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Hunting - Ackermann (Rudolf) publisher. The Analysis of the Hunting Field hand-coloured lithographed additional title and 5 plates after Alken occasional foxing original cloth gilt slightly rubbed 1846; Surtees (R.S.) Jorrocks’s Jaunts & Jollities plates some coloured original cloth gilt large 8vo Kegan Paul [1900] - and 7 others on hunting etc. (9)
Heaton Butler & Bayne (19th/20th Century) Stained glass window cartoons of nativity scenes Two both stamped Heaton Butler & Bayne 14 Garrick Street London and numbered 469 and 10 817 Both pen and watercolour 18.25 x 15cm; 7¼ x 6in and 24.5 x 9cm 9½ x 3½in image size With a photo of a window by Earley & Co. of Dublin (3) ++1. Good condition; 2. margins slightly stained otherwise good
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.
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