A group of three United States cinema lobby cards for The Big Noise, starring Ulverston-born comic actor Stan laurel and his screen partner Oliver Hardy, feature in today’s sale, October 14, at Excalibur Auctions, at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.

The colourful promotional cards for the 1944 film are expected to sell for £100 to £150.

Tens of thousands of lobby cards were printed to attract interest in a constract stream of up-coming films and the vast majority were simply thrown away by cinemas as the next batch arrived from the film distributors.

Stacey’s Auctioners, at Rayleigh, Essex, expects £65 to £80 on Tuesday, October 17, for a silver officer’s cap badge of the Border Regiment.

Also being sold on Tuesday, October 17, is a commemorative medal set in a copper dish for the Barrow launch of HMS Vengeance on July 25 in 1899.

The inscription includes: “First battleship built in Barrow.”

It is expected to sell for £50 to £70.

Three rare football programmes featuring Barrow AFC are included in the October 20 sale by Sportingold, of Saunderton, Buckinghamshire.

A programme for the away match against Darwen played on April 16 in 1921 is expected to sell for £70 to £75.

Barrow won the game by a goal to nil and were already champions of the Lancashire Combination with games in hand.

This was the Barrow club’s last season in the Lancashire Combination before joining the newly-formed Third Division North.

Also on offer is a Barrow away programme for a game against Halifax on September 7 in 1936 – which should make £120 to £130 – and an away programme for a game against Chesterfield on December 28 in 1935, which is estimated at £75 to £80.

A sale today and tomorrow, October 14 to 15, by Barnack Auctions, of Near Stamford, Cambridgeshire, expects £100 to £150 for a paperweight camel made as an advertising product for industrial giant Cammell Laird at Workington, Maryport and Birkenhead.

A book written by James Stockdale called The Annals of Cartmel is expected to make £60 to £80 in a sale on October 21 by Taylors, of Montrose in Scotland.

The 1872 book was printed by William Kitchin, of Market Street, Ulverston

A mahogany occasional table of around 1910 by the South Cumbrian craftsman Arthur W. Simpson is expected to make £400 to £600 in a sale on October 25 by Lyon and Turnbull, of Edinburgh.

Simpson was based at Kendal and lived from 1857 to 1922.

He was a leading worker in the Arts and Crafts movement and passed on his skills at night classes in the Lake District.

The sale on October 24 to 25 by Woolley and Wallis, at Salisbury, Wiltshire, expects £150 to £200 for a George III silver trophy goblet presented by the Workington Agricultural Society.

The goblet weighs six ounces and is 11.8cm tall. It was made by Burwash and Sibley at London in 1809.