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Lot 43
**SIX SOUTHEAST ASIAN EDGED WEAPONS FROM THE PHILIPPINES CAMPAIGN OF 1898-1906, AND LATER PRESENTED TO THE HIGGINS MUSEUM BY THE DESCENDANT FAMILY OF BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM HAMDEN SAGE (1859-1922)the first three Moro kris, the blades encrusted with silver bands at the base, the grips overlaid with sheet silver and silver wire in alternating bands, and two with silver pommels formed as a stylised dragon; the fourth a barong, with broad leaf-shaped blade, and carved bone grip encased with chased copper at the base; the fifth a parang, with cleaver shaped blade and carved wooden grip, the sixth an Igorot headsman`s axe, of characteristic form, with long wooden haftthe first: 56.5 cm; 22 1/4 in bladeProvenanceDonated to the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection 9th May 1957 by Nathaniel Sage, Jr. and William H. Sage III, grandsons of Brigadier General William Hamden Sage (1859-1922).JWHA Inv. Nos. 3143.10, 3143.13, 3143.6, 3143.15, 3143.12, 3143.7Sage was born at Centerville, New York, 6th April 1859. He graduated from West Point in 1882; from the Army War College in 1907. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, 5th United States Infantry, June 13, 1882 and was promoted through the grades to Colonel, 12th U.S. Infantry, June 13, 1915; temporary Major General, National Guard, August 5, 1917. He was professor of Military Sciences and Tactics, Central University of Kentucky, Richmond, Kentucky, 1892-93; on garrison duty in Texas, 1894-95; Aide-de-Camp to General Ovenshine in the Philippines in 1898; served as Adjutant General, 1st and 2nd Brigades, 1st Division, XIII Army Corps; Adjutant General, 3rd District, Mindanao and Jolo, Philippines; Malsbang, Philippines, 1906; at the War College, 1906-07; Adjutant General, Department of the Columbia, 1907; Mexican Border Service, 1916-17; Commander, Camp Shelby, Hattisburg, Mississippi, September 1917-March 1918; served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in World War I. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for service during the Philippine Insurrection, at Zapote River, Philippines, June 13, 1899. The citation reads as follows: "With nine men volunteered to hold an advanced position and held it against a terrific fire of the enemy estimated at 1,000 strong. Taking a rifle from a wounded man, and cartridges from the belts of others, Captain Sage himself killed 5 of the enemy." He died on June 4, 1922 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Abridged from http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net
Lot 280
**A COMPOSITE GERMAN CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR IN THE SO-CALLED `MAXIMILIAN` FASHION, CIRCA 1515-30comprising close helmet with rounded one-piece skull (extensively patched) rising to a low roped medial comb, bellows visor and bevor (both associated and reworked) attached by common pivots (replaced), the visor stepped beneath its centrally-divided vision-slit and pierced with eight horizontal ventilation-slots arranged in two rows and, at its right side, with a circular hole for a missing lifting-peg, and a single gorget-plate front and rear (associated), collar of four lames front and rear (restored), heavy breastplate formed of a rounded main plate fitted at each of its arm-openings with a moveable gusset, at the right of the chest with a detachable folding lance-rest (restored), at each shoulder with a pierced stud for the attachment of a reinforce (a plugged hole at the centre of its lower edge probably the site of a further such stud), and within its lower edge with a waist-lame (associated) flanged outwards to receive a fauld of four lames and a pair of integral tassets each of four lames (both the fauld and tassets restored), heavy backplate en suite with the breastplate, formed of a main plate fitted within its lower edge with a waist-lame flanged outwards to receive a culet of four lames (restored), large asymmetrical pauldrons (the right partly disarticulated) formed in each case of five lames (the first two of each and the fifth of the left restored), fitted at the front of the second of them with a large detachable reinforce (restored) extending upwards as a haute-piece, and connected at its lower end, via a turner, to a fully articulated vambrace formed of tubular upper and lower cannons linked by a couter of three lames of which the second is fitted at the front with a detachable reinforce (restored) extending over the otherwise open inside of the elbow, mitten gauntlets each formed of a short straight-ended cuff pierced around its edges with paired stitch-holes and fitted with a separate inner plate (that of the right restored), five metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-plate, five finger-plates and hinged thumb-defences (the last restored) each formed of three scales of which the first and largest is pierced around its edges with holes matching those of the cuff, cuisses (restored) each formed of a gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its upper edge with three short extension-plates and at its lower end with a winged poleyn of five lames, and full-length tubular greaves each formed of a front and a rear plate opening at the inside (the upper end of each front plate and the lower end of the right rear plate extended by patched repairs), the rear fitted at its upper end with a staple to accommodate the strap of the poleyn and at its lower end with a moderately-long spur (restored) terminating in a rowel of six slender points, and the front fitted within its arched lower end with a broad-toed sabaton of seven lames, the main edges of the armour formed with boldly roped inward turns accompanied in most cases by single or double recessed borders, and the armour decorated overall, except on the greaves, with bands and panels of flutes emphasised by pairs of incised lines (the flutes later added on the vambraces and gauntlets)See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands ProvenanceFrédéric Spitzer, Paris, sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 9th-12th January 1929, lot 617JWHA Inv. No. 701.a-lLiteratureStephen V. Grancsay, The John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1961, p. 40 (ill.)ExhibitedRev. Seweall Emerson, Boston, Massachusetts 1957Mrs Kenneth L. Whitney, Leicester, Massachusetts, 1 July 1957Renseslaer County Junior Museum, New York, February-April 1959Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 26 April-10 May 1960Army Quartermaster, Natick, Massachusetts, 10-18 May 1962Childrens Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, 6 January -9 July 1964Ayres Agency, Worcester, Massachusetts, 3 November-7 May 1965Rockefeller Centre, New York, 1-30 June 1965Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, 7 September-30 June 1966Clarke Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 17 October-30 November 1980`The Armorer and the Printmaker`, Higgins Armoury Museum in conjunction with the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, 2 June-6 September 1998 (helmet only)The fine cuirass of the armour is of notable weight and capable of receiving, in addition, a reinforcing breastplate.
Lot 318
**AN ENGLISH SHOT-PROOF STEEL TARGET OF NOTABLE WEIGHT, 17TH CENTURYof convex oval form, fitted at its centre with a low rosette-shaped boss and pierced at its upper end, just below the proof-mark of a bullet, with a flanged horizontal vision-slit, the flanged edge of the target turned outwards at its upper end to form a loop, cut with a horizontal slot at it right side and notched at its lower end, its rear fitted with a quilted lining of buff-leather and the remains of a pair of enarmes59.5 cm; 23½ in highProvenanceSir Samuel Rush Meyrick, Goodrich Court, HerefordshireLeonard Brassey, Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire, sold Christie`s, 21st February 1923, lot 152, purchased by Dr Bashford Dean acting on behalf of Clarence Mackay of Long Island, New York (Cat. No. C-32)William Randolph Hearst, sold Gimbel Brothers, New York, 31st October 1941JWHA Inv. No. 2668LiteratureSir Samuel Rush Meyrick & Joseph Skelton, Engraved Illustrations of Ancient Arms and Armour from the Collection at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire, Vol. I, London, 1830, pl. LXV, 1J. R. Planché, Catalogue of the Armour and Miscellaneous Objects of Art Known as the Meyrick Collection…exhibited at the South Kensington Museum, London, 1869, Cat. No. 866ExhibitedSouth Kensington Museum (now the Victoria & Albert Museum), London, 1869-71The shield can be compared with one from the armoury of the Earls of Warwick at Warwick Castle (Francis Grose, Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time, Vol. II, London, 1812, p. 358, plate 48) sold in these rooms on 25 June 2008, lot 345. Its weight suggests that it was intended for siege use.
Lot 409
**EIGHT VARIOUS LANCES AND PIKES, 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURYthe first an American boarding pike, with robust steel head, on its wooden haft; the second an American model 1816 boarding pike, with regulation steel head, and bulbous wooden haft; the third for the Indian Army, with regulation steel head, on its bamboo haft; the fourth and fifth with steel spike, each on its wooden haft (one strap losses); the sixth probably German, with steel head and shoe each struck with arsenal markings, and wooden haft; the seventh of regulation type, adapted for a flag or pendant; and the eighth with spear blade of hollow triangular section, formed with a medial ridge, tapering socket, on its wooden haft(7)ProvenanceJWHA Inv. Nos. 52, 3235,3082.2, 1052, 1028, 254, 1006, 867
Lot 467
**A .44 CALIBRE COLT MODEL 1860 MODEL ARMY REVOLVER, NO. 166134 FOR 1868of standard production specifications, the barrel with traces of address, revarnished walnut butt, and with matching numbers (refinished throughout)20.5 cm; 8 1/8 in barrelProvenanceMilton R. Macintosh, Rhode Island, acquired December 1970, no. 180JWHA Inv. No. 3647
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Lot 26
Two silver cigarette cases with military connections one Middle Eastern with deeply chased decoration to the front of cranes and other birds amongst flowers and foliage, the back with a shallower similar pattern, the inside inscribed `R.E. Lodge Shaiba Iraq Nov 1942`, 5 x 3¼in. (12.5 x 8.25cm.), weight 7oz. (220g.), the other by Frederick Field, Birmingham 1939, of stepped oblong form with canted corners and engine turned decoration, the front with the applied insignia of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in red, white and blue enamel, 3¼in. (8.25cm.), weight 2.45oz. (76.1g.). (2)
Lot 258
Sir Edwin Long, R.A. (British, 1829-1891) Portrait of Harry McLeod, Royal Artillery, in full ceremonial dress oil on canvas, unframed 24 x 20in. (61 x 51cm.) * Harry McLeod was General Colonel-Commandant of the Indian Army. This portrait is believed to have been painted c.1855 when he was eighteen years of age. He is believed to have died in St. Helier, Jersey and to have been buried in St. Saviour, Jersey.
Lot 872
A South Africa 1900 chocolate gift tin, containing remains of contents, the base inscribed `Serg G. Adronson Army Pay Corps Pietermaritzburg 8th Feby. 1900`, together with two Coronation Day June 26th 1901 chocolate tins, a South African Christmas 1940 gift tin, an emergency ration tin, a Third Reich battery, a group of 50 John Player & Sons cigarette cards of Army Corps Divisional Signs 1914-1918, a framed print of British troops removing goods and burning a farm in retaliation for being fired on, a display of three silvered and inscribed leaves, ribbon bow and image, framed, `The Ladysmith Siege` by G.W. Lines, two prints and a framed display of six replica clay pipes, including General Buller and Chief Cetshwayo.
Lot 881
A small collection of Third Reich passbooks etc, including R.A.D., Heer (Army), Personal Ausweis (British Zone), a copy of `Mein Kampf`, English translation April 1942, a Kriegsmarine booklet, three photocards of Adolf Hitler, a pencil sketch of a German bandsman, signed and dated `13-8-1943`, and a pencil sketch of a lady, signed and dated `8-8-1943`, contained in their cardboard tube, and a small framed photograph of a Luftwaffe officer.
Lot 884
A Flying Log Book for Navigators, Air Bombers, Air Gunners and Flight Engineers, compiled by Flt. Lt. Alton, covering period 26-2-1953 to 17-8-65, 106 hours, 25 minutes, various aircraft, including Tiger Moth, Meteor 7, Hastings, Oxford, Canberra and Valetta, together with a Royal Air Force Guide to Service, a Primer of Flying etc and an Army Air Corps 656 Squadron badge, mounted on a wooden shield (defective).
Lot 888
A collection of British cap badges, circa 1914-1950, including First World War period Norfolk, Leicestershire, East Surrey and various Scottish, including The Gordon Highlanders, Black Watch, K.O.S.B., Camerons, Army Remount Service and 17th Lancers, together with a small quantity of South African badges, including Transvaal 8th Infantry Scottish, Transvaal Artillery, South African Artillery and Medical Corps.
Lot 904
A group of Red Cross awards, comprising 1939-45 Defence Medal and Red Cross Long and Efficient Service Medal to `Miss May Boston`, mounted on a bar, three enamelled Red Cross Proficiency Medals, comprising Air Raid Precautions Training, Red Cross Nursing and Red Cross First Aid, with the original boxes, British Red Cross Society enamelled medal for Three Years` Service, with three further enamelled Three Years` Service bars, and enamelled British Red Cross Society Medal for Merit, together with an enamelled Red Cross Honorary Life Member`s badge, a British Passport in the name of Miss V.M.G. Bosten, an Allied Force Permit and further items, contained in a U.S. Army Medical Department First Aid tin.
Lot 905
An Africa General Service Medal, Elizabeth II issue, with bar `Kenya` to `2/Lt. R.A. Maby. Glosters.` and a Campaign Service Medal with bar `Malay Peninsula` to `Capt. R.A. Maby RAOC.`, mounted on a bar as worn, together with a selection of Gloucestershire Regiment, Royal Army Ordinance Corps and other military badges, including two cloth parachutist`s wings and other cloth badges, and a Gloucestershire Regiment photograph.
Lot 25
A group of First and Second World War medals and memorabilia etc, to include a group of three First World War medals presented to a Private B. Sands of the East Yorkshire Regiment, a Princess Mary`s` Christmas box for 1915, a letter written by the recipient to his daughter Freda, her Women`s Land Army arm band and by repute her husbands tag for Stalag number 10A etc.
Lot 3024
A small collection of Dinky Toys and Supertoys army vehicles and accessories, including a No. 661 recovery tractor, within a blue and white striped box, a No. 626 military ambulance, a No. 623 army wagon and a No. 670 armoured car (some playwear, paint chips, box creased, torn and scuffed).
Lot 3043
A collection of Dinky Toys and Supertoys army vehicles and accessories, including No. 660 tank transporters, No. 651 Centurion tanks, No. 674 Austin Champs, No. 688 field artillery tractors, No. 670 armoured cars, No. 621 3-ton army wagons, No. 626 military ambulances, No. 735 Gloster Javelin fighters, No. 661 recovery tractors, other vehicles, field guns and tanks, some boxed (playwear, some repainted, faults, boxes creased, torn and scuffed), together with a collection of Corgi Toys and other military vehicles and accessories (playwear).
Lot 3015
A small collection of Dinky Toys and Supertoys army vehicles, comprising a No. 621 3-ton army wagon, a No. 622 10-ton army truck, a No. 623 army covered wagon, a No. 626 army ambulance, a No. 641 army 1-ton cargo truck, a No. 651 Centurion tank, a No. 660 tank transporter, a No. 670 armoured car, a No. 673 Scout car, two No. 674 Austin Champs, a No. 676 armoured personnel carrier, two No. 692 5.5 medium guns, all boxed (some with damp damage and slight rusting, boxes creased, torn and scuffed, one No. 674 box missing end flap), and a U.S. Jeep (playwear).
Lot 215
(Militaria) - CANNON, Richard.- Historical records of the Fifth, or Princess Charlotte of Wales`s regiment of Dragoon Guards : containing an account of the formation of the Regiment in 1685; with its subsquent services to 1838.London, Longman, Orme, and Co., Paternoster row; W. Cloves and sons, 1839.In-8° : engraved title-[8]-vi-[2]-99-[1] pp.; 3 plates (small hole in the joint of the armorial dedication leaf).Contemporary emblazoned binding : full green straight morocco, gilt frames of fillets and volutes on the boards, arms of the English royal family on the upper board, crest and crown on the spine, gilt edges, gilt roll-stamp on the edges and the turn-ins (joints and spine slightly rubbed, corners slightly dulled).Presentation copy of this volume, part of a large collection dealing with the history of the British army, given to Léopold I of Belgium by the author. Our copy is enriched with a leaf figuring the coat of arms of Leopold, prince of Saxe Coburg, delicately painted in color and highlightened. Leopold was first married to Charlotte of Wales who died after giving birth to a stillborn son. By this marriage, Leopold was made colonel of the Dragoon Guards from 1816 to 1831. This is probably in memory of that time and because Leopold was almost made King of Great Britain that this work was given to him as a present.First edition of this volume illustrated with 3 colored lithographies by Madeley figuring the standard of the Dragoon Guards, the capture of the Bavarian standards in 1705 and the Regiment in the battle of Salamanca.# Colas 541; # Lipperheide 2268. Prestigious provenance : Leopold I of Belgium (1790-1865) (presentation copy with his arms painted); Philippe (1837-1905), count of Flanders, son of Leopold I, brother of Leopold II and father of Albert I (monogram engraved on the spine different from the n° 110 and 137 of this sale). Luxury emblazoned binding with the arms of the United Kingdom and below the device of the Dragoon Guards "Vestigia nulla retrorsum". Exemplaire de présent offert par l`auteur à Léopold Ier dont témoigne le feuillet de dédicace ms. aux armoiries finement peintes à la main et rehaussées à l`or. Offert en souvenir de la période durant laquelle le roi des Belges fut, par son mariage avec la princesse Charlotte de Galles, colonel de la cavalerie des Dragoon Guards (1816-1831). Reliure de luxe en maroquin vert à grains longs, aux armoiries de la couronne anglaise et au monogramme, ajouté plus tard, de Philippe de Flandres, fils de Léopold Ier. Édition originale illustrée de 3 lithographies en couleurs.
Lot 397
BOULESTIN, X.-Marcel.- Dans les Flandres britanniques. Vingt-quatre dessins de J.E. Laboureur.Paris, Soc. d`édition "Le Dorbon aîné, British Expeditionary Force, Mai 1915 - Janvier 1916.In-f°.Broché (bords de la couv. à peine effrangés).Édition originale illustrée de 24 reproductions de dessins en noir. Tirage à 350 ex., un des 300 sur papier vélin (n° 291). Premier ouvrage édité en collaboration avec Boulestin alors traducteur, tout comme Laboureur, dans la British Army en Flandres. La diffusion de l`ouvrage fut arrêtée par la censure militaire française, dont le rapport concluait : "Au lieu de critiquer nos amis et alliés, vous auriez mieux fait de nous écrire un bon rapport sur les récoltes" (# Laboureur, p. 554). Boulestin, qui fut un temps le secrétaire privé du mari de Colette, et Laboureur collaborèrent encore plusieurs fois à la rédaction et à l`illustration de livres en anglais de cuisine. Ouvrage peu courant.# Mahé I-325 (se trompe en signalant les ex. de tête sur Japon et 2 suites couleurs); # Sylvain Laboureur, Catalogue, t. II, n° 809, pp. 547-554.Joint (ens. 2 ouvr.) : GIRAUDOUX, J.- Fugues sur Siegfried. Paris, Lapina, 1930, in-12° br. Édition originale ill. du portrait par Gorvel et 4 e.-f. par Laboureur.
Lot 534
IGS 1854, 1 clasp Burma 1887-89 (script engraved 2452 Lce Corpl Z Andrews 2nd Bn Glouc R), VF (official correction to end of surname) Plate 3 Note: Zachariah Andrews enlisted 26.2.1881, in confinement 8.11.83 - 11.11.83, tried and imprisoned “Drunk on Guard” 12.11.83, released 17.12.83, served UK 26.2.81 - 24.2.82, saw service in Afghanistan 25.2.82-28.2.83; India, 1.3.83-28.5.87; Burmah, 29.5.1887 - 1.7.1889; India 2.7.1889 - 10.6.1890. Vendor states: Roll shows 5 Burma 1887-89 to 2nd Glouc including 2452 L/Cpl Z. Andrews Army Telegraphs (recipient passed Electrical Telegraphy 2nd Cl 12.10.1885); 3 of these five now being in Gloucester or Bristol Museums.
Lot 539
Five: QSA, 2 clasps Natal, OFS (4889 Corl A Gough, Glouc Regt), 1914-15 star (C.S.Mjr), BWM, Victory (WO Cl 2), Army LS & GC, Geo V military bust (C.S.Mjr) VF-NEF (a little QSA edge bruising). Together with 4 related medallions: Army Athletic Club HM Silver “Gymnastics 1st Prize Sergt a Gough 1st Gloucester Rgt 1911”; “Royal Naval and Military Tournament” silver “Best Man at Arms Dismounted Poona 1909” and on edge “L. Sjt A Gough 1st Gloster Regt”, ditto silver “L Sgt 1st Gloster Regt A Gough Best Man at Arms, Dismounted, 6th Poona Divn 1910”; ditto bronze “1st sabre v sabre Western Command Sergt Instr A Gough Army Gymnastic Staff”. Note: Natal Field Force casualty roll shows Cpl A Gough 1st Bn wounded at Farquhar’s Farm 30.10.1899. Co Sjt Major Arthur Gough was with the 7th Bn Gloucestershire Regt at the attack on Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli where he was killed in action on 8.8.1915, aged 38. The regiment suffered 350 killed or wounded, this number including all officers, WO’s and Sgts. He is commemorated at the Helles Memorial.
Lot 541
Three: QSA, 2 clasps CC, OFS (4759 Pte H G Edwards Gloucester Regt); KSA, both date clasps (Cpl, regtl number correction), Army LS & GC, Geo V military bust (4759 C Q M Sjt H G Edwards, Glouc. R). First two NVF with some contact marking, last NEF Note: Henry George Edwards is shown on the Roll of Individuals entitled to wear the War Badge; shown as enlisted 10.12.95, discharged 4.4.18, sickness, aged 36. Photocopy of relevant page included in lot.
Lot 574
Pair: AGS 1902, EIIR issue, 1 clasp Kenya (2/Lt J C Kirkland Glosters); GSM 1918, EIIR issue, clasp Cyprus (Lt). VF Note: Together with photocopies of Army List showing recipient as 2nd Lt 8.1.55, Lt 14.6.56, copy page from “The Back Badge” Winter 1983 “Captain Kirkland served from 1954-57 with a SSC. He was in Barnard Castle, Kenya, Aden, Bahrain and Cyprus mainly in C Company..” and other references.
Lot 577
Army LS & GC (2): Vic issue, swivel suspender (impressed 3166 Sergt Michl Droham 61st Foot), VF; Geo VI first type with Regular Army suspender (5173287 Col Sjt K M Baker, Glosters) NEF Note: Kenneth Malcolm Baker became A/RSM in 1941 and commissioned into Glosters as 2/Lt 18.12.1941, A/Capt 1.7.1944)
Lot 654
48 different WWII pattern cloth formation badges, including 3rd Ind Div, 4th Inf Div 2nd and 3rd patts, 52nd Lowland Inf, British Troops in Berlin, 1st Army (Canadian), Northern Command, 14th Army, 7th Armoured (2 types), 79th Armoured, Beach Group & 8th GHQ, 231 Independent Inf. etc; mounted and identified in 2 frames. GC
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