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Preisdatenbank abonnierenFrance. Legion of Honour, Knight's breast badge. Good scarce mid 19th century example with white enamel arms joined by green enamel laurel sprays (enamel to one leaf absent). The obverse depicts Napoleon's head with blue enamel ring NAPOLEON EMP. DES FRANCAIS; the reverse with eagle within chipped blue enamel ring HONNEUR ET PATRIE. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Bedfordshire Regiment Victorian Officer's glengarry badge circa 1881-96. Good scarce die-stamped gilt Garter, domed black velvet centre mounted with a star bearing Maltese cross with central stag on translucent blue enamel ground. Loops. Service wear. GC INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Bedfordshire Regiment Victorian post 1881 Office's forage cap badge. Fine die-stamped gilt Maltese cross superimposed on eight pointed star bearing the Garter. To the blue enamel centre, a silver hart crossing a ford. Beneath the Garter, an applied silver scroll BEDFORDSHIRE. Loops. VGC INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Similar Royal Artillery 14ct Gold Regimental Sweetheart Brooch. This Royal Artillery bar brooch, is set with small diamond chips to the wheel and with enamel decoration. Stamped 14ct with maker's stamp of "PT". Retaining pin fitting. Width 5.5cm. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Army Dental Corps & Royal Engineers Gold & Enamel Regimental Sweetheart Brooches. The Army Dental Corps is a fine example in the form of regimental cap badge worn during the Great War. Reverse impressed with 9 CT. Complete with hook, pin. Approximately 5cm ... Accompanied by a Royal Engineers (GVR) unmarked gold & enamel brooch. complete with pin and hook. Repair to reverse. Approximately 5cm (2 items) INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Imperial German WW1 Picklehaube Cover Good scarce one piece cover is with green numerals 158 to the front. The interior retains metal clips and the maker's details. Minor age wear ... Accompanied by a German issue field cup with field grey enamel. (2 items) INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
WW1 East Surrey Regiment MC Russian Order of St.Anne Group of Five Medals. Awarded to Lieutenant Reginald Charles Gold MC.Comprising: Military Cross "LT R.C.GOLD SEPT 3RD 1916 (privatley engraved), 1914/15 Star, "2. LIEUT R C GOLD E. SURR.R.", British War Medal, Victory Medal, "LIEUT", Russian Order of St.Anne 3rd Class with swords (gilt & enamel) Mounted as originally worn. London Gazette 24th November 1916. "Lt. Reginald Charles Gold, E. Surr. R.For conspicuous gallantry in action, assumed command of and handled his Battalion with great courage and initiative, and set a splendid example to his men."Lieutenant Reginald Charles Gold MC was commissioned in December 1914 into the 9th Bn East Surrey Regiment, later promoted Lieutenant 7th April 1917, then serving with the 3rd Bn.H landed in France 28th September 1915 and was reported wounded on the 21st September 1916. In March 1919 he is known to have being serving at Archangel. The award of the Russian Order of St.Anne is confirmed in the Roll of Imperial Russian Awards to British recipients INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
21st Bn London Regiment & King Edward's Horse Gold & Enamel Regimental Sweetheart Brooches. The 21st London Regiment is a good example in the form of regimental cap badge Reverse impressed with 9 CT. Complete with pin and hook. Approximately 4cm ... Accompanied by a King Edward's Horse brooch. complete with pin and hook stamped 9ct. Approximately 4cm (2 items) INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Badge. 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment Victorian Officer's shoulder belt plate circa 1843-55. Fine scarce rectangular matt gilt seed plate mounted with elongated eight pointed star with squared points, the principal rays with gilt wash bearing honours. Mounted on the star, gilt crowned scroll PENINSULA over laurel sprays resting on WATERLOO scroll; blue translucent enamel centre with circlet CORNWALL REGT and central 32. Two hooks and two studs. VGC INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Gloucestershire Regiment Victorian Officer's forage cap badge circa 1881-96. Fine scarce die-cast gilt Sphinx on EGYPT resting in laurel sprays over Arms of the City of Gloucester, ornamented with red enamel, on irregular title scroll. Four loops. GC INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Badge. King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry) Victorian Officer's helmet plate circa 1891-1901. Fine scarce rich gilt crowned star mounted with Garter and laurel sprays bearing silver scroll THE KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY, black enamel centre with silver French Horn and central Rose. Three loops VGC INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Badge. Scottish. 1st (the Royal) Regiment of Foot Victorian Officer's shoulder belt plate circa 1844-55. A very fine and scarce seeded gilt rectangular plate with burnished rim; mounted with cut silver Thistle star set on a gilt slip; mounted on the star, a gilt oval resting in a scroll THE ROYAL REGIMENT with St. Andrew and the Cross to centre set on a blue translucent enamel ground. Two hooks and two studs. VGC INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Royal Artillery 15ct Gold Regimental Sweetheart Brooch. This Royal Artillery bar brooch, is set with small diamond chips to the wheel and with enamel decoration. Stamped 15ct to the bar and retaining pin fitting. Length 5cm, housed in old jewellery box. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Badge. 82nd Foot (Prince of Wales's Vols) Regiment of Foot George IV Officer's 1827 HM silver shoulder belt plate. Fine rare example by DD (probably Daniel Denny) hallmarked London 1827. Rectangular plate mounted with silver eight pointed star, each bearing a battle honour with 82 on the lower rays. Within a gilt circlet PRINCE OF WALES'S VOLUNTEERS, the Prince of Wales’s plumes, coronet and motto on translucent blue enamel ground Two hooks and two studs. VGC INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
German Third Reich 1939 SA Stormtrooper's Dagger by Eickhorn, Solingen. Good example with double-edged blade, the front etched with "Alles fur Deutschland", and reverse with maker's squirrel logo and circular RZM M7/66 1939 device. Brown wooden grip inlaid with eagle and swastika, and circular SA device in white metal and enamel. Nickel-plated top guard and cross-guard. Housed in its original brown scabbard with nickel-plated mounts and single suspension-ring retaining associated leather strap stamped L2/371/36 with nickel plated clip by Assmann stamped DRGM RZM M5/8. Nickel plating begining to lift on dagger mounts, scabbard with wear otherwise GC. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Tank Corps & RNAS Gold & Enamel Regimental Sweetheart Brooches. The Tank Corps is a fine example by CP & Co. in the form of regimental cap badge. Reverse impressed with maker's mark and faint gold mark. Complete with pin and hook, minor damage to the enamel. Approximately 5cm ... Accompanied by a RNAS Royal Naval Air Service Brooch. Stamped 9CT complete with pin and hook. Approximately 4cm (2 items) INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Machine Gun Guards WW1 Officer's 1918 HM silver and enamel cap star. Fine scarce Birmingham hallmarked die-cast star with pierced circlet QUINQUE JUNCTA IN UNO 1916 on blue enamel, central GMR cypher on a red translucent enamel. Star points depicted as bullets. B & P (Bent & Parker) Loops VGC INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Badge. West Suffolk Militia Victorian Officer's pre 1855 shoulder belt plate. Fine and scarce silvered rectangular plate mounted with hobnail star, in turn mounted with gilt crowned Garter with ornate ended WEST SUFFOLK scroll below. Translucent crimson enamel Cross of St. George to domed centre. Two hooks and two studs. VGC Originally raised at Bury St.Edmunds on 27th April 1759, became 3rd Bn. Suffolk Regt. on 1st July 1881. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Badge. 19th (1st Yorkshire North Riding) Regiment of Foot Victorian Officer's shoulder belt plate circa 1840. Fine seeded gilt rectangular plate, with lined edges, mounted with cut silver star bearing gilt crowned roped circlet with finely seeded XIX to centre on a translucent green enamel ground (small crack). (Parkyn 187) Two hooks and two studs. VGC 19th Foot (1st York North Riding) became The Princess of Wales Own (Yorkshire Regiment) in 1881. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Dorsetshire Regiment Victorian Officer's forage cap badge circa 1881-94 . Good scarce silver two tower Castle and Key surmounted by a green enamel scroll PRIMUS IN INDIS and on another MONTIS INSIGNIA CALPE over a gilt Sphinx on green enamel MARABOUT tablet. Loops. Cental scoll with some enamel loss. GC INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
1st VB Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regt.) Attributed Officer's Home Service Pattern Helmet & Side Cap Attributed to Captain H.M. Clifford of the 1st Volunteer Battalion. A good clean rare example, of the home service pattern helmet, blue cloth material with silver plated furniture, including, chinchain with velvet backing. To the front a Victorian crown regimental helmet plate, to the centre resting upon a blue enamel ground the Regimental device. Also with title scrolls “Sherwood Foresters 1st Volunteer Battalionâ€. The interior with leather sweatband, this with crimson silk edging. No moth very good shape ... Accompanied by an Officer's field service side cap. This of dark blue material with silvered Regimental Victorian cap badge and buttons. The interior with a paper label ink name "H.M. Clifford" GC ... Also an original photograph of Captain Clifford wearing full dress uniform and holding this helmet ... All contained in a metal home service helmet storage tin. Overall VGC. (4 items) Captain later Major Horace Montague Clifford, resigned his commission 1907. He volunteered during the Great War and served with the 2/5th Bn Sherwood Foresters landing in France in 1917. He was wounded at Kemmel in 1918. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Royal Warwickshire Regiment Victorian Officer's post 1881 bullion forage cap badge. Good scarce gold wire embroidered crown over gilt metal Garter bearing Antelope to translucent blue enamel centre; attendant laurel sprays. Minor service wear, slightly toned, generally VGC. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
A good and unusual example of a military pattern boot fighting knife that has been used by a member of the Hitler Youth. Fitted with 15cm straight spear point blade, the hilt with two piece wooden grip, inlaid with a Hitler Youth enamel diamond device. Housed in an associated Great War trench fighting knife metal scabbard with leather belt loop, this retaining strap. The scabbard regimentally stamped "EB 73.1.1?" Overall GC. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Royal Army Pay Corps and Royal Signals Regimental Sweetheart Broochs. RAPC gold bar brooch bearing Corps crest in red and blue enamel stamped 9 CARAT retaining pin fitting with roller catch ... Royal Corps of Signals converted bar brooch stamped 22 K and overseas markings retaining pin fitting. (2 items) INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Royal Berkshire Regiment & Sherwood Foresters Gold Regimental Sweetheart Brooches 2 Items. Comprising: Royal Berkshire Regiment faint gold stamp to the bar. Complete with pin with safety catch. Width 5cm ... Accompanied by a similar example for the Notts & Derby Regiment. The bar stamped 15ct. Width 5cm. Damage to the enamel decoration. (2 items) INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Badge. Scots Fusilier Guards Victorian Officer's shoulder belt plate circa 1831-55. Fine and scarce seeded gilt rectangular plate, with burnished rim, mounted with a cut silver Star of the Order of the Thistle set on a gilt slip; mounted on the star, on green translucent enamel ground, a pierced gilt strap inscribed NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT with Thistle to centre. Original leather backing inscribed in ink 1844-1855. (Parkyn 70) Two hooks and two studs. VGC INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
Scottish. 1st (Royal) Regiment of Foot post 1861 Officer's forage cap badge. Fine scarce silver Order of the Thistle Star mounted with gilt oval bearing the legend NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT THE ROYAL REGIMENT'; within the oval, the pierced Order of the Thistle Collar, St.Andrew and Cross to centre set on a rich blue enamel ground. Loops replaced by stout brooch pin. VGC Blue enamel centre worn by Officers of the 1st Battalion, green enamel by those of the 2nd Battalion. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY
A photographic mirror plate, showing the interior of Dunkeld Cathedral, the view taken by George Washington Wilson, housed in a carved oak frame measuring approx. 36cm x 25cm externally, ebony and brass MacNaughton spirit level, enamel and gilt opera glasses retailed by Lennie of Edinburgh, bone fan etc. Condition Report:Available upon request
A collection of silver including a cased set of Victorian silver Maiden terminal coffee spoons and sugar tongs, by Horace Woodward, Sheffield 1889, a cased set of continental white metal apostle spoons, a silver christening set, by Francis Howard, Sheffield, and a cased set of silver and enamel coffee spoons, by Thomas Bradbury & Sons, Sheffield 1932, and a Swiss white metal spoon, weighable silver 222gms (5) Condition Report:Available upon request
A possible Liverpool enamel plate decorated with a church and buildings, an 18th century Derby tea for two painted with carnations, comprising teapot, cups and saucers, milk jug, sugar bowl, slop bowl, plate and preserve dish, together with a Davenport Stone China platter Condition Report:Available upon request
A collection of silver including an Austrian silver cigarette case, by Alexander Sturm, a Georgian silver teaspoon, a stamped 800 enamel spoon, the bowl decorated with St. Mark's Lion, another German spoon, by Max Fleischmann, Pforzheim, a silver bonbon dish, and a Mexican silver mother of pearl pill box, and a white metal gilt model of Christ on the Cross, 209gms (7) Condition Report:Available upon request
A 14k gold Royal Doulton locket. Pattern name 'Eleanor' a limited edition of 534/750, set with sapphires, with a diamond set bail and enamel, length including bail 5.2cm, with a 46cm 14k gold belcher chain and matching earrings, weight all together 11.6gms Condition Report:Available upon request
A 9ct cased Uno watch, weight of the watch with strap and mechanism 17gms, a collection of watches to include a retro Elftime, Roamer, a Military 1/10 Sec stop watch, VC/2534 18692, silver and costume jewellery to include a horse themed tie slide, and a silver and enamel Glasgow roses brooch Condition Report:No condition report available.
* Downes (Thomas Price, active 1835-1887). Portrait of Mrs Henry Back, circa 1851, oil on canvas, half-length portrait of a young woman with flower sprigs in her swept-back brown hair, wearing a lace-trimmed black gown, a brooch, and gold link and enamel bracelets, and carrying a folding fan, against a backdrop of sky, re-lined, contemporary manuscript label on stretcher with name of sitter and artist (latter indistinct), 91.5 x 71 cm (36 x 28 ins), period gilt moulded frame with elaborate strapwork and volute pattern (119.5 x 99 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Fanny Lamprière (born 1830) was courted by the artist John Everett Millas (1829-1926), although she later married land-owning magistrate Henry Back (born 1811), on 7th July 1851, in Ewell, Surrey. The Lamprières were a Jersey family, and Millais had strong connections to the island, having lived there for the first nine years of his life. Later he spent a lot of time at Rozel Manor, St Martin, Jersey, home of Philip Raoul Lemprière, the brother of Fanny's father Captain William Charles Lamprière. It is said that Raoul (as he was known), gave the artist his first paintbox, and when Millais went to London to continue his training as a painter, he was befriended by Arthur and Harry Lemprière, two of Fanny's brothers. 'We always called him Johnny', said Arthur, 'and he constantly spent the holidays with us at our home in Ewell, Surrey. He always seemed to be sitting indoors, to have a pen, pencil, or brush in his hand, rattling off some amusing caricature or other drawing'. Indeed, Millais made a number of informal sketches of the Lamprière family, and Arthur later sat for one of Millais’ most famous paintings The Huguenot in 1852. In 1846 Millais sent two painted Valentines to Fanny, but we can only guess at subsequent events; just five years later there is a somewhat sad mention of her - the married lady - in the only diary the painter kept. He was staying near to Ewell, and had chanced upon his 'old flame' as she returned from church: "I wished myself anywhere but there; all seemed so horribly changed, the girl I knew so well calling me ‘Mr Millais’ instead of ‘John’, and I addressing ‘Fanny’ as ‘Mrs B’. She married a man old enough to be her father; he trying to look the young man, with a light cane in his hand … an apparently stupid man, plain and bald, perfectly stupefied at Mrs B asking me to make a little sketch of her ugly old husband. They left, she making a bungling expression of gladness at having met me."
* English School. Portrait of a Lady, circa 1850, oil on canvas, a woman wearing a black gown with white lace trimmed fichu and a bonnet with white lace and pale blue ribbons sits at a table with pen in hand, writing a letter, a black enamel inkwell is placed beside her on the table, and a Georgian era marble bust is displayed to her left, typed research notes to verso, areas of craquelure, canvas size 43.2 x 35.5 cm (17 x 14 ins), in a contemporary gilt wood frame (67 x 58 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Amateur research notes suggest that the painting may be "attributed to Francis Grant", and that the sitter could "possibly (be) Mrs Gaskell... (but) is more likely the novelist Ellen Wood - Mrs Henry Wood".Parkers Fine Art, Fine Paintings and Frame Sale, 11 March 2023, lot 131.
Portugal, Republic, Order of Industrial Merit, Grand Officer’s set of insignia, by Frederico Costa, Lisbon, comprising neck badge, 95mm including wreath suspension x 65mm, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked; Star, 80mm, silver and enamel, maker’s cartouche to base of hinge on reverse, with neck riband, in fitted case of issue, about extremely fine (2) £360-£440
Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Third Class neck badge, 76mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 62mm, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, with silver mark to obverse and mint mark and silver mark to reverse, with narrow neck riband, in original embossed case of issue, minor red enamel damage to crescent suspension, otherwise good very fine £180-£220
The unique Great War 'Gibraltar Naval Hospital' R.R.C. and 'Plymouth Naval Hospital' Second Award Bar pair awarded to Head-Sister-in-Chief M. L. Hughes, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel; British War Medal 1914-20 (Hd. Sister M. L. Hughes. Q.A.R.N.N.S.) mounted court-style for display, with lady’s bow riband to the RRC, good very fine; the award of a Second Award Bar to the RRC unique to the QARRNS for the Great War (2) £1,400-£1,800 --- Only 8 Royal Red Crosses First Class and 1 Second Award Bar were awarded to Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service during the Great War. R.R.C. London Gazette 16 December 1916. R.R.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 9 May 1919. Miss Mildred Lloyd Hughes was born at Lampeter, Cardiganshire, on 9 March 1879, and trained at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, joining Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service on 28 December 1908. Posted initially to Haslar Hospital as a Nursing Sister on 15 September 1909, she was advanced Superintending Sister in 1911, before being posted to Gibraltar Hospital on 14 January 1913. She served in Gibraltar during the first two years of the Great War, where the hospital was, from the start of May 1915 onwards, dealing with the influx of casualties from Gallipoli. For her services dealing with both the administrative and medical needs of the wounded, she was awarded the R.R.C. Following the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula Miss Hughes was posted back to the U.K. in April 1916, and on 22 November 1916 was posted to Plymouth Naval Hospital as Head Sister. For her services at Plymouth Naval Hospital she was awarded the unprecedented Second Award Bar to the R.R.C. After the Great War she continued to serve in this position at Plymouth, being promoted Head-Sister-in-Chief on 14 March 1929. She retired on 9 March 1934 and died in Cheshire in 1962.
London & North Western Railway St. John Ambulance Association First Aid Examination Medal, English Division, silver and enamel, for 12 Years’ Service (2) ‘G. Hughes 1923; William Sumner 1923’; North Eastern Railway Centre St. John Ambulance Association Cross for Meritorious First Aid Service, bronze, unnamed; British Railways 15 Years’ First Aid Efficiency Medal (2), 1st type, silver and enamel ‘William D. Payne 1952 N.288’; 2nd type, skeletal silver badge ‘N.E.263 William Blyth 1964’, in card box of issue, good very fine (5) £80-£100
The C.B. and Naval General Service Medal pair awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Plenderleath, 49th Foot, a Captain in H.M.S. Ardent under Nelson at Copenhagen in 1801 and in command of his Regiment at Stoney Creek and Chrystler’s Farm in 1813 The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamel, hallmarked London 1815, maker’s mark ‘IN’, complete with wide swivel-ring suspension and gold ribbon buckle; Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Copenhagen 1801 (Chas. Plenderleath) the first with minor damage to a few petals of green enamel wreath and a small blemish to one reverse arm, the second lightly lacquered, otherwise extremely fine and very rare (2) £12,000-£16,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Glendining, February 1953 (Lots 133 and 134). The small Army Gold Medal awarded to Plenderleath for the battle of Chrystler’s Farm was formerly in the David Spink Collection and now resides in the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa; Dix Noonan Webb, December 2004. Twenty-three medals were issued to the 49th Foot for Copenhagen, together with two to the Rifles and one to the Artillery. The 49th Foot, under Colonel Brock, together with two companies of the Rifle Corps, and a detachment of Artillery, were embarked aboard various ships of the fleet, under the command of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, with Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson as second-in-command. It was during this engagement that Nelson famously ignored Parker’s signal of recall when, with his glass to his blind eye, he said, ‘I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal.’ Charles Plenderleath served as a Captain in the 49th Foot on board the Ardent 64 at Copenhagen, in which battle she formed one of the squadron under the orders of Lord Nelson, and compelled four of the Danish flotilla, one of which was the Jutland of 60 guns, to surrender. The Ardent received considerable damage, and sustained a loss of 29 men killed and 64 wounded, not counting about 40 others who were rendered hors de combat but who were not included in the casualty returns. Early on the following morning, Lord Nelson went on board the Ardent to thank her commander, Captain Thomas Bertie, officers, and people, for their conduct and exertions on the preceding day. In the American war of 1812-14, Plenderleith for the most part had command of the 49th Foot, including the actions of Stoney Creek and Chrystler’s Farm, in both of which actions he was wounded. The following extracts are taken from an account of Stoney Creek given by Lieutenant James Fitzgibbon, 49th Foot, in a private letter, dated 7 June 1813, to the Rev. James Somerville, of Montreal: ‘Major Plenderleath came immediately after to that portion of the line which I had quitted, and, with the men I had left in charge of a sergeant, and a few others, he rushed forward against the guns and took four of them - two and a tumbril were brought away. The others could not be, our men having bayonetted the horses. Major Plenderleath pushed on with about 20 men, following the main road, the men stabbing every man and horse they met with... This handful of men with Major Plenderleath took at this dash, besides the two generals [Chandler and Winder], five field officers and captains, and above 100 prisoners, and brought them off.’ ‘I am of opinion that, had not Major Plenderleath made the dash he did, the Americans would have kept their ground and our ruin would have been inevitable, but finding our people so far advanced in their centre, they broke and fled in every direction and their fire ceased at a time when our line was, as it were, entirely routed.’ Although the Americans claimed Stoney Creek as a victory, their defeat at Chrystler’s Farm was complete. Plenderleath again commanded the 49th and was again wounded. Five Lieutenants of the 49th were also wounded, as well as five men killed and three sergeants and thirty-four men wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Plenderleath subsequently received a C.B. and the Field Officers’ Gold Medal for the action at Chrystler’s Farm. Lieutenant-Colonel Plenderleath was placed on the Half Pay of the 49th shortly afterwards and saw no further active service. He died in 1854.
An Order of St. John Serving Sister’s group of three awarded to Sister E. M. King, St. John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s badge, silver and enamel; Defence Medal; Service Medal of the Order of St. John, with 5 Additional Award Bars (28637 A/Sis. E. M. King, No. 1 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1944) re-engraved naming, mounted court style for wear, white enamel damage to first, nearly very fine and better (3) £40-£50 --- Provenance: Eric Smith Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, November 2009.
A fine Second War ‘Tobruk’ Brigade Major’s D.S.O., Order of St. John, group of eight awarded to Major G. Bestford, 6th South African Infantry Brigade Headquarters, 2nd South African Division, a veteran of the Great War who was wounded in action whilst serving in the ranks of the 20th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Tyneside Scottish) on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme. Subsequently commissioned in to the 25th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Tyneside Irish), Bestford joined the South African Police after the Great War. He was mobilised for service during the Second War, and was taken Prisoner of War at the Fall of Tobruk on 21 June 1942. Bestford returned to the South African Police after the War, rose to District Commandant of Durban, and played a prominent role during the Royal Visit to South Africa in 1947 Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially dated ‘1946’, with integral top riband bar; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s, breast badge, silver and enamels; British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. G. Bestford.) severe edge bruise to BWM; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Africa Service Medal, Second War campaign awards all officially impressed (SAP195478 G. Bestford) mounted as originally worn, and subsequently additionally mounted on card for display, generally nearly very fine or better (8) £2,800-£3,200 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 19 December 1946: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services at Tobruk in 1942.’ The original recommendation, given by Brigadier F. W. Cooper, O.C. 6 SA Bde, states: ‘From 10 Jan 42 to 21 Jun 42 Major Bestford was my [Brigadier F. W. Cooper, O.C. 6 SA Bde] Brigade Major. During that period he carried out his duties with entire disregard for his own comfort under what at times were very trying and dangerous conditions. He was mentioned in despatches for his work during operations at Sollum and Halfaya in Jan 42. During the period the brigade was attached to 1 S.A. Div. at Gazala - Mar - Apr 42 and during the period prior to the fall of Tobruk - Apr - Jun 42 his conduct was an example to all the work he put in over the six months, especially during the two vital days prior to the surrender, entitles him, in my opinion, to a D.S.O. for which I recommend him.’ Order of St John, Serving Brother London Gazette 2 January 1953. M.I.D. London Gazette 15 December 1942: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East during the period November, 1941, to April, 1942.’ George Bestford was one of six sons born to Thomas Bestford, and was born in Gateshead, County Durham, in October 1897. He was educated at the local Higher Grade Secondary School, and at the age of 17 falsified his age to enlist in the 20th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Tyneside Scottish) on 26 October 1914. Bestford advanced to Sergeant, and served with the Battalion in the French theatre of War from 9 January 1916. The Battalion served as part of the 102nd Infantry Brigade on the Somme, and Bestford was wounded in action on 1 July 1916. On the latter date the Battalion were fighting in tandem with the 4th Tyneside Scottish: ‘Owing to the artillery barrage and the intense machine gun fire and the distance (800 yds) of no man’s land to be traversed, the two battalions were almost wiped out, though the positions of the dead showed that they pushed on to the enemy’s second line of trenches before they were annihilated.’ (Battalion War Diary refers) On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the 20th Battalion suffered casualties of 16 officers and 337 other ranks killed, and 10 officers and 268 other ranks wounded. Bestford was amongst the latter, and was evacuated back to the UK. His South African Police service files show that he subsequently received a G.O.C.’s Divisional Commendation in recognition of his gallantry on 1 July 1916. Whilst recuperating from his wounds, Bestford would have received news that his brother William had been killed in action whilst serving with the Royal Engineers on 21 July 1916. The following month, Bestford transferred as Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant to the 29th (Reserve) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was subsequently posted to the 3rd Battalion, and then attached to the 84th Training Reserve Battalion at Hornsea. Major A. E. Ken recommended Bestford for a commission in March 1917: ‘This N.C.O. came very much under my observations, while at Home he attended several Courses of Instruction and on each one did very well indeed, on one occasion he came under the notice of the Brigadier who complimented him through his C.O. on his success... On Service he was even better, as a leader of men he is a success, I never knew him to shirk any danger or fatigues, and his coolness under Shell and Rifle fire is splendid. I regret to say his C.O. [Lieutenant Colonel C. Sillery] was killed as I knew that he had marked Sgt. Bestford out for distinction and no officers being left (All either killed or wounded) there was no one to put the recommendation forward. I think with a little training at a Cadet School he will make a very good Officer.’ After the requisite time with an Officer Cadet Battalion, Bestford was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers in October 1917. He tragically lost another sibling when his eldest brother, Robert, was killed in action serving with the Durham Light Infantry on 1 December 1917. He was then posted to France for service with the 25th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (2nd Tyneside Irish). After the War, he was attached as a Signalling Officer to the 2/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry for service in Syria and Egypt. Bestford advanced to Lieutenant in May 1919, and relinquished his commission in March of the following year. He sailed for Natal, South Africa, in April 1921, and joined the South African Police in June 1921, and advanced from Constable to Captain, District Officer and Station Officer by June 1940. He was appointed Captain, 1st South African Police Battalion, Union Defence Force later that month, and was appointed to the Staff Headquarters, 6th Infantry (Police) Brigade. He embarked with the 2nd South African Division, and arrived in Egypt in June 1941. Serving across North Africa, at the Battles of Sollum and Halfaya, he was promoted Major in February 1942. Bestford served as Brigade Major, 6th South African Infantry Brigade Headquarters, and under constant attack from Rommel’s Afrika Korps, the Allied Forces retreated from the Gazala Line throughout May and June 1942. The Garrison at Tobruk became isolated and the majority of the 2nd South African Division was captured there en masse as Prisoners of War on 21 June following General Orders to surrender. Unable to escape, Bestford was taken prisoner by the Italians and interned at Campo 75 (Bari). He was subsequently transferred to Germany, and interned in Stalag VII-A, Stalag V-C, and finally at Oflag XII-B at Hadamar. Repatriated in April 1945, he was recommended retrospectively for the D.S.O. Bestford afterward returned to South Africa, and there resumed his employment with the South African Police. He was appointed Commanding Officer, Police Training Depot, Pretoria. During the Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to South Africa in 1947, he had the honour of commanding the mounted escort and the Guard of Honour on special occasions throughout the tour. He was presented with his D.S.O. by the King at Voortrekkerhoogte, ...
The outstanding Great War Tigris Flotilla operations posthumous V.C., Euphrates Flotilla operations D.S.O. awarded to Lieutenant-Commander E. C. Cookson, Royal Navy: severely wounded in winning the latter distinction for extricating the armed launch Shushan out of an Arab ambush in May 1915, he paid the ultimate price for his gallantry in the river gunboat Comet four months later, when, under a storm of point-blank fire, he leapt aboard a Turkish dhow brandishing an axe - a fellow officer later observed ‘there were more bullet holes in him than they cared to count’ Victoria Cross, reverse of suspension bar engraved ‘Lt.-Comdr. E. C. Cookson, D.S.O., Royal Navy’, reverse of Cross dated ‘28 Sep. 1915’, with an old fitted case, the lid gilt inscribed ‘V.C.’; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, both housed in a old fitted glazed display case, loose centre on the last, otherwise extremely fine (2) £180,000-£220,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Sotheby’s, January 1977, when sold by Cookson’s direct descendants. V.C. London Gazette 21 January 1916: ‘The King has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant-Commander Edgar Christopher Cookson, D.S.O., R.N., in recognition of the following act of most conspicuous gallantry during the advance on Kut-el-Amara: On 28 September 1915, the river gunboat Comet had been ordered with other gunboats to examine, and if possible destroy, an obstruction placed across the river by the Turks. When the gunboats were approaching the obstruction, a very heavy rifle and machine-gun fire was opened on them from both banks. An attempt to sink the centre dhow of the obstruction by gunfire having failed, Lieutenant-Commander Cookson ordered the Comet to be placed alongside, and himself jumped on to the dhow with an axe and tried to cut the wire hawsers connecting it with the two other craft forming the obstruction. He was immediately shot in several places and died within a few minutes.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 13 September 1915: ‘Lieutenant-Commander Cookson was conducting a reconnaissance up a creek of the Euphrates, west of Qurnah, in the armed launch Shushan on 9 May 1915, when he was heavily attacked by Arabs concealed in the reeds. Although severely wounded early in the action, he resumed command after his wounds had been temporarily dressed, and succeeded in most ably extricating the vessel from a most perilous position under heavy rifle fire.’ Edgar Christopher Cookson was born at Cavendish Park, Tranmere, Cheshire, in December 1883, the younger son of Captain William Edgar de Crackenthorpe Cookson, R.N. Receiving his early education at Hazelhurst, Frant, he entered the Royal Navy as a Cadet in Britannia in September 1897, where, according to his official service record, he quickly came to the notice of his superiors: ‘Tried by the Portsmouth Magistrates for creating a disturbance at a music hall and using obscene language in the streets: he should not have been out of the college, being confined to college at the time. Deprived of three months time and Their Lordships severe displeasure expressed. To be reported on the end of three months.’ Here, then, early signs of an adventurous character whose youthful transgressions were quickly brought to heel by his seniors, and he duly passed out as a Midshipman with an appointment in H.M.S. Jupiter in the Channel Squadron. Removing to the Dido in early 1900, he witnessed active service off China during the Boxer Rebellion (Medal), and was advanced to Sub. Lieutenant in February 1903. And by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was serving as a recently promoted Lieutenant-Commander in the sloop Clio in the Far East. Immediate D.S.O. Ordered to Basra to reinforce the Navy’s small flotilla operating on the Euphrates and Tigris in Mesopotamia in early 1915, the Clio and her consort, Espiegle, were largely incapacitated from further operations owing to the shallowness of the waters that had to be navigated, and, in their place, a remarkable ‘gallimaufry of vessels’ was formed, a flotilla best described by Colonel Sir Mark Sykes: ‘There are paddle steamers which once plied with passengers and now waddle along with a barge on either side, one perhaps containing a portable wireless station and the other bullocks for heavy guns ashore; there are once respectable tugs which stagger along under the weight of boiler plating - to protect them from the enemy’s fire - and are armed with guns of varying calibre; there is a launch which pants indignantly between batteries of 4.7s, looking like a sardine between two cigarette-boxes; there is a steamer with a Christmas-tree growing amidships, in the branches of which its officers fondly imagine they are invisible to friend or foe. There is also a ship which is said to have started life as an aeroplane in Singapore, but shed its wings, kept its propeller, took to water, and became a hospital. And this great fleet is the cavalry screen, advance guard, rear guard, flank guard, railway, general headquarters, heavy artillery, line of communication, supply depot, police force, field ambulance, aerial hangar and base of supply of the Mesopotamian Expedition.’ Among this ‘great fleet’ was the newly commissioned stern-wheel river launch Shushan and, in April, Cookson was appointed to her command. Nor did it take long for him to make his mark - Deeds That Thrill the Empire takes up the story: ‘It was in the early days of the advance on Kut-el-Amara, when the advanced sections of our forces had reached the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates; and before pushing on along the valley of the former river, it was necessary to ascertain whether any considerable body of enemy troops had withdrawn up the Euphrates with the intention of coming down upon our lines of communication after the main force had passed on. The task of carrying out the reconnaissance fell to Lieutenant-Commander Cookson and his armed launch, the Shushan. The little steamer plugged her way up the Euphrates for some distance, a sharp look-out being kept on either side; but no sign of the enemy was discovered. Presently Cookson came to a tributary branching off to the left, and, impelled more by instinct than anything else, slackened the speed of the lumbering launch and steered her out of the main stream between the closer banks of the creek. On either side the tributary was flanked by a dense growth of rushes, which gently swayed in the wash of a passing vessel. For some distance the Shushan pushed on, the men on deck scanning every yard of the banks as they passed, still without finding a trace of a living soul. The Lieutenant-Commander was about to give up this particular part of his search as useless, and had already given orders preparatory to putting the vessel about for the return journey, when suddenly from among the rushes on both sides of the creek there burst forth a furious fusillade of rifle-fire. The Arabs, lying concealed amidst and behind the dense-growing rushes, could not be seen; but the guns, machine guns and rifles on board the Shushan instantly got to work and rained a steady stream of bullets along the banks. With all possible haste, but still all too slowly, the cumbersome Shushan was turned round in mid-stream, and off she set at the best of her poor speed to break out of the hornet’s nest into which she had stumbled. The enemy had disposed themselves well, but fortunately the launch had been well fitted up for the work she had to do,...
Belgium, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Commander’s neck badge, 77mm including wreath suspension x 58mm, gilt and enamel, with neck riband and miniature award, in de Vigne-Hart, Brussels, case of issue; together with a Medal of the Order of Leopold II, Second Class, silver, in card box of issue, minor enamel damage to wreath suspension, good very fine Japan, Empire, Order of the Sacred Treasure, Fifth Class breast badge, 44mm, silver-gilt and enamel, complete with sacred beads, with original riband with rosette on riband and with full hook and eye assembly, with lapel rosette, in slightly damaged rio-nuri lacquered case of issue, extremely fine Spain, Franco Period, Order of Military Merit, Third Class Star, 59mm, silver, gilt, and enamel, with white enamel cross for a peace-time award, good very fine (4) £80-£100
Germany, Federal Republic, Order of Merit, Commander’s neck badge, 58mm, gilt and enamel, with full neck riband, in Steinhauer & Lück, Lüdenscheld, case of issue, extremely fine £60-£80 --- Note: The case is labelled ‘Germany 1972’, the year of a German incoming State Visit to the United Kingdom, suggesting that this award may well have been presented to a British recipient.
A Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Matron Katherine A. J. Smythe, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, who served aboard Egyptian hospital trains, and was twice Mentioned in Despatches The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918, on lady’s bow riband; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sister’s) shoulder badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; 1914-15 Star (K. A. J. Smythe. B.R.C.S. & O.S.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (K. J. A. [sic] Smythe. B.R.C.S. & St. J. J.) good very fine (5) £400-£500 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 10 June 1918. M.I.D. London Gazettes 13 October 1916 and 7 July 1917. Katherine Altamont Jane Smythe was born in 1867 and took her nursing studies at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London from 1892 to 1895. She joined the British Red Cross and Order of St John of Jerusalem in August 1914, and was posted to Egypt where she was twice Mentioned in Despatches by Sir Archibald Murray and later recognised with the Order of the British Empire. She ended her military service on 17 March 1919 as Matron of Hospital Trains, her address at that time recorded as The Arsenal, Alexandria.
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