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Lot 562
FRENCH MARBLE, GILT AND PATINATED BRONZE THREE PIECE CLOCK GARNITURE 19TH CENTURY the white enamel dial with blue Roman and Arabic numeral chapters and two winding holes, in a breakfront white marble case surmounted with a pair of putti and a central flame finial, the eight-day movement striking a bell; the associated figural candelabra each with a putto standing on a column with a standard issuing three candle arms(clock 43cm wide, 37cm high, 13cm deep)
Lot 10
20th century bronze of an old woman, the woman is finely detailed, with a scarf on her head with a buttoned dress seated on a rush ladder back chair, this bronze is understood to have been cast in Budapest, Hungary, the monogram T.F to the chair rail, raised on a pine base, approx 36 cms h. Note: Hungary is well known as a nation of centenarians.
Lot 118
Early 20th century polished bronze Chinese export dragon vase. The vase having a tapering neck with flared rim. The body of the vase having applied decoration depicting chasing dragon and flaming pearls of wisdom encircling the vase and neck, further incised with scroll clouds and bats, with seal marks to base, approx 35 cms h.
Lot 224
Pair: Private P. E. Palmer, Machine Gun Corps, who was wounded in April 1918 British War and Victory Medals (28550 Pte. P. E. Palmer. M.G.C.) the BWM officially re-impressed without any punctuation; together with Charing Cross Hospital bronze cross, the reverse engraved (P. Palmer) possibly his wife, good very fine --- Percy Edward Palmer, from Finsbury Park, London, served with 25 Company, Machine Gun Corps and was wounded on 10 April 1918 by a gunshot to his right arm. Entitled to Silver War Badge No. 452706.
Lot 231
Three: Sergeant A. W. Paul, 1st Foreign Service Garrison Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, late 25th (County of London) Cyclist Battalion, London Regiment and 26th Middlesex (Cyclist) Volunteer Rifle Corps British War Medal 1914-20 (8 Sjt. A. W. Paul. 25-Lond. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (8 Sjt. A. W. Paul. 25-Lond. R); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R., with Second Award Bar (8 Sjt: A. W. Paul. 25/Cyc: (C. of L.) B. Lon: R.); together with a Royal Military Tournament 1898 Medal with ‘R.M.T. 1899’ clasp, bronze, in its D. George Collins case of issue, with some verdigris; and a 26th Middlesex Cyclist Volunteer Rifle Corps medal, 9ct. gold and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘1907 Point to Point Race. Sgt. A. W. Hall.’ in its Benet Fink & Co. fitted case of issue, generally nearly extremely fine (5) £200-£240 --- Albert William Paul, a native of Herne Hill, London, served initially with the 26th Middlesex (Cyclist) Volunteer Rifle Corps and then from 1 August 1908 he served with its lineal successor, the 25th (County of London) Cyclist Battalion, London Regiment, with Regimental Number 8. This Battalion's Great War service was undertaken in India and the North West Frontier where, in 1917, it participated in the Waziristan Campaign. Paul subsequently transferred to the 1st Foreign Service Garrison Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry which formed at Plymouth and went to India in February 1917 where it joined the Rawalpindi Brigade in the 2nd (Rawalpindi) Division. Disembodied on 2 April 1919, Paul was not entitled to a Star or Victory Medal: this group, therefore, is his full entitlement.
Lot 252
Seven: Attributed to Lieutenant-Commander T. Hand, M.B.E., Royal Naval Reserve, later Harbour Master, Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1977, unnamed as issued; Malta George Cross 50th Anniversary Medal 1992, unnamed as issued; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Jubilee Medal for the 40th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1985, bronze; together with an unofficial ‘Arctic Convoy’ Medal 1939-45; together with seven miniature awards, including that of the M.B.E., all mounted for display along with a plaque for the S.S. Bryony, and a coloured photograph of the recipient wearing his medals being introduced to H.M. Queen Elizabeth II, generally good very fine and better (8) £200-£240 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1978: Captain Thomas Hand, lately Harbour Master, Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority. Thomas Hand was born in South Shields on 4 January 1914 and was a merchant seaman by trade. First apprenticed on a Tyne Tramp running to New Zealand, amongst other experiences he was shipwrecked on the New South Wales coast, saw the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and arrived in New York after a 79 day voyage from the Philippines the day before the end of prohibition. He received his Master’s ticket in 1941, and was granted a commission in the Royal Naval Reserve on 19 May of that year. He served during the Second World War as a temporary Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve, and commanded the Flower-class corvette H.M.S. Bryony from 9 December 1942 to mid 1945, serving on convoy escort duties in the Atlantic, Arctic, and Mediterranean, including taking part in the celebrated Russian Convoy PQ-18. On 3 November 1943 Bryony picked up 14 survivors from the French merchantman Mont Viso that was sunk in convoy KMS-30 by the German submarine U-593 about 40 miles north-east of Tenes, Algeria. Shortly afterwards she attacked the U-boat with eight depth charges, causing sufficient damage to the submarine that it was forced to break out of its patrol. Hand relinquished his commission on 2 February 1946, and resumed his career with the mercantile marine, ultimately becoming Harbour Master of Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority in 1955. He retired in 1978, and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in that year’s Birthday Honours’ List. Sold with the recipient’s Board of Trade Continuous Certificate of Discharge; a portrait photograph of the recipient, and a coloured photograph of him being introduced to the Queen; and other ephemera.
Lot 253
Four: Marine S. Carter, Royal Marines 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (PO.216865 S. Carter. Mne. R.M.) good very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Sold with the following associated items: RM and RMLI cap badges; RM Rifle Association silver medal ‘1923 D of Edinburgh’s Aegean Cup’ (S.Carter PO.216865); RM Rifle Association bronze medal (Won by Royal Marines H.M.S. Malaya S. Carter PO.216865 Gibraltar Cup 1925); Royal Tournament silver medal (1927 Tug of War 130 Stone Royal Marines R.M. Portsmouth Marine S. Carter); and Royal Tournament bronze medal (Plymouth Royal Marine Command Tug of War 130 Stone Portsmouth 1927).
Lot 298
Three: Station Officer Joseph Calderwood, Lanarkshire Fire Brigade, who died of injuries sustained whilst fighting a fire at Colvilles steelworks at Bellshill in January 1963 Defence Medal; Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Stn. Offr. Joseph Calderwood) in its named card box of issue; British Fire services Association, bronze medal for 10 years, with additional bronze ribbon bar (J. Calderwood) in box of issue, nearly extremely fine (3) £160-£200 --- A Commemorative plaque bearing the names of Assistant Firemaster Stanley McIntosh and Station Officer Joseph Calderwood who died as a result of the incident on Monday the 7th of January 1963 at Colvilles Limited, Mossend Works, Bellshill was unveiled 10-30am on Thursday the 8th of August, 1985, at Motherwell Fire Station. The fire was a in Metal lean-to shed 20 feet by 8 feet used as a Paint Store and containing flammable liquids, paraffin, diesel, petrol, paint, etc., in containers 1 gallon to 4 gallons. 5 Appliances from Motherwell, Coatbridge and Hamilton attended. Apparently Deputy Firemaster McIntosh was showing new Firemaster (Firemaster John Stewart) round the stations in the area when they received a call about the fire and decided to attend the incident. When they arrived Station Officer Calderwood took them into the paint store; they were at the door when there was an explosion, the Firemaster was blown off his feet and saved by the heavy overcoat he was wearing, Deputy Firemaster McIntosh was killed and Station Officer Calderwood was seriously burned and died of his injuries a week later.
Lot 299
Five: Attributed to W. Zalewski, Polish Forces Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr Zalewski W., 17 Tamworth Road, Two Gates, Tamworth, Staffs.’; Poland, Republic, Cross of Merit, 1st issue, 3rd Class, bronze, with separate crossed swords suspension; Monte Cassino Cross 1944, reverse numbered, ‘47115’; Vatican, Holy See, Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross, bronze; together with a miniature Defence Medal; Monte Cassino Cross 1944; and Polish Army Medal, generally good very fine (5) £80-£120 --- Sold together with the recipient’s identity tag named to ‘Wawrzyniec Zalewski’; an Italian Air Force religious protection medal, 26mm, the obverse with the words ‘Maria Virgo Lauretana Aeronautarum Patrona’, the reverse inscribed ‘Dio Protegga Le Ali D’Italia’; a miniature medal, with short chain, the obverse featuring an aeroplane and a tower, the reverse with the words ‘Vergine Lauretana Benedici I Tuoi Figli In Volo’; and a Hepolite Pistons metal and enamel lapel badge inscribed ‘Hepolite for Speed’.
Lot 340
Maharajpoor Star 1843 (1st Lieutenant J. N. Sharp Bt. Captain Engineer Department of the Army of Gwalior) fitted with contemporary adapted bar suspension and ribbon buckle, toned, good very fine and rare £1,000-£1,400 --- John Nickson Sharp (commonly spelt John Nixon Sharp) was born in Coventry in 1811, the son of the local historian and writer, Thomas Sharp of Coventry and Leamington (1770-1841). Sharp was educated at the Indian Army College at Addiscombe, 1827-28, also studying at the Chatham Engineers’ school of sapping and mining under Lieutenant-Colonel Paisley in 1829 as a Gentleman Cadet, H.E.I.C. service (ranked as Ensign). He entered the Bengal Army as 2nd Lieutenant of Engineers on 12 December 1828. He arrived in India in September 1830 and in October was posted to Delhi for duty with the Sappers and Miners; he commanded a company of S & M until late 1834. In May 1834, he was appointed Assistant to the Executive Engineer of the Allahabad Division of Public Works, continuing in that role until August 1835 when he transferred in the same capacity to the Cawnpore Division, for the purpose of superintending the construction of a bridge on the Cawnpore-Allahabad road. In April 1838, he was appointed Executive Engineer of the Mhow Division of Public Works, but never joined as he was retained (in a temporary capacity) in the Cawnpore Division and in December 1839 was posted to the force assembling for the siege of Jhansi. On the surrender of the fort, no action having taken place, he was ordered back to Cawnpore and from there sent to supervise repairs at Allahabad fort. In August 1840, he was appointed Executive Engineer of the Dacca Division but was also ordered to remain where he was until January 1841 and then proceeded towards Dacca. However, he was soon recalled to Allahabad and in the Spring of 1841 fell into the temporary charge of the Allahabad Division with, from May 1842, additional responsibility for the Trunk Road from Fatehpur to Allahabad, and in January 1843, he was formally appointed to the charge of the Division. In August 1843, he was appointed Officiating Executive Engineer of the Agra Division, a position made permanent on October. In December, Sharp joined the Army of Exercise, afterwards titled the Army of Gwalior, and proceeded on active service with the Right Wing of the army and was present in the battle of Maharajpoor on 29 December (Bronze Star). On the conclusion of the Gwalior campaign he returned to his appointment in Agra, where he served until November 1846 before going on leave to the Presidency, and then to the U.K. on long furlough in January 1847. He returned to India in January 1851 and was then appointed to officiate as Garrison Engineer at Fort William and Civil Architect for the Presidency, holding that post until October 1852, when he was posted to Mian Meer as Officiating Executive Engineer, a post in which he was confirmed in May 1854, receiving promotion to Major in the same year. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed as Officiating Garrison Engineer at Fort William and Officiating Civil Architect for the Presidency, but at his own request this was cancelled in the following month, and he remained at Mian Meer until his death there in 1856. His major work during his time at Mian Meer (1851-56) was the design and construction of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene. In June 1856, he was appointed Officiating Superintending Engineer of the First Circle of Public Works in the Punjab, which appointment he held until his death, from cholera, at Mian Meer on 17 August 1856. He was buried in The Royal Artillery Cemetery in the Cantonment at Lahore, where an inscription reads: Beneath this lies interred the body of Major John Nixon Sharp, Bengal Engineers, sometime Executive Engineer at this station. He died of cholera on 17th Aug. 1856 in the 45th year of his age. This tomb is erected by friends of both services as a tribute of respect to his memory. He is also commemorated by a tablet in St. Mary of Magdalene’s Church, which he designed and built at Mian Meer, which is inscribed: In Memory of Major J. N. Sharp, Bengal Engineers, and sometime Executive Engineer in this station who died of cholera 17th August 1856, aged 45 years. This tablet is erected by Friends in India to whom he was known as a large hearted and high minded man, a consistent Christian and a conscientious servant of the State. Next to the good name he left behind him, this beautiful Church, of Which he was the Architect, is his noblest Monument. Sold with comprehensive research including detailed biography of his father and family, and copied pictures of the Church at Mian Mar and his tomb.
Lot 399
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (5057 Pte. H. Doig. 1st Dragoon Gds.) together with various shooting awards, comprising silver medal ‘Indo-Transvaal won by K.G.F. Vols 1908-9 Vol: H. Doig’; large bronze shooting medal ‘Presented by the Earl of Minto Viceroy of India (Lc. Corpl. H. Doig 1910); Kolar Gold Field Vols., bronze medal, the reverse inscribed (Dewar Shield 1911 Runners up B. Company L. Cpl. H. Doig); Kolar Gold Field Vols., bronze medal, the reverse inscribed (The Dewar Shield 1915-16 “C” Coy. Runners up) named on the edge (Corpl. H. Doig); Kolar Gold Field Vols., silver medal, the reverse inscribed (Dewar Shield won by Vol: Doig B. Co. K.G.F.V.); Kolar Gold Field Vols., silver medal, the reverse inscribed (The Dewar Shield 1916-17 “C” Coy Winners) named on the edge (L.-Sgt. H. Doig); Kolar Gold Field Vols., dated sleeve badge (4), for 1908, 1910, 1913, and 1922, all but the first lacking pin fitting; Viceroy’s Competition IVRA, dated sleeve badge for 1911, with pin fitting; together with three other unnamed bronze shooting medals, nearly very fine or better (15) £200-£260
Lot 462
General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (23670382 Sgt. A. F. Martin. 3 Green Jackets.); together with Battalion Rifle Meeting 1960 Platoon Match Winners Medal, silvered-bronze, engraved ‘L/Cpl Martin. Best L.M.G. Shot’, extremely fine (2) £80-£120 --- Anthony F. Martin attested for the Royal Green Jackets and served with them as a Platoon Sergeant with 11 Platoon, C Company in Borneo. He was accidentally killed on 1 September 1965- his Platoon C.O., Second Lieutenant Simon Adams, wrote: ‘The Battalion started cross border patrolling and ambushes and one of these involved a plan to attack a village occupied by the military. 11 Platoon were now issued with new grenades, the M26, which could be fired from the end of an Armelite M16 rifle using a projectile cartridge. My Platoon Sergeant, Tony Martin, was killed on the range when a malfunction caused the grenade to be initiated before the cartridge was inserted. He tried to pull the grenade off the end of the rifle while the fuse burned down for four seconds. Riflemen Bonner and Thompson were unhurt, but Rifleman Baker, who had been holding the rifle and appeared to be OK was casevaced and we never saw him again. The operation went ahead and 10 days were spent in ambush but the village remained obstinately empty.’ Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.
Lot 476
Three: Police Sergeant R. Machell, G Division, Metropolitan Police Jubilee 1887, 1 clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. R. Maachell. G. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.S., R. Machell. G. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.S. R. Machell.) good very fine (3) £100-£140 --- Richard Machell served with G (Finsbury) Division, Metropolitan Police, and was interviewed by the social reformer Charles Booth for his monumental work ‘The Life and Labour of the People in London’, as well as accompanying Booth on various walks around Finsbury as part of his research for his famous ‘Poverty Maps’. Sold together with the recipient’s National Registration Act 1915 Identity card; a Metropolitan Police leather wallet; and copies of the relevant pages from Booth’s original notebooks.
Lot 528
Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Const Robert Morgan) in Royal Mint case of issue; together with a Metropolitan Police Special Constabulary badge; and a Cities & Boroughs Chief Constable Bristol lapel badge, extremely fine Pair: Constable J. Lobley, Liverpool City Police Liverpool City Police Good Service Medal (2), bronze, ‘P.C. J60 “E” John Lobley. Presented by Watch Committee 23rd July 1920’, with integral top brooch bar; another, silver, ‘Con. 160 “E” John Lobley. Presented by Watch Committee 23rd July 1925’, with integral top brooch bar, both on 1st type ribands, in damaged cases of issue, extremely fine (3) £100-£140
Lot 529
Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Henry Hunter) together with City of Coventry Special Constabulary medal for long Service 1914 (H. Hunter); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Dennis Gordon); Birmingham Special Constabulary Long Service 1916 (F. Salmon); Birmingham Special Constabulary, Water Works Guard 1917-1918, bronze medal (2), both unnamed as issued; Cardiff City Special Police, The Great War 1914-19, bronze medal, unnamed as issued; Edinburgh City Special Constabulary, Long Service 1914, unnamed as issued; Metropolitan Special Constabulary, Long Service 1914, unnamed as issued, generally good very fine or better (9) £100-£140
Lot 531
Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Fireman Clive T. Bell); National Fire Brigades Union Long Service Medal (4), silver, the reverse engraved ‘F. Charles‘, edge numbered ‘1004’, with top ‘Twenty Years’ brooch bar; another, silver, edge numbered ‘1232’, with top ‘Twenty Years’ brooch bar; another, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Capt. T. Hollands. Rainham F.B., Kent. July 31. 1912’, edge numbered ‘4486’, with top ‘Ten Years’ brooch bar; another, bronze, edge numbered ‘6103’, with top ‘Ten Years’ brooch bar, the last three in cases of issue with named award slips; Ulverston Urban District Council Fire Brigade Medal, silver, the obverse engraved ‘Presented to Fireman M. Higgin’, the reverse engraved ‘For 10 Years’ Service with the Ulverston Fire Brigade.’, with top silver riband buckle, generally good very fine --- Harry Stiff, of the Old Clare Fire Brigade, was awarded his 20 Year Long Service Medal (No. 1232) on 26 November 1914. T. Hollands, of the Rainham Fire Brigade, was awarded his 10 Year Long Service Medal (No. 4486) on 20 June 1912. Harry Hunt, of the Dartford Fire Brigade, was awarded his 10 Year Long Service Medal (No. 6103) in June 1919.
Lot 533
Pair: Fireman Henry W. Stevenson, Derbyshire Fire Brigade Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Fireman Henry W. Stevenson) in its named card box of issue; British Fire Services Association, bronze medal for 10 years (H. W. Stevenson) in named card box of issue; together with St John Ambulance Association re-examination cross, bronze (292228 Henry Stevenson) with dated bars for 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1941, the last unattached, all numbered on the reverse ‘292228’, nearly extremely fine (3) £50-£70
Lot 534
Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Ldg. Fireman Archibald J. Thomas); British Fire Services Association, bronze medal for 10 years (S. Bassett.) in card box of issue; National Fire Brigades Union, bronze medal with bar ‘Ten Years’, 1st type (Chas. Thomas (Hon. Sec.) Ferndale F.B. 1918) the edge numbered ‘5981’; British Fire Services Association, bronze medal with bar ‘Ten Years’, 2nd type (14940 Albert L. Shepherd); London Private Fire Brigades Association, bronze medal awarded for Long Service and Good Conduct, unnamed, the edge numbered ‘423’, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine (5) £80-£120
Lot 535
National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, bronze (5), 2 clasps, Five Years, Twenty Years, the edge inscribed ‘6806’; another, 1 clasp, Ten Years, the edge inscribed ‘7665’; another, 1 clasp, Ten Years, the edge inscribed ‘2484’; another, 1 clasp, Ten Years, the edge inscribed ‘13335 N. Miles.’, the reverse inscribed ‘F.F.B.’; another 1 clasp, Ten Years, the edge inscribed ‘14104 Samuel H. Emmerson.’ middle initial corrected; London Fire Brigade Good Service Medal, 2nd Type, bronze (2), (Charles R. Tucker 1954); another (Fireman S. Seex); Edward VII, Coronation, 1902, Metropolitan Police, a bronze service medal by G.W. de Saulles, inscribed on edge (P.C. W. Durley. X. Div.), the last with verdigris otherwise very fine or better (8) £160-£200 --- With named National Fire Brigades’ Association Long Service Medal card and damaged card box of issue to accompany the medal issued to N. Miles on 8 March 1939, Miles being with the Farnham Fire Brigade at the time. Also sold with a brass plate, 95mm x 38mm, formerly affixed to a retirement presentation item, inscribed ‘Metropolitan Police, Presented to F. Court. Ex P.S.13W. By the Officers and men of Clapham Sub Division, as a mark of esteem and respect on his retirement after 25 years service 23rd September 1901’
Lot 540
Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 5th type (1902-83), bronze (Pol. Con: W. E. Odey, Lewisham High St., S.E.13 13-2-46) with integral top riband bar, in its John Pinches case of issue; together with an Elliott Alves Medal, silver, the reverse inscribed ‘Shooting team competition open to British Police, runner-up 1927’, the edge engraved ‘P.C. Odey’; a West Kent Rifle League Medal, silver, the reverse engraved ‘P. C. Odey 1927’; and a British Police Championship Medal, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Commissioners Cup 1927, Runners Up, P. C. Odey’ the first extremely fine, the shooting medals very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Society for the Prevention of Life from Fire Case No. 17626: Inspector James Wilkie McAndrew: Bronze Medal Sgt James Arthur leslie Digby: Bronze Medal PC Frank Walter James Guy: Bronze Medal PC William Edward Odey: Bronze Medal The Metropolitan Police Central Records of Service for McAndrew, Guy and Odey all contain a commendation for ‘action in attempting to rescue two men from a burning building.’ These three were also commended at Lewisham Coroner’s Court in Police Orders, 22 March 1946.
Lot 541
Bolton & District Humane Society, large bronze medal, 51mm, unnamed, in damaged case of issue; together with a silver presentation tobacco tin, 90mm in diameter, the lid inscribed ‘Hulton Colliery Co. Ltd., to John Bullough, A Souvenir of the Pit Sinking 1900-04’., nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£120
Lot 542
Bolton & District Humane Society Medal for the Hulton Colliery Disaster 1910, 35mm, bronze, unnamed, very fine £300-£400 --- On 21 December 1910 a terrible explosion occurred at the No. 3 Bank (Pretoria) Pit at Hulton Colliery, near Atherton. The explosion wrecked a portion of the casting of the upcast shaft. A large number of miners had their escape blocked by the fall of earth and died from the effects of poisonous gas. A total of 370 men were killed in the disaster - the worst mining accident to have occurred in Lancashire and the third worst mining disaster in British mining history. A total of 10 Edward Medals in Bronze were awarded to those involved in the rescue. The Bolton & District Humane Society had struck a special medal to reward those active in the rescue operations - 160 were awarded.
Lot 547
3rd Volunteer Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Marksman’s Medal, 32mm, bronze, the obverse featuring the regimental crest and embossed ‘Charles Thomas Volunteer Prize Fund’, the reverse embossed ‘3rd V.B. Gloucestershire Regiment, Marksman’ and engraved ‘1902 Corpl. A. A. Forty’, with claw and small ring suspension, minor edge bruising, very fine £50-£70 --- Provenance: Brigadier Brian Parritt Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2007. The 3rd Battalion Gloucester Regiment was raised in Bristol in February 1900 and served in South Africa during the Boer War.
Lot 554
Sea Services Commemorative Medal 1914-1919, by Heming & Co, London, 51mm, silver, the obverse featuring Britannia standing on a rock holding a wreath and trident, the British lion at her feet, ‘The Sure Shield’ and ‘1914-1919’ around, the reverse inscribed within wreath ‘Sea Services Commemoration 4th August 1914-1919’, in case of issue, contemporarily hand-written on the case ‘Capt. H. J. Dickinson’; Bombardment of Scarborough Medal 1914, 32mm, silver, the obverse featuring the Arms of Scarborough upon a central shield between views of the coast, ‘Scarborough still Undismayed’, above, three ships bombarding the coast, the reverse inscribed ‘Bombardment of Scarborough Non Combatants by the German Fleet, Dec. 16th 1914’, nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£120 --- On 4 August 1919 a pageant was held on the River Thames in London to commemorate the mobilisation of the naval services in 1914 and to celebrate the victory. The Yorkshire coastal resort of Scarborough was bombarded by the German battle cruisers Derfflinger and Von der Tann on the night of 15-16 December 1914. Some fifty shots were fired, killing 137 men, women and children and wounding another 592. Four months after the bombardment the ‘Scarborough Mercury’ advertised commemoration medals. The advert used the following text: ‘The Bombardment of Scarborough. An Issue of Commemoration Medals. We have at considerable cost, had dies prepared by a firm of medallists of high repute in order to issue medals to keep in perpetual memory the bombardment of the town by German ships on the 16th December last. The medals are of two sizes - one the size of a sixpence, and the other of a half-crown. The small size has been struck in gold, silver, bronze, and aluminium. The large size has been struck in silver, bronze and aluminium. The obverse represents the South Bay, with ships shelling the town. The reverse records the event and date of the same.’
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