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Lot 562
a Tortoiseshell Snuffbox with Inset Miniature, early 19th century, circular, the lid inset with an oval portrait miniature depicting a mother and child, bust length, within a gilt metal frame, 7.5cm diameter; and Another, the cover inset with a miniature reverse painting on glass, with purple tinted papier mâché (?) exterior, depicting country folk around a maypole, 7.8cm (2) (both a/f)
Lot 580
an Enamel Patch Box, South Staffordshire, circa 1790, oval, the lid painted with a standing figure of Britannia supporting a blue shield inscribed in gilt "PEACE AND TRADE", ships beyond, within a white bead frame, against a blue ground, 4.5cm; An Enamel Snuffbox, oval, painted with a lawyer reading papers, a devil looking over his shoulder, and the motto "A LAWYER AND HIS AGENT", dark blue enamel to the base, 5.1cm; and A Circular Snuffbox, the lid printed and painted with a bust portrait of a young woman wearing a mob cap and blue dress, light blue enamel to the base, 4.3cm diameter (3) See illustration
Lot 105
a German Portrait Painted Cabinet Plate, signed Dittrich, late 19th century, the central reserve painted with a bust length portrait of Mrs Bridgewater after George Romney (titled in red script on the reverse), signed, within triple banded border worked with repeat stylised leaf motifs and with white enamel repeat dot rim, beehive mark in underglaze blue, also impressed "MR" (within a circle), 24.2cm diameter
Lot 106
a KPM Porcelain Painted Plaque, after Murillo, late 19th century, depicting the bust portrait of a pretty young black haired girl, gazing to dexter, with brown eyes and wearing a medallion around her neck, open shirt and brown jacket, impressed "KPM" and sceptre mark, and incised "9 3/4-7 3/8", apparently unsigned, 25.2cm by 19cm, in a gilded composition glazed frame See illustration
Lot 110
a Meissen Porcelain Figural Mantel Clock Case, circa 1875, as a scantily clad infant reading from an open book flanked by a drum clock case (face and mechanism now lacking, and replaced by 18ct gold fob watch, complete with key), surmounted by puce drapes supporting symbols of the arts, including lute, French horn, artist's palette, victory wreath, and a marble bust, upon a shaped rectangular plinth with leaf and entrelac detail, in colours and gilt throughout, crossed swords mark in underglaze blue (double erased), 22cm high See illustration
Lot 154
a Chinese Parcel Gilt Bronze, Polychrome Painted and Hardstone Mounted Portrait Plaque, Qing Dynasty, rectangular, worked in relief with the bust portrait of an Empress, her hair gathered into an elaborate chignon, centred by a phoenix bird perched on a bejewelled diadem terminating in small carnelian and glass cabochons, in a stylised thunder pattern border, the upper inner flange pierced (twice) for suspension, 44.5cm by 34cm See illustration
Lot 121
A parian bust of a Roman, upon a fluted socle base, 29 cm high, together with an Imari pattern bottle vase, 19 cm high, a green jasperware baluster pedestal vase, 23 cm high, a green jasperware jug, 17 cm, a pair of Coalport Indian pattern plates, 18.5 cm diameter, a Wedgwood blue and white plate, 26 cm diameter, a Bohemian style overlaid and gilt highlighted glass bottle, 29.5 cm high, a porcelain model of a cow, a parian floral decorated jug and a figure of a pig, (11).
Lot 379
Astronomical Interest - A Franklin Mint limited edition silver commemorative medal, 'Halley’s Comet’, in case of issue; a Wedgwood commemorative mug, 'Halley’s Comet, 1986’, limited edition 920/2000, 10.5cm high; a Wedgwood commemorative plate, 'Halley’s Comet, 1986’, 25.5cm diameter; a Keramic Figure Editions plaster bust of Dr Edmond Halley, modelled by W.G. Stead, limited edition 166/5000, on a wooden plinth base, overall 17cm high; and a Goss (Royal Doulton) commemorative plate, '38th Congress of the I[nternational] A[stronautical] F[ederation], 1987’, limited edition of 600, 21cm diameter, in box of issue, (5)
Lot 174
AN UNUSUAL POWDER FLASK, POSSIBLY ITALIAN, 19th century, 12in. long, comprising a silver-plated inner covered with a pierced and carved cow-horn outer depicting images from Roman legend including Romulus and Remus being suckled by the wolf, a portrait bust of an Emperor surrounded by a laurel wreath, a charioteer and a foot-soldier with columns in the background (possibly gladiators in the Coliseum), and a Roman soldier standing at the bottom of a staircase with a woman looking on from the top of the stairs, near the neck of the flask a heart-shaped panel is engraved with 'FEKETE', silver-plated nozzle with sprung iron cap.
Lot 876
Pair: Captain E. H. Hobart, King’s Royal Rifle Corps east and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1897-98 (Lt. & A/Insptr., 9/K.R.R.); Ashanti 1900, no clasp, high relief bust (Captain, 9th K.R.R.C.), mounted on pad for display, some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and rare (2) £800-1000 captain Hobart, K.R.R.C., is several times mentioned in A History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti by W. W. Claridge (Sold with copied extracts). £800-£1000
Lot 1129
Four: Engine Room Artificer 1st Class J. H. Rowe, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (M. 14200 E.R.A. 4, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M. 14200 E.R.A. 4, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., coinage bust (M. 14200 E.R.A. 1, H.M.S. Curlew), one or two edge bruises and polished, thus good fine or better (4) £70-90 James Henry Rowe was born in Birmingham in January 1887 and entered the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class in June 1915. He subsequently witnessed active service in the battleship H.M.S. Dominion, from August 1915 to April 1918 - in which period she survived a U-Boat attack in May 1916 - and, following a brief appointment aboard the Commonwealth, in April to May 1918, transferred to submarines with an appointment at Dolphin. His service record thereafter reveals assorted appointments in ‘H’, ‘K’ and ‘L’ class submarines 1918-28, prior to his return to surface duties in the Calliope in 1928. £70-£90
Lot 1179
Five: Chief Engine-Room Artificer P. Stowar, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Marlborough throughout the War, including the battle of Jutland, and was awarded the M.S.M. shortly after Marlborough evacuated members of the Russian Imperial family from Yalta in April 1919 1914-15 Star (M.2541 P. Stowar, E.R.A.3., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Act. C.E.R.A. 2 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (M.2541 C.E.R.A.1 H.M.S. Columbine); Royal Navy Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., Admiral’s bust (M.2541 P. Stowar A/C.E.R.A. 2Cl. ‘Marlborough’ War Services) suspension claw tightened and repaired on the last, otherwise about very fine (5) £350-400 M.S.M. London Gazette 17 July 1919. percy Stowar was born at Wimborne, Dorset, on 20 July 1889, and entered the Royal Navy as an acting Engine Room Artificer on 15 October 1910. He joined the battleship Marlborough in June 1914, was present at the battle of Jutland in 1916, and was still serving aboard her when she evacuated the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, Queen Alexandra’s sister, and other members of the Russian Imperial family, from Yalta, in the Crimea, in April 1919. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal in November 1925, was granted a Hurt Certificate for a fractured patella in February 1928, and left the Navy later that year. Sold with copy record of service. for further details of the services of H.M.S. Marlborough at the battle of Jutland see Lot 1411 for the D.S.O. group awarded to her Executive Commander. £350-£400
Lot 544
An extremely rare first issue Victorian Royal Marine M.S.M. dated ‘1848’ on obverse and with dated edge awarded to Sergeant W. Maxwell, R.M. royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1848’ below bust (Serg. W. Maxwell, R.M. 16. Jan: 1849) officially engraved naming, fitted with silver ribbon brooch, toned, nearly extremely fine £1600-1800 Ex Fevyer Collection, Spink November 1998. the first 16 Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medals were issued with the ‘1848’ obverse and ‘16 Jan 1849’ engraved on the rim. There were probably only 39 issued with the ‘1848’ obverse of which 20 are known, 8 with dated rim and 12 without the dated rim. william Maxwell, Sergeant Schoolmaster, Chatham Division, served 27 years. His annuity of £10 commenced on 24 April 1849. He probably died between December 1850 and December 1852. £1600-£1800
Lot 545
A rare Victorian Royal Marine M.S.M. dated ‘1848’ on obverse awarded to Sergeant Henry King, R.M. royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1848’ below bust (Hy. King, Serjt. R.M. Chatham Divn. 30 Years) officially engraved naming, edge bruising, otherwise very fine £1400-1600 One of probably only 39 Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medals issued with the ‘1848’ dated obverse. sergeant Henry King was born in the parish of South Hall, near Uxbridge, Middlesex. He was 20 years of age and a clerk by trade when he attested for the Chatham Division, 21st Company, of the Royal Marines at Rochester, Kent, on 27 October 1826. He served as a Private from 27 October 1826 to 20 January 1831 (4 years 86 days), as Corporal to 30 June 1840 (9 years 162 days), Sergeant to 3 August 1844 (4 years 34 days), Colour Sergeant to 24 July 1846 (355 days) and, on resigning his Colours, as Provost Sergeant to 5 April 1847 (1 year 255 days), and finally as Hospital Sergeant to 21 June 1861 (14 years 77 days) for total servitude of 34 years 239 days, of which 10 years 280 days were Afloat and 23 years 324 days were At Home. He embarked on the Orestes from February 1828 to March 1831 (3 years 24 days), the Winchester from July 1834 to June 1838 (3 years 336 days), and the Queen from October 1840 to July 1844 (3 years 285 days). Henry King was ‘Set Off the Rolls’ on 28 June 1861, discharged due to length of service. he was awarded the Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal and an Annuity of £5 from 13 January 1857. This sum was increased to £10 from April 1877 and he was still receiving this after 1884. Provost Sergeant King also received the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (Wide Suspender) without a Gratuity in January 1862. Sold with several copied pages of Attestation, Discharge, and Letter Books. £1400-£1600
Lot 551
Pair: Sergeant Levi White, Royal Marine Light Infantry royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Levi White, Sergt. 6th Co. R.M.L.I.) engraved naming; Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., Field Marshal’s bust (PO. 14th Coy. Levi White, Clr. Sergt. R.M.L.I.) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine (2) £500-600 a complete list of Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medals awarded between 1884 and 1918 has neither survived nor been reconstructed. Approximately 35 George V Admiral’s bust Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medals were awarded, of which 7 are known. £500-£600
Lot 556
An extremely rare Victoria issue Army M.S.M. dated ‘1848’ on obverse awarded to Troop Serjeant-Major W. Ryan, 3rd Dragoon Guards army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1848’ below bust (W. Ryan, Troop Serjt. Major, 3rd Dragoon Guards) edge bruising, very fine and extremely rare £2000-2500 Fewer than 10 M.S.M’s. with ‘1848’ below the Queen’s bust are believed to have been awarded to the Army. william Ryan was born in Co. Tipperary and attested for service with the Dragoon Guards on 19 February 1825, aged 25 years. Serving with the 3rd Dragoon Guards, he was promoted to Corporal in September 1830; Serjeant in June 1833 and Troop Serjeant-Major in March 1838. He was awarded the M.S.M. with an annuity of £10 in August 1849. Ryan was discharged at Chatham on 22 July 1857 and died c.1871. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research. £2000-£2500
Lot 562
A rare Great War ‘France’ M.S.M. group of four awarded to Acting Leading Seaman G. M. Martin, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1914-15 Star (CZ-286 A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (C.Z.286 Act. L.S., R.N.V.R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (CZ286 A.B.-H.G., Drake Bn. R.N.V.R.), mounted for display, good very fine, scarce (4) £600-700 M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918. ‘... for valuable services rendered with the Forces in France’. a total of 119 G.V.R. Field Marshal’s bust ‘Immediate’ M.S.M’s. were awarded to Naval recipients, of which 47 were awarded to the Royal Navy and 72 to the Royal Marines. Of those to the Royal Navy, the majority were awarded to the R.N.V.R. £600-£700
Lot 570
A rare New Zealand Long Service group of four awarded to Captain J. Coleman, New Zealand Staff Corps, late Permanent Militia queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, South Africa 1902 (S.S.M. Instr., 2nd Regt. 10th N.Z. Cont.); New Zealand (Permanent Militia) L.S. & G.C. (No.171 1/c Gunner, N.Z.P.M. 1895), ring and straight bar suspension; New Zealand L.S.& G.C., V.R. (No.171 Bombr., No.1 Service Coy. N.Z.P.M. (1900)); New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R.., 4th issue, robed bust (Staff Serg. Major (W.O.) N.Z. Perm’t. Staff 1911) very fine and better (4) £900-1200 Staff Sergeant-Major J. Coleman is known to have been issued with a replacement New Zealand L.S.& G.C. - the above is the original. He is also known to have been issued with a replacement New Zealand M.S.M. - the above is the replacement; the original medal is known to exist. The New Zealand (Permanent Militia) L.S. & G.C. Medal instituted in 1887 and discontinued in 1898 was of the same design as the New Zealand Police L.S.& G.C. Medal; 105 are known to have been issued. joseph Trevor Coleman was born at Chester, England, on 10 January 1862 and arrived in New Zealand as a young man. His trade prior to enlistment was groom. He enlisted in the Armed Constabulary Field Force on 26 September 1881 and was transferred on 7 October to Opunake, being mobilised to ‘quell the Maori rising at Parihaka, on the West Coast of Taranaki.’ At this time, Parihaka was the centre of a very strong movement of passive resistance against the encroachment of Europeans. It was this movement which caused the Armed Constabulary to be called out to ‘quell the rebellion.’ Although his wife claimed after his death that he possessed the New Zealand Wars Medal, there is no evidence of this. Constable Coleman was transferred to the Waikato District on 4 March 1882. in 1886, after the passing of the Defence Act, the Permanent Militia was established and many personnel of the Armed Constabulary transferred to the Artillery Section of the Permanent Militia. This later became No. 1 Service Company of the Permanent Militia and, in 1902, the Royal New Zealand Artillery. Joseph Coleman served for 13 years in the artillery at Fort Takapuna, Auckland as an Artillery and Drill Instructor and was promoted to Bombardier. In 1898 he applied for a transfer to Dunedin and also permission to get married. He was transferred to No. 1 Service Company detachment at Lyttelton on 19 July 1898, three days after his marriage. He was detailed for temporary duty as a Volunteer Drill Instructor at Christchurch and was also employed as a Gunnery Instructor at Fort Jervois during the period of the Lyttelton Naval Volunteers 'in camp' training. Coleman was transferred on 15 May 1900 to the Militia and Volunteer Staff as a Sergeant Major Instructor, Permanent Staff, and was also an Instructor for the Mounted Corps, particularly the 1st and 2nd Canterbury Mounted Rifles, and assisted with training of personnel for the 3rd and 7th New Zealand Contingents for the South African (Second Boer) War. He was also involved in the Royal Visit in 1901. sergeant Major Coleman served with the South Island Battalion, 10th New Zealand Contingent in the South African War (Second Boer War). Major W.S. Pennycook stated that Coleman actually served in the rank of Regimental Sergeant Major in 2nd Regiment of the 10th New Zealand Contingent during May-June 1902. He was attached to the 9th Contingent at Durban in July 1902 for the return journey to New Zealand aboard the SS Orient. On arrival in New Zealand he was transferred to Auckland in October 1902. In late December 1906, he applied for a commission in the Permanent Forces. This was declined as was a similar application in 1908. In 1909 he applied for promotion as Warrant Officer and was appointed as such on the New Zealand Permanent Staff on 4 June 1909. He applied again for a commission in 1910 but this was again denied on the grounds that he did not have the attributes of an officer. Supported by a number of very senior officers, the case finally reached the Prime Minister. Coleman was posted to the 4th Waikato Mounted Rifles at Hamilton and on 12 November 1913 he was finally commissioned as a Lieutenant in the New Zealand Staff Corps, and subsequently promoted Temporary Captain on 19 January 1914, and appointed Adjutant. He was next appointed Group Commander at Hamilton. Captain Coleman was then posted as Commander of Group 20 at Wanganui, where on 29 November 1916 he suffered a stroke. He was retired on superannuation on 3 June 1917 after 25 1/2 years of continuous service and an aggregate of over 29 years total service. Joseph Trevor Coleman died at Christchurch on 23 April 1919 aged 57 years, leaving a widow and two children. He had married Elizabeth Ann (surname unknown but born at Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia) at Takapuna on 16 July 1898. joseph Coleman applied for the award of the New Zealand Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 28 December 1899 and was presented with this award on 24 May 1900 at Christchurch. He applied for the award of the Meritorious Service Medal in March 1905 and, at the same time, requested that his New Zealand (Permanent Militia) Long Service Medal be returned to him. This latter medal had been surrendered by Coleman in 1901 on being awarded the New Zealand Long Service and Good Conduct Medal as regulations did not permit the wearing of two medals with the same ribbons. This regulation had in the meantime been amended, and the medal was ordered returned to him on 15 May 1905. Sold with copied research. £900-£1200
Lot 574
A scarce ‘wide suspension’ L.S. & G.C. medal dated ‘1848’ below the bust awarded to Ship’s Cook John Paul for 24 years service royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension, dated ‘1848’ below bust (John Paul, Ships Cook, H.M.S. Inconstant. 24 Ys.) very fine £1000-1200 Approximately 100 dated ‘1848’ long service medals were awarded, this example being approved on 3 December, 1850, the last known award of the ‘1848’ dated issue; the ultimate award is thought to have been made on 6 December 1850 to Frederick Woodrow, Seaman's Schoolmaster, H.M.S. Volage, for 28 Years service, but this medal has not yet been seen. £1000-£1200
Lot 599
Indian Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 2nd issue, anchor reverse (Sejeant (sic) Clarence Linden, European Veterans), cleaned, possibly fire damaged, edge bruising, good very fine £300-400 Approximately 100 medals sent to India in 1859, by mistake, bearing the bust of Queen Victoria on the obverse and the Crown and Fouled Anchor on the reverse. £300-£400
Lot 750
A group of five military presentation medallions awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel G. J. W. Malet, O.B.E., Royal Hussars u.S.A., Department of the Army, by Dondero Inc., obv. trophy-of-arms, rev. plain, undated, 76mm., bronze-gilt, in case of issue, inside with plaque, ‘Presented by General John A. Wickham, Jr, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army’; Portugal, Ecercito Portugus, obv. heraldic shield and helmet, rev. inscribed, ‘From General Jorge Salazar Braga, Chief of the Portuguese Army Staff, March 1985’, 90mm., bronze, in velvet covered case of issue; Brazil, Ecercito Brasileiro, obv. bust of Luis Alves de Lima e Silva, Duque de Caxias (1803-1880), undated, 70mm., silvered bronze, in velvet covered case of issue bearing gilt and enamel emblem of Brazil, inside of lid inscribed, ‘Exercito Brasileiro Presena Nacional’; France, Plaquette, bearing a shield marked, ‘E.M.A.T.’ and the inscription, ‘Offert par le General d’Armee Maurice Schmitt Chef d’Etat-Major de l’Armee de Terre Franaise au Lieutenant-Colonel G. J. Malet, Mars 1987’, 125 x 77mm., silvered metal, in Delsart, Sens case of issue; Oriental (? Vietnam), Commemorative Bronze Medal, 1927-1987, 49mm, in case of issue, all unnamed except where stated, virtually mint state (5) £80-120 O.B.E. London Gazette 31 December 1987. ‘Lieutenant Colonel, The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own)’. Recommendation states, ‘Lt Col Malet has been Head of the Army Section of the Foreign Liaison Section since November 1983. His duties cover maintaining a close liaison with all the foreign MilitaryAttaches in London, staffing their many requests for information, hosting representational functions, arranging and escorting Attache group visits to UK and BAOR Military establishments, coordinating programmes for foreign military visitors and planning, programme and escorting CGS’s inbound COS visitors. ...... Dealing with the representatives of foreign countries provides unlimited scope for disaster but he has always foreseen and therefore averted problems. He is held in extremely high regard by all the foreign representatives who value his friendship, direction and help. ....’ greville John Wyndham Malet was born on 6 December 1939, the son of Captain John Wyndham Malet (1910-40) and June Rosalind nee Broadley, and was a scion of the Malet Baronets. He was educated at Harrow and in July 1958, after serving in the ranks for 242 days, he gained a commission in the 10th Hussars. Following the regiment’s amalgamation with the 11th Hussars in 1969, he continued to serve with the Royal Hussars. He was appointed G.S.O.2 (Author) at the R.A.C. Tactical School, December 1971-January 1974 and held the rank of Acting-Major from December 1971 until promoted to that rank in December 1972. In July 1980 he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; was awarded the O.B.E. in 1987 and was placed on Retired Pay in February 1990. He married in 1972, the Hon. Margaret Cherry Wigram, eldest daughter of the 2nd Baron Wigram, with whom he had two children. Latterly living at the Walled House, Hathertop, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, he died on 5 September 2004. william Malet, the founder of the Malet family in England, was a companion of William the Conqueror at Hastings and was related by marriage to Rollo, 1st Duke of Normandy. Sold with copied research. £80-£120
Lot 388
A 19th Century French carved ivory desk seal handle, carved with the bust of a female bacchante, 3.75ins high (now converted to a whistle), a Victorian burrwood rectangular snuff box, 3.25ins x 1.75, an 18th Century enamel rectangular box, 2.75ins x 1.5in (extensively damaged), and a small selection of other treen, etc
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