An extremely rare Boer War R.R.C. pair awarded to Nursing Sister H. Hogarth, Army Nursing Service Reserve, one of just three such decorations granted for services in hospital ships in the Boer War, in her case as a hand-picked member of staff aboard the Princess of Wales Royal Red Cross, 1st Class, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with original riband and brooch-pin for wearing; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister H. Hogarth), enamel slightly chipped on upper arm of the first, otherwise good very fine (2) £2000-3000 R.R.C. London Gazette 26 June 1902: ‘Miss H. Hogarth, Army Nursing Service Reserve, Hospital Ship Princess of Wales.’ Mention in despatches London Gazette 17 June 1902 (Lord Roberts’ final despatch). Helen Hogarth was one of just four nursing staff hand-picked by H.R.H. Princess Christian to serve on the royal hospital ship Princess of Wales and the only ‘Nursing Sister ‘to receive the Royal Red Cross for services in such circumstances. ‘The Princess of Wales ‘Much of the history behind the creation of the Princess of Wales is well documented in the columns of The Times, Lord Wantage having corresponded with the newspaper in October 1899 about the creation of the Central British Red Cross Committee, including the Army Nursing Service Reserve, whose President was H.R.H. Princess Christian. In turn she became Honorary President of the newly formed Committee, out of which emerged the funding for a fully equipped hospital ship. The vessel in question, the well-known yachting steamer Midnight Sun, was chartered for the purpose and sent to the Armstrong works for the necessary alterations into a 200-bed hospital ship, ready to leave for South Africa by the end of November 1899. In addition to assisting with the cost of fitting the ship, Her Royal Highness spent more than £1,000 in luxuries and comforts for the sick and wounded soldiers and, at the express wish of the Central British Red Cross Committee, consented that the ship be called the Princess of Wales. In the company of her husband, she visited the ship at Tilbury Docks in late November, just before her departure for South Africa - painted white, the Princess of Wales had the Geneva Cross ‘standing out in bold relief on her side’. The Times continues: ‘The interior fittings have been swept away, commodious wards taking the place of dining room, music room, and so on, and the ship now represents a perfectly equipped floating hospital. There are three large wards, and one small one, the last being for officers, and altogether cots are provided for about 200 patients .. The operating room is on the lower deck, in the middle of the ship, and is fitted, not only with a cluster of electric lights showing right down on the operating table, but with the Rontgen rays, as well. Then there is a well-arranged dispensary and also an isolation ward. In addition to the wards already spoken of there are some private cabins available for sick and wounded officers. Three refrigerating rooms with a total capacity of 2,200 feet, have been arranged, in order to allow of an adequate supply of fresh meat being carried for the long voyage. The Principal Medical Officer will be Major Morgan, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and he will have three assistants from the same corps. Of nursing sisters there will be four Ð one, who will superintend, from the Army Nursing Service, and three from the Army Nursing Service Reserve of the Central British Red Cross Committee. The three have been personally selected by Princess Christian, who has taken the greatest interest in the arrangements .. The nurses (Sisters Chadwick, Brebner, Hogarth, and Spooner), the staff and the men of the Royal Army Medical Corps who go out with the vessel were drawn up on deck as the Royal party came on board. Passing through commodious wards the Royal visitors entered the officers’ ward, into which the dining and music rooms have been converted, and inspected the numerous appliances provided for the relief of the patients .. To the personnel as well as to the vessel the Princess of Wales devoted much attention. Her Royal Highness presented to each nurse a distinguishing badge and addressed to them individually a few words of encouragement and approbation .. The Princess then proceeded along the line of R.A.M.C. men, 23 in number, and to each she handed a badge. To a similar number of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Her Royal Highness also gave badges and expressed special interest in this branch of the hospital staff, who, for the first time, are being sent abroad for service.’ And those services were much required by the time the Princess of Wales reached South Africa in the wake of ‘Black Week ‘in December 1899, unprecedented British casualties having emerged from the battles of Magersfontein, Stormberg and Colenso. In all, the Princess of Wales made three voyages to South Africa and on each occasion that she berthed back at Southampton the Princess of Wales made private visits to the ship to meet the nursing staff and the sick and wounded. And the first such occasion was in February 1900, when she was cheered into port by nearly 500 men about to depart for South Africa in the Goorkha. The Times once more covered events in detail. ‘Then away to the Empress Dock close to the embarkation office where the Princess of Wales, formerly the Midnight Sun, was being slowly warped up to the quayside. Her bulwarks were lined with as healthy looking a lot of men in blue uniform as ever I saw, but one imagined that below there must be many worse cases. But it was comforting to find on asking Major Morgan, who was the R.A.M.C. surgeon in charge, that, as a matter of fact, there was only one man out of the 174 who was not on deck, and that he was carried on deck every day. In fact, the state in which the men arrived did every credit to Major Morgan and Miss Chadwick, the superintendent nursing sister, and to the nurses, female and male, who have been in charge of them. Of limbs lost there appeared to be but a small percentage, but of a sort of partial paralysis following upon a wound from a Mauser bullet there were a good many cases among these victims of Magersfontein and the Modder River .. ‘The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the officers, nursing staff and wounded men on board the ship the day after it had docked at Southampton, carrying out a ‘friendly inspection ‘of each and every ward, The Times’ correspondent reporting that ‘there is not one of the 176 men on board the Princess of Wales who cannot boast that the wife of the Prince of Wales has spoken to him words of comfort and encouragement.’ On 14 April 1900 the Princess of Wales left Southampton for Table Bay, Cape Town, where she worked as a floating hospital until returning home with more wounded and invalids that July - as was the case before, the Princess of Wales inspected the ship and met all of the 170 casualties and the nursing staff, Major Morgan and the Nursing Sisters being presented to the Princess as she arrived on board. So, too, on her return from her third and final trip in December 1900, when the Princess of Wales was introduced to two particularly bad cases: ‘The cases that aroused the deepest sympathy of Her Royal Highness were those of two men named Stoney, of the Liverpool Regiment, and Dyer, of the Scots Guards. Stoney was wounded in eight places, most of the bullets having been fired into him after he had been knocked down; while Dyer was shot through the head and paralysed in both legs and one arm.’ Moreover, The Times report continues: ‘Before leaving the ship she presented the four nursing sisters Ð Misses Chadwick, Brebner, Hogarth, and Spooner Ð with a souvenir brooch. The brooch consists of a white enamel cross surmounted by a gold crown, and the front of the cross bears the initial ‘A’ in gold.’ In the course of this visit, the Princess was presented with an official rec
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A Great War M.C. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant Norman McCracken, Royal Sussex Regiment, late Royal Fusiliers Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (1805 Pte.,R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Belgium, Order of Leopold II, Knight’s breast badge, silvered metal and enamel, silver palm on ribbon; Belgium, Croix de Guerre, ‘A’ cypher, good very fine (8) £850-950 M.C. London Gazette 18 July 1917. ‘Temp. 2nd Lt., R. Suss. R.’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He has performed valuable work when on patrol. He twice took out patrols under very heavy fire and came in contact with the enemy each time. He also organised the cutting of our own wire, which was carried out under heavy shell fire’. Norman McCracken was born in Kilburn, London on 13 November 1881 and was educated at Highgate School. By occupation a Mercantile Clerk, he attested for service in the Royal Fusiliers at Westminster on 2 September 1914. Posted to the 18th Battalion, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 14 November 1915. He was posted to No.4 Officer Cadet Battalion in the U.K. on 20 May 1916 and on 25 September 1916 was discharged to a commission in the Royal Sussex Regiment. Returning to France McCracken won the Military Cross for his bravery in action. Serving with the 7th attached 3rd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment McCracken was wounded at Epehy on 21 September 1918 - suffering a gunshot wound to the left thigh. Sold with copied service papers, gazette extracts and m.i.c. The M.I.D. and Belgian decorations not confirmed.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (6460 Pte. J. Day, S. Lanc. Regt. ) good very fine (3) £90-110 Sold with British Empire Service League Canadian Legion Badge, bronze-gilt and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘James S. Day, Salmon Arm (B.C.52) 1941-5’, with Past President - Branch’ brooch bar; also with South African War 60th Anniversary Badge 1962, with paper insert named to ‘James T. Day’, complete with ribbon. With copied roll extract.
A French 19th century gilt brass four pillar mantel clock By Deniere & Matelin, Paris the eight day movement striking the hours and half hours on a bell, stepped pediment with roundel frieze above a lappet cast circular enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, signed 'Deniere & Matelin, fab. de bronzes a Paris', on stepped and lappet cast plinth base with bun feet 19cm wide, 31.3cm high, 12.2cm deep
A French late 19th century miniature gilt brass and enamel carriage clock the foliate engraved gorge case with swing handle and jewelled platform lever escapement, the face and sides decorated with painted porcelain panels of alpine views, the roman dial centred by summer flowers and butterflies, indistinct oval stamp verso and serial no '10335' 4.6cm wide, 8.2cm high, 4.5cm deep
An early 20th century French gilt brass and cloisonne enamel gong clock In the oriental taste the globular clock with cylinder movement striking on a gong, hanging from a stand with foliate decorated enamel columns with a lion mask crest, the base with stylized dog figures on pedestals with scroll feet 38cm high
A French faience hexagonal snuff box, circa 1900, bears a mark 'LILLE 1767', painted with lovers half framed by scrollwork, the sides with flowers, 6cm (2.25in) wide; and an enamel small rectangular snuff box, 20th century, printed and painted with a landscape, the sides yellow, 4.4cm (1.75in) wide
A Russian silver gilt and cloisonne enamel sugar tongs by Georg Kostomo, Moscow 1880-96, 84 zolotniks, with bead outlined panels of scroll foliage, 13cm (5in) long; another similar smaller by Ivan Gubkin, 1896-1908 Kokoshnik mark, signed in full under Imperial warrant, 6.5cm (2.5in) long The sugar tongs by Georg Kostomo would appear to be the tongs belonging to the bowl, also by Kostomo, sold in these rooms on 27th February 2008, lot 90, and belonging to the same vendor
A 19th century Russian silver and cloisonne enamel oblong cigarette case by Ovchinnikov, signed in full, Imperial warrant mark, Moscow 1879, 91 zolotniks, each side decorated with confronting exotic birds in oval reserves, on scroll foliate grounds with further birds, 10.5cm (4in) long, 205g (7.25 oz) gross
A late 19th century ivory and gold mounted dance card case, each side inset with a carved ivory scene of a lady seated under a tree with a cherub and of an urn with a cherub against a pink guilloche enamel grounds, with gold foliate scroll mounts, the hinged cover applied 'SOUVENIR' and 'D'AMITE', containing an ivory two-part tablet and a plain pencil 8.8cm (3.5in) high
A French silver and enamel miniature carriage timepiece, movement number 88679, 1838-1972 1st standard, the 2cm circular white dial with Arabic numerals, in a light blue guilloche and white enamel square case, on ball feet, 5.7cm (2.25in) high with handle raised, with a three quarter plate movement, cocked escape wheel and pallet, bimetallic split balance with overcoil balance spring
A George III gold and enamel memorial ring for Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson by John Slater of the Strand London, dated 21st October 1805, one of approximately 58, the square head with the letter N beneath a viscount's coronetand B for Bronte beneath a ducal coronet above the word Trafalgar with polychrome enamel detailing, on a tapered hoop shank, bearing the motto Palman Qui Meruit Ferat (let him bear the palm of victory who has won it), the underside engraved 'lost to his Country 21 Oct 1805 aged 49', finger size N, losses to the gold work and enamelling on the head the shank split at the base.Approximately 58 of these memorial rings were made by John Slater of the Strand following the death of Nelson at Trafalgar in 1805. The executors of Nelson's will gave the rings to Nelson's relatives. close friends and pall bearers, and a manuscript in the British Museum details all these recipients. Three of these rings are known to have been offered for sale, the first being at Sotheby's in 1926, and the last was sold in 1968 for £190. The ring offered here, although in a poor state of repair, does offer the possibility to the buyer the chance of returning this important and historic jewel to its original state
A collection of 3 Austro-Hungarian enamel Renaissance Revival pendants, the first depicting St George slaying the dragon in polychrome enamels with garnet and seed pearl accents, the bolt ring with French import poinons, 4.5cm long; the second of a blue and gold enamelled harlequin jester suspended from a seed pearl set chain, 5.3cm long; the third of a polychrome enamel mermaid ship's figurehead, with a three strand seed pearl an chain link connection, 5.8cm long
A set of three late 19th century French enamelled brooches, each graduated oval brooch of green guilloche enamel within a black enamel border centrally set with a garnet and half pearl cluster star, the largest 2.6cm long, all with French poinons for 1847 - 1919, maker's mark E0F, in the original brown leather fitted case by Heros
P.Dupont, London, a silver pair cased pocket watch, circa 1780, no. 894, the fusee verge movement with square baluster pillars, silvered winding disc, unmarked repoussŽ outer case, signed silver dial with raised numerals, with a Viner & Co, London, silver George IV hunter pocket watch, London 1829, no.780, with a fusee verge movement with a flat three arm steel balance and a diamond end stone, white enamel dial and black numerals, winding hole at the 4 o'clock position
Richard Burns, Manchester, a silver pair cased pocket watch, Chester 1785, casemaker D.B. stamped to both cases, outer case with repoussŽ work of figures, with a fusee verge movement, no. 406, with cylindrical pillars, steel tapered three arm balance, undersprung balance spring, with white enamel dial, black Roman numerals
George Prior, London, a silver and tortoiseshell triple case verge pocket watch, hallmarked London 1794, no. 26770, verge fusee movement, tulip pillars, fine balance cock, signed enamel dial for the Turkish export market(See Baille 'Watch and Clock Makers of the World' for further information on George Prior, son of John Prior of Nerfield)
Holliwell & Son, Derby, a silver pair cased pocket watch, London 1818, case maker I.K., no. 3308; the white and black enamel dial with four subsidiary dials for hour and minute, running seconds, date, and moonphase with red moon motif to the quarters, the verge movement with three armed steel balance, over sprung balance spring, open balance cock engraved with hare and snail for advance and retard with a sunburst engraved below the balance
J.M.Skarratt & Co, Worcester, an 18 carat gold open faced pocket stop watch, Birmingham 1889, no. 89330, with a three quarter plate movement, bimetallic split balance, flat balance spring, slide for stop/start on the side of the case, off white enamel dial with black Roman numerals and 1/5th of a second outer chapter
James Sewill, 30 Cornhill, Royal Exchange, London, an 18 carat gold hunter pocket watch, London 1898, no.29816, with a four piece hinged case, with a quater plate English lever movement, bimetallic balance, oversprung balance spring with an unusual hairspring stud piece, white enamel dial with black Roman numerals and a sunken subsidiary seconds dial
Le Roy & Fils, Palais Royal, Paris, a gold quarter repeating openfaced pocket watch, circa 1900, no. 45558, with a 15 jewel Swiss repeating bar movement with lever escapement, bimetallic split balance, oversprung flat balance spring, striking on two gongs, side slide action for the repeat, white enamel dial with black Roman numerals
An 18 carat gold Swiss hunter minute repeating pocket watch, circa 1910, no. 22370, with a four piece hinged case, two snap on bezels, Le Coultre & Co 32 jewel minute repeating movement, wolf tooth winding wheel, bimetallic split balance, over coil hair spring, striking on two gongs, side slide action for repeat, glass dust cover, white enamel dial with black numerals, subsidiary seconds dial
John Cashmore, North Buildings, South Place, Finsbury, an 18 carat gold half hunter quarter repeating pocket watch, London 1905, no. 6328, with a four piece hinged case and a three quarter plate repeating movement, with a bimetallic split balance, overcoil hairspring, striking on two gongs, slide action for repeat on side of the case, white enamel dial with black Roman numerals and sunken subsidiary seconds dial, enamelled monogram to case
Fred Johnson, Altrincham, an early 20th century 18 carat gold full hunter quarter repeat pocket watch, circa 1900, ref 63134, the four piece hinged case stamped '18c' with Swiss control marks and engraved with a monogram, the white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, blued steel hands and subsidiary seconds dial, the Swiss three quarter plate movement, no 63134, with bimetallic balance and repeater work train
Thos. Boxell, 43 Kings Rd, Brighton, 18ct gold Swiss keyless open face repeater perpetual calendar pocket watch, London 1884/85, (Swiss marks), the four piece hinged case, push to set hands, pin set to mouth, shade repeat set, with a white enamel dial, black Roman numerals, subsidiary dials running day, date, perpetual months, running seconds and moonphase, with a three quarter plate fifteen jewel movement, pointed tooth escape wheel, bimetallic split balance, overcoil balance spring
A French, a late 19th century gold, enamel, diamond and gem fob watch and chatelaine, circa 1900, ref 37126, with white enamel Roman dial, the three piece hinged case with a blue guilloche enamel back with a polychrome enamel garland of roses at the centre and a rose cut diamond border, Swiss key-wound movement, attached to a chatelaine clip with a central lapis lazuli plaque applied with a rose cut diamond monogram beneath a ruby, emerald and seed pearl surmount, suspending two foxtail tassels with a blue enamellled hinged locket and watch key attached, all stamped with French poinons
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