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Lot 1200
A possibly important large Terracotta bust of a woman 18th century, probably by Augustin Pajou 1730-1809, on an integral terracotta socle. Perhaps a portrait of Madame Du Barry. The attribution to Pajou is strengthened by the close similarity of a form and style to the small signed bust of a woman from the Lagerfeld Collection sold at Christie`s Monaco in 2000 (Sale 1026 Lot 242) of which another example exists in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Condition: General wear, damage to socle with 19th century stapled repair.
Lot 362
Ashanti 1900, no clasp, high relief bust (735 Pte. Dundora, 2nd C. Africa Regt.) replacement non-swivel suspension fitted and slack, badly worn, poor £100-140 Dundora of the Yao Tribe, from the village of Namalamba in the District of Chikala, enlisted on 1 April 1988, aged 28 years. He served in British East Africa, April-June 1899; Mauritius, June 1899-February 1900; Somaliland, February-July 1900; Ashanti and British Central Africa, July 1900-August 1902; and Somaliland, August 1902-July 1904. Serving in the Ashanti Expedition of 1900, he was present in the actions of Djachi, Ojisu, Danasi and Abuasu - being severely wounded at the latter. He re-enlisted on 10 February 1902 and saw service at Jidballi, 10 January 1904. With copied service papers.
Lot 504
‘Bravery at Sea’ Medal, obverse, Queen Victoria ‘Jubilee’ bust facing left; reverse inscribed, ‘Presented to Thomas Scarll of the Rival L.T. 428 for Bravery at Sea, Oct. 1887’, 36mm., silver, with silver buckle engraved, ‘For Bravery at Sea’, very fine £100-140 The medal has a ‘home-made’ look, being converted from a double florin (4/-) of the period which has had its obverse inscription and reverse details erased and its edge smoothed. ‘RESCUE OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW. GALLANT CONDUCT OF LOWESTOFT SMACKSMEN - On Thursday morning at eight o’clock the smack Rival, owner Mr W. Doughty, brought in the captain and crew of the Dutch vessel Yminden, which was abandoned on the high seas on Tuesday afternoon. The crew, which numbered twelve, together with the captain’s wife, were at once conveyed to the Sailors’ Home, where they received every attention. The captain, L. Wiersma, ... states that the Yminden sailed from the port of Zaandam with ballast bound for Wyboug. All went well until Monday night, when they encountered a fierce gale from the north-west, thirteen miles east of Texel. Captain Wiersma says he has been master of a craft for eleven years, and he never remembers such dreadful weather. The sails were torn to ribbons, and at half-past two o’clock on Tuesday morning the ballast shifted, causing the vessel to heel over. From that moment they were helpless, and expected every moment to be washed overboard. When they began to give up all hope the Lowestoft smack Rival hove in sight, and after lying by the Yminden a considerable time the captain and crew were all rescued by the Lowestoft men at great personal risk, and taken aboard the smack. ....’ With copied extract from the Lowestoft Weekly Press and some other details.
Lot 513
U.S.A., Wreck of the Steamship San Francisco Medal 1866, by Anthony Paquet, obverse: a man and woman on a raft at sea; reverse: the female ‘America’ seated, crowns a kneeling seaman with a wreath, 82mm., bronze-gilt specimen, unnamed; Medal to Assistant Surgeon Dr Frederick Rose, R.N., by Anthony Paquet, obverse: bust of President Buchanan right; reverse: figures in classical garments, ‘To Dr. Frederick Rose, Assistant Surgeon, Royal Navy, G.B.’, in exergue, ‘For kindness and humanity to officers and crew of the U.S. steamship Susquehanna’, 76mm., bronze-gilt specimen, unnamed; Medal for Saving Life from Drowning 1874, by C. Barber, obverse: head of John Horn Jr. left; reverse: ‘By Act of Congress June 20th 1874. In Recognition of his Heroic Exploits in Rescuing Men Women & Children from Drowning in Detroit River’, 49mm., bronze-gilt specimen, unnamed, about extremely fine (3) £100-140 The Wreck of the Steamship San Francisco Medal was awarded in Gold to Captain Creghton of the Three Bells of Glasgow; Captain Low of the barque Kilby of Boston, and Captain Stouffer of the ship Antarctic ‘for their gallant conduct in rescuing about five hundred Americans from the wreck of the steamship San Francisco’.
Lot 576
1st Sutherland Highland Rifle Volunteers Other Ranks Waist Belt Clasp, a two part white metal example together with a plated glengarry badge of the 5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, a half bust photograph of a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps showing pilot’s brevet collar badges and side hat, Scots Guards Piper’s badge in unmarked silver coloured metal, a Kent VAD hat badge in gilding metal and enamels, small brass cap badge Lovat Scouts Y, HLI a piper’s post 1902 plaid brooch in white metal, Norfolk Imperial Yeomanry an officer’s gilt metal cap badge, together with sundry other Scottish related military badges, good overall condition (15) £80-120
Lot 704
Uganda, Cross of Valour (Victorious Cross) in the form of the ‘Victoria Cross’, but the obverse bearing a bust of Idi Amin and the legend ‘For God and My Country’, and the reverse with central Arms of Uganda and the legend ‘For Supreme Valour’ below, mounted on original Spink & Son wearing pin, extremely fine and rare £200-300
Lot 806
A fine C.S.I., C.I.E., Great War M.C. group of eight awarded to Captain J. E. Pedley, Indian Army, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was latterly a senior member of the Indian Civil Service The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, C.S.I., Companion’s neck badge, gold and enamel, with central cameo bust of Queen Victoria and rose diamond set legend, a few stones lacking, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue with full neck cravat; The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s neck badge, gold and enamels, with full neck cravat; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut. J. E. Pedley, K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J. E. Pedley); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Capt. J. E. Pedley, 57 Rfls. F.F.); Jubilee 1935, the last six mounted as worn, some contact wear, otherwise generally very fine or better (8) £5000-6000 C.S.I. London Gazette 13 June 1946: ‘John Edward Pedley, Esq., C.I.E., M.C., Indian Civil Service, lately Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of the United Provinces.’ C.I.E. London Gazette 8 June 1939: ‘John Edward Pedley, Esq., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Collector, Gorakhpur, United Provinces.’ M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917 Temp. Lt. John Edward Pedley, K. R. Rif. C. John Edward Pedley was born at Rangoon, Burma in December 1891, the son of Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel T. F. Pedley, of the Rangoon Port Defence Volunteers. He was educated at Repton and Trinity College, Oxford, and was commissioned into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps In December 1914, from the ranks of King Edward’s Horse which he had joined in November 1911. He first went to France on 25 July 1915, where he served in the 12th Battalion, attached to the 6th Battalion, and won his M.C. in 1916. He was subsequently wounded in the right leg on 25 April 1917 - ‘several small fragments of shell in the right calf and below the knee joint’ - and was transferred to the Indian Army Reserve of Officers at the end of the year. He was subsequently employed in the Third Afghan War as a Captain in the 57th (Wilde’s) Rifles, I.A. In 1920 Pedley joined the Indian Civil Service and a long and distinguished career ensued, one of his final appointments being as a Member of the Board of Revenue in the United Provinces shortly after the 1939-45 War. Among other appointments in the interim, Pedley was placed in charge of the Gorakhpur district in the late 1930s, an unenvious position that resulted in the award of his C.I.E. in 1939. An accompanying newspaper cutting quotes the following citation, as read out at the time of his investiture: ‘You joined the service in 1920 after four years’ service in the British and Indian Armies, during which you were awarded the Military Cross. From 1924 to 1928 you were Registrar of the Allahabad High Court. Thereafter you served as a District Officer and have been in charge of the large districts of Lucknow, Meerut and Bareilly. Since September 1937, you have been Collector of the very large and important district of Gorakhpur with over three million inhabitants, which was then in an unsatisfactory state owing to agrarian unrest and political agitation. You have fully justified your selection for this difficult charge. You handled the general situation, including at one stage a troublesome communal problem in Gorakhpur city, with great success; and by sound and cool-headed judgement combined with firmness and urbanity you restored confidence in the district administration among all classes of the population and effected a great improvement in the general agrarian situation. You have done most valuable work in Gorakhpur, and it is with great pleasure that I now deliver you the insignia of the Companionship of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire.’ Pedley was awarded his C.S.I. in 1946 and retired to the Isle of Man, where he died in April 1972. Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including original warrants for the C.S.I. and C.I.E., edges slightly cut and damaged, together with related investiture pamphlets and congratulatory letters for the latter award from the Governor of the United Provinces, and his wife, both dated June 1939; and commission document for Lieutenant, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, dated 21 February 1919.
Lot 855
The M.B.E. group of five awarded to Sergeant R. W. Walls, British South Africa Police, late Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; British War and Victory Medals (P. Flt. Offr. R. W. Walls, R.N.A.S.); War Medal 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., crowned bust, Southern Rhodesia (32 Sgt. Mjr. R. W. Walls), together with a set of related uniform tunic ribands, mounted as worn, the earlier awards a little polished, but otherwise generally very fine or better (5) £400-500 Reginald William Walls, Lieutenant-General Peter Walls’ father, was born in Crowthorne, Berkshire in October 1899 and served aboard the training ship Worcester from April 1915 to April 1917. Subsequently appointed a Temporary Probationary Flying Officer in the Royal Naval Air Service in September of the latter year, he went on to pilot a variety of aircraft, including Curtiss, Avro, B.E. 2c and D.H. 4 types, and was transferred to the Unemployed List in April 1919, having latterly held the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the newly established Royal Air Force. Sometime thereafter he settled in Salisbury, Rhodesia, where at the time of his son’s birth in July 1926, he was serving as a Sergeant in the British South Africa Police, but further research is required to establish his final rank and the date of award for his M.B.E. Sold with a a fine quality B.S.A.P gilt-metal cap badge, and an old B.S.A.P. crest wall plaque; a Christmas 1914 Queen Mary Tobacco Box, with “bullet pencil”; old embroidered R.A.F. uniform Wings, and R.N.A.S. and R.A.F. crest wall plaques, and other miscellaneous pieces, including a wristwatch and compass.
Lot 215
A JAMES I OAK PANELLED CHEST EARLY 17TH CENTURY The profusely carved front with foliate-filled strap-work and guilloche and three arcaded panels, the centre panel with carved figural bust and initials JR 26 in. (66 cm.) high; 46½ in. (118 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep View on Christie's.com
Lot 481
A rare Kerr & Bins, Worcester, Medici Vase, 1862, the heart shaped body enamelled and gilt with Renaissance male and female portraits, the reverse with the initials ‘BC and FM’ and coats of arms including the golden balls of the Medici between twin female silvered bust handles, red printed shield mark, date and pseudo Registration of Design Mark, 21.5cm The latter mark includes the initials of James and Thomas Callowhill, senior painters at Worcester and it is possible that this vase was made for the 1862 London Exhibition.
Lot 80
Maugham (William Somerset) The Book-Bag first separate edition one of 725 copies (this unnumbered) frontispiece portrait of bust original cloth-backed blue boards with author`s device in red on upper cover minor discolouration to extremities otherwise very good uncut dust-jacket a very good copy [Stott A43b] large 8vo Florence G.Orioli 1932.
Lot 872
AN ITALIAN NEO CLASSICAL GILTWOOD MIRROR, TUSCANY the rectangular plate crested by a bust of a Ceasar surmounted by a two handled urn framed by leaves and flanked by finials or urns on brackets, 171cm h x 69cm w, c1800 Comparative Literature: Child (Graham), World Mirrors 1650-1900, 1990, plts 633-635. ++The plate replaced, old regilding and retouching, elements reattached, repaired breaks, etc. Generally in need of cosmetic restoration in similar state to the following lot.
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