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German Third Reich WW2 Army / Waffen SS General Assault Badge by Assmann.A good late war die-cast zinc example with vertical needle pin. Rifle and bayonet superimposed on oval oak wreath surmounted by eagle and swastika. Maker’s logo to reverse with "2". VGCInstituted 1st June, 1940.

German Third Reich WW2 Army / Waffen SS Tank Assault Badge.A good die-cast grey example. Approaching panzer within an oval oakleaf wreath surmounted by eagle and swastika. Vertical round pin fixing to reverse, hook reaffixed with glue. GCInstituted 20th December 1939.

Crested China - A collection of assorted early 20th Century crested wares, mainly from the First World War to include a Pearl Arms China 'Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag' crested for Basingstoke, a pair of Shelley china binoculars, a W.H Goss Royal Army Medical Corps vase, a Savoy China model of a barrel crested for Advance Australia with 'Herbertshohe German Pacific Island captured by Australian Navy September 11th 1914, the Germand Cruiser Emden attacked and burnt by H.M.S Sydney Nov 8th 1915, a pin dish printed with a scene from Punch 'German Kaiser 'Let us Prey' and a Grimwades bowl 'Made by the girls of Staffordshire during the winter of 1917/18 when the 'boys' were in the trenches fighting for liberty & civilization' with a 'Special Message from The Rt Hon D Lloyd George' to one side (qty)

*A Second China War and Army L.S.G.C. Pair awarded to Colour-Sergeant Edmond Ryan, 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Foot, comprising: Second China War, 1857-1860, single clasp, Canton 1857 (Sergt. Edmd. Ryan. 59th Regt), officially impressed; Army Long Service and Good Conduct, V.R., 2nd type (1855-1874) with silver metal bar and brooch pin (2961 Colr. Sergt. Edmond Ryan 59th Foot); Pair loose, the first cleaned about very fine with some light scratches, the second extremely fine with dark cabinet toning (2) Colour-Sergeant Edmond Ryan is confirmed on the Second China War medal roll, and is entitled to the above clasp.

The Interesting and Rare Red River 1870 and Indian Peace Medal 1874 ‘Qu’appelle Treaty’ Group of 6 awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Henry Holbech, 60th Regiment (King’s Royal Rifle Corps), who served as an Ensign during the Red River Expedition of 1870, and appears to have been connected to the 1874 Qu’appelle Treaty signed with the leaders of the Cree and Salteaux/Chippewa tribes. He later served as Captain and A.D.C. to Major-General Luard with the Canadian Militia during the campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan, comprising: Jubilee 1897, silver issue; Canada General Service, 1866-70, single clasp, Red River 1870 (Ens: W. H. Holbech, 1: 60: R. R.); Egypt and Sudan, 1882-89, dated reverse, single clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Capt: W. H. Holbech, 3rd Bn K. R. R. Corps); Turkey, Order of the Medjidie, Officer’s 4th class breast badge, in silver, gold and enamels; Khedive’s Star, 1882; With Indian Peace Medal, V.R., 1874, silver, with ring suspension, 76.5mm width, 216g, awarded for the signing of Indian Peace Treaty No.4 (or The Qu’appelle Treaty), agreed on 15 September 1874 on the shores of Lake Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan, with the Cree and Salteaux; Medal group swing-mounted on bar with reverse brooch pin (the fourth now loose), all with original ribbons, Indian Peace Medal separate, also offered with similar miniature group, two shako plates (one broken), and three pouch-belt chains with whistle and lion’s head fittings (two in hallmarked silver, one in silvered base metal), one whistle with 4 notches marked beneath, medals toned, extremely fine, Indian Peace Medal with old uneven tone, minor hairlines, good extremely fine (12) Lieutenant Walter Henry Holbech (1845-1901) was born in 1845, the first son of Reverend Charles William Holbech, of Farnborough, Warwickshire [thus, the nephew of Captain Edward Holbech, see lot BEC01]. He studied at University College, Oxford, matriculating in June 1863 and graduating with a B.A. in 1868. Upon completion of his studies he joined the Colours, purchasing an Ensigency with the 28th (North Gloucestershire) Foot as Gentleman on 14 October 1868. The following year he transferred as an Ensign to the 60th Foot on 3 February 1869, and with this regiment he would remain for the rest of his military career. Shortly after joining the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, Holbech joined ‘H’ Company of the 1st K.R.R.C., travelling to Canada as part of Garnet Wolseley’s Red River Expedition, of which the 1st Battalion K.R.R.C. under Lieutenant-Colonel R. J. Feilden formed the core British ‘red-coat’ element. In addition, two pieces of artillery, two battalions of locally-raised Canadian riflemen joined the force in support, with two-hundred voyageurs to assist with transport. This expedition is considered to have been amongst the most arduous undertaken by the British army, and although largely forgotten by history, Wolseley’s 1,200 men covered hundreds of miles of Canadian rivers, lakes and wilderness, carrying all their own food, guns, artillery and equipment. Through constant hard work, and with the help of the tireless voyageurs, they covered the 1,200 mile distance in remarkable time (still taking just over two months), catching the enemy leader Louis Riel and the Metis completely by surprise on 24 August 1870. Riel and his forces duly fled, leaving Fort Garry to be captured without a single loss. With the collapse of the rebellion, the expedition ultimately brought about the unification of the Dominion of Canada. Approximately 502 Red River 1870 clasps were issued, including 12 officers and 115 men of the 1/60th, and 18 to other British units. Holbech appears to have remained in Canada afterwards, receiving an Indian Peace Medal for the signing of Treaty number 4 in 1874 – an agreement signed between Great Britain and the Cree and Salteaux peoples of Saskatchewan. As part of this treaty, some 75,000 square miles of territory were ceded. Holbech was appointed Instructor of Musketry on 23 January 1878, and was seconded to Cyprus for a brief period of civil service on 1 April 1879, but was recalled later that year. He briefly retired to his pension on 21 July 1880 but was then promoted to Captain on 6 August 1880. He married Mary Caroline Walrond (daughter of John Walrond, 1st Baronet) on 28 February 1881. He was promoted to Major on November 17 1882. During the war in Egypt in 1882, he took part in the engagement at Tel-el-Mahnta, in the action at Kassasin (9th September), and at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir as Brigade Major to the 2nd Infantry Brigade (for which he was mentioned in despatches, with the Brevet of Major, and awarded a 4th Class Order of the Medjidie). The notes on the original medal roll for the Egypt Campaign notes that he had served as A.D.C. to Major-General Luard, Commanding the Canadian Militia (dated 9 April 1883). After this period of service he was made Adjutant of the 1st Oxfordshire (Oxford University) Volunteers in November 1883, continuing for roughly two years, and he was for a time Gentleman of Arms. He retired to half-pay as honorary Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 July, 1892, resided latterly at Chalfont Lodge, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, and died on 6 March 1901. He was buried at St Botolph’s Church, Farnborough, where sadly, his eldest son Lieutenant William Hugh Holbech, Scots Guards, was also later buried in 1914. For the Waterloo Medal to his father, Captain Edward Holbech, see lot 516.

*A Rare Sudan Campaign Officer’s ‘Bahr-El-Ghazal’ Exploration Group of 6 awarded Major Ronald Anthony Markham, Coldstream Guards. An important and largely unsung figure in the early exploration of the Bahr-el-Ghazal region, he is a rare and officially confirmed officer recipient of the Bahr-el-Ghazal clasp, serving as A.D.C. to Sirdar Sir Reginald Wingate between 1900 and late 1901. He travelled up the White Nile from Khartoum on 3 July 1901 with Pasha Von Slatin in the gunboat ‘Sheikh’ to deliver important communications from the Sirdar to local commandants in the region, and to seek news from the Austin-Bright Survey Expedition in July 1901. In the course of this journey he travelled inland, meeting and negotiating with local Sheikhs and tribal leaders. Serving later in the Great War, he was second in command of the 2nd Coldstream Guards when he received a bullet to the temple and later died of wounds on 25 October 1914 at St. Julien, comprising: 1911 Coronation; Turkey, Order of the Medjidie, Officer’s 4th class breast badge in silver, gold and enamels, reverse engraved (Capt: R. A. Markham. Coldstream Gds); Khedive’s Sudan, 1896-1908, 2 clasps, Sudan 1899, Bahr-el-Ghazal 1900-02 (Capt: R. A. Markham. Coldstream Gds), these three court-mounted on bar with reverse brooch pin; 1914 Star with loose clasp ‘5th Aug.-22nd Nov. 1914’ (Major R. A. Markham. C. Gds.), with fitted black leather case; British War and Victory Medals (Major R. A. Markham.), with original boxes of issue; Trio loose, toned, extremely fine, with some lustre (6) Turkey, Order of the Medjidie, 4th Class: London Gazette: 19 April 1901 M.i.D.: London Gazette: 8 October 1914, and 14 January 1915 “Major Ronald Anthony Markham (1870-1914) was born on 15 October, 1870 at West Cowes, Isle of Wight, and was the only surviving son of the late Colonel William Thomas Markham (and Annie Markham), of Becca Hall, Yorkshire, who served in the Crimean War in the Rifle Brigade and Coldstream Guards, and grandson of Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A (‘The Bond of Sacrifice’, Volume I, refers). He was also cousin to Sir Clements Markham, who became President of the Royal Geographical Society, and was an important and ardent advocate of Polar exploration (in particular, helping to organise Scott’s ‘Discovery Expedition’ of 1901-04). Educated at Charterhouse, Ronald Markham received his first commission as Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Prince of Wales Volunteers on 16 April 1889, afterwards joining the Coldstream Guards in December 1890, becoming Lieutenant in August 1896 and Captain in December 1899.” He took part in the first advance against the Khalifa in the Nile Expedition of 1899, for which he received the Khedive’s Sudan medal and clasp, and then between August 1899 and August 1903 he served as a Bimbashi with the Egyptian Army, acting as A.D.C to Sirdar Reginald Wingate (Governor General of the Sudan) from April 1900 to December 1902. For this service he received the Order of the Medjidie, 4th Class on 19 April 1901. After the murder of Bimbashi Scott Barbour on 10 January 1902 and the subsequent punitive expedition, there was much tension and potential danger in the region. A few months later, Bimbashi Markham was sent on an expedition up the White Nile from Khartoum (with Pasha Von Slatin) in the gunboat ‘Sheikh’ with several private communications from the Sirdar to the local commandants. Leaving on 3 July 1902, his expedition took several weeks. As recorded in The Sudan Intelligence Report No.84 (1st to 31st July 1901): ‘Bimbashi Markham left Khartoum on the 3rd instant in the gunboat “Sheikh” for Sobat, Baro, and Pibor rivers to endeavour to open up communication with the Austin-Bright Survey Expedition, about which no news is as yet forthcoming. He carried letters from the Sirdar to the commandants of the Abyssinian posts at Gore and in the neighbourhood of Lake Rudolf, as well as one for Major Austin himself. Whether any of the letters will ever reach their destinations is extremely doubtful, as the tribes who will have to provide the messengers are for the most part hostile to the Abyssinians.’ His own letters written back to Sirdar Wingate, from Sobat, dated 29 July 1901, give an insight into the great variety of dangers and difficulties which he encountered: ‘My Dear General…I got to Nasser on the 20th July and next day interviewed Sheikh Luantia (of the Nuer), and after a great deal of haggling, backsheeshing, finally told him he would incur your displeasure if he didn’t provided 2 guides for 3 men I had found in Nasser, willing to take the letters, but ignorant of the way…our transport occasionally got badly bogged; sleep at nights was an impossibility, mosquitoes beat all description. On the way we had a few adventures – at one village, where apparently white men have never been…a woman came by carrying a pitcher of water – she took one look at me, dropper her pitcher – then ran round us yelling and screaming…One night our poor donkey, which was not more than three yards from me was attacked and badly bitten by a hyena which got into the long grass before I could get my gun out…’ Markham was also with Miralai Sparkes Bey, Commandant of the Bahr-El-Ghazal Expedition, when they arrived at Khartoum from Wau on 28 September 1901. Markham had joined him from Meshra er Rek, as mentioned in Sudan Intelligence Report No.86 (1st to 30th September 1901). While he is not listed amongst the 7 recipients of the Bahr-el-Ghazal Cigarette cases issued by Sparkes Bey, his presence as an officer and key figure at precisely the same time is confirmed in contemporary sources, as well as in a formal letter concerning the issue of his Bahr-El-Ghazal clasp (a copy of which is included with this group). He was promoted to Major in 1907. Serving afterwards during the Great War, he took part in much of the early fighting of 1914, and was hit with a bullet to his temple at St. Julien, France, on the 23rd October 1914, dying two days later. At the time of his death he was Second in Command of his battalion. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatches of the 8th October 1914, and the 14th January 1915. He was a member of the Guards’ Nulli Secundus, and the Turf Clubs; also of the M.C.C. and I Zingari. He was fond of cricket and shooting, and was a very keen and hard rider to hounds. He was born at Melton Mowbray, from which place he had hunted all his life, and is buried in Sysonby Churchyard. An early casualty of the Great War (during which the repatriation of the bodies of officers and soldiers was still possible), he is remembered with honour at the Sysonby Churchyard, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. Offered with: two original M.i.D. certificates in original O.H.M.S. envelope; a formal portrait photograph taken by G. Lekegian of Cairo; a formal portrait photograph of the recipient on horseback during a hunt by Heawood’s of Leicester; a privately printed diary recording Markham’s service in 1914; a hand-typed copy of the Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Pereira’s 1914 service with an accompanying handwritten letter dated 5 November 1915; delivery letters for his Great War trio; an official copy of his last will and testament; and a quantity of related research.

*The Orders, Medals and Decorations awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Honourable Martin Michael Charles, Baron Charteris of Amisfield G.C.B. G.C.V.O. O.B.E. Q.S.O. P.C. Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he served as an officer in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in WW2 and saw action in North Africa during which time he was temporarily paralysed by ‘Nile Rheumatism’. Returning home to convalesce in October 1940, his hospital ship S.S. Yorkshire was subsequently torpedoed and sunk, seeing him cast adrift and then rescued before recuperating in Britain. Back in action in 1941, he took command of ‘A’ Company, 2nd Battalion, K.R.R.C., part of the 7th Motor Brigade, and fought in and around El-Alamein, Tobruk, Gazala and then in the Italy campaign. After the war he served as Head of Military Intelligence (G.S.I.) in Palestine 1945-46, and was fortunate to have not been present during the infamous King David Hotel bombing, which had targeted the offices of the senior figures of the British Administration. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was a refined, charming and well-connected individual with a keen wit and sense of humour. He was appointed Private Secretary to H.R.H. The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh and heiress presumptive to the British throne in 1950, and was the first to receive word from Britain of the death of King George VI during a visit to Kenya. Continuing to serve H.M. The Queen as her Assistant Private Secretary (1952-1972) under Sir Michael Adeane, and then as Private Secretary (1972-1977), the culmination of his role was his central involvement in the Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations of 1977. Upon his retirement in 1977 he became Provost of Eton College, and was appointed permanent Lord-in-Waiting and Life Peer as Baron Charteris of Amisfield, created on 7 February 1978, comprising: Orders and Decorations: The Most Excellent Order of the Bath (Civil Division), Grand Cross set of insignia by Garrard & Co., comprising sash badge, in silver-gilt, bearing hallmarks for London dated 1940, and breast star, in silver gilt and enamels, in fitted case of issue; The Royal Victorian Order, Grand Cross set of insignia by Collingwood, comprising sash badge, in silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star, in silver, silver-gilt and enamels, both numbered ‘952’ to reverse, in fitted case of issue; France, Legion d’Honneur, Grand Officer’s set of insignia by Arthus Bertrand, Paris, comprising officer’s breast badge in gold and enamels (minor enamel loss in lower part), and breast star in silver, both bearing hallmarks, in fitted case of issue; Medal Group: Queen’s Service Order, in silver and enamels, reverse engraved (Martin Michael Charles Charteris); with original box of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officer’s breast badge, in silver; 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star, with clasp ‘8th Army’; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, the latter with bronze M.i.D. spray of oak leaves; General Service Medal, 1918-62, single clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Major. M.M.C. Charteris. K.R.R.C.); Coronation Medal, 1953; Jubilee Medal, 1977; Group court-mounted with brooch pin by ‘John G. Southern – Military Tailor’, with associated riband bar, and a folder of official warrants of appointment, toned, extremely fine, and a rare combination of medals and awards to an important figure in modern royal history (16).   O.B.E.: London Gazette: 13 June, 1946  M.V.O.: London Gazette: 1 June, 1953 (Coronation Honours)   C.B.: London Gazette: 12 June, 1958   K.C.V.O.: London Gazette: 2 June, 1962 (Birthday Honours)   K.C.B: London Gazette: 3 June, 1972 (Birthday Honours)   G.C.V.O.: London Gazette: 1 January, 1976 (New Year Honours)   G.C.B.: London Gazette: 11 August, 1977   Q.S.O.: London Gazette: 31 December 1977   Royal Victorian Chain: London Gazette: 7 July, 1992.  Martin Michael Charles Charteris was born on 7 September 1913 at Halkin Place, London, the second son of Hugo Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho, and Lady Violet Catherine Manners. Educated at Eton College, and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he received a commission as Second Lieutenant in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 31 August 1933, being promoted to Lieutenant on 31 August 1936, and serving in the jungle in Burma in 1937. Soon after the outbreak of war in 1939, he was left temporarily paralyzed by a tropical virus (then called ‘Nile Rheumatism’) in Egypt, and in the process of returning back to Britain from Gibraltar to convalesce in October 1939, he was playing chess on deck with his Doctor when the hospital ship Yorkshire was torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay. He was nearly drowned as he was dragged underwater, having only recently regained any strength at all after his paralysis. Somehow surfacing he was rescued by a life raft and eventually picked up (as recorded in his account published in the Sunday Express of 25 February 1940) by an American vessel. Being neutral at this stage in war, the American ship was carefully inspected by the U-Boat but was in the end left alone.    After his recovery, he returned to active service in North Africa in 1941, taking command of ‘A’ Company, 2nd Battalion, K.R.R.C. – part of the 7th Motor Brigade. His battalion saw a great deal of fighting against Rommel’s famous Africa Corps in and around Tobruk, el-Alamein, and at the Battle of Gazala, with his unit fighting in direct support of British M3 Grant tanks. In one of his wartime letters, he wrote: ‘The Gazala Line was like a shield held out in front of Tobruk, El Adem, and the coastal communications; its right rested on the coast, but its left, as must always be the case in Libya, hung open and undefended in the great desert to the south. It seemed highly improbable that the enemy would sweep south of Hacheim with his armour. We went east pretty fast…It was like General Post. There were British columns and German ones, cannoning off each other like blindfolded people: you could see the lolloping Verey lights, and like a bass string accompaniment you could hear as a background to everything the grunting, coughing, mumbling of the Panzers rolling east…The battle swung to and fro and for many days hung in the balance; indeed at one time we came so near to a great victory that I can hardly bear to think of what might have been. For my own part, I swung to and fro with the battle. For several days I was around Hacheim, and was filled with admiration for the Free French. I was at El Adem, Knightsbridge, on the edge of the Cauldron, and for two wild days behind the enemy at Mteifel.’   He was promoted to Captain on 31 August 1941, and continued to serve in WW2, being mentioned in despatches on 24 June 1943, promoted to Major on 7 September 1944, to Acting Colonel on 27 January 1945, and Acting Brigadier on 27 February 1945. In his personal life at this time, he married Hon. Gay Margesson, the daughter of David Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson, on 16 December 1944, at Jerusalem.   Returning to military service, it is likely his latter wartime career was spent serving in an Intelligence capacity. After a period of work as an Instructor at Haifa Staff College, he was appointed Chief of Military Intelligence (G.S.I) in Palestine between September 1945 and September 1946, which included a good deal of counter-terrorism work undertaken against the ‘Lehi’ Zionist Paramilitary Organisation (known in British circles as ‘the Stern Gang’). ....For further information please see the catalogue pdf on www.mortonandeden.com 

*The Extremely Rare Ottoman Gold Nursing Award Brooch to Miss Gertrude Veysie, awarded to her in 1856 as a token of gratitude from Sultan Abdulmejid I in honour of her services as a nurse in the Hospitals of the British Army during the Crimean War. The central piece of this brooch, now incorporated into a larger gold setting, is of precisely the same type as the example awarded to Florence Nightingale, which is held in the Florence Nightingale Museum in Lambeth, London, comprising: An elaborate badge in gold and enamels, bearing the royal star and crescent of the Ottoman Empire, set with small diamonds; this now mounted into a larger, elaborate gold brooch with reverse pin and upper suspension loop, the reverse engraved ‘Presented by H. I. M. the Sultan to Miss G. Veysie in acknowledgement of her services in the Hospitals of the British Army in the East. 1856.’ marked ‘18 ct’ below; minor chip to red enamel near crescent, very fine or better, and extremely rare . Penelope Gertrude Veysie was born 18 August 1807 at Plymtree, Devon, the daughter of Reverend Daniel Veysie, rector of Plymtree and Prebendary of Exeter, and Mrs Anne Veysie (née Arnold). Her older brother, William Veysie (1801-1883) went on to reach the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the 7th Bengal Cavalry, H.E.I.C., and it may be that it was through her brother’s connections that ‘Gertrude’ (as she preferred to be known) was able to take up an active role in the British Hospitals in the Crimea. Present research is inconclusive with regard to the date of her arrival in the Crimea, but it would appear from the existence of this award that she was present as a Nurse in 1856, and probably earlier. These extremely rare brooches are mentioned in ‘Honours and Awards to Women to 1914’ by Norman Gooding, citing the earlier author J. H. Mayo ‘Medals and Decorations of the British army and Navy’: “At the close of the Crimean War the Sultan wished to show his gratitude to the lady nurses for the great services they had rendered and with this view a sum of money was forwarded to the British Government to be divided amongst them… The Government thought that the ladies would dislike the idea of being offered money and it was therefore decided that the money should be spent on a number of brooches, made in gold, after a Turkish pattern approved by the Sultan, to be presented to the lady nurses. The brooches were of gold, circular in shape, enamelled red and green with a crescent of diamonds in the centre.” How many such brooches survive today remains unknown, but one such brooch, unaltered, remains in the Florence Nightingale Museum, Lambeth, London. The embellished brooch, offered here, appears to have been enlarged outwards from the original centrepiece, with the additional engraved details to the reverse. According to genealogical research, upon the death of her sister Ann in 1857, Gertrude Veysie dedicated her remaining life to nursing the sick, living at St. John’s House on 6-8 Norfolk Street, The Strand. This was the same institution which had provided the very first 6 nurses sent out with Florence Nightingale to the Crimea in 1854. Records of correspondence between Getrude Veysie and Florence Nightingale dated 1857 are known to exist. Gertrude Veysie died 14 Jan 1891 at 14 Westover Villas, Holdenhurst, Hampshire, at the age of 83.

A Third Reich Luftwaffe belt, with blackened steel buckle, the flap dated 1940, mounted with a Hitler Youth knife by Herder, Solingen, and with RZM mark (blade worn, piece missing from one grip, enamel badge chipped), the belt pierced and mounted with various trophy badges, comprising Pilot/Observer Badge, 1st pattern E Boat in brass, U boat (pin incomplete), General Assault (corroded), Army Flak (spurious), cap wreath, and small eagle and swastika. Generally GC (the badges worn).

3 officer’s cap badges: Army Service Corps (988 and 989), enamelled RAMC with brooch pin. GC to VGC Part III of the Collection of the late Eric Illingworth

A selection of military pin badges, in silver, tortoiseshell, etc., all having regimental shields including Royal Engineers, Royal Army Service Corps, etc. (12 in total)

Angling Equipment, a vintage, engraved, brass centre pin reel, A & N ( Army & Navy) Maker, 105 Victoria St Westminster, approx 2.1/2", with composite handle in original fitted leather box (2)

Rally/ Motor Sport Interest - Set of twelve Fiat pin badges including 'Abarth' enamelled badge, Fiat Motor club badges, RAC Rally of Great Britain 'Vaughtons B'ham' badge, Womens Land Army, MG and other sets etc

Selection of British Medals. Comprising:Imperial Service Medal (EIIR) “FREDERICK THOMAS HUNTER” Case of issue. ... Civil Defence Long Service Medal Cased. ...1914/15 Star (ERASED). .... South African Victory Medal (ERASED). ... Mercantile Marine (ERASED). ... Also an Army Temperance Medal (pin absent) (6 items)

Prussian Identified 1907/14 74th Regiment Enlisted Mans Tunic, a fabulously rare tunic being the model 07/14 constructed in field grey issue quality cloth, large size, virtually free of moth, all buttons original to the tunic and untouched, complete with its marksmanship lanyard, slip-on shoulder boards for Regiment 74. to the interior there are profuse markings, firstly Army corp 10 with a date ‘1915’ with marked ‘B.A.X.1915’ (Army corp 10) which is the matching army corp markings for the shoulder boards. Below the markings there is an oval stamp for Oldenburg with size stamps below, further down the inner lining is a regimental stamping of ‘O.J.R.91’ which is for Oldenburg Infantry Regiment 91. Within the pocket of the tunic when the tunic was discovered in Germany in the 1970’s an original shoulder board of Oldenburg Regiment 91 was found with an enamelled pin indicating the coat of arms of the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment. Also within the pocket is a hard card booklet with a 125 page short history of Oldenburg Infantry Regiment 91 with the owner’s original name tag ‘Musketier Boger 1st Company’ which we have to assume is the name of the owner of this tunic. Also within the booklet there is a photograph of Boger wearing this tunic in its form as a member of Infantry Regiment 74 with which we assume his wife. The tunic is featured on pages 64,65,66,67 and 69  of Feldzug 15 with fully explanatory diagrammatic photographs how Michael Baldwin has been able to identify the tunic worn in the photograph found in the regimental book to the actual tunic

A rare collection of single-owner pre-WWII Second World War Third Reich Nazi Party effects, having belonged to a child, one ' Rudi Cronrath .' Comprising of Cronrath's Hitler Young identity booklet, and his ' Deutsche Jungvolf ' ID booklet (with photograph), his ' Deutsch Jap. Tagung ' ( Germany & Japan) enamel pin badge with Swastika, Japanese flag & eagle to front, and along with his later Italian / German campaign medal (with ribbon) from when he joined the army. A rare collection of personal effects. 

Three 20th century European conflict related badges comprising of; Army Chaplin's Cross, with screw, First World War Old Coldstreamers Associations enamel lapel pin badge & other. 

A good 70 bore six shot gas-seal single-action revolver by Joseph Lang, sighted octagonal barrel 5 in., top flat engraved 'J. LANG, 22 COCKSPUR ST. LONDON', London Company view and proof marks; cylinder with numbered chambers and further view and proof marks, nipples inclined from the vertical and set within oval wells, reciprocating upon the arbor pin at the moment of firing to close the cylinder/barrel gap; steel action engraved with foliate scrolls, off centre hammer with long thumb spur; one-piece chequered wooden grip, engraved steel butt cap with a trap for percussion caps; presented in an associated fitted case with accessories including a fluted copper powder flask, a rammer with concealed worm, bullet moulds, an oiler, and other items; trade label for the Army and Navy Co-Operative Society. By way of this interesting design, in the words of John Deane "the orifice of the chambers is widened, so as to permit the posterior orifice of the barrel to set into them, and thereby prevent the escape of flash and gases" (quoted in Taylerson, Andrews and Frith, 'The Revolver 1818-1865')

A PLASTIC BOX CONTAINING A WWI BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDAL, correctly named to S3-031256 Pte J. Hunter, Army Service Corps, together with a WWII group of medals (un-named), consisting of the 1939-45, France and Germany Stars, Defence and War medal, on a wearing bar, also two cap badges for the Royal Engineers, a Bullion thread blazer badge, boxed for the RE, a WWI era silk Royal Fusiliers and a Harp tie pin

15x Military Badges, including enamel 5th Army OCA lapel badge, Paper Flag Day Help Russia, WW2 Free French keepsake, Free French lapel pin, Royal Norfolk Regiment association enamel lapel badge, Grenadier Guards OCA badge, Polish Scouts badge, plus other items. Various conditions. (15 items)

Grouping of WW2 German / Third Reich Badges, consisting of enamel pin back Hitler Youth membership badge, small enamel Frauenschaft badge, cloth Luftwaffe other ranks forage cap eagle, German army cap eagle with three prong fittings, Hunting Association (DJ) badge, rally badges, plus postcards etc. Various conditions. (17 items)

Third Reich Tunic Medal Ribbon Bar, being a ten award example with Iron Cross 2nd class, War Service cross 2nd class with swords, Eastern Front medal, Blood Order with emblem, NSDAP 25 year service medal, NSDAP 15 year service medal, NSDAP 10 year service medal, army long service medal, Olympics decoration and Afrika Korps medal. Complete with field grey backing cloth and large broad pin fitting.

Selection of WW2 German Armed Forces Insignia, consisting of Kriegsmarine (navy) officers embroidered peaked cap eagle, war veterans pin back headdress badge, bevo Veterans association cloth insignia and various German Army and Navy cloth trade badges. Various conditions. (12 items)

Boxes and Objects - a mother of pearl pilgrim shell, carved with Christ; a copper portrait roundel, embossed with Rubens; a silver brooch; a military pin dish, Army Ordnance Corps; coins; etc

A group of military ephemera to include 'Trench Orders Fourth Division' and 'When I Join the Ranks' booklets, reproduction documents, confidential 'Admiralty Office Letter of Appointment' to Acting Instructor Lieutenant on HMS Drake dated 14th June 1957, several military and commemorative event souvenirs including '27 Bay Supply Depot, Royal Army Service Corps' Christmas 1945 menu with autographs to reverse, WWI silk flags/ pin badges, regimental cigarette cards by Wills with additional reproduction examples and a c.1950 photograph album assembled by Peter Lockwood of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, comprising approximately 130 photographs of mostly Malta and Greece, including both military and topographical photos.

Boxes and Objects - a mother of pearl pilgrim shell, carved with Christ; a copper portrait roundel, embossed with Rubens; a silver brooch; a military pin dish, Army Ordnance Corps; coins; etc

A RARE WWI PAINTED CHINA/SILVER ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY R.H.A. SWEETHEART PIN-BADGE and one other WWI Army Royal Artillery butterfly wing and sterling silver Sweetheart badge-pin (2)

German WWII pattern Flak Army pin back badge.

Medals, WWI, group of three, 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory medals, S4-055864 Pte B.C. Ashford A.S.C. [Army Service Corps], original silk ribbons, bar-mounted for wear; corresponding ribbon pin badges (2), [3]

DACHAU: An unsigned typed document, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. (c.1945), in German, being the original testimony and evidence against SS-Obersturmfuhrer Karl Faschingbauer (1904-??), Deputy Head of Administration at the Dachau Concentration Camp, by an unknown prisoner or soldier of the camp, stating that on a number of occasions Faschingbauer was unduly harsh on the inmates, performing summary punishments, and further informing, 'He himself remarked cynically: 'You 'Russians' - this was the term the SS used for all prisoners - will soon learn from me how to work'. Faschingbauer is also responsible for the fact that, when 16,000 Jews came to Dachau in November 1938, they were given to wear only drill trousers, a summer shirt and a summer pullover, and they had to attend parade all winter long in these clothes… When, in November 1938, I allowed old military jackets to be given out in the prisoners' room in the blocks where the Jews were housed, he wanted to put me on a charge for 'friendliness towards Jews'… Witnesses of this are the then senior man in the block, Otto Grosse from Brunswick, and the Jewish prisoner, Dr. Fritz Spiegel, who later emigrated to America and served in the US Army. Faschingbauer had the jackets taken away'. With two file holes and minor creasing to the left edge, not affecting the text. Together with a second unsigned typed document, four pages, 4to, Sandbostel, Northern Germany, 13th November 1945, in German, being the original testimony of SS-Obersturmfuhrer Karl Faschingbauer (1904-??), Deputy Head of Administration at the Dachau Concentration Camp, taken whilst a Prisoner of War and titled My activities at Dachau, in which Faschingbauer details his role and duties from training in 1934 until the time in 1945 he was taken prisoner, stating, in part, 'In January 1943, I was posted to the 15th (Lithuanian) SS Volunteer Division. There, I worked as head of the administration in the commissariat section. In June 1943, I met with a serious accident in Riga, and was in hospital there until mid-October… In July 1944, I took over the administration of the SS field hospital at Kekestetoe…' and of Faschingbauer's time at Dachau, he recalls, 'I do not know how long individuals were interned there, with the exception of those who were put on to forced labour. These were sent there by individual towns or burgomasters for a fixed period of 3 to 12 months… Prisoners were put in charge of the cauldrons in the prisoners' kitchen. The provisioning during the years when I was in charge was excellent in quality and adequate in quantity…' With four file holes to the left edge and minor creasing and pin holes to the upper edge. Both documents are accompanied by an English translation. About VG, 2

Indian Army. 1st Brahmans pagri badge circa 1903-22. A good British made die-stamped brass example with JR Gaunt, London tablet to reverse. ‘Fishes of Oudh, resting on a tablet inscribed “1776”. Pagri pin to reverse now absent, barrel and hook remain, otherwise VGC. (Cox 2381) The 1st Brahmans became the 4th Battalion of the Punjab Regiment in 1922.

Indian Army. Punjab Light Horse Victorian pagri badge. A good well cast brass large example. Crowned oval strap ‘De Bon Vouloir Servir Le Roy’ bearing ‘PLH’ cypher to voided centre. Stout pagri pin to reverse. GC Formed 1867 with HQ at Lahore; disbanded 1947.

Boer War Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve badge. A scarce unmarked silver 1897-1907 example. The front depicting a cross within a circlet inscribed ‘Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve’ and thistle, oakleaf, shamrock and rose devices between each arm. Original stout pin fixing to reverse which is impressed with issue number 94. Some service wear, GC Issued to Edith Porter of the London Temperance Hospital. She resigned from the Reserve shortly after the start of the Boer War and thus did not qualify for the Queen’s South Africa Medal.

Indian Army. 59th Scinde Rifles Frontier Force Officer’s pagri badge circa 1903-22. A good cast example. Maltese cross, balls to the tips and lions in the angles, mounted with circlet ‘Scinde Rifles Frontier Force’ , with foliated ‘59’ to translucent blue enamel centre. Stout pagri pin to reverse. VGC

Indian Army. 21st Madras Pioneers Victorian pre 1903 brass pagri badge. A good British made die-stamped Example. Crowned ’Pioneers’ circlet resting in laurel sprays, ‘21’ to domed centre. Pagri pin replaced with loops otherwise GC. Redesignated 81st Pioneers in 1903.

Indian Army. Bombay Pioneers Victorian Officer’s pagri badge. A good British made die-stamped silvered example, Circular ribbon strap inscribed “Bombay Pioneers” surmounted by a Guelphic crown. To the voided centre, crossed axes. Replacement pagri pin to reverse otherwise GC.

WW1 Selection of Silver War Badges. Bearing the numbers: B24222. ... 320978 (Hook & Pin Repaired). ... 87210. ... 178287. ... 125970 (Hook Absent) (5 items) 24222 S/7959 L/Cpl Oscar Gibb Gordon Highlanders Enlisted 7th Dec 1914, Discharged 15th Nov 1916 as a result of wounds. … 32978 30512 Pte Frederick Hollis Served with the Army Veterinary Corps and was discharged 19th Feb 1918. … B7210 Pte Bertie Underwood 3/7th Notts & Derby Regiment Discharged 6th April 1916. He did not serve overseas. … 178287 M/5673 A/Sgt Alfred Thomas Hagger Army Service Corps Discharged 26th April 1917. …125970 M2/020607 Pte George Francis Henry Flowers Army Service Corps. Discharged 19th July 1917.

Liverpool Pals, Kitchener’s Army WW1 silver regimental brooch. A fine example comprising the crest of Lord Derby. The reverse with brooch pin and impressed ‘Sterling Silver’. VGC (as KK 1146) 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Service Bns. of King’s Liverpool Regiment were raised in answer to Kitchener’s call in 1914 by Lord Derby.

Indian Army. 82nd Punjabis Piper’s plaid brooch circa 1903-22. A fine and very scarce silver plated example. Small plain quoit mounted with cast silver crown on the top and scroll ‘Punjabis’ on the bottom; set forward from the voided centre, the numerals ‘82’. Stout pin to reverse. Generally VGC. 22nd Madras Infantry became 82nd Punjabis in 1903; in 1922 became 5th Bn. 1st Punjab Regiment.

German Third Reich WW2 Attributed Army Chaplain’s Casualty Insignia. This small grouping is attributed to Stadtvikar Leutnant who died on the 3rd November 1941 in the fight towards Moscow. Comprising: Collar patch. ... Small cross stick pin, similar to that seen on the cap. ... Postcard photograph in uniform. ... Memorial Card. Overall GC (4 items) Instituted 15th January 1943.

German Third Reich WW2 Army / Waffen SS Tank Assault Badge in Bronze. A good die-stamped bronze metal example. Approaching panzer within an oval oakleaf wreath surmounted by eagle and swastika. Vertical round pin fixing to reverse. VGC Instituted 20th December 1939.

German Third Reich WW2 Army / Waffen SS Infantry Assault Badge by Walter & Henlein, Wein. A good silvered die-cast example with vertical needle pin and raised W.H. logo to revers. Rifle and bayonet superimposed on oval oak wreath surmounted by eagle and swastika. Retains about 50 % of original finish. GC Instituted 20th December 1939.

German Third Reich WW2 Army / Waffen SS Infantry Assault Badge in Bronze. A good die-cast example bronzed grey metal with vertical needle pin. Rifle and bayonet superimposed on oval oak wreath surmounted by eagle and swastika. Retains little of original finish. GC Instituted 20th December 1939.

German Third Reich boxed WW2 Army / Waffen SS General Assault Badge by Wurster. A good die-cast silvered example with vertical needle pin. Rifle and bayonet superimposed on oval oak wreath surmounted by eagle and swastika. Retains most silvering, slight bubbling to reverse. Generally VGC Instituted 1st June, 1940.

German Third Reich WW2 Army Parachutist’s breast badge. A good die-cast example. Mounted on a gilt oval oakleaf wreath surmounted by eagle and swastika; a silvered diving eagle. Vertical needle pin to reverse. Service wear to finish. GC

Enamelled Womens Land Army pin badge

A German Iron Cross 1st class, an SS lapel badge number 792, dagger lapel pin, German army belt buckle, three German badges without pin

DACHAU: An unsigned typed document, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. (c.1945), in German, being the original testimony and evidence against SS-Obersturmfuhrer Karl Faschingbauer (1904-??), Deputy Head of Administration at the Dachau Concentration Camp, by an unknown prisoner or soldier of the camp, stating that on a number of occasions Faschingbauer was unduly harsh on the inmates, performing summary punishments, and further informing, 'He himself remarked cynically: 'You 'Russians' - this was the term the SS used for all prisoners - will soon learn from me how to work'. Faschingbauer is also responsible for the fact that, when 16,000 Jews came to Dachau in November 1938, they were given to wear only drill trousers, a summer shirt and a summer pullover, and they had to attend parade all winter long in these clothes… When, in November 1938, I allowed old military jackets to be given out in the prisoners' room in the blocks where the Jews were housed, he wanted to put me on a charge for 'friendliness towards Jews'… Witnesses of this are the then senior man in the block, Otto Grosse from Brunswick, and the Jewish prisoner, Dr. Fritz Spiegel, who later emigrated to America and served in the US Army. Faschingbauer had the jackets taken away'. With two file holes and minor creasing to the left edge, not affecting the text. Together with a second unsigned typed document, four pages, 4to, Sandbostel, Northern Germany, 13th November 1945, in German, being the original testimony of SS-Obersturmfuhrer Karl Faschingbauer (1904-??), Deputy Head of Administration at the Dachau Concentration Camp, taken whilst a Prisoner of War and titled My activities at Dachau, in which Faschingbauer details his role and duties from training in 1934 until the time in 1945 he was taken prisoner, stating, in part, 'In January 1943, I was posted to the 15th (Lithuanian) SS Volunteer Division. There, I worked as head of the administration in the commissariat section. In June 1943, I met with a serious accident in Riga, and was in hospital there until mid-October… In July 1944, I took over the administration of the SS field hospital at Kekestetoe…' and of Faschingbauer's time at Dachau, he recalls, 'I do not know how long individuals were interned there, with the exception of those who were put on to forced labour. These were sent there by individual towns or burgomasters for a fixed period of 3 to 12 months… Prisoners were put in charge of the cauldrons in the prisoners' kitchen. The provisioning during the years when I was in charge was excellent in quality and adequate in quantity…'  With four file holes to the left edge and minor creasing and pin holes to the upper edge. Both documents are accompanied by an English translation. About VG, 2

ZHUKOV GEORGI: (1896-1974) Soviet Military Leader of World War II, Chief of the Staff of the Red Army, 1941. D.S., G. Zhukov, two pages, 4to, 7th December 1947, in Russian. The partially printed and typed document relates to the attestation of the Commander of the 523rd Infantry regiment of the 188th Infantry Red Bannered Division Colonel Tatarchevski, Peter Mikhailovich. The document bears various official stamps and countersignatures and is signed by Zhukov to the centre of the second page. A few very small pin holes, minor tears and creases to the left and right edges, not affecting the text or signature, and some light age wear, otherwise VG

[JAMES JIMMY]: (1915-2008) British R.A.F. Officer, survivor of The Great Escape, 24th-25th March 1944. A 6” pottery mug (with a 4½” diameter) previously owned by James, the design depicting two dented and distressed tins of KLIM powdered milk, decorated in brown, mustard and silver colours. With a red and blue decal to the reverse stating R.C.A.F. POW Branch Regina 1975. The base of the mug containing a monogram together with the date '75'. The handle has been cleanly detached in one piece and is easily repaired. Together with two lapel badges, one of which commemorates the 1995 reunion of the R.A.F. Ex POW Association, whilst the other is a stick pin from Sydney Football Club. Also including a AR90 cassette tape of the BBC recording of A Righteous Gentile, a radio play starring Harry Towb. The cassette has been annotated Please return to Madge James. G to VG, 4During World War II, Klim powered milk was initially adopted as part of the U.S. Army Jungle ration but was later issued by the Red Cross to prisoners of war, particularly those held in German prison camps, in order to increase caloric intake.Madge James, wife of Jimmy James.

FLOWERHEAD PATTERN TIE PIN the centre with a tiny diamond, small ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS ENAMEL BADGE/BROOCH, pair silver DOUBLE OVAL CUFFLINKS ditto tartan and thistle cufflinks other badges and brooches and a TARTAN FABRIC CUFFLINKS BOX etc

Colt 1860 .44 army percussion cap revolver manufactured in 1863, serial no 137132 an exceptional example retaining 85% of case hardening and bluing mechanically 100% barrel engraved with address Col.Saml Colt New York U.S America with matching serial numbers on the trigger guard frame, barrel lug, wedge, cylinder pin and cylinder, cylinder engraved with naval scene, (provenance sold Christies 2008)

A collection of First & Second World war cap & pin badges comprising of; Royal Engineers cap badges, 'For Loyal Service' badge, Royal Army Service Cops pin badge. RAF propeller badge, 'Jellalabad' badge & others. 

Selection of Military Sweetheart Brooches including KC gilt and enamel Surrey Yeomanry ... Bronzed Artist Rifles ... KC silvered and enamel Royal Fusiliers ... KC silver and enamel 9th HLI ... Gilt and enamel West Yorks ... Gilt York and Lancaster ... KC gilt and enamel PTI ... KC bronzed 8th (Irish) Bn Kings Liverpool Reg (pin absent) ... Gilt and enamel South Lancashire ... KC gilt and enamel 2nd West Riding Brigade OCA in maker's box ... KC gilt and enamel Army Ski Association ... KC gilt and enamel Loyal Regiment. 15 items.

Selection of WW2 German / Third Reich Metal Insignia, consisting of metal summer tunic breast eagle with pin back fitting, Veterans association metal tunic eagle with pin back fitting, aluminium German army peaked cap eagle and cockade and gilt metal Water Customs peaked cap wreath. (5 items)

Victorian Indian Army Palitana Lancers Pagri Badge, fine white metal example, being crowned oval with “PALITANA” and motto “REJOICE IN GOD”, to the centre the arms of the state of Palitana MSC and crossed lances. Brooch pin and catch fixing to the reverse. Very good condition example.

1914 Kitchener’s Army Birmingham Battalion Lapel Badge, white enamel circular badge with Crowned GR and BIRMINGHAM BATTALION 1914 underneath. Un-marked silver back with brooch pin fitting.

Original vintage World War Two UK propaganda poster: Careless Talk Costs Lives "Strictly between you and me…". Image of a sailor and army soldier chatting next to a building wall with Hitler's head poking out of the window above. Very good condition, unnoticeable pin holes in corners. Country: UK. Year: 1940s. Designer: Fougasse. Size: 32 x 20.5 cm.

Silver sugar shaker, silver Walker & Hall sauce boat, WW2 pin tray from the B.E.F. Draft of the Army Medical Corps to a Captain Low, and some plated items

Indian Army 102nd King Edward's Own Grenadiers pre 1922 pagri badge Die-stamped brass flaming grenade mounted with white metal Prince of Wales's plumes on the flames, Sphinx on 'Egypt' on the ball. (Cox 2533) Stout pagri pin GC Became 2nd Bn. 4th Bombay Grenadiers in 1922.