An extremely well-documented group of seven, together with a remarkable archive of photographs and documents, awarded to Major B. R. S. Dalton, Royal Artillery, late Royal Engineers, who served on Special Employment in North Africa during the Second World War in command of the Western Desert Section of the Army Air Photographic Interpretation Unit being twice mentioned in despatches, and continued to serve during the Sicilian and mainland Italian Campaigns; he was later decorated by the Americans for his services as an Instructor 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, in card box of issue with enclosure slip; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (2021630 Sjt. B. R. S. Dalton. R.E.) in named card box of issue; United States of America, Bronze Star, in case of issue; together with 3 M.I.D. oak leaves; riband bar for Africa Star and Efficiency Medal; and named card box of issue for 1st and 2nd clasps for Efficiency Medal, extremely fine (7) £600-£800 --- M.I.D. London Gazettes 24 June 1943 (Middle East); 13 January 1944 (Middle East). United States Bronze Star London Gazette 14 November 1947 - ‘Major (temporary) Bernard Ralph Sparks Dalton (156899), Royal Regiment of Artillery’ The proposed citation states: ‘For exceptionally meritorious service to the Government of the United States in aiding organisation and operation of training at Photo Intelligence Center, Military Intelligence Service thereby assisting in accomplishment of its mission.’ Bernard Ralph Sparks Dalton was born in 1909 in London. He served initially in the Royal Engineers advancing to Sergeant and qualifying for the award of the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) per Army Order No. 29 dated February 1940. He was granted a Regular Army Emergency Commission as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 16 November 1940 and was posted to Heliopolis, Egypt in March 1941. The following month he became the fourth officer to join the newly formed Army Air Photographic Interpretation Unit. Posted to the Advanced Western Desert Force Section on 21 May 1941 under Lieutenant Peter Oldfield (later of the S.A.S.), he took command of this Section the following month. In July, the Western Desert Section joined 285 Wing of the Desert Air Force, whose photographic elements included 2 Squadron R.A.F., 60 Survey Squadron and 1437 Flight Baltimores flying long-range strategic missions. Later the same month, while preparing for Operation Crusader, Dalton was required to present his work to General Auchinleck: ‘I think one of my most treasured memories is of flying down to G.H.Q. Cairo on 25 July 1941 on a Lizzie (Lysander) to show General Auchinleck a selection of annotated air photos and mosaics defining the defences in front of our Army. I shall never forget seeing the General take a magnifying glass in his hand and get down on his hands and knees on the floor of the ‘War Room’ I suppose it was, and gaze earnestly, in the best Sherlock Holmes tradition, at the mosaics spread in front of him and ask searching questions as to how we knew that this was an 88mm and that was a minefield and so on. After spending some time with the General I think he was convinced that air photos had their uses even if they had their limitations.’ (‘History of Army Photographic Interpretation’ - a nine page hand written account by the recipient - with lot) Aside from briefing the C-in-C and supplying Divisions and Corps with information on enemy defences, Dalton also gave sundry details of defences and terrain to the the S.A.S. and L.R.D.G. - on several occasions briefing Randolph Churchill during his period as Liaison Officer with these units. The A.A.P.I.U. joined 451 Squadron R.A.F. for the attack on Bardia on 27-28 December 1941 and continued up and down the Western Desert in 1942, receiving and interpreting photos from the R.A.F., and passing information to intelligence at speed. Dalton was promoted War Substantive Lieutenant on 16 May 1942 and Temporary Captain on Special Employment on 17 December 1942. In January 1943, the unit interpreted the Mareth defences and the following month were at Castel Benito near Tripoli. Dalton was put on the ‘XO’ list in May 1943 for the planning of the invasion of Sicily and Italy and embarked for Malta in July, suffering heavy bombardment - the bombers attracted by an impressive fleet of Royal Navy ships in the harbour and the thousands of troops on the island. Landing at Syracuse, Sicily on 3 August 1943, Dalton’s unit continued to interpret photos under nightly air attack. Six weeks later, having been promoted War Substantive Captain and Temporary Major, Dalton arrived on mainland Italy and was constantly on the move for the rest of the year. His earlier work during the Desert Campaign was recognised by two mentions in despatches. On 3 February 1944, Dalton was posted to the School of Military Intelligence at Matlock Hydro as an Instructor. Two months later he joined the American Photo Interpretation School at Kensington and in July he was posted to the Central Interpretation Unit at R.A.F. Medenham. Dalton’s second clasp to his Efficiency Medal (territorial) was gazetted on 26 May 1950. He relinquished his commission on 19 February 1964, retaining the honorary rank of Major. Sold with the following archive: ‘History of Army Photographic Interpretation’ - a nine page detailed summary of the recipient‘s service, hand written in April 1975; large officially bound folder entitled ‘Italian Ridotttas and Outposts’ containing large quantity of aerial photographs of Italian positions in North Africa in 1941, each with a detailed caption; large quantity of aerial photographs, subjects spanning a wide range of axis positions from 1941 to 1945, these mostly captioned either officially or in pencil, with date - of note is a mosaic of aerial photographs of Heraklion landing ground dated 26 May 1941 taken during the Battle of Crete and a well annotated aerial photograph of Remagen, Germany, the site of the first Allied crossing of the Rhine, showing the Railway Road bridge intact, dated 15 March 1945; a large quantity of reverse captioned photographs taken by Dalton during service in North Africa; folder containing quantity of the recipient’s correspondence, notes and official Intelligence Summaries; folder containing Air Photo Technical Data; a quantity of A.A.I.P.U. wartime maps of regions of North Africa e.g. Bardia, Bay of Salum, Tunis region, French North Africa, Bir Ghirba, Ain-el-Gazala, these mostly dated 1941 and worn to varying degrees; large German map of Libya entitled ‘Verkehrskarte von Nord-Libyen’ dated 1941; a bound folder entitled ‘Wild Flowers collected in Western Desert and Sicily during 1939-45 War’ - this containing a large quantity of well preserved dried and pressed wild flowers each annotated with date and location of collection, many named; a quantity of further documents, letters, papers and booklets relating to the recipient’s service.
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Pair: Corporal H. Sunter, Machine Gun Corps, late Lancashire Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (63707 Pte. H. Sunter. M.G.C.) together with large bronze medal, 50mm, for ‘Mounted Wrestling, 1st Batt. M.G.C., Flerzheim’, (L/Cpl. H. Sunter 11. 7. 19); silver medal, 31mm, hallmarked Birmingham 1918, ‘1st Bn. M.G.C. Sports Flerzheim 1919’ (L/Cpl. H. Sunter D. Coy. Boat Race); and bronze medal, 31mm, ‘1st Batt M.G.C. B Coy Winners of Section Alarm Race Heimerzheim 1919’, in card box of issue, extremely fine (5) £40-£50 --- Harry Sunter, a native of Oswaldtwistle, enlisted into the 21st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers on 11 May 1916 (36273) and transferred to the Machine Gun Corps on 12 October 1916. Served in France and Flanders from 16 March 1917, 216 Coy, later 1st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. Sold with copied soldier’s papers.
Pair: Attributed to Private T. Watson, Sherwood Foresters, who died in France in 1940 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, about extremely fine Pair: Attributed to Squadron Leader L. G. Headworth, Royal Air Force Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Sqd./Ldr. L. G. Headworth, c/o Midland Bank Ltd., Falmouth, Cornwall’, extremely fine Pair: Attributed to Miss Doris M. Watson Defence and War Medals 1939-45; together with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, extremely fine Defence Medal (2); War Medal 1939-45; together with a mounted group of three miniature awards, comprising 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; two Second War card boxes of issue, the first named to ‘Mr. W. G. Muir, 58 Garfin Road, Newart...’; the second with address label torn; and a St. John Ambulance Association Re-examination Cross, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘297532 George Levett’, with 18 Year Bars, a complete run from 1929 to 1946 inclusive, the reverse of all engraved ‘297532’, in case, generally nearly extremely fine (10) £60-£80 --- Thomas Watson attested for the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) and served with them during the Second World War as part of the British Expeditionary Force. He died between 28 May and 23 June 1940, and is buried in St. Marie Communal Cemetery, France. Sold together with a photographic image of the recipient and one of the recipient’s CWGC headstone. George Levett was employed by the Southern Railway as a Clerk in the Goods Department at Chichester.
The fine Second War Honorary ‘intelligence’ M.B.E., extremely rare Great War D.F.M. group of twenty awarded to Major Aviateur C. J. G. T. Delloye, Compagnie des Aviateurs and Aviation Militaire, who served as a Pilot with 2e Escadrille, and racked up in excess of 100 hours of reconnaissance missions over enemy lines during 1918. Delloye served with the Belgian Air Force during the Fall of France, and was taken prisoner of war in August 1940. Returning to occupied Belgium he was briefly employed in the Ministry of Finance before attempting to make his way to the UK via Gibraltar. Captured and interned in Spain, Delloye eventually made his way to the UK in 1942. He joined the Belgian Forces stationed there, and was employed by the Belgian State Security Detachment in an Intelligence capacity, October 1942 - October 1944. During this time Delloye was attached as a Squadron Leader in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Distinguished Flying Medal, G.V.R. (No 243 Flt Warrant Officer Charles Delloye, Aviation Belge.) on 1st type horizontal striped riband; Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold II, Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, bilingual motto, with neck riband; Order of Leopold, Military Division, Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, French motto, with rosette on riband; Order of the Crown, Officer’s breast badge, gilt and enamel, with rosette and crossed swords emblem on riband; Military Cross, First Class, L.III.R., gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, with bronze palm emblem on riband; Yser Medal 1914, bronze and enamel; Commemorative Medal for the Great War 1914-18, bronze; Allied Victory Medal 1914-19, bronze; Combat Volunteers Medal 1914-18, bronze; Frontline Fire Service Cross 1914-18, bronze; Evaders Cross, bronze; Volunteer’s Medal 1940-45, bronze; Armed Resistance Medal 1940-45, bronze; Political Prisoner’s Cross 1940-45, silvered and enamel, with riband bar with three stars; Prisoner of War Medal 1940-45, bronze, with five bronze riband bars; Commemorative Medal for the Second World War 1940-45, bronze, with small crown emblem on riband; Medal for Military Fighters of the Second World War 1940-45, bronze; Volunteer’s Medal, bronze, generally good very fine and better (20) £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: The Reverend E. Hawkes Field Collection, Glendinings, November 1950 (listed as D.F.M. only, and with an estimate of £15/10/0); J. B. Hayward, 1973. Appointed Honorary M.B.E. 11 November 1946. D.F.M. London Gazette 19 July 1919 (originally recommended for a M.M.): ‘A pilot who has distinguished himself by his skill and his dash, and who was always to be found ready to start on difficult enterprises. During the Flanders offensive of 1918, his work was largely responsible for successful counter battery work.’ Charles Jules Ghislain Joseph Delloye was born in Thorembais les Béguines, Belgium in July 1894. He joined the Belgian Air Force (Compagnie des Aviateurs) in August 1914, and advanced to Premier Sergeant-Major in the renamed Aviation Militaire in September 1917. Delloye was posted for training as a pilot to the Aviation School at Etampes in 1917, and then posted for operational service as a pilot to 2e Escadrille. He flew over 100 hours of reconnaissance missions over enemy lines during the Great War, and advanced to Adjutant (Warrant Officer) in January 1918. Delloye was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Auxiliary Engineers in January 1919, and transferred to the Infantry in July of the same year. He advanced to Lieutenant in December 1921, and transferred back to the Belgian Air Force as Aircrew in January 1924. Delloye advanced to Capitaine Aviateur in December 1935, and served with the Belgian Air Force in Bordeaux, France from 12 May 1940. He returned to occupied Belgium as a prisoner of war in August 1940, and was employed in the Ministry of Finance, November 1940 - July 1941. At the end of July he fled occupied Belgium, and was captured and interned in Spain, 29 December 1941. Delloye was released with the rights of a Political Prisoner, 9 September 1942, and joined the Belgian Forces in the UK. He was attached to the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and served with the Belgian State Security Detachment in an Intelligence capacity, October 1942 - October 1944. He subsequently advanced to Capitaine-Commandant D’Aviation, and served with the Recruiting Mission, October 1944 - September 1946. Delloye transferred to the Reserve in April 1946, and retired as a Major Aviateur in January 1947. Sold with extensive copied research, including photographic images of recipient in uniform.
Edward Prince of Wales Visit to Bombay 1921, oval bronze medal, obverse, bust of Edward Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), surmounted by Prince of Wales’ feathers, reverse inscribed, ‘Visit of His Royal Highness, Bombay, November 1921’, small ring for suspension, attractively toned, nearly extremely fine £50-£70 --- Ref. Puddester 921.3
The British War Medal awarded to 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Le Roy Dean, a pilot with 64 Squadron who was injured in a flying accident on 8 August 1917, whilst flying a Sopwith Pup and died from his injuries the following day British War Medal 1914-20 (2. Lieut. A. Le R Dean.) together with R.F.C. badge by ‘Firmin London’ and a small bronze and enamel R.F.C. fob badge, extremely fine (3) £100-£140 --- Arthur Le Roy Dean was a native of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and served as a pilot with 64 Squadron Royal Flying Corps. He died on 9 August 1917, of injuries received the previous day whilst flying Sopwith Pup No. B1788, and is buried in Docking (St Mary) Churchyard, Norfolk. Sold with copied Medal Index Card which confirms sole entitlement of B.W.M.
Four: Private C. Sopp, Hampshire Regiment, later Metropolitan Police India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1887-89, Burma 1885-7, clasps remounted in this order, as usual (834. Pte. C. Sopp 2d. Bn. Hamps. R.); Jubilee 1897, bronze, Metropolitan Police (P.C. C. Sopp. W. Divn.); Coronation 1911, bronze, Metropolitan Police (P.C. C. Sapp [sic]. W. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C. C. Sopp.) good very fine (4) £240-£280 --- Charles Sopp was born in Ham, Hungerford, Berkshire, on 29 June 1867 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment at Winchester on 6 April 1883, giving his year of birth as 1864. He served with the 2nd Battalion in India and Burma from 12 March 1885 to 21 January 1891, and transferred to the Reserve on 29 January 1891. He was discharged on 5 April 1895, after 12 years’ service. Sopp enlisted in the Metropolitan Police on 1 June 1891, and was posted to ‘F’ Division. He transferred to ‘W’ (Clapham) Division on 24 February 1897, and resigned to pension on 7 July 1919. Sold with copied records of service.
Alexander Davison’s Medal for The Nile 1798, bronze, the reverse contemporarily impressed ‘John Dykes, Marine. HMS Majestic’, pierced with ring suspension, dinting to obverse caused by impressing to reverse, high relief points worn, therefore fine £160-£200 --- John Dykes served in H.M.S. Majestic at the Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798. His will was dated 1 June 1799.
Imperial German Buckles. Hessian 1840 style, all one-piece, brass, badly stamped Hessian crown. Bavarian two-piece, brass. Bavarian two-piece, bronze and nickel. Bavarian 1840 pattern two-piece, bronze and nickel. Hessian two-piece, gilding metal with the Hessian crown held to the main body by two matchsticks. Mecklenburg-Strelitz, two-piece, brass, excellent condition (6) £400-£500
German Second World War Cap and Breast Eagles. Large NSKOV breast eagle, white metal, black enamel centre, 95mm with pin back suspension. An unusual Eastern Government Officials white metal breast eagle, 110mm wingspan, complete with pin back suspension and lower uniform retaining hook. M.29 eagle, larger wingspan 46mm, white metal with all pins fitted. M.29 eagle, smaller type, 36mm wingspan, two fixing pins broken. NSKOV cap eagle in gilt with black painted centre, two fitting pins complete. Five political eagles with heads turning right in various conditions, three with one pin missing. Shorter winged political eagle, gilt dull, one pin only remaining. Shorter winged political eagle in a bronze colour, twin fixing pins remaining. Postschutz short stubby winged eagle, 35mm wingspan, one pin missing. Teno eagle, white metal, two pins remaining, generally good condition (14) £180-£220
Copy Medals (5): Victoria Cross, reverse stamped ‘C’; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silvered-bronze; Jubilee 1977, reverse marked ‘copy’; Jubilee 2012 (2), reverses of both marked ‘copy’, both in Thomas Fattorini card boxes; together with a Battle for Britain 1939-45 commemorative medal , 1 clasp, Red Cross, in case of issue; and an Arabian Service 1839-1967 commemorative medal, generally good very fine (7) £80-£120
Three: Corporal G. R. Stanyer, Machine Gun Corps, late Durham Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (27907Cpl. G. H. Stanyer. M.G.C.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, 1914 1918, with bronze star, extremely fine (3) £50-£70 --- Croix de Guerre London Gazette 19 June 1919. George Henry Stanyer was born in 1896 and attested on 5 December 1915; to Army Reserve “B” 8 December 1915; mobilised 22 January 1916, 3rd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry (29319 Pte.), transferred to Machine Gun Corps 13 March 1916; served B.E.F. with 122 Company M.G.C. from 16 May 1916; admitted to 38 General Hospital, Camiers, with trench fever 5-18 August 1917; promoted to Corporal 5 November 1918.
A German Second World War Luftwaffe Grouping. A nice small group comprising Luftwaffe soldbuch to Oberfeldwebel Hans-Herbert Lembke. The soldbuch is the standard Luftwaffe blue issue with a photograph of Lembke to the inner page wearing Luftwaffe uniform, hatless, all 24 pages of the soldbuch complete, first issued in 1939, page 4 complete with all of his flying units, which carries on with page 17 noting he was serving in many units during the intervening years and his final unit being a reconnaissance unit 22 January 1945. Every other page having in-depth detail of his service, on the reverse side pasted in as an addition to page 22 his list of awards, Iron Cross Second Class 10 August 1941, Wound Badge in black 30 August 1941, the Luftwaffe Front Flying clasp in bronze 11 September 1941 and finally the Iron Cross First Class on 2 October 1941. All of these awards are with the soldbuch the Flying clasp having excellent finish to the bronze, maker marked on the reverse side C.E. Juncker in its original fitted box with the correct lettering to the exterior of the box, lettering slightly defaced, a nice clean Iron Cross First Class, pin back, matching Iron Cross Second Class, finish slightly dull and undamaged Wound Badge in black stamped L56 below the hinge. A nice complete grouping of a Luftwaffe NCO flyer who served the whole length of the Second World War, good condition, scarce £400-£500
Three: Chief Inspector D. G. Hayes, City of London Police, who was the on-duty senior officer, and the first senior officer on the scene at the Exchange Buildings, Houndsditch, on the night of 16-17 December 1910, when three City of London Policemen were murdered, resulting in the famous Siege of Sidney Street Jubilee 1887, 1 clasp, 1897, City of London Police, bronze (P.C. 625. D. Hayes.); Coronation 1902, City of London Police, bronze (Insp. D. Hayes.); Coronation 1911, City of London Police (Ch. Insp. D. G. Hayes.) mounted as worn, very fine (3) £300-£400 --- Daniel George Hayes attested for the City of London Police and, having been advanced Chief Inspector, was the on-duty senior officer, and the first senior officer on the scene at the Exchange Buildings, Houndsditch on the night of 16-17 December 1910, when three policemen were murdered- the crime shocked Londoners, and the following month the perpetrators were identified as hiding out in Sidney Street- the subsequent Siege of Sidney Street, in which the Home Secretary Winston Churchill himself was present, was one of the major police incidents of the early 20th Century. Hayes is mention in the books The Houndsditch Murders and the Siege of Sidney Street by Donald Rumbelow; and The Battle of Stepney by Colin Rogers. Sold together with a poor-quality photographic image of the recipient wearing his medals.
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 2nd Volunteer Battalion Glengarry Badge c.1890. Standard pattern, thistle wreath, mullet and strung bugle with 2 to the centre, lugs to the rear; another to the 3rd Volunteer Battalion with 3V at the top of the badge, lugs to the rear; and a 4th Volunteer Battalion NCOs standard pattern Glengarry badge with 4V at the top of the badge in bronze lugs to the rear, good condition (3) £120-£160
An unattributed Second War group of seven 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1949, with Second Award Bar, G.VI.R., this dated 1950, with integral top riband bar; United States of America, Bronze Star, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, good very fine (7) £140-£180
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (George J. Harmar. 22 June 1873.) with integral top riband buckle, in Warrington, London, fitted and embossed case of issue, nearly extremely fine £120-£160 --- George J. Harmar was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s bronze medal for saving life on the River Thames in Kingston, Surrey, on 22 July 1873 (R.H.S. case no. 19,170).
A Great War German Iron Cross pair Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre; Empire, Cross of Honour 1914-18, combatant’s issue with swords, bronze, reverse marked ‘R.V.9 Pforzheim’, mounted German-style style as worn, good very fine Germany, Baden, Campaign Medal 1849, bronze, good very fine Germany, Prussia, War Cross 1866, Treuen Kriegern reverse, bronze, very fine Germany, Third Reich, Faithful Service Decoration, Second Class, for 25 Years’ service, silver; Cross of Honour of the German Mother, Second Class, 2nd type, silvered and enamel; together with a cast copy War Merit Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge, with crossed swords, generally very fine Italy, Kingdom, Cross of Military Valour, bronze; War Merit Cross, bronze; East Africa Medal, bronze; together with a Third Army Commemorative Cross, silvered and enamel; and a Savoia Cavalry Commemorative Medal 1892, silver, very fine United States of America, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, bronze; Army of Occupation Medal, bronze; Prisoner of War Medal, bronze, good very fine (lot) £80-£120 --- Sold together with an unofficial commemorative Jubilee Medal 1935.
A ‘Queen Victoria funeral’ R.V.M. pair awarded to Commissioned Gunner C. P. Bennett, M.B.E., Royal Navy, who died in December 1919 Royal Victorian Medal, V.R., bronze (C. P. Bennett L.S. Feb: 2nd 1901.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Gnr. C. P. Bennett. R.N.) the first pitted and suspension bent on the second, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £100-£140 --- Charles Palmer Bennett was born at Weybridge, Surrey, on 23 December 1879, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 17 April 1895, a milk boy by trade. Specialising in gunnery, he was passed for Gunner in January 1908 and was commissioned as Acting Gunner on 7 December 1910, and confirmed in this rank on 6 December 1911. Awarded the M.B.E. in 1918, he died whilst serving in H.M.S. Furious on 26 December 1919, and is buried in Portsmouth (Milton) Cemetery.
Pair: Sergeant W. F. Medhurst, Gloucestershire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (20312 Sjt. W. F. Medhurst. Glouc. R.) good very fine Pair: Private A. T. Purrier, Hampshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (55396 Pte. A. T. Purrier. Hamps. R.) very fine Pair: Private E. Adshead, Wiltshire Regiment, later King’s Shropshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (34419 Pte. E. Adshead. Wilts. R.) in named card box of issue; together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘B228115’ and additionally privately named ‘E. Adshead, K.S.L.I.’, in numbered card box of issue; the recipient’s Royal Life Saving Society Swimming Proficiency Medal, bronze, the re verse engraved ‘E. Adshead. Oct. 1905.’, in fitted case of issue; and a Dewsbury Amateur Swimming Club Prize Medal, silver, the obverse engraved ‘Won by E. Adshead, 1905’; together with a gold (9ct?, approx. 6g) and enamel Masonic Jewel, the obverse inscribed ‘Presented by Cœur de Lion Lodge No. 120’, the reverse inscribed ‘Abraham Adshead’, about extremely fine Pair: Private W. A. Banks, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (87905 Pte. W. A. Banks. R.A.M.C.) nearly very fine (11) £140-£180
A Great War Iron Cross group of four Germany, Saxony, Freidrich August Medal, silver; Military Merit Medal, silver; Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre; Germany, Empire, Cross of Honour 1914-18, combatant’s issue with swords, bronze, unmarked; together with the riband bar for the first three awards; and also with the four related miniature awards, these mounted Continental-style on a double braided gilt chain, with fixing pins at both ends, in Bell-Zoo, Berlin, card box, good very fine (4) £100-£140
The extremely rare campaign group of four awarded to Major R. J. H. L. Mackenzie, Royal Engineers, a pioneering military aeronaut who ascended in his balloon up to 750 feet for 7 hours as part of a marching column in the Soudan in March 1885 - only the second time that the Balloon Detachment had been sent out on active service, and the first time that it had been present in a campaign where there was fighting. Mackenzie subsequently served as part of the Zhob Field Force under Sir George White, and as the Survey Officer with the Second Miranzai Expedition of 1891, being Mentioned in Despatches for his services during both campaigns Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (Lieut: R. Mackenzie. R.E.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Samana 1891 (Captain R. J. H. L. Mackenzie R.E.); Khedive’s Star, 1884-6, unnamed as issued; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Ronald J. Mackenzie); together with a bronze Confirmation medallion, engraved ‘Ronald Mackensie’ [sic], minor edge nicks, generally good very fine (5) £1,800-£2,200 --- Ronald Joseph Henry Louis Mackenzie was born in Clonmel, Ireland in 1863. He was the son of Major A. C. Mackenzie, and was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in July 1882. Military experiments with balloons began at Woolwich Arsenal in 1878, with the first balloon section presented at Aldershot in 1880. A school of instruction was established in 1883, and Mackenzie became a pioneer of the Balloon Detachment after it was sent out on active service for the first time in 1884, ‘When, in the autumn of 1884, an expedition was sent to Bechuanaland under Sir Charles Warren, expel the filibusters who had raided the territory, to pacificate the country, and to reinstate the natives, a balloon detachment under Major Elsdale and Captain F. C. Trollope, of the Grenadier Guards, attached to the Royal Engineers, was included in the expedition. They took with them in the detachment three balloons, and a staff consisting of fifteen non-commissioned officers and men. There was no fighting. At Mafeking, which was then a native village, it was found that owing to the elevation above sea-level neither of the two smaller balloons had lift enough to raise a man into the air, and that the largest balloon could take up only one observer.... Balloons were used again on active service in the following year, 1885, in the Soudan. A small detachment, under Major Templer with Lieutenant R. J. H. L. Mackenzie, of the Royal Engineers, and nine non-commissioned officers and sappers, accompanied the expeditionary force. The best of the material had been sent to Bechuanaland, so the equipment was very imperfect, but ascents made in a balloon of one of the smaller types at El Teb and Tamai [sic], and elsewhere, proved useful for reconnaissance.’ (War in the Air, by Sir Walter Raleigh and H. A. Jones refers) Further details of the ascents made by Mackenzie are given in the History of the Royal Engineers: ‘The party went with the convoy to McNeil’s Zeriba at El Tofrek. On March 25 the balloon was filled during the previous night so as to be ready to join the convoy square at daybreak. Lt. Mackenzie ascended with instruments etc, complete, and was kept by Major Templar at heights varying from 200 to 400 feet, according to his requirements. He remained in the car for seven hours. It is interesting to record the various messages which passed on this occasion: 1) No enemy in sight for 3 miles around. 2) There is a column of our troops 3 miles off to North-West marching on Hasheen. 3) Camels appear in 2’s and 3’s in line with the highest peak of range, to left of Hasheen. Our own troops moving from Zeriba towards us in square. 4) Small bodies of enemy to our left front 800 yds. off. 5) (In answer to question: what strength?) About 40 to 30 men. 6) Dust rising towards Tamai 3 miles off, also on Trinkitat road some distance. 7) Few of the enemy to left front 800 yds. off, rather more to our left than previous body. Men getting out from bushes and running away towards Tamai. 8) Four men in open space, 800 yds. away, apparently watching balloon.’ Mackenzie’s balloon ventured as high as 750 feet, and was towed by a car in the centre of the marching column for 7 hours between Suakin and Tofrek. He advanced to Captain in September 1890, and was present in the same year with the Zhob Field Force under Sir George White (Mentioned in Despatches). Mackenzie served under Brigadier General Sir William Lockhart as the Survey Officer with the Second Miranzai Expedition of 1891. He was mentioned in the latter’s despatch (London Gazette 15 September 1891) thus: ‘Captain R. J. H. L. Mackenzie, Royal Engineers, has satisfactorily conducted the survey work of the expedition. He has been successful in extending the survey of the Orakzai country to the Tsappar range, south of Tirah, and to the Marghan pass between the Khanki and Kurmana valleys, thus completing the excellent work of Captain Wahab, Royal Engineers, whose name I brought to notice at the end of the last expedition.’ Mackenzie advanced to Major in December 1900. He was placed on half pay due to ill health in December 1903, and retired in August 1906. He served with the Metropolitan Special Constabulary during the Great War. Sold with extensive copied research.
The Second War Honorary O.B.E. attributed to Colonel A. E. Brundage, Signal Section, United States Armed Forces The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint case of issue, gilding almost all rubbed, and the outside of the case of issue somewhat distressed, otherwise nearly extremely fine £160-£200 --- O.B.E. not Gazetted but announced 29 December 1945. The official citation states: ‘From 1941 to 1943 Lieutenant-Colonel Brundage was Chief of the Signal Section, International Aid Division, U.S. War Department, where his services in the supply of Signal equipment for the British Army all over the world were of a very high order. It was in no small measure due to his efficient handling of the many requisitions involved that a steady flow of this invaluable equipment reached the British Forces in the field. His unfailing assistance to his British associates in Washington will long be remembered. Albert Edward Brundage was born on 2 October 1892 and in civilian life was employed by the Western Electric Company as a salesman and engineering consultant for railroads and oil and pipe-line companies on communication systems, including telephone circuits, dispatch circuits, and carrier systems. Having served briefly during the Great War he held a Reserve Commission in the United States Infantry until 1941, when he was commissioned into the Signal Corps. He served during the Second World War as Office in Charge of the Foreign Aid Section, and later as a Signal Supply Officer. For his services he was awarded the Bronze Star, and was also appointed an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Sold with various letters, original service records, newspaper cutting, photographs, and other ephemera, all contained in an embossed leather ‘War Service Record’ folder.
A collection of various objets de vertus including a Chinese patinated bronze figure of a boar with tusks 9 cm long x 6 cm high, a miniature faux taxidermy study of lapwing and young by Jessica Monckton in convex glass fronted case 9.5 cm diameter, another similar study of water rail and chick by H.E. Harvey 8.8 cm diameter, a mid 20th Century green onyx trinket box of rectangular form 11 cm wide x 5 cm high, an onyx egg 7.3 cm high, an onyx goblet 7.2 cm high, malachite figure of a rhinocerous 9.5 cm long, twelve various carved hardstone animal figures of elephants, rhinocerous, boar, tortoise etc and four early 20th Century miniature carved ivory figures of elephants
A 19th Century Chinese enamel decorated dish in famille rose palette decorated with figures picnicing in a landscape with mountains rising in background 21 cm x 13 cm, a Chinese famille rose enamelled square box and cover, yellow ground 8.2 cm x 8 cm x 5.2 cm an engraved brass rectangular lidded box decorated with four toed dragon 19 cm x 12 cm x 7.5 cm high and a turquoise inlaid brass bellied box with embossed decoration and spike finialled lid 8 cm high, a heavy brass circular dish 14 cm, an engraved brass temple type bell on stand 7 cm high, a pewter hip flask of moon form 10 cm high and a pair of Chinese cloisonne decorated table candlesticks, the centre panels decorated with a battle scene 22 cm high, a pair of Chinese brass candlesticks on script type pedestal supports 25 cm high, a bronze temple style inkwell and cover 17 cm high and an engraved Chinese metal tea caddy and cover with floral and foliate decoration 13 cm high
MUSICAL INTEREST; a collection of various items including large faience model of a cat playing violin, height 37cm, bronze figure of a violinist signed Danton, height 29cm, a set of six carved bone figures of musicians on barrel bases, each approx 15cm, carved wooden figure of a seated cellist (arm af), and various other items (12).
WALTER BOSSE FOR HERTHA BALLER; an Austrian bronze model of an elephant, on circular base, stamped to the underside, height 5cm, together with a further bronze model of an elephant, a Chinese bronze model of a seated Buddha, with five character marks to the underside of the base and four other items.
AFTER JEAN PATOU; a modern bronze figure of a nude on circular base, height 37cm, together with a bronze group of two dolphins, unsigned, height 19cm, a bronze model of a fish and coral on circular green marble base, an Austin composition figure of a gamekeeper, height 34cm, together with a mottled glass fish, a three-piece silver plated condiment set and a silver plated trinket box and hinged cover (9).Additional InformationAll three bronze items with general darkened patina throughout with some minor rubbing to raised areas. The composition figure with some small chips and scuffs, the glass fish with some light surface grazes, the plated items with general light age wear.
A Chinese cast bronze censer and cover, the pierced finial surmounted by a mythical sea creature, with twin elephant head handles and cast with dragons chasing the Pearl of Wisdom, height 23cm.Additional InformationOne of the elephant heads is detached. General age wear patina of rubbing and light scratches, etc throughout.
A Chinese polished brass vase, decorated with an entwined dragon, birds and animals, four character seal mark to the underside of the base, height 24cm, and a selection of other decorative metalware, ceramic and collectors' items including a Wedgwood bone china 'Clio' pattern circular box and cover, a white metal model of a cockerel, a box containing twenty five different matchboxes, a Russian book, a copper fish mould, a Bambi soap in original box by Cussons, etc.Additional InformationThe bronze vase dented at the rim and with three splits at the rim.
A SILVER MEDALLION COMMEMORATING THE CORONATION OF KING EDWARD VII 1902 AND THREE FURTHER MEDALLIONS (4)Detailed Corporation of St Pancras Chichester, Felton G Randolf Esq Mayor, with the original case, a bronze medallion commemorating The Coronation of King George V, fitted with an unofficial suspension, cased, a silver medallion commemorating The 1935 Silver Jubilee, with a box and a Lusitania replica medal with the original folded paper detailed A German Naval Victory, and the original box.
A COLLECTION OF BRITISH COINS DISPLAY IN AN ALBUMIncluding a Victoria Jubilee head half crown 1890, pre-1947 issues, including half crowns, florins and shillings, bronze issues, a 1937 Coronation crown, further commemorative crowns, including 1951 Festival of Britain issue with a box and 1953 Coronation, also two First Decimal Coins Sets
A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FIVE MEDALLIONS (25)Mostly bronze or other base metals, subjects including the 1897 Diamond Jubilee, the 1902 Coronation, George Frederick Handel, the 1887 Silver Jubilee, Aberdeen University for Medical Jurisprudence 1889 and another for Practical Hygiene 1893, both awarded to John Donald and Shell Chemicals Limited for Horticultural Attainment.
A COLLECTION OF THIRTEEN MEDALLIONS (13)Mostly bronze but including some silver. Subjects including LMSR for Service in National Emergency May 1926, the Hog Memorial Medal, a large French bronze medallion commemorating The 1878 International Exhibition, Christchurch Boat Club and the Coronation of King Edward VII. With cases.
A COLLECTION OF FOURTEEN MEDALLIONS (14)Mostly bronze or gilt, including; the opening of The Queen Alexandra Dock Cardiff, George Granville Duke of Sutherland, The Royal Academy of Music in two grades, The British Dairy Farmers Association and a set of three cased together with plaque, detailed The Three British Kings of 1936. The others also with cases.
TWO FIRST WORLD WAR PERIOD BRONZE MEMORIAL PLAQUES (2)The first named Rodney Ahern, died 8th August 1915, served with the Royal Dublin Fusilliers, and is commemorated at the Helles Memorial, the second named Richard Ahern, according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, there were three casualties of the First World War of this name.
A COLLECTION OF THIRTEEN MEDALLIONS (13)In various metals, including two silver detailed Hampshire Agricultural Education Committee, The Smithfield Club Prize for Best Pen of Pigs 1884, The Hogg Memorial Medal, otherwise mostly bronze and base metal issues including The Death of King William IV and The Death of Queen Anne, further subjects including The Presbyterian Church of England, The Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce and King Edward VIII, mostly with cases.
A BRONZE BUST OF AN ART NOUVEAU LADYBy Georges van der Straeten (Belgian, 1856-1941)Signed to the reverse and stamped ‘F’, mounted on a rouge marble plinth, height 22cm highCondition report:- Numerous chips to the marble, one particularly large fracture to the back right corner- Dirt and dust throughout
A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS AND BRONZE PATINATED LUSTRE CANDLESTICKS (2)Each with drip-pans, cast with fruit motifs, hung with faceted glass drops, 24cm high (2)Condition report: In good decorative order. Rubbing, minor dents, scuffs and scratches commensurate with use and age. Some oxidisation and tarnishing. Drops possibly associated replacements. One missing. Lead weighted undersides. Parts probably originally gilded.
A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN PARCEL-GILT AND BRONZE PATINATED CANDLESTICKSMid-19th CenturyEach with pierced C-scroll drip-pan, supported on fruiting vine branch, with goat and putto to plinth base, 19.5cm high (2)Condition report: Lacking glass drops. Rubbing to the gilding, notably to the bae and areas of the figures, with tarnishing, dirt and dust overall. General light scuffs and wear commensurate with age and use.
A BRONZE MODEL OF A SIGNAL CANNON AND ANOTHER SMALLER (2)19th CenturyA bronze model of a signal cannon, the tapered 12cm barrel mounted on a stepped wooden carriage with brass trucks, overall length 16cm, height 10cm, together with another smaller example, length 11.5cm, height 6cmCondition report:Both in generally worn condition with marks to the barrel's and scuffs and gouges to the wooden carriages
AFTER OTTO GUTFREUND (1889-1927) ; AN ALLOY GROUP OF TWO FIGURES OR ‘FIGHTERS’30cm wide; 13cm highThis group is after the ‘Fighters’ or ‘Zapasnici’, the original conceived in 1924 by the Czech Cubist artist, Otto Gutfreund. Gutfreund’s model was later cast in bronze in an edition of 6 by the Fiorini Foundry, London, in 1965. See Christie’s, London, 8 February 2013, lot 26. Condition report: Scuffs and scratches commensurate with use and material. No marks or apparent signature. Most likely an alloy containing lead
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