WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR TIMED ON-LINE AUCTION 17 MAY TO 7 JUNE 2024

116 History 300 1971-2000 Maze Prison Long Kesh prisoner art: An Ulster Volunteer Force belt. Inscription: ‘8/ULSTER VOLUNTEER FORCE’ Condition: Fine. Estimate €80-€120 (approx £70-£100) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 300 301 1973-1976. A British soldier’s archive from service in Northern Ireland. Includes pocket card instructions for opening fire and for making arrests, a printed derogratory verse on ‘Oireland’ and Derry people, a list of ‘IRA Front Organisations’ including Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Association for Legal Justice, etc., instructions on Booby-trapped cars, IRA signs to be looked for on buildings, diagrams of incidents at Ballsbridge, Forkhill, and Mullan, Enniskillen, mostly stamped ‘RESTRICTED’. Also a large military map of Derry used by foot patrols, with key nationalist areas highlighted, British Army pamphlets - ‘Londonderry Football Bomb Attack’ and ‘Throwing Stones is Dangerous’, andWeekly Reports 1973, propaganda pamphlets with praise for Army in Northern Ireland, GOC’s Christmas Message IRA ‘Volunteer’ 29 February1972, Also a Loyalist flag, Orange Volunteers recruiting pamphlet, UDR booklet, brass RMP shoulder badge, receipts for restaurants, ticket to a dance, etc. British military documents are rarely seen at auction. Provenance: A retired member of the Royal Military Police, who served in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. Condition: Mainly very good. Estimate €300-€500 (approx £260-£430) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 301 301A 1973 (23 March) RUC 'wanted' poster for two women. With monochrome 'photofit' images of two women and descriptions - '2 females the police wish to interview in connection with the murder (by shooting) of members of the security forces at Antrim Road Belfast on the night of 23 March 1973'. Also with this lot an RUC flyer 'Have You Seen This Man' with 'photofit' of a teenager, and three photocopied mug shots including two women, as carried by security forces in Northern Ireland. The poster size is: 16.50 by 11.50in. (41.9 by 29.2cm) Provenance: A retired member of the Royal Military Police, who served in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. Folded. fine. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 302