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Lot 182
AN EGYPTIAN PRE-DYNASTIC TERRACOTTA JAR with a narrow foliate horizontal band to the rim, the glazed body with slightly protruding foot rim, 23.5cm high, a bronze stag ornament on a marble stand, 18cm high overall, a marble vessel and cover, 9cm wide, miniature alabaster urn, 5cm high and a resin eagles head with inset eyes of abalone shell , 16cm long (5) The estate of The late Robert and Lyndsay Brydon, Edinburgh Condition Report: The jar with long vertical crack and rim chips. the marble vessel with rim chips. alabaster vessel with rim chips. eagle head with wear and pitting.
Lot 183
A PERSIAN METAL BASIN decorated with a square panel of calligraphy, surrounded by scrolling foliage, within a raised rim, a small bronze bowl decorated with a band of fish, 7cm diameter, and two damascened boxes, 12 and 9cm wide (4) The estate of The late Robert and Lyndsay Brydon, Edinburgh Condition Report: Available upon request
Lot 282
SOLANGE BERTRAND, FRENCH (1913-2011) A pair of Art Deco gilded bronze figures of a Dutch boy and girl with carved ivory faces, he upon a brown onyx base and she on a orange veined white onyx base, both 16cm high and both signed to bases (2) Condition Report: Tiny chip to onyx base on boy and a few flea bites to rims.
Lot 280
A pair of Royal Worcester vases and covers by Charley Baldwyn, dated 1899Of inverted pear shape moulded with bands of stiff leaves around the lower part, the scrolling handles hung with leafy garlands and coloured in green, bronze and gold, painted with four swans in flight above raised gold foliage and grasses, both signed 'C. BALDWYN', all against a pale blue ground, the reverses with three blue swallows in flight picked out in gold, raised on square bases, the domed covers with foliate bud finials, 24.2cm high, puce marks, shape number 1937 (4)Footnotes:ProvenanceNellie Hagen, April 1938Thence by family descent to the present ownerA similar pair of vases was sold by Bonhams on 9 September 2009, lot 336 and another on 18 May 2011, lot 594.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 229
Four: Captain W. P. Townshend, Royal Naval Reserve and Mercantile Marine, who was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Medal in bronze for attempting to save life in Cape Town harbour in 1900 1914-15 Star (Lieut. W. P. Townshend. R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Commr. W. P. Townshend. R.N.R.); Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1920, unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £240-£280 --- William Pearson Townshend was born in London in 1875 and entered the Mercantile Marine, being employed by the Peninsula and Oriental Steamship Company. He was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s bronze medal (unsuccessful) in 1900 for attempting to save life in Cape Town Harbour in 1900- a man by the name of Bannard had been lost overboard and Townshend, who was asleep at the time, rushed on deck and got into a small boat. He dived four times but could not find Bannard Townshend passed his Master’s Certificate in 1903, and was commissioned Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve on 9 July 1904. He was promoted Lieutenant on 13 December 1907, and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Pembroke, H.M.S. Edgar, and H.M.S. Queen Victoria. He was promoted Lieutenant-Commander on 13 December 1915, and for his services during the Great War was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Russian Order of St. Anne, 2nd Class. Promoted Commander on 31 December 1920, he relinquished his commission in the Reserve on 31 December 1925, being granted the honorary rank of Captain. Remaining in the Mercantile Marine, he was awarded the Greek Naval Merit of Meal in silver in 1932 for his role in the rescue of the crew of the Greek steamer Theodoros Bulgaris, whilst in command of the P. & O. Steamer Viceroy of India, in the Bay of Biscay. He finally retired in 1935. Sold with copied research.
Lot 255
Three: Second Lieutenant A. L. Trainer, Royal Flying Corps, late Northumberland Fusiliers and 23rd Battalion, London Regiment 1914-15 Star (7-2345 Pte. A. L. Trainer. North’d Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. A. L. Trainer. R.F.C.); together with a bronze Diocese of Newcastle Parochial Reader’s medallion, very fine (4) £140-£180 --- Allan Lorraine Trainer was born on 20 December 1891 and was educated at Berwick Grammar School. He attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers following the outbreak of the Great War and served with the 7th Battalion on the Western Front from 21 April 1915, taking part in the Battle of St. Julien four days after his arrival on the Front. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 23rd Battalion, London Regiment, he subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as an Observation Officer. He transferred to the Unemployed list on 10 June 1919, and post-War resumed his civilian career as a school master. Sold with copied research, including various copied newspaper cuttings that including photographic images of the recipient.
Lot 272
Pair: Private C. C. Adams, Hertfordshire Yeomanry British War and Victory Medals (10540 Pte. C. C. Adams. Herts. Yeo.); together with the recipient’s Royal Horticultural Society Long Service Medal, bronze, with ‘50 Years’ Bar, the reverse engraved ‘C. C. Adams’, in original John Pinches case, with accompanying R.H.S. lapel badge, good very fine (3) £100-£140 --- Charles Christopher Adams was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire in 1894. In the 1911 Census he is noted as a seventeen year old nursery hand, at Flamstead End, Cheshunt. After service overseas in the Great War with 1/1 Hertfordshire Yeomanry, he returned to his gardening career, and he is still a resident of Cheshunt in the 1939 Register, where he is recorded as a ‘Nurseryman - Roses’. The Royal Horticultural Society Long Service Medal was instituted in 1958. It is bestowed upon any man or woman of British Nationality, resident in the United Kingdom, who has completed 40 years’ continuous satisfactory employment as a gardener or in some other horticultural capacity with one employer or family, or in one place, with Bars being awarded for fifty or sixty years service.
Lot 288
Six: Sergeant H. T. Bugden, Hampshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (1804 Sjt. H. T. Bugden. Hamps. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (1804 Pte. H. T. Bugden. Hamps. R.); Defence Medal; Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Const. Herbert T. Bugden); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (200169 Sjt. H. Bugden. 4-Hamps. R.) name officially corrected; together with Southern Railway St. John Ambulance L.S. Medal, for 7 Years, 35mm, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Herbert T. Bugden 1932.’, complete with brooch bar ‘7 Years’, the first six mounted court-style, very fine or better (7) £200-£240 --- T.E.M. Army Order 65 of February 1921, published as ‘Budgen’; corrected in Army Order 51 of February 1922 to ‘Bugden’. Medal Index Card indicates that T.E.M. was appropriately amended and re-issed on 17 October 1921. Herbert Thomas Bugden served mainly with the 1/4th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment. He died on 26 December 1973.
Lot 297
Family Group: Four: Mr. E. R. Burdon, British Committee, French Red Cross British War and Victory Medals (E. R. Burdon); France, Third Republic, Medaille de La Reconnaissance, bronze, unnamed, with gilt laurel spray pin clasp; Medaille de l’Union des Femmes de France, ‘Honneur au Devouement’ silvered medal for Red Cross service, unnamed, mounted as worn, very fine Four: Mrs. H Burdon, British Committee, French Red Cross British War and Victory Medals (H. Burdon); France, Third Republic, Medaille de La Reconnaissance, bronze, unnamed, with gilt laurel spray pin clasp; Medaille de l’Union des Femmes de France, ‘Honneur au Devouement’ silvered medal for Red Cross service, unnamed, with card box of issue for one of the French awards, edge bruise to BWM otherwise nearly extremely fine (8) £300-£400 --- Edward Russell Burdon was born in Peking in 1870, the son of Bishop John Shaw Burdon, Chaplain of the British Legation and Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong. The 1881 Census shows him as a pupil at a school in Mill Street Potton. In 1891 he was a Clerk living at Albert Rd in Altrincham. Educated at Sidney College, Cambridge, he subsequently became a University Lecturer in Forestry at Cambridge. In the 1911 Census, the family home was at Royston Hertfordshire, but also of Griante, Lake Como, Italy. He married Jane Eliza Helen Nathalie Shand, Lady Alford, the widow of Sir Edward Fleet Alford, in 1906. She was better known as ‘Helen’. Jane Eliza Helen Nathalie Burdon, née Shand, was born in Mangalore, Madras in 1861, the daughter of the late Lieutenant Colonel John Shand, Madras Staff Corps. She married firstly Sir Edward Alford, and subsequently Edward Russell Burdon. The medal roll shows Edward and Helen Burdon as consecutive entries with exactly the same details, they proceeded to France together in November 1916 and returned home in November 1918, serving as Masseur and Masseuse with the French Red Cross. As well as a residence in the U.K. they also retained a property at Lake Como in Italy. Edward Burdon died in Bexhill-on-Sea on 5 January 1945, and his wife also died there in 1949.
Lot 298
Three: Miss A. L. Merrylees, Scottish Women’s Hospital and French Red Cross British War and Victory Medals (A. L. Merrylees); France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, Ministère de la Guerre Bronze Medal for Devouement Epidemies, the reverse officially embossed ‘Miss A. Merrylees 1917’, in case of issue with gold blocked lettering to the lid (Ministère de la Guerre - Miss A. Merrylees 1917); together with the related miniature awards, generally very fine (3) (3) £200-£300 --- Miss Anna Louisa Merrylees was born in Aberdeen in 1879. She first served in Salonika with the Scottish Women’s Hospital and subsequently as a Masseuse and Orderly, in France with the French Red Cross. The medal roll shows her as being a serving member of The Scottish Women’s Hospital, and she served in the Royaumont unit with Miss Ivens. She served from September 1915 until September 1917. She is quoted twice in Eileen Crofton’s book on the unit. In the 1920’s she worked in Kenya, until returning to London and living in Chelsea. She was subsequently employed as a masseuse at St. Bartholemew’s Hospital for 20 years, and died at Harborne Hall, Birmingham, in December 1965.
Lot 323
Six: Able Seaman W. J. Fincham, Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Reserve, and London Fire Brigade 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J.100569 (Ch.B. 22198) W. J. Fincham. A.B. R.F.R.); London Fire Brigade Good Service Medal, bronze (William J. Fincham 1946) nearly extremely fine (6) £80-£120
Lot 352
Pair: Staff Sergeant A. Stephen, Royal Engineers General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Dhofar (22783171 S. Sgt. A. Stephen RE.) with Ministry of Defence enclosure, in named card box of issue; Oman, Sultanate, General Service Medal 1959, with clasp, bronze, good very fine and better (2) £70-£90
Lot 41
A post-War O.B.E. group of seven attributed to Colonel K. Hunt, Royal Marines The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type, breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted; a Royal Life Saving Society Swimming Proficiency Medal, bronze, the reverse named ‘K. Hunt. Dec. 1920’; a Royal Marines Boxing Championship Prize Medal, silver, unnamed, in fitted case; and two miscellaneous silver prize medals, one unnamed, the other named ‘N.G.C. 1954. Col. K. Hunt’, good very fine and better (7) £240-£280 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 12 June 1947. Kenneth Hunt was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Marines on 1 October 1920, and served in H.M. Ships Ramillies and Royal Oak, before joining the Fleet Air Arm in 1925, serving in carriers in the Home Fleet and on the China Station. He returned to General Service in 1930, and after a period at the Deal Depot served in H.M. Ships Erebus and Frobisher. From 1933 to 1936 he was Adjutant at Eastney, returning to sea in H.M.S. Dragon, and was serving in H.M.S. Shropshire when the Second World War commenced. During the Second World War Hunt served as Second in Command of 10th Battalion, Royal Marine Division, and then as Commanding Officer of 5th Battalion, Royal Marine Division and later 7th Battalion, Royal Marine Division in Sicily. He was the first Royal Marine Officer to command a Naval establishment, when he joined H.M.S. Robertson in 1944. He then went out to Bombay on the Staff. Post-War he served as Commanding Officer at Eastney, finally retiring in 1952. A fine athlete, Hunt represented the Royal Navy at cricket and golf, and captained both the Royal Navy and Combined Services hockey team. He died on 16 March 1971, aged 68. Sold together with the named Bestowal Document for the O.B.E.; Commission appointing Kenneth Hunt, Gentleman, a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Marines, dated 1 October 1920; a Naval Message sent to the recipient; a copy of the Order of Service for the Service of Thanksgiving to mark the 300th Anniversary of the Royal Marines, St. Paul’s Cathedral, 24 July 1964; and two newspaper cuttings, one relating to the recipient’s retirement, and the other to his death, the first including a photograph of the recipient.
Lot 439
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (33906 Tpr: J. Love. 89th Coy. Imp. Yeo.); together with a Montgomeryshire Imperial Yeomanry Tribute Medal 1901, 38mm, bronze, the obverse featuring the arms of Mongomeryshire, ‘Mongomeryshire Imperial Yeomanry’ around, the reverse featuring a mounted trooper with a soldier knelt firing a rifle at his side, ‘South African Campaign 1901’ around, unnamed, and housed in fitted case, very fine and better (2) £300-£400 --- James Love was born in St Albans, Chester in 1881, and attested for the 89th (Montgomeryshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry at Ruabon on 12 March 1901, having previously served with the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. He served with the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa from 7 April 1901 until 27 August 1902, and was discharged on 3 September 1902.
Lot 492
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal (5), one with Home Secretary’s enclosure, in card box of issue; War Medal 1939-45 (4); Africa Service Medal (2); South Africa Medal for War Service; U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Canadian Forces Decoration, G.VI.R. (W.O. 2 J. L. R. Marier); Multinational Force and Observers Medal, bronze; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, with bronze star emblem on riband, in card box of issue, generally good very fine Pair: Army Field Clerk G. M. Wetz, United States Forces United States of America, Victory Medal, 1 clasp, France, bronze; Tomkins County, New York State Great War Service Medal, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Godfrey Wetz’, with top brooch bar; together with various cloth insignia, good very fine (20) £80-£120 --- Sold together with a Canadian Forces General Service lapel badge and other ephemera.
Lot 516
Three: Police Constable J. Martin, City of London Police, who was present 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 1897, City of London Police, bronze (P.C. 961 J. Martin.); Coronation 1902, City of London Police, bronze (P.C. J. Martin.); Coronation 1911, City of London Police (P.C., J. Martin.) good very fine £300-£400 --- James Martin was born in Preston, near Faversham, Kent, in 1886 and attested for the City of London Police on 31 October 1890, having previously served as a Fireman with the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. Numerous times Commended for his service, he was advanced Detective Constable, and was present 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. Martin was discharged, ‘unfit for further service’, on 27 November 1913, and died at Faversham, Kent, on 21 January 1925. Sold with copied research including a copy of the book ‘The Houndsditch Murders ands the Siege of Sidney Street by Donald Rumbelow, in which the recipient is mentioned numerous times.
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