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[Aberdeen Shoemaker's Stock and Equipment, 1838] [MANUSCRIPT] Roup [Auction] Account of the Stock in Trade which belonged to Mr. Andrew Affleck Shoemaker sold in his Shop Union Street Aberdeen | 19th and 20th March 1838.

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[Aberdeen Shoemaker's Stock and Equipment, 1838]
Shoemaker
Shoemaker2
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[Aberdeen, 1838]
£250.00
Shoemaker
Shoemaker2

Eight Pages, sm. fol., two bifoliums, fold marks, good condition. Stock and Cobblers' Equipment listed with quantities and sums achieved. Headings: Pair Prunella Shoes; Prunella Boots, Cloth Boots [...] Leather Shoes, Boots, Gents Boots, Wellington Boots, Blucher Boots, Slippers [...], Grindstone (x 9), Cutting Board (x18), Logs, Lasts, Boothooks, etc. etc. See Images

[Admiral Peter Rainier; "Boatswain's stores" ] Document Signed 'Peter Rainier' "To The Masters of His Majesty's Ships Victorious Intrepid Leopard and Alabatross or any three of them | By Command of the Commander in Chief | Fredk Hawke | pro secrs."

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Admiral Peter Rainier (1741–1808) , "Vice Admiral of the Blue and Commander in Chief of HIs Majesty's Ships and Vessels in the East Indies." [Jas [Bonnard]; Joseph Corbyn; [W?] Briggs; Jn Wheatay
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"[O]n board His Majesty's Ship Victorious Back Bay Trincomaley [sic] the 19th June 1802."
£350.00

Four pages, folio, bifolium, leaves partly separated, sl. grubby, text clear and complete. Rainier states that he has been informed by letter by Captrain Charles Adam of "La Sybille" that "a quantity of sails and other boatswains stores [...] which are worn out, rotten, decayed and totally unfit for their proper use".

['Restricted' War Office publication.] Instructions regarding Kit and Equipment for Officers. 1944.

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'By Command of the Army Council' [The War Office, Whitehall; British government publications; Second World War]
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The War Office [Whitehall], 2nd February, 1944. ['Notified in A.C.Is.']
£100.00

[1] + 15pp., 12mo. Stapled pamphlet. In fair condition, on aged paper, with vertical fold. Divided into 17 sections (including 'Sub-Tropical and Tropical Climates', 'Compensation for Loss or Damage' and 'Weight of Clothing and Equipment'), under the main headings: 'Uniform - Home Service' and 'Method of obtaining Uniform, etc.' Three appendices, including 'List of Uniform Officers are Required to Provide during the Present Emergency' and 'Weights of Principal Items of Officers' Clothing and Equipment'.

Mid-Victorian manuscript list, headed 'Weight of Appointments', giving the weights of a British Army cavalryman's equipment.

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[British Army Cavalryman's list of 'Weights of Appointments', circa 1850]
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Without place or date. [Circa 1850.]
£125.00

On one side of a piece of 15.5 x 11 cm laid paper. In fair condition, on lightly-aged and creased paper. The list gives the weights of nine items (Saddle; Horse Shoes & Nails; Velisse; Sword & Belts; Carbine; Ammunition 20 rounds; Cloak; Sheep Skin & Shabracque; Wallets), ranging in weight from 27 lbs to 4 1/2 lbs, and totalling 7 st 3 lbs. Apparently very scarce. No record found.

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