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Preisdatenbank abonnierenFRAZIER, LONDON, A SILVER OPEN FACED POCKET WATCH Chester 1895, the signed white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, hands and sunken subsidiary seconds dial, the three piece hinged case housing a key wound English lever movement, signed S.G. Frazier, 12 Edgware Rd, London, 5.2cm overall diameter, with a silver watch chain of graduated curb links
ANONYMOUS, A MINUTE REPEATING OPEN FACED POCKET WATCH with stop watch action, the white enamel dial with black Roman numeral, fifth of a second recording outer chapter, black centre seconds, gilt hands and sunken subsidiary seconds dial, the three piece metal case housing a keyless wound unsigned movement, with setting lever button, slide stop start for stop watch and slide for the hour, quarter and minute repeat to gongs, 5.4cm overall diameter
Chinese famille rose enamelled box of lobed form decorated with figures in a garden and flowers and foliage, seal mark to base, 10cm wide and an oval enamelled box with a landscape scene, mark to base, 7cm wide, Wear and pitting to enamel. Wear to decoration. Area of 2cm x 1cm of enamel missing. Other box with cracks, wear and enamel chips.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Captain George Farmer, RN (1732-1779), Oval Liverpool Porcelain Portrait Plaque with enamel sepia tinted transfer print, c.1780, his half-length bust three-quarters right holding a sword, named below on ribband, CAPT FARMER, in copper border with suspension loop, 82.5mm x 55mm including loop. The portrait in excellent undamaged condition, the reverse showing faint hairlines, excessively rare. Farmer was a hero of the frigate HMS Quebec and killed in battle against the French off Ushant on 6 October 1779. His conduct was so highly praised that, at the request of the Admiralty, a baronetcy was conferred on his eldest son, aged just 17. Farmer’s career had seen service in the Falkland Islands in 1769, where his ship, HMS Swift was sunk and he was forced to surrender to the Spanish. Acquited of blame he was appointed to HMS Tamar and sailed for the West Indies in 1761 with Horatio Nelson as a midshipman. The plaque is after a portrait by Charles Grignion the Younger, now in the National Portrait Gallery. A much damaged example of the plaque is to be found in the Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Collections (EM308).
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, World Medals, Egypt, The Order of the Republic, instituted 1953, Presented to His Excellency Dr Wolfgang Kiesewetter (1924-1991), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the German Democratic Republic to the Arab States in Cairo (1961-1963), cased First Class Set comprising Silver, Gilt and Enamel Badge, 63mm, and ten-pointed Breast Star, 94mm, the former with suspender and Sash, each stamped with Egyptian standard and maker’s marks, dress miniature and button-hole rosette, in deep blue leather case of issue, the lid embossed with arms of the republic and numeral 1. Extremely fine and extremely rare.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, World Medals, Russia, Alexander Cadet Corps, Silver Jetton, multienameled, hallmarked 84 and maker’s mark ‘??’, obv red enameled crowned Alexander cypher over crossed red and light blue enameled banners, red enameled ‘II’ on small disk below, rev crossed sceptres with legend, inscribed ‘1894-96’ to ‘A.H. ??????’ on disk below (Werlich, Jettons fig.J-73). Some minor enamel chipping and moderate wear, good very fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Medals by Subject, Law and Science, A Group of Badges of Office, Badges and Buttons, to J R W Alexander, Badges (2) of the Incorporated Accountants and Arbitrators, openwork Silver, hallmarked for 1958 and 1972; Gilt and enamel named badge of the Institution of Gas Engineers; with sundry others for attendance at conferences etc, many with enamelled design (12). Generally extremely fine. (15) J R W Alexander, CBE (1897-1985), read History and Law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, with degrees of BA and LLB in 1924. He was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1925 and was successively Parliamentary Secretary to the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Arbitrators, Secretary to the Institution of Gas Engineers, President of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators, President of the Institute of Arbitrators and Chairman of the London Court of Arbitrators. The J R W Alexander Studentship at Fitzwilliam College honours him and he was the founder and first secretary and treasurer of the Fitzwilliam Society.
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