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Lot 728
*WWII & Korea. A group of medals and badges awarded to Rear Admiral John. J. Lynch, US Naval Aviator and highly decorated veteran of WWII and the Korean War, Comprising Navy Cross; Navy Distinguished Service Medal; Legion of Merit, reverse engraved 'John Lynch'; Distinguished Flying Cross, reverse engraved 'J.J. Lynch U.S.N.'; Air Medal reverse, engraved 'J.J. Lynch U.S.N.'; Army Commendation Medal; Army Defence Medal, with 'Fleet' bar; American Campaign Medal; Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal ; WWII Victory Medal; Occupation Service Medal with 'Europe' bar; National Defence Medal; Korean Service Medal; United Nations for Korea Medal; Liberation of the Philippines Medal ; Vietnam Service Medal, presented in a modern display case with gilt metal badges, cloth badge and button, together with an extensive amount of original documentation and copied research in two ring binder files, an U.S. Navy uniform, comprising, hat, tunic with medal riband bars and trousers, a private purchase brown leather flying jacket and helmet, various card medal boxes, reel to reel film, plus a colour print Provenance: From the Christopher John collection. Admiral Lynch (1911-1988) was born in Boston, educated at Boston College receiving a law degree. He joined the Royal Navy in 1935 and became a bomber pilot. During WWII he served in the Pacific with 8th Bomber Squadron as a pilot of dive bombers and torpedo planes. He received the Navy Cross when as a pilot of a SBD Dauntless dive bomber in Bombing Squadron Eight of USS Hornet he scored a direct hit on the Japanese cruiser Mikuma during the Battle of Medway on 6 June 1942. He was awarded the DFC for sinking an enemy submarine during combat in the Solomon Islands on 6 September 1942, he also received the Air Medal and Gold Star in lieu of a second Air Medal, the first for leading a fight of scout bombers of the USS Hornet in action against Japanese forces and scoring a direct hit on enemy cruiser Chikuma near Santa Cruz Island on 26 October 1942, and the second for meritorious achievement as leader of a division and pilot of scout-bombers during a raid on Japanese forces in the Guadalcanal and Rekata Bay area in the face of heavy anti-aircraft fire destroying twelve enemy float seaplanes and shore installations including gasoline dumps. He also received the Legion of Merit as Operations Officer on the Staff of a Carrier Task Group. Post War service saw Lynch attending the Naval War College, transferring to Washington in 1947 and assigned to the Pentagon, during the Korean War he served as Executive Officer and Operations Officer of the USS Lake Champlain and later was the Naval attache at the US embassy in Moscow. Lynch commanded the aircraft carrier Coral Sea in 1960 and had various other land and sea duties in the 1960s. He was chief of staff of the US strike command at McDill Air Force Base in Florida where he was awarded the second Legion of Merit and Distinguished Service Medal, he retired from service in 1970. (a carton)
Lot 724
*WWI. A WWI & WWII group of eight to Private T. King, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (21542 Pte. T. King. R.A.M.C.), 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, France & Germany Star, War Medal and Service Medal of the Order of St John (unnamed), good very fine and better (8)
Lot 403
J.& B. Pearse & Co., Army Clothers of London Astrakhan cap of knotted pattern with 7th Volunteer Batallion The Royal Scots cap badge bearing a label to the interior, 'Major Ronaldson 6 7/8', in enamelled metal box bearing a maker's plaque and plaque inscribed, 'Major Ronaldson 7 V B The Royal Scots'. CONDITION REPORT: Plume in separate plume case. No obvious moth damage.
Lot 368
WWII five medal group comprising war medal, defence medal, 1939-1945 star, Italy star and Africa star with 8th army clasp in official issue box to Mr Fleming of Bathgate, Royal Corps of Signals cap badge, button set and shoulder titles, Royal Engineers cap badges etc, Royal Corps of Signals Bonson style whistle, Royal Engineers postcard and other, Soliers Hymn book of 195334 Sapper T H Fleming RE Scots, The Naval and Military Library of Entertainment Vol XV 1834, Xmas Day menus 1943 for 3 Company 11th C of Signals, spurs etc
Lot 402
Pearse & Co., Army Clothiers of London helmet with Haddingtonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps badge, with metal helmet case. CONDITION REPORT: Helmet has it's spike. No obvious moth damage. Helmet plate appears original. The general condition is very good. It would appear to have spent most of it's life in the accompanying tin.
Lot 2093
Militaria, Badges, including World War One and later, Port of London war service; Birmingham Battalion; City of London Police Reserve, City of London N.G.V.; National A.R.P. Animals-Animal Guard; India Royal Army Temperance Association 1911 Coronation medal; Friendly Society of Iron Founders; others including sentimental, sweethearts, schools etc in silver and enamel and base metal
Lot 2124A
Sport, Football Programmes including local, 1950s-1970s; Cigarette and Trade Cards Various Manufacturers, sets, part sets, odds, including Salmon & Gluckstein Traditions of the Army & Navy 22/25, mostly poor; penny albums; Guinea Golds, etc; Adventure Footballers; Topical Times Cricket Supplements
Lot 251
A FINE GOLD OPEN-FACED KEY-WIND POCKET WATCH, probably Swiss, second half of the 18th century, the white enamel dial with inner Roman numerals and outer Arabic seconds chapter, with gilt hands and centre-sweep seconds hand, the fusee movement with filigree and engraved cock plate, the interior back cover inscribed "The Emperor Watch, Loot from the Summer Palace of the Emperor of China, Pekin, October 1860, Frank W. Cheney", the interior of the inner case with a coronet mark and numbered 10824, the dial 5cm diameter, the watch 8cm high overall Provenance: Almost certainly taken from the Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) in 1860 by Sergeant William Murphy (1833-1885) of the (King's) 1st Dragoon Guards and acquired from him shortly after by Frank Woodbridge Cheney (1832-1909), and thence by descent. F. W. Cheney was descended from the pioneering American clockmaker Benjamin Cheney. In 1855 he was made a director of the historic Cheney Brothers Silk Company, co-founded by his father. Frank later became the firm's general manager and under his guidance it became an international leader in the silk manufacturing business. Between 1859 and 1861 F.W. Cheney was sent by the company to buy raw silk in the Orient and to study the Chinese silk industry. It was during this period that he acquired what the Cheney family have always referred to as 'The Emperor Watch'. This period in his life is recorded in 'Frank Woodbridge Cheney: Two Years in China and Japan' by Antoinette Cheney Crocker, 1970. On page 13 the author specifically refers to Cheney acquiring the watch from soldiers involved in action at the Summer Palace in 1860. The vendor's family have understood by tradition that the soldier in question was a British Cavalry Sergeant called William Murphy. K J Asplin's 'China Medal Roll 1856-60', 2004 vol. 2 only includes one person who could possibly fit that description - Sergeant William Murphy (1833-1885) of the (King's) 1st Dragoon Guards. This unit was heavily involved in the action in Peking in 1860 and in the lamentable sacking of the Summer Palace. For an account of Murphy's life and military career see the Journal of the Orders and Medals Society of America, vol. 60, no. 3, May-June 2009. Interestingly, a hand-written family note about the watch, states that it was given to Cheney by 'his sergeant'. It seems clear from this that Cheney was well-acquainted with Murphy. Given the dangerous conditions in China at the time, it may well be that the British army provided some protection to the American businessman during his activity there. After returning to the United States in 1861, F.W. Cheney became a lieutenant colonel of the 16th Connecticut Volunteers. In September 1862 he led his men in the Battle of Antietam, the first battle of the American Civil War and the bloodiest single-day battle in US history. He was severely wounded in combat and following his recovery he returned to the family silk business. Chinese Imperial taste for European watches, particularly by the Qianlong Emperor, is well-documented. Given the 18th century date of this watch it seems likely that it entered the Palace complex during Qianlong's reign.
Lot 537
Sadahide (1807-73), Hiroshige and Yoshitoshi, a woodblock diptych print and two triptychs the first of the Shogun's army on a beach head, the second of an army on ashoreline below pine trees, a leader throws his sword in the air and the last of an army drawn up on a beach head as a navy approachs offshore, unframed (8)
Lot 1461
Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe historical interest :- one of the original signed Universal Declaration of Independence documents, signatures above gilt print for The Hon. J.J. Wrathall (President of Rhodesia), The Hon I.D. Smith (Prime Minister of Rhodesia), The Hon C.W. Dupont (First President of Rhodesia), The Hon R.T.R. Hawkins (Minister of Combined Operations), The Hon B.H. Mussett (Minister of Internal Affairs), Lieutenant General G.P. Walls (Commander of Combined Operations), Air Marshall M.J. McLaren (Deputy Commander of Combined Operations), Lieutenant General J.S.V. Hickman (Commander of the Army), Mr P.D.W.R. Sherren (Commissioner, British South Africa Police), and Air Marshall F.W. Mussell (Commander of the Air Force)
Lot 1507
A WW2 medal group awarded to Major A.F.Flatow 45R Tanks, comprising 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with 8th Army clasp, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, 1939-45 medal and a George VI efficiency decoration with Territorial clasp, dated 1950 complete with cased miniatures, father and son relationship with previous lot, together with matching miniture medals
Lot 1540
A small vintage suitcase containing ephemera relating to the life of Montague Henry Butler and his wife Mary, late of Cholsey, Wallingford Road, Berkshire. Includes military related articles, 3rd Mountain Battery, North West Frontier India (12th Pack Battery), a wall hanging of a wooden mule with gun mounted, certificates of training etc, his wife's Women's Army Auxilliary badge and some documents, photographs etc
Lot 1579
A German Nazi Third Reich army officer's dagger by Weyersberg, Kirschbaun & Co WKC Solingen with white swirl grip, crown shaped pommel, cross guard with eagle holding swastika in wreath and 26cm double edged stiletto blade marked with a knight above WKC Solingen. In original scabbard with two braces holding suspension rings (overall length 39.3cm)
Lot 508
Army Lists. April-June 1914, February 1916, June 1916, July 1916, January 1917, March 1917 & November 1918 bound in 7 vols., some light marginal toning, a few tears (March 1917 title detached and frayed), a few Imperial War Museum inkstamps, original wrappers bound-in February & July 1916, mixed cloth and half calf bindings, March 1917 worn with sellotape reinforcement, others rubbed, thick 8vo (7)
Lot 506
Army Lists. A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Royal Marine Forces, 6 volumes, 1873-79, some interleaved with additional manuscript lists of officers and service dates, some corrections and amendments to printed lists, occasional soiling, a few MOD Library withdrawn inkstamps, mixture of calf and cloth bindings, lacking some covers, some wear, folio (6)
Lot 468
Army Lists. A List of the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines, on Full, Retired and Half-Pay, with an Index, 10 vols., 1840-1847, 1849-50 & 1851-52, some light spotting and toning, bookplates, later brown morocco-backed boards, 1845 in contemporary tree calf (rebacked), 8vo, together with The History of the Dress of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1625-1897, by Captain R.J. Macdonald, 1899, colour plates, original cloth-backed boards, some stains, 4to, limited edition, 215/300 Guarantor's copy, signed by the author, plus others including Tales of the Wars; or, Naval and Military Chronicle... 4 vols., 1838-40 and Memoirs of the Dule of Marlborough, by William Coxe, 3 vols., new edition, 1847-48 (26)
Lot 492
Gibling (Hal). Bravest of Hearts, The Biography of a Battalion, the Liverpool Scottish in the Great War, Winordie Publications, 2000, numerous monochrome illustrations, mostly after photographs, original green cloth gilt in dust jacket, 4to, VG, together with Denman (Terrence), Ireland's Unknown Soldiers, The 16th (Irish) Division in the Great War 1914-1918, Irish Academic Press, 1992, monochrome illustrations after photos, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, VG, plus Warrington (Peter), For Bravery in the Field, Great War British Army Recipients of the Military Medal 1914-1920, A Register, Naval and Military Press, 2014, original printed wrappers, folio, VG, and Imperial War Musuem, Operations in Persia 1914-1919, facsimile edition, 1987 & The Occupation of the Rhineland 1918-1929, facsimile edition, 1987, both original red cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, plus other First World War history, or modern publications, including Naval & Military Press, Leo Cooper, Pen & Sword Military, the PALS series, etc., many original cloth in dust jackets, some paper bound editions, mostly 8vo, but including some 4to and folio editions, VG (approx. 100)
Lot 505
Army Lists. The Army List for April 1868, February 1873 & March 1875, October 1878, January-March 1879, July-December 1879, April-June 1879, together with further Official Army Lists and Monthly Lists 1883-1906, including several volumes of Hart's Annual Army List, many volumes rebound, rubbed and some wear with some covers defective, small 8vo/thick 8vo (approx. 70)
Lot 286
*Top hat. A Lincoln Benett & Co. Sackville Street, Piccadilly London, black top hat, late 19th century, black silk top hat with felt band, together with two collapsible 'opera' top hats made by Lincoln Bennett & Co. and Henry Heath Limited, with a Harrods Ltd. black bowler hat, and an Army & Navy black bowler hat, the top hats contained in a purpose made leather case with lid and securing strap, with another circular hat box (5)
Lot 599
Harvey (David). Monuments To Courage, Victoria Cross Headstones and Memorials, volumes 1 & 2, 1st edition, 1999, numerous black and white illustrations, original gilt-decorated faux morocco in dust jackets and slipcase, large 8vo, together with The Official Army List for the quarter ending 31st December 1889, H.M.S.O., some light toning, lacks original endpapers, original gilt-decorated red cloth, boards and spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, and Brereton (J.M.), A History of the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards and their predecessors 1685-1980, 1st edition, 1982, black and white maps, colour portrait frontispiece, original gilt-decorated red cloth, plus other modern military and American Civil War reference, including publications by Arms & Armour Press, Pen & Sword, Dutton, Schiffer Military History, mostly hardback publications, many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves & a carton)
Lot 519
Macwilliam (H.D.). The Official Records of the Mutiny in the Black Watch, a London Incident of the Year 1743, Forster Groom & Co., 1910, monochrome illustrations, original red cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some marks, 4to, together with Frederick (J.B.M.), Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660-1978, 2 volumes, Microform Academic Publishers, 1984, original red cloth gilt in dust jackets, 4to, plus Graham (Henry), The Annals of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire, Liverpool, 1886, marbled edges and endpapers, contemporary blue half calf gilt, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, and other military history and related, mainly 20th century publications, including Marcus Cunliffe, History of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1919-1955, 1956, J.P. Mackinnon and S.H. Shadbolt, The South African Campaign of 1879, Greenhill Books, 1995, R.H. Crawford, Pipers of the Highland Regiments 1854-1902, Savannah, 2009, John Stirling, British Regiments in South Africa/The Colonnials in South Africa, both published J.B. Hayward, 1994/90 respectively, John P.C. Laband, edited Lord Chelmsford's Zululand Campaign, 1878-1879, Army Records Society, 1994, Guy Campbell, The Charging Buffalo, A History of the Kenya Regiment 1937-1963, Leo Cooper, 1986, William M. Lummis and Kenneth G. Wynn, Honour the Light Brigade, J.B. Hayward, 1973, Michael Glover, That Astonishing Infantry, The History of the Royal Welch Fusiliers 1689-1989, Leo Cooper, 1989, etc., many in dust jackets, 8vo/4to (approximately 150 volumes) (6 shelves)
Lot 491
Godfrey (Major E.G.). The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1939-1945, 1st edition, 1994, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, VG, together with Prisoners of War, British Army 1939-1945, Alphabetical Nominal Registers, J.B. Hayward, 1990, original cloth in frayed dust jacket, folio, plus Elston (J.C.J.). Honours & Awards, The Staffordshire Regiments (The Prince of Wales's), 1919-2007, 1st edition, 2014, numerous monochrome illustrations, many after photos, original printed boards, folio, VG, and other Second World War history, all modern publications, many original cloth in dust jackets, but including some paper bound volumes, mostly 8vo, VG (approx. 70)
Lot 486
World War II - Allied Victory in Italy. A photograph album recording the German field surrender at 15th Army Group HQ near Florence, May 1945, the series of 12 photographs appearing at the end of an album containing a further 96 gelatin silver print photographs, arranged chronologically from 1941-45 on 15 stiff card leaves and back to back, beginning with the compiler's wedding at St. Leonard's, Exeter in 1941, family snapshots, photographs of radio operation and listening for intelligence at Gothic House, before being appointed as a war correspondent in September 1944 and going from there to Italy, views, aircraft and army personnel, the final two leaves devoted to the 12 unique photographs (mostly 8.5 x 8cm) obtained by him with manuscript captions to mounts in silver pencil, including a group photograph of Truscott, McCreery, Major Mark Clark and General Morgan, photographs including the German General, General Clark handing over the surrender orders, and after the official surrender German and Allied representatives adjourning to G-3 War Room for fuller discussion with Germans on one side of the table and Allied officers on the other side and finishing with caption 'Victory in Italy. The Germans take orders from the Allies', contemporary limp cloth with spine tie and Egyptology motifs to upper cover, oblong folio A remarkable album recently discovered by descendents of the photographer. Though dated May 1945, these photographs would seem to pre-date the official signing of the first instrument of surrender at Caserta near Naples on 29 April 1945. This surrender in 'woods near Florence' would seem to pre-date this historic first signing and the photographs are potentially the only photographic record of this first instrument of German field surrender. (1)
Lot 516
Tancred (George). Historical Record of Medals and Honorary Distinctions Conferred on the British Navy, Army & Auxiliary Forces, 3 volumes, Spink, 1891, interleaved with handwritten annotations, later quarter red calf gilt, rubbed and scuffed, 4to, together with Harvey (David), Monuments to Courage, Victoria Cross Headstones and Memorials, 2 volumes, 1999, numerous monochrome illustrations after photos, original cloth gilt in dust jackets, 4to, VG, plus Carter (Thomas), Medals of the British Army, and How They Were Won, India, China, etc., 1861, chromolithograph plates, some marks, all edges gilt, original blindstamped red cloth gilt, soiled and stained with some fraying and wear to extremities, 8vo, and other medal history reference, mostly 20th century publications, including James Risk, Henry Pownall, David Stanley, and others, Royal Service, volumes II-III only, 2001, J.S. Farmer, The Regimental Records of the British Army 1660-1901, Crecy Books, 1984, R.B. Magor, African General Service Medals, 1993, John R. Angolia, For Fuhrer and Fatherland, Military Awards of the Third Reich, 1976, etc., mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, 8vo/4to (approx. 65)
Lot 538
Gwalior (Maharaja Sir Madho Rao, 1876-1925, Scindia of). Gwalior 1905 by J.W.D. Johnstone, published John and Edward Bumpus, [1907], colour and black and white plates including chromolithographs and photogravures, some heavy spotting to tissue-guards and margins of plate facing page 11, presentation inscription from the Maharaja to front pastedown, 'With kindest regards from M. Scindia, Gwalior 1908', all edges gilt, original richly gilt-decorated green morocco by Bumpus with prolific repeated use of the Prince of Wales' plumes cypher to upper and lower covers, hand-painted oval miniature of the Maharaja inset to centre of upper cover, 6cm, glazed, a little surface wear to lower margin of lower cover, 4to Edition de Luxe 9/12. Provenance: This copy was inscribed by Maharaja Scindia and given to Viscount Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, who was at the time Commander in Chief of the Army in India (1902-1909). The volume passed from Field Marshal, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) to his great nephew, the third (and last) Earl and has been in the family's possession ever since. (1)
Lot 478
Phipps (John). A System of Military Discipline for His Majesty's Army, 1st ed., 1777, six folding engraved plates (three with contemporary hand colour), two advert leaves (one loose), forms, contemporary mottled calf, gilt ruled, a little rubbed at extremities, 12mo Scarce army drill book. Only two institutional copies located. (1)
Lot 507
Army Lists. List of the Officers of the Several Regiments and Corps of Fencible Cavalry and Infantry: of the Officers of the Militia; of the Corps and Troops of Gentlemen and Yeomanry and of the Corps and Companies of Volunteer Infantry with an Index, 4th edition, published The War Office, 10th July 1796, title page with near contemporary ownership signatures and small ink stamp, later endpapers with ownership blind stamp, together with, Lists of the Officers of the Several Regiments and Corps of the Militia: of the Officers of the Several Fencible Regiments of Infantry; and of all the Regiments and Independent Companies Raised since the First of January 1793, also the Officers of the Regiments and Corps of Fencible Cavalry, The Troops of Gentlemen and Yeomanry and of the Volunteer Corps and Companies of Infantry, published the War Oficce, 29th July 1794, title page with small ink stamp, later endpapers with ownership blind stamp, both bound in modern uniform burgundy cloth gilt, 8vo (2)
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