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Lot 575
*Kingdom of Poland, Order of the White Eagle, a magnificent and large type 1 set of insignia attributed to Stanislaus August Poniatowski, who reigned as the last King of Poland, Stanislaw II August (1764-1795), unsigned, late 18th Century, comprising: sash badge in silver-gilt, gold and finely-painted enamels, both the badge and suspension lavishly set with diamonds including two light yellow stones at the upper star ball-points, height 123mm (including suspension), width 87.5mm; and breast star, in bronze-gilt with steel-sprung articulated rays, applied silver cross edged with gold-mounted rubies and with gold legend PRO FIDE REGE et LEGE, ray tips pierced for thread suspension, height 120mm, width 130mm, the set with light overall wear and a few scratches or test-marks to the star, generally, good very fine, with later sash ribbon (2). Provenance: Private purchase from Spink & Son, London, 3 March 1966, when attributed to Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1732-1798), and offered with an edited copy of the 1966 Spink invoice. A reduced illustration of the sash badge appears in Robert Werlich’s Orders and Decorations of All Nations (fig. 1024). STANISLAUS AUGUSTUS PONIATOWSKI (1732-98), a member of the Polish nobility, arrived at the Russian Court in 1755 where he became romantically involved with the future Catherine II. In 1764 he was elected King of Poland with Catherine’s support, and in the following year he founded the Order of St Stanislaus in honour of the country’s Patron Saint. The last King of Poland was himself a great patron of the Arts and founded the Polish National Theatre as well as commissioning many notable works. However with Austria, Prussia and Russia all seeking to dismember Poland in pursuit of their own interests, the country’s existence as a sovereign state was effectively ended in 1795. Poniatowski was forced to abdicate in November 1795 and died on 12 February 1798, a virtual prisoner in the Marble Palace, St Petersburg.
Lot 577
Poland, Virtuti Militari, WWII or later issues (6), all unmarked and unnumbered breast badges, Third Class (1), in bronze-gilt and enamels, Fourth Class (3), one in bronze-gilt, and Fifth Class (2), very fine and better; other Polish medals, decorations and badges (75), including miniature awards (32); together with various award, service and association documents named to Edward Baranowski, Marian Zajac (5), Marian Just-Tegoborski (6) and named bronze-gilt Polish Millennium medal 1966, Julia Just-Tegoborski (2), Boleslaw Swidziniewski (16), also with two named identity discs, very fine or better (lot)
Lot 587
Russia, Tercentenary of the Romanov Dynasty, badge, in silver and gilt, by к.п, reverse border inscribed (E.S. Ountberger 22 February 1913) (P.B. I, 14.3); with jetons (2), comprising Imperial and Medical and Surgical Academy, by AH, in silver and enamels, with gold chalice and serpents, reverse engraved (I.M.H.A. G. I. Guiritch 1818/XII/o6, 1848-1853) and a bronze-gilt piece for Workers at the Moscow Storehouse of the Red Cross 1914-16, with enamelled red cross, very fine or better (3)
Lot 600
U.S.A., Purple Heart and Bronze Star Group of Eleven awarded to Specialist 5th Class David R. Hoyt, 52nd Signal Battalion U.S. Army, comprising Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Army Commendation Medal with four oak leaf clusters, Humanitarian Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Achievement Medal with two oak clusters, Defense Medal with Star, Vietnam Service Medal with 2 bronze stars, Good Conduct Medal with bar, South Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, with laurel leaf, and South Vietnam campaign medal, first in case of issue with related lapel fitting, very fine and better; together with the recipient’s , discharge papers, three original certificates for the Purple Heart, Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal, two Signal Battalion badges and 30 photographs taken by and of him during his tour of duty in Vietnam (lot)
Lot 616
Battle of the Nile, French bronze plaquette by L. Patriarche, 1910, illustrating the story of Capt. Luce Casabianca and his son Giocante immortalised by Felicia Hemans’ poem Casabianca (“The Boy stood on the Burning Deck ….”), 71mm x 54mm (Hardy 14), very fine; Nelson’s Return Home, 1800, white metal medal, bust left, rev., Britannia hailing Nelson’s ship, 38mm (BHM 490; Eimer 918; Hardy 22; MH 490), about very fine; Battle of Copenhagen, 1801, copper medal, Justice with medallions of Parker and Nelson, rev., the Ore Sound, 38mm (BHM 510; Eimer 933; Hardy 23; MH 491), once cleaned, very fine (3)
Lot 618
*Matthew Boulton’s medal for the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805, specimen in silver, by C.H. Küchler, uniformed bust of Nelson left, rev., a view of the naval engagement; ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY on ribbon above; edge impressed TO THE HEROES OF TRAFALGAR FROM M: BOULTON., 48.3mm (BHM 584; Eimer 960; Hardy 40; MH 493), dark toned, extremely fine. Boulton wished to emulate Davison in issuing a medal to the men of the fleet after the Battle of Trafalgar. Examples in white metal/pewter were issued to surviving seamen and marines in 1806. Thereafter specimens in silver, copper/bronze and white metal were struck to satisfy the demands of officers present at the battle (but to whom the medal was not actually issued) and to collectors later in the 19th century.
Lot 625
Nelson’s Victories, set of four gilt-bronze medalets, circa 1805, types as previous lot, 20mm (BHM 592; Eimer 967b; Hardy 3, 12, 24, 49; MH 514-517), very fine to extremely fine, in brass circular box of issue; and a gilt-bronze medalet commemorating Nelson at the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar from another Naval Victories series, 24mm (cf. BHM 925; Hardy 51.5), very fine (6)
Lot 627
Nelson’s Victories, gilt-bronze medalets for St. Vincent and Trafalgar (2), 20mm (Hardy 3 and 49 (2)); with similar sized gilt-bronze medalets for St Vincent with obv., dove on foul anchor (5, BHM -), Aboukir, obv., powder barrels and ships (2, BHM -), Copenhagen, obv., dove and globe (BHM -), Preliminaries for Peace, obv., plough and crossed swords (2, BHM -) and Definitive Treaty Signed (3, BHM 546), ¬very fine and several types unpublished in BHM, Hardy and Milford Haven (16)
Lot 628
*Naval Victories (1794-1816), a set of six bronze-gilt medalets with portraits of Earl Howe, Earl St. Vincent, Admiral Duncan, Sir Sydney Smith, Lord Nelson and Lord Exmouth, rev., with details of their naval actions, 24mm (BHM 925; Hardy 51; MH 573), mainly about extremely fine and contained in original gilt-brass circular box with filigree work on lid and inscribed NAVAL VICTORIES, very rare when complete (7). A similar set but incomplete, lacking the medal of Sir Sydney Smith, was sold by Baldwin’s, 4 May 2006, lot 2187.
Lot 631
Death of Nelson, 1805, silvered bronze medal, by Thomas Webb, head of Nelson left, rev., Bellona advancing across the sea, 54mm (cf. BHM 577; Eimer 957; Hardy 63; MH 507), polished, about very fine; other medals, 38mm, in white metal (Hardy 67) and bronze (Hardy 68), good very fine; brass medalets (3, cf. Hardy 60 (2), 69), mainly fine, last pierced; cast medals (3, Hardy 65 (2) and 66) and a silvered metal oval uniface medal with bust of Nelson left, inscribed LD NELSON – DIED OCTBR 21 1805, within wreath, 32mm x 22mm (Hardy -; MH -), damaged (10)
Lot 635
Nelson’s Monument in Birmingham, 1809, bronze medal, by Peter Wyon, the monument, rev., inscription in wreath, 52mm (BHM 678; Hardy 80; MH 535), good very fine; Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington, bronze medals (2), by Mills and Droz, busts on either side, 41mm (BHM 1047; Hardy 82; MH 519), very fine to extremely fine; Nelson’s Memorial, large uniface cast bronze medal after Webb, Nelson’s head to left with double inscriptions around, 72mm (cf. BHM 1056; Hardy 84; MH 508), very fine (4). The last mentioned piece is a cast of the obverse of Webb’s box medal which contained twelve circular prints of naval actions (see following lot). Hardy refers to it as a uniface trial medallion, previously unrecorded.
Lot 639
Nelson Crimson Oaks Society, founded 1808, white metal medal, bust of Nelson left, rev., masonic symbols etc, 53mm (BHM 640; Hardy 85; MH 526), pierced, very fine and rare; with copper medal from Mudie’s series of National Medals, 41mm (BHM 595; Hardy 87); another from the same obverse, rev., NE A BARUHAM EN 1758 MORT EN 1804 (sic) – 1816 (Hardy -); bronze medal by T. Webb, 41mm (BHM 596; Hardy 88) and bronze medal for the Liverpool Seamen’s Friendly Society, 1820, 38mm (BHM 1064; Hardy 89), very fine or better (5)
Lot 647
*Blue Jacket Heavy Gun Prize Firing Medal, in silver, by J.N. Masters of Rye, facing bust of Nelson, rev., five blue jackets loading heavy gun; edge engraved F. SKEIN GR. R.M.A. CHAMPION SHOT H.M.S. OCEAN 1902, 48mm (Hardy 142), lacking suspension bar but with separated brooch bar engraved F.SKEIN – GR. R.M.A. – H.M.S. OCEAN YEAR 1902, 48mm (Hardy 142; Sandwich M18), has been cleaned, very fine and very rare, only apparently six awarded in silver (2). The medal was introduced in 1902, sponsored by The Blue Jacket & Coastguard Gazette with awards made retroactively in 1900 and 1901. H.M.S. Terrible provided the winning crews for 1900 and 1901 and in 1902 the prize went to one of the gun crews of H.M.S. Ocean with the silver medal, as here, awarded to the Gun Captain and bronze medals given to his gun crew. The score was 9 hits with 9 rounds in 1 minute, beating the scores attained in the two previous years. In 1903 two sets of medals were awarded separately to Battleship crews and Cruiser crews and in 1904 the award was discontinued on the introduction of the Admiralty’s Naval Good Shooting Medal, the first awards of which were made retroactively in 1903.
Lot 665
Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Mooltan (Sepoy Jewurum Doobe 1…..I), heavy contact wear, fair; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (4247 Sapper Lal Khan Bl. Sappers & Miners), about very fine; another but in bronze, 1 clasp Waziristan 1901-02 (Syce Katmar 5th Bl. Cavy.) fair; Victory Medals (3- 2976 Sepoy Mardana, 58 Rfls / 7366 Carp. Mela Ram, Wks. Dte. / G. Man Noor Mohd Meso. Rys.), generally very fine (5)
Lot 70
*Croatia, Independent State, Order of King Zvonomir’s Crown, Military Division, First Class set of insignia, by Braca Knaux, Zagreb, comprising neck badge, in bronze-gilt and white enamels, width 50.2mm and breast star, retaining pin with maker’s initials and hallmarks, in silver, with gilt and white enamelled centre, 62mm, good very fine (2)
Lot 715
Family Group: Queen’s South Africa, no clasp (919 Corpl. E.J. Holmes, P. Elizabeth T.G), with 40th Anniversary of the Occupation of Matabeleland bronze commemorative medal, 1933; The Reverend Cecil Frederick Joy Holmes, D.S.O., Army Chaplains Dept., Territorial Force, Distinguished Service Order, George V, in case of issue, with two Oxford University Boat Club prize medals in silver and bronze, the silver engraved Keble College Clinker Fours 1897 and with crew’s names including Holmes’s; Probationary Nurse Gertrude Eirene Holmes, M.B.E., South African Military Nursing Service (wife of C.F.J. Holmes, D.S.O.), Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, Member’s badge, in case of issue, with bow for wear by Ladies and bilingual Victory Medal (P. Nurse G.E. Holmes), with related riband bar including M.i.D., and badges; and Lieutenant Charles W. T. Holmes, R.A. (son of F.J.H. and G.E. Holmes), ribbon bar for 1939-45 and France and Germany Stars, R.A. cap badge, original Army in India Identity Card and Military Motor Vehicle Driving Licence, generally extremely fine, offered with copied research (lot). CECIL FREDERICK JOY HOLMES: D.S.O.: London Gazette: 6 September 1918: “For distinguished and gallant services rendered on the occasion of the destruction or damage by enemy action of Hospital Ships, Transports and Storeships.” Also entitled to Légion d’Honneur, Chevalier: London Gazette: 17 August 1918. GERTRUDE EIRENE HOLMES: M.B.E.: London Gazette: 14 January 1921; M.i.D.: London Gazette: 31 January 1919 (E.A.F.)
Lot 718
*The C.B.E. and Burma M.C. Group awarded to Major P.H. ‘Val’ Meadows, who operated for several months behind Enemy Lines as Intelligence Officer and was additionally twice Mentioned in Despatches, Seven: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, type 2, Commander’s neck badge in silver-gilt and enamels, by Collingwood, in case of issue with neck riband and instructions for wearing, with Warrant dated 1 January 1963; Military Cross, dated 1945, privately engraved (Major P.H. Meadows. Burma), in case of issue, with original forwarding slip, now card-backed (12th Frontier Force Regiment Indian Army); 1939-45 Star, Burma Star, Defence and War Medals, with M.i.D., with forwarding box; Singapore, Meritorious Service Medal, in silver, officially engraved (Mr. P.H. Meadows 9.8.89), in case of issue; Brunei, Order of Loyalty to the State of Brunei, Fourth Class breast badge, in bronze-gilt and enamels, by Spink & Son, in case of issue, generally extremely fine (7) Offered with the following additional items: Original recommendation for the Military Cross, from which the following is taken: 15 Nov 1944, T/Capt Percey Herbert Meadows, ARAKAN, Aug.-Nov. 1944. ‘Capt Meadows, B.I.O., has been intimately concerned with force “BOLSTER” since its inception at PONRA (PM 352284) six miles down the NAF river south of MAUNGDAW. It was designed to act as a patrol and ambush base in “no mans land”, and to restore the morale of the villagers who were suffering from Jap oppression and atrocities. The results have exceeded expectations; upwards of 120 Japs have been killed at very small cost, invaluable information has been obtained, confidence has been restored and hundreds of acres of paddy are now ready for harvesting. Capt Meadows has been largely responsible for these impressive achievements. He was responsible for coordinating the recce policy, and personally took part in many of the ambushes. A man of great personal courage and endurance he has lead small parties deep into enemy territory to obtain information, and his exploits have been many and daring causing bewilderment and uneasiness among the Japs. His personality and dealings with the villagers have had a noticeable morale raising effect, which has resulted in much more reliable and varied information being brought in, and he has made contacts that will be invaluable when operations begin. His work and initiative throughout have been outstanding, and he has shown a complete disregard for his personal safety in carrying out his task. He is fully deserving of the award for which he is recommended.’ Original Commanding Officer’s report and recommendation dated January, 1947; Karachi Aero Club ‘Wings’; Full statutes of the Order of the British Empire, with official named correspondence to accompany the C.B.E. Warrant; Several photographs and a copy of the Daily Telegraph’s obituary, 1 August 1997. PERCIVAL HERBERT MEADOWS, known during his career as both ‘Perc[e]y’ and ‘Val’, was born in 1919 and educated at Wye College (where he qualified in tropical horticulture), and later (after the war) at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and at SOAS. He worked on a coffee plantation in Kenya and a tea plantation in Ceylon before enlisting with the Lincolnshire Regiment following the outbreak of the Second World War. He won the Combined Services Welterweight Boxing Championship before being posted to India, where he received an emergency commission in July, 1941. Serving with 8th Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment, initially on the Northwest Frontier, he went on to Intelligence training in Karachi while also finding time to gain his pilot’s licence in a Gypsy Moth. As Brigade Intelligence Officer with the 74th Indian Infantry Brigade he served in Arakan (see M.C. recommendation), subsequently transferring to the 3/2nd Gurkha Rifles where he commanded a detachment and also became Station Commander. His C.O. in the Gurkhas later wrote (January 1947): ‘Due to his ability in all spheres and his initiative I had complete confidence in the efficiency of the detachment at all times. Shrewd in his calculations he is a most able organiser and administrator... …this officer is outstanding and I strongly recommend him for appointment to a regular commission and in particular for employment in intelligence duties’. Following the war Meadows joined the Malayan Civil Service but volunteered for active service at the outbreak of the Emergency, when his Burma experience proved invaluable. 1949 found him in Macao from where, as Honorary British Consul, he sent back to London intelligence reports on the Chinese Revolution. His next posting was to Singapore where he became Deputy Permanent Secretary (with Special Duties) in the office of the Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew; the two became trusting and loyal friends in a valuable, sometimes moderating relationship which continued well after Independence. Meadows was appointed C.B.E. in the 1963 New Year Honours list and is also entitled to the Efficiency Medal (not found); he died in Norfolk in July 1997 at the age of 78.
Lot 720
*The Sicily Military Cross Group awarded to Captain Stanley Charles ‘Bombs’ Panter, Parachute Regiment, who was later captured at Arnhem and recommended for a Bar to his M.C., Nine: Military Cross, dated 1943, privately-engraved (Capt. S.C. Panter Parachute Regt.), together with an unconfirmed and undated bar for second award; 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with 1st Army clasp, Italy Star, France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953, privately engraved (Major S.C. Panter Royal Fusiliers); Territorial Efficiency Decoration, reverse dated 1955; with Netherlands, Battle of Arnhem bronze honorary medal, 59.5mm, engraved (Capt. S.C. Panter Para. Regt.), this in Gerritsen van Kempen card box of issue; good very fine or better, offered with much original documentation, related items and memorabilia (see below) (lot). M.C.: London Gazette: 23 December 1943: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and initiative in action. On the 14th of July 1943. The officer was in company with a part of the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment which had been dropped on the Catania Plain in Sicily, to secure the high ground South of the River Simeto. On two occasions this officer led small parties to deal with enemy machine-gun positions that were menacing the Battalion’s flank, on each occasion he succeeded in capturing the machine guns and killing or capturing the crews. Later this officer single-handed captured an enemy howitzer together with ammunition, and himself organised a gun crew from the men of the battalion and directed the fire from this weapon on to the enemy. Throughout the action he displayed great courage under heavy fire and complete contempt for danger.’ Territorial Efficiency Decoration: London Gazette: 25 February 1955. The lot is offered with the following: Two ‘dog tags’ (octagonal and circular), both named SC PANTER 165617 LIEUT CE; gun-layer’s badges (2), in gold braid and khaki; anti-tank and crown (2) badges in khaki; a trident badge; riband bar representing MC (with bar) and Panter’s first three Stars; and two (unmatched) Captain’s dress ‘stripes’; A Medjez El Bab skull-and-crossbones pennant, 1942;Sequence of photographs of the first parachute drop (by Panter) made from an American Dakota using a British parachute; Original telegrams and letters, including telegram to Fusilier Panter dated 25 August 1939 “Join 9 RF.” and various correspondence advising Mrs Panter that her husband was missing, 25 Sept. 1944 and later; Nine original personal greetings telegrams, circa 1937-41;Ticket for Buckingham Palace Investiture, 18 April 1944; Two original PoW Camp identity documents, both with photographs (one illustrated); Panter’s 112-page ‘Wartime Log’ (approx.. 100 pages filled), prepared during his time as a Prisoner-of-War and including: his interesting detailed personal account of Operation “Market” [sic], capture at Arnhem, interrogation, escape during a bombardment and subsequent recapture; “S” Company, 2nd Parachute Regimental roll and Memorial; numerous watercolours, sketches and drawings by Panter and some others, including views of Arnhem and Oflag 79; and cuttings, poems, other contributions, tickets, prison camp stamps, personal records, etc.; Memorabilia from Arnhem Commemoration and Memorial, September 1947;A 10th Bn. (T.A.) Parachute Regt. ‘Visitors Falling Plate’ runner-up medal, 1960, 38mm; International Police Association membership card with photograph, 1961; Newspaper cuttings, two pencil portraits and two portrait photographs, and photocopied research; A German photograph, taken after Panter’s capture and subsequently published in Germany, of his kit and equipment (clearly showing his name, with related 1996 correspondence). STANLEY CHARLES “BOMBS” PANTER, born in Warwickshire on 5 September 1909, joined the 9th (2nd City of London) Royal Fusiliers as a private soldier just before the outbreak of War in August, 1939, having previously been an active member of the Territorial unit based in Balham High Road, Tooting, South London. He fought in France and Belgium, was evacuated and granted an emergency commission as 2nd Lieutenant on 28 December 1940. In late 1941 Panter volunteered for the 1st Parachute Brigade shortly after its formation, and by July 1942 he was commanding an experimental airborne platoon nicknamed “Panter’s Pirates” before a formal transfer to the Parachute Regiment is recorded as having taken place on 1 August. He served in Tunisia, including Medjez El Bab, and as part of Operation Torch led a successful operational jump with parachute mortars over Tunis in December, 1942 (when he seems to have gained the sobriquet ‘Bombs’ for the first time). He was in Italy from September 1943 to 1 May 1944 before dropping with the A Company in Sicily (Operation Husky), and was awarded an immediate M.C. for Catania Plain. Panter landed near Arnhem on the afternoon of Sunday 17 September 1944 as T/Capt., Officer Commanding Support Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion and was closely involved in the capture and defence of the Arnhem Road Bridge under Frost, based at “Company HQ” to the north of the bridge where they held out until capture by the Germans on Thursday 21st. As Panter was wounded he was sent to a makeshift hospital but succeeded in obtaining boots and a revolver, and walked out of the building during Allied shellfire on the night of the 21st. Unluckily he did not get far, walking straight into a German patrol beside the river, and he was recaptured. Like many Arnhem prisoners he was sent initially to Stalag XIIA at Limburg before transfer to Oflag 79 (Brunswick), via Oflag XIIB; Oflag 79 was as it happened the former home of a German parachute regiment and was to be liberated by the U.S. Ninth Army on 12 April 1945. After the war Panter served with the Territorial Army until 1959, receiving the Territorial Efficiency Decoration in 1955, and he also joined the City of London Special Constabulary. He evidently wore an unofficial bar to his M.C. for Arnhem but it should be reiterated that although he was recommended for this by his unit it was not confirmed at Divisional - or, perhaps, ‘suits’ - level. Stan Panter died 0n 20 April, 1968.
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