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A Rogers & Son zebra pattern serving plate, depicting a man riding a zebra within a garden landscape with temples, within blue printed broad floral border, impressed `Rogers 14` and blue printed `8`, (at fault) 37cm wide See Coysh & Henrywood, The Dictionary of Blue Printed Wares, Volume I, page 143
A Rogers & Son elephant pattern, blue printed canted rectangular serving plate, circa 1835, depicting an elephant and trainer within a garden landscape with temples beyond, and within broad floral border, impressed `Rogers 18`, 48.5cm wide See Coysh & Henrywood, The Dictionary of Blue Printed Wares, Volume I, page 125
A blue printed ruined castle pattern meat plate, circa 1820, the canted rectangular plate printed with a scene of a ruined castle and bridge with river and cattle watering, all within broad floral border, unmarked, possibly Robert Hamilton, 47.5cm wide See Coysh & Henrywood, The Dictionary of Blue Printed Wares, Volume I, page 312
A collection of teawares, to include; an H & R Daniel, Shrewsbury shape teapot and cover and a matching cream jug, decorated in pattern 4246, (at fault) teapot 27cm long, cream jug 17cm long, an H & R Daniel teapot and cover circa 1835, with dragon spout and cobalt and gilt decorated, and a selection of Ridgway cobalt and gilt decorated teawares, to include a teapot and cover, a further cover, two coffee cups, three saucers and a plate (11)
A `Thomson & Capper, Homeopathic` campaign style chemist box the hinged lid walnut veneered box opening to reveal a fitted interior with tooled leather to the inside of the lid the front with drawer to the base fitted with a gilt metal campaign style handles opening to reveal a four division interior, 23cm wide, 16cm high, 17cm deep
A rare R.V.M. and Durand Medal pair awarded to Subadar Krishna Appaji Bahadur, O.B.I., R.V.M., 3rd Bombay Sappers and Miners Royal Victorian Medal, G.V.R., Silver (Sbdr. Krishna Appaji Bahadur, 3rd S & M); The Durand Medal, annual award for 1908 (Subadar Krishna Appaji, 3rd Sappers and Miners. 1908) the second with numerous edge bruises and knocks, otherwise nearly very fine and rare (2) £800-1000 R.V.M. awarded on 16 December 1911, for services at the Delhi Durbar 1911. The Durand Medal was an annual award to an Indian officer, N.C.O. or Sapper of the Indian Sappers and Miners who had distinguished himself as a soldier and a sapper by good and efficient service. The prize originated in 1876, when a fund was raised by R.E. officers at home and in India to commemorate the memory of Major-General Sir Henry Durand, K.C.S.I., C.B., of the Bengal Engineers. The design on the medal commemorates one of the first acts of his military career when he blew in the gate of the Ghazni fort in 1839. The Trust Fund is controlled by the Institution of Royal Engineers and since partition the medal has been awarded on the basis of two years to the Indian Engineers to one year to the Royal Pakistan Engineers on the advice of their respective Engineers-in-Chief. Krishna Appaji enrolled into the Bombay Sappers and Miners in 1877, becoming Jemadar in 1893, and Subadar in 1902. For his war services he received medals for Kandahar 1880, Samana 1891, the relief of Pekin 1900, and Somaliland 1902-04. He was mentioned in despatches for Somaliland, and later awarded the Order of British India, 2nd Class (G.G.O. 15 September 1908). Subadar Krishna Appaji retired in March 1909. He was awarded the R.V.M. (Silver) for services at the Delhi Durbar in 1911 and also received the Delhi Durbar medal.
An unusual inter-war civil C.B., C.B.E., Great War military O.B.E. group of ten awarded to Kenneth Lyon, Under Secretary of State in the 1939-45 War, late Captain, Royal Field Artillery The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companions neck badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1934, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commanders 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in Goldsmiths & Silversmiths, London fitted case; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officers 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Capt. K. Lyon); Defence Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; France, Legion of Honour, Chevaliers breast badge, in silver, gilt and enamel, together with Glass Sellers Companys Medal, bronze-gilt, officially named to Kenneth Lyon, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., M.A., Master 1951-52, in fitted case, mounted as worn where applicable, the O.B.E. with worn gilt and the French badge chipped at arms points, otherwise very fine and better (11) £800-1000 C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1938. C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1924. French Legion of Honour London Gazette 14 January 1921. Kenneth Lyon was born at Rainhill, Lancashire in February 1886 and was educated at Birkenhead School and Merton College, Oxford. Entering the Civil Service in 1909, as a Higher Division Clerk at the War Office, he acted as Private Secretary to the Adjutant-General 1912-16. In June of the latter year, however, in order to play a more active part in the prevailing hostilities, he was accepted as a Cadet by the Royal Artillery and, on completion of his training at the end of the same year, was embarked for France as a 2nd Lieutenant in 13th Brigade, R.F.A., in which capacity he remained actively employed until the end of the War. And, in addition to being mentioned in the Secretary of States List in February 1917, and winning a ômentionö in December 1918, was awarded the O.B.E. - the announcement of this latter honour has yet to be traced in the London Gazette, but is listed after his name in the same publication on the confirmation of his advancement to Captain (see London Gazette 16 July 1920). Returning to his duties in the Civil Service, Lyon was Private Secretary to various Secretaries of State for War 1921-24, including Lord Derby, and was awarded the C.B.E. in the latter year. Next serving as Assistant Secretary at the War Office 1924-36, he was also a Member of the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva in 1932. Lyon took up his final appointment, as Under Secretary of State in 1936, in which latter capacity he was awarded the C.B. in 1938 and served throughout the 1939-45 War. A Freeman of the City of London, he served as Master of the Worshipful Company of Glass Seller 1951-52 and died in August 1956; sold with original Times obituary cutting (dated 6 August 1956), and related statements published in later editions. Also see Lot 100 for his brothers Honours and Awards.
Pair: Captain Robert Lyon, Gordon Highlanders, killed in action, 30 July 1916 British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); together with a Memorial Medallion, by A. Drury R.A., 80mm., silvered base metal, reverse inscribed, Robert Lyon, M.A.L.L.B. younger son of Sir Alexander & Lady Lyon Captain 5th Gordon Highlanders Killed in Action in France 30th July 1916, ref. B.H.M. 4150, extremely fine (3) £200-250 Robert Lyon was born in Aberdeen on 14 September 1891. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and Aberdeen University and gained an M.A. in 1912 and LL.B. in 1914 and was a Hunter Medal winner in Roman Law. He was Clerk to Messrs. Paull & Williamson, Advocates, Aberdeen, 1912-13 and then Clerk to Messrs. Dalgleish, Dobbie & Co., Edinburgh, 1913. Lyon was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion Gordon Highlanders in 1914 and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 3 May 1915. Having attained the rank of Captain, he was killed in action at Delville Wood on the Somme, on 30 July 1916. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. He was the son of Sir Alexander Lyon, Kt., D.L., J.P. and Lady Elsie Inglis Lyon of Queens Road, Aberdeen. With copied research.
A rare and important Military General Service Medal for Maida awarded to Major W. S. Plenderleith, who commanded the 81st Foot on that occasion: though favourably ômentionedö in Major-General Sir John Stuarts despatch immediately following the battle, his leadership later appears to have become the subject of a secretive but nonetheless telling smear campaign - so much so that he was never awarded the Maida Gold Medal to which he was properly entitled Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Maida (W. J. Plenderleith, Majr., 81st Ft.), note second initial, good very fine £3500-4000 William Smythe Plenderleith was originally appointed an Ensign in the 60th Foot in November 1793, but shortly afterwards transferred to the Royal Fusiliers, and thence the 81st Foot, in which latter regiment he purchased a Captaincy in February 1797 and a Majority in April 1803. His subsequent command of the Regiment at Maida in July 1806 seems to have become a topic of heated and unfavourable debate in the years following that great victory, but in terms of his immediate ômentionö in Major-General Sir John Stuarts despatch dated 6 July 1806, his leadership appeared anything but contentious: Brigadier-General Ackland, whose Brigade was immediately on the left of the Light Infantry, with great spirit availed himself of this favourable moment to press instantly forward upon the Corps in his front; the brave 78th Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel MacLeod, and the 81st Regiment, under Major Plenderleath, both distinguished themselves on this occasion. The enemy fled with dismay and disorder before them, leaving the plain covered with their dead and wounded ... (London Gazette 5 September 1806 refers). As, however, revealed in a memorandum written in July 1828 by a fellow officer, Major (afterwards Major-General) Stewart of Garth, and published in The Military History of Perthshire in 1908, Plenderleith was responsible for almost turning victory into defeat as the battle reached its zenith: Major-General Stewart had an opportunity of performing some important pieces of service at the battle of Maida. The circumstances being of such a nature that a public notice of them might be injurious to the character of some brother officers, long dead, he has foreborne speaking of the subject and cautioned the officers who were present to do the same; and now he will only state a few brief particulars. After the enemy had been driven by the first charge at the battle of Maida, Major Stewart observed the Officer Commanding the 81st Regiment did not seem to understand or act to his instructions; he therefore rode to his part of the field and remonstrated with him, a remedy was instantly applied, and by his timely interference, was prevented a serious calamity which might have affected the character of that officer and the general success of the day ... Fearful, as he had already observed, that the circumstances if known would prove injurious to the officers, Major Stewart requested of General Sir John Stuart not to represent the case to the Secretary of State as he expressed a wish to do, in justice, as he said, to an officer to whom he owed so much - for the question rested upon this, whether Maida was to be an honourable achievement, or a thorough defeat - but that disaster was prevented. Now as 20 years had elapsed and as the present representation is intended for a foreign power which will ask for no names, Major Stewart trusts that there is no impropriety in mentioning the subject thus confidentially. Plenderleith briefly held an appointment in the 100th Foot following Maida, but was suddenly placed on the Retired List in June 1808. He died at his residence in Ramsgate on 5 June 1863, aged 88 years - never having received the Maida Gold Medal to which he was entitled and not, as suggested by Tancred, in his Historical Record of Medals & Honorary Distinctions having died before the Medal was issued: surely further evidence if it were needed that his reputation had been smeared by his old comrades and of a deliberate campaign to prevent him receiving his due entitlement to that rare distinction.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Military) a scarce George IV Knight Grand Cross Princes breast star by Rundell Bridge & Rundell, silver, gold and enamels, circa 1820-25, 71mm x 69mm, the reverse inscribed Rundell Bridge & Rundell, Jewellers to His Majesty, and The Royal Family, fitted with gold pin for wearing, minor chipping to enamels, therefore very fine and scarce £1500-2000
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Military) a fine and unusual Georgian Knight Grand Cross embroidered breast star by Lewis, the silver and gilt sequinned body with metal centre in silver, gilt-metal and enamels, circa 1820-30, 93mm diameter, the reverse with makers paper roundel Lewis Embroiderer, Laceman & Sword Cutler to his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Sussex, No 10 St. Jamess St. Masonic Embroidery Neatly Executed, some old repairs to enamels and minor loss to paper backing, otherwise very fine and scarce £600-800
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Military) a fine Georgian Knight Grand Cross embroidered breast star by Lewis, the silver and gilt sequin and wire body with centre embellished with coloured silk threads and red velvet, circa 1820-37, 112mm diameter, the reverse with makers paper roundel Lewis, Gold Laceman, Embroiderer, Sword Cutler &c. To the King, 33 St Jamess Street, two sequins lacking from central motto and some loss to paper backing at the extremities, otherwise good very fine and scarce £500-600
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Military) a rare William IV Knight Grand Cross breast star by Rundell Bridge & Co., silver, gold and enamels, circa 1834-37, 91mm x 84mm, the reverse fitted with gold pin for wearing and inscribed Rundell Bridge & Co., Jewellers to their Majesties and all the Royal Family Ludgate Hill, London, some enamel loss to Ich Dien motto and central wreath, otherwise good very fine and rare for this period £1500-2000 The name of the firm was changed to Rundell Bridge & Co. in 1834 after the deaths of various former partners.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commanders breast star by Rundell Bridge & Rundell, silver, gold and enamels, circa 1815-20, 73mm x 72mm, the reverse inscribed Rundell Bridge & Rundell, Jewellers to their Majesties & his Royal Highness the Prince Regent., fitted with gold pin for wearing, lacking two red enamel berries from wreath, otherwise extremely fine and scarce £1200-1500
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Civil) Knight Grand Cross set of insignia by Garrard, comprising sash badge in 22 carat gold, hallmarked London 1865, makers mark of Robert Garrard, 60mm x 52mm; and breast star in silver, gold and enamel, 98mm x 92mm, the reverse inscribed R & S. Garrard & Co.Goldsmiths & Jewellers to the Crown, 25 Haymarket, London, fitted with gold pin for wearing, the set with non-standard sash in its R. & S. Garrard & Co. case of issue, the interior silk lining inscribed in ink with the Arabic word for British, extremely fine and scarce £2000-2500 Provenance: Khedive Ismail Pasha of Egypt.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Civil) Knight Commanders embroidered breast star by DAlmaine & Co., the silver and gilt sequin and wire body embellished with red silk, circa 1847-50, 85mm diameter, the reverse with makers paper roundel DAlmaine & Co., Embroiderers to Her Majesty, 38 Gerrard Street, Soho, London, some loss of paper backing at extremities, otherwise good very fine and very scarce £300-350 The Civil division of the Order of the Bath was enlarged in 1847 to include Second and Third Classes of the Order, and provision was made for 50 K.C.B.s and 200 C.B.s. The first K.C.B.s were issued with embroidered stars but official metal stars were introduced just a few years later.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companions breast badge in 18 carat gold, hallmarked London 1847, makers mark of Robert Garrard, complete with original wide swivel-ring bar suspension and gold ribbon buckle as issued, extremely fine and very scarce £500-600 The Civil division of the Order of the Bath was enlarged in 1847 to include Second and Third Classes of the Order, and provision was made for 50 K.C.B.s and 200 C.B.s. The first insignia was made by Garrard & Co., the elements of the hallmarks including an upper case Gothic M for 1847, the makers initials RG and the figure 18 for the fineness of the gold.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companions breast badge in 18 carat gold, hallmarked London 1870, makers mark of Robert Garrard, complete with original narrow swivel-ring bar suspension and gold ribbon buckle as issued, in its R & S. Garrard & Co. case of issue, extremely fine £400-500
The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, K.C.M.G., a superb George IV Knight Commanders breast star in silver, gold and enamels by Rundell Bridge & Rundell, circa 1820-25, 89 mm. diameter, the obverse centre with superbly enamelled representation of Saint Michael, the reverse inscribed Rundell Bridge & Rundell, Jewellers to His Majesty, and all The Royal Family and fitted with gold pin for wearing, nearly extremely fine and extremely rare £3000-3500
Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., 2nd issue (1st Cl: Staff Sergt: Jno: Downer, R.M.A.) impressed naming, nearly extremely fine and scarce £600-700 54 Victorian 2nd issue M.S.M.s awarded. John Downer was born at Goudhurst, Cranbrook, Kent, and attested to serve as a Private with No. 8 Company of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, on 8 April 1841. He was then aged 21 and formerly a labourer. He joined the Royal Marine Artillery on 23 September 1847, and was discharged due to length of service on 28 April 1863. He had been awarded a wide suspension L.S. & G.C. in February 1863, with a ú10 gratuity, after a total service of 21 years 268 days, of which 8 years 73 days had been at sea. He received his M.S.M. on 18 January 1889.
A scarce Edward VII Sea Gallantry Medal group of four awarded to Petty Officer 1st Class Richard Barry, R.N., Ardmore Coastguard, for services at the wreck of the Teaser in 1911 Sea Gallantry Medal, E.VII.R., small 2nd issue, silver (Richard Barry. Teaserö 18th March, 1911); British War Medal 1914-20 (146042 P.O.1, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (146042 P.O.1Cl., H.M.S. Carron); Royal National Lifeboat Institution, E.VII.R., silver (Mr Richard Barry. Voted 13th April 1911) very fine and better (4) £1800-2200 S.G.M. presented by the King 2 February 1911, one of only 54 of this type awarded in silver (1906-10). 18 March 1911: During a terrific south-easterly gale, the Montrose schooner Teaser was driven ashore near Ardmore Bay, Co. Waterford, Ireland, in a very heavy sea. The rocket apparatus was brought to the scene and lines were thrown over the vessel, but her crew, exhausted and cold, could not make use of them. Aware of this, Messrs. Barry and Neal tried to swim out, but were beaten back to the shore. Father OShea then obtained a boat in which he put out with others, including the two coastguardmen. They boarded the wreck, but two of her crew were already dead and the other succumbed shortly afterwards. (Ref. Lifeboat Gallantry, by Barry Cox). For their services, The Reverend John OShea, Parish Priest of Ardmore, was awarded the R.N.L.I. Medal in gold; Petty Officer Richard Barry and Leading Boatman Alexander Neal, H.M. Coastguard, Ardmore, were each awarded the R.N.L.I. Medal in silver. For a more detailed account of the rescue attempt, see The Wreck of the Teaser - A Gold Medal Rescue, by John Wilson, in L.S.A.R.S. Journal No. 30, p.22-25. Sold with copied research.
A Second World War M.B.E. and Lloyds War Medal for Bravery at Sea group of seven awarded to Second Engineer Officer Norman Makepeace, Merchant Navy, for services aboard the S.S. Toorak, 16 January 1942 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Members 2nd type breast badge, silver; British War Medal 1914-20 (Norman Makepeace); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Lloyds War Medal for Bravery at Sea (Second Engineer Officer Norman Makepeace, S.S. ôToorakö, 16th January 1942) mounted for wear, good very fine and better (7) £1600-1800 M.B.E. London Gazette 27 April 1943. Lloyds War Medal for Bravery at Sea Lloyds List & Shipping Gazette 3 February 1944. Norman Makepeace, Second Engineer Officer, Toorak. When the ship was torpedoed the wireless was put out of action and the boiler room fires were extinguished. Temporary repairs were effected and the ship proceeded at reduced speed. Second Engineer Makepeace remained alone in the engine-room and kept the engines running, and his courage and devotion to duty greatly contributed to the vessels safe arrival in port. The S.S. Toorak, 8,627 tons, a British tanker of the Standard Transportation Company, was torpedoed by the U.86 in the North Atlantic on 16 January 1942. Despite serious damage she managed to reach the safety of a port and survived the war. For their services in preserving their ship, Captain Frederick Henry Graham was awarded the O.B.E., and Second Engineer Makepeace, the M.B.E. and Lloyds War Medal for Bravery.
Hartley Colliery Medal 1862, a die struck silver medal, 51mm, obverse: an angel looks on as two miners dig to uncover their comrades from the rubble; reverse inscription in raised letters, Presented to those who risked their own lives in attempting to save the lives of their fellow workmen buried in Hartley Colliery, January 1862, the edge inscribed, Richard Johnston, fitted with claw and straight silver bar suspension, crimson ribbon and silver buckle brooch, in J. S. Wyon, London case of issue, obverse with die flaw, nearly extremely fine (lot) £1400-1800 On 10 January 1862 disaster struck at the New Hartley Colliery in Northumberland, leaving in its wake a death toll of some 202 miners. A cage carrying eight people proved too much weight for the massive pumping engine beam which, although weighing over 40 tons, gave way and tumbled down the shaft, carrying with it a mass of machinery and debris. Much of it came to rest a little over 400 feet from the surface on the immense oak beams which held the centre set of pumps in the shaft. The unwalled sides of the shaft collapsed, piling tons of rock and rubble on top of the initial fall, sealing the shaft. It took six days of dangerous and strenuous work by the rescuers to reach the men trapped by the fall, but all were found to be dead. One of the dead, by the name of James Armour, kept notes of the ordeal in a book whilst trapped underground. These notes were referred to in the official enquiry into the case It appears to be certain from the date of the entry in the book found on the person of the overman, Armour, that all had died not later than the afternoon of the day following the accident, having fallen victims of the noxious gasses generated in the pit. Subsequent to the disaster there were many expressions of opinion in favour of some reward being made to the sinkers and others, who had so nobly risked their lives in their ill-fated attempts to rescue the entombed miners. In accordance with this widely expressed desire a special fund was instituted under the direction of a Committee with Mr T. G. Hurst as its secretary. At the outset it was determined that the testimonial should assume the form of a medal, and ultimately, Mr Wyon, of the Mint, whose designs had been approved by the committee, was engaged to execute the dies and strike the medals. A total of 1 gold and thirty seven silver medals were awarded. For his services, Richard Johnston was awarded a medal in silver, together with the sum of ú17. The amount of money paid was a reflection of the amount of time their assistance was given; ú30 being the highest and ú4 the lowest. With a copied extract from the Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin of March 1983 which relates to the medal. The medal and case set in a glass-fronted wooden case, 430 x 225mm. (approx.), together with a clay pipe and leather pit tokens (2) recovered from a dead miner, and a tooth from a pit pony killed in the disaster.
Colonel Sir Percival Scrope Marling, V.C., C.B., Kings Royal Rifle Corps Court-style medal mounting bar bearing the ribbons: Victoria Cross; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89; Queens South Africa 1899-1902; Kings South Africa 1901-02; 1914 Star War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19; Jubilee 1935; Khedives Star, mounting with label on back, Hunt & Roskell Ltd, 25 Old Bond Street, to the King, K.S.A. ribbon frayed, fair condition £100-140 V.C. London Gazette 21 May 1884. Lieutenant Marling, 3rd Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps, won the V.C. for his gallant action at the battle of Tamaai, 13 March 1884. Ribbons attributed to Colonel Sir Percival Scrope Marling. With ivorine label, Colonel Sir P. S. Marling V.C., C.B., Bart, Gloucester Regiment; with copied research including: gazette and auction catalogue extracts, newspaper cuttings, and photographs.
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