German Imperial, Third Reich, and Overseas Medals and Badges. Comprising a Third Reich period German veterans medal. A gold embroidered cuff piece from a German General’s parade uniform. A Third Reich RAD woman’s neck brooch in gold, pin complete, Assmann marked, hook missing. Third Reich period Colonial Bund stick pin with excellent enamels. Third Reich period Schlaegter Bund veterans pin with lapel pin fixing. Lufthansa pin, good enamels. An unidentified Spanish fascist period badge with fixing pins. Fascist Italian lozenge shaped pin with hook complete, pin missing. Fascist Italian cap insignia for the overseas cap known as the Bustina, two sets of clips missing, two present. Unidentified Third Reich multi enamel stick pin reading Bochum 48 below a mobile swastika. A small porcelain, possibly Winter Help Work badge with the same child holding a collecting tin with swastika. A zinc cast entry badge numbered 4 for a factory, pin missing. A small quantity of 3 Imperial Jubilee ribbons with enamelled badges. German Mothers Cross in bronze, some enamel missing, no ribbon. An assortment of 5 Third Reich cap insignia. M.29 eagle with pins complete. M.29 eagle without pins. Naval deck cap eagle without pin. Another naval deck cap eagle without pin. Postal visor cap eagle with pins, generally good condition (lot) £140-£180
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German Second World War Metallic and Cloth Insignia. Comprising a General-Luftzeugmeister triangular form badge worn on the right breast of overalls. 2 tropical national coloured Tropheim shields, one with re-soldered pins. 1 bronze, 1 silver army drivers badge without backing plates. Coastal Artillery shoulder board. A scarce field post officials shoulder board. Customs officials shoulder board. Luftwaffe cloth paratroopers qualification badge. Luftwaffe cream work overall sleeve rank patch. 2 SA shoulder boards, which are both glued to cards. Kriegsmarine medical personnel trade patch, glued to card. Kriegsmarine Engineers sleeve patch, glued to cloth backing. A group of 5 Red Cross pieces of insignia which comprises of 2 arm triangles in different constructions. 2 Red Cross sleeve shields, 1 machine woven, 1 Bevo woven. 1 Red Cross collar patch. Waffen SS Obersturmbannfuhrers camouflage uniform strip of insignia for one sleeve. Army farriers trade patch. Army Obergefreiter trade patch on green. Another army Gefreiter trade patch in herringbone twill. Army technical artisan sleeve patch, pink machine woven on field grey green. Army tropical Obergefreiters rank patch. Army Obergefreiter rank patch grey on field grey green, generally good condition (lot) £100-£140
German Second World War Metallic and Cloth Insignia. Comprising a Kriegsmarine naval medical cadet sleeve badge. Another identical. Naval engineers trade patch. Naval writer’s sleeve badge. Naval Obermatt white deck uniform rank patch. Army medical sleeve patch. Another medical sleeve patch. Army fireworker’s personnel sleeve patch. Luftwaffe mechanisor’s administrator’s sleeve patch. Obergefreiter sleeve patch, army for the herringbone twill work uniform. LDO paper packet for the Luftwaffe Ground Combat badge. Eastern Front Medal ribbon. A large 5cm SA badge showing an SA man horse riding, pin back suspension. GFP Secret Field Police shoulder board motif in metal. A miniature 16mm SS 8 year Long Service Medal. Hitler Youth membership pin with one red section of the badge enamel broken. Red Cross cap insignia in enamels, pin suspension missing. A 1935 Hitler Youth aluminium award. WWI Iron Cross 2nd class. 1914 War Honour Cross and silver Wound Badge without swastika lapel pin. Miniature Tank Assault Badge with lapel pin fixing missing. Glider qualification badge in blue and white enamels. Shooting Association enamel badge with lapel fixing missing. DAF pin badge with half of a lapel pin present. A German Catholic Association Day badge. A quantity of what is possibly Winters Help Work badges being the shields and coats of arms of areas and towns within Germany, Austria and Northern Italy. Gau Berlin Day badge in plastic without any fitting. 3 Medal ribbon bar motifs all showing the swastika. 2 police badges for fitting to the police bayonet, fittings pins missing, one in silver, one in bronze. Reunification of the Saar tinny corroded without suspension pin. An individually numbered 0846 mission pass for the Fokke Wolf aircraft factory in Bremen. Miniature Hitler Youth proficiency badge with pin missing. A grouping of 4 separate RZM tickets that have been removed from items and mounted on card, 1 is SS that has not been mounted on card. What appears to be a work pass number 174 for a factory (Ruhrstahl AG). A post WWII Polish shield shaped badge 1814 to 1945 Grunwald, Berlin laid on green and maroon ribbon. Third Reich tinny Flugtag Bremen with pin back suspension. Adolf Hitler porcelain Day badge showing the head of Hitler. Italian youth ONB cap badge with all pins fitted, generally good condition (lot) £100-£140
The outstanding and well-documented Second War C.B.E., Great War ‘Cherisy, 1 September 1918’ D.S.O., ‘Canal du Nord, 27 September 1918’ Second Award Bar, and ‘Hill 70, August 1917’ M.C. group of thirteen awarded to Brigadier J. P. Girvan, 15th Canadian Infantry Battalion, the most decorated officer of the 15th (48th Highlanders of Canada) Infantry Battalion in the Great War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with Second Award Bar, lacking integral top ribbon bar; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (27071 Pte. J. P. Girvan. 15/Can: Inf:; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. J. P. Girvan.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp, unnamed as issued; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed (Major J. P. Girvan D.S.O. M.C. 48th Highrs. of C.) complete with integral top suspension brooch; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Major J. P. Girvan D.S.O. M.C. 48th Highrs of C.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre 1914 1916, with bronze Palme, silver awards all dark toned from long-term display, generally good very fine and better (13) £6,000-£8,000 --- C.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1946: ‘Brigadier J. P. Girvan, D.S.O., M.C., V.D., Canadian Army.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 1 February 1919: Maj. (A./Lt.-Col.) John Pollands Girvan, M.C., 15th Bn., Can. Inf., 1st C. Ont. R. ‘For conspicuous gallantry opposite Cherisy on 1st September, 1918. He commanded his battalion with the greatest skill and ability, pushing resolutely forward in face of extreme machine-gun fire, and after a personal reconnaissance continuing his advance and capturing and consolidating a position some 6,000 yards in front of the jumping-off line. His courage and leadership were admirable.’ D.S.O. Second Award Bar London Gazette 8 March 1919; citation published 4 October 1919: Maj. (A./Lt.-Col.) John Pollands Girvan, M.C., 15th Bn., Can. Inf., 1st C. Ont. R. ‘For marked gallantry and ability in the attack on Canal du Nord on 27th September, 1918. Crossing the canal on light bridges, and the River Agache by planks, under heavy machine-gun and sniping fire, he pushed on. He personally attacked and captured an enemy machine gun, shooting the gunner and turning the gun on the enemy. He went on and assisted in capturing Chapel Corner and the village of Marquion, and then gained his final objectives. His courage and dash were a fine example to his command.’ M.C. London Gazette 18 October 1917; citation published 7 March 1918: Capt. (A./Maj.) John Pollands Girvan, M.C., Canadian Inf. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Throughout an attack he led his company with the greatest skill and courage, continually going forward into our own barrage at great personal risk in order to check men who were advancing too fast. He directed his men amidst the fiercest shelling, and it was due to his gallant personal example that hostile counter-attacks were fruitless. His reports were invaluable, and it was largely due to him that the enemy were held back from the captured ground.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 16 March 1916. French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 1 May 1917. John ‘Jack’ Pollands Girvan was born born on 28 November 1887, at Kingarth, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. In 1907, he became a clerk in the Civil Service. He was a fine athlete, winning numerous championships as a member of the Argonaut rowing club. He belonged to an active militia when he attested on 14 September 1914, at Valcartier, Quebec. During the Great War, he married Nursing Sister Jean Elizabeth Sword. Girvan sailed on 3 October 1914, with the first contingent, arriving in England on 16 October 1916. On 4 February 1915, the 15th Battalion battalion paraded in light marching order for ‘Inspection & Review’ by H.M. the Kin, followed by the March Past, at North Larkhill camp. The following week, they boarded S.S. Mount Temple, at Avonmouth, on 12 February 1915. After a very rough voyage with high seas, they arrived at St Nazaire, in France, on 15 February 1915. Two days later, they arrived at Hazebrouck in Belgium, moving into billets at Caestre the next day and into billets in Armentieres on 23 February 1915. The 15th Battalion entered the trenches for the first time on 24 February 1915, suffering their first casualty on the night of the 27th. They entered the trenches at Rue Petillon, on 6 March 1915, pulling out three days later. In April 1915, the Canadians moved to the Ypres area and took part in the battle of Kitchener’s Wood (Second Battle of Ypres). The 15th Battalion held the line against the German chlorine gas attack, but suffered heavy casualties. The battalion was at the apex of the Canadian position on 24 April. The 15th Battalion suffered the heaviest casualties of any Canadian unit, with over 647 casualties, being hit by the heaviest of the gas, and was overrun by the Germans. Girvan’s No. 1 Company, was on the extreme right flank of the Battalion’s three forward companies and was very lucky to have survived. In the battle of Festubert, on 15 May 1915, the battalion again suffered heavy casualties. Girvan was promoted to be Sergeant, in the field, ‘A’ Company, 15th Battalion, on 11 June 1915. He was appointed to Temporary Commission, and posted to 15th Battalion on 26 September 1915; granted 5 days leave, 17 October 1915; granted 7 days leave, 5 January 1916; to be Captain, 27 April 1916; granted leave of absence from 25 May to 2 June 1916. On 3 June 1916 the Battalion conducted the first Canadian counter-attack of the war against Observatory Ridge, in opening stages of the battle of Mount Sorrel, again suffering heavy casualties. Now a Major commanding No. 3 Company, he was wounded during the battle of Flers–Courcelette on 24 September 1916, by a bullet wound which penetrated his right chest at the sternum, and travelled down and lodged in abdominal muscle. He was admitted to 2nd Red Cross Hospital, Rouen, on 27 September 1916, and to Yorkhill War Hospital, Glasgow, on 1 October 1916. He was discharged on 18 October 1916, but was declared unfit for service for three months and granted leave to Canada, 21 October 1916 to 21 January 1917. Girvan returned to England in late March of 1917, and was appointed Acting Major on 28 April 1917. Then, awarded the Croix du Guerre, on 1 May 1917. Here he spent several months in Bramshott Camp, Hampshire, where his future wife Jean Sword was undergoing training at the camp hospital, and they undoubtedly spent some time together. Girvan returned back to France where, on 30 July 1917, he was indemnified for loss of kit. He was in command of No. 1 Company leading the forward assault of the 15th Battalion during the battle of Hill 70, and was awarded the Military Cross for this action in which the 15th Battalion assaulted and captured Puits 14 and Bois Hugo as part of the Canadian Corps assault on Hill 70 near Lens, France. The battalion was in the first wave of the assault on the Corps’ exposed and vital left flank. Having secured all their objectives on the morning of 15 August 1917, the battalion defended its position for a day and half against numerous German counter attacks until it was relieved and withdrawn from the line. Girvan was struck off the strength of the 15th Battalion to attend a Command Officers Course at Aldershot on 27 June 1918 for 8 w...
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Major F. W. Prentice, Tank Corps, late Royal Engineers, who had previously served as an Assistant Storekeeper on the R.M.S. Titanic, and survived her sinking on her maiden voyage in April 1912 by jumping 100 feet from the poop deck over the propellors just as the stern disappeared into the freezing North Atlantic Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (32144 Cpl. F. W. Prentice. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. F. W. Prentice.) nearly extremely fine (4) £8,000-£10,000 --- M.C. London Gazette 15 October 1918: ‘For great initiative and gallantry during an attack. After the infantry were established on the final objective he patrolled his tank in front, destroying hostile machine-gun groups, smashing one gun and capturing another. He then directed his tank through the protective barrage to subdue guns on the far side. On one occasion he got out of his tank, followed by a gunner, and captured several of the enemy, pulling one out of a trench by his gas mask.’ The original Recommendation, for an Immediate Award, adds further details: ‘On July 4, 1918, during the attack on Hamel and Vaire Wood, near Corbie, this officer showed the very greatest initiative and gallantry. After seeing the infantry established on the final objective, he patrolled up and down in his tank in front of them, destroying hostile machine-gun groups: smashing one gun and capturing another which had been firing at our infantry. As hostile machine-guns were still firing from beyond our artillery protective barrage, this officer directed his tank through our barrage in order to subdue the machine-guns which were harassing our infantry. On one occasion Second Lieutenant Prentice got out of his tank, followed by a gunner, and captured several enemy out of a trench, pulling one out by his gas mask. During the action this officer showed a total disregard of personal safety. He only withdrew from the battle on account of mechanical trouble caused by a bullet from an anti-tank rifle. By his fine personal example he gave his crew the utmost confidence throughout the action.’ Frank Winnold Prentice was born at Downham Market, Norfolk, on 17 February 1889 and prior to the Great War was employed as a Storekeeper by the White Star Line. He joined the crew of the Titanic in April 1912, having previously served in the Celtic, for the monthly wage of £3 15s, and served in her on her maiden voyage from Southampton. On the night of 14-15 April 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with the loss of over 1,500 souls. Prentice was amongst the survivors - in his own account of the disaster he recalls how he and fellow storekeepers Michael Kieran and Cyril Ricks jumped from the stern in the final moments of the sinking, jumping off well over 100 feet above the water almost over the warning notice ‘Warning: This vessel is triple screwed, keep clear of the blades’ board which was mounted on the poop deck railing. Ricks broke his leg during their abandonment of the ship, but Prentice found him in the water and stayed with him until he died. Finding some wreckage to cling to, he eventually managed to swim to Lifeboat 4, and was pulled aboard. Before abandoning the ship, Prentice recalls that he took a bottle of brandy with him; still clinging to it as he was picked up by a lifeboat the bottle caught the eye of the officer in charge of the lifeboat, who promptly took it from him (before Prentice had drunk any of it) and threw it overboard. Eventually picked up by the Carpathia, Prentice disembarked at New York City on 18 April 1912. (The recipient’s own account, as told in the documentary Titanic: A Question of Murder, refers). Prentice returned to England and signed on to the Oceanic on 10 July 1912. He later recalled that he was on board when one of Titanic's lifeboats was found drifting in mid-Atlantic with four dead aboard. Following the outbreak of the Great War the Oceanic was converted into an armoured cruised and sailed from Southampton on 25 August 1914. Her naval service was to last just two weeks, for on the morning of 8 September 1914 she ran aground on the notorious Shaalds of Foula reef off Shetland. Once again Prentice had to jump into the water and again he was picked up by a lifeboat. Deciding that he had more than pushed his luck with ships and the sea, he decided at that point to join the Army. Prentice attested for the Royal Engineers, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 January 1915. He was commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant in the Tank Corps on 28 August 1917, and was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry during the attack on Hamel and Vaire Wood on 4 July 1918. Advanced Major, in later life Prentice reflected, ‘I’ve had a lot of experiences during my life Two World Wars. Badly shattered right arm. Another wound in the leg. And all anyone wants to know about is the Titanic. (Ghosts of the Titanic, by Charles Pellegrino refers). He died in Bournemouth, Dorset, on 30 May 1982. Sold with copied research, including two VHS video cassettes containing the recipient’s recollections; a copy of Ghosts of the Titanic, by Charles Pellegrino, in which the recipient is mentioned and quoted; and a Royal Life Saving Society Swimming Proficiency Medal, bronze, the reverse named ‘A. P. Prentice, July 1938.’
A bronze ship's bell marked 'Sze Chuen 1862', with clapper 35.5cm highProvenance:Christie's sale, Ken Hill, Norfolk, 13th September 1999, lot 558This bell probably belongs to a ship of the same name built by Lawrence and Foulks, New York in 1863. See informative letter dated 2016 from the Guildhall Library, Lloyd's Marine Collection.
After Pierre Jules Mene (1810-1879) Two whippets at play with a ball, bronze, dark brown patination, signed to the base, 14.5c x 21.5cm wideIn good overall condition with an even dark brown patina, siglighy poor finish under the belly of the smaller dog. We suspect it to be from the first half of the 20th century, after Mene.
After Agathon Leonard (1841-1923), a marble and bronze bust of Cupid, signed, supported on an associated onyx column with gilt metal mounts and scroll feetthe bust 39cm high the column 109cm highScuffing to the seam between the marble and bronze on the left side. Surface dirt across the marble. Abrasion to the extremities. Some small indications on damage to the back of the head
A pair of French gilt bronze cassolettes, 19th century, the urn bodies with domed covers with fruiting knopped finials reversing to cylindrical nozzles, the swept tripod supports with mask terminals on acanthus cloven hoof feet, raised on circular bases25cm highProvenance:Chillesford Lodge, Suffolk
A cast iron stick stand, 19th century, the black painted frame with phosphor bronze ball finials to the top and bronzed embellishments to the uprights and raised on lion's paw feet66 x 46cmExcellent condition with very good paintwork showing minor rubbing but no major chips, just light tarnishing and to the copper/bronze embellishments alsotwo of the 'balls' are slightly dentedtray lifts out for cleaning
Five Chinese bronze crotol bells, 18th/19th century, each cast with characters, 5cm high;an Indian carved and pierced ebony cylindrical scroll/incense holder, 19th century, worked with scrolls and leaves21.5cm highProvenance:Private Collection, NorthumberlandThe Indian holder has a small split to the bottom rim
Various collectibles to include mother of pearl gaming tokens, a Meerschaum pipe with Art Deco lady's head, in case, a walking cane handle in the form of a bull mastiff's head, with spring-loaded mouth opener and bone ears, a small South Pacific carved wooden fertility figures, height 16cm, a boxwood carved decal depicting a Chinese sage on horseback, length 12cm, a bronze-style cockerel on circular plinth, height 11cm, a hallmarked silver banded and lidded pencil lead carrier, in a polished wood lozenge-shaped case with mother of pearl inlaid top (7).
A group of WWI and WWII militaria to include a WWI bronze commemorative plaque relating to Henry Mercer, various books and booklets relating to WWI to include Wilfred Brooke; '1914 and Other Poems', 'An American on the War', reprinted by The Times, Great Britain and The European Crisis', dated 1914, a printed aerial photograph of military positions, handwritten by Ellison Hawkes 29/06/16, a British writer on popular technology, two soldiers' leather military dispatch cases, one containing a field message book, WWI silk postcards, cards from the War Office, black and white photographic postcards, RAF silk handkerchief, etc.
Various military collectibles to include an army camouflage hard hat, green ear defenders, a bronze sculpture of a plane, raised on aerial bomb column, gun belt, various cloth badges to include 'SAS' examples, shoulder straps for 'Queen's Lancashire', 'CCF', etc, an officer's Army cap, an artilleries projectile and a spent cartridge with bullet.
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