Bidspirit auction | A group of paper ephemera

A group of paper ephemera and maps spanning the late 19th to mid-20th century, primarily focused on the Isle of Man and UK military and social history. The collection includes a four-page printed bar price list for The Riverboat Club, Great Cheetham Street, Salford, featuring a autograph from Marian Montgomery - American Jazz singer. Military interest is represented by a small card printed with the red jerboa insignia and text CHRISTMAS 7TH ARMOURED DIVISION 1944. Temperance history is documented by a Victorian membership card for the Hill Road Wesleyan BAND OF HOPE issued to Henry E. Craine and dated April 16th 1888. A philatelic interest is provided by a May 1953 issue of GIBBONS STAMP MONTHLY celebrating the Coronation. Two paper driving licences for the Isle of Man, issued under THE HIGHWAYS ACTS, 1927-30 to a R. H. Cubbin, are dated 1931-32 (blue) and 1932-33 (orange). Tobacco-related items include an AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS cigarette card album and two flattened green card packets for Wild Woodbine Cigarettes, all produced by W. D. and H. O. Wills. Cartographic material consists of an Ordnance Survey ONE-INCH MAP of GREAT BRITAIN ISLE OF MAN (Sheet 87, published 1963) with the name D L Figgin handwritten on the cover; an AA MOTORING and HIKING Map ISLE OF MAN with an illustrated cover; an Isle of Man Tourist Board STREET PLAN OF DOUGLAS featuring a horse-drawn tram; and a fragment of a red Ordnance Survey map cover.