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Lot 648
Britains, Crescent Toys & Others - A Group of Unboxed Models. Comprising Britains Set No. 1335 'Army Lorry Six Wheel' (1934 version, including driver but missing rear tyres); Crescent 'Stagecoach with Galloping Horses' (missing figures, damage to one horse tail) & small scale cannon. Conditions generally appear Fair to Good overall. See photo.
Lot 155
Toy Army Workshop - 'WWI 8" Howitzer, 6 Man Crew, Shells, Charges & Shell Carrier - Western Front 1918'. Also includes scratch-built 'Holt 10 Ton Artillery Tractor (1917) and White Metal Limber'. 54mm scale. Conditions generally appear Excellent overall (one track on tractor has split), contained in a non-original box. See photo.
Lot 450
Britains - 'Regiments of All Nations' - A Group of Boxed Sets. Comprising: Set Nos 115 'Egyptian Cavalry'; 2031 'Australian Army Infantry...' & 2104 'Venezuelan Infantry' (one figure missing). Conditions generally appear Fair to Good overall, contained in generally Good set boxes. See photo.
Lot 630
Britains Deetail - A Group of Unboxed British & German North African Figures (Plus Others). Including: Set 7339 'Vickers Machine Gun & Crew' plus figures from Set 7390 'British 8th Army' & 7370 'German Afrika Korps'. Also includes various artillery guns & desert-themed 'Airfix or similar' building. Figures dated 1971. Conditions generally appear Fair to Excellent overall. See photo.
Lot 171
Toy Army Workshop - A Pair of WWI Sets. Comprising: 'British Ford Model T Lewis Gun Carrier & 2-Man Crew, Middle East' & 'British 18lb QF Gun with 4-Man Repair Crew'. 54mm scale. Conditions generally appear Fair to Excellent overall (18lb gun is damaged), contained in non-original boxes. See photo.
Lot 248
Britains / Hamleys - A Pair of Boxed Limited Edition Sets. Comprising: Set No. 00105 'Royal Guard of Honour The Queen's Company Grenadier Guards - 1899' (#0216/1000) & Set No. 00318 'Hussar Regiments of The British Army 1880-1914 (#0889/1000). Conditions generally appear Near Mint overall, contained in generally Excellent to Near Mint boxes plus labelled outer cartons. See Photo.
Lot 282
ASSORTED DINKY DIECAST MILITARY VEHICLES, including 642 Pressure Refueller, 677 Armoured Command Vehicle, 660 Tank Transporter, 622 10-Ton Army Truck, 688 Field Artillery Tractor, 949 Armoured Personnel Carrier, 2x 670 Armoured Car, 2x 673 Scout Car, 686 25-Pr. Gun and trailer, comprising 621 3-Ton Army Wagon, 2x 623 Army Wagon, 641 1-Ton Cargo Truck, 626 Military Ambulance, 661 Recovery Tractor, 643 Army Water Tanker, Jeep, 674 Austin Champ with three passengers, 693 7.2 Howitzer, 2x 692 5.5 Medium Gun (23)Provenance: private collectionComments: 10-ton army truck repainted cover, fairly good overall, all unboxed.
Lot 1276
Six boxed Britains military diecast models to include 9745 155mm Gun, 9786 US Jeep, 9784 8th Army Scout Car, 9788 Army Group Kubelwagen & German Field Gun, 9780 Half Track Motorcycle and 9783 German Scout Car, all diecast vg overall, boxes vary in condition, nut overall in gd condition with signs of storage and edge wear throughout and some squashing to plastic windows
Lot 1380
14 Boxed Matchbox 75 Series diecast models to include 50 Commer Pick Up, 70 Thames Estate Car, 71 Army Water Truck, 50 Tractor, 59 Ford Singer Van, 51 Trailer with barrels, 15 Refuse Truck, 23 Trailer Caravan, 29 Fire Pumper Truck, 5 London Bus, 17 8 Wheel Tipper, 54 S&S Cadillac Ambulance, 63 Fire Fighting Crash Tender and 55 Police Patrol Car, diecast ex overall, boxes mainly gd overall with some wear
Lot 1220
29 Diecast models featuring 5 x Code 3 Matchbox Models Of Yesteryear models (from Heddington & Stockley Steam Fair & Great Dorset Steam Fair), 15 x Lledo models (Dads Army, The National Trust, View Vans, etc), 5 x Oxford Diecast models, 1 x Heller Cararama set & 4 x Corgi models (The Original Omnibus, Tramlines & Classics), vg overall
Lot 1217
Around 70 boxed diecast models to include Corgi CC02601, Corgi 18501 Dad's Army, Maisto 1/18 scale Premiere Edition Mercedes CLK-GTR Street Version, Corgi Limited Edition Original Omnibus, Corgi Buses In Britain, Corgi 04509 Mini Classic Edition, Corgi Eddie Stobart diecast models, various Lledo Days Gone and Lledo Collectibles models, etc, diecast ex overall, boxes vg (2 Boxes)
Lot 1284
Six boxed Dinky diecast models to include 2 x 618 AEC Artic Transporter With Helicopter (Complete with relevant accessories), 2 x 667 Armoured Patrol Car, 687 Convoy Army Truck and 668 Foden Army Truck, boxed Matchbox Batllekings K-111 Missile Launcher, boxed Crescent Toys No. 1251 5.5 Howitzer Gun and 3 x unboxed Dinky diecast models, all diecast vg overall, boxes gd overalln with signs of wear throughout with some plastic windows cracked and squashed
Lot 185
A group of assorted survival, hunting and utility knives, 20th/21st century, comprising a Rui Energy knife with sheath, overall length 8.6"; a small Taiwanese-made stiletto dagger in sheath; a CAMP USA Merco knife and two Blackie Collins Buddy System knives, in original packaging, two Anglo Arms boxed sets - 'Outdoor Survival Kit' and 'Bug Out Kit'; a Colt Pathfinder CT27 fixed blade knife with scabbard, blade length 7.8"; a small boxed Colt Detective Special CY32 folding knife, a Victorinox Swiss Army knife with a small Whitby knives leather case, a cased Hunter Pocket penknife, sold together with a razor and a pocket monkey utility tool; USA Green Beret folding knife, 4" blade, a Simbatec Neck-Lock 1 folding knife, 2.8" blade, Sandvik knife and further small Anglo Arms knife with khaki print (17)By bidding on this item, you are declaring that you are 18 years of age or over.
Lot 188
A Second World War Imperial Japanese NCO's shin-gunto / army sword, middle type, with sidestopper, aluminium hilt painted to resemble the lacing (ito) on officer's shin-gunto swords, plain blackened iron guard and iron ferrule, numbered 131653 to the blade and matching number to the hilt, arsenal markings for Army Arsenal Nagoya factory and Seki Touken Co, Ltd private marks, inspection mark indistinct, blade length 70cm, overall length 91.5cm, with brown and blue sword knot or tassel (for Company or Warrant Officer), housed in a green painted scabbard. Sold together a military letter authorising RSM Copestake to retain possession of this sword.Provenance: Regimental Sergeant Major Terence Ray Copestake (1916 - 1977) brought this sword home after the war. RSM Copestake started his army career with the servicing searchlights and trucks in 1939 and transferred to REME on its formation. He progressed through the ranks until being posted to Burma in 1942 with a battalion of the Scottish Fusiliers. He spent some time in India and fought against the Japanese in Burma, being heavily involved in the decisive battle of Imphal, which caused the Japanese to retreat and subsequently took the surrender of a large number of Japanese, during which time this sword was handed to him.
Lot 186
A mixed group of knives comprising twenty-three K32 Kasu folding knives, with 3.5" blades, overall length 8"; a black Victorinox Champion Swiss Army knife in original box; a box of assorted Victorinox spares; box of other tool spares; a Webley folding knife; Promithi knife; small folding pocket knife; three spoon carving knives, a folding knife with a figural wolf head, Camillus Cutlery folding knife, Tiger Sharp replaceable edge knife, set of Browning drill bits with gauge measure tool in case, several other folding knives including Way of the Warrior (new old stock); together with other knives including Franklin Mint Collector's knife decorated with a dragon, with case, eight vintage English folding pen knives etc By bidding on this item, you are declaring that you are 18 years of age or over.
Lot 383
A British Army 1903 pattern bayonet by EFD, with a double edged, and leather scabbard, the blade 30.5cm blade, 43.5cm overall Shipping Disclaimer: Buyers must be aware of their country’s shipping and import policies regarding guns, knives, swords, and other offensive weapons prior to purchase. They are required to ensure that the lot can be delivered by a specialist shipper, whether in the UK, Europe or internationally. No compensation will be given to buyers who fail to organise shipping arrangements for goods and weapons due to the prohibitions, restrictions or import regulations of their country. Condition ReportSome spotting to the blade and scabbard. Wood with knocks scratches.
Lot 2367
A Set of Five Elizabeth II Silver Stirrup-Cups, by Richard Comyns, London, 1970 tapering and with a cast fox mask terminal 15cm high, 52oz 15dwt, 1,640gr (5) Provenance: The Collection of the Late Captain Edward Cazenove (1923-2000) Devoted hunter and art collector Captain Edward "Teddy" Cazenove was born on 11 June 1923. He was brought up by his New York-born mother, Edith, at the family house of Cottesbrooke in Northamptonshire. Cazenove was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he took every chance he could to hunt. Shortly after graduating from Oxford, he joined the Army and served diligently throughout the Second World War. He was taken prisoner in France in 1944 and was wounded attempting to escape. After the war, instead of following in his father's footsteps and joining the family firm of stockbrokers, which had been established in the 1820s, Cazenove chose to do what he loved best. He settled in Pytchley, Northamptonshire, to hunt. Highly skilled and consistently enthusiastic, Cazenove became Master of hunts in England, Scotland and Ireland. He died aged 77 in 2000. Each fully marked near rim. The marks are generally clear. There is some overall surface scratching and wear as well as some bruises. Some rock slightly when placed on a level surface.
Lot 194
* JONATHAN ARMIGEL WADE (BRITISH b. 1960) SEASON'S END oil on board, signed, titled versoframedimage size 62cm x 79cm, overall size 80cm x 97cmNote: The celebrated artist Paul Maze, Churchill’s painting companion and tutor, used to say you have to look for the curve in any landscape, and Jonathan has excelled in this. Indeed the word cuvispective has been invented for him. It enables Jonathan to excel in his often quirky paintings of British life and landscapes, something so close to his heart. His frames are usually made by the artist and often the rear of them is painted scarlet. He is particularly influenced by work of Claude Lorrain, Turner, Gainsborough, Stanley Spencer and Carel Weight. Educated at Lancing College, St Andrews University (MA 1983) and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from Berlin, Canada and the Gulf War of 1990/91. He retired as a Captain in May 1991 and became a painter. married 1986 Marie- Louise Maze, granddaughter of the Franco/British painter Paul Maze, one son, one daughter. Currently lives and works in the village of Irby in N.E Lincolnshire UK. He undertook various painting trips including; India 1979, Pakistan 1982& 1983, Bosnia 1994 and Iraq 2004. Jonathan Amigel Wade is not a member of any Artists organisations or groups. Since about 2003 he has used his middle name as well as his first in order to avoid confusion with the deceased Irish painter also called 'Jonathan Wade'. His paintings are represented in various British regimental museums and notably in the National Army Museum in London, also in many private collections in the USA, UK and Europe. He has exhibited at Paris Salon 1991. Cognac 1991 and 1992. Clarges Gallery London 1993,94,96,2000 2004, Alchemy Gallery London 1998, Sherwin Gallery Essex 07,08,09, Arndean Gallery Cork St, London 2008, and at several UK provincial galleries.
Lot 7
* JAMES WATT RGI (SCOTTISH 1931 - 2022), INNELLAN PIER oil on canvas, signed, titled and dated '95 verso framed image size 61cm x 92cm, overall size 75cm x 105cm Label verso: T. & R. Annan & Sons Ltd., GlasgowNote: James Watt was born in Port Glasgow in 1931 to Alexander Watt and his wife Isabella (nee Hooper). His entire family, including his grandfather, and everybody he knew, were in shipbuilding. He was always passionate about boats. He believed he was very lucky. "I was in the right place at the right time. I caught the tail-end of the Clydeside shipbuilding boom in the 1950s. Shipyards had full order-books and the river teemed with craft of every sort. So I always had a subject”. His paintings are in a formidable array of collections – including those of HM The Queen and Prince Philip, The Princess Royal, The Arts Council, The Hunterian, Glasgow Museums, Paisley Museum & Art Gallery, IBM, Britoil, the Danish Embassy, Yarrow Shipbuilders, McKean Museum and Art Gallery, Clyde Shipping Co, the Royal Bank of Scotland and also the town council in the Faroes. Watt went to Glasgow School of Art for four years where he was taught by Ted Odling, Douglas Percy Bliss, and David Donaldson. In 1958 he was one of 13 founders of the Glasgow Group, an artists' co-operative which continues to this day. Irritated by the conformist, unadventurous policies of local exhibiting societies like the Royal Scottish Academy and the RGI, and at the dearth of commercial outlets in the city, they got together with other GSA students and graduates to exhibit at Glasgow’s then-beautiful McLellan Galleries. The Glasgow Group was the Transmission Gallery of its day. After two years National Service in the army, from 1955 to 1957 he became an art teacher, and a much-beloved one at that. He was noted for his kindness and good counsel, and one former student says of him: "I had pretty much zero talent but he sparked a lifelong love and interest in art." Another remembered “His was the fastest-moving Volvo down the school drive. He was some man." Later Watt became a member of the RGI and was elected a member of Society of Scottish Artists in 1965. In 1997 he received The Royal Bank of Scotland Award at the Glasgow Institute. He dedicated much of his life to recording the River Clyde and its industries, and his vast body of work forms a vital archive of the river. Greenock's McLean Museum and Art Gallery exhibition, The Lost Clyde: The Paintings of James Watt, was mounted to celebrate his 90th birthday. James was also the father of Alison Watt OBE FRSE RSA, one of Britain's best-known painters.
Lot 221
* BILL WRIGHT RSW RGI DA (SCOTTISH 1931 - 2016), SEAGULL IN THE MIST and UNTITLED two watercolours on paper, both signedboth mounted, framed and under glass the Seagulls image size 19cm x 25cm, overall size 40cm x 45cmNote: Bill Wright's talent first became evident when he was a boy, drawing endlessly for amusement while bedbound with illness. He went on to study painting at Glasgow School of Art and became an award-winning watercolourist, constantly inspired by was seascape and ever-changing sky on the Kintyre peninsula where he had a second home. Glasgow-born Wright, the son of a shipyard plater, was brought up in Partick and started his schooling at the city’s Dowanhill Primary before being evacuated to Dunoon during the Second World War. After returning home he attended Hyndland Senior Secondary and despite being discouraged by his parents, who would have preferred him to have a “proper job”, in 1949 he began his studies at Glasgow School of Art. They were interrupted by national service – a duty he felt hindered the progression of his art career. He served at Catterick army garrison but was a pacifist who abhorred war and dismissed the opportunity to be promoted to Sergeant as an army career held no interest. His first teaching post was at East Park School in Glasgow’s Maryhill. He then moved in 1965 to St Patrick’s High School in Dumbarton where he spent two years before becoming art adviser for the area at the age of 36. Over the next two decades he fostered the idea of instilling a cultural interest in art among pupils. He formed working groups to reform teaching of first and second-year students, encouraged forward-looking principal teachers and recruited many young teachers. His ethos was that teachers were not just there to create artists but to give all children a good art experience. He also established a residential art course for school children, at the Pirniehall residential educational facility at Croftamie in Dunbartonshire, where youngsters from different backgrounds could investigate the idea of furthering an art career through experiencing a range of different mediums in an art camp environment. And he is said to have been instrumental in encouraging the implementation of Scotland’s Standard Grade art and design qualification. However, he suffered from the chronic arthritic condition ankylosing spondylitis which, by the age of 55, forced him to take early retirement from his post in the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council. Meanwhile, as he had strived to enthuse youngsters with his own passion for art, he had been elected, in 1977, to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. A member of the Glasgow Arts Club for many years, he was also an elected member of the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and Paisley Art Institute, served as president of the Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association for 14 years and was a Scottish Arts Council lecturer, touring the country discussing art. But perhaps his own greatest inspiration was the view from a cottage he stumbled upon half a century ago, seven miles from Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre. He rented the property at Bellochantuy and set up a studio there where he drew on the vistas stretching 180 degrees, encompassing sea, beach, rocks and sky. He was utterly smitten by the area and was ultimately bequeathed the cottage by the owner who had become a close family friend. Over the years he came to know the area intimately and was fascinated by the constantly changing moods of the sea and light of the sky which formed the majority of his output. One large body of work, "Towards Islay", focused on the view from the back of the cottage. He captured the patterns and waves of the sea, sometimes adding a bird, limpit, mermaid’s purse, rock lines or some seaweed. But at times his works were very abstract and symbolic, concentrating on themes of nature and transience. He was hung in all the major shows in Scotland and in galleries across the country from Aberdeenshire to Edinburgh, Glasgow and south of the border. His work also features in public collections of Stirling and Strathclyde Universities, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and the Educational Institute of Scotland. And he was recognised with The Laing Prize for Landscape and Seascape and the RSW’s Sir William Gillies Award.
Lot 138
The outstanding ‘Dargai Heights’ V.C. action D.C.M. group of four awarded to Colour Sergeant J. Keeling, Derbyshire Regiment, for his conspicuous gallantry at the storming of the Chagru Kotal on 20 October 1897, when he was severely wounded as part of the storming party led by Captain Smith and Lieutenant Pennel - charging out ‘of cover and across a heap of dead and wounded men into a perfect hail of bullets’ Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Cr. Sgt. J. Keeling. Derbys: R.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Sikkim 1888 (579 Pte. J. Keeling 2nd. Bn. Derby: R.); India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (579 Color Sergt. J. Keeling 2d. Bn. Derby: Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (579 C.Sjt: J. Keeling. Notts: & Derby Regt.) light contact marks and minor edge bruising overall, otherwise very fine or better (4) £5,000-£7,000 --- Provenance: Glendining’s, June 1988; Dix Noonan Webb, July 2018. D.C.M. submitted to the Queen, 9 July 1898, and announced under Army Order 135 of 1898. Joseph Keeling was born in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, and attested for service with the Derbyshire Regiment (having previously served with the 5th (Militia) Battalion) at Derby in July 1883. Initially posted to the 1st Battalion, he was transferred to the 2nd Battalion, in December 1885, and served with them in India from that date, apart from 4 months in 1893, until September 1898. Keeling was present in the action at the Dargai Heights, and was awarded the D.C.M. for his gallantry during the storming of the Chagru Kotal on 20 October 1897. The Regiment received three gallantry awards for the action (including the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant H. S. Pennell), the recommendations for which were made by Brigadier-General Hart, V.C., Royal Engineers to the Assistant Adjutant-General, 1st Division, Tirah Expeditionary Force, on 7 December 1897: ‘Sir, I have the honour to request you will forward, for the favourable consideration of the General Officer Commanding Tirah Expeditionary Force, the attached documents which I have collected regarding the gallant conduct of the following soldiers at the storming of Dargai on 20 October 1897: Captain W. E. G. Smith , 2nd Battalion, Derbyshire Regiment (killed); Lieutenant H. S. Pennell, 2nd Battalion, Derbyshire Regiment; No. 579 Colour-Sergeant J. Keeling, 2nd Battalion, Derbyshire Regiment (severely wounded); No. 4755 Private George John Dunn, 2nd Battalion, Derbyshire Regiment (killed); No. 2732 Private Richard Ponberth, 2nd Battalion, Derbyshire Regiment (mortally wounded); No. 1701 Private J. Anthony, 2nd Battalion, Derbyshire Regiment (severely wounded); No. 3392 Private J. Spick, 2nd Battalion, Derbyshire Regiment (severely wounded). On 20 October 1897, Captain W. E. G. Smith’s company of the 2nd Battalion, Derbyshire Regiment, was ordered to attack the heights at Dargai. The 1st Battalion, 2nd Gurkha Rifles and 1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment had already been unsuccessful in their attack, and were under cover blocking the way to the hundred yards of open space that had to be crossed. Captain Smith ordered his company to charge, and started forward before his men could get through the companies in front of them. Lieutenant Pennell, Colour-Sergeant Keeling, Privates Spick, Dunn and Ponberth, forced their way through the men in front, and followed the gallant leading of their Captain who fell dead after he had gone about sixty yards. Immediately afterwards, Private Dunn was killed, Private Ponberth mortally wounded, Colour-Sergeant Keeling and Private Spick severely wounded, and Private Anthony was lying close by severely wounded. There were officers, not engaged, who witnessed what happened, and describe the enemy’s fire as extremely heavy, but Lieutenant Pennell ran to the assistance of Captain Smith, and made two distinct attempts to carry and drag him back to cover, and only left his comrade when he found that he was apparently dead. Lieutenant Pennell then ran back to his company which was under cover. Taking all the circumstances into consideration, I consider it my duty to bring forward the conspicuous gallantry of Lieutenant H. S. Pennell, and of Private J. Spick, both of the 2nd Battalion, Derbyshire Regiment, as deserving of being recommended for the Victoria Cross; and, had he lived, Captain Smith’s gallant leading should not have passed unrewarded. It is also apparent that Colour-Sergeant J. Keeling, Privates Dunn, Ponberth and Anthony, are the names of very brave men deserving of the most honourable mention. I would therefore recommend the two survivors, Colour-Sergeant J. Keeling and Private J. Anthony, for the Medal for Distinguished Conduct in the Field, in recognition of the gallant support they gave their officers in following them out of cover and across a heap of dead and wounded men into a perfect hail of bullets. It may be that Privates Booth, Hunt and Wilson of the 2nd Battalion, Derbyshire Regiment are deserving of special mention, but I am unable to obtain sufficient evidence to justify me in recommending them for the Medal for Distinguished Conduct in the Field. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant’. Pennell was awarded the Victoria Cross, whilst Keeling and Spick were awarded the D.C.M. This was despite a second submission that was made on behalf of Private Spick, by Lieutenant Pennell, on 5 December stating: ‘Private Spick and Sergeant Keeling went on until they were hit, but Sergeant Keeling was hit almost immediately he left cover and therefore did not gain the same chance of proving his willingness to advance as Private Spick, who had covered, I should think, about 60 yards straight towards the position before he was hit.’ Having advanced to Colour Sergeant, Keeling subsequently served with the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment. He was discharged to ‘Pension’ on 17 October 1907, having served 24 years and 97 days with the Colours (L.S. & G.C. awarded in 1908). Sold with copied research.
Lot 64
Three: Colour-Sergeant John Jefferies, 40th Regiment Candahar Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (Serjt. John Jeffries Her M’s 40th Regt.) naming engraved in running script, fitted with steel clip and replacement silver bar suspension; Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Serjt. John Jefferies H.M. 40th Regt.) fitted with adapted silver bar suspension with engraved decoration and inscribed ‘J. Jefferies’; Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1847’ on edge (Color Serjt John Jefferies 40th Regt. 1847) the last with obverse brooch marks, naming detail weak in parts on the first and last, pitting overall, therefore good fine (3) £1,400-£1,800 --- Provenance: Glendining’s, November 1956; Ian McInnes Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2003. Only 107 M.S.M.s of the first issue were awarded with the edge dated 1847, this one being unique to the 40th Foot.

John Jefferies (often Jeffries) was born at Sudbury, Suffolk, in 1806, and was attested for the 40th Foot at Colchester on 15 November 1825, aged 19 years. He joined his regiment in Tasmania, or Van Dieman’s Land as it was then called, where he remained for almost two years before they were posted to Belgaum, in the Bombay Presidency of India. Promoted to Corporal in 1833 and to Sergeant in 1834, Jefferies saw his first active service from 183 to 1843 in Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and lower and upper Scinde, culminating in the battle of Maharajpoor on 29 December 1843. He was promoted to Colour-Sergeant in 1844 and sailed for England in 1845. He was by now suffering from chronic hepatitis and rheumatism, which caused him to be discharged on 22 December 1846. His papers were signed by Lieutenant-Colonel George Hibbert, the last of the officers of the 40th who had fought at Waterloo, and it was he who recommended Jefferies for the M.S.M. in March 1847. Jefferies received his M.S.M. on 3 December of that year, together with an annuity of £10, and died circa 1875. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.
Lot 137
The superb ‘Heavy Brigade’ D.C.M. group of three awarded to Private J. R. Aslett, 1st Royal Dragoons, who lost an arm to cannon shot during the famous charge at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (James R. Aslett. 1st Rl. Drags.) officially impressed naming; Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Balaklava, Sebastopol (Pvte. Jas. R. Aslett 1st. RL. Drs.) Hunt & Roskell engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, fitted with small ring for suspension, mounted for wear, all with contemporary silver top riband buckles, minor edge bruising overall, otherwise very fine or better (3) £8,000-£10,000 --- Provenance: Spink, June 1987, (Lot 353 £1950) as part of a collection of Crimea medals which included the Light Brigade D.C.M. group to S/Maj G. Loy Smith, 11th Hrs, (Lot 354 £2900) which sold in these rooms in April 2006 for £45,000; Dix Noonan Webb, December 2016. D.C.M. recommendation dated 1 January 1855. James Richard Aslett was born in Farnham, Surrey, and attested for the 1st Royal Dragoons at Westminster on 20 October 1853. He served with the Regiment in the Crimea, and took part in the famous charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava on 25 October 1854. He was severely wounded during the charge, and was ‘disabled by amputation of right shoulder joint after cannon shot wound received at Balaklava’ (Service Papers refer). The field surgery that he underwent was further recorded in Medical and Surgical History of British Army in Turkey and Crimea during the Russian War, 1858, ‘James Aslett, aged 19, had his right humerus smashed by a round shot, it became necessary to remove the arm from the shoulder-joint, the amputation was done immediately after the injury. He was sent to Scutari, where the stump soon united without a bad symptom.’ The D.C.M. awarded to Aslett was initially sent out to the Crimea in March 1855, only to have to be returned for presentation to the U.K. on 14 May. Aslett had preceded its return and was discharged ‘Medically Unfit’ on 2 May 1855. One of eight D.C.M.s awarded to the Regiment for the Crimean Campaign, only two of which were awarded to recipients who were wounded at Balaklava and therefore unquestionably confirmed as ‘chargers’.
Lot 2274
WW1 Imperial German Army Butcher Bayonet with single edged fullered blade 368mm in length, maker marked "R. Stock & Co. Berlin-Marienfeld". Spine of blade marked "W15". Wooden grips. Working release catch. Overall length 502mm. Complete with scabbard and original leather frog. War souvenir of a British Officer "Capt Booker".
Lot 2369
WW2 Imperial Japanese Army Type 95 NCO's sword with fullered single edged blade 695mm in length. Serial numbered 72976. Gilt bronze Tsuba. Arsenal markings to the Copper Habki. Green painted cast metal alloy grip. Overall length 923mm. Complete with brown lacqured metal scabbard with single suspension ring.
Lot 2286
Imperial German Army officers Sword with pipe backed Damascus blade 816mm in length with gilt and blued decoration. Maker marked "WK & Co". Panel with "Eisenhauer Damast-Stahl" along with officers name and dated 1890. Opposite side of blade has Piled Arms design. Red felt washer present. Gilt plated guard. Wire bound shagreen grip. Overall length 948mm. Complete with scabbard with twin suspension rings with black enamel finish.
Lot 2123
Victorian 1854 Pattern British Army Officers Sword with fullered etched blade with VR 835mm in length. Proof marked and maker marked "Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London". Serial number to spine of blade 30109. White leather washer present to blade. Brass guard with VR Cypher. Wire bound Shagreen grip. Overall length 967mm. Complete with scabbard with twin suspension rings and with a later Sam Brown leather frog.
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