mostly foreign topographical to include Rome, Portofino, Bruxelles, Kremlin, Pompeii, Milan, Alpine views, Trouville, Paris, etc.

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
1333

Shoebox containing over 500 postcards, mostly British topographical and buildings (many churches and Cathedral) to include Battle Abbey, Hastings, ...

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.20
1334

Around 700 postcards, mostly British topographical and architecture to include The Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, National Gallery, Croyland Abbey, Hudscott, ...

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 37.20
1335

Collection of around 300 postcards, mostly transport including cars, boats and trains to include Bromley South, The Merseyside Express, The Cheltenham Flyer, ...

N/A GBP 40.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
1336

Two shoes boxes containing modern colour picture postcards (>1000).

N/A GBP 20.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
1337

Shoebox containing real photographic printed picture postcards of steam locomotives to include Kilsyth, Dwight D Eisenhower, Sir Nigel Gresley, Union of South Africa, ...

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 136.40
1338

Two postcard albums containing around 300 humours risque postcards by artists Taylor, Fitzpatrick, Chas and possibly others. (~300)

N/A GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 105.40
1359

Large stamp collection to include GREAT BRITAIN GB Post Office Headquarters postcards PHQs, first day covers FDCs to include Millennium collection,...

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 43.40
1362

Stamp collection to include Benham silk first day covers, Smilers and other FDCs, Post Office Headquarter cards PHQs, a small number of GB mint stamps etc.

N/A GBP 25.00 - 45.00 GBP 39.68
1373

GREAT BRITAIN GB Postal History Queen Victoria QV 1d penny red stamps to include a 1d penny red stars shifted with BLACKHALL ST hand stamp cancel; ...

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 80.60
1374

GREAT BRITAIN GB Postal History to include a letter from St. Petersburg to Edinburgh dated 1790 with SE24 and SE27 hand stamps,...

1790 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 80.60
1375

GREAT BRITAIN GB postal history including Queen Victoria QV 1d red stamps on envelopes and wrappers with Scottish post marks to include Ayr, Dumfries, Glasgow, ...

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 49.60
1384

WORLD stamp collection to include an album of AUSTRALIA stamps spanning 1913-1971, Victorian TASMANIA, QUEENSLAND, VICTORIA and NEW SOUTH WALES used stamps,...

1913-1971 GBP 30.00 - 60.00 GBP 86.80
1385

WORLD stamp collection held in one large plastic box to include GB FDCs and PHQs, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS mint sheetlet, GRENADA mint stamps,...

N/A GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 43.40
1402

REPUBLICA OF SOUTH AFRICA stamp collection to include first day covers and used 20th century stamps spanning 1924-2102.

1924-2102 GBP 20.00 - 40.00 GBP 24.80
1403

Stamp collection held over multiple albums to include Westminster Mint The Royal Family numismatic philatelic covers, stockbooks of used 20th century stamps

20th century GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 49.60
  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.