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Click here to subscribeLARGE FRENCH PATINATED AND GILT BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK, JAPY FRERES, PARIS 19TH CENTURY the gilt dial with enamelled chapters with Roman numerals, surmounted by a seated figure riding an elephant with trunk raised, on an elaborate rococo scrolled and pierced base with shells, the eight-day movement striking a bell, stamped JAPY FRERES and E.P. LÉPOSÉ/ 5564 54cm high, 42cm wide
PAIR OF FRENCH PATINATED AND GILT BRONZE FIGURAL CANDELABRA 19TH CENTURY each with six sconces on leafy arms with applied lilies and flowerheads, held aloft by a seated putto, on a rococo base decorated with flower swags on toupie and scrolled feet, with pleated cream shades, wired for electricity (2) 70cm high (excluding fittings)
PAIR OF FRENCH BARBEDIENNE BRONZE URNS, AFTER CLODION 19TH CENTURY with twin-mask form handles above the shouldered bodies, decorated with scenes of the Sacrifice of Venus, raised on fluted red marble plinth bases and toupie feet, converted to lamps, with cream shades (2) 44cm high (excluding fittings)
FRENCH GILT BRONZE AND MARBLE THREE-PIECE CLOCK GARNITURE 19TH CENTURY the clock surmounted by a flowering urn, with grey marble panels and dial with Roman numerals and applied motifs, raised on scrolled, paw and toupie feet, the eight day movement striking a bell; with a pair of matching four-light candelabra, of urn form with goat masks, on square marble bases (3) Clock 41cm high; candelabra 42.5cm high
FRENCH GILT BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK, RETAILED BY MAPLE & CO. CIRCA 1900 the white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, signed MAPLE Co./ PARIS' in a waisted Rococo case on scroll feet; the eight-day movement striking a bell and stamped 5296 with Vincent et Cie Medaille D'Argent/ 1855 stamp 25cm high
FRENCH GILT BRONZE AND PORCELAIN THREE PIECE CLOCK GARNITURE, RAINGO FRERES, PARIS 19TH CENTURY the signed circular porcelain dial with a Roman chapter ring and raised 'jewel' decoration, in an arched case with porcelain panels decorated in the Sevres style and surmounted by an urn, raised on toupie feet, the eight-day movement no. 1988 and striking a bell; the matching candelabra with four scrolling candle arms on square plinth bases and toupie feet (3) Clock 19cm wide, 40cm high, 10cm deep
FRENCH GILT BRONZE AND MARBLE THREE PIECE CLOCK GARNITURE, SAMUEL MARTI, PARIS LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY the circular white enamel Arabic number dial signed 'BLACK STARR & FROST'/ NEW YORK' in a cylinder case flanked by figure of Venus and Cupid, on a white marble base raised on toupie feet; the eight-day movement stamped 477 and 'Medaille D'or/ Samuel Marti/ Paris' and striking a bell; together with a pair of associated twin branch candelabra in the form of a torch (3) Clock 27cm wide, 31cm high, 12cm deep
FRENCH ROMAN REVIVAL GILT BRONZE, SLATE, MARBLE AND PORCELAIN MANTEL CLOCK 19TH CENTURY the black slate dial with gilt Roman numerals and a rouge marble centre, flanked and supported by enamelled terms, on a rectangular base set with a porcelain plaque painted with a scene of Chronos being pulled by putti, on short bun feet; the eight-day movement striking a bell, indistinctly stamped '***RSANT F**/ PARIS 35.5cm wide, 54cm high, 16cm deep
LARGE ARNOLD & DENT GILT BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK CIRCA 1835 the signed circular engine-turned dial with a Roman number chapter and subsidiary 'FAST/SLOW' dial, set in a waisted rococo style case with acanthus scrolls, floral garlands, and a classical mask, surmounted by the figures of Chronos and Ananke; the movement inscribed 'Arnold & Dent London/ 524' 61.5cm high Note: The partnership of Edward J. Dent and John Roger Arnold began in 1830 and lasted ten years. The firm specialised in chronometers and precise clocks and other instruments, and counted amongst their clientele prestigious civic, maritime and scientific organisations. Both Dent and Arnold were prominent clockmakers in London in their own rights prior to the partnership, with a history of important commissions and innovations between them. Dent started trading in 1814, fulfilling important commissions for the Standard Clock at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Great Clock for the Houses of Parliament, known as 'Big Ben'. In 1830 he supplied a marine chronometer to the Beagle, used during Darwin's voyage while researching 'Origin of the Species'. Arnold served as apprentice to his father, a noted 18th century horologist, and to Abraham Louis Breguet, eventually taking over his father's business in 1799. In 1817 he became Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. Clocks produced during the decade long union of Arnold and Dent are of extremely high quality.
GILT AND PATINATED BRONZE AND ROUGE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, PROSPER ROUSSEL, PARIS 19TH CENTURY the signed white enamel dial painted with flower garlands and an Arabic chapter, in a four glass case with a torch and garland trophy cresting, accompanied by a standing putto, on a rouge marble base with gilt metal mounts, raised on toupie feet, the eight-day movement stamped 17403 and striking a bell 14cm deep, 44cm high, 28cm wide
A KHORASAN BRONZE LAMP STAND BASE of lobed form, decorated with panels of birds within foliate borders, the ends with a 'Kufic' inscription on four shaped legs and headed by stylised masks and separated by stylised birds heads, the surface with traces of tinned decoration, probably Iran, 12th/13th century, 5.5" high
6x WW2 Third Reich Medals, consisting of Mining Association Service medal, RAD bronze 4 year service medal, Iron Cross 2nd class, Eastern Front medal with ring stamped “20” for maker C F Zimmermann, West Wall medal and 1914-18 Widows honour cross. Generally all in good condition and complete with ribbons. (6 items)
Rare Grade III 50 Engagements Bronze Panzer Assault Combat Badge, textbook example of an un-marked JFS (Josef Feix Sohne) manufactured example. The award is complete with its original pin and catch fixing. Much of the original bronze finish remains to the award. Some areas of oxidisation on the wreath and within the swastika. Overall a very good example of a very rare combat badge. See pages 709-717 of “The German Panzer Assault Badge of World War II” Volume 2 by Philippe De Bock for reference on the characteristics of this makers badge.
Alexander Davidsons Medal for the Nile 1798 HMS Minotaur, the medal is a gilt bronze example with neatly engraved reverse “MICHl QUINN MINOTAUR”. Couple of minor contact marks but generally good condition. HMS Minotaur was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 November 1793 at Woolwich. She fought in three major battles - Nile, Trafalgar, and Copenhagen (1807) - before she was wrecked, with heavy loss of life, in December 1810. At the Battle of the Nile in 1798, she engage the French Ship Aquilon along with HMS Theseus. They forced the French ship to surrender, HMS Minotaur suffered 23 killed and 64 wounded in the action.
Very Rare Great War Royal Navy / Royal Naval Air Service, Airship NS.3 Casualty 1914-15 Star Medal Trio and Memorial Plaque, One of Only 48 Airship Crew Casualties of WW1, consisting of 1914-15 star “M2687 G W PRINTER C.P.O MECH R.N” (official replacement), British War and Victory medals “M 2687 C W PRINTER C.P.O 3 RN” and bronze memorial plaque “CHARLES WILLIAM PRINTER”. Town of Gloucester memorial scroll named, “313869 Chief Mechanic Charles W Printer RAF”. The medals come with a large quantity of research. Charles William Printer served as a Chief Mechanic in the Royal Navy, Royal Naval Air Service and later Royal Air Force. He was the only son of Mrs I M Printer of Cherlyn, Linden Road, Gloucester. He drowned in the North Sea on the 22nd June 1918 whilst flying off East Fortune, RAF Air Station, aged 23. He is commemorated on the Hollybrook Memorial. The Gloucester Journal on Saturday July 6th 1918, “A Keen and Clever Engineer, Mrs Printer, Cherlyn, Linden Road, Gloucester, has received official information that her son, Charles Printer, Chief Engineer, Royal Naval Air Force, lost his life on 22nd June. In a letter of sympathy to Mrs Printer in her bereavement, an officer writes, He was a very keen and clever engineer and a very hard worker, never complaining even under the most trying circumstances. It was typical of him that he carried out the orders for the engines up to the last moment with extraordinary promptness, although in imminent danger, and thus probably reduced the loss of life which would otherwise of occurred. It may be some consolation for you in your sorrow to know that your son made the great sacrifice splendidly, which is the best a man can do in this war. His loss will be felt not only by those that knew him, but also by the service to which he belonged. Men such as he are rare, and I know that I for one do not expect to serve with a better engineer. Deceased was an old Sir T Rich’s Boy. On leaving school he entered the Royal Navy as a boy Artificier. After completing his training as an engineer he passed into the Royal Naval Air Service, where he did such good service that he was recommended for a commission as a Technical Officer in the Royal Air Force.” Charles William Printer was serving on Airship NS.3 on the evening of 21st June 1918, an account of the incident in which he was killed is detailed in the book, The British Airship at War, page 77, “On the evening of 21st June 1918, NS.3 left East Fortune on convoy duty, but she encountered very strong winds and was compelled to turn back to seek safety at her base. All through the night she forced her way south, but by daybreak the wind had increased to about 40 knots and NS.3 was still some way from home and crawling along over the Firth of Forth. The ship was being heavily buffeted, making it increasingly difficult to maintain the envelope in its correct shape, and the co-pilot, Flight Lieutenant P E Maitland, had alternately to lower the airscoops and to pull on the valves as the pressure varied wildly from one minute to the next. At the same time the pilot was struggling with the elevator wheel, trying to keep the ship level and at a safe height above the waves. Suddenly, not far from Dunbar and about three miles from shore, the ship began to fall, driven down by the force of the gale in spite of full engine power. Her bows pointing steeply upward, she struck the sea with an impact that tore off the engine car, which sank immediately. The loss of this considerable weight aft caused the ship to soar again into the air, with her nose now tilted sharply downwards. All those members of the crew left in the control car clung on desperately, knowing there was no hope left for the airship and little for themselves. Commander Wheelwright shook hands with the coxswain, and as the W/T operator attempted to signal for help with the Aldis lamp, the ship dipped to the vertical, gas poured out through rents in her envelope and she hovered momentarily before plunging into the water. The two engineers had already gone down with the engines; now the coxswain, a gunner and one of the W/T operators also drowned, caught up in the tangle of wreckage. The other five men struggled clear and were able to scramble onto a flat part of the envelope, where they held on grimly as it slowly sank beneath them. Mercifully a Destroyer arrived in time to pick up the survivors. What was left of the airship was sunk by gunfire.” Only 48 men serving in airships during WW1 were casualties, which is extremely low and as such very rare to find.
Great War Hampshire Regiment Territorial Force War Medal Group of Five, George V bronze Territorial Force War Medal awarded to “1117. PTE. F. LAWRENE. HAMPS. R.”, British War Medal “1117. PTE. F. LAWRENE. HAMPS. R.”, Victory Medal, (Renamed) “1117. PTE. F. LAWRENE. HAMPS. R.”, George VI Defence Medal and George V Territorial Efficiency Medal, “240059. PTE. F. LAWERNCE. 5 – HAMPS. R.” The medals are mounted for wear. Frank Lawrence served throughout the whole of the First World War with the 1/5th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment on Garrison duty in India. He was discharged on the 14th of December 1918, Just before the Battalion moved to the North West Frontier for the Third Afghan War. Frank Lawrence was not entitled to the Victory medal for his services in India.
WW1 Royal Flying Corps Officers Casualty Bronze Memorial Plaque and Shooting Award, the bronze Memorial Plaque, named to “FRANK DUDLEY EVANS”, accompanied by a plaque awarded for the Birmingham & District Challenge shield for the Pearsall Trophy awarded to “F.D. EVANS” (2 items) Frank Dudley Evans was born in Handsworth on 3rd August 1897. On the outbreak of WW1, Evans commissioned into the 4th Battalion Royal Warwickshire regiment, and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps for pilots training. Frank obtained his flying certificate on 27th April 1916 at the Military School, Thetford, flying a Maurice Farman biplane. Shortly afterwards, died of wounds on 9th June 1916 after a flying accident at Bristol. The Newcastle Journal 12th June 1916 reported that the engine of his [Avro 504] biplane misfired at about 150 feet, but that he continued climbing to about 400 feet when the aircraft made a very flat turn and nosedived to the ground. Lieutenant Evans suffered a fractured skull. His coffin was draped in a Union Flag, topped with a large floral cross from his comrades, and was borne back to Castle Bromwich on a transport wagon by officers and men of the Royal Flying Corps. His funeral was held at St Mary & St Margaret’s Church, with the choir singing “Lead, Kindly Light” and the large congregation included a uniformed detachment of Red Cross auxiliary nurses, of whom his mother was an officer. Frank Dudley Evans is buried in Castle Bromwich graveyard, and is also commemorated on the village war memorial and the roll of honour plaque in St Mary & St Margaret’s Church.
Bronze Lusitania Medal, propaganda medal produced for the sinking of RMS Lusitania in 1915; British Allied Victory medal awarded to “27369 PTE J NICHOLSON NORTH D FUS”; Norfolk Artillery Cadets bronze medal for services rendered during the Great War; Red Cross 1914-18 War service medal and a Hallmarked Silver Peace medal. (5 items)
Scarce Leith Special Constabulary 1914-18 Medal, bronze medal with coat of arms of Leith to centre of obverse and LEITH SPECIAL CONSTABULARY around, reverse with FOR LONG AND CONTINUOUS SERVICE 1914-18. Medal is un-named and missing its ribbon. Accompanied by a boxed George VI Special Constabulary medal awarded to “NOAH MOSCROP” (box suggests service at Glossop, Derbyshire). Both in good condition. (2 items)
2x Herbert Morris Limited Empress Works Loughborough Great War Tribute Medals, the bronze medals are housed in the original Spink & Son Ltd boxes of issue. Both medals un-named. In 1914 the company is listed as manufacturers of electric, pneumatic and hand overhead travelling cranes, pulley blocks, conveyors, overhead runways and lifting miscellanea.
WW2 Medals of Major R F Knight 13th (West Ham) London Home Guard, consisting of British War and Victory medals in original OHMS forwarding box addressed to “Mr R F Knight, 58 Baldry Gardens, Streatham, London S W 16”, large unofficial medal with HG to centre and 1940 1945 bordering, reverse engraved “MAJOR R F KNIGHT 13TH LONDON H.G for merit 1940-45” and 2x cased bronze shooting medals.
4x Hampshire / Royal Hampshire Regiment Officers Cap Badges, consisting of bronze OSD example with Jennings & Co makers mark (J & Co) and two blade fittings, bronze OSD cap / collar with lug fittings, cast brass example with slider fitting and fine EIIR silver gilt and enamel Royal Hampshire example. All remain in good condition overall. (4 items)
Rare Pre-1916 Royal Flying Corps Metal Dress Pilots Wings, fine pair of copper bronze pilots wings with pin and catch fixing to the reverse. Makers mark of Jackson & Fullerton, London, GJ DF in shield. Much of the original finish remains to the wing. Very good example. George Jackson and David Fullerton were the proprietors of Joseph Williams & Co from 1884 through 1915. The company itself existed before them and lived on after them as well. The "GJ DF" mark was no longer used after 1915 when George Jackson left the firm.
Royal Engineers Pouch Badge & Royal Arms General Service Badges, fine gilt metal post 1902 Royal Engineers pouch plate with four post fittings to the reverse; bronze OSD General Service Corps Royal Arms cap badge, large post 1902 General Service Corps officers bronze cap badge with blade fittings, various other ranks examples with sliders. Various conditions and periods. (10 items)
5x Cavalry Bronze OSD Cap Badges, consisting of 12th Lancers with lug fittings to the reverse, 11th Lancers with blade fittings to the reverse, 3rd Dragoon Guards with blade fittings to the reverse, EIIR 12th Lancers with blade fittings to the reverse and 11th Hussars with blade fittings to the reverse. All remain in good overall condition. (5 items)
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