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![To be sold without reserve Property of a Lady 20th Century A mixed lot of glass and porcelain To include: [a] A decorat](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3c99a0a0-f873-4281-9f77-b0ff00bffc58/cbfe13c8-5188-45e1-987c-b100010ee1be/468x382.jpg)
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To be sold without reserve Property of a Lady 20th Century A mixed lot of glass and porcelain To include: [a] A decorative floral urn with simulated tree branch handles [b] A Murano glass jug [c] A pink cut glass dish [d] A small silver and red enamel decorative floral vase [e] A blue glass lidded pot decorated with painted floral motifs [f] Indian, A miniature mosaic enamel lidded pot Dimensions: [a] 9 in. (H) x 5 in. (D) [b] 8.5 in. (H) x 3.5 in. (D) [c] 5 in. (H) x 5 in. (D) [d] 3.5 in. (H) x 3.5 in. (D) [e] 4.5 in. (H) x 4 in. (D) [f] 2 in. (H) x 1.5 in. (D)
Los 10
English circa 1730 A yellow gold and enamel snuff box The shaped plain oval snuff box mounted to the inside of the lid with an enamel on copper miniature of a lady with pearl earrings and a blue dress in the style of Christian Freidrich Zinke (1685 - 1767) Weight: 105 grams. approximate total weight Dimensions: 6.8 cm (H) x 5.5 cm (W) x 1.9 (D)
![English, Circa 1880 [a]A pair of yellow gold and champleve enamel lorgnettes In original leather case Martin + Co. Goldsmiths](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3c99a0a0-f873-4281-9f77-b0ff00bffc58/1fa71ed0-5ff3-4813-8a3f-b100010e1e33/468x382.jpg)
![European 20th Century [a] Cartier Paris A quartz gilt metal and black lacquer desk clock Numbered 7505 01 887 [b] Carti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3c99a0a0-f873-4281-9f77-b0ff00bffc58/1dea1fba-9343-42af-bf93-b100010dc6bf/468x382.jpg)
![[a] European Late 19th Century Yellow gold fob watch with white enamel dial [b] Two small brilliant cut diamonds [c] Four loo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/3c99a0a0-f873-4281-9f77-b0ff00bffc58/5e1bf404-9501-4d1c-bdc1-b100010e7b35/468x382.jpg)
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A CHINESE CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL VASE ADAPTED AS A LAMP LATE 19TH CENTURY decorated in archaic style, the neck with a band of turquoise taotie heads, the body with a band of scrolling flowers and birds the vase 30cm high Condition Report: vase drilled through the side for electric wire and with stress crack extending from drill hole minor old soldered repair to footgeneral wear commensurate with age Condition Report Disclaimer
Los 395
An 18ct yellow gold half hunter pocket watch, with blue enamel chapter ring, white enamel Roman numeral dial and second subsidiary dial, case 5 cm diameter.92.5 grams gross weight. There are some indentation marks on the rear of the case. The dial is very clean and the glass is without scratches. it opens and closes with precision and runs and ticks.
Los 201
The 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot was raised in 1741 and saw extensive service in North America during the latter half of the 18th century and early 19th century, including in the Caribbean, and subsequently took part in the Crimean War. It amalgamated with the 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot in 1881 to become the 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, and saw further service in the Egyptian campaign and in South Africa during the Boer War, as well as extensive service in both the Great War and the Second World War. Following the Second World War the Regiment amalgamated successively with the Somerset Light Infantry to form the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry in 1959; with the Durham Light Infantry, the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, and the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry to form the Light Infantry in 1968; and then with the Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire, and Wiltshire Light Infantry, and the Royal Green Jackets to form The Rifles in 2007. A Great War 1918 ‘German Spring Offensive’ M.C. group of six awarded to Major J. Trehane, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, who was wounded in action on the Western Front Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J. Trehane.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, reverse officially dated 1953, with additional long service bar dated 1953, and Royal Mint case of issue, mounted as worn, very fine (6) £800-£1,000 --- M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918: ‘For distinguished service in connection with Military Operations with the Armies in France and Flanders.’ John Trehane was born in the small village of Linkinhorne, Cornwall, on 11 July 1894, the son of yeoman farmer John Trehane. Appointed to a commission in the 5th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 4 March 1915, he was posted to Northumberland for training and soon caught the attention of the West Briton on 5 August 1915 when part of a victorious athletics team; at a meeting of 35 teams - held in conjunction with the Lord Mayor’s recruiting campaign at the Newcastle Town Moor - Trehane and nine comrades of the 5th D.C.L.I. squad won the Military Athletics Carnival. Sent to France on 21 May 1916, Trehane went on to serve with the 1/5th Battalion, D.C.L.I. Territorial Force throughout the War. He was wounded in action on 5 January 1917 near the Aveluy-Thiepval Road on the Somme, the date corresponding with War Diary entries noting Battalion engagement in Pioneering tasks on behalf of 1st Division, notably road repairs, the revetment of trenches with brushwood hurdles, and the laying of duckboards - all under fire. Appointed second in command of ‘C’ Company in February 1918, Trehane witnessed first-hand the desperate rearguard actions during the opening stages of the German Spring Offensive. He was later awarded the Military Cross in the King’s Birthday Honours of 1918, with author Hugo White in his book One and All listing Trehane’s name alongside a host of other decorated men ‘in recognition of the many acts of bravery performed by officers and soldiers during the recent German Offensive (the Kaiserschlacht)...’ Returned home to south-east Cornwall, Trehane married Florence Mildred Burch at Liskeard in December 1921 and set about raising two sons and tending 180 acres of land at Rilla Mill near Callington. Devoting his time to stock farming and the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, he was transferred to Class II as Captain upon reaching the age limit in 1934. Keen to serve once again in 1939, Trehane wrote a series of letters to the military authorities stating his desire to join the British Expeditionary Force. Politely rebutted, he determined to relinquish his commission in the T.A.R.O. so as to ‘join the ranks’, but was instead invited to the D.C.L.I. Depot at Bodmin and sent to Essex and the 16th Infantry Holding Battalion at Clacton. It was here that he saw out the Second World War, his time in the east of England followed by extensive service from 1945 to 1953 as Lieutenant in the 1st (North Cornwall) Home Guard. Awarded the Territorial Decoration in the London Gazette of 14 July 1953 after 20 years and 91 days with the Colours, Trehane left the running of the family farm to his sons John and Francis, and finally took his retirement at Westcliffe-on-Sea in Essex. It was here that he died on 28 June 1965. Sold with an attractive swing-mounted group of five miniature awards comprising MC, BWM, VM, Defence and War Medals, the former of GRI vintage; two fine North Eastern Counties Cross Country Association silver and enamel fobs, engraved to reverse ‘Time Test Race. Long Benton. 10/7/15. 5th Duke Cornwall’s L.I. F. Co. 2nd. Lt. Trehane’, and ‘Inter Co. Race Hollinside. 17.7.15 1st 5th Duke Cornwall’s L.I. “F” Co. 2nd Lt. J. Trehane’.; Berwick A. A. Club Military Race 1915, silver fob by Fattorini & Sons, engraved to reverse ‘2nd. Team.’; with bronze and white metal D.C.L.I. cap badges and Home Guard pin; and copied research.
Los 4
A scarce ‘Aro Expedition 1901-02’ D.S.O. and ‘Queen Victoria’s Funeral’ M.V.O. group of six awarded to Major M. L. Goldie, Royal Horse Artillery, who was accidentally killed in France in March 1915 and had won the D.S.O. for ‘conspicuous gallantry at the water picket affair at Ikotobo’ during the Aro expedition Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, lacking integral top riband bar; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 5th Class, breast badge, silver, silver-gilt, gold and enamels, the reverse not numbered; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Aro 1901-1902, high relief bust (Capt: M. L. Goldie, M.V.O, R.A.) officially engraved naming; 1914-15 Star (Major M. L. Goldie, D.S.O., M.V.O. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Major M. L. Goldie.) obverse centre slightly depressed on the first and with minor loss to enamel wreaths, otherwise generally good very fine (6) £2,800-£3,400 --- Mark Leigh Goldie was born in India on 16 October 1875, son of Colonel M. H. G. Goldie, R.E., of Plymouth. He joined the Army on 2 November 1895, as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, in which he became Lieutenant on 2 November 1898, and Captain on 16 November 1901. As a Lieutenant he was created an M.V.O. for his command of the R.H.A. Team at the funeral of H.M. Queen Victoria on 19 March 1901. He served in Southern Nigeria in 1901 and 1902, taking part in the Aro Expedition, for which he was Mentioned in Despatches, received the Medal with clasp, and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette 12 September 1902). He was invested by the King on 18 December 1902. From 1907, Captain Goldie was with B Battery, R.H.A., at Plymouth. He was promoted to Major on 10 May 1912, and served in France from 14 December 1914, with V Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. He died from accidental wounds on 5 March 1915, aged 39, and is buried in Aire Communal Cemetery, France. Fuller detail of the expedition and the circumstances of Goldie’s award of the D.S.O. are given in the despatches of Commissioner R. Moor and Lieutenant Colonel A. Montanaro, published in the London Gazette of 12 September 1902: 
‘The objects of the expedition were:
a) To abolish the slave trade which was actively carried on throughout the entire territories belonging to, and dominated by the Aro tribe.
b) To abolish the fetish of the Aros known as “Long Juju,” which, by superstition and fraud caused many evils amongst the Ibo tribes generally, and to all the outlying tribes of the entire protectorate, who continually appealed to it. While this Juju existed it was impossible to establish effective government in the territories.
c) To open up the whole of the Ibo country lying between the Cross River and the Niger to civilization and trade of collecting the natural products of their country and developing it to the best advantage.
d) To introduce a currency in lieu of slaves, brass rods, and other forms of native currency that existed in the territories, and which from their nature and cumbersomness were opposed to advance in any direction.
e) Finally, to establish throughout the territories a labour market to take the place of slavery.

A few days before the operations commenced a most deplorable massacre of some 400 men, women and children, mostly women and children, was carried out in the hinterland of the Opobo district, at a town called Obegu. The Aros had long threatened to attack the tribes friendly to the government, and though the people of Obegu had been warned to keep careful watch, they were unfortunately caught napping by a conglomerate force of the various sections of the Aro tribe, together with other Ibos unfriendly to them, and their town was destroyed with the slaughter of the people above mentioned. This gave another object and duty to the Field Force, viz., that of capturing and bringing to justice the natives responsible for this bloodthirsty massacre, in the carrying out of which one section of the Aro tribe alone, the Abams, who were great head hunters, are reported to have obtained 200 heads...

Dispositions were as follows... No. 4 Column, consisting of 19 Europeans, 1 Native officer, 479 Native rank and file, 1 M/m gun, 1 7-pr. gun, 1 rocket tube, 2 Maxim guns, 13 gun-carriers and 225 general carriers, under the command of Captain (local Major) W. C. G. Heneker, Connaught Rangers, concentrated at Itu, with orders to make feint advances towards Aro-Chuku and so cause the enemy to keep the bulk of his forces in the corner of the country where the capital lay...

The Scouts 4 sections of Infantry, 1 M/m gun, 1 7-pr. gun, and a Maxim, under the command of Major Heneker, marched out of Esu-Itu on the morning of December 8th. At a distance of 1 1/2 miles from camp the enemy was discovered by the Scouts to have established himself in a thickly wooded ravine. The line of Scouts was strengthened on each flank by a section, and the guns were brought up to the front. The enemy for a time held the ravine tenaciously, but was unable to stand the case shot and Maxim fire, which searched his position from a hill overlooking it, and he retired, taking up another position on some high ground behind the ravine. He was again driven out of this position by shrapnel and case shot. The country becoming now fairly open, the enemy was slowly driven back on his final position. Here he made a most determined stand, and as our fire appeared to make no impression, Major Heneker decided to outflank him simultaneously on both flanks. This movement was most successfully carried out by Captain Venour, D.S.O., who, working his men round through the scrub thereby exposed a long line of deep trenches to enfilade fire. The “Cease Fire” was then sounded and the whole line advancing, charged into the trenches and turned the enemy out at the point of the bayonet. Our casualties were only two men killed, this being due to Major Heneker’s good dispositions and to the admirable way in which the Scouts performed their duties...

At Ikotobo, on January 26th, the enemy treacherously ambushed a water picket under the command of Lieutenant J. Wayling, Canadian Militia and Southern Nigeria Regiment, and, but for the initiative taken by Major G. B. Hodson, I.S.C., and the conspicuous gallantry displayed by that Officer, as well as by Captain M. L. Goldie, R.A., and Second Lieutenant R. H. D. Tompson, R.A., the picket would have been annihilated, as well as the carriers whom it was guarding. Major Hodson called for volunteers, and without waiting to see if any one was following him, he rushed across the stream under a very heavy cross fire from the enemy. He was followed by Captain Goldie and Second Lieutenant Tompson. These three officers held the opposite heights until the killed and wounded, numbering 7, were withdrawn, and the picket had formed up to cover the retreat of the whole party. Returning with reinforcements the same evening, Major Heneker inflicted summary punishment upon the enemy... 
The following are the names of Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and men whom I desire to bring to your notice... “Captain M. L. Goldie, M.V.O., Royal Artillery, and Second Lieutenant R. H. D. Tompson, Royal Artillery, displayed conspicuous gallantry at the water picket affair at Ikotobo.’’
Los 229
The honours and awards bestowed upon Sir John E. Jackson, and his wife Kathleen, Lady Jackson Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘John Ernest Jackson, 1st January 1924’; The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘John Ernest Jackson, 4th June 1917’, reverse backing plate detached but present, with miniature width neck riband; British War Medal (8201 Vol. J. E. Jackson. Bombay Bn., I.D.F.); together with the recipient’s wife’s Kaisar-I-Hind, G.V.R., 1st class, 1st type, gold, with integral top riband bar, all mounted in a glazed display frame, generally good very fine and better (4) £1,800-£2,200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2000. Knight Bachelor London Gazette 1 January 1924: John Ernest Jackson, Esq., C.I.E., Acting Agent of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway. C.I.E. London Gazette 3 June 1918: John Ernest Jackson, Esq., Chief Auditor, Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, Bombay. Kaisar-i-Hind, First Class London Gazette 3 June 1930: Kathleen Anna Dorothy, Lady Jackson, Bombay. ‘For public services in India.’
Los 292
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Civil) Knight Grand Cross set of insignia, comprising 18 carat gold sash badge, hallmarked London 1886, 72mm x 43mm including integral ring for suspension; and breast star in silver, gold and enamel, fitted with gold pin for wearing, together with full-length silk sash and two further sashes adapted for evening dress, extremely fine and a rare set (2) £4,000-£6,000 --- Attributed to Sir Edward Baldwin Malet, 4th Baronet, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., P.C., British diplomat (1837-1908).
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Four: Gunner George Davis, Royal Artillery Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Gunner G. Davis. 12 Battn. R. Arty.) contemporary engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (200 Gunner G. Davis, 25th Bde. R.A.); Turkish Crimea 1855, French issue (Gr. G. Davis. R.A.); France, Second Empire, Medaille Militaire, all fitted with T. B. Bailey Coventry silver ribbon ornaments, these hallmarked Birmingham 1856, and attractively mounted in a glazed frame with original award certificate for Medaille Militaire, the last lacking blue enamel, otherwise nearly very fine or better (4) £500-£700 --- Medaille Militaire R.A. G.R.O. of 15 August 1856: ‘Gunner and Driver George Davis, 7th Company, 4th Battalion, Royal Artillery. Served in the Reserve at the battle of Alma, at the Battle of Inkermann as a Driver (both his horses killed), in the Siege Train from 12th July, till the fall of Sebastopol, including the two last bombardments.’ George Davis was discharged from 25th Brigade R.A. on 1 April 1875, and was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal per R.A. Regimental Order No. 74 of 1 January 1876.
Los 725
A Selection of Miscellaneous Nursing Lapel Badges. Comprising Bolingbroke & Battersea Hospitals Nursing School, silvered and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Monica Cecilia Lake Aug. 62 Feb. 63’; Bradford Royal Infirmary, bronze and enamel, unnamed, reverse suspension pin broken; Brighton District Nursing Association, silvered and enamel, unnamed; Royal Isle of Wight School of Nursing, silvered and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘A. J. Butcher 1975’; Royal Lancaster Infirmary, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Gibbon Medal for Merit S. Hothersall 1964-1965’, with integral suspension brooch bar; Central Middlesex Group Hospital Management Committee, silvered and enamel, unnamed, with small loop suspension; Staffordshire General Infirmary, silver, the reverse engraved ‘M. Hawkins 18-3-49’, with integral suspension brooch bar; West Sussex County Council Home Care Service 20 Years Badge, gilt and enamel, unnamed; Overseas Nursing Association skeletal badge, bronze, unnamed, with integral suspension brooch bar; and a G.H.N. shield badge, silver and enamel, the reverse numbered’ 397’, all with reverse pin-back suspensions except where stated, generally very fine (10) £100-£140
Los 309
Four: Captain B. R. Wilson, 19th Hussars, late 4th Dragoon Guards South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Lieut: B. R. Wilson. 4th Dragn. Gds.) with very faint traces of engraved date ‘21/4/80’ after unit; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut: B. R. Wilson, 4th Dn. Gds.; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, toned, good very fine, the first unique to an officer of the Regiment (4) £1,600-£2,000 --- Belford Randolph Wilson was born in South Africa in August 1850 and was originally commissioned into the 13th Hussars in January 1872, but transferred into the 4th Dragoon Guards in July 1876. Selected for service in Natal in 1879 with Cavalry Drafts, he was latterly employed with the Field Force and is believed to have been present at Inhlobane Mountain. He was next engaged with the Regiment in the Egypt operations of 1882, being present at the actions at Tel-el-Mahuta and Kassassin, and in the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, services which won him the Fifth Class Order of Mejidie. Transferring into the 19th Hussars in June 1884, Wilson was promoted to Captain in the same month and placed on the Reserve of Officers in the 1890s.
Los 26
Three: Surgeon Thomas Park, Royal Horse Artillery Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Assist. Surgeon Park, Royal Horse Artillery) contemporary engraved naming; France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, Knight’s breast badge, silver, gold and enamels, fitted with silver ribbon buckle; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, the second with considerable enamel damage to all arms and centres, otherwise very fine (3) £300-£400 --- Thomas Park was appointed Assistant Surgeon on 1 April 1850, and promoted to Surgeon on 21 December 1855. Surgeon Park served with the Royal Artillery in the Eastern campaign of 1854-55, including the Battle of Inkermann, the siege and fall of Sebastopol, and repulse of the sortie on 26 October 1854 (Medal with two Clasps, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Turkish Medal).
Los 295
The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, K.C.M.G. Knight Commander’s, set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Star, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, with gold retaining pin, with modern neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue, nearly extremely fine (2) £1,200-£1,600
Los 235
An impressive Second War C.I.E., inter-War C.B.E. and K.P.M. group of six awarded to Indian Inspector General of Police D. A. Smyth, who devoted over 30 years of service to maintaining law and order in India, much of that time being spent in the isolated foothills of the Himalayas countering ‘bandits’ The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, with short section of neck riband for display purposes; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with 1st type neck riband; King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (David Alexander Smyth. Indian Police Service.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, minor red enamel damage to motto on CBE, good very fine and better (6) £1,200-£1,600 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- C.I.E. London Gazette 1 January 1941. C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1935. K.P.M. London Gazette 1 January 1925. The original recommendation states: ‘This officer has earned a distinguished record for efficiency and excellent work throughout his service, and in particular for the discipline of the police force. He is always most popular with his men, who follow him implicitly and strive to attain the high ideals that he sets before them. In 1919 he was specially selected for the charge of the Saugor District, notorious for its numerous dacoities, carried out by bands working between the district and some adjoining Native States. During his two years in the district, he succeeded in breaking up and convicting several formidable bands of dacoits, by instilling a new spirit of assistance among the villagers, by securing keen enthusiasm among both the district police and the special armed force, and by enlisting the co-operation of the authorities of the Native States. He left the district practically free from dacoity, and there has been no recrudescence. On his transfer to Nagpur, he had to deal with two serious outbreaks of public disorder in 1923 - the Flag Agitation and the Hindu-Moslem communal trouble. Both these difficult periods were overcome with the minimum of friction and trouble. Under most trying conditions, which involved heavy work and much irritation to the police employed, his personal example of strict discipline, good humour and tactful arrangements, resulted in the settlement of these difficult matters without resentment against the police organisation; and at their close the reputation of the police never stood higher in public estimation. I recommend him strongly for the award of the King’s Police Medal in recognition of his services in the suppression of these public disorders.’ David Alexander Smyth was born on 24 November 1886 and arrived in India for service with the Police Department on 23 November 1907. Sent to Khamgaon on 5 November 1910, he transferred to Mandla on 15 September 1914 and held charge of the duties of the office of District Superintendent of Police from 14 October to 8 November 1914. Raised District Superintendent of Police at Chanda, he moved to Nagpur in 1919 and was awarded the K.P.M. whilst Superintendent of Police for the Nagpur District. Further recognised with the award of the C.B.E. whilst Deputy Inspector General of Police, Central Provinces, Smyth later received the C.I.E. as Inspector General of Police (officiating), Central Provinces and Berar. Taking his retirement on 24 November 1941, Smyth returned home to 14 Cabra Park, Dublin, where he died on 3 January 1966. Sold with copied research.
Los 231
A C.B. group of nine to Colonel Sir Arthur Davidson, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., King’s Royal Rifle Corps, later Assistant Private Secretary to King Edward VII, 1901-10, and afterwards Extra Equerry to the King and Equerry to Queen Alexandra The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, complete with ribbon buckle, some loss to reverse central motif; Afghanistan 1878-80, 2 clasps, Ahmed Khel, Kandahar (Lieut: Arthur Davidson, 2/60th Foot); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (Lieut: A. Davidson 2/60 Foot); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut: A. Davidson. 2/K.R. Rif: C.); Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, this with additional fitment on lower reverse arm to aid mounting; Jubilee 1897, silver; Coronation 1902, silver; Coronation 1911, mounted for wear, very fine or better (9) £3,600-£4,400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2006. Arthur Davidson was born on 12 November 1856, the son of W. Davidson of Welwyn, Hertfordshire, and was educated privately at Petersham. He joined the 60th Rifles in 1876 and served with the 2nd Battalion in the Afghanistan War from October 1878 to November 1880. There he took part in the advance on and occupation of Kandahar and Kelat-i-Ghilzie, and was present at the engagements at Ahmed Khel and Urzoo near Ghuznee, for which he was Mentioned in Despatches. He then served as Aide de Camp to Sir Donald Stewart at Kabul, and accompanied Sir Frederick Roberts in the march to Kandahar as Aide de Camp to Major-General Ross, and present at the battle of Kandahar, for which he was again Mentioned in Despatches. He then served in the Marri Expedition under General MacGregor and was in the first Boer War of 1881, with the Natal Field Force on signalling duty. In the Egyptian War of 1882 he was present at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir and was awarded the Turkish Order of Medjidie 5th Class. He next served in the Bechuanaland Expedition of 1884-85 under Sir Charles Warren on special service and as Acting Inspector of Army Signalling, for which he was for a third time Mentioned in Despatches. Davidson was appointed A.D.C. to H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge between 1890 and 1895; Groom-in-Waiting to the Queen from 1895 to 1896; Equerry-in-Waiting between 1896 and 1901; and created M.V.O. (4th Class) in 1896. As Equerry and Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse, and Assistant Private Secretary to King Edward VII, between 1901 and 1910, he was created C.V.O. in 1901 and awarded the C.B. (Military) in 1902, K.C.V.O. in 1908, and K.C.B. (Civil) in 1910. Later appointed Extra Equerry to the King and Equerry to Queen Alexandra, he was awarded the G.C.V.O. in 1921 and was in receipt, amongst others, of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog, Japanese Orders of the Rising Sun, and Sacred Treasure and Greek Order of the Redeemer. Sir Arthur Davidson died on 16 October 1922.
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A most interesting Order of St. John group of nine awarded to Brigadier O. W. Nicholson, Royal Corps of Signals, late Rifle Brigade, who Commanded the 40th and 51st Anti-Aircraft Brigades during the Second World War; in the inter-War years he served as Member of Parliament for the Abbey Division of Westminster, defeating the future Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the 1924 by-election by just 43 votes, and was later appointed Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead - the sinecure position later held by the future Prime Ministers Anthony Eden, David Cameron, and Boris Johnson The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Brother’s) breast badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. O. W. Nicholson. Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. O. W. Nicholson); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1942, with two Additional Award Bars and integral top riband bar, mounted court-style by Spink, London, as worn, and housed in a Spink, London, leather case, lacquered, good very fine (9) £400-£500 --- Provenance: Canon Nigel Nicholson Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, April 2020. Commander, Order of St. John, London Gazette 1 January 1946. Otho William Nicholson was born in Marylebone, London, on 30 November 1891, the son of Colonel the Rt. Hon. William Nicholson, and was educated at Harrow and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, on 15 August 1914, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 June 1915, before transferring to the Wireless Intelligence Section of the Royal Engineers. Following the cessation of hostilities Nicholson entered politics, serving as Mayor of Finsbury from 1923 to 1924, before being elected Member of Parliament for the Abbey Division of Westminster in the by-election of 1924. Standing as the official conservative candidate, he defeated the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, who, upset that he had not been chosen as the Conservative candidate, stood as an independent ‘Constitutionalist’ candidate, by 8,187 votes to 8,144 votes. He retained the seat in the forthcoming General Elections, and held his seat until 4 July 1932, when he was disqualified by virtue of being appointed Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead (a peculiarity of the United Kingdom’s unwritten constitution is that Members of Parliament cannot resign, but can engineer their own disqualification by accepting this obscure sinecure - future incumbents of the Stewardship included Prime Ministers Anthony Eden, David Cameron, and Boris Johnson). Advanced Honorary Colonel, 1st Anti-Aircraft Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals (Territorial Force), Nicholson was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Middlesex in July 1938, and served during the Second World War as Brigadier Commanding the 40th and 51st Anti-Aircraft Brigades, receiving his Efficiency Decoration in 1942. He latterly held the post of Assistant Commandant at the School of Anti-Aircraft Artillery at Shrivenham. On 2 March 1948 Nicholson was one of the only survivors when a Sabena Airlines DC3 aircraft crashed on landing at London Heathrow Airport - of the 21 people on board, only 3 survived. He died in Ringwood, Hampshire, on 29 June 1978.
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Pair: Private R. J. Brain, Somerset Light Infantry British War Medal 1914-20 (4726 Pte. R. J. Brain. Som. L.I.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (4726 Pte. R. Brain. 2 Bn. Som. L.I.) good very fine (2) £60-£80 --- Reginald John Brain, a stone cutter from Barton St. David, Somerset, was born in 1879. He attested into the Somerset Light Infantry on 3 November 1896 and served with the 2nd Battalion in India, Malta, and North China, before further service in India, and on the North West Frontier of Afghanistan during, and at the end of, the Great War. He was discharged on 8 January 1920. He died in Bridgwater, Somerset, in 1945. Sold together with a R.A.O.B. Jewel, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Presented to Bro. Reginald J. Brain C.P. by the Irving Lodge No. 6618 certified on 15. Nov. 1933.’, with integral top ‘Primo’ Buffalo riband bar; with copied service papers and copy Medal Index Card.
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Miscellaneous Shooting Medals. A North Western Railway Volunteer Rifles struck medal, 38mm, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Best Shot Revolver Class Firing 1903-04 Won by Capt. F. T. Millard’; a 12th Royal Lancers engraved medal, 39mm, silver, the reverse engraved ‘XII Royal Lancers Best Shot of the Sergeants 1907-08 Sergt. W. W. Simkins’, with loop and ring suspension; an Egypt Command Small Arms Meeting struck medal, 39mm, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1930), the reverse engraved ‘1931 Machine Gun Match Winners 3rd A.C.C. A. Ewan.’; and a Indian Rifles Rifle Club medallion,27mm, silver and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Championship 2ndJ. G. Williams 1939-40’, with small ring suspension, good very fine (4) £60-£80 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
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The important Second War C.S.I., inter-War C.I.E. and K.P.M. group of seven awarded to Sir William N. P. Jenkin, K.B.E., Director of Intelligence in Malaya, late Deputy Inspector-General of Police (C.I.D.), Government of India, who was knighted for his impressive service as a trained professional intelligence officer, and was called back from retirement in 1950 to lead what became a watershed period for the reorganisation, restructuring and training of the Malayan Police and its Special Branch The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, C.S.I., Companion’s neck badge, gold and enamel, with central onyx cameo of a youthful Queen Victoria, the motto of the order set in rose diamonds, suspended from a five-pointed silver star and silver ring suspension, with neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, with short section of neck riband for display purposes, in Garrard, London, case of issue; King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (William Norman Prentrice [sic] Jenkin. Indian Police Service) on gallantry riband; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. W. N. P. Jenkin. R.A.F.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, edge knock to K.P.M., otherwise nearly extremely fine (7) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- K.B.E. London Gazette 14 August 1947: ‘Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Punjab.’ C.S.I. London Gazette 1 January 1946: ‘Indian Police, Deputy Director, Intelligence Bureau, Home Department, Government of India.’ C.I.E. London Gazette 3 June 1931: ‘Indian Police Service, Superintendent of Police, Punjab.’ K.P.M. London Gazette 1 January 1925. The original recommendation published in The Gazette of India Extraordinary on 1 January 1925, states: ‘On the 25th October 1923, Mr. A. F. Horton, Superintendent of Police, Hoshiarpur, and Mr. W. N. P. Jenkin, Assistant Superintendent of Police, with a mixed party of additional police sowars, punitive police, and regular police, very skilfully rounded up Dhanna Singh, one of the most dangerous leaders of the Babbar Akali revolutionary gang, at Manbana village, Mahilpur Police Station of the Hoshiarpur District, and succeeded in depriving him of a loaded revolver and placing him in handcuffs before he could inflict any casualties on his captors. The struggle continued, however, and Dhanna Singh managed to explode a Mills’ bomb which was concealed on his person, thereby killing himself and five police officers on the spot and fatally injuring three others, including Mr. Horton. Mr. Jenkin though very seriously wounded, displayed conspicuous gallantry.’ William Norman Prentice Jenkin was born in Ashford, Kent, on 11 August 1899. He spent his teenage years in Dumbarton and attested for the Royal Flying Corps upon reaching the age of 18; sent to South Farnborough on 4 September 1917, he was appointed Flying Officer on 30 January 1918 and qualified as an R.E.8 Pilot on 5 August 1918. Posted to the Central Depot Pool of Pilots, he relinquished his commission on account of ill health in December 1918 and joined the Indian Police Service as Assistant Superintendent, Punjab, on 27 December 1919. Distinguishing himself in the capture of the Sikh revolutionary Dhanna Singh, Jenkin learned of the award of his K.P.M. from a hospital bed. Following numerous operations and year’s leave to Scotland, he returned to the Punjab and was raised Officiating Superintendent in April 1927. Appointed Central Intelligence Officer for the Punjab, Delhi and Sind, in 1935, he became Deputy Director of the Intelligence Bureau in March 1939 and Deputy Inspector General of the Punjab in May 1946. Awarded a Knighthood following a distinguished career in the Indian Police Special Branch, Jenkin took his retirement and returned home. The Malayan Emergency In June 1948 a state of emergency was declared in the British colony of Malaya and members of the Malayan National Liberation Army - the armed wing of the Malayan Communist Party - began attacking rubber plantations, mines and police stations, derailing trains and burning workers’ houses. The British reacted by introducing emergency legislation and imposing curfews and movement restrictions on the local population, but their activities were undermined by the guerillas having the benefit of local knowledge, as well as a general lack of reliable intelligence making its way back to the authorities. In consequence, Jenkin was invited out of retirement on 22 June 1950 to take up appointment as ‘Advisor of the Special Branch/CID’ - the first trained professional intelligence officer to take over the Malayan Special Branch. Raised Director of Intelligence in Malaya, he soon realised the vital importance of strengthening the Special Branch by increasing the intake of Chinese officers, a matter that had been recommended several times in the past, but with little done about it. In December 1950, under his watch, the authorities introduced a National Service Bill which successfully enabled the drafting of males aged 17 to 45, including those of Chinese origin, into the police or army; by 1951, 1223 Chinese men wore the uniform of the Malay police, for the first time comparing favourably with the numbers of men of Indian and Pakistani heritage already serving in the uniformed branch. In November 1951, Jenkin successfully pressed for a large increase in the strength of the Special Branch/CID by the further recruitment of 80 Chinese inspectors and 500 Chinese detectives. He further brought detention camps within the purview of the Special Branch, and stressed the importance of Special Branch Officers being able to interrogate detainees to obtain information of security value. Separating ‘hardened Communists from misguided sympathisers’, he encouraged his men to determine whether any detainees could be ‘turned’ and employed as Special Branch informants. Under Jenkin, the Special Branch of 1950 successfully began to assume responsibility for the surveillance and security control of Malaya’s coastal regions and the Malay-Thai frontier. Utilising his brainchild Directive No. 9., the Malay Special Branch soon began to liaise more with the army and MI5, resulting in numerous successfully co-ordinated counter-insurgency operations against the Min Yuen; between 1950 and 1951, Communist terrorist contacts rose 109.7%, with a further 18.9% increase in casualties and 63.3% increase in surrenders. Having successfully reorganised and strengthened the Special Branch in a little over a year and a half, Jenkin resigned his position and returned home. He died on 28 December 1983. Sold with extensive copied research.
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A rare West Africa D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. G. Merriman, Royal Artillery, who was decorated for services which resulted in the capture of Tambi and Toniataba in 1892 Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1892 (Capt: R. G. Merriman. R.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. R. G. Merriman.) the first with minor chips to red enamel on obverse centre, otherwise very fine and better (2) £2,800-£3,400 --- Provenance: Buckland Dix & Wood, July 1993. D.S.O. London Gazette 9 August, 1892: 'In recognition of his services during the recent operations on the West Coast of Africa, resulting in the capture of Tambi and Toniataba.' Only 2 D.S.O.s were awarded for the capture of Tambi.

Reginald Gordon Merriman was born on 10 November 1866 at Aden, son of General Charles James Merriman, C.S.I., Royal Engineers (late Bombay Engineers), and Eugenia Sybilla, daughter of Colonel Richard Bulkeley, Indian Army. He was educated at the United Services College, Westward Ho!, North Devon, and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was the Tombs Memorial Scholar of 1884. He joined the Royal Artillery in December 1884, and served in the Expedition to the Tambaku country, West Africa, in 1892, being decorated for his services, particularly in the capture of Tambi. The fortified stronghold of Tambi on the River Scarcies was assaulted on 7 April 1892. Merriman was in command of the Battery of Houssa, and after breaches had been made in the walls by his artillery, the town was assaulted and captured. The expeditionary force was then reorganised for an attack against the stronghold at Toniataba which was captured on 28 April. The Insignia were presented by the Queen at Osborne on 10 January 1893. He was promoted Captain on 31 December 1893, and Major on 9 December 1903. Captain Merriman was Adjutant of the Kent Artillery, E.D. R.A., from 1895 to 1899, and held various staff appointments at home before being appointed Lieutenant-Colonel on 29 January 1913. During the Great War he served in France from August 1916 to January 1917 with the Siege Artillery.
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A ‘Duplicate’ Great War D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel K. H. Bruce, Gordon Highlanders, who was wounded at Ypres, and was Mentioned in Despatches Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2nd. Lieut. K. H. Bruce. Gordons.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (Lt. K. H. Brice. Gordons.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Capt. K. H. Bruce. Gordons.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. K. H. Bruce. Gordons.); Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, the named medals all stamped ‘Duplicate’, mounted for wear, lacquered, about extremely fine (7) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1917 Kenneth Hope Bruce was born on 26 May 1879 and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders on 23 May 1900, and served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War. Promoted Lieutenant on 22 January 1902, he saw further service in India with the Mohmand Expedition in 1908, and was promoted Captain on 17 October 1908. Bruce served during the Great War with the Staff on the Western Front from 4 October to 2 November 1914, and then again from 12 October 1915 to 2 June 1917, and was wounded at Ypres. Subsequently serving with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine from 20 June 1917 to 28 June 1918, for his services during the Great War he was promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel; was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 4 January 1917); and was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Following the cessation of hostilities he was appointed Assistant Adjutant General, General HQ, British Army of the Rhine on 3 June 1919. He died in London on 27 February 1970.
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Russia, Empire, Order of St. Stanislas, Military Division, Second Class neck badge, with crossed swords, by Eduard, St. Petersburg, 48mm, gold (56 zolotniki) and enamel, maker’s mark on reverse, gold mark and 1908-17 kokoshnik mark on suspension ring, lacking riband, minor green enamel damage to wreath around central medallion, otherwise good very fine £800-£1,200
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An Indian Mutiny C.B. group of four awarded to Colonel C. H. Barchard, 20th Bengal Native Infantry The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1882, complete with gold ribbon buckle, several enamel chips to white enamel arms; Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (Ensign C. H. Barchard, 20th Bengal N.I.); India General Service 1854-94, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (Lieut. C. H. Barchard, 20th Native Inftry.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Delhi, Lucknow (Major C. H. Barchard, 20th Regt. N.I, A,D,C.) the campaign medals fitted with silver ribbon buckles, unless otherwise stated, nearly extremely fine (4) £3,000-£4,000 --- Provenance: Alan Wolfe Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2005, when sold with correctly dated C.B. for 1858. Charles Henry Barchard was born in London on 27 June 1828, and educated by the Rev. James Alexander Emerton, of Hanwell. He entered the Bengal Army in 1845 as an Ensign in the 20th Native Infantry, first seeing action in the Punjab campaign at the battles of Chilianwala and Goojerat. Promoted to Lieutenant in September 1849, he served in two expeditions on the North West Frontier; in the punitive expedition under Colonel S. B. Boileau against the Bori Afridis in November 1853; and in the expedition under Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Craigie, C.B., against the Aka Khels and Bussi Khels, in March 1866 (Mentioned in Despatches). 

During the Indian Mutiny he served as aide-de-camp to Sir Archdale Wilson, Bt., and was present at the actions on the Hindon in May 1857 (despatches); action of Budlee-ke-Serai in June 1857 (despatches); siege, assault and capture of Delhi, from June to October 1857 (despatches); operations before and capture of Lucknow from February to March 1858 (despatches and thanks of Governor-General; medal with two clasps, C.B.); charger shot in action before Delhi; slightly wounded in action before La Martiniere, Lucknow; and thanks of the Punjab Government for exertions and aid rendered during the famine at Kurnal in 1861.

The matter of Barchard’s charger being shot from under him at Delhi is moot. In his letters to his wife from the siege of Delhi, Colonel Keith Young says Barchard was accidentally wounded when his horse shied, causing a holster pistol to discharge, wounding Barchard in the leg, but it is possible this was a different incident. After the mutiny, Barchard was posted to the cavalry, serving in the early 1860s with the Stud Department, and thereafter with the 7th Bengal Cavalry, becoming second-in-command in 1874. He retired as Honorary Colonel in October 1875, and died in England in June 1902.
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Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Captain, I. A. Fane, 46th. Regt. 18 May, 1855.) contemporarily engraved naming, mounted as worn with a top Hunt & Roskell silver riband buckle with gold pin, edge bruising, nearly very fine £300-£400 --- Provenance: John Fane Collection (i.e. direct from the family), Dreweatt’s, November 2009. John Augustus Fane was born in Wormesley on 23 September 1830, the son of John William Fane, High Sheriff and Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the Oxfordshire Militia. Appointed Ensign on 19 October 1849, Lieutenant on 31 December 1852, and Captain on 29 December 1854, he landed with the 46th Regiment of Foot in the Crimea on 8 November 1854. Returned home on 6 February 1855, he received the Crimea Medal by Royal presentation on 18 May 1855. Resigning from the Army upon the sale of his commission on 29 May 1857, Fane subsequently served in the Oxfordshire Rifle Volunteers and died in 1908. Sold with an attractive pair of related silver dress miniatures, comprising Crimea Medal, clasp Sebastopol, and Turkish Crimea Medal, Sardinian issue, mounted upon contemporary wearing pin; with a small gilt-metal regimental cap badge, a silver and blue enamel College of Nursing badge, numbered ‘16378’ to reverse, by J. R. Gaunt & Son., and a large Metropolitan Police Special Constabulary badge, by W. Lewis of Birmingham.
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