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Los 165
A pair of silver photo frames, together with two further photo frames with embossed C scroll and floral decoration, a smaller rectangular photo frame and an Edwardian silver cherub-embossed pocket watch case (Birmingham 1905) enclosing a plated pocket watch , the enamel dial set with Arabic numerals
Los 83
A Chinese cloisonné bowl decorated with dragon to the central blue ground field surrounded by a border of flowers, four character mark to base CONDITION REPORTS Surface scratche,s accretions and build up of dirt, some small areas of loss to the enamel work, pitting to the enamel work and the copper. To the rim of the bowl there is a slight nick in the copper work. On the base there is a different coloured metal in a section of it which could possibly be an old repair. Some small what appear to be nicks or dents in the enamel work and impressions. General wear and tear commensurate with age and use - see images for further details
Los 84
A pair of cloisonné vases decorated with lilies on a sky blue ground CONDITION REPORTS First vase has extensive cracking to the enamel work on one side of the vase. the rim is comng away fro mthe top and there are a few knocks and dents in the rim, the same with the base. Numerous surface scratches and cracks throughout the enamel around the vase. The second vase has two large areas of enamel missing and extensive cracking to the enamel around the missing areas of enamel. Small cracks in areas all around the vase also. The rim has some small dents to the metal and the same to the base. Light surface scratches and accretions all over on both vases, some pitting and also build up of dirt in areas. Both vases are approx 30 cm in height - see images for details
Los 1157
An extensive collection of early 20th Century assorted ephemera relating to the women's Suffrage movement, previously belonging to Florence, Grace and Edith Hodgson. Comprising four white enamel Votes for Women flag pins; two Women's Freedom League 1909 pin badges 'It is the right of the subjects to petition the King and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal'; one red Women's Freedom League button badge; three Votes For Women WFL shield button badges; three green, gold and white enamel Votes For Women flag pins; one Votes For Women button badge; two guilloche enamel Votes For Women bar brooches; two small button badges with Mrs Despard (president of Women's Freedom League) portraits; two Free Church Federation For Woman Suffrage button badges; two Census Resisted No Vote No Cencus "A census for G Britain shall be taken in the year 1911 & the census day shall be Sunday the 2nd day of April in that year" button badges; two cast metal button brooches depicting Liberty with SUF FRA JUS GII, cast signature JOH DAN; two Votes For Women WFL cloth patches in original colours; two hallmarked silver buttons, cast with a portrait of a society lady thought to be Emiline Pankhurst, Birmingham 1902, A&J Zimmerman; a green and yellow enamel striped bar brooch, possibly American; a green cloth hand-made pouch bag with square Votes for Women WFL patch to front; three Women's Freedom League thin woven sashes (printed text); one green, gold and white banded sash; one purple white and green sash; two rectangular woven Votes For Women ribbons; a Women's Freedom League a printed yellow and black pennant with a printed scene of Holloway Prison above Holloway, in ink inscribed 'stone walls do not a prison make' with drawn downward arrows, approx 20cm long; a blue arm band with white painted dove symbol; a paper pamphlet (a few hints for those who have never marched in a procession before...); together with a large collection of period postcards contained in The Vote Album, 101 period postcards (photograph and chromolithograph) to include Mrs Pankhurst; Anna Munro (signed in ink); Lady Constance Lytton; Mrs Pethick Lawrence; Mrs Borrmann Wells (as suffragette at work in prison) and Teresa Billington-Greig (signed in ink), Muriel Matters (signed in pencil), ; various satirical postcards; plus loose duplicate and other cards (some printed Suffrage shop)Within the album are five hand-written postmarked cards, including one to Miss Hodgson, 39 Estelle Road London 'Urgently we have special work to do on Monday and Tuesday, helpers are urgently needed, can you spare at least two hours? Please call by the office anytime after 10am, Sincerely Yours, B. Borrmann Wells'To Miss G Hodgson, 34 Dartmouth Park Hill, Highgate 'Dear Miss Hodgson, I hope you have enough literature for your ? on ? on Tuesday, and that you will be able to sell a lot. If you want more - some of P. Snowden's Conciliation Bill, send me a line, and I will despatch on Monday, Mrs E Mitchell Hon Lit Sec'Miss Edith Hodgson, 39 Estelle Road, Hampstead NW, Aug 24 09, 'Dear Miss Hodgson, We are indeed very grateful for your offer to help with the picketing as we are very hard pushed - looking forward to seeing you, sincerely yours ??'Miss G. ch. Hodgson, 39 Estelle Road, West Hampstead NW, APL2709, 'Hope to see you arrive safely at class tonight. What do you think of the other side? L. ch. 'Provenance by descent, Florance, Grace and Edith Hodgson are known to have resided at 39 Laurier Road, Dartmouth Park, London; detailed in the 1901 census Florance is noted to work for The Post Office, Edith was a milliner and Grace was 13, by 1911 all three are absent from the census, probably in protest. Many suffragettes deliberately avoided the night before the cesus was taken, often gathering at the home of a 'census resister' or quite simply leaving the property and the census taker arrived. It's documented in London suffrages spent midnight walking around Trafalgar Square with a concert put on for entertainment and a vegetarian restaurant in Covent Garden staying open to provide refreshments. The Role of Honour of suffragette prisoners from 1905-1914 (National Archive reference 7LAC/2 held at The London School of Economics) references Grace Hodgson as a prisoner.
Los 119
A 19th century yellow metal, garnet, diamond and enamel demi-parure, comprising ring, brooch and earrings, each set with a cabachon garnet in a green enamel border set with rose-cut diamonds, ring size R, brooch approx 2cm wide, earrings approx 1cm wide, total gross weight approx 16.1gCondition report: ring - good, stones and settings intact, enamel appears good, cabachon approx 9.5mm x 6.5mm; brooch - good, some very minor chips to enamel, cabachon approx 12mm diam; earrings - ok, one with small loss to enamel
Los 123
An Art Nouveau enamel and amethyst pendant, 15ct gold sinuous open swirl details are adorned with green and blue enamel surrounding a central oval amethyst, measuring approximately 7mm x 4mm, with a split top bale, total length approximately 45mm x 25mmCondition: very good- all enamel in good condition, no signs or damage or repair, minor wear only
Los 137
An amethyst and purple enamelled pendant/ brooch, comprising an oval amethyst set to the centre with engine turned enameled surround, with a further cream enamel border, gold swirl details in 14ct gold, approximately 27mm x 23mmCondition: very good, no visible damage to the enamel or stone, minor wear to metal
Los 146
A Victorian gold and diamond hinged bangle, unmarked 18ct, comprising a circular domed head set with old cut diamonds, black enameled details, foliate shoulders again set with old cut diamonds, total diamond weight approx 1.9 carat assessed clarity I 1/2, assessed colour G/H, internal diameter 55mm, with box clasp and safety chainCondition: Some wear to the the enamel and claws, all claws and stones present, wear and tear
Los 170
American Waltham Watch Co, a late 19th/early 20th Century Waltham full hunter top wind fob watch, tests as gold, the outer case bright cut engraved with an American farmstead and vacant carouche, 3.5cm white enamel Roman dial with subsidiary seconds dial, movemnet No. 3469067, approximate weight all in 53gCondition: generally good, ticking, service advised
Los 212
Waltham, a late 19th Century Waltham Traveller gold plated full hunter top wind pocket watch, the outer cover with an engraved monogram, 4.5cm white enamel Roman numeral dial with subsidiary seconds dial, movement No.12447465, on a 9ct gold chain with a scroll and a 9ct fob, approximate weight 64gCondition: light wear only, ticking, service advised
Los 244
A pair of Japanese silver, Shibayama and enamelled vases, Meiji, ovoid form with flared necks and cast dragon handles, each with six gilt lacquered panels of birds in prunus, chrysanthemum and hanging baskets, within a champleve enamel encrusted ground of foliate motifs, on three bracket pedestal bases, inset marks to underside, 25cm high (2)
Los 252
A Japanese silver, Shibayama and enamelled chest, Meiji period, 1868-1912, octagonal pagoda form, the six sides with gilt lacquered panels of hanging baskets, interior still life and birds in blossom, within tooled bamboo leaf ground, the central door opening to reveal a Maki-e lacquered interior of three graduated drawers with leaf decoration, below a dome of champleve enamel with ring handle, on fretted bracket feet, mother of pearl seal mark to underside, 25cm high
Los 253
A Japanese silver, Shibayama and enamelled vase, Meiji period, 1868-1912, of ovoid form with flared neck, the six gilt lacquered panels of birds, vases and handing baskets with floral bouquets, within a ground of champleve enamel chrysanthemum and foliate sprigs, on three bracket feet, 25cm high
Los 369
Duke & Duchess of Windsor/Wallis Simpson interest, E.Mathey-Tissot, an Art Deco silver and enamel travel clock, circa 1920's, of pyramid form, yellow and black enamelled in a geometric design, lapis lazuli feet and button, eleven jewel movement striking on a gong, the case marked Sterling and No.12179, height 9cm, in the original silk lined fitted case with double door openingProvenance: gifted to their Butler, the late Alan Fisher (1930-2006) by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Fisher workd for the Windsors from 1954 at their French retreat Le Moulin de la Tuilerie at Gif-sur-Yvette and their Parisien home in the Bois de Boulogne.
Los 548
A Masons ironstone plate, yellow ground and cobalt blue and gilt border with scattered flowers, the centre with Oriental flowers and a hollow rock Bird , circa 1835-1850, crown and banner, 27cm diameterCondition: small glaze rim chip to underside, very minor wear to rim gilding, scratches to yellow enamel. No other damage or restoration
Los 559
A small Masons square ovoid form vase, decorated with birds and flowers, along with a small Masons Imari decorated Jug with a snake handle and a Masons blue and white jug with a snake handle, circa 1825-1895, vase 12cm high, Imari jug 7.5cm high, blue and white Jug 10.5cm high (3)Condition: vase: scuffs to foot rim. No Cover. Imari Jug: small chips to spout and rim, worn enamel on handle. Blue and white jug: three rim chips and scuffs
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An early 19th Century oval portrait miniature on ivory of Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Bowles K.C.B. (1780-1869), bust length in uniform, in a gold plated pendant mount with inset plaited lock of hair and monogram verso within a blue enamel border, 7cm by 5.5cmNote: Sir William Bowles was a senior Royal Navy Officer and a Conservative Party politician
Los 73
A yellow metal, mother of pearl and green guilloche enamel hat pin; a circular pink and white guilloche enamel hat pin, stamped sterling silver rims and back; a circular enamel hat pin, painted with a yellow and orange butterfly; an Arts and Crafts style sterling silver and enamel hat pin, in pink green and white tones (4)
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A sterling silver and enamel hat pin, as a Canadian maple leaf, in autumn tones; a cloisonne hat pin; Arts and Crafts style with red and white enamel; 19th century blue enamel painted with flowers; two large 19th century paste-set pins; mother of pearl; an Egyptian silver pin with sphinx terminal; etc (10)
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*The Important Sudan, Boer War, and Great War C.M.G. and D.S.O. group of ten awarded to Colonel Charles. M.A. Wood, Northumberland Fusiliers, late Bimbashi in the Egyptian Army, and second son of Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G. He saw action in the Sudan and was mentioned in despatches for his part in the Battle of Omdurman, where he was one of just two British officers commanding the anti-Mahdist Tribal Irregulars. As a result of his success with unorthodox fighting units he was one of the first British officers called upon to help raise the Chinese Wei-Hai-Wei (or First Chinese) Regiment between 1898 and 1899. Afterwards he served as Captain and Adjutant with the Northumberland Fusiliers during the Boer War, and latterly served as Assistant Adjutant-General of the British Armies in France between 1916 and 1918, comprising: The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion’s neck badge, in silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., in silver-gilt and enamels; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Lt. C. M. A. Wood, 1/North’d Fus.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3rd type reverse, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Capt. & Adjt. C. M. A. Wood, North’d Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, the latter with bronze M.I.D. spray of oak leaves (Lt. Col. C. M. A. Wood); Coronation 1911; France, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with silver mark to tie in lower wreath; Turkey, Order of Medjidie, Officer’s breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, the reverse privately inscribed (Lt. C. M. A. Wood, 1/North’d Fus.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (Lt. C. M. A. Wood, 1/North’d Fus.), engraved in typical upright capitals; the second with slightly recessed centre both sides and minor enamel loss to wreaths, Legion d’Honneur with slightly bent finial point and minor enamel damage, campaign medals once lacquered with light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (10) C.M.G.: London Gazette: 12 December 1919 – ‘for services rendered in connection with the War’ D.S.O.: London Gazette: 4 June 1917 (General Citation) Legion d’Honneur: London Gazette: 15 April 1916 – ‘distinguished services in connection with the War’ M.i.D.: London Gazette: 30 September 1898; 10 September 1901; and 15 May 1917. Charles Michell Aloysius Wood (1873-1936) was born on 2 April 1873, the son of Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G, then serving in the 90th Regiment. Receiving his education at Beaumont College and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers on 19 November 1892. He was soon afterwards promoted to Lieutenant during a period of secondment to the 4th Battalion Egyptian Army between October 1894 and November 1895, with the rank of Bimbashi. He was then appointed A.D.C. to Sir Alfred Milner, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Cape of Good Hope, in April 1897. In 1898, Wood witnessed active service in the Sudan and was present at the Battle of Omdurman on 2 September 1898, and the subsequent taking of Khartoum. He was one of just two officers seconded to the Egyptian Army to command the anti-Mahdist Tribal Levies. For this, he was mentioned in despatches and appointed to the Fourth Class of the Turkish Order of the Medjidie. Later that year, he also took part in the occupation of Crete. Having evidently shown his ability to instruct and command local levies, he was sent to China between 1898 and 1899 to assist with the creation of The Wei-Hai-Wei (or 1st Chinese Regiment). This force of 1,000 men, created in 1898, was raised purely from the men of Shantung Province to fight for and defend the British enclave of Wei-Hai, and it was led by British officers and Colour Sergeants only. In the book ‘Fists of Righteous Harmony: A History of the Boxer Uprising in China in 1900’ by Henry Keown Boyd, Charles Wood is mentioned as part of this unit’s early history: ‘Among the first British officers to join it was Captain Charles Wood, son of the celebrated Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood VC, a former Sirdar of the Egyptian Army. Wood Junior was no stranger to unconventional soldiering as he had fought at the Battle of Omdurman as one of only two British officers with the anti-Mahdist tribal levies.’ Although Wood left to take part in the Second Boer War after roughly one year training this regiment, it would later serve during the Boxer Rebellion with some distinction. Having then been advanced to Captain and appointed Adjutant, Wood served in South Africa, participating in operations in Orange Free State, Transvaal and Cape Colony, and he was again mentioned in despatches. Between October 1901 and December 1904, Wood served as A.D.C. to the Commander of 1 Indian Army Corps, in Southern Command, and he was advanced to Major in December 1910, upon taking up duties as a G.S.O. at the War Office until May 1911. Upon the outbreak of war in August 1914, he was serving as a Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, where he remained until his appointment as Assistant Adjutant-General to Australian H.Q., Salisbury Plain, in the summer of 1916. The appointment was short-lived, as just a month or so later he was embarked for France to serve as Assistant Adjutant-General to the British Armies in the Field, in which role he remained until early 1918. For his Great War service he was awarded the C.M.G., D.S.O. and mentioned in despatches for a final time. Wood, who was promoted to Colonel in April 1919, was placed on the Retired List in March 1929. He married Olive, daughter of Major Herbert Miles, R.A., in 1915, and died at his home in Bude, Cornwall, in April 1936. This lot is offered with a substantial folder of mainly photocopied research, but also with an original press cutting of his obituary in the Morning Post, also containing research concerning his father. Howe and Tandy setting a ‘Senior Doubles’ canoeing record, 1961. Sold by direct descent
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*The Albert Medal awarded to Works Manager James Kennedy Chapman for saving the life of his colleague Thomas McCormack from the inside of an iron stoke hold tank in the steamer S.S. Cairngorm, at the Mercantile Dry Dock at Jarrow, on the River Tyne. He also attempted to save the life of another colleague, before he also was overcome and incapacitated by the same poisonous fumes on 27 November, 1908, comprising: Albert Medal, 2nd Class, for Gallantry in Saving Life on Land, bronze and enamel, the reverse officially engraved ´Presented By His Majesty to James Kennedy Chapman For Gallantry in Saving Life At Jarrow on the 27th November. 1908´, tiny verdigris spots, otherwise nearly extremely fine Albert Medal: London Gazette: 23.7.1909 James Kennedy Chapman, joint citation with Thomas McCormack - ´On the 27th November, 1908, workmen were engaged painting the inside of an iron tank in the stokehold of a steamer lying in dry dock at Jarrow. Owing to the fact that very strong fumes were given off by the anti-corrosive paint or solution used the men were working in relays, each squad of three men being relieved after 10 to 15 minutes had elapsed. A workman named Graham was overcome by the fumes, and the chargeman, Archibald Wilson, sacrificed his life in endeavouring to save Graham. Thomas McCormack, who had already been affected by the fumes while at work in the tank, went to Wilson´s assistance, but was himself rendered insensible, and was rescued by James Kennedy Chapman, Works Manager at the Dock, who, having pulled McCormack out, re-entered the tank and endeavoured to save Graham, but was himself overcome by the fumes. The rescue of Chapman and Graham was eventually effected from the top of the tank. James Kennedy Chapman was born 3 February 1860 in Kirkaldy, Fife, Scotland, the son of Alexander Chapman and Margaret Chapman (née Whitton). Research suggests that c.1885 he moved to the important shipbuilding town of Jarrow, then part of County Durham, but now part of Tyne and Wear. Working initially as a Boilersmith, by 1908 he was working as a Works Manager at the Mercantile Dry Dock Company. With the S.S. Cairngorm in dry dock for repairs in late November 1908, it was here that Chapman gallantly rescued his colleague Thomas McCormack, before then also attempting to save the original casualty, Alexander Graham, at which point he was himself incapacitated and saved by others nearby. Tragically, the first rescuer, Archibald Wilson, died as a result of his attempt to save Mr Graham. The various men had been working in 15-minute shifts whilst applying an anti-corrosive chemical (‘Ritchie’s’ bitumen paint) to the inside of the stoke hold tank – a vast iron tank 43 feet long, 14 feet wide, but only 3 feet high. Despite taking some precautions, the noxious fumes soon began to render each of them unconscious in turn. As recorded in the coroner’s report, considering the various acts of bravery: ‘Chapman showed the greater bravery. He entered the tank first; but apparently he was in a responsible position and therefore more was expected of him.’.´ Bearing these considerations in mind, both Chapman and McCormack were recommended for the Albert Medal, being presented with their medals by the King at Buckingham Palace on 22 July 1909, with a posthumous award of the same medal to the widow of Archibald Wilson. In addition to this, Chapman and McCormack were each also awarded bronze medals by the Carnegie Hero Trust Fund, and were entered into the Roll of Heroes. Chapman sadly died on 10 October 1925, and the Shields Daily News records that Chapman had been a deacon at the Ellison Street Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Bede Lodge of Freemasons. As such, Chapman did not therefore live to see his Albert Medal upgraded for a George Cross, whereas McCormack was able to, making this incident the earliest act for which the George Cross was subsequently bestowed. Ex Sotheby 1970, and Spink, 23 April 2009
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*The Orders, Medals and Decorations awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Honourable Martin Michael Charles, Baron Charteris of Amisfield G.C.B. G.C.V.O. O.B.E. Q.S.O. P.C. Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he served as an officer in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in WW2 and saw action in North Africa during which time he was temporarily paralysed by ‘Nile Rheumatism’. Returning home to convalesce in October 1940, his hospital ship S.S. Yorkshire was subsequently torpedoed and sunk, seeing him cast adrift and then rescued before recuperating in Britain. Back in action in 1941, he took command of ‘A’ Company, 2nd Battalion, K.R.R.C., part of the 7th Motor Brigade, and fought in and around El-Alamein, Tobruk, Gazala and then in the Italy campaign. After the war he served as Head of Military Intelligence (G.S.I.) in Palestine 1945-46, and was fortunate to have not been present during the infamous King David Hotel bombing, which had targeted the offices of the senior figures of the British Administration. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was a refined, charming and well-connected individual with a keen wit and sense of humour. He was appointed Private Secretary to H.R.H. The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh and heiress presumptive to the British throne in 1950, and was the first to receive word from Britain of the death of King George VI during a visit to Kenya. Continuing to serve H.M. The Queen as her Assistant Private Secretary (1952-1972) under Sir Michael Adeane, and then as Private Secretary (1972-1977), the culmination of his role was his central involvement in the Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations of 1977. Upon his retirement in 1977 he became Provost of Eton College, and was appointed permanent Lord-in-Waiting and Life Peer as Baron Charteris of Amisfield, created on 7 February 1978, comprising: Orders and Decorations: The Most Excellent Order of the Bath (Civil Division), Grand Cross set of insignia by Garrard & Co., comprising sash badge, in silver-gilt, bearing hallmarks for London dated 1940, and breast star, in silver gilt and enamels, in fitted case of issue; The Royal Victorian Order, Grand Cross set of insignia by Collingwood, comprising sash badge, in silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star, in silver, silver-gilt and enamels, both numbered ‘952’ to reverse, in fitted case of issue; France, Legion d’Honneur, Grand Officer’s set of insignia by Arthus Bertrand, Paris, comprising officer’s breast badge in gold and enamels (minor enamel loss in lower part), and breast star in silver, both bearing hallmarks, in fitted case of issue; Medal Group: Queen’s Service Order, in silver and enamels, reverse engraved (Martin Michael Charles Charteris); with original box of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officer’s breast badge, in silver; 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star, with clasp ‘8th Army’; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, the latter with bronze M.i.D. spray of oak leaves; General Service Medal, 1918-62, single clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Major. M.M.C. Charteris. K.R.R.C.); Coronation Medal, 1953; Jubilee Medal, 1977; Group court-mounted with brooch pin by ‘John G. Southern – Military Tailor’, with associated riband bar, and a folder of official warrants of appointment, toned, extremely fine, and a rare combination of medals and awards to an important figure in modern royal history (16). O.B.E.: London Gazette: 13 June, 1946 M.V.O.: London Gazette: 1 June, 1953 (Coronation Honours) C.B.: London Gazette: 12 June, 1958 K.C.V.O.: London Gazette: 2 June, 1962 (Birthday Honours) K.C.B: London Gazette: 3 June, 1972 (Birthday Honours) G.C.V.O.: London Gazette: 1 January, 1976 (New Year Honours) G.C.B.: London Gazette: 11 August, 1977 Q.S.O.: London Gazette: 31 December 1977 Royal Victorian Chain: London Gazette: 7 July, 1992. Martin Michael Charles Charteris was born on 7 September 1913 at Halkin Place, London, the second son of Hugo Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho, and Lady Violet Catherine Manners. Educated at Eton College, and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he received a commission as Second Lieutenant in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 31 August 1933, being promoted to Lieutenant on 31 August 1936, and serving in the jungle in Burma in 1937. Soon after the outbreak of war in 1939, he was left temporarily paralyzed by a tropical virus (then called ‘Nile Rheumatism’) in Egypt, and in the process of returning back to Britain from Gibraltar to convalesce in October 1939, he was playing chess on deck with his Doctor when the hospital ship Yorkshire was torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay. He was nearly drowned as he was dragged underwater, having only recently regained any strength at all after his paralysis. Somehow surfacing he was rescued by a life raft and eventually picked up (as recorded in his account published in the Sunday Express of 25 February 1940) by an American vessel. Being neutral at this stage in war, the American ship was carefully inspected by the U-Boat but was in the end left alone. After his recovery, he returned to active service in North Africa in 1941, taking command of ‘A’ Company, 2nd Battalion, K.R.R.C. – part of the 7th Motor Brigade. His battalion saw a great deal of fighting against Rommel’s famous Africa Corps in and around Tobruk, el-Alamein, and at the Battle of Gazala, with his unit fighting in direct support of British M3 Grant tanks. In one of his wartime letters, he wrote: ‘The Gazala Line was like a shield held out in front of Tobruk, El Adem, and the coastal communications; its right rested on the coast, but its left, as must always be the case in Libya, hung open and undefended in the great desert to the south. It seemed highly improbable that the enemy would sweep south of Hacheim with his armour. We went east pretty fast…It was like General Post. There were British columns and German ones, cannoning off each other like blindfolded people: you could see the lolloping Verey lights, and like a bass string accompaniment you could hear as a background to everything the grunting, coughing, mumbling of the Panzers rolling east…The battle swung to and fro and for many days hung in the balance; indeed at one time we came so near to a great victory that I can hardly bear to think of what might have been. For my own part, I swung to and fro with the battle. For several days I was around Hacheim, and was filled with admiration for the Free French. I was at El Adem, Knightsbridge, on the edge of the Cauldron, and for two wild days behind the enemy at Mteifel.’ He was promoted to Captain on 31 August 1941, and continued to serve in WW2, being mentioned in despatches on 24 June 1943, promoted to Major on 7 September 1944, to Acting Colonel on 27 January 1945, and Acting Brigadier on 27 February 1945. In his personal life at this time, he married Hon. Gay Margesson, the daughter of David Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson, on 16 December 1944, at Jerusalem. Returning to military service, it is likely his latter wartime career was spent serving in an Intelligence capacity. After a period of work as an Instructor at Haifa Staff College, he was appointed Chief of Military Intelligence (G.S.I) in Palestine between September 1945 and September 1946, which included a good deal of counter-terrorism work undertaken against the ‘Lehi’ Zionist Paramilitary Organisation (known in British circles as ‘the Stern Gang’). ....For further information please see the catalogue pdf on www.mortonandeden.com
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*The Extremely Rare Ottoman Gold Nursing Award Brooch to Miss Gertrude Veysie, awarded to her in 1856 as a token of gratitude from Sultan Abdulmejid I in honour of her services as a nurse in the Hospitals of the British Army during the Crimean War. The central piece of this brooch, now incorporated into a larger gold setting, is of precisely the same type as the example awarded to Florence Nightingale, which is held in the Florence Nightingale Museum in Lambeth, London, comprising: An elaborate badge in gold and enamels, bearing the royal star and crescent of the Ottoman Empire, set with small diamonds; this now mounted into a larger, elaborate gold brooch with reverse pin and upper suspension loop, the reverse engraved ‘Presented by H. I. M. the Sultan to Miss G. Veysie in acknowledgement of her services in the Hospitals of the British Army in the East. 1856.’ marked ‘18 ct’ below; minor chip to red enamel near crescent, very fine or better, and extremely rare . Penelope Gertrude Veysie was born 18 August 1807 at Plymtree, Devon, the daughter of Reverend Daniel Veysie, rector of Plymtree and Prebendary of Exeter, and Mrs Anne Veysie (née Arnold). Her older brother, William Veysie (1801-1883) went on to reach the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the 7th Bengal Cavalry, H.E.I.C., and it may be that it was through her brother’s connections that ‘Gertrude’ (as she preferred to be known) was able to take up an active role in the British Hospitals in the Crimea. Present research is inconclusive with regard to the date of her arrival in the Crimea, but it would appear from the existence of this award that she was present as a Nurse in 1856, and probably earlier. These extremely rare brooches are mentioned in ‘Honours and Awards to Women to 1914’ by Norman Gooding, citing the earlier author J. H. Mayo ‘Medals and Decorations of the British army and Navy’: “At the close of the Crimean War the Sultan wished to show his gratitude to the lady nurses for the great services they had rendered and with this view a sum of money was forwarded to the British Government to be divided amongst them… The Government thought that the ladies would dislike the idea of being offered money and it was therefore decided that the money should be spent on a number of brooches, made in gold, after a Turkish pattern approved by the Sultan, to be presented to the lady nurses. The brooches were of gold, circular in shape, enamelled red and green with a crescent of diamonds in the centre.” How many such brooches survive today remains unknown, but one such brooch, unaltered, remains in the Florence Nightingale Museum, Lambeth, London. The embellished brooch, offered here, appears to have been enlarged outwards from the original centrepiece, with the additional engraved details to the reverse. According to genealogical research, upon the death of her sister Ann in 1857, Gertrude Veysie dedicated her remaining life to nursing the sick, living at St. John’s House on 6-8 Norfolk Street, The Strand. This was the same institution which had provided the very first 6 nurses sent out with Florence Nightingale to the Crimea in 1854. Records of correspondence between Getrude Veysie and Florence Nightingale dated 1857 are known to exist. Gertrude Veysie died 14 Jan 1891 at 14 Westover Villas, Holdenhurst, Hampshire, at the age of 83.
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*China, Republic, Order of the Illustrious Brilliant Golden Grain, a Second or Third Class badge which has been converted to create a reduced-size breast star in silver, silver-gilt and enamels, with inner circle of 18 pearls and central red stone, reverse with original Chinese maker’s plate and fitted with a later brooch-pin for wearing, width 67.5mm, minor enamel defects, generally good very fine and toned
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