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Lot 463
Josef Lorenzel - Goldscheider - A 1930s Art Deco figure, model 7064, modelled as a fashionable lady in a green plaid dress and beret standing with two suitcases at her feet, one painted with Paris and a hatbox in her hand, painted with London, impressed and printed marks, height 28cm, restored.
Lot 199
Eleven straw and natural fibre hats in various colours to include a Peter Bettley hat with white netted bow together with three cardboard hat boxes together with A quantity of modern fur and faux fur accessories to include a Gilly Forge faux astrakhan beret, Pia Rossini neck warmer and cuffs Location: 1:1
Lot 939
Action Man, Palitoy, Hasbro - An unboxed Palitoy Action Man Helicopter which appears to be in Playworn condition with damage to landing gear, with a quantity of Action Man, hats, guns and equipment / accessories. Lot contains parts to the Special Operations Kit such as flare gun, binoculars, red beret, Commando hat; grease gun; M60 and similar. All items are in Playworn condition
Lot 123
COLLECTION OF ARP INSIGNIA, EQUIPMENT FIRE WARDENS HELMET AND ARMY EQUIPMENT Rattle marked ARP, Fire Wardens Helmet with liner and chin strap, 1938. Home Guard and Fire Guard Armbands. Civil Defence Corps Armband. Beret with silver Arp Badge. Loose base Metal Arp Badge. With two Whistles, one marked ARP. A canvas cased pair of MK11 Binoculars with military marking. Case dated 1939. With Canvas map case, water bottle, ammunition pouch on belt, shaving kit and Gas mask.
Lot 96
A POIGNANT D-DAY +4 CASUALTY GROUP TO PTE ALFRED BROWN 11TH PARACHUTE REGIMENT, who was sadly killed by a sniper at Ranville, Normandy. Original Parachute Regiment Beret. This was given to his wife by the recipient before he returned from a leave in 1943. Brown"s Granddaughter stated that his parting words were, " You keep hold of this because I won"t be back" Green Howards, Cap badge, shoulder title Sweetheart Brooch and 1933 green Howards Novice Featherweight boxing medal named to "Winner A brown" A box of silks handkerchiefs sent to his wife. Soldiers service book to Brown, in poor condition. Photograph of his original grave. A frame containing his original Memorial Scroll, the telegram informing his wife of his death, Buckingham palace slip and photograph of his grave. With recent photographs showing a memorial plaque to brown, close to the spot where he was killed by a sniper Indian General Service Medal North West Frontier 1936-37 and 1937-39 to 4449027 Pte A Brown 2nd BTN Green Howards ( An original medal however, skimmed and unofficially named, the original sadly lost. His entitlement to the medal is confirmed on the medal roll) 1939/45 Star France and Germany Star Defence Medal War Medal With box with issue addressed to Mrs E A Brown, 1 Trimdon Street, Millfield, Sunderland, County Durham. Swing Mounted as worn. Condition EF Alfred Brown was born in Millfield, Sunderland, Durham in 1913. He served in the Durham Light Infantry from 13th May 1931 to 27th August 1933. He subsequently served transferred to the Yorkshire Regiment and saw active service on the Northwest Frontier. Brown passed the rigorous Parachute Regiment course and joined the 7th Bn, transferring to the 13th in preparation for Operation Overlord. He jumped into Normandy on D - Day and was sadly killed in action by a Sniper on 10th June 1944 at Ranville. The local villagers erected a plaque close to the spot he was killed; it reads ' L/Cpl Alfred brown 13. Para BN Gave his life here for Freedom. 10th June 1944. Always Remembered' Arthur was laid to rest in Ranville Cemetery. His wife was pregnant when he was killed, which caused early labour; they had been married for a little over a year. She never remarried.
Lot 1682
A mixed lot to include a fruitwood lidded box, the top carved with a rabbit, unusual pig made of velum and hide, a pair of porcelain and cast metal vases (one AF), Victorian beadwork panel, cast iron wall hanging of a child in a beret and scarf, graduated set of small pewter jugs and others (13)
Lot 888
Mega selection of 2 x limited edition CD box sets. Titles are Beat The Boots! #2 (Foo-Ee Records, R2 70372 - 8 x CD set, all complete including the beret hat and sticker which is still attached to the shrinkwrap - presented in excellent condition throughout) and Frank Zappa On Compact Disc (C.I.D Production - the set complete with inserts and all in excellent condition).
Lot 231
Grouping of Royal Army Service Corps, Royal Corps of Transport, Royal Australian Army Service Corps Badges, interesting card display with mostly officers cap badges, collar badges, bullion beret badges and buttons. Accompanied by Gurkha Transport and Gurkha logistic Regiment cap badges; Australian Army Service Corps cap badge and collar badge set, Royal Australian Army Service Corps officers enamelled cap badge, plus others. (29 items)
Lot 302
Historically Important British Paratroopers Beret Belonging to British Army Officer and Later Hollywood Actor, Lieutenant Richard Todd OBE, Who Served with 7th Battalion Parachute Regiment on D-Day, Helping Major Howard to Hold Pegasus Bridge on the 6th June 1944, Who He Later Portrayed in the Film “The Longest Day”, good example of a well worn maroon airborne troops beret with its leather trim and leather rectangular patch behind the blackened brass eyelets. Typical spiralling weave to the top of the beret which is typical of early wartime berets. Heavily worn black cloth lining to the interior with all markings being worn away. Outline of where the original parachute regiment badge was once present. The beret shows heavy wear and has some staining and wear. The beret is accompanied by a signed autograph album page by Todd and three document folders with personal correspondence and production / film role paperwork that belonged to Richard Todd, many of these addressed to him and his home address. This beret and paperwork was all discovered when his property was cleared after his death in 2009 and has been in a private collection since. Richard Todd gave an interview before he died, when he explained his role and experiences during the D-Day landings, “At about 0040 hours on Tuesday June 6 1944, I thumped onto a corn field in Normandy, an illegal immigrant without a passport but nevertheless welcome, I hoped, at least to the locals. I discarded my parachute harness and fumbled with the kitbag cord from my belt. I realised that my right hand was a bit messy. I crouched down and took stock. Aircraft were still coming in and I got my bearings by noting their flight path. There was no one near me and I reckoned that was probably because I had jumped No.1, and therefore was at the extreme end of the "stick". To the east I could just make out the dark line of a wood, and concluded that I was a good half-mile from the battalion rendezvous. Meanwhile, the Dropping Zone was being raked by small-arms fire, so I decided to get into that wood. I put my Sten gun together and loaded it. Once in the wood I heard voices and froze momentarily, only to realise that they were speaking English. In a little clearing, there stood Colonel Pine-Coffin and about a dozen others. The CO said there was no way of knowing if the glider-borne attack on the bridges had been successful and we must get to the rendezvous as quickly as possible. We broke out from the woodland and set off at the double. Scurrying figures were everywhere. By about 0100 our group, numbering by then some 50, was at the rendezvous. A bugler repeatedly blew our rallying signal, and men came stumbling towards us, shadowy, bulky figures. But still no mortars, no machine guns and no wireless. At about 0130 hours the CO gave the order to move off to the bridges even though we still numbered only 150 men, a quarter of our strength. All seemed quiet as we reached the bridge and trotted over it. I got my first sight of a D-Day casualty: a legless German lay at the roadside, a groaning sound coming weirdly from him. Internal gas, I supposed. Normally, the sight of blood turns my stomach, yet I felt only mild curiosity. We doubled along the causeway towards the canal bridge, a large iron structure that could be opened to allow the passage of sea-going craft. Later it was to be named Pegasus Bridge. Suddenly, all hell erupted on the road ahead. Heavy explosions, flashes and tracer bullets rent the night like a spectacular firework display. "Christ!" I thought. "This is it. Here we go!" We speeded up our jog-trot. Then, as quickly as it started, the tumult died down. An old tank probing the bridge had been hit by a piat bomb and this was its ammunition exploding”. He continues with his account from the day, “While the mighty invasion from the sea was being fought out, quite a lot, on a smaller but no less deadly scale, was going on in the 7th Para area. There was no cessation in the Germans' probing with patrols and counter-attacks, some led by tanks, and the regimental aid post was overrun in the early hours. The wounded being tended there were all killed where they lay. So too was Padre Parry, who had evidently fought like a tiger to defend them. Our position had developed into a classic airborne situation. There was no front line as such and the battalion had evolved into four pockets of resistance: the three rifle companies and the Battalion Headquarters group, largely out of touch with each other, but each in positions of their own choosing. From our site on the slope we had a good view of the open ground between us and the canal bridge, and more than once we were able to drive off enemy infiltrating groups with enthusiastic bursts of small arms fire. I had primed my plastic Gammon bomb and kept it handy just in case a tank might break through. There was sporadic enemy mortar and artillery fire we could do nothing about; one shell landed in a hedge near me, killing a couple of our men. I dearly wished we had recovered some of our own three-inch mortars, especially now that a handful of mortar men had got through to us. From my slit trench on the slope at Le Port, I had a perfect view over the bridges and into the divisional area. In the distance, beyond the River Orne, the skyline was stippled with flashes and smoke from explosions or air-burst shells. In the foreground, just below us, was the canal bridge, so brilliantly captured a few hours before by Major Howard and his glider force from the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry. By our end of the bridge, stood the café owned by the Gondrée family, seemingly untouched. It was now being used as a first aid post. George Gondrée and his wife had already dispensed champagne to all those who had had time for a swig - exclusively John Howard's men. The sparkling cache had been buried in his garden since the Germans had occupied the area in 1940, so it had matured nicely. I was contemplating this view when I noticed emerging from a screen of trees two boats apparently deserted and drifting slowly towards Caen. There was little or no current on the canal, so I mentioned my suspicions to the CO and he ordered his HQ group to fire on them. Our fusillade was briefly answered from below decks but, after a direct hit on one boat two parties of Germans emerged and were taken prisoner. So to add to our battle honours that day, we were able to claim a naval victory. At about midday, we finally heard the skirl of bagpipes that heralded the approach of the Commandos under Lord Lovat. More than a thousand men passed through us on their way to the main airborne bridgehead over the Orne. It was a fine sight, and there was great jubilation as red and green berets mingled on the road. There was still no sign of the seaborne infantry or armour reaching our area. We had expected them immediately behind the Commandos. The D-Day programme appeared to be running late.” Todd continued to serve with the Parachute regiment and served with them in Palestine. He was discharged from the army in 1946 and continued to pursue his love of acting. This finally paid off and he became one of England’s most famous actors of the early 1950’s and 1960’s etc. His first major film role, was his portrayal of Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC in the motion picture “The Dam Busters”. He later was cast as Major Howard in the classic war film about the D-Day landings “The Longest Day”, it is believed that Todd wore his original beret (this example) during the filming and had to remove his Parachute regiment cap badge for the purpose of the filming. Richard Todd was a keen supporter of Military charities and events to commemorate the veterans of the Normandy landings and also the 617 Dam Buster squadron. Ricard Todd died at his home in Lincolnshire on 3rd December 2009.
Lot 335
British Airborne Beret Belonging to Colonel Patrick Anthony Porteous V.C, Who Won the Victoria Cross for the Dieppe Raid Whilst Attached to the No4 Commando, the maroon wool beret with black leather trim and gilt metal Royal Artillery badge to the front. Interior of the beret has black cloth lining with white stamped broad arrow size marked 7 1/2, Supan Manufacturing Co Ltd and 1945 date. Also stamped with war department stamp and date letter “Z”. Leather panel to the reverse of the brass side gromets. Accompanying the beret is an original hand written and signed letter from Colonel Porteous to the current vendor gifting him this beret on 12th October 1977, “Digging through the bottom draw I found this old airborne beret which you might like. I was with an airborne unit from 1944-1949 + again for three years in the sixties & wore this beret with great pride. I would be pleased if you would except of as a present”. Colonel Patrick Anthony Porteous VC was born on 1st January 1908 in Abbottabad, India. Porteous was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1937. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 26th August 1940. On the 19th August 1942 he was a temporary Major attached to No4 Commando when he took part in the famous Dieppe Raid. His Victoria Cross for the raid was announced in the London Gazette 2nd October 1942, the citation was as follows, “At Dieppe on the 19th August, 1942, Major Porteous was detailed to act as Liaison Officer between the two detachments whose task was to assault the heavy coast defence guns. In the initial assault Major Porteous, working with the smaller of the two detachments, was shot at close range through the hand, the bullet passing through his palm and entering his upper arm. Undaunted, Major Porteous closed with his assailant, succeeded in disarming him and killed him with his own bayonet thereby saving the life of a British Sergeant on whom the German had turned his aim. In the meantime the larger detachment was held up, and the officer leading this detachment was killed and the Troop Sergeant-Major fell seriously wounded. Almost immediately afterwards the only other officer of the detachment was also killed. Major Porteous, without hesitation and in the face of a withering fire, dashed across the open ground to take over the command of this detachment. Rallying them, he led them in a charge which carried the German position at the point of the bayonet and was severely wounded for the second time. Though shot through the thigh he continued to the final objective where he eventually collapsed from loss of blood after the last of the guns had been destroyed. Major Porteous's most gallant conduct, his brilliant leadership and tenacious devotion to a duty which was supplementary to the role originally assigned to him, was an inspiration to the whole detachment.” After recovering from his wounds Porteous continued to serve in the Royal Artillery. He was later posted to No1 Air Landing Light Regiment RA. In June 1945 he was posted to 53 Air Landing Light Regiment RA with whom he served in Palestine from November 1945 to March 1946. Then HQ RA 16th Airborne Division until January 1947 as Brigade Major. From February 1948 to April 1949 he was Battery Commander with the 33rd Airborne Light Regiment. He served again for three years in the Sixties as Colonel, General Staff at the War Office, the Directorate of the Lans/Air Warfare. He retired in 1970.
Lot 80
Royal Doulton Porcelain Toby jug of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, depicted wearing his black beret adorned with cap badges and a beige uniform, issuing a grey banded handle from the back listing campaigns he participated in while in the military, marked 'Royal Doulton Monty,' 6.5"h x 5.5"w x 7"d. Together with a second Royal Doulton Monty character Jug D6202.
Lot 11
Nach Rembrandt van RIJN. Porträt eines Jugendlichen mit Halsberge und Barett. 62 cm x 53 cm. Gemälde. Öl auf Leinwand. Unsigniert. Wohl ausgeführt im19. Jahrhundert. Versand dieses Objektes durch Drittanbieter möglich. Liste ausgewählter vertrauenswürdiger Versandpartner liegt jeder Rechnung bei. Das Auktionshaus versendet nicht. After Rembrandt van RIJN. Portrait of a young man with a beret and collar. 62 cm x 53 cm. Painting. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Probably executed in the 19th century. Shipping of this object by a third party provider possible. A list of selected trusted shipping partners is included with each invoice. The auction house does not ship.
Lot 483
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteA post-War ‘S.A.S. Operations’ General Service Medal pair awarded to Corporal A. E. Evans, 22 Special Air Service Regiment, later Royal Anglian Regiment, who served with ‘D’ Squadron for much of his military career; an expert mountain guide and climber, he undertook arduous mountain patrols and ambushes in Radfan, Top Secret ‘Claret Operations’ during the Borneo Campaign, and was awarded a Commendation Certificate for saving many lives during the rescue of survivors from the passenger liner M.V. Dara, destroyed by sabotage in the Persian Gulf General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (23200134 Tpr. A. Evans, S.A.S.); General Service 1962-2007, 3 clasps, Borneo, Radfan, Northern Ireland (23200134 L./Cpl. A. E. Evans, S.A.S.) mounted court-style as worn; together with the recipient’s rare official German ‘Expert High Mountain Leader’ cloth badge, nearly extremely fine (3) £3,000-£4,000 --- Alfred Ernest ‘Yanto’ Evans appears to have been born in 1934 (there are handwritten corrections entered into the printed official Register of Births) and to have begun his National Service obligation in the South Wales Borderers. He next appears in an official group photograph of HQ Squadron 22 SAS taken in January 1954 in Penang, Malaya, with the SAS cap badge on his maroon beret (which was worn by the SAS until 1958 - a copy of the photograph is included in the lot). At the beginning of the rebirth of the SAS (after its disbandment at the end of World War II), necessity forced it to recruit from many sources, including National Service conscripts. Major John Woodhouse took charge of transforming 22 SAS into a unit of highly motivated, well-trained, experienced, relatively stable volunteer soldiers and Evans was directly involved in this process. He chose to voluntarily enlist into the Regular Army, becoming a soldier in the Parachute Regiment in April 1954. After earning his Para wings, Evans applied for SAS Selection, knowing that if he was accepted into the Regiment, it automatically meant an active service posting to fight in the Malaya Campaign. Evans passed Woodhouse’s famously ferocious Selection Course and was permanently attached to the Special Air Service in July 1955. The rest of his first regular army engagement period was spent in Malaya and came to an end in April 1957. Evans chose not to extend or renew it. His Military Conduct was assessed as Very Good. After two years Evans re-joined the Colours in February 1959, returning to 22 SAS, which strongly suggests that the Regiment approved of what he had been doing during his ‘break’. In May 1961 he received a Commendation Certificate: “The Commander-in-Chief Middle East has awarded his commendation to Trooper A. Evans, ‘D’ Squadron, 22 S.A.S. Regiment, for distinguished conduct on 7 and 8 April 1961 whilst a passenger on board L.S.T. ‘Empire Guillemot’, which took part in the rescue operations when M.V. ‘Dara’ caught fire in the Persian Gulf. Trooper Evans attended to approximately 200 casualties whose complaints ranged from 1st degree burns to compound fractures. Some casualties had gaping wounds. Although only trained in First Aid Trooper Evans put in about 40 stitches, set broken limbs and treated serious burns. He remained on duty for 16 hours and his fine First Aid work and his unceasing attention to the injured undoubtedly prevented many deaths among the survivors. His conduct throughout the rescue operations reflects great credit on himself, his training and his unit.” The Dara was a British owned, Dubai-based cargo and passenger liner, mostly carrying expatriate families from the Indian sub-continent who worked in or traded with the various countries around the Persian Gulf. Dara was crippled by fire, which had been initiated by an explosion, at 4.40 a.m. at night, about 12 hours after her expected time of departure from Dubai. The explosive device contained some 20 pounds of TNT and was placed just inside the engine room by an unknown anti-British saboteur. About 240 out of 820 people on board lost their lives. ‘D’ Squadron was not deployed in the Middle East at that time, but its Mountain Troop may have been present on exercise. At the inquiry into the sinking, the Captain of the Landing Craft Tank on which Evans was embarked testified that he had to keep about half a mile away from Dara as “We could not go any closer because we had certain inflammable and explosive cargo on board Empire Guillemot.” (Last Hours on Dara by P. J. Abraham refers). Evans had been appointed Lance Corporal by the start of the Borneo Campaign in 1962. He served during three deployments which covered all the main phases of the conflict, notably the early long-range cross-border patrols with the renowned Captain André Dennison and the secret 1965 Claret offensive strikes deep inside Indonesia. Lance Corporal Evans is mentioned in the book, SAS The Jungle Frontier: 22 SAS Regiment in The Borneo Campaign 1963-1966. In April 1964 Evans was flown out from Britain to Aden to participate in the British Army’s first-ever major offensive in Southern Arabia. It was intended to subdue local tribesmen in the harsh, arid mountains of Radfan close to the border with Yemen. The Qutaibi tribes had been causing great trouble for travellers on the main route between Aden and Sana’a, attacking caravans, convoys and demanding ‘protection money’. They received modern weapons and much encouragement from the Egyptian forces who had moved into Yemen in 1962-63 and were trying to start a full-blown insurgency throughout Aden. The 22 SAS contingent was led by ‘A’ Squadron. Evans’s presence does not necessarily mean that he had transferred to ‘A’ Squadron (though he may have done so), as he had built up a considerable recognition in the Regiment for his mountain warfare skills. Radfan was all about fighting in the mountains, so he may have been ‘drafted in’ to the operation due to his specialist skills. British offensives in tribal areas had mostly only been successful when they included a locally-raised force of indigenous troops to provide expert knowledge of both the ground and tribal tactics, such as the legendary Frontier Scouts of India, the Surrendered Enemy Personnel and Senoi Praaq of Malaya or (later on) the firqats of Dhofar. The British had persuaded the multitude of emirs, sheikhs and rulers in Aden’s hinterlands to support the creation and training of the British-led Federal Regular Army, but it was far from being generally considered an effective fighting force and was included in the offensive for political rather than operational reasons. The SAS had been bought in to act as pathfinders for the Radfan offensive, but they had scant opportunity to acclimatise, understand the terrain and the operating environment before being committed to battle. The offensive was carefully planned to showcase the prowess of the new, all-volunteer and professional British Armed Forces; units from all the British elite forces were utilised as its spearhead. Evans arrived in Aden on 23 A...
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