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Indian Army 1st Punjab Regiment Regimental Sweetheart Brooch. A good quality gold yellow metal example stamped 14 Ct. 18Ct depicting a regimental device. Complete with pin. Width 45mm

German, assorted Imperial and Third Reich insignia. Iron Cross 1914 2nd Class ... 1870-1871 Army War Medal ... 1866 War Cross ... 2 x Iron Cross group of three ribbon bars ... Third Reich Army cap cockade (one of four pins/blades absent) ... NSDAP Old Comrades aluminium breast eagle and swastika bearing crossed swords and black Iron Cross (original brooch pin) ... oval gilt rimmed rayon swastika flag on light blue (double pin to reverse). (8 items)

SIX RUSSIAN SOCIALIST REALIST LANDSCAPE PAINTINGScomprising:a) IGOR IVANOVICH YERSHOV (RUSSIAN 1916-1985), Qayraqqum, 1956, oil on canvas, 32 x 42 cm (12 5/8 x 16 1/2 in.), inscribed, titled and dated on verso b) ALEKSANDRA IVANOVNA YAKUSHEVA (RUSSIAN 1900-1986), Harvesting, 1943, oil on paperboard, 25.8 x 38 cm (10 1/8 x 15 in.), initialed lower right; inscribed Kolkhoz Novyi Put. Kirgiziya, titled and dated on versoc) YEVGENIY VASILYEVICH YEGOROV (RUSSIAN 1901-1942), A Farm Under the Mountain [Double-sided], 1924-1925, watercolor on paper, 36 x 42 cm (14 1/8 x 16 1/2 in.), signed, titled and dated lower center in pencild) NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH GRIGORIEV (RUSSIAN 1901-1979), On the Riverbank, c. 1950s, watercolor on paper, 28.1 x 53.9 (11 x 21 14 in.), signed on verso in pencile) NIKOLAI ANTONOVICH MATSEDONSKY (RUSSIAN 1911-1980), Stage Design Featuring the Red Army Marines during World War II, 1954, oil on board, 33.5 x 49.5 cm ( 13 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.), dated on verso in penf) PYOTR SERGEYEVICH RODIONOV (RUSSIAN 1914-1981), Lenin's House in Gorki, 1960, oil on board, 49.5 x 70 cm (19 1/2 x 27 5/8 in.), signed lower right; inscribed, dated and titled on verso in penCONDITIONUnframed, the group appears in age-appropriate condition.a) Unstretched, very fine and stable craquelure visible to the perimeter of the unstretched canvas. Not inspected under UV light.b) Unframed, the painting with four small pin holes visible to the upper center edge. A visible hard crease to the lower left corner resulting in two very fine lines of craquelure, longest measuring, 7 cm (2 3/4 in.) in length. Not inspected under UV light.c) Unframed, the double-sided watercolor with scattered hardcreasing to the corners. A visible stain to the upper left corner and minor lifting to the lower left corner as apparent in photographs.Not inspected under UV light.d) Unframed, three visible areas of loss to the lower left and right corners and upper left corner, as apparent in photographs. Wear and surface soiling to the upper right corner. Light creasing visible to each corner. Not inspected under UV light.e) Unframed, the painting with a visible hard crease to the lower right corner, resulting in two fine lines of craquelure resulting in minor loss. Scattered losses to the perimeter. Not inspected under UV light.f) Unframed, the painting with overall age-appropriate craquelure. Losses visible to the perimeter. Not inspected under UV light.unframedKindly note, the auction is comprised of two sessions:Session I: Russian and Asian Art, Antiques and Jewelry, lots 1-331Session II: European, North and South American, and Ethnographic Art, Antiques, Jewelry, and Design, lots 500-827N.B. All lots are sold in as-is condition at the time of sale. Please note that any condition statement regarding works of art is given as a courtesy to our clients in order to assist them in assessing the condition. The report is a genuine opinion held by Shapiro Auctions and should not be treated as a statement of fact. The absence of a condition report or a photograph does not preclude the absence of defects or restoration, nor does a reference to particular defects imply the absence of any others. Shapiro Auctions, LLC., including its consultants and agents, shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.

A brown suitcase containing birth and death certificates for The Flowers family, three 7th Armoured Desert Rat Cloth badges (right and left facing), Royal Artillery brass cap badge, Black Watch Association enamel badge, and WWII medals belonging to a Cecil Arthur Flowers to include Italy Star, Africa Star with 8th Army clasp (broken) 1939-1945 star, The France and German Star, 1939-1945 medal, pin badges for The Marines and HMS Ajax, a WWII Kings for Loyal Service War Wound King's lapel badge, WWII British Merchant Navy sailors MN badge etc.

Needle cases, books, etc., comprising a colour printed Synoptical Needle Case for C. Laight and Co., with colour scrap 'Come To The Arms Of Love', 9cms, The Army and Navy needle book, 12cms, another in the form of a Goodalls Yorkshire Relish bottle, 8.7cms, 'The Ladies Gem Pocket Pin Case', worn, 7.6cms, and two advertising match book needle and pin cases. (6) A passion for collecting lasting forty years Part 2

Second World War Grouping to a Royal Marine, 1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, 1939-1945 British War Medal, with medal entitlement slip in addressed box to 'Mr J.H. Whitehead, 5 Royal Pier Road, Gravesend, Kent, together with pin back medal ribbon bar for 1939-45 Star and Italy Star, fibre identity discs to 'CHX112854 J WHITEHEAD' on a white metal chain with crucifix, a British army Morse key assembly No.2B, and a quantity of wartime banknotes, Dracma, Lire, and Reichmarks, the 'CHX' prefix and 100.000 series number indicates a WW2 'Hostilities Only' rank, the grouping originally came with a 1943 dated Green Beret with Royal Marines cap badge which the vendor is keeping hold of, (qty)

Second World War grouping , 1939-1945 Star and 1939-1945 British War Medal in original box of issue addressed to S.J. Hurst, also in the box is the medal issue slip and letter from the RE Records office to Mr Hurst dated 26th November 1946 confirming the claim to the two medals, a RAF good luck sweetheart brooch, a Junior Imperial & Constitutional League lapel pin, Christmas 1949 Menu for 331 Company, Royal Army Service Corps while stationed in Greece, Allied Military Currency 2 and 5 Lire notes, and a French 2 Franc note dated 1944, (qty)

First World War Silver War Badge, serial number 193673, pin fitting intact, records show this badge was allocated to 19680 Private Samuel North of the Devonshire Regiment who enlisted 1st September 1914 and entered France on 27th December 1914, discharged due to sickness 6th April 1917, entitled to the 1914-15 Star, 1914-1918 British War Medal and Victory Medal, also served with 3rd Battalion Somerset Light Infantry with regimental number 7979, together with Silver Wound Badge, number 323990, pin present to reverse but clasp missing, records show this badge allocated to 426136 Sapper Frank Gladwin of 426 Field Company Royal Engineers, enlisted 13th January 1915, discharged due to sickness 14th December 1917, entitled to 1914-1918 British War Medal and Victory Medal, also served with regimental number 7480, a Royal Army Reserve lapel badge in Sterling Silver, Birmingham 1938, maker Elkington & Co Ltd, and a 1916 economy cap badge in gilding metal to the Army Service Corps, (4)

Royal Artillery Officers bronze Service Dress cap badge, Kings crown, two blades to the reverse, together with two Royal Artillery bronze collar badges, a bronze Territorial RA collar badge, a Southern Command Royal Artillery Formation badge, a quantity of Kings crown Royal Artillery buttons, officers gilt rank star and crown, bronzed Royal Army Medical Corps cap/collar badge, and a Canadian 27th Battalion cap badge which has been brooched but pin missing, (qty)

JAMES BOND ‘THE SPY WHO LOVED ME’, 1977 – TWO EARLY DIRECTOR’S SCRIPTS BY RICHARD MAIBAUM (2)Twoseparate mimeographed typescripts of Richard Maibaum’s screenplay, bothdifferent versions; one entitled The Spy Who Loved Me, Draft Screenplay,Richard Maibaum and dated Nov.5,1975, 154 pp. in grey card covers,contained in a red imitation leather binder; the other entitled The SpyWho Loved Me, Richard Maibaum, undated, the title page inscribed inblack ink in an unidentified hand Mr Lewis Gilbert and annotated with asmall arrowhead symbol, 129 pp. in buff card covers, contained in a blackimitation leather binder;  Both screenplays share a number of key plot elements woven around a threat to the West from a mysterious evil force with the ability to use satellite technology to detect and capture submerged nuclear submarines; and involving interference with the world’s oil supplies using nuclear submarines, adapted super tankers and oil platforms; in both, a new look SPECTRE, run by a group of young idealists all under the age of 30, are headed by a character called [Elroy] Kronk, who kills ‘Number One’ the old wheelchair-bound SPECTRE leader; then, backed by Jaws and six other International terrorists they overthrow the SPECTRE old guard. Kronk takes control for his own fiendish ends; both scripts feature a dramatic fight finale between Jaws and 007 in which 007 triumphs aided by electro-magnetic assistance; significant characters both scripts share include: steel-teethed-assassin Jaws, beautiful Russian agent Anya Amasova, General Gogol her KGB boss, new SPECTRE ‘Number One’   Kronk; and Gita, a tall beautiful assassin with a lethal butterfly pin brooch;   shared locations include: Sardinia, Geneva and Egypt; Key differences between the two scripts include: the location of the first appearance of Jaws, in the script dated 1975 [red binder] this occurs in Egypt in the ‘City of the Dead’, and in the undated script [black binder] in Prague where a lot of this script’s early action takes place; apart from a number of location and character variations, the most notable difference between the two scripts is that only the undated script [black binder] features the ‘Underwater Car Sub’ over a 20 page action sequence [pp.68-88]. In this script the car is a new model Ford modified by Q and delivered by him to Bond in Oslo.Richard Maibaum was the penultimate writer in the order of twelve different scriptwriters Cubby Broccoli employed to tackle the screenplay for The Spy Who Loved Me until he got the script he wanted. Maibaum worked on all but three of the Bond Films from Dr No (1962) to Licence to Kill (1989), and is the co-author with Christopher Wood of the final draft screenplay for The Spy Who Loved Me. The two scripts in this lot, both early variants of the final script, are a particularly interesting record of the development of this screenplay. It is fascinating to note which elements, included here, were omitted or adapted for use in the final version: -Firstly, the overthrow of SPECTRE’S `Number One’: In both scripts Number One is described as a heavy imposing man seated in a mechanised wheelchair which, in the dated script [red binder], has a mini communication system in its arm. In the undated script [black binder], Number One has a white cat on his lap. The new arch-villain Kronk manipulates Number One’s chair so that it and its occupant (without the cat) plunges to his death out of the window of the high-rise building. It is then that Kronk introduces his young radical supporters, described in the undated script as his ‘family’, and named in both as: Jaws, Gita (tall and beautiful), Marco, Rolz (American), Kazi (Japanese), Turner (a black) and Djabi (Arab terrorist type). Interestingly, in the undated script [black binder] Kronk is a woman disguised as a bald-headed, bespectacled man.  Kronk’s coterie of young idealists are said to have represented members of the Red Brigade, the Baader-Meinhof Gang, the Black September Organization and the Japanese Red Army. Their aim was to form a new SPECTRE no longer interested in blackmail and extortion, but intent on destroying civilization by capturing a nuclear submarine and wiping out the world’s oil fields.  This plot line of Maibaum’s with the young SPECTRE radicals was regarded by Cubby Broccoli as being too politically controversial at the time, and was consequently dropped from the final storyline;- Another significant difference between the two scripts is the appearance of the ‘ Underwater Car Sub’ in one and not the other. Q himself is reportedly killed off in the dated script [red binder] going down with a nuclear sub, an incident recounted to 007 by Moneypenny when, due to Q’s absence, she’s sent to delivers Bond’s reconnaissance kit to him at Oslo airport. In the undated script [black binder], Q himself meets 007 off the Oslo night train and delivers a new model Ford sports car with numerous vital modifications. The cars underwater features are not specified in the dialogue between the two, and become obvious when pursued by SPECTRE hoodlums on a death-defying cliffside rode, Bond with Anya beside him drives off the end of a jetty into the sea; it is during this ‘Underwater Car Sub’ sequence in the undated script that the two agent lovers believe they are going to die as they are trapped deep beneath the sea in the malfunctioning sub with only three hours of oxygen left. Bond removes two miniature bottles of Armagnac ‘27 from inside the car door and they toast each other: “To the spy who loved me”, Anya’s toast to Bond in English, Bond’s to her in perfect Russian. [pp.87-88]. In the dated script, the two agents make the same toast with the same vintage Armagnac following the dramatic action finale at the villain’s oil refinery [p.107]. In both instances they are of course miraculously saved. ConditionReport: Red binder script: Overall very good. Grey card cover has small tear to front edge, and some folding at edges of corners on both front and backBlack binder script: Overall very goodFootnote: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), the tenth in the Eon Productions official 007series, initiated a number of records for the James Bond franchise. It wasCubby Broccoli’s first solo 007 venture without co-producer Harry Saltzman, andhe was determined that it should become the biggest and best Bond yet.  From the outset, the film’s path to successwas beset with numerous difficulties and the screenplay itself went throughmore adaptations and revisions than any production during the 40-year historyof 007 on screen. Problems began with Ian Fleming’s source material for thefilm’s title. Like the movie, it was Fleming’s tenth Bond novel in order,however it represented a departure from Fleming’s usual 007 format in that itis told from the viewpoint of a young Englishwoman who only meets the famousspy in the last few chapters of the book. For this reason, Fleming never wantedthis book to be sold as a film project. His estate, however, gave Broccolipermission to use the novel’s title only. The book and film do also share onesignificant common element – Jaws,  whois loosely based on Fleming’s villain, `Horror’, who had steel-capped teeth.Nevertheless, the screenplay for The Spy Who Loved Me is considered tobe the first Bond film whose story is completely original. After a visit toRussia, Broccoli devised a plot for a new story which suited the film’s title and focused on a beautifulRussian agent who falls in love with James Bond.  It is said that twelve different screenwriters worked on fifteen separate drafts for the screenplay over a period of three years, in one of the most fiendishly complicated film pre-production processes in Eon’s history. Considering the quantity of different variants of the screenplay here in Lewis Gilbert’s personal film...

A late Victorian silver half hunter 'The Field Watch' keyless pocket watch by J.W. Benson, a silver vesta case, a Masonic jewel and two fobsfirst, case marked for London, 1900, circular white enamel dial with Roman numerals, minute track and subsidiary seconds dial, signed J.W. Benson the movement signed and numbered 827542, together with a plain rectangular vesta case suspended on chain with a fixing pin, a cased Masonic keystone jewel, an Army Temperance Association India medal a Cricket Insurance League fob enamelled with city of London crest, (5)various Condition: Pocket winds ticks and runs at time of cataloguing. Minute hand present but detached. Some wear and loss to blue enamel chapter ring on front of outer case. Slight hairline to dial. Light dings and wear to vesta, other items in fair condition

CHARLES HORNER; a hat pin stand containing seven enamel decorated hat pins, one inscribed  'Army Service Corps'.Additional InformationA couple of tiny enamel losses to the enamel on one or two but overall the condition is good. Light surface wear and a couple of small cracks to some of the enamel. 

Music Posters, approximately twenty music posters with five David Bowie (portraits, record pomotions), Siouxsie & the Banshees (German tour, event and large Siouxsie portrait) two New Model Army, Sonic Youth, Bauhaus, King Kurt, The Fall and others with some non-music related plus three metal pin badges (Motorhead, Ban the Bomb and Black Sabbath)- various condition

WW2 German Army / Waffen-SS Infantry Assault Badge in Silver, un-maker marked example. Complete with the original pin but repaired (period) catch fixing.

WW2 German Army / Waffen-SS Close Combat Clasp in Bronze, award is missing its pin fitting from the reverse. Much of the bronze finish remains to the award. Maker marked to the reverse. Some oxidisation to sections of the award.

* George V Army Long Service Good Conduct Medal Royal Army Medical Corps, medal with field marshal bust, awarded to “11392 S SJT E CONNER R.A.M.C”. Medal with ribbon and brooch pin. Medal polished bright. This lot has been imported from outside the EU so is subject to a 5% import duty on the hammer price

A German Second World War Army/Waffen SS Infantry Assault Badge An Army/Waffen SS Infantry Assault badge in bronze, manufactured by RS (Rudolf Souval) with original pin, hook and hinge, good condition £60-£80

German Second World War Army and Luftwaffe Flak Badges. A Luftwaffe Flak Badge, non maker marked, ball type hinge, the hook attached within a depression on the rear of the award, undoubtedly original, eagle slightly loose, it has lost most of its finish; together with a corroded but scarce Army Flak Badge, which is still with its pin, hook and hinge, manufacturers mark of Hermann Aurich of Dresden, constructed in darkened zinc, as stated some corrosion mainly to the left hand side of the award, nevertheless still a difficult award to obtain, fair condition (2) £120-£160

TIN WITH ARMY SOLDIER TITLES, RUSSIAN PIN BADGES & MINIATURE GOLD COLOURED RAZORS

British Army 19th Hussars 9ct gold stick pin in Garrard & Co fitted box (Birmingham 1917)

British Army brown leather belt with Dieu et Mon Droit to metal buckle, together with a Royal Navy bullion tally badge, gilt and enamel pin back badge, shoulder boards and HMS Drake tally

Scarce American Women’s Army Service Pilots Wing, fine example in sterling silver with brooch pin fitting to the reverse. Ex Jerry Withers collection.

Early WW1 Period Royal Flying Corps Pilots Wing, fine quality embroidered pilots wing with the wreath and wing feathers picked out in a khaki thread. 10 feather variation showing signs of uniform removal. Accompanied by an other ranks RFC cap badge, brass RAF cap badge, gilt and enamel RFC sweetheart wing brooch (missing pin), RAF silver and enamel sweetheart brooch and a leather Army Air Corps badge. (6 items)

WW2 German Army / Waffen-SS General Assault Combat Badge in Silver, fine tombak hollow backed combat award with much of the silver wash finish remaining to the award. Complete with pin fitting and catch. Ex Jerry Withers collection.

WW2 German Army / Waffen-SS Infantry Assault Combat Badge in Silver, fine tombak hollow backed combat award with much of the silver wash finish remaining to the award. Complete with pin fitting and catch. Ex Jerry Withers collection

WW2 German Army / Waffen-SS Panzer Assault Badge in Bronze, being an un-marked hollow back example retaining much of its original bronze finish to the award. Complete with the original pin and catch fixing to the reverse.

WW2 German Army Panzer Assault Badge & Insignia Grouping, consisting of a silver grade panzer assault combat badge by Karl Wurster, retaining much of its silver wash finish to the award. Badge has the makers “W” mark to the top corner of the badge. Complete with its original pin fixing and repaired catch. Panzer assault badge for 25 engagements, being an un-marked example with pin and catch fixing to the reverse. Court mounted Iron Cross 2nd class and Eastern front medals with brooch pin to the reverse of the mount. Single black Panzer collar tab with pink piping and zinc Panzer skull to the centre. Pair of early M-36 pink pied panzer tunic shoulder boards. German peaked cap wreath and cockade. WW2 German army wristwatch by Silvana with a subsidiary dial, case stamped to the reverse “ROSTFREIER STAHLBODEN 308874 12201”. Photographs of the original recipient in black Panzer wrapover uniform and associated pieces. The lot all housed inside a German cigar box. Grouping came to the vendor direct from the family of the recipient, the 25 engagement assault badge was acquired later by the veterans family, the original example being lost. We are of the opinion that this badge is a later made type.

Military Badges, Buttons, Knife, etc. Comprising: Royal Navy and Royal Military College of Canada pin back badges, Royal Artillery Officers badge (1 clip a.f). Buttons including Motor Transport Corps, an unopened Army Tea Ration tin, a replica World War 2 medal and a good quality wooden handled knife. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condition of this lot Postage: £21.56

A VICTORIAN BRASS BOX SEXTANT PRESENTED TO GENTLEMAN CADET A. JOPP OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANYElliott, London, circa 1857circular top plate with screw for rack and pinion index mirror adjustment against a fine inset silver Vernier scale with magnification arm and signature Elliott, 268 High Holborn, London to outer margin, the circumference with sliding shutter for the pin hole sight, the instrument enclosed by a bayonet secured canister-shaped cover, the original blue velvet lined cylindrical red morocco covered box with brass presentation plaque to top finely engraved with the text Presented at the Public Examination, on the 12th June 1857., to Gentleman Cadet Keith A. Jopp., by the Hon'ble Court of Directors, of the East India Company, as a mark of the Courts approbation, of his attainments in Military Surveying, while at the Military College. Diameter of instrument 8cm (3.125ins); diameter of box 9cm (3.5ins). The current lot is almost certainly by the partnership of the brothers Frederick Henry and Charles Edward Elliott Elliott who are recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as continuing the family business after the death of their father in 1853.  The life of Keith Alexander Jopp has been extensively researched by the vendor; a file including scans of original period photographs is included with the lot. Keith Jopp was born in July 1838 at Ooctacamund, Southern India. His father was a Major in the Bombay Engineers of the East India Army. Keith attended Cheltenham College and was nominated to attend the East India Military Training College at Addiscombe. In 1858 Keith Jopp entered into Sappers and Miners of the Bombay Engineers as an Ensign elevating to 2nd Lieutenant by the time he arrived at the HQ of the Bomaby Engineers in Poona, India in May 1859. By December 1969 he had reached rank of 2nd Captain of the Royal Engineers (the Bombay Engineers had been renamed a few years prior) but was on furlough in England. In 1872 he returned to Bombay but was back again in England before the year was out to marry Mary Egerton Smith with whom he had two daughters Leila in 1873 (who sadly died in infancy) and Clara the following year.In April 1874 Jopp was promoted to the rank of Major and was back in Bombay by the end of the year. Over the next decade he travelled back and forth between England and Bombay however in 1879 his wife Mary sadly died in Kensington which led to a period of special compassionate leave. In November 1884 Keith Jopp was furloughed again but was back in Bombay in December the following year having been promoted the Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Engineers. He was by this time Deputy Consulting Engineer, 1st Grade in the Public Works Department at Madras and by time of his retirement in 1891 he had been further promoted to rank of Colonel. In the 1901 census Keith Jopp was recorded as a retired Colonel residing at 69 Eaton Rose, Ealing; by 1911 he had moved to Atheldane, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent and his death was recorded at Thanet in spring 1920. Condition Report: Instrument appears complete and is in working condition albeit with some noticeable wear and light bumps, scuffs etc. The mirror has some noticeable degradation of the silvering to the margins, the Vernier scale has only light rubbing/wear but is still legible when viewed through the magnification lens. The cover is in good condition. The outer case has survived in good original condition although the hinge has been re-attached to the base section. The instrument is a very snug fit and the outer leather covering has some light bumps, scuffs etc.  Condition Report Disclaimer

Indian Army. 34th Punjab Pioneers Victorian helmet badge circa 1887-1901. Good British made die-stamped brass Star of India bearing white metal Guelpic crowned PUNJAB PIONEERS strap with crossed axes below; 34 to centre. . Stout pagri pin . VGC Redesignated 34th Sikh Pioneers in 1903

Indian Army. 13th Duke of Cambridge's Lancers (Watsons Horse) pagri badge circa 1907-21. A good scarce die-stamped gilt brass example. Floriated DCO cypher over 13. . Original stout brooch pin . VGC

Indian Army. 61st Prince of Wales Own Pioneers Edwardian pagri badge circa 1903-10. Good die-cast brass oval inscribed PIONEERS and 1758, surmounted by bi-metal Prince of Wales plumes and resting on white metal PRINCE OF WALES OWN scroll; LXI to voided centre. J.R. Gaunt & Son Ltd. London . Stout pagri pin (fittings present, pin absent) . GC

Indian Army. 15th Loodianha Sikhs pagri badge circa 1903-22. Silvered crowned quoit ; to the centre, floriated XV resting on a LOODIANHA SIKHS scroll which extends across the base of the quoit. . Stout pagri pin . GC

Germany,WW2 Army Tank Battle Badge for 25 engagements, rivet reverse and tapered pin. Very fine. (1)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two WWII enamelled Womens Land Army badges, including Express Dairy cap badge & a pin badgesome loss to enamel on Express Dairy badge

Military cap badges and pin badges from WW1 and WW2. Includes hallmarked silver1917 S.S.A pin badge, hand made Spitfire pin badge, RAF sweetheart broach, Rifle Brigade cap badge, Pioneer cap badge, 1889 Army Temperance Association medalwith other badges and cap badges.

J.Hudson and Co Whistle dated 1940,George Wostenholm I.XL Pruning Knife, Royal Observer Corps Pin,Royal Army Service Corps Cap Badge and other Pin

Third Reich insignia etc: 2nd pattern Army marksman’s lanyard badge; Veterans cap eagle, the back marked “Ges Gesch”; a large metal cap eagle with pin back; Luftwaffe bullion embroidered cap eagle; cloth embroidered Luftwaffe Parachutist badge; Army eagle breast badge; and 12 wartime issue small denomination zinc coins (some corroded). Average GC £40-50.

An officer’s silver cap badge of the Army Air Corps, HM B’ham 1942 and with J R Gaunt maker’s mark, lugs removed and fitted with brooch pin. VGC (the pin missing) £60-80

A collection of WWII and later German badges and buttons, comprising; three Hitler Youth enamel pin badges, a DAP enamel badge; leather regimental badges; four tie pins including Reichs Autobahn 1936 pin; An SA Stuttgart badge; military buttons including Kriegsmarine, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Confederate CSA buttons; a hallmarked silver reproduction SS ring; a reproduction Wiking SS Nordland ring, with makers mark; and a German Army Officers cap badge, lacking centre. (qty)

An original WWII Second World War British Army issue mills bomb hand grenade. Inert, but a complete example with with pin, lever, zinc central tube and original screw-in cap to base. Base marked No 36 MK1 with makers Kenrick & Sons and 44 date. 

An original WWI First World War British Army inert No. 5 MKI mills bomb / hand grenade. Typical form, being a complete example with pin and firing lever present. The screw in base plug marked No. 5 MKI with 1916 date, broad arrow inspection mark and maker's for Calthorpe Motor Co.

An original WWII Second World War Third Reich Nazi German Army Sturmabteilung ( SA ) nickel silver cap badge. Usual form, with RZM No.23 to reverse. Along with a scarce original SA lapel pin - the pin body decorated with a rope twist effect. Scarce period SA German items.

PHILIP II OF SPAINLetter signed ('El Rey') as King of England ('Rey de Ingleterra') to Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva in his capacity as Governor of Milan, in Spanish, concerning the disposition of lands in Milan, countersigned by his secretary ('G[onsalvus] Perezius'), complete papered seal with the combined arms of England, France and the Hapsburgs, integral address panel to verso, one page, creased at folds, some staining and fraying to left hand edge, small pin holes and tears at joints, 4to (283 x 215mm.), Hampton Court, 23 August 1555Footnotes:'REY DE INGLETERRA': PHILIP II OF SPAIN CONDUCTS BUSINESS AS KING OF ENGLAND.Philip of Spain, consort of Mary I between 1554-1558, spent only seventeen months of their marriage in England and therefore letters written from London are uncommon. The document is headed with Philip's titles 'King of England and Naples and Prince of Spain, Duke of Milan' and, although he styles himself here as King of England he was never crowned – his signature 'El Rey' is the usual Spanish form with an elaborate calligraphic flourish which possibly incorporates an elaborate initial 'P'. In the summer of 1555 Philip and Mary had retired to the purer air of Hampton Court to await the birth of a child, which, by the date of our letter, had been revealed as a phantom pregnancy. In September he left England (where he was deeply unpopular) for his European campaigns, only returning for a few months in March 1557 in order to persuade Mary to commit English troops to his war against France – a campaign which resulted in the loss of Calais. He writes here to his close advisor the Duke of Alba, Governor of Milan and Commander-in-Chief of the army in Italy from 1555-1559. Considered by many as the most effective general of his generation and immensely powerful, he had attended Philip's marriage to Mary Tudor in 1554 and held the post of governor of the Duchy of Milan for just one year from 1555-1556. He was to become notorious for his cruelty against Dutch Protestant rebels in the Spanish Netherlands. The text of our document appears to be in the hand of Gonzalo Pérez (c.1506-1566), the countersignatory. Pérez was Philip II's secretary and chief minister who had also served under Emperor Charles V and accompanied him to England on his marriage. He was the first to translate the complete Odyssey of Homer into Spanish, and his son Antonio, who succeeded him in the post, was supposedly the model for Don Antonio De Armado in Love's Labour's Lost.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ELIZABETH IWarrant signed ('Elizabeth R') at head and headed 'By the Queene', to Valentyne Browne, Treasurer of Berwick, appointing William Drury to succeed Sir Thomas Dacre as Marshall of '...our Towne and garrison of Barwick...', and ordering the payment of one hundred pounds, requesting '...we be not dubble charged with the payment of ye wages of Sir Thomas Dacre and his Retynew above eight days or tenne at the most...', with three manuscript insertions in another neat italic scribal hand, integral address panel on verso ('To our Trusty and Wellbelovid Valentyne Browne esquire Treasorer of our Towne of Berwick or to any of his deputies'), with dockets, one page on a bifolium, dust staining and small pin holes at folds, oblong folio (210 x 260mm.) Windsor Castle, 21 February 1564Footnotes:'FOR SEEING IT UPON THE ARRIVAL OF HIM THITHER, WE BE NOT DUBBLE CHARGED': Queen Elizabeth replaces a catholic with a protestant in a key strategic post and keeps a tight rein on the finances.Berwick was the so-called 'listening post' for Scottish affairs, ideally placed for keeping the Queen and her council informed about developments across the border. Here she replaces the catholic Thomas Dacre (d.1565), who had served Queen Mary, with the staunch protestant and loyal servant to Henry VIII and Edward VI, Sir William Drury (1527-1579). Dacre had held the post since 1561 but '...His sojourn there was unhappy and he complained bitterly of arrears of payment. Described as 'old and weak' in June 1563... he was probably glad to be replaced on 26 February 1564...' (Henry Summerson, ODNB). Drury remained at Berwick until 1576 during which time he found himself in the thick of tensions in the borders – responsible for the region's security, he acted as special ambassador during the quelling of the northern uprising in 1569-70, escaped two assassination attempts, took part in punitive border raids, and headed the army that brought the siege of Edinburgh to a close (see Sean Kelsey, ODNB). His reports to Cecil on Scottish affairs are among the most important state documents of the period.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WW2 British cap badges to include: 27th Lancers, The Bays, Royal Armoured Corps, 3rd Dragoon Guards, Inniskillings, Royal Ulster Rifles, South Notts Hussars collar dog, RA collar dog, 3rd Dragoon Guards badge converted to Sweetheart brooch with title removed and pin affixed, WW2 US Army Enlisted Man's cap badge. (10)

WW2 Third Reich Waffen SS Flemish Volunteers Group to SS Untersturmfuhrer Albert Geunes: a very comprehensive group of his awards, official documents and photographs. This is new to the market and has not been in a collection before to include: Eiserne Kreuz 2. Klasse, Iron Cross 2nd class 1939, no makers mark to ring, complete with original full-length ribbon: Award document for the EK2 to SS Sturmann Albert Geunes 3. /Kradschutzen-Btl.2 SS-PzGren. Div."Das Reich", dated 18.2.1943 and signed in ink by the divisional commander SS Gruppenfuhrer und Generalieutnant der Waffen SS Georg Keppler: Award document to SS Sturmann Albert Geunes 3. /SS Kradschutzen-Bt.2 dated 3 Marz 1943 for the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz signed in ink by SS Sturmbannfuhrer und Btl. Kommandeur Jakob Fick (Fick was awarded the RK on the same day for the same action): Silver Wound badge 1939, zinc, maker marked L22, pin and hinge with old repair: Award document Medaille "Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42" (Ostmedaille) to SS-Unterscharfuhrer Albert Geunes dated 22 Juni 1942 signed by SS Sturmbannfuhrer und Kommandeur Konrad Schellong, 6.SS-Freiwilligen Sturmbrigade ?Langemarck?: Medaille "Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42" (Ostmedaille) ring maker marked "14" complete with full length ribbon: Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber - Infantry Assault Badge in Silver, zink, no makers mark: Promotion document dated 21 Dec. 1944 on Himmler?s personal headed paper with impressed seal and ink stamp promoting him to SS-Untersturmfuhrer and signed in ink by SS Brigadefuhrer und Genralmajor der Waffen SS Dr. Adolf Katz: Fursorgeauweis der Waffen SS in Flandern Nr.82 with ink stamp and signed: Medal of the Recruiting Centers 1940 ( Medaille van de Recruteringscentra van het Belgisch Leger 1940) awarded in 1990 by the Belgian Govt to men who presented themselves for service in France in 1940, cased and complete with ribbon and pin: approx. 30 wartime photos of himself in uniform: As he was an active member of the Sint Maartensfonds Flemish Waffen SS Veterans Association there are also approx. 40 post war reprinted photos of both himself and his comrades: 8 large post war reprinted photos of himself taking part in the honour guard at SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz in 1944 for the memorial service for SS Brigadefuhrer Fritz Witt, shows Witt?s widow and children, Fritz Klingenberg, LSSAH colour party, SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Richard Schulze-Kossens etc: Four post war signed postcards/photos of Remy Schrynen, Richard Schulze-Kossens, Jan Vincx, etc: 10 colour photos taken in 1988 of the Memorial to Flemish SS killed in 1945 Nordwestuckermark-Sternhagen, Uckermark district, Brandenburg : Wartime newspaper cutting of Jef van de Wiele: His Daughters Birth Certificate born in Germany 25th Sept 1944: photocopy of letter to his Adj. Obersturmfuhrer Buch sent from Graz 6/3/44: Letter sent as a PoW to his family 30/6/46: Copy from the Bundesarchive sent to him by Jan Vincx of him listed in the 14 Kreigs-Juncker- Lehrgang an der Junkerschule Tolz: 1941 Regt Westland document giving him permission to marry signed by unit Kommandeur SS-Stubaf. Horst Strathmann: 5 wartime photos of his wife and Flemish HJ members: 3 documents from his Military Tribunal in 1946/47: release papers with photo after he was released from prison in 1958: After released he became a Miner, Belgian Trade Union /Algemeen Christelijk Vakverbond Bronze Medal" ACV Hulde: En Erkentelijkheid": Belgian Trade Union /Algemeen Christelijk Vakverbond Silver Medal" ACV Hulde En Erkentelijkheid": Medallion from a Miners Jubileumfeest Dinner and menu from 1982: Miners ID card with photo: St Maartensfonds Membership Card with stamps from 1975-1977: Sint Maartensfonds Commemorative Medal 1951-1996: ribbon pins stamps 1980?s/1990?s from re-reunions: lapel badge ?JST? (Junkerschule Tolz): Medallion ?Tychsen Kameradschaft, 2nd SS Panzerdivision Das Reich?: Official copy of trial Pro Justitia: Handmade 1997 New Year card from another Veteran with collar tab illustration to front: post war family photos of his daughter and her husband, inc his military service in the Belgian Army, etc, etc. Post war photos of the graves of SS General Paul Hausser and of Hitler's parents.Albert Ludovicus Geunes. 23-01-1921 to26-11-2006. His wife, Leni Karlicsek, 23-12-1921 to 19-11-2003. His daughter, Erika, 20/9/44 to 11/4/2020. Plus a bronzed child's boot, 1970's in date. All contained in an old buscuit tin.

The Second War 1945 North West Europe ‘Paarlo’ M.C. group of eleven awarded to Captain Robert Maxwell, Queen’s Royal Regiment, who fought across Europe from the Normandy Landings to the capture of Berlin. Later rising to prominence as a flamboyant and controversial media magnate, Member of Parliament, fraudster and suspected spy - his mysterious drowning off the Canary Islands in 1991, ruled accidental by a subsequent inquest, left behind financial scandal and a fallen business empire and continues to excite speculation and conspiracy theories Military Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated 1945, in Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Poland, Republic, Cross of Valour 1944, bronze, unnumbered; Czechoslovakia, Republic, Military Medal for Merit; War Commemorative Medal 1939-45; Bulgaria, People’s Republic, Order of Stara Planina, First Class neck badge, 68mm, silver, gilt and enamel, in (damaged) case of issue; Finland, Republic, Order of the White Rose, Second Class set of insignia, by Tillander, Helsinki, comprising neck badge, 51mm, silver-gilt and enamel, and breast star, 78mm, silver, with gilt and enamelled centre and gilt retaining pin; Poland, People’s Republic, Order of Merit of the People’s Republic, Second Class set of insignia, comprising neck badge, 60mm, silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star, 81mm, silver and gilt, with silver and red enamelled centre; together with the related miniature awards, these also including Swedish Order of the Polar Star, the four campaign medals all official later issues, generally extremely fine (lot) £6,000-£8,000 --- Provenance: Sotheby’s, January 1993, when sold by direction of the Joint Court-appointed Receiver to the Estate of the late Robert Maxwell, M.C. M.C. London Gazette 12 April 1945: ‘For gallant and distinguished service in North West Europe’ The original recommendation states: ‘During the attack on Paarlo on 29 January 1945, Lieutenant Maxwell was leading his Platoon when a heavy artillery concentration fell on and near the Platoon killing and wounding several men. The attack was in danger of losing momentum but this Officer, showing powers of leadership of the highest order, controlled his men with great skill and kept up the advance. During the night another Platoon of the Company was counter attacked and partially overrun. An attempt to restore the position with another Platoon failed but Lieutenant Maxwell repeatedly asked to be allowed to lead another attempt; this request was eventually granted. This Officer then led two of his Sections across bullet swept ground with great dash and determination and succeeded in contacting the Platoon who had been holding out in some buildings. Showing no regard for his own safety he led his section in the difficult job of clearing the enemy out of the buildings, inflicting many casualties and causing the remainder to withdraw. By his magnificent example and offensive spirit this officer was responsible for the relief of the platoon and the restoration of the situation.’ Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvîk Hyman Binyamin Hoch in 1923 in the small town of Slatinské Doly in Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslvakia (later Hungary and now Solotvyno, Ukraine). He was one of seven children born into a poor Yiddish speaking Orthodox Jewish family, many members of which died in Auschwitz after the occupation of Hungary by the Nazis in 1944. Having left home for France in 1939, aged 16, Maxwell joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile in Marseilles in May 1940 but after the fall of France and evacuation of the British Army, he transferred in Britain to the Pioneer Corps and subsequently in 1943 to the North Staffordshire Regiment. He served throughout the campaign across Europe from the Normandy Landings to the fall of Berlin, was commissioned into the Queen’s Royal Regiment in January 1945 and the same month won the Military Cross at Paarlo, Netherlands: 'During the night 29th/30th [January 1945] about fifty enemy crossed the river in assault boats and, preceded by heavy shelling and mortaring, made an unexpected counter-attack on “A” Company in Paarlo. The Germans got into the houses held by 8 Platoon (Lieutenant M. L. Baker) and there was fierce fighting in the dark. In one house Lance-Corporal Dennis most gallantly held them at bay with his Sten gun until 7 Platoon, splendidly led by Second-Lieutenant R. Maxwell, counter-attacked with tank support and cleared the enemy from the village. Our artillery then took a heavy toll as the Germans withdrew across the river. Ten prisoners were taken and there were numbers of other casualties, including the enemy company commander. Our losses were seven killed and wounded...’ (History of the Queen's Royal Regiment. Vol VIII 1924-1948, compiled by Major R. C. G. Foster, M.C. refers). Maxwell received his award from Field Marshall Montgomery. He achieved the rank of Captain by the end of the war and afterwards for two years was a press censor for the foreign office in Berlin, becoming a British citizen in in 1946 and changing his name to Robert Maxwell in 1948. Using contacts gained during the Allied occupation, Maxwell made a start in business by becoming the British and United States distributor for Springer Verlag, a publisher of scientific books. In 1951 he bought a controlling stake in Butterworth Springer, renamed it Pergammon Press and rapidly built it into a major publishing house. By the 1960s, Maxwell’s business success had made him hugely wealthy and in 1964, representing the Labour Party, he was elected Member of Parliament for Buckingham, holding the seat until 1970. In 1984, he acquired Mirror Group Newspapers, giving him control of six British Newspapers, including the pro-Labour Daily Mirror, and precipitating a media war between himself and Rupert Murdoch, the proprietor of the News of the World and The Sun. Maxwell rescued the third division football club Oxford United from bankruptcy in 1982. As chairman, he helped to lead them to the top flight of English football in 1985 and the club won the League Cup the following year. By 1991 Maxwell’s business empire was heavily in debt and struggling to remain solvent. On 5 November 1991, he was found to be missing from his yacht, Lady Ghislaine (named after his youngest daughter) which was cruising off the Canary Islands. His naked body was later recovered from the Atlantic Ocean. The official ruling at an inquest held in December 1991 was death by a heart attack combined with accidental drowning although three pathologists at the inquest had been unable to agree on the cause of death. Maxwell was afforded a lavish funeral on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem. The ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state occasion, was attended by many dignitaries and politicians and no fewer than six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence listened while Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogised him stating ‘he has done more for Israel than can today be told’ (Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad by Gordon Thomas refers). Robert Maxwell’s death triggered the complete collapse of his publishing empire. As lenders rushed to call in their debts, it emerged that Maxwell had used hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies’ pension funds in an unauthorised attempt to save his businesses from bankruptcy. In 2003, Foreign Office papers were released which revealed that British intelligence officers had suspected Maxwell of being a Soviet agent with one report describing him as ‘a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia’. ...

A deactivated Colt 1911 .45ACP semi-automatic pistol, stamped to the side model of 1911 U.S. Army and further stamped to the opposing side 'Patented April 20th 1897. September 9th 1902. December 19th 1905. Feb 14th 1911. August 19th 1913' and further stamped 'Colts PT.F.A.MFG.CO, Hartford. CT.USA' and further to the frame 'United States Property' (lacking magazine), SN:179865, and deactivation certificate number 162049.Additional InformationOverall solid but used condition with signs of minor dulling and surface pitting to the slide, slight wear to the chequered walnut grips, the right hand side of the frame has a blob of weld where there was previously a pin, unsure whether this is part of the deactivation process or an early repair. No in-house postage available on this lot and date unknown. We do not know the year of manufacture of this item.

A collection of Military Badges belonging to Harold Riley, in a previous sale we sold his diaries on his Arnhem Campaign, these badges have just been found by his family, these include Kings Own Cap Badge, Loyal North Lancashire Cap Badge, The Loyal Regiment Cap Badge, Royal Corps of Signals Cap Badge, WW2 Paratroopers badge (metal), AAC Army Air Corp in plastic (economy issue), Paratroopers Badge (economy issue), Lapel Paratrooper Pin, two foreign Paratroopers Badges, three Italian Fascist Badges/Pins, Harold acquired these while in North Africa as he fought there before Arnhem

A German Third Reich Army Flak Artillery Badge, in die cast white metal, with vertical needle shape pin to the solid back, unmarked. Footnote:- Brought back from the war by the vendor's uncle, 14584683 Sergeant William Leslie Bradwell, a sniper with the Royal Scots Fusiliers

A German Third Reich Army Flak Artillery Badge, in die cast white metal, with vertical needle shape pin to the solid back, unmarked. (pin bent) Footnote:- Brought back from the war by the vendor's uncle, 14584683 Sergeant William Leslie Bradwell, a sniper with the Royal Scots Fusiliers

2nd century AD. A silver openwork plate brooch formed as a group of La Tène Style comma-trumpet motifs and scrolled designs, with pin-lugs and catch to the reverse. Cf. Heeren, S. & van der Feijst, L., Fibulae uit de Lage Landen. Beschrijving, Analyse en Interpretatie van een Archeologische Vondstcategorie, Amersfoort, 2017, item NL-0454-07b-048, for the type. 6.1 grams, 29mm (1"). Property of a gentleman from Vienna; from his private collection formed since 1970. The object belongs to the group of openwork plate brooches with a two-piece spring, that have been divided by Heeren and Van der Feijst in two main groups: subtype 59a with a regular catchplate in line with the pin, and subtype 59b with a transverse catchplate in the shape of a hook. These brooches are associated with the Roman army, as they show decorative motifs which also appear often on military gear and horse-harnesses. [No Reserve] For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price Very fine condition.

A SMALL SHELL CASE length approximately 18cm marked to base 'Nick' 1948 together with a number of smaller items to include Birmingham Safety Council pin badge 3 year award, Army Chess Ass pin badge, 30 year membership buttonhole badge National Union of Railwayman, WW1 era photo of soldier in large brooch type frame to be worn, glass fronted, which is cracked, Royal Navy & Ypres Sweetheart style badges

A MEDAL GROUP TO JOHN JAMES NOEL JOHNSTONE, Medal group to John James Noel Johnstone, an important and significant group of nine medals to a WWII Veteran, who took part in one of the best known Campaigns of World War Two, the group is swing mounted on a wearing bar and as follows (L-R) 1939-45, Africa, Italy, France & Germany Stars, Defence & War medals (un-named as issued), General Service Medal with Bar, Palestine 1945-48, & Mentioned in Dispatches Laurel leaf fitted to ribbon, named 1876625 Cpl J.J.N. Johnstone RE (Royal Engineers) Queens Coronation Medal 1953,(un-named) & Regular Army L.S.G.C. Medal, named 1876625 Sgt J.J.N.Johnstone R.E, this archive also consists the following, miniature period group of medals as above, several small pin badges, and two Royal Engineers cap badges, Red Regular Army Certificate of Service dated 1963, 2nd class Army Certificate of Education, dated July,1939, original Warrant for promotion to Warrant Officer dated 30th March, 1962, a large B & W group photo of one Training Regiment Royal Engineers dated 1961 featuring the Recipient, two other small photos of the Recipient in Uniform, one believed to be with his wife and an original press cutting of an article which appeared in a Lincolnshire paper dated Thursday 11th August 1994, by Claire Ashton, concerning six soldiers local to Sleaford who had been helping the author Martin Middlebrook with a Book entitled 'Arnhem 1944, the Airborne Battle', John James Noel Johnstone was born on 24th December, 1923, and enlisted in the Royal Engineers at 16 years on 2nd March, 1939, at Chatham, Kent, when the Second World War broke out, he was initially stationed in the UK, but went overseas to serve in the North African & Italy Campaigns, his training also included a specialist qualification of Parachutist, which would be invaluable in September 1944, he also qualified in a No 1 Tank Commanders course, Licence driver & platoon weapons course, on the 17th September, 1944, the largest Airborne Invasion ever seen began with the Allies dropping Infantry & support units in Holland, this was code named 'Operation Market Garden', and was designed to bring forward the end of the War, Johnstone by this stage was serving with the 9th Field Company RE who were attached to the British 1st Airborne Division. JOHNSTONE would recall in the interview that 'I can remember going out in the Glider, sitting at the back with the side door open, the first lot set off, then us with the Reconnaissanse unit, we got into Arnhem but did not manage to complete the mission, we were evacuated at night over the Rhine and he remembers being given a cup of Cocoa, it should be noted that a total of 194 men went in from Johnstones unit, forty four died, seventy nine missing/killed or POW and only seventy one made it out to safety, including the Recipient, Johnstone is mentioned by name in the book by Middlebrook, and also appears in the acknowledgements, after WWII he went to Palestine and was mentioned in dispatches for actions in the conflict, he also served with BLA Norway and was promoted to WO II, he retired from the Army on 23rd December, 1963 after serving a total of 24 years and 297 days, this group represents the finest in the traditions of the British fighting soldier, and groups to Arnhem and 'A Bridge Too Far' do not come to market very often.

Original vintage propaganda poster featuring a map of China, titled La Chine Nouvelle en Marche - New China on the Move - issued as a supplement to l’Avant-Garde magazine. The map of China is surrounded by portraits of Chinese military leaders: Lin Piao - Nieh Yung Chen - Yen Chieh Ying - Chou Teh - Mao Tse Toung - Peng Teh Huai - Liu Pei Cheng - Ho Lung. Around the portraits are images of armed soldiers in battle, with tanks and lorries in the background - representing the end of the Chinese Civil War with one soldier stabbing a flag into the back of General Chiang Kai-shek. Across the bottom of the poster are small red rectangles which can be cut out and folded into flags to pin to the map and mark the path of the Chinese People’s Army march. Good condition, tears, fold. Country of issue: France, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 51x39, year of printing: 1949

Original advertising poster for Amnesia nightclub in Ibiza, styled on James Montgomery Flagg’s iconic World War Two ‘I Want You For the US Army’ recruitment poster (which, in turn, was styled on Lord Kitchener's 1914 Your Country Needs You poster). Uncle Sam points directly at the viewer, dressed in a white top hat with blue stars, blue jacket and red bow tie, against a background of red and white stripes. Text underneath the image reads: I Want You For Amnesia 91 Ibiza - Jueves 4.07 American Party. Amnesia Ibiza was founded in the mid 1970s by Antonio Eschotado, and fast became one of Ibiza’s most influential clubs. During the 90s, Amnesia grew internationally - today, it has events in Croatia, London, Barcelona and has multiple awards. Very good condition, creasing, pin holes. Country of issue: Spain, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 69.5x49.5, year of printing: 1990s

Royal Army Medical corps cap badge, 1939-1945 Star, silver St. Johns ambulance brooch pin, Smith's Empire pin palette pocket watch, costume jewellery and other items

An Original WWI First World War Period British Army Inert Mills Bomb / Hand Grenade. c1918. Typical Form, Being A Complete Example With Pin And Firing Lever Present, The Screw-In Base Plug Impressed No.36M Mk1. Inert. Measures Approx; 10cm Tall.

The Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh First Class set of insignia bestowed upon Field Marshal Lord Grenfell, who served as Sirdar and Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Army 1886-92 Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, First Class set of insignia, by Kretly, Paris, comprising sash badge, 80mm including Crescent suspension x 62mm, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, maker’s cartouché on reverse, the star lacking from the suspension; Star, 94mm x 89mm, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, maker’s cartouché on reverse, with retaining pin and two additional support hooks, one of the hooks re-affixed, with short length of sash riband for display purposes, enamel damage to both, nearly very fine (2) £800-£1,200 --- Provenance: Spink, November 2011 (when sold alongside the recipient’s other Honours and Awards). Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh First Class London Gazette 18 May 1888: Colonel Sir Francis Wallace Grenfell, K.C.B. (holding local rank of Major-General whilst employed as Sirdar of the Egyptian Army).