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Lot 27
A 1914/18 medal, the Great War Medal awarded to 200189 Sergeant F. Cross of the Royal Berkshire Regiment and a Territorial War Medal for Voluntary Services Overseas, 1914-19, awarded to 1888 Private F. Cross, Royal Berkshire Regiment, together with a bronze memorial plaque bearing the name of Frederick Cross and associated documents.
Lot 261
Crime--Fingerprinting, Louisiana purchase exposition. Ferrier, J. Kenneth Crooks & Crime, describing the methods of criminals from the area sneak to the professional cardsharper, forger or murderer & the various ways in which they are circumvented & captured. London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1928. Second edition, the author`s copy with his signature, plates, original cloth, upper hinge weak; Signed photograph of J.K. Ferrier; 1 A.L.S. and 1 autograph poem, 7 newspaper articles on criminal cases by J.K. Ferrier for The Weekly Record [1926], letter & Special Commemorative Diploma of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition for J.K. Ferrier of Scotland Yard as custodian of the Finger-Print Exhibit, 1904, cased commemorative bronze medal of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, typescript biography of J.K.F. by "D", two T.L.S. from T. Dickerson Cooke with an 18pp. copy of his lecture to the International Association for Identification convention in St. Louis on the importance of Ferrier to the history of finger-printing in the U.S.A., and 2 other items. Note: Detective Inspector Ferrier of Scotland Yard played a crucial role in the introduction of finger-printing into the U.S.A. when he arrived at the Louisana Purchase Exposition in 1904. Ferrier caught an Englishman posing as a Scotland Yard officer detailed by King Edward to guard the Jubilee gift exhibit, and recorded his finger prints for the St. Louis Police Department`s Identification Bureau, making them the first finger prints of a criminal recorded in the U.S.A., and St. Louis` the first police department in the U.S.A. with a finger print department. Ferrier went on to teach other American and Canadian police officers the infant science of finger print identification.
Lot 1412
A pair of bronze Caducei, the central stem entwined with snakes, surmounted with a pair of wings, 64cm long. Ancient Greeks created the caduceus as a badge of honour; ambassadors and noblemen carried a long staff entwined with garlands or ribbons to announce their presence. The garlands were later interpreted as snakes and a pair of wings was added to denote Hermes, the winged messenger and symbol of peace.
Lot 1416
A pair of fine ormolu and dark patinated bronze French Empire three-light figural candelabra, cast as Grecian maidens supporting amphoras on their heads and holding lotus cast cornucopia, each with urnular sconces, gadrooned nozzles and drip pans, standing on acanthus and anthemion cast rectangular plinths, applied with cranes, urns and flowering scrolls, 48cm high, late 19th/early 20th century, label for Bramus Brothers, Dealers in Works of Arts, 186 Piccadilly West, c.1815
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