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Click here to subscribeCHRISTIAN BIRMINGHAM; a pair of bronze figures, 'Heathcliff & Cathy' from Wuthering Heights, each signed to rim and of a limited edition of twelve, height of Heathcliff 37cm, with original documentation from 'Art of the Imagination'. (D)Additional InformationThis lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk or http://artistscollectingsociety.org
A pair of Japanese bronze vases decorated with dragons chasing the Pearl of Wisdom, height 17.5cm, with a Japanese Imari boat shaped dish, length 25cm (3). Additional InformationOne bronze vase with a knock to the rim, and a smaller knock to the base. The other vase has had the base section re-glued into position and this is rather messy to the underside, there are also some knocks to the base. Both with general age wear patina and rubbing. The boat shaped dish with a chip to the bow, and general age wear rubbing.
A group of four Japanese Meiji period Kozuka bronze handles, three with gilt heightened decoration and presented in a two tier tray, length approx. 9.5cm. Provenance: private collection, North Yorkshire. Additional InformationThe example with the cray fish has 8mm split to one side. general surface scratches and rubbing to the gilding throughout, a few small dents.
A bronze WWI memorial plaque awarded to James Fieldsend, mounted in a perspex panel, with six WWII medals comprising the Defence Medal, the 1939-45 Star, the Africa Star, the Italy Star, the France and Germany Star and the 39-49 Medal, framed with four cloth arm badges including Guards Armoured Division, overall 34.5 x 34cm, also a black and white photograph of RAF station West Kirkby, with release discharge section, dated 26th February 1957, and a folder containing various ephemera including Guards Armoured Division 'Farewell to Armour Parade', etc.
ROYAL MINT; a 2001 United Kingdom proof set, and a 2002 proof set, with four other proof sets, a 1902 silver crown, an Art Deco white metal and enamel plaque in fitted case titled 'Ville De Cannes', a bronze plaque named for Neil Hamilton Fairley 1891-1966 as an award for outstanding contributions to medicine by The Royal College of Physicians, London, and other items.
Four: Staff Sergeant A. Robson, 1st Dragoon Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (4336 Pte. A. Robson. 1st. Dgn: Gds:); British War Medal 1914-20 (1DG-4336 S. Sjt. A. Bobson. 1-D. Gds.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (Sgt. A. Robson. K.D. Gds.) contemporarily impressed naming; together with Austria, Empire, Commander’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for Foreigners 1908, bronze (Sgt. A. Robson. K.D. Gds.) contemporarily impressed naming, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and a scarce combination (4) £600-£800 --- Algernon Robson attested for the 1st Dragoon Guards and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and later as a Staff Sergeant in India during the Great War. His Medal Index Card confirms that the British War Medal was his only medallic entitlement for the Great War. Note: His Imperial Majesty Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, was appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the 1st Dragoon Guards in 1896, and to celebrate his Diamond Jubilee a small number of his Commander’s Jubilee Medal for Foreigners (in gold, silver, and bronze) were awarded to a selected number of Officers and other ranks of the Regiment in December 1908. Robson was amongst those selected from the Regiment to receive the medal, and would have worn it for six years before gravely removing it from his breast in August 1914.
Family Group: Four: Acting Warrant Officer Class 1 W. Toothill, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914 Star, with copy clasp (18040 Sjt. W. Toothill. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (18040 A.W.O. Cl. 1. W. Toothill. R.A.M.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (7245269 S. Sjt. W. Toothill. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn, good very fine Four: Warrant Officer Class 1 W. J. Toothill, Royal East Kent Regiment General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6283701. Pte. W. Toothill. The Buffs.) in named card box of issue; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (6283701 W.O. Cl. 1. W. J. Toothill. Buffs.) with lid of named card box of issue, nearly extremely fine (8) £240-£280 --- William Toothill attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps on 27 October 1902 and served at home until 1 June 1905 before serving in South Africa from 2 June 1905 to 2 March 1909. Returning to the U.K., he was appointed Lance Sergeant on 2 June 1914 and saw service during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 September 1914, with 16th Field Ambulance. For his services during the Great War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 21 January 1919). He died on 6 October 1943. Sold together with a named silver and enamel hallmarked General Nursing Council badge dated 16 November 1923; a British Legion lapel badge; and the recipient's Soldier’s Small Book. W. J. Toothill attested for The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) at a young age and served in Palestine during the Arab Revolt before later service during the Second World War. Sold with an attractive bronze regimental ‘Boys 1928 Runner Up’, cased boxing medal, an RSM’s leather wrist strap rank badge, a King’s Badge in box of issue; and various shoulder titles.
Three: Corporal E. T. R. Smith, Royal Engineers 1914 Star (18072 Cpl. E. T. R. Smith. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (18072 Cpl. E. T. R. Smith. R.E.) edge bruises, contact marks, very fine Three: Private H. Belaney, East Surrey Regiment 1914-15 Star (L.10875 Pte. H. Belaney. E. Surr. R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-10875 Pte. H. Belaney. E. Surr. R.) very fine Three: Private N. L. Norton, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (196 Pte. N. L. Horton [sic]. R.A.M.C.); Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, slight edge bruise, nearly extremely fine (9) £120-£160 --- Edward Thomas R. Smith was born in Canterbury, Kent in 1889. He attested for service in the Royal Engineers during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the 7th Signalling Company from 4 October 1914. The award of a Clasp to his 1914 Star is noted on his Medal Index Card. Hugh Belaney attested for the East Surrey Regiment on 18 May 1914 and saw service during the Great War with the 1st Battalion on the Western Front from 2 February 1915. He was discharged due to sickness on 19 May 1917 and awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 176774. Neville Lloyd Norton attested for service during the Great War with the Royal Army Medical Corps. In later life he served as the National Treasurer of the National Guild of Telephonists from 1947-1968, which may account for a possible award of a Coronation Medal in 1953. Sold together with a copy inscribed press group photograph including the recipient outside Chateau Selines on Armistice Day 1918, two small original photographs of the recipient in later life, an original copy of his obituary dated February 1970 from The Telephonist, the official journal of the National Guild of Telephonists, and a named St. John Ambulance Re-examination Cross in Bronze.
Family Group: Three: Gunner G. S. Hardy, Royal Garrison Artillery, who died on the Western Front, 26 October 1918 1914-15 Star (34380. Gnr. G. S. Hardy, R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (34380 Gnr. G. S. Hardy. R.A.); together with two R.G.A. shoulder titles, good very fine Pair: Driver H. Hardy, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (T4-234720 Dvr. H. Hardy. A.S.C.); together with an A.S.C. cap badge, good very fine Three: S. Hardy Church Council of Education for Birkenhead and Wirral Punctual Attendance Medal (2), white metal, the reverse engraved ‘To Samuel Hardy, Heswell, for 2 Years, 1887’; another, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘To Samuel Hardy, Heswell, for 3 Years, 1888’; Reward of Superior Merit Medal for Regular Attendance, white metal, unnamed, very fine (8) £60-£80 --- George Stephen Hardy was born in Heswell, Cheshire, and attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery at Liverpool. He served with the 60th Siege Battery during the Great War on the Western Front, and died on 26 October 1918. He is buried in Etretat Churchyard Extension, Seine-Maritime, France. Sold with copied research.
A League of Neutral Countries Life Saving Medal group of three awarded to Able Seaman O. Hicks, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, for his assistance in rescuing the crews of six Dutch merchantmen attacked and sunk by a German submarine off the Isles of Scilly, 22 February 1917 British War and Victory Medals (R.1344 O. Hicks. A.B. R.N.V.R.); League of Neutral Countries Life Saving Medal, 60mm, bronze, the obverse featuring a Royal Naval rating shaking hands with a Dutch merchant seaman, with their respective crewmates looking on, the reverse inscribed ‘The Netherland Section of the League of Neutral Countries to OS. Hicks Jr. in grateful commemoration of the services tendered by the English Sailors who rescued with peril of life the crews of seven unarmed Dutch Merchantmen surreptitiously attacked and recklessly destroyed by a German Submarine February 22nd 1917’, the last in Cornelis Begeer, Utrecht, card box of issue, good very fine, the last scarce (3) £400-£500 --- In February 1917 Lieutenant Commander Hersing in the German submarine U.21 was heading home after a successful (from his point of view) tour in the Mediterranean. On 22 February he met a Dutch convoy of eight steamers off the Isles of Scilly. They had just left Falmouth and were about 25 miles west of Bishop’s Rock. To Hersing these vessels seemed the most perfect gift just as he was entering the English Channel, and he promptly sank six of them. In response to the wireless calls from one of the Dutch merchantmen, three H.M. Tugs from the newly-inaugurated Rescue Service came out from Falmouth and, with the assistance of other trawlers, saved two of the steamers. About 200 of the occupants were brought ashore at Penzance. The disaster severely angered the Dutch authorities, as the convoy had been granted ‘safe conduct’ by Germany, although Hersing was unaware of this. The incident created a diplomatic incident, and the outcome was that Germany eventually made compensation by transferring to Holland six German steamers that were lying in the Dutch East Indies. (Seas of Adventures, by E. Keble Chatterton refers). The above medal was specially commissioned by the League of Neutral Countries and presented to those men who participated in the rescue of the crews of the sunk merchantmen. Sold with copied research.
Five: Private T. M. Abel, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who died at the Sangro River on 20 April 1944 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, all privately engraved ‘7625863 Pte T M Abel RAOC’, extremely fine Five: J. Schouw, South African Forces 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially named ‘M19257 J. Schouw’, some scratches, generally very fine Pair: Miss W. N. Barnett, Entertainment National Service Association 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; together with the recipient’s original ENSA lapel badge, extremely fine, rare to unit One: Attributed to Mr. M. D. Chant, Air Raid Precautions Defence Medal, in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. M. D. Chant, 52 Sefton Park Road, Bristol, 7’; together with the recipient’s silver ARP badge, extremely fine 1939-45 Star; copy Air Crew Europe Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal (2); War Medal 1939-45, nearly extremely fine (19) £120-£160 --- Thomas Moore Abel, a native of Liverpool, served with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Second World War and died in Italy on 20 April 1944. He is buried in the Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy. Sold with a family member’s Royal Life Saving Society Proficiency Medal, bronze, ‘F. M. Abel, Dec 1949’, in fitted case. Miss W. N. Barnett served in Italy with the Entertainment National Service Association during the Second World War. Sold with three original programmes from productions in Italy (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Madama Butterfly, and La Traviaata); and an original War Office letter addressed to the recipient at 10 Lausanne Road, Hornsey, London N8, confirming her award of both the 1939-45 Star and Italy Star. A most unusual pair.
Pair: Constable F. Clarkson, Lancashire Constabulary Defence Medal; Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Const. Frank Clarkson) in named card box of issue; together with the recipient’s St. John Re-examination Cross, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘A.266266 Frank Clarkson’; Royal Life Saving Society Proficiency Medal, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘F. Clarkson, June 1937’, in case of issue; and two police badges, extremely fine Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (2) (Alfred James Salthouse; James Wilson) both in Royal Mint cases of issue; Civil Defence Long Service Medal, E.II.R., unnamed as issued, in Royal Mint case of issue; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with Second Award Bar (Agnes W. Scott) extremely fine (6) £70-£90
Three: Police Constable D. Fleming, Edinburgh City Police Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Const. David Fleming) mounted as worn, good very fine Pair: Police Constable A. J. Stewart, City of London Police, late Scots Guards Defence Medal; Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Const. Albert J. Stewart.) in named card box of issue; together with the recipient’s St. John Ambulance Association Re-examination Cross, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘336129 Albert J. Stewart’, good very fine Pair: Special Constable A. L. Thomson, Berwickshire Special Constabulary Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Andrew L. Thomson) in named card box of issue, nearly extremely fine Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Arthur Rackham) good very fine (9) £100-£140 --- David Fleming was born in Leith on 20 July 1906 and joined the Edinburgh City Police on 2 October 1926. He retired on 9 March 1959, and died in 1963. Coronation Medal confirmed. Albert John Stewart was born in Portsmouth in 1901 and attested for the Scots Guards at Winchester on 3 July 1919. Promoted Corporal on 25 March 1924, he transferred to the Army Reserve on 2 July 1926, and was discharged on 2 July 1931, after 12 years’ service. He joined the City of London Police in July 1926, and retired to pension in July 1951, after 25 years’ service. Andrew Lambert Thompson was born in Brotherstone, Berwickshire, on 28 March 1903. He died in Peebles on 18 May 1984. Arthur Edward Rackham was born in Ipswich in 1892 and attested for the Suffolk Regiment, serving with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 November 1914. Discharged on 2 June 1916, he subsequently attested for the Royal Air Force on 10 July 1918, and served as an Officers’ Mess Waiter. Sold with 4 memory sticks containing copied research, including a photographic image of Stewart.
Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Lieut: A. E. England. 4th Brigade R.A.) impressed naming, with contemporary silver riband buckle, good very fine £460-£550 --- Edward Albert England was born in February 1840, and educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was appointed a Gentleman Cadet in August 1858, and commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in June 1860. England served with the 4th Brigade, Royal Artillery in Canada, December 1861 - April 1867. He transferred to the Royal Horse Artillery, and advanced to Captain in November 1872. After serving in Dublin, England advanced to Major in March 1881, and subsequently served as Battery Commander of 18 Battery, 9th Brigade at Halifax. England retired as Honorary Lieutenant Colonel in July 1883, and was awarded the Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal (Successful): ‘For saving, at great personal risk, a lady, who while hunting with the Heythrop Hounds, was in danger of losing her life in consequence of her horse shying and falling backwards into the canal at Somerton, Oxfordshire on 1st December 1886.’ (Case No. 23372 refers). In later life he resided at Souldern Manor, was Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates at Bicester, a Governor of the Radcliffe Infirmary, a visiting Justice at the Ashurst Hospital and one of the original Aldermen of the Oxfordshire County Council. He was also a Church Warden and built the organ transept of the church at Souldern. Colonel England died at home in February 1929. Sold with photographic image of recipient, and copied research.
British War Medal 1914-20 (2), silver issue (389 Pte. T. Pop. 1-Cape C.L.R.); bronze issue (No. 62680. Chinese L.C.) edge bruising, nearly very fine, the latter somewhat worn (2) £100-£140 --- T. Pop served with the Cape Coloured Labour Regiment. A note with the Chinese Labour Corps medal states that the recipient’s name was Ts’ai Yin Lin.
A scarce British War Medal in Bronze awarded to Muleteer Xenophon Nicola, a Greek Cypriot serving with the Macedonian Mule Corps British War Medal 1914-20, bronze issue (6534 Muleteer Macedonian Mule C.) edge bruising, nearly very fine £80-£100 --- Xenophon Nicola, a Greek Cypriot, attested for the Macedonian Mule Corps and served during the Great War in Macedonia from 6 December 1916 to 18 December 1917.
Iraq 2003-11, no clasp (2) (25168639 Cfn W A Cruickshank REME; 25116336 Cfn L F Moran REME) both in named card boxes of issue; together with an Army Training Regiment, Pirbright, Commanding Officer’s Competition Winner’s Medallion, bronze, unnamed, but attributed to Moran, in case of issue, extremely fine (3) £120-£160
Pair: Police Sergeant G. Parsons, Metropolitan Police Jubilee 1887, 1 clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police, bronze (PC, G Parsons. R. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police (P.S. G. Parsons. W. Div) minor edge bruise to first, good very fine (2) £80-£100 --- George Parsons was born in Horley, Surrey, in 1853 and joined the Metropolitan Police on 29 November 1872. He served initially with ‘R’ (Greenwich) Division, later transferring to ‘W’ (Clapham) Division. Sold with a memory stick containing copied research.
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Camp and Villaverde Medal for Saving Life at Sea, bronze, edge laser engraved ‘Specimen’, in original fitted case with integral top brooch bar, extremely fine £160-£200 --- The Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society’s Camp & Villaverde Medal was instituted in 1873 ‘to be awarded to those who were instrumental in saving life at sea’, and the first award was made to Mr. Rawson Post, mate of the George Hurlbut, for rescuing the crew of the barque Olive in a gale in the Atlantic on 12 April 1873. In total 37 silver and 8 bronze medals have been awarded, with the last award made in 1944. Sold with a letter from the Liverpool Shipwreck & Humane Society, dated 5 November 2021, authenticating and explaining that this is one of four unnamed medals discovered in their archive and is now being sold to raise funds for the Society. Each of the four medals has been marked ‘Specimen’.
A rare 1914 ‘Bombardment of Scarborough’ Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Cross First Class in Bronze group of three awarded to Patrol Leader P. Robertshaw, 3rd Scarborough Troop, later Private, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (101998 Pte. P. Robertshaw, R.A.M.C.); Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Cross, 1st Class, 1st issue, bronze, the reverse inscribed, ‘Percy Robertshaw, Scarboro., 16-12-14’, with ring suspension and integral top riband bar, in its original J. A. Wyllie, London, red leather case of issue, generally very fine or better (3) £1,000-£1,400 --- The Boy Scouts’ Headquarters Gazette of March 1915 confirms that Robertshaw received his Bronze Cross for stopping a runaway horse. He appears to have received his award, ‘the highest of the Association for gallantry’, in February 1915. Although not mentioned in the official citation, the date on the cross provides ample reason for any horse to gallop away in a panic. In the early morning of 16 December 1914 the German battlecruisers Derfflinger and Von der Tann emerged from the mist off Scarborough and bombarded the North Yorkshire seaside town, whilst the accompanying light cruiser Kolberg laid mines. Some 500 shells were fired at the castle barracks and town, killing 17, injuring 80 and causing damage to property and to British prestige (and upsetting at least one horse!). At the same time, the battlecruisers Seydlitz and Moltke and heavy cruiser Bluecher bombarded the port of Hartlepool; later still the seaside town of Whitby was shelled by the squadron.
A well documented Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Cross Third Class awarded to J. D. Glenny, for saving a man from drowning at South Shields on 7 December 1917 Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Cross, 3rd Class, 1st issue, silver-gilt, the reverse inscribed, ‘J. D. Glenny, for saving a drowning man, South Shields Docks, 17.12.17 [sic]’ around scout emblem, with ring and straight bar suspension; Royal Life Saving Society Proficiency Medal, bronze, the reverse re-inscribed, ‘J. D. Glenny, December 1917’, first with some contact marks, very fine (2) £600-£800 --- ‘On 7th December 1917 Albert V. Dodds was working on the offside of a vessel alongside Messrs. Readhead’s Quay at South Shields, when he overbalanced and fell into the Tyne. In his fall he was hit on the head and apparently rendered unconscious. John D. Glenny was working on the boat from which Dodds had fallen, and he immediately ran from his fire on deck and dived into the water, a distance of about 8 feet. After swimming a distance of about 15 yards he got hold of Dodds and swam back with him to the ship’s side. One of the workmen climbed down the side of the ship and fastened a rope to Dodds’ belt. Glenny then swam to a launch which had arrived on the scene and was about to be taken on board when the workman shouted that Dodds had sunk again as the belt by which they were pulling him out of the water had broken. Glenny at once left the launch side and again dived and brought Dodds to the surface. Both rescuer and rescued were assisted into the launch. At the place where the rescue occurred the River Tyne is fully 200 yards wide and about 30 feet deep. There were strong currents running and the water is foul.’ John D. Glenny was awarded the Boy Scouts Association Gilt Cross for this rescue, as well as the Royal Humane Society’s Bronze Medal, case no. 43,913 (not with lot), and a Carnegie Hero Fund Certificate. It was also reported that because of family circumstances, ‘a sum of £10 was to be sent to Mayor to be applied in the best interests of the rescuer.’ Sold with the following documents: i) A colourful award document to accompany the Gilt Cross, this named to 2nd Class Scout John D, Glenny, The South Shields Congregational Troop. Awarded the Gilt Cross of the Boy Scouts for ‘Saving a man from drowning in the West Docks, South Shields, on December 7th 1917’, dated 25.1.1918’ [signed] ‘Robert Baden-Powell’ Chief Scout’, mounted in a glazed display frame approx. 530mm x 440mm ii)Carnegie Hero Fund Trust Certificate, ‘Presented by the Trustees in Recognition of Heroic Endeavour to Save Human Life, to John D. Glenny, South Shields, 7th December, 1917’, dated 28 February 1918, mounted in a glazed display frame approx. 490mm x 400mm; together with the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust annual report for 1918. iii) Royal Life Saving Society certificate, awarded to ‘John G. [sic]. Glenny, So. Shields Sch. S.A., for knowledge of Rescue, Releasing one’s-self from the Clutch of the Drowning, also ability to render aid in Resuscitating the Apparently Drowned’, dated December 1913’, minor tear marks, mounted in a glazed display frame approx. 480mm x 420mm.
A Selection of Boy Scouts Association Insignia. A very interesting selection of items including a three-dimensional silver Wolf neck badge, complete with suspender clip; an acorn and circle silver medal, the reverse inscribed, ‘J. C. H. Leicester 23-4-36’, with top silver riband bar; a copper gilt circle swastika and fleur-de-lys medal, the reverse inscribed, ‘S. D. Newton 14-3-34’, with top gilt riband bar; a similar medal but with the fleur-de-lys only in the centre, the reverse inscribed, ‘Miss D. M. Davidson 26.5.54’, with integral top riband bar; a small medal in base metal featuring the swastika with fleur-de-lys overlay, with top gilt riband buckle; a bronze fleur-de-lys within a C lapel badge; eight cap badges, four large and four small; a small Boy Scouts boxing medal, bronze, unnamed; a Northumberland Boy Scouts half long pipe medal, silver, unnamed; and other ephemera, generally good condition (lot) £300-£400
A Collection of Royal Marine Rifle Association and Cadet Corps Medals. Comprising a Royal Marines Rifle Association Medal, 38mm, silver (D/Major W. A. Gouge) with top ‘1925’ brooch bar; a Royal Marines Rifle Association Medal, 26mm, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Local Portsmouth Division R.M. Sergts’ Mess Burge Trophy 1926, Sergt. C. J. Elliott.’, with top silver brooch bar, in fitted case; Royal Marines Rifle Association Medal, 26mm, bronze, unnamed, with ‘Officers Cup’ riband bar, and top ‘1928’ brooch bar; Royal Marines Rifle Association Medal, 26mm, silver, unnamed, with ‘“Mercer” Cup’ riband bar, and top ‘1933’ brooch bar, in fitted case; Royal Marines Rifle Association Medal, 26mm, bronze, unnamed, with ‘Aegean’ riband bar, and top ‘1938’ brooch bar; Royal Marines Rifle Association Medal, 26mm, silver, unnamed, with ‘Aegean’ riband bar, and top ‘1939’ brooch bar; Royal Marines skeletal medal, 42mm x 28mm, bronze, unnamed, with ‘Ply. Div. Rifle 1928’ riband bar, and top ‘Unit VIII’ brooch bar; Royal Marine Depot Cadet Corps Commanding Officer’s Medal for the Best All-Round Cadet, 38mm, silver (Sergt. Major W. G. R. Carter.) with top ‘1918’ brooch bar; Royal Marine Depot Cadet Corps Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, 38mm, bronze (Sergt. Major W. G. R. Carter.) with top ‘1918’ brooch bar; R.M.V.B.C. Long Service Medal (2), both 32mm, silver, the first for 3 Years V.G. Conduct, unnamed; the second for 4 Years V.G. Conduct, unnamed; and a Boxing Prize Medal, 38mm, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Presented to R. G. Carter, for Merit, 15.10.17’, generally very fine and better (12) £140-£180
Copy Medals (23): Kaisar-I-Hind, G.VI.R. (3), First Class, gold issue; Second Class, silver issue; Third Class, bronze issue, all lacking integral top riband bars; Empress of India 1877 (4), gold issue (2); silver issue (2); Army L.S. & G.C. (4), G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (3); E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue; Army Emergency Reserve Efficiency Medal, E.II.R. (2); Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (4); R.M.S. Carpathia and S.S. Titanic Medal 1912 (4), gold issue (2); silver issue; bronze issue; together with a miniature Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, E.II.R., the majority poor-quality castings, therefore generally fine as produced (23) £60-£80
Copy Medals (51): Alexander Davison’s Medal for The Nile 1798, bronze issue (2); Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp (6), Battle of Delhi (2); Assye (2); Ava (2), all short-hyphen reverse issues; Honourable East India Company Medal for Java 1811 (8), gold issue (4); silver issue (4); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, gold issue (2); Defence of Jellalabad 1842, Mural Crown issue (4); Punniar Star 1843 (2); Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Chilianwala; South Africa 1834-53 (3); Abyssinia 1867 (2); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (2); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp; Khedive’s Star, dated 1884; Royal Niger Company Medal 1886-97, silver issue, 1 clasp, Nigeria; Ashanti Star 1896 (2); East and Central Africa 1897-99, silver issue, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (2); Cape Copper Company Medal for the Defence of Ookiep, bronze issue (5); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (4); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (2); U.N. Medal, the majority poor-quality castings, therefore generally fine as produced (51) £80-£100
The V.C. group of nine miniature dress medals worn by Major-General E. H. Sartorius V.C., 59th Foot, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery at Sliah-jui, Afghanistan, on 24 October 1879, and who was gifted his miniature V.C. by his brother (and fellow V.C. recipient) R. W. Sartorius Victoria Cross, the reverse of the suspension bar contemporarily engraved ‘R. S. to E. S. 25.5.81’; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s badge, gold and enamel, with integral gold riband buckle; Jubilee 1887, silver; Coronation 1902, silver; Coronation 1911, silver; Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp; Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmanieh, Fourth Class badge, silver, gold, and enamel, with rosette on riband; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, mounted as worn and housed in a wooden box with plaque inscribed ‘Major General Euston Henry Sartorius, VC., G.C.B. [sic]’, green enamel damage to Medjidieh, generally very fine (9) £2,400-£2,800 --- V.C. London Gazette 16 May 1881: ‘For conspicuous bravery during the action at Sliah-jui, on the 24th October 1879, in leading a party of five or six men of the 59th Regiment against a body of the enemy, of unknown strength, occupying an almost inaccessible position on the top of a precipitous hill. The nature of the ground made any sort of regular formation impossible, and Captain Sartorius had to bear the first brunt of the attack from the whole body of the enemy, who fell upon him and his men as they gained the top of the precipitous pathway; but the gallant and determined bearing of this Officer, emulated as it was by his men, led to the most perfect success, and the surviving occupants of the hilltop, seven in number, were all killed. In this encounter Captain Sartorius was wounded by sword cuts in both hands, and one of his men was killed.’ Euston Henry Sartorius was born in Cintra, Portugal, on 6 June 1844, the younger son of Admiral Sir George Rose Sartorius, G.C.B., and the younger brother of Reginald William Sartorius V.C., C.M.G. Along with his brothers, he was educated at Victoria College, St. Helier, Jersey, then Woolwich, and later at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. First serving as an Ensign in the 59th Foot, he was gazetted Lieutenant on 29 June 1865. He served as a Staff Officer and Instructor at Sandhurst from December 1869 until 1874, during which time, on 29 June 1869 along with two other men, he helped to save three girls from drowning at Broadstairs, Kent, and was awarded the Royal Humane Society Medal in Bronze. When he left for India in 1874, he served as a Company Commander during the Second Afghanistan War, and for his gallantry at Shahjui on 24 October 1879 was awarded the Victoria Cross. Lieutenant Irwin of the 59th, who was under Sartorius’ command, wrote of the action: ‘Captain Sartorius ordered his men to fix bayonets, and to clamber up. The hill was very steep, and when they got to within a few feet of the top the Afghans sprang up with a yell, and, sword in hand, slashing right and left, simply jumped down upon our fellows. For a few moments, all was confusion, friend and foe falling down together, but it was speedily all over. We had gained the hill, and the standards on it, not one of the enemy having escaped. We lost one man, and Captain Sartorius was wounded in both hands. The fanatics were splendid, though ferocious-looking scoundrels, and fought like fiends, having evidently made up their minds to die, and to do as much damage as possible before doing so.’ Sartorious was invested with his Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria on 1 July 1881. Due to wounds received during his V.C. action, he partially lost the use of his left hand; unable to continue as an active field officer, he was appointed to a staff post at Aldershot. In the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General and Quartermaster-General, responsible for base and communications, and was afterwards promoted brevet Lieutenant-Colonel; was Mentioned in Despatches; and was awarded the Fourth Class of the Ottoman Order of Osmanieh. He was promoted Colonel in 1886, and was Assistant Adjutant-General in Portsmouth from 1891 to 1894. He then served as Military Attaché to Japan, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1896. Promoted Major-General in 1899, he retired in August 1901, although he continued to serve as a Colonel of a volunteer battalion of the South Lancashire Regiment. The inscription on the reverse of the Victoria Cross ‘R. S. to E. S.’, presumably refers to the fact that Euston Sartorius was gifted his miniature V.C. by his brother Reginald Sartorius, himself a recipient of the V.C. during the Ashantee War. The Sartorius brothers are one of only four sets of brothers to both be awarded the Victoria Cross (the others being C. J. S. and H. H. Gough; G. N. and R. B. Bradford; and A. B. and V. B. Turner).
The C.M.G. group of five miniature dress medals worn by Colonel A. de M. Bell, Canadian Army Service Corps The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s badge, gold and enamel, with integral gold riband buckle; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £200-£240 --- C.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1919. Archibald de Mowbray Bell was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on 17 March 1874 and was commissioned into the 43rd Rifles in the late 1890s. Following the outbreak of the Great War he was commissioned Major in the Canadian Army Service Corps on 23 September 1914, and serviced during the Great War on the Western Front, being twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 15 June 1916 and 31 December 1918), awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 12 July 1918), and created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Advanced Colonel, he died on 31 March 1963. Sold with the recipient’s Province of Quebec Curlers Association Past President’s Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Col. A. de M. Bell.’; and a miniature photograph of the recipient in uniform forming the centrepiece of a silver and enamel oval brooch, and housed in a fitted leather case.
An unattributed C.B., C.V.O. group of six miniature dress medals The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s badge, gilt and enamel; The Royal Victorian Order, C.V.O., Commander’s badge, gilt and enamel; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; Coronation 1902, silver; Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, V.R. cypher, with integral top riband bar, mounted for wear, the CB and CVO both of recent manufacture; the latter four all of contemporary manufacture, generally very fine An unattributed group of five miniature dress medals United States of America, Silver Star, with two silver star emblems on riband; Bronze Star; Purple Heart, with four silver star emblems on riband; France, Fifth Republic, Legion of Honour, Officer’s badge, silvered and enamel; Great Britain, Distinguished Service Order, E.II.R., gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, mounted American-style for wear, nearly very fine Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp (3), Fort Detroit; Chateauguay; Chrystler’s Farm; British North Borneo Company Medal 1897-1916, no clasp (2), silver issue; bronze issue, all of recent manufacture; Canada, Order of Canada, badge, gilt and enamel; together with a miniature Territorial Force Nursing Service cape badge, good very fine (18) £140-£180
Belgium, Kingdom, A selection of miscellaneous Orders, Decorations, and Medals, including Order of Leopold II, Knight’s breast badge (2), one lacking reverse centre; Order of the Crown, Knight’s breast badge (2), one in box of issue; Silver Medal of Charles Prince Regent (1944-50); Red Cross Decoration, in silver and enamel; Civic Decoration (2), in silver-gilt and silver; Labour Decoration (6), First class (3), Second class (3); Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, generally very fine (30+) £200-£240
Iraq, Kingdom, Police Distinguished Service Medal, by Huguenin, silver; Police General Service Medal (3), all by Huguenin, bronze; General Service Medal 1928-58, bronze; Republic, Police Distinguished Service Medal, silver; Police General Service Medal (3), bronze, all unnamed as issued, very fine and better (9) £120-£160
Luxembourg, Grand Duchy, Order of the Oaken Crown, Knight’s breast badge, 35mm, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, good very fine Netherlands, Kingdom, House Order of Oranje-Nassau, Silver Merit Medal, silver; War Cross 1939-45 (2), bronze; Nijmegen March Cross (2), bronze-gilt, both with integral top riband bars, extremely fine (6) £100-£140
Norway, Kingdom, Military Heroism Medal 1982, gilt; Defence Service Medal 1982 (2), silvered, National Service Medal (Navy), bronze; Volunteer Shooting Organisation for Biathlon Ability (2), bronze, all unnamed, extremely fine Sweden, Kingdom, Red Cross Volunteer Medal, Gustav Adolf VI issue, the reverse engraved ‘C. E. L. Linder 1966’, extremely fine (7) £80-£100
A Collection of National Aeronautics and Space Administration Medals United States of America, N.A.S.A. Outstanding Leadership Medal, gilt; N.A.S.A. Exceptional Achievement Medal, silvered; N.A.S.A. Exceptional Service Medal, gilt; N.A.S.A. Public Service Medal, gilt; N.A.S.A. Bravery Medal, bronze, all unnamed; together with 4 N.A.S.A. Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal riband bars; and 2 Space Congressional Medal riband bars, extremely fine (5) £100-£140
A German Great War Iron Cross Group of Four. Comprising the 1914 Iron Cross Second Class, Bavarian Military Merit Order with swords in bronze, Third Reich awarded 1914-18 War Honour Cross, and Third Reich 25 year National Faithful Service Medal in white metal and enamels. Accompanied by a group of five comprising a red enamelled Hanseatic Cross for Hamburg, Third Reich awarded 1914-18 War Honour Cross with swords, Imperial Red Cross award, Third Reich 25 year Long Service Medal, and Austro Hungarian 1914-18 Medal, both mounted as worn, overall good condition (9) £140-£180
A German Second World War Iron Cross Group of Eight. Comprising the 1939 Iron Cross Second Class, two Austro-Hungarian Military Merit Medals in silver and bronze, both with separately affixed crossed swords, Austrian Franz Josef Bravery Medal in bronze, two Romanian First War awards, the Third Reich awarded 1914-18 War Honour Cross with swords, and the First World War 1914-18 Austro-Hungarian Service Medal, mounted as worn, good condition (8) £200-£240
A German Second World War SS 8 Year Long Service Medal. A very nice example, cased, of the SS 8 Year Long Service Medal, all of its bronze finish remaining. Correct teardrop suspension ring with raised ridge to the ring attached to the award, with its blue watered silk ribbon. Fitted into its fragile cardboard case of which the paper hinge on the back has broken and two edges of the outer lid corners have broken but it is all complete with a good silver outline of the SS runic symbol to the lid itself, slight losses to that silver finish, good condition £300-£400
A German Second World War Close Combat Bar in Bronze. A good JFS produced Close Combat Bar in bronze retaining much of its original bronze finish with some slight oxidisation around the central section of the award with some slight rubbing to the leaf tops, standard wide tapering pin, JFS in raised relief on the left hand side of the award, the designer Peekhaus Berlin impressed to the right hand side with its original steel backing plate, pin, hook and hinge all intact, good condition £200-£240
Miscellaneous Irish Guards Insignia. A miscellaneous selection including an Officers silvered and enamel cap badge, another Warrant Officer example, a scarce bronze Pagri badge, another silver plate example, two pipers caubeen badges, a Guards Depot trained solder arm badge, and sundry cap, collar, and cloth badges, generally good condition (lot) £240-£280
A Constabulary of Ireland Early 19th Century Shako Plate. An extremely rare early 19th Century bronze shako plate, multi rayed back plate and shamrock sprays an oval title strap ‘Constabulary of Ireland’, with two loop fasteners; together with an Officers small oval badge oval, gilt with shamrock wreath and Guethic Crown with title strap and silvered Harp to the centre, very good condition (2) £400-£500
Miscellaneous Irish Canadian Expeditionary Force Insignia c.1915-18. A scare selection, including a 121st Western Irish Fusiliers, bronze cap badge, pair of collar badges, and shoulder title; 180th Sportsmen bronze cap badge and pair of collar badges,; 199th Irish Canadian Rangers bronze cap badge, and another KC example and collar badge; 208th Irish Battalion bronze cap badge; an Officers OSD Irish regiment cap badge; and sundry other items, good condition (lot) £280-£340
A Second War M.M. group of three awarded to Fusilier A. Ridley, 7th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, who was taken prisoner of war at St. Valery-en-Caux, 12 June 1940, took part in sabotage whilst imprisoned at Warthelager, and developed gastric ulcers whilst being forced to work in the coal mines at Katowitze Military Medal, G.VI.R. (4607656 Fsr. A. Ridley. R. North’d. Fus.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, very fine (3) £1,200-£1,600 --- M.M. London Gazette 21 February 1946. Arnold Ridley was born in August 1909, and was a native of Plymouth. He enlisted in August 1925, and served during the Second War with the 7th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in France from October 1939. The Battalion served as part of the 51st (Highland) Division, initially stationed near the Maginot Line and then withdrawing towards north west of France. Ridley was taken prisoner of war when the Battalion was trapped at St. Valery-en-Caux, 12 June 1940. He was imprisoned at a number of camps including: Warthelager, July 1940 - April 1943; Posen, April - August 1944 and the mining camp at Katowitze, August - November 1944 (during which period he developed gastric ulcers, whilst working in the coal mine). According to his M.I.9 debrief, Arnold took part in sabotage whilst imprisoned, ‘set fire to 2 barns at Warthelager station abut 1.1.41.’ Sold with the following related items and documents: P.O.W. Camp identity tags; silver prize medal, obverse engraved ‘A. Ridley’, reverse engraved ‘2nd D.W.R. Inter Coy. Boxing Winner D.M.G. Coy.’; bronze prize medal for Boxing in the Deccan District, India; named Buckingham Palace enclosure for M.M.
Four: Colour-Sergeant Thomas Smith, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who received a gun shot wound at the attack on D’Jebail on 12 September 1840 Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Thomas Smith.); Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (T. Smith. Color. Serjt. R.M. 22 Yrs,.); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silvered bronze, unnamed as issued, light contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (4) £1,800-£2,200 --- Thomas Smith was born in the Parish of ‘Burbeigh’ [Burbage], near Marlborough, Wiltshire, on 20 November 1820, and attested for the Royal Marines at Portsmouth on 31 December 1838, having been enlisted two days earlier by ‘Sergeant Major Johnson Royal Marines’ two days earlier for a Bounty of three pounds. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 October 1844, and to Sergeant on 16 March 1849 (whilst on board Trincomalee but not confirmed) until 16 August 1850, when he reverted to Corporal until 26 August 1851, when he was promoted to Colour Sergeant. During this period his Attestation papers record that he ‘served during the operations on the Coast of Syria in 1840 in 1840 and has the War Medal for that service with Syria Clasp and Turkish Medal [Private R.M., H.M.S. Hastings (Z/466)] - received a gun shot wound at the attack on D’Jebail on the 12 Sept. 1840 - Served in the Baltic during the Ruffian War and has the medal for that service - also served with the Provl. Batt. in China and present at the Capture of Canton in 1857 and destruction of the Chinese junks in Fatshan Creek. Served on board H.M.S. Cruizer & present at the attack of the Taku Forts in 1858, 1859 & 1860. 101 Co. Thomas Smith, Color Sergt. R.M.L.I. is entitled to reckon five Good Conduct Badges or five pence a day towards increase of Pension. 3 Medals & 1 Clasp.’ During his period of service Thomas Smith served afloat aboard Hastings, 27 May 1839 to 28 May 1842 [Syria operations]; Pique & Dee, 17 June 1842 to 9 April 1844; Trincomalee, 12 August 1847 to 16 August 1850; Duke of Wellington & Neptune, 20 October 1853 to 8 September 1855 [Baltic operations]; and Cruiser, 16 August 1856 to 1 May 1861 [China operations]. He was discharged from R.M. barracks at Forton, Gosport, on 11 May 1867, with a total service, including 8 years in the United Kingdom, of 22 Years 37 days and would have received his L.S. & G.C. medal at this time [roll for R.M. recipients is incomplete and his name is not amongst those found but is clearly so entitled; he is also entitled to the China medals with clasp for Canton 1857]. Note that the ‘3 Medals & 1 Clasp’ mentioned in his statement of service would not be including his L.S. & G.C. medal which he received after his discharge. Sold with copied Attestation papers and confirmation for all medals.
Four: Troop Sergeant Major J. Switzer, 5th Dragoon Guards, later a Yeoman Warder, H.M. Tower of London Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (No. 775 Serjt. J. Switzer. 5th. Dragoon Guards.) contemporarily engraved naming; Jubilee 1887, bronze, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (775 Troop Sergr. Mjr. John Switzer 5th. Dgn. Gds.) impressed naming, suspension claw re-affixed; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue (No. 775. T.S.M. Jno Switzer. 5th. Dragoon Gds.) contemporarily impressed naming, ‘z’ of surname corrected, plugged and fitted with small ring suspension; all with Bailey, Coventry, to silver laurel riband bars; together with two unofficial Golden Jubilee 1887 badges, heavy edge bruising and contact marks to first, the naming details partially obscured, this fair to fine, the rest better (6) £500-£700 --- John Switzer was born in Killeen, Co. Limerick, Ireland, on 21 April 1821 and attested for the 5th Dragoon Guards on 31 May 1842. Promoted Corporal on 1 October 1848, and Sergeant on 1 November 1853, he served with the Regiment in the Crimea during the latter half of 1855, and was promoted Troop Sergeant Major on 12 November 1857. He was discharged at Curragh Camp on 13 March 1867, after 24 years and 295 days’ service, and subsequently served as a Yeoman Warder (a ‘Beef-eater’) at the Tower of London, in which capacity he was awarded the Jubilee Medal. He died on 11 May 1891. Sold with copied research.
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