Cannock, Brewood GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No. LXII N.W. Hand-coloured map, scale 1" to 1 mile, size 12" x 14", plus wide margins, key in left margin. 1900. £27.00

Codsale OBLIGATION BOND binding Joseph Elton of Codsale, Brass Founder, to Thomas Bradney of Pen in the sum of six hundred pounds. On paper, in English, printed with manuscript inserts, wax seal. Sm. folio, blank conjoint leaf. Traces of folds. 1750. £26.00

Dudley A GRAND SELECTION OF SACRED MUSIC will.... be performed in the Parish Church of Dudley.... Arranged from the Works of Handel, Beethoven, Felsted &c... Principal Performers, Misses Heaton, Aton.... Handbill, size 12" x 8", traces of folds. Printed in a variety of large type-faces. Printed for the Executors of the Late J. Hinton, Dudley. 1824. £36.00
¶ A collection was to be made at the Church Doors for the Choir.

Dudley EVENING AMUSEMENTS The Celebrated Merry Andrew is Arrived in this Town and will go through his Astonishing Performances Assisted by a Troop of Tom Fools on the Balcony of the Swan Inn.... Handbill, size 14" x 7", printed in large type-faces in a variety of lettering styles. Danks, Printer, Dudley. July 10th, 1837. £45.00
¶ Presumably a political skit lampooning a politician who is about to give an address in the town.

Gastineau (Maria) CHECKLY CHURCH Watercolour, in sepia, white and pencil on card, size approx. 6" x 8", corners snipped. Titled in pencil, and signed, in ink, to verso. c186- £60.00 See Illustration
¶ 'Landscape watercolourist. Daughter of H.G. Gastineau.' See Wood's Dictionary of Victorian Painters.

Ipstones SURVEY AND MAP OF LANDS IN THE PARISH OF IPSTONES in the County of Stafford belonging to J. Sneyd Esq., taken in the Years 1770 & 1773 By R. Hill. Manuscript plan in ink and some colour, on vellum, size 15" x 14". Decorative title cartouche with leaves etc., in grey wash, shows fields and a few buildings, each field named, meadow land and woodland shown, land of J. Sneyd outlined in yellow. Table down left hand side listing 30 fields with acreage. Scale of chains, (one and a quarter inches = 10 chains). Ink slightly faded in places, some short vertical creases at top and bottom edges. Small piece cut away at top right corner (in blank area). 1773. £220.00

Kinfare (Manor of) SURRENDER at the Court Baron of William Foley, Lord of the Manor, of John Pugh, day labourer, and his son John, shoemaker, of a dwelling house and garden in Kinfare Towns End, bounded by the land belonging to the Mill, to George Stoates. Vellum, size 10" x 13", folds, signed by Steward with wax seal. 1750. £22.00

Lichfield PRINTED REFERENCE for Mr. C.E. Newcomb, Assistant Master at the Grammar School, from the Headmaster, T. Goldney. 1p, 8vo. April 23rd, 1880. £6.00

Longdon and Cannock Wood FINAL AGREEMENT between George Boughey and William and Dorothy Davenport relating to messuage, stable, barn, orchard, thirty acres of land and common of pasture for cattle. Vellum, size 7«" x 21", some light spotting, folds, some brown stains on verso. 1749. £20.00

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Ovepenn LEASE of a dwelling house in Gravellhill in Overpenn wherein Thomas Dalton doth now inhabit, Thomas Janns of Wolverhampton to William Foxall of Nether Penn. Vellum, size 11" x 19", signed with small wax seal, witnessed on verso. 1732. £25.00

Scholastic Souvenir Co., Blackpool PHOTOGRAPH of a class at Hassell Street Boys' School, Newcastle. Size 6" x 8", mounted on card, card very dusty. One boy is holding a slate with the name of the school, the number of the Standard is illegible, but the date appears to be 1924. 30 boys are shown, and two teachers. 1924. £8.00

Seighford and St. Mary's FIRST-CLASS FARM HOUSE & FARMSTEAD Water Mill, Mill House, and About 130 Acres of Land... together with Sundry Cottages.... also the Manor or Reputed Manor of Great Bridgford.... To be Sold by Auction.... the 7th day of May, 1859, at the Swan Hotel, Stafford. Two pages, folio, folds, paper slightly darkened, with 3p. Conditions attached at corner. 1859. £22.00

Shenstone VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE Comprising Farm House, Farm Buildings and 73 Acres..... to be Sold By Auction.... 12th December, 1848. Handbill size 18" x 12", traces of folds. 1848. £16.00
¶ With Schedules listing field names, etc. with cultivation and quantities, in the Townships of Stonnall and Lynn.

Stoke upon Trent ADMINISTRATION of the goods of Ralph Steele, late of Lane End, Wine and Spirit Merchant. Small printed vellum certificate with ms inserts, papered seal attached. Small brown stain at bottom. Seal appears to have been stuck over with plain paper at later date. 1823. £10.00

Tamworth LEASE FOR A YEAR of 'all that farm or tenement or Mease Place whereon a messuage formerly stood' in Wigginton, part of a farm called Burkley's and a cottage in Cumberford, Hugh Annerley of Clifton Campville to Humphrey Woodcock. Vellum, size 14" x 20", good wax seal showing a bird with a branch in its beak. Some slight yellowing of vellum. 1756. £22.00

Tamworth LEASE FOR A YEAR of 'all that farm or tenement or Mease Place whereon a messuage formerly stood' in Wigginton, part of a farm called Buckley's and a cottage in Cumberford, Hugh Annerley of Clifton Campville to Humphrey Woodcock. Vellum, size 20" x 28", good wax seal showing a bird with a branch in its beak. Some slight yellowing of vellum. 1765. £20.00

Tamworth, Lichfield GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Fully hand-coloured map, scale 1" to 1 mile, Sheet No. LXII N.E., size approx. 12" x 14", plus margins, key in margins. 1901. £26.00

Tunstall, Cheadle GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No. LXXII.N.W. Fully hand-coloured map, scale 1" to 1 mile, size approx. 13" x 15", plus wide margins, key in left-hand margin. Slightly dusty. Railways inserted to 1890, O.S. blindstamp 1901. £28.00

Walsall Boundaries REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF WALSALL 2pp, with a folding Plan of the borough by R.K. Dawson, coloured in outline. Scale 2" to 1 mile. Disbound. 1832. £22.00