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Lot 649
A unique 1801 Medal awarded to Ensign John Armstrong, 49th Foot, for his gallantry aboard H.M.S. Ardent at the battle of Copenhagen, 1801, where detachments of the 49th served as Marines Circular silver medal with laurel wreath border, silver, hallmarks for London 1801, the obverse engraved with the Royal Crown and ‘Copenhagen 49 1801’, the reverse engraved ‘A Reward for Gallantry from Capt. C. Plenderleath to Ensign J. Armstrong H.M.S. Ardent’, with small ring suspension, light cabinet marks, good very fine £1,400-£1,800 --- Provenance: Armstrong’s group of three medals, consisting his Naval General Service Medal, Military General Service Medal and this silver Gallantry medal for Copenhagen, were sold at Sotheby’s in 1910; in the Payne collection in 1911; and finally as part George Dalrymple White’s Collection in 1946. The group was subsequently split, each medal coming up for sale separately during 2013 and 2014. At the Battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801, the 49th Foot and the Experimental Corps of Riflemen (later 95th Rifles), served aboard the fleet of Lord Nelson. Both Regiments were initially to be tasked with landing during the battle and attacking shore targets, however, it was subsequently decided that they should be distributed amongst the fleet to serve as marines. According to the Rifles museum: ‘The 49th saw action throughout the fleet. Men of the Regiment inflicted heavy losses to a Danish floating battery. As casualties among the sailors mounted, soldiers of the 49th helped man the guns. Lieutenant Armstrong was awarded a medal for gallantry by his company commanding officer. The 49th lost 13 men killed and 41 wounded.’ Additionally, a Regimental history, ‘The Royal Berkshire Regiment’ by Frederick Myatt, has a section of the book dedicated to the 49th at Copenhagen and confirms the award to Armstrong’s Silver medal, though it seems the exact act of gallantry that caused Captain Plenderleath to award Armstrong with this medal has been lost to time: ‘Lieutenant Armstrong of the 49th performed some notable – although unfortunately unrecorded act of gallantry on H.M.S. Ardent for which in the fashion of the day, he was given a private medal by Captain Plenderleath his company commander. Considering all things the Regiment was fortunate to escape with a casualty list of thirteen killed and forty one wounded.’ Armstrong’s award is again confirmed in ‘A Regimental Medal Collection: 88th and 94th Regiments: the Connaught Rangers’, by Colonel H. F. N. Jourdain, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research Vol. 28, No. 115 (Autumn, 1950), pp. 127-131. This article notes Armstrong receiving both the Naval and Military General Service medals but critically was also awarded ‘a special medal for Copenhagen, soon after that battle.’ A study of the 49th Foot’s presence at the battle of Copenhagen was produced by Commander W.B. Rowbottom, R.N., on behalf of General Sir Felix Ready, the Colonel of the Berkshire Regiment in 1936. Using muster rolls, he was also able to establish which Officer were in which ships (medal rolls at error a number of times) along the number of other ranks. Aboard H.M.S. Ardent were; Lieutenant Colonel John Vincent, Captain Charles Plenderleath, Ensign John Armstrong, Ensign Joseph de la Hay and 78 other ranks. At the battle of Copenhagen, H.M.S. Ardent was heavily engaged, suffering 94 Officers and men killed or wounded. This was the fourth highest number of casualties sustained by any ships in Nelson fleet. John Armstrong was born c.1780 and was commissioned Ensign in the 49th Foot on 2 April 1800, taking part in the Naval Battle of Copenhagen in 1801. On 26 September 1804, he advanced to Lieutenant in the 5th Reserve, before transferring to the 2nd Garrison Battalion on 25 December that year. Transferring to the 88th Foot on 25 July 1807, he served with the 1st Battalion, 88th Foot in the Peninsula between March 1809 and April 1814, taking part at the battles of Busaco, Foz a, Fuentes d’Onor, El Bod, Cuidad Rodrigo (severely Wounded), Badajoz (wounded during assault), and Salamanca. Promoted Captain on 5 January 1815, he was placed on half pay by reduction of his battalion, 25 March 1816. He did not served again. In addition to the silver gallantry medal, for his services, Armstrong later received a Naval General Service Medal with the Copenhagen clasp (Ensign 49th Foot) and a 5 clasp Military General Service Medal for his service as an Officer in the 88th Foot.
Lot 404
The campaign group of twelve worn by Lieutenant-General H.H. Maharaja Sir Hari Singh, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir India, General Service Medal 1947, 1 clasp, Jammu and Kashmir 1947-48 (Lt. Gen. H.H. Maharaja Sir Har Singh. Indar Mahindar Bahadur) officially impressed naming; India, Independence Medal 1947, this an old replacement for the lost original, naming erased but partially legible to a Captain in the I.A.S.C.; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Delhi Durbar 1903, silver; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, fitted with replacement suspension claw; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Grand Officer’s breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, with rosette on ribbon, original court mounting as worn by the Maharaja, the Durbar medals with contact wear, good fine, the last with enamel damage, otherwise generally very fine (12) £1,500-£2,000 --- Hari Singh was born on 23 September 1895 at the palace of Amar Mahal, Jammu, the only surviving son of General Raja Sir Amar Singh (1864-1909) the younger son of General Maharajadhiraj Sri Sir Ranbir Singh and the brother of Lieutenant-General Maharajadhiraj Sri Sir Pratap Singh, the then Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. Appointed G.C.S.I. in 1933; G.C.I.E. 1929 (K.C.I.E. 1918); G.C.V.O. 1946 (K.C.V.O. 1922). In 1903, Hari Singh served as a Page of Honour to Lord Curzon at the grand Delhi Durbar. At the age of 13, Hari Singh was dispatched to Mayo College in Ajmer. A year later in 1909, when his father died, the British took a personal interest in his education and appointed Major H. K. Brar as his guardian. After Mayo College the ruler-in-waiting went to the Imperial Cadet Corps at Dehra Dun for military training, imbibing its British upper-crust atmosphere and polishing his English to a high gloss, and by the age of 20 he had been appointed commander-in-chief of the Jammu and Kashmir state forces. Hari Singh was also a controversial figure due to his involvement in a blackmail scandal by an English prostitute in Paris in 1921, allegedly paying £300,000 to his blackmailers. The issue resulted in a court case in London in 1924 during which the India Office tried to keep his name out of proceedings by arranging for him to be referred to as Mr ‘A’. However, the secret of the Kashmiri Prince and the beautiful blonde quickly became the subject of salacious gossip throughout London society. Hari Singh succeeded to the throne of Jammu and Kashmir following the death of his uncle, Sir Pratap Singh, in 1925. A moderniser in outlook, he made primary education compulsory in the State and introduced laws prohibiting child marriage. Sir Hari Singh was opposed to the views of both the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League with their communist style two-nation theory. During the Second World War, from 1944-46, Sir Hari Singh was a member of the Imperial War Cabinet. In 1947, after India gained independence from British rule, Jummu and Kashmir had the option to join either India or Pakistan. Har Singh’s preference was to maintain independence and he played the two countries off against each other, delaying his decision. Being a Muslim majority state it was expected that he should respect the wishes of the population and probably accede to Pakistan. However, following a mutiny of Muslim regiments in Gilgit in October 1947 and an incursion of tribal and regular Pakistani forces, Hari Singh appealed to secular India for help but India would only do so if he acceded the whole of his princely State to India. This he did, signing the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947, and in doing so triggered the Indo-Pakistan War of 1947-48, the first of four conflicts in this region which is still disputed by both countries today. After abdicating in 1949 in favour of his son and heir, Crown Prince Karan Singh, Sir Hari Singh retired to Bombay, where he remained the titular Maharaja of the state until 1952 when the monarchy was abolished by Nehru’s government. Sir Hari Singh remained in enforced exile in Bombay until his death of a heart attack on 26 April 1961, aged 65. His ashes were cast all over Jummu and Kashmir and immersed in the river Tawi, according to his last wishes. See Lot 669 for the G.C.S.I. collar chain case specially customised to hold the insignia of the Order with provision for this mounted group of medals.
Lot 89
A 20th century Stag two drawer bedside cabinet and another stag single drawer bedside cabinet (2) Condition Report:Fair overall condition. There are light scratches to both tops and a few small bumps to legs and drawer fronts. There is one substantial dent to the base of the two-drawer cabinet. Both cabinets are a little dirty and would benefit from a clean.
Lot 251
Four Wooden Cabinets, an oak collector's cabinet with brass campaign handles, the lid with lock (no key) opening to release two drawers below, 44cm across; a glazed Jacar Drawing Instruments display case with storage drawer below, 31cm across; a glazed mahogany display case 80cm across; a mahogany storage case with two drawers and leather handle 53cm across
Lot 12
the inverted breakfront top over a leaf tip carved frieze, above a pair of carved fluted panel doors centred by lions masks and flanked by large elliptical flower motifs, opening to a shelved interior, the side panels similarly carved, on a conforming plinth base with further carved leaf tip moulding180cm wide, 96cm high, 67cm deepProvenance: Kimmerghame, Duns, the Estate of the Late Major General Sir John Swinton K.C.V.O., O.B.E., D.L.Footnote: Note: The present cabinet, with its robustly carved panels with deep undulating fluting bears some similarites to a set of twelve gilt and painted stools made by John Linnell for Kedleston Hall for the 1st Lord Scarsdale. Other pieces by Linnell with the same deep fluting but to designs by Robert Adam, can be found on a pair of dining room urns and pedestals at Osterley Park, made for Robert Child in 1767.
Lot 305
the brown leather insert top with a leaf carved edge over three frieze drawers and twin banks of three drawers, with a pair of cupboard doors opposing, raised on foliate carved ogee bracket feet, the drawer stamped 'M. WILLSON QUEEN STREET'151cm wide, 80cm high, 95cm deepProvenance: Lowood House, MelroseFootnote: Note: the stamp refers to either Mary Wilson/Willson, or her son Matthew, who took over the business in 1838. Mary Willson was married to Thomas Willson who is listed in trade directories in the early 19th century as a Furniture broker and appraiser. Operating from premises on Queen Street, London, the company dealt mainly in good quality used furniture, however there is some evidence to suggest cabinet making also took place on the premises.
Lot 356
the cabinet with a pair of moulded doors opening to an arrangement of eighteen graduated drawers containing a large quantity of rock and mineral specimens, many identified with labels for 'GREGORY, BOTTLEY & Co. Geologists/ 30 Old Church Street/ Chelsea, S.W.3'; the cabinet with maker's label 'JT CROCKETT & SON/ CABINETMAKERS/ PRINCES ST., CAVENDISH SQ. W.' Cabinet 68cm wide, 57cm high, 36cm deep
Lot 105
A Jacobean Revival oak sideboard or serving cabinet, shaped half gallery centred by a Green Man mask above a pair of central cupboard doors enclosing a shelf, flanked by further doors, the left enclosing a drawer and shelf, the right a revolving wine bottle carousel, the base with three drawers, 121.5cm high, 187cm wide, 67cm deep
Lot 113
An Edwardian rosewood and marquetry drawing room or parlour cabinet, broken-arch pediment above an arrangement of open galleried shelves and bevelled mirrors, the projecting base with a central drawer above an open niche flanked by glazed vitrine doors, open undertier, 213.5cm high, 137cm wide, 39cm deep
Lot 117
An Arts & Crafts oak smoker's companion cabinet, rectangular top with moulded edge above a panel door inlaid with a seated gentleman smoking a churchwarden pipe, applied to verso with pipe holders and enclosing a shelf, open undertier, bears plaque for Midland Drapery Co, St. Peters St., Derby, 76.5cm high, 36cm wide, 31cm deep
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