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Lot 564
A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF THE MEDICI VENUS AFTER THE ANTIQUE, LATE 19TH CENTURY standing before a cherub riding a dolphin, on a shaped base, stamped 'F Barbedienne. Fondeur' and with their foundry mark 45.5cm high Catalogue Note The original marble sculpture is currently on view at the Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence.
Lot 568
A PAIR OF ITALIAN BRONZE GRAND TOUR FIGURES OF LORENZO AND GIULIANO DE MEDICI AFTER MICHELANGELO (ITALIAN 1475-1564), LATE 19TH CENTURY on black marble stepped plinths (2) 24.5cm high Catalogue Note See Woolley and Wallis, Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks, 30th March 2022, lot 351 for a similar gilt bronze pair of figures.
Lot 570
A FRENCH BRONZE GRAND TOUR FIGURE OF DELILAH OR FORTUNA AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA, LATE 19TH CENTURY modelled standing holding a pair of scissors in her right hand and a lock of hair in her raised left hand, on a cylindrical plinth cast with cherubs at various activities in bas-relief, on a black marble base 73cm high (including base)
Lot 574
A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF ULYSSES AFTER JACQUES BOUSSEAU (FRENCH 1680-1740), 19TH CENTURY depicting Ulysses standing on a tree stump, stringing his bow, together with an oak and pine octagonal pedestal (2) figure: 88.4cm high Catalogue Note Jacques Bousseau studied at the atelier of Nicolas Coustou in Paris and later at the French Academy in Rome from 1709 to 1712. He became a full Academician of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1715. The present lot is a bronze version of Ulysses or Ulysses Bending is Bow that was originally carved in marble, completed in around 1715 and that can now be see in the Louvre, Paris.
Lot 575
A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF THE 'UFFIZI WRESTLERS' AFTER THE ANTIQUE, LATE 19TH CENTURY on a naturalistic base, with dark brown patination 43cm high, 50cm wide, 36cm deep Catalogue Note The original sculpture, attributed to Lysippus, was found in 1583 in the Horti Lamiani on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. It was bought and restored by Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, before being put on exhibition in the Villa Medici. It is currently on view in the Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence.
Lot 590
A FRENCH EQUESTRIAN BRONZE MODEL OF 'IBRAHIM' - AN ARAB STALLION BY PIERRE-JULES MENE (1810-1871) with a brown patina and signed 'P. J. Mene' and titled 'Ibrahim Etalon Arabe' to the base 31 x 36cm Literature J. Mackay, The Animaliers: The Animal Sculptors of the 19th and 20th Centuries, pp.73-78.
Lot 81
A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A GLADIATOR C. 1ST-3RD CENTURY AD standing holding up his right hand, a bronze Grand Tour figure of a nude classical lady on a marble plinth, and another figure of a classical lady standing, wearing a Roman helmet (3) 21cm (max) Provenance Redlynch House, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Lot 83
A BRONZE DOOR KNOCKER IN VENETIAN STYLE IN THE MANNER OF ALESSANDRO VITTORIA (ITALIAN 1523-1608), 19TH CENTURY modelled as Neptune standing before winged hippocampi 43cm high, 29cm wide Provenance Redlynch House, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Catalogue Note For a similar example see Sotheby's Olympia, 9th December 2004.
Lot 328
Pair: Police Sergeant F. G. Waters, Swansea Borough Police Defence Medal; Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Sergt. Frederick G. Waters.); together with the recipient’s Royal Life Saving Society Bronze Proficiency Medal (F. C. Waters April 1930), with 1937 date bar and top ‘R.L.S.S.’ riband bar, nearly extremely fine (3) £70-£90 --- Frederick George Waters was born in Swansea on 31 January 1909 and joined the Swansea Borough Police on 30 October 1929. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal ion 3 March 1952, and died in Swansea in 1966. Sold with extensive copied research.
Lot 417
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp, bronze issue (426 Bhisti Mowla, S. & T. Corps, Secbd. D.) very fine, scarce £180-£220 --- Medal confirmed on the Supply & Transport Corps (Madras Command, Secunderabad District) roll signed at Stellenbosch, South Africa on 29 December 1902 (WO 100/297 refers).
Lot 47
Family Group: The Companion of the Bath breast badge awarded to Lieutenant-General John Cameron, Royal Engineers, Director of Ordnance Survey of Great Britain and Ireland from August 1875 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s breast badge, 18 carat gold, hallmarked London 1870, complete with gold swivel-ring bar suspension and ribbon buckle, extremely fine Pair: Captain C. B. Cameron, York and Lancaster Regiment Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut. C. B. Cameron. 2/York & Lanc R.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed, the first with heavy pitting and edge bruising from star, therefore fine, the second good very fine (3) £1,000-£1,400 --- John Cameron was born on 31 March 1817, at Sint-Amands in the Flemish region of Belgium, son of Major-General Sir John Cameron, K.C.B. He was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 12 December 1834, becoming Colonel on 1 January 1868, and Lieutenant-General on 1 October 1877. Cameron became a Fellow of the Royal Society on 4 June 1868, and was made a Companion of the Bath on 14 June 1870. He held the important position of Director-General of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain and Ireland from August 1875 to his death. He edited Ordnance Survey. Meteorological Observations, 1856. Lieutenant-General Cameron died at Ordnance House, Southampton, on 30 June 1878. Charles Barton Cameron was born in 1857, son of Major-General John Cameron, Royal Engineers. He was commissioned Ensign in the York and Lancaster Regiment on 5 October 1878; Lieutenant, 1 July 1881; Captain, 2 June 1886. He served with the 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment throughout the Egyptian war of 1882, and was present in the engagements of El Magfar and Tel-el-Mahuta, in the two actions at Kassasin, and at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir (Medal with Clasp and Bronze Star). Captain Cameron was placed on half-pay on 26 October 1892. For related family medals see Lot 44.
Lot 470
British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (Lieut. H. W. Craig.; 4123 Pte. M. Dunne. Ir. Gds.) the fist lacking suspension and planchet only; Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (Lieut. A. P. Lopez.; A. C. Tyndale, M.A.D.); together with an unofficial 1914-19 Great War Commemorative Medal in bronze, traces of verdigris, generally very fine (5) £80-£100 --- Hedley William Craig, a native of Bray, Co. Wicklow, attested for the Royal Engineers and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 September 1914. Commissioned Second Lieutenant on 1 January 1916, he subsequently served on attachment to 30 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, and was killed in action in aerial combat over Samara, Mesopotamia, when his BE2c was shot down on 15 April 1917. He is buried in Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq. Sold with copied research. A. P. Lopez served as a Lieutenant with the Indian Medical Department. A. C. Tyndale served as a Military Account Second Class (with the honorary rank of Lieutenant) with the Military Accounts Department.
Lot 51
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel E. B. Bird, Royal Army Medical Corps Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; 1914 Star, with clasp (Major. E. B. Bird. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. E. B. Bird.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, unnamed as issued, with integral top riband bar; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, with silver star emblem on riband, mounted as worn and housed in a Spink, London, leather case; together with a set of six related miniature awards, the TD lacking top riband bar, this mounted for display, generally very fine and better (6) £1,200-£1,600 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1927. Elliot Beverley Bird was born on 24 March 1881, the only son of George Bird, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, and was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Dublin. Commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps, he served during the Great War with both the 26th Field Ambulance and the 3rd Wessex Field Ambulance on the Western Front from 6 November 1914, and was advanced Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. For his services during the Great War he was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, was four times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 22 June 1915; 21 January 1917; 24 December 1917; and 25 May 1918), and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 19 June 1919). Remaining in the Territorial Force post-War, Bird was confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1925 (London Gazette 3 November 1925). In civilian life he was Hon. Radiologist at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital and the War Memorial Hospital at Gosport; and a Consultant Radiologist at Petersfield Cottage Hospital. A keen yachtsman, he was a member of the Royal Albert yacht Club, Southsea, and the Royal Portsmouth Corinthian Yacht Club, Portsmouth. He changed his name by deed poll to Steeds-Bird in 1926, and died on 16 May 1945. Sold with a file of copied research.
Lot 528
Three: Police Sergeant H. English, Metropolitan Police Jubilee 1897, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.S. H. English. T. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.S. H. English. P. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.S. H. English.) good very fine (3) £120-£160 --- Harry Edward English was born at Poplar, Middlesex, on 4 July 1866, and joined the Metropolitan Police on 28 November 1887, at the height of the Whitechapel Murders. Assigned to ‘G’ (King’s Cross) Division, he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant on 25 May 1896, and transferred to ‘T’ (Hammersmith) Division. On 15 February 1902 he was appointed Station Police Sergeant in ‘P’ (Camberwell) Division, and remained there for the rest of his career, serving as Police Sergeant at the Brockley Police Station throughout the Great War. He retired to pension on 10 January 1918, after 30 years’ service, and died in Orpington, Kent, on 21 February 1946. Sold with copied research.
Lot 529
Four: Police Constable W. Funnell, Metropolitan Police, who was twice rewarded for his bravery by the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire Jubilee 1897, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. W. Funnell, H. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. W. Funnell, H. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C. W. Funnell); Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 5th type (1892-1901) bronze medal (P.C. W. Funnell, 88H, Bishopsgate 21st October 1905) nearly very fine (4) £400-£500 --- Police Constable Walter Funnell was twice rewarded for bravery by the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire: Case No. 14,966: Certificate and £2 2s, for saving the life of Victor Smith, aged three and a half years, from a fire in Lamb Street, Spitalfields, on 17 January 1904, and was injured in his attempt to save the lad. One of the accompanying cuttings states that “Funnell has already received a certificate and gold medal for his bravery at the Brick-lane Fire”, but research has so far failed to throw any light on this award. Case No. 15,046: Bronze Medal and £2 2s, for saving the life of Samuel Shatzman, aged 38 years, from a fire in Steward Street, Bishopsgate, on 21 October 1905. Walter Funnell was born at St Mary’s, Birmingham, on 28 March 1863, and joined the Metropolitan Police at Great Scotland Yard on 16 January 1888, being assigned to “P” Division. In September 1889 he was transferred to “H”, or Whitechapel Division, at the height of the ‘Jack the Ripper’ serial killings then taking place on the streets of Whitechapel. Sold with two original newspaper cuttings with a portrait of the recipient; and copied reserch.
Lot 533
Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (Insp. R. Hayter. 4th. Div.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (2), one crudely engraved ‘J. E. Beal No. 10677 B. Coy. D.L.I. Delhi 1911.’; the other unnamed as issued; together with an Edward Prince of Wales Visit to Bombay Medal 1921, bronze, the obverse featuring the bust of Edward Prince of Wales facing right, surmounted by Prince of Wales’s feathers, the reverse inscribed ‘Visit of His Royal Highness, Bombay, November 1921’, with ring suspension, generally very fine (4) £140-£180 --- 10677 Private F. [sic] Beale, 1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, appears on the latest published transcript of the 1911 Delhi Durbar Medal roll.
Lot 534
Coronation 1902, L.C.C.M.F.B., bronze (Joseph E. Green); National Fire Brigades Union Long Service Medal, the reverse engraved ‘Chief Officer C. L. Mason W.W.F.B.’, the edge numbered ‘6293’, with top ‘Ten Years’ riband bar, in named card box of issue, good very fine (2) £100-£140 --- Joseph Edward Green was born in Marylebone, London, on 24 December 1872 and joined the London County Council Metropolitan Fire Brigade on 16 February 1901. Based initially at New Cross and then Lewisham Stations, he saw further service at Millwall, Herne Hill, West Norwood, Brixton, and Battersea, and retired to pension on 15 May 1929, after 28 years and 88 days’ service. Sold with copied record of service. C. L. Mason served as Chief Officer with the Wolverton Works Fire Brigade, Buckinghamshire, and was awarded his Long Service Medal on 7 September 1920.
Lot 555
Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1988. D. Sharp. 31st. Regt.) suspension claw loose, number partially double-struck, very fine £80-£100 --- David Sharp was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, in 1823 and attested for the 40th Foot on 20 July 1841. He transferred to the 31st Foot on 1 November 1844, and was discharged to pension on 8 September 1863, after 22 years and 51 days’ service, of which 5 years and 10 months were spent in India; 3 months in the Ionian Isles; 1 year in the Crimea; 10 months in Malta; 1 year and 1 month in Gibraltar; 4 months in South Africa; and 2 years and 7 months in China. Upon retirement he was ‘in possession of the Bronze Star for Maharajpoor; the Medal for the Crimea with clasp for Sebastopol; the Turkish Medal; the Medal for China and clasp for Taku Forts; and the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct’ (service papers refer). Sold with copied record of service.
Lot 58
A pre-War M.V.O. group of five awarded to Police Superintendent J. W. Carter, Portsmouth Division, Metropolitan Police The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 5th Class breast badge, silver and enamel, unnumbered; Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1887, 1 clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police, bronze (Inspr. J. W. Carter. 1st. Div:); Coronation 1902, silver, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, silver (Supt. J. W. Carter. 2nd. Div.) mounted for display in this order, good very fine (5) £500-£700 --- M.V.O. London Gazette 17 August 1906: Superintendent James William Carter, Portsmouth Division, Metropolitan Police. James William Carter was born at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on 4 July 1845 and joined the Metropolitan Police on 10 July 1865. He served for his entire career at the various Naval Dockyards (which between 1860 and 1922 were policed by the Metropolitan Police), initially at Woolwich Arsenal (1st Division), before transferring to Chatham (4th Division) on 3 July 1866. He returned to Woolwich Arsenal on 11 October 1869, and served there for he next 24 years, being promoted Police Sergeant on 17 July 1873, and Inspector on 15 May 1878, before transferring to Chatham with the rank of Chief Inspector on 4 February 1893. Transferring once more to Pembroke (5th Division) on 5 October 1893, he was promoted Superintendent of Police on 31 October 1894, and then transferred to Portsmouth (2nd Division) on 1 February 1895. Serving as Superintendent in Charge of the Metropolitan Police at Portsmouth Dockyard, Carter was invested with the insignia of the Royal Victorian Order in August 1906 on the occasion of H.M. King Edward VII arriving in Portsmouth from Cowes. ‘The Order has been conferred in recognition of Mr. Carter’s services on the several occasions that his Majesty has visited Portsmouth’ The Illustrated London News, 25 August 1906 refers). He retired to pension on 1 May 1907, after 41 years and 295 days’ service. Sold with copied research. Note: From the date of his appointment in Portsmouth Dockyard in 1895, Carter was also employed on Ordinary Duty by the Admiralty, which presumably accounts for the double issue of both the 1897 Jubilee Medal and the 1902 Coronation Medal.
Lot 581
Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Sub Offr/I/C Raymond Langmaid) in Royal Mint case of issue, lacquered, nearly extremely fine Pair: Fireman W. Booker, Hove Fire Brigade National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, silver, with ‘Twenty Years’ top riband bar, edge impressed ‘2664’ and engraved ‘William Booker’, in case of issue; National Fire Brigades Union Long Service Medal bronze, reverse engraved ‘Con William Booker Hove Brigade Oct: 10: 1910.’, edge impressed ‘3764’, good very fine Ireland, Republic, Prison Service Medal, in Recognition of Twenty One Years’ Service, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Robert Donaldson Nov 08’, with top ‘XXI’ riband bar, in card box of issue, extremely fine (4) £120-£160 --- William Booker was awarded his National Fire Brigades’ Association Long Service Medal on 10 July 1923.
Lot 582
Family Group: National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, silver, with clasp for Twenty Years’ service and five clasps for Five Years’ service, the edge officially numbered ‘5996’ and additionally contemporarily engraved ‘Frank Snuggs’; National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, bronze, with clasps for Five Years and Ten Years’ service, the edge officially numbered ‘15199’ and additionally contemporarily engraved ‘George T. Snuggs’, with named card enclosure, nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£100 --- Frank Snuggs joined the Crondall Fire Brigade in Hampshire as a Callboy in 1893, his father being the Captain of the Brigade, and became a Fireman in 1900, and Captain in 1920. He was awarded his National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal on 25 September 1949, and died on 15 September 1942. George T. Snuggs, the nephew of the above, was born on 22 October 1912 and joined the Crondall Fire Brigade in August 1931. He was awarded his National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal on 11 January 1949, and died in April 1998. Sold with copied research regarding the Crondall Fire Brigade, including photographic images of the tender that was presented to the village by Frank Snuggs in 1935 in memory of his father.
Lot 584
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 £100-£140 --- 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’.
Lot 585
Four: Police Superintendent A. E. Murkin, Chelmsford Fire Brigade, who was awarded the R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal for rescuing two horses from a fire in Chelmsford in 1922 Defence Medal; National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, bronze, 1 clasp, Five Years, with ‘Ten Years’ top brooch bar (7439 Albert E. Murkin); National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, silver, 2 clasps, Twenty Years, Five Years (3625 Albert E. Murkin); R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal, silver (Supt. A. E. Murkin) with integral top ‘For Humanity’ riband bar, generally extremely fine (4) £300-£400 --- Albert Edward Murkin was born in Shoeburyness, Essex in 1872 and having joined the Chelmsford Fire Brigade applied to join the National Fire Brigade Association in April 1907. He was awarded the Association’s bronze medal in 1923 and the silver in 1928. He was awarded the R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal in Silver for the rescue of two horses in 1922. An account of the rescue is recorded in the May 1923 edition of The Animal World: ‘The Mayor of Chelmsford, Alderman Fred Spalding, J.P., recently presented the Society’s Silver Medal to Superintendent Murkin, of the Chelmsford Fire Brigade and the bronze medal to Mr Frederick Thomas Hills, for their brave action in rescuing horses from a fire. Superintendent Murkin went into a stable where he had been told there were two horses. The smoke and heat drove him back at first, but he went to the fire hose, saturated a handkerchief and put it round his mouth and went in again, “And,” said the Mayor, “I am very pleased to say he brought out both those horses.” In handing Superintendent Murkin the medal the Mayor said:- “It will be the means of reminding you of a noble deed and that you have the respect of your fellow townsmen, especially those who love animals.” In presenting the bronze medal to Mr Hills, the Mayor said that on the night of the fire he rushed to the stables and managed to get out three horses. One animal was down and they could not get it up. After having a drink of water Hills went back in again and succeeded in bringing out the horse’. Murkin retired from the Chelmsford Fire Brigade with the rank of Superintendent, and died in Chelmsford on 13 December 1950. Sold with photocopied Chelmsford Fire Brigade photographs and other copied research.
Lot 586
Four: Police Sergeant J. Barker, South Yorkshire Police, who was awarded the R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal for rescuing a dog from a waterlogged quarry at Rotherham in 1957 Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Sergt. John Barker); R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal, bronze (P/C. J. Barker. 1957.) with integral top ‘For Humanity’ riband bar, in case of issue; together with the recipient’s St. John Ambulance Association Re-Examination Cross, bronze, with ‘1958’ year bar; and a silver R.A.F. Malta Command Tug-of-War Prize shield, the reverse engraved ‘Cpl. Barker. 1945’, good very fine (6) £200-£240 --- John Barker served with South Yorkshire Police, and was awarded the R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal for the ‘Rescue of a dog from a waterlogged quarry at Holme Hall Quarry, Stainton, near Rotherham.’ in 1957.
Lot 587
The Royal Geographical Society Patron’s Gold Medal awarded to Captain Sir Alexander R. Glen, K.B.E., D.S.C., Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Royal Geographical Society, Patron’s Gold Medal, 54mm, gold (9ct, 95.24g), the obverse featuring the bare head of George VI facing left, the reverse featuring Minerva standing left, holding wreath and map, with globe and sextant on ground, ‘Ob Terras Reclusas’ above, the edge engraved ‘Lieutenant Alexander R. Glen, R.N.V.R., 1940.’; together with the recipient’s Exploration of Polar Regions Bruce Medal for Valuable Services, 50mm, bronze, the edge engraved ‘Alexander Glen 1938’, nearly extremely fine (2) £6,000-£8,000 --- Sir Alexander (Sandy) Richard Glen was born in Glasgow on 18 April 1912, the son of a Glasgow ship-owner, and was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Geography. He first travelled to the Arctic in 1932, as part of an eight man crew of a 45ft fishing boat owned by a Cambridge law don; legend has it that Glen accepted the invitation to accompany the expedition under the misapprehension that it was an invitation to a debutante ball. Setting sail from King’s Lynn (with Glen still in his white tie and tails), the crew ventured to Spitzbergen, and completed 4,000 miles of sailing and two months of surveying. The following year Glen led a more official 16 man Oxford University summer expedition to Spitzbergen to carry out topographical and geological surveys, spending some winter months with the Lapps of northern Sweden. He returned to Spitzbergen the following summer with the author Evelyn Waugh amongst the team (who nearly drowned when a glacier thawed). In 1935 he led another Oxford University expedition, establishing a research station on the ice cap of North East Land, and carried our research in glaciology, geology, and radio propagation in high latitudes. In 1937 he wrote a book about the expedition, entitled ‘Under the Pole Star’. For his expeditions and scientific work in the Arctic Glen was awarded the prestigious Patron's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1940; at the age of 28 he was (and is) the youngest recipient of the medal. He was also awarded the Polar Medal (London Gazette 10 February 1942: ‘For good services with the Oxford University Arctic Expedition to North East Land in 1935 and 1936’) and received the Bruce Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1938. After going down from Oxford Glen worked in investment banking in New York and London. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1938, and posted to Naval Intelligence he worked with Ian Fleming under its Director, Admiral John Godfrey. Inevitably, in later life it was rumoured that Glen was perhaps an inspiration for James Bond, but Glen himself always denied the link: ‘I don’t think it is true for a moment; I’m far too gentle, too law-abiding.’ In January 1940 Glen was posted to Belgrade as assistant naval attaché at the British legation, where he met his future wife, the Serbian Baroness Zora (Zorica) de Collaert. Following the bombing of Belgrade in 1941 the British legation left and made their way home via Kotor, Albania, Italy, Vichy France, and Spain. He then worked on the staff of Rear-Admiral Philip Vian in 1941 helping to evacuate Norwegian and Russian coalminers and trappers in the Arctic Circle, and he spent some time protecting Spitzbergen from a German invasion. In the early summer of 1942, he took part in two 27-hour reconnaissances of Spitzbergen by Catalina flying boats of Coastal Command, based in the Shetlands. He then joined a 70-strong joint British-Norwegian force sent by boat, which was sunk by a Luftwaffe raid as they arrived in Spitzbergen harbour. As the survivors struggled ashore, Glen remembered where to find the frozen corpses of 60 slaughtered pigs, and they lived off these, washed down with abandoned German brandy and champagne. Glen later served with distinction with the Russian Army in eastern Europe in 1943-44, sabotaging traffic on the River Danube to disrupt oil supplies to Germany. He also took part in various clandestine and dangerous operations in Yugoslavia with Fitzroy Mclean, in support of Marshal Tito. He ended the War on the British staff in Athens. For his services during the Second World War he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1942 (London Gazette 27 October 1942), and a Second Award Bar in 1945 (London Gazette 20 February 1945). He was also awarded the Norwegian and Czechoslovakian War Crosses, and was created a Chevalier First Class of the Order of St. Olav (London Gazette 9 May 1944). Post-War, Glen joined the ship-broking business of Clarksons, eventually rising to become the firm’s Chairman. Remaining in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, he was advanced Captain in the Supply and Secretariat Branch on 30 June 1955, and served as a Member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society periodically from 1945 to 1962. Appointed C.B.E. in 1964 (London Gazette 1 January 1964), he was advanced K.B.E. in 1967 (London Gazette 1 January 1967), and went on to hold various positions in the travel and hotel sector, including the Chairmanship of the British Tourist Authority. Amongst other public appointments he became Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He published his memoirs ‘Footholds Against a Whirlwind’, in 1975, and co-wrote (with Leighton Bowen) ‘Target Danube, a River not quite too far’ in 2002. He died on 6 March 2004. The Sandy and Zorica Glen Charitable Settlement (Charity no. 326311) is a grant making charity that supports a small range of charities in helping to develop leadership qualities in the young via exploration trips and other outdoor activities; and encouraging the conservation of heritage works of art. For the recipient’s group of twelve miniature awards, see Lot 618.
Lot 593
Sick-Berth Petty Officer’s Efficiency Medal, gilt (POMA R N Cain D128625M) in its Royal Mint fitted case of issue, extremely fine £200-£300 --- The Sick Berth Petty Officers’ Efficiency Medal is struck in bronze-gilt by the Royal Mint. It is awarded annually to the Petty Officer Medical Assistant or Sergeant R.M. Medical Assistant who demonstrates exceptional zeal and efficiency in the discharge of his or her duties in the preceding year.
Lot 596
Army Rifle Association Medal (2), silver, the reverse engraved ‘C. G. Wheatley, 7815209’; the second bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Hopton Cup 1920. No. 4 Platoon Team. A. Coy. 1st. Bn. Wilts Rgt. 2nd. in Army at Home Lieut. E. C. Clegg. M.C.’; together with a Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (W. Elliott 1st. R. Regt.) contemporarily re-engraved naming, plugged and fitted with a Crimea-style suspension, very fine (3) £70-£90
Lot 614
Renamed and Defective Medals (3): Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp, naming erased; Victory Medal 1914-19, naming erased; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse, naming erased; together with a copy General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Near East; three unofficial Jubilee and Coronation Medals, for 1887 in white metal, for 1911 in bronze; and for 1937 in white metal; a commemorative medal for the opening of Birmingham University 1909, gilt; Army Rifle Association Medal, bronze, ‘The Squadron Match, “B” Squadron 12th Lancers 1913 Private W. Spicer’; together with a silver Regimental prize medal, this unnamed; a Royal Horticultural Society Joseph Banks Bronze Medal, unnamed; and an Amateur Gardening Medal, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Brig. Gen. B. C. Dent 1939’, in John Pinches, London, fitted case, generally nearly very fine and better (12) £80-£100 --- Sold with various parchment certificates and documents relating to Company Sergeant Major W. C. Milward, Worcestershire Regiment; ands other ephemera.
Lot 618
The mounted group of twelve miniature dress medals worn by Captain Sir Alexander R. Glen, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Civil) Knight Commander’s badge; Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Polar Medal 1904, G.VI.R., 1st issue, silver, 1 clasp, Arctic 1935-1936; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue; Norway, Kingdom, War Cross 1940-45, with bronze sword emblem to riband; Order of St. Olav, Military Division, Knight First Class badge; Czechoslovakia, Republic, War Cross 1939-45, mounted as worn, good very fine (12) £1,000-£1,400 --- 1 of only 9 Polar Medals with clasp ‘Arctic 1935-1936’, all to members of the Oxford University Expedition to North East Land. K.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 1 January 1967: Alexander Richard Glen, Esq., C.B.E., D.S.C., Chairman, Export Council for Europe, For services to Export. C.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 1 January 1964: Alexander Richard Glen, Esq., D.S.C., Chairman, H. Clarkson and Company Ltd. D.S.C. London Gazette 27 October 1942. D.S.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 20 February 1945: ‘For courage and undaunted devotion to duty.’ Polar Medal (Silver) London Gazette 10 February 1942: ‘For good services with the Oxford University Arctic Expedition to North East Land in 1935 and 1936.’ Sir Alexander (Sandy) Richard Glen was born in Glasgow on 18 April 1912, the son of a Glasgow ship-owner, and was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Geography. He first travelled to the Arctic in 1932, as part of an eight man crew of a 45ft fishing boat owned by a Cambridge law don; legend has it that Glen accepted the invitation to accompany the expedition under the misapprehension that it was an invitation to a debutante ball. Setting sail from King’s Lynn (with Glen still in his white tie and tails), the crew ventured to Spitzbergen, and completed 4,000 miles of sailing and two months of surveying. The following year Glen led a more official 16 man Oxford University summer expedition to Spitzbergen to carry out topographical and geological surveys, spending some winter months with the Lapps of northern Sweden. He returned to Spitzbergen the following summer with the author Evelyn Waugh amongst the team (who nearly drowned when a glacier thawed). In 1935 he led another Oxford University expedition, establishing a research station on the ice cap of North East Land, and carried our research in glaciology, geology, and radio propagation in high latitudes. In 1937 he wrote a book about the expedition, entitled ‘Under the Pole Star’. For his expeditions and scientific work in the Arctic Glen was awarded the prestigious Patron's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1940; at the age of 28 he was (and is) the youngest recipient of the medal. He was also awarded the Polar Medal and received the Bruce Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1938. After going down from Oxford Glen worked in investment banking in New York and London. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1938, and posted to Naval Intelligence he worked with Ian Fleming under its Director, Admiral John Godfrey. Inevitably, in later life it was rumoured that Glen was perhaps an inspiration for James Bond, but Glen himself always denied the link: ‘I don’t think it is true for a moment; I’m far too gentle, too law-abiding.’ In January 1940 Glen was posted to Belgrade as assistant naval attaché at the British legation, where he met his future wife, the Serbian Baroness Zora (Zorica) de Collaert. Following the bombing of Belgrade in 1941 the British legation left and made their way home via Kotor, Albania, Italy, Vichy France, and Spain. He then worked on the staff of Rear-Admiral Philip Vian in 1941 helping to evacuate Norwegian and Russian coalminers and trappers in the Arctic Circle, and he spent some time protecting Spitzbergen from a German invasion. In the early summer of 1942, he took part in two 27-hour reconnaissances of Spitzbergen by Catalina flying boats of Coastal Command, based in the Shetlands. He then joined a 70-strong joint British-Norwegian force sent by boat, which was sunk by a Luftwaffe raid as they arrived in Spitzbergen harbour. As the survivors struggled ashore, Glen remembered where to find the frozen corpses of 60 slaughtered pigs, and they lived off these, washed down with abandoned German brandy and champagne. Glen later served with distinction with the Russian Army in eastern Europe in 1943-44, sabotaging traffic on the River Danube to disrupt oil supplies to Germany. He also took part in various clandestine and dangerous operations in Yugoslavia with Fitzroy Mclean, in support of Marshal Tito. He ended the War on the British staff in Athens. For his services during the Second World War he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1942, and a Second Award Bar in 1945. He was also awarded the Norwegian and Czechoslovakian War Crosses, and was created a Chevalier First Class of the Order of St. Olav (London Gazette 9 May 1944). Post-War, Glen joined the ship-broking business of Clarksons, eventually rising to become the firm’s Chairman. Remaining in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, he was advanced Captain in the Supply and Secretariat Branch on 30 June 1955, and served as a Member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society periodically from 1945 to 1962. Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1964, he was advanced to Knight Commander in 1967, and went on to hold various positions in the travel and hotel sector, including the Chairmanship of the British Tourist Authority. Amongst other public appointments he became Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He published his memoirs ‘Footholds Against a Whirlwind’, in 1975, and co-wrote (with Leighton Bowen) ‘Target Danube, a River not quite too far’ in 2002. He died on 6 March 2004. Sold with the recipient’s Passport; Timex watch; and the empty case of issue for his K.B.E. set of insignia, by Garrard, London. The Sandy and Zorica Glen Charitable Settlement (Charity no. 326311) is a grant making charity that supports a small range of charities in helping to develop leadership qualities in the young via exploration trips and other outdoor activities; and encouraging the conservation of heritage works of art. For the recipient’s Royal Geographical Society Patron’s Gold Medal, and Royal Society of Edinburgh Bruce Medal, see Lot 587.
Lot 627
Miniature Medals (22): Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Won July 7th. 1916, Killed in Action Oct 7th. 1916’; Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R.; Air Force Cross, E.II.R.; Military Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19; General Service 1918-62 (2), no clasp [sic], G.VI.R.; 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R.; 1939-45 Star (2); Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 2nd issue; South Atlantic 1982; Jubilee 1977; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army; Air Efficiency Award, E.II.R., 2nd issue; Civil Defence Long Service Medal, E.II.R.; United States of America, Navy Expert Rifleman Medal, bronze, generally very fine (22) £60-£80 --- Sold with five King’s Badges for War Service; a Burma Star Association lapel badge; three Home Guard lapel Badges; and other miscellaneous items.
Lot 629
A Selection of Rhodesian and South African Miniature Medals. Including Rhodesia, Legion of Merit, Member’s badge; Exemplary Service Medal; District Service Medal; Prison Service Medal; Police Long Service Medal; Police Reserve Long Service Medal; Territorial Service Reserve Medal; South Africa, Louw Wepener Decoration, with South African coast of arms to reverse; Van Riebeeck Decoration (2), both with South African coast of arms to reverse; Louw Wepener Medal, with South African coast of arms to reverse; John Chard Decoration, with South African coast of arms to reverse; Danie Theron Medal; Commandant General’s Medal; Defence Force Good Service Medal, bronze; De Wet Decoration; Pro Patria Medal; Pro Merito Medal 1967; Southern Africa Medal; General Service Medal; Faithful Service Medal (2); Police Service Medal, generally good very fine (23) £60-£80
Lot 631
An unattributed Austrian group of four Austria, Empire, Bravery Medal ‘Fortitudini’, Karl I, small silver medal; Karl Troop Cross, zinc; Germany, Cross of Honour 1914-18, combatant’s issue with swords, bronze, unmarked; Third Reich, Commemorative Medal for 1 October 1938, bronze, mounted Continental-style as worn, very fine An unattributed Austrian group of four Austria, Empire, Signum Laudis Medal, Karl I, bronze, with gilt crossed swords on riband; Bravery Medal ‘Der Tapferkeit’, Franz Joseph, 1914-16 issue, large silver medal; Karl Troop Cross, zinc; War Medal 1873, bronze, mounted Continental-style as worn, very fine (8) £100-£140
Lot 635
Austria, Empire, Iron Merit Cross 1916 (3), iron, one with crown suspension, heavy dinting to lower arm on one, otherwise very fine Austria, Republic, War Commemorative Medal 1914-18 (2), bronze, both with crossed swords emblem on riband, nearly extremely fine Hungary, Republic, War Commemorative Medal 1914-18 (3), silvered, generally very fine (8) £60-£80 --- Sold with various Austrian ribands, riband bars, and riband devices.
Lot 636
Austria, Empire, Long Service Decoration, for 12 Years’ service, zinc with gilt centre; Honour Medal for 40 Years’ Faithful Service, bronze; 1898 ‘Signum Memoriae’ Commemorative Medal (2), bronze; Commemorative Cross 1848-1908, bronze, with crossed swords emblem on riband, generally good condition Austria, Republic, Long Service Decoration, for 5 Years’ service, bronze; together with two Tirolian awards, one being the Tirol Defence Commemorative Medal 1914-18, bronze, very fine (8) £70-£90
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