Royal Doulton Prestige Burslem Artwares glazed figure of a man in a long cape with arms folded. Red with black accents. Royal Doulton Flambe backstamp. Signed by Michael Doulton. Dimensions: 3"L x 3"W x 10.25"HEdition Number: 34 of 150 Manufacturer: Royal DoultonCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.
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Cape Town is a coastal city situated on the southwestern tip of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, while Pretoria serves as the administrative capital and Bloemfontein as the judicial capital. Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the iconic Table Mountain, Cape Town is renowned for its stunning natural beauty and diverse landscapes. The city is characterized by a mix of modern architecture and historic buildings, reflecting its multicultural heritage. Notable landmarks include the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Robben Island (a former political prison), and the Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town is a cultural hub with a vibrant arts scene, museums, and a lively culinary landscape. The city is also a gateway to the Cape Winelands, offering world-class vineyards and picturesque landscapes. With a Mediterranean climate and a rich history, Cape Town attracts visitors from around the globe seeking a blend of adventure, history, and scenic beauty.Linen backed.Measures 29 x 21.
Cape Town is a coastal city situated on the southwestern tip of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, while Pretoria serves as the administrative capital and Bloemfontein as the judicial capital. Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the iconic Table Mountain, Cape Town is renowned for its stunning natural beauty and diverse landscapes. The city is characterized by a mix of modern architecture and historic buildings, reflecting its multicultural heritage. Notable landmarks include the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Robben Island (a former political prison), and the Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town is a cultural hub with a vibrant arts scene, museums, and a lively culinary landscape. The city is also a gateway to the Cape Winelands, offering world-class vineyards and picturesque landscapes. With a Mediterranean climate and a rich history, Cape Town attracts visitors from around the globe seeking a blend of adventure, history, and scenic beauty.Linen backed.Measures 29 x 21.
Anson, George, Voyage Autour du Monde, fait dans les années 1740, 41, 42, 43 & 44., 4 Vols., full leather bound with gilt lettering and tooling to spine, decorated with maps and figures in intaglio, Paris: Quillau et Fils, Delormel, Le Loup, 1750 (4) Condition Report: Overall in fair, used condition with clear signs of wear. The boards generally scuffed and scratched, some gilding has faded. The pages generally in good condition, multiple minor folds to corners, a couple of holes and small losses to the edges of pages, minimal foxing and water damage. The spines are worn from use, especially volume one. Maps and diagrams are generally in fair condition with creasing and minor tears from use. Specific condition flaws of maps and diagrams: Volume one: the map of the world has a large tear to the top right edge. The map of Cape Blanc on has a large tear to the top right edge. The map of St. Julien has a large tear to the top left edge. The map of the Cape Vierge Marie has a tear to the left edge. The map of the Detroit de le Marie has a tear down one folded edge. The map of South America is missing. Volume two: the view of Juan Fernandes plateau has a large tear from the right edge across two folds and up one fold. The view of Lion & Lionne Marine is missing. The map of a bay and a harbour of the coast of Chile has a large tear to the right edge. The map of Masa-Fuero has a tear to the left edge. Volume three: the map of the town of Paita has a tear to the right edge. The map of the eastern end of the island of Quibo has a tear to the left edge. The map of the Philippine Islands has a large tear to the left side. The view of the mountain of Petaplan has a small tear to the left edge. The map of the Bay of Petaplan has a small tear to the right edge. Volume four: the view of the island of Tinian has a small tear to the left edge. The view of the battle of the ships 'The Centurion' and 'Our Lady of Cabadonga' has a large tear to the right edge.
FLEMING, Ian, The James Bond novels. A complete set of 14 facsimile first editions, The First Edition Library, Shelton, Connecticut, circa 1988-93. The publishers went to very considerable trouble to duplicate the bindings, text and dust jackets of the original Jonathan Cape first editions. The book size, weight, typeface, endpapers, texture and finish of the bindings, as well as the Richard Chopping dust wrappers, were all exactly reproduced. As an example of the extraordinary detail and care taken, the jacket on Casino Royale is the first state jacket without the Sunday Times review on the front inner flap; Live and Let Die has no credit to the artist Kenneth Lewis on the front inner flap, as found on the first state jacket; Moonraker has the rare misprint 'shoo' for 'shoot' on page 10, second line from the bottom; and The Man with the Golden Gun has the rare first state variant of the golden gun on the front cover of the binding. This proved too expensive and later issues do not have this. All books are in slip cases with the front and back panels of the dust jackets reproduced on the slip cases. A fine set with no inscriptions (14) (box).
Meissen a mythological figure group Europa and The Bull, accompanied by two kneeling nymphs with basket of flowers, crossed swords mark to the base and scratched 2697. Height 22 cm (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: The bull has a missing rear horn and there are nibbles to the floral encrustations on the bulls head and body and also but less so in the basket of flowers. The right-hand seated figure is missing a finger and part of the rear foot. There is a small chip to the cape of Europa and other minor nibbles to floral encrustations.
East India Company Interest Manuscript Bottomry Bond for the boat Dawson by John Cook-Freeman (1689-1752) and his brother Thomas Cook dated 26 January 1729, Folio (40cm x 32cm), latin introductory paragraph followed by the conditions of the bond, naming Thomas Cook of London and John Freeman of Folly [sic] Court (Fawley Court, Henley on Thames) for the 'vessel called the Dawson of the burthen of five hundred tonns or thereabouts now at anchor in the River of Thames whereof Francis Steward is now Commander' for a voyage to 'Fort Saint George or any other port or place in the East Indies, China, Persia or elsewhere beyond the Cape of Good Hope', the bond to be paid to Aaron Franks; signed by Walter Henley and Robert Offerton, Thomas Cook and John Freeman and two red seals; verso with settlement statement of the bond; together with a single sheet manuscript receipt for to Thomas Cooke dated February 17 1725/6 for £500 in regard to a bottomry bond for the 'Spanish registered ships' signed by James Naish regarding Spanish registered ships dated 1725/26 and naming Edward Harrison Esq (18cm x 15.5cm) Qty: 2 From a Gloucestershire country house John Freeman, a Madras merchant and keen amateur architect inherited Fawley Court in 1707 and properties in the West Indies. He was an early member of the Society of Antiquaries, built the Gothic folly in the grounds and the Freeman family mausoleum in the village based on the design of the tomb of Caecilla Metella in Rome. His uncle, from which he inherited the estate has been a slave trader and it is possible that the boats in discussion would have been used for this purpose. James Naish was Chief of the English East India Company Council in Canton (Guangzhou), China and extensive records exist in the British Library of his travels and life.Further records of the family can be found in a letter book of John Freeman of Fawley Court to his brother Thomas Cook of Fort St. George and Calcutta, and to others, re his interests in East India trade and family affairs, 1717-1742, 1717-1742 (Gloucestershire Archives D1245/FF33)
1920'S/'30's black evening dress with a net, gold thread embroidered cape, falling from the shoulders to waist length, and black lace 1930's bias cut evening dress, dropped waist, panelled skirt, full length sleeves with frill, and cape collar (2)Condition ReportThe black underdress is in good condition with no obvious damage. The gold thread has lost some colour (tarnished) in places with some minor losses of thread in very few places. The lace dress appears in very good condition. There is a small tear at hemline and two small holes at hemline.
Various vintage gentleman's police uniforms to include a helmet and a cap, a jacket with metal numbers 2356 on the shoulders, three chevron badges, the buttons bearing a crown, a heavy wool cape metal numbers A45 on the collar, frog fastening of a lion mask with plastic chain, a heavy wool overcoat numbered G19 metal letters on the shoulders, another cape with no numbers but the lion mask fastening, one pair of trousers, another cape with the lion mask fastenings and lignum vitae truncheon marked "BC" (1 box)
A 1940's brown crepe jacket, single button fastening, a 1940's beige wool coat, fabric buttons, full sleeves with cuffs, side pockets, lined, a tartan cape/jacket, black velvet trim to collar and edge, fringed hem, a dark brown 1950's duster coat, button fastening, three quarter length raglan sleeves, a 1930's linen duster coat, pin tucked detail to the sleeves and wide collar, tab and button fastening, and a cream wool jacket, with fold over collar, wide sleeves, labelled 'Lanvin'
Various 1940's and 50's coats and jackets to include a cream wool 1950's coat, labelled 'Steketee's Grand Rapids', a swing coat with faux agate four-button fastening, three-quarter length, detail button to the cuffs, a kilt, a blue and cream tartan shirt dress with fabric coloured buttons, pleated skirt, a 1950's tartan wool cape with fringing to the hem, side openings for arms, four horn button fastenings, a 1940's red wool swing coat labelled 'Nathan Berman, Philadelphia', grey astrakhan wool collar, single button fastening
"To Captain Forrest, Commander of his Majesty's Ship Augusta, Capt Suckling of Dreadnought and Capt Longdon of the Edinburgh" Gallant action against the French 21 Oct 1757 off Cape Francois etc. London Pub. 14 February 1759 by R Paton and Willock, P Canot after R Paton, hand coloured engraving on laid paper. Framed and glazed. 59cm x 77cm. Provenance: Parker Gallery label verso
18th century Meissen figure of a Avvocato or the Lawyer from the Commedia Dell'arte series, circa 1740-45, modelled by J J Kandler, wearing gilt edged black tricorn hat, white mask, and yellow cape adorned with red rosettes, holding a scroll in his right hand, upon shaped oval base, no visible mark, H14.5cmCondition Report: General wear including surface scratches and wear to gilding. Tricorn hat with small loss to edge.Small loss to edge of rosette, other rosettes appear to have possible losses and look to have been overpainted.
An old Ideal stamp album containing a collection of GB and Foreign stamps, mainly 19th century onwards including GB - 1d black, 2d blues, 1d reds and other Victorian examples, a good selection of British Commonwealth and World stamps including Cape of Good Hope triangles, German Empire, Australian States and other 19th century examples
A pair of new Imperial stamp albums containing a large and comprehensive collection of GB, British Commonwealth and World stamps - GB including 1d black, various 2d blues, two pairs of 2d blue imperfs, numerous 1d reds, postage dues and over-prints - Commonwealth and World stamps including British Levant over-prints, 15 Cape of Good Hope triangles (some af) and other issues, Indian States, Hong Kong, Labuan over-prints, North Borneo, Sudan, Perak, Australian States and numerous other stamps
SIR JOHN LAVERY (IRISH 1856-1941) PORTRAIT OF MINNIE PLOWDEN AND HER SON HUMPHREY, STUDY FOR A FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT Oil on canvas Signed (lower left) 35.5 x 25cm (13¾ x 9¾ in.)Provenance: Minnie Plowden, thence by descent to the present owner Literature: Kenneth McConkey, John Lavery, A Painter and his World, 2010 (Atelier Books, Edinburgh), p. 71 In 1898 Lavery, with the help of fellow Glasgow Boys and under the Presidency of James McNeill Whistler, established the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, with the idea of staging annual exhibitions or 'art congresses' in London. As Vice-President, Lavery's three contributions to this radical departure were Portrait Group (Père et Fille), 1897, (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), A Garden in France, 1897 (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin) and Mrs Roger Plowden and Humphrey for which the present canvas is the oil sketch. It is not entirely clear where and when the painter met the Plowdens. A member of an old Catholic legal and clerical family that hailed at the time of the Crusades from Shropshire, Roger Herbert Plowden was the son of a banker in Rome where, in his early years he led the life of a country gentleman. After his marriage to the daughter of Henry Jump of Woolton, near Liverpool in August 1883, he and his wife led a peripatetic existence between Rome, the south of France, their house at 32 Portman Square, London and Scottish estates, leased for the hunting and shooting seasons. They had been living in Rome before returning recently to Scotland where in 1897 Plowden rented and then purchased the Strachur estate on Loch Fyne from the Duke of Argyll. As with most large portrait commissions (fig. 1) Lavery planned his composition with a swift sketch as shown in Lot 43. In comparing the two it is instantly apparent that the composition has been reversed and the boy's leg positions changed. His silver suit has also been replaced by a black tabard. Sittings cannot have been easy since Minnie Plowden was unwell and increasingly immobile. As a 'mother and son' subject, the finished work is nevertheless a fine complement in tone, colour, handling and scale to the Orsay 'father and daughter'. For its part, the sketch is also more than a snapshot, making play with the flash of red in the sitter's cape and creating, in its soft greys, its own fine harmonies. Kenneth McConkey Condition Report: Light surface dirt throughout. A very minor loss to the centre of the lower edge. There is an area of slight undulation to the canvas visible to the upper right corner. Some very fine craquelure to the black pigment of Minnie's dress. Very small loss and surface scratch visible just above the signature, hardly noticeable. Inspection under UV reveals no obvious evidence of restoration or repair. In overall good original condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
λ AUGUSTUS JOHN (BRITISH 1878-1961) ROMILLY SITTING Coloured pencil Signed (lower left) 33.5 x 25cm (13 x 9¾ in.)Drawn circa 1911.Exhibited: London, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, Augustus John: Master works from Private Collections 1900-1920, September-October 2004 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p.42) Romilly John (1906 -1986) was born in France, the second of Dorelia's sons by Augustus. He was never told the exact date of his birth and mistakenly titled his memoir The Seventh Child (Heinemann 1932; Jonathan Cape 1975). He was in fact Augustus's sixth child. This drawing belongs to a superb series Augustus made of his young sons during their intermittent stays in France 1905 -1914, or at their home in Dorset after 1911. We are grateful to Rebecca John for her kind assistance in cataloguing this lot. Condition Report: Unexamined out of glazed frame. Some light discolouration throughout the sheet, most notable to either side of the sheet. A horizontal scratch to the upper left edge. Two spots of staining slightly further down the left edge to the centre and another to the very lower section of the left edge. Very small spots of bleaching, two to the upper left quadrant and two to the centre of the right edge. Condition Report Disclaimer
Six: Lieutenant-Colonel W. M. H. Armstrong, Army Service Corps, who was three times Mentioned in Despatches, and was wounded during the Great War Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Transvaal (Capt. W. M. H. Armstrong. A.S.C.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Maj: & Adjt: W. M H. Armstrong. A.S.C.) engraved naming; 1914 Star, with clasp (Lt: Col: W. M. H. Armstrong. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. W. M. H. Armstrong.) mounted for wear, contact marks, generally very fine (6) £700-£900 --- William Meredith Howard Armstrong was born on 7 October 1868 and was educated at Clifton College, where he captained the Cricket XI. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the 3rd (Fermanagh Militia) Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 4 September 1889, and converted to the Regular Army as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regiment on 12 March 1892. He transferred to the Army Service Corps on 1 April 1893, and was posted to No. 14 Company at Dublin. Promoted Lieutenant on 30 March 1894, he embarked for the Gold Coast the following year and took part in the Ashanti expedition. Promoted Captain on 19 June 1898, Armstrong served in South Africa during the Boer War from 1899, and took part in the operations in Cape Colony south of the Orange River in 1899 to 1900; in the Orange Free State in 1900, including the engagement at Paardeberg from 17 to 26 February; in the Orange River Colony from November to December 1900; and in the Transvaal from December 1900 to May 1902. Appointed Adjutant on 5 December 1900, he was promoted Brevet Major on 22 August 1902, and for his services was Mentioned in both Lord Roberts’ Despatch of 4 September 1901 (London Gazette 10 September 1901) and Lord Kitchener’s Despatch of 23 June 1902 (London Gazette 29 July 1902). Promoted Major on 1 April 1905, Armstrong returned to Ireland and served in Dublin and Longford before being appointed Commanding Officer, Army Service Corps on the Island of Bermuda, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, on 15 December 1913. Following the outbreak of the Great War he served in France with the British Expeditionary Force as Commanding Officer of the Advance Horse Transport Depot from 22 August 1914; was wounded in action; and was Mentioned in Field Marshal French’s Despatch of 14 January 1915 (London Gazette 17 February 1915). He later served on the Staff as Assistant Director of Supply and Transport at HQ, Irish Command, and was placed on the Reserve of Officers List on 24 January 1919. Sold with copied research.
A rare campaign service group of nine awarded to Paymaster Captain J. M. L. Cusack, Royal Navy, who was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Russian Order of St. Anne for his services in H.M.S. Yarmouth at the Battle of Jutland, in addition to receiving the Czech War Cross Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Clerk J. M. L. Cusack, H.M.S. Doris); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Jubaland (J. M. L. Cusack, Clerk, R.N., H.M.S. Magicienne); 1914-15 Star (Payr. J. M. L. Cussack, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Payr. Lt. Cr. J. M. L. Cusack, R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Russia, Order of St. Anne, 3rd Class breast badge, with swords, by Eduard, St. Petersburg, 36 x 36mm., gold and enamels, with manufacturer’s name on the reverse, ‘56’ gold mark on eyelet and kokoshnik mark on sword hilts; Czechoslovakia, War Cross, mounted as worn, together with a mounted set of related miniature dress medals, the St Anne in gold but with damage to reverse, and two ribbon bars, all contained in a leather carrying case, generally good very fine (9) £2,000-£2,400 --- James Meade Loughnan Cusack was born in Kilkenny in September 1880 and entered the Royal Navy as an Assistant Clerk in January 1898. Joining H.M.S. Doris a few months later, and having passing his Clerk’s examination, he witnessed active service off South Africa in the Boer War, including time ashore in Cape Colony (Medal & clasp). Next joining the Magicienne, he added a rare Africa General Service Medal for Jubaland to his accolades, and was advanced to Assistant Paymaster in September 1901. By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, Cusack was serving as a Paymaster in the cruiser Yarmouth, in which capacity he was present at the battle of Jutland. As part of the Third Light Cruiser Squadron, and in the company of her consort Falmouth, she fought several duels, scoring some hits on the Lutzow and Derfflinger, and possibly the Seydlitz too; one of these, according to an officer on the bridge, making ‘a topping target and it was very pleasant to see salvo after salvo of our 6-inch hitting her’. Indeed so enthusiastic was the Yarmouth’s gunnery department that new ‘ammunition was sent up the hoists with so much energy as to accumulate a dangerous amount at the top’. In Jellicoe’s subsequent despatch (London Gazette 15 September 1916, refers), Cusack was cited for good services in action and recommended for early promotion. He was duly appointed Staff Paymaster and, later still, awarded his 3rd Class Russian Order of St. Anne ‘for distinguished service rendered at the Battle of Jutland’ (London Gazette 5 June 1917). Moreover, he was awarded the Czechoslovakian War Cross (London Gazette 26 August 1921), an extremely rare accolade in terms of British recipients, let alone an R.N. officer. Cusack ended the Great War as a Paymaster Commander in the cruiser Suffolk. Having then served on the China Station in the gunboat Bee in the mid-1920s, he was placed on the Retired List as a Paymaster Captain in September 1930. Recalled on the renewal of hostilities in September 1939, he served at the R.N.H. Chatham and in H.M.S. Flora, a parent ship at Invergordon. He died in Honiton, Devon in September 1961, aged 80 years. Sold with copied research.
A Selection of Medal Clasps. A small miscellaneous selection, comprising: Inkermann, Sebastopol Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (2 - one slightly damaged), Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (2), Tirah 1897-98, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (2), Diamond Hill, Waziristan 1919-21, Mahsud 1919-20, North West Frontier 1930-31, Iraq; together with copy Mooltan and Goojerat; and four top silver riband bars, generally in used condition, with some of the clasps mounted in blocks (lot) £100-£140
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (1370 Dafdr: Sundar Singh. 1 Cent: I.H.) solder marks to backstraps on both second and third clasps, nearly very fine and rare to unit £200-£240 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (82878 Gnr: W. Gritton. R.F.A.) two small edge bruises, otherwise good very fine £50-£70 --- Entitled to Q.S.A. with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal whilst serving with No. 1 Ammunition Park. The K.S.A. roll notes in Remarks column: ‘With me at Dynamite Factory, Modderfontein, Transvaal, from May 1901 up till May 1902 - belonging during most of that time to No. 2 Local Ammunition Column, Pretoria. Before that with me in No. 1 Ammn. Park from April 1900.’ Roll signed Jhansi, India, by Capt. & Bt. Major A. J. Buckle on 9 December 1903. Sold with copies of both rolls and other research.
Pair: Private C. Smith, Royal Fusiliers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (2938 Pte. C. Smith, 2nd. Rl: Fus:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2938 Pte. H. [sic] Smith. Rl: Fusiliers.) darkly toned, minor edge bruising, very fine (2) £140-£180
British War Medal 1914-20 (Sister D. Webley) very fine £50-£70 --- Dorothy Webley attested into Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve and served during the Great War in Egypt (entitled to a 1914-15 Star trio). Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 21 June 1916), she was subsequently appointed Nursing Sister on 8 September 1919, and later married Dr. Gordon Winstanley Spencer. Sold with a Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge; riband bar; and copied research.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (74944 Dr: T. Neal, J, B, R.H.A.) suspension with old repair and now detached from medal, small official correction to surname, very fine £100-£140
Five: Staff Quartermaster Sergeant A. E. Brook, Army Service Corps Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (6417 S-Sejt. A. E. Brook, A.S.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6417 S. Qr:- Mr:- Sjt: A. E. Brook. A.S.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (6417 S.Q.M. Serjt: A. E. Brooks [sic]. A.S.C.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., Circular issue, 2nd ‘Coronation robes’ issue (Albert Edward Brook.) mounted court-style for wear in this order, light pitting and contact marks, generally very fine and better (5) £300-£400
An impressive ‘Royal Service’ K.C.V.O. and Great War D.S.O., O.B.E. group of twelve awarded to Major Sir Edward Seymour, late Grenadier Guards, Knighted in 1934 for his services as Comptroller to Princess Victoria and successively as Extra Equerry to Queen Alexandra, King George V, King Edward VIII and King George VI; he was wounded in South Africa in May 1900, and commanded the Grenadier Guards Bearer Party at the funeral of Queen Victoria in March 1901 The Royal Victorian Order, K.C.V.O., Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse officially numbered ‘K468’; and breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse officially numbered ‘468’ and fitted with gold pin for wearing; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, with integral top riband bar; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, reverse hallmarked London 1919; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (2/Lt. E. Seymour 1/Gren: Gds.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut. E. Seymour, M.V.O., Gren. Gds.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. E. Seymour, M.V.O. Gren. Gds.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. E. Seymour. G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major E. Seymour.); Coronation 1911, unnamed; Jubilee 1935, unnamed; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (2nd Lieut. E. Seymour Grenadier Guards) mounted on card for display together with an M.V.O. 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt, gold and enamels, the reverse officially numbered ‘1128’ [as awarded in January 1922] generally good very fine or better (14) £4,000-£5,000 --- K.C.V.O. 1 January 1934: ‘Edward Seymour, C.V.O., D.S.O., M.V.O., O.B.E., Comptroller to Princess Victoria and Extra Equerry to His Majesty.’ C.V.O. 26 November 1925: ‘Edward Seymour, D.S.O., M.V.O., O.B.E., Equerry to H.M. Queen Alexandra.’ M.V.O. 4th Class 2 January 1922: ‘Edward Seymour, D.S.O., M.V.O., O.B.E., Comptroller of the Household to H.R.H. The Duchess of Albany.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1917. O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘Capt. (T/Maj.) Edward Seymour, M.V.O., D.S.O., Grenadier Guards.’ M.V.O. 5th Class 19 March 1901: ‘Lieutenant Edward Seymour, Grenadier Guards. Funeral of H.M. Queen Victoria; Commanded Bearer Party.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 15 June 1916, 4 January 1917, and 20 May 1918. Edward Seymour was born on 10 February 1877, son of Lieutenant-Colonel L. R. Seymour. He was educated at Eton and entered the Army in 1897 as a Second Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. He served in the campaign in the Sudan under Sir Herbert Kitchener in 1898, and was present at the battle of Khartoum (Queen’s medal and Khedive’s medal with Clasp). Served in South African War in 1900-02, and took part in operations in Orange Free State, April to May 1900; in Orange River Colony May 1900, including actions at Biddulphsberg, 29th May-wounded-invalided 18th June 1900. Whilst convalescing from his wound in England, Seymour had the honour of commanding the Colour Party of the Grenadier Guards at the funeral of Queen Victoria in March 1901, before returning to South Africa to serve the final stages of the war in Cape Colony, December 1901 to May 1902. Promoted to Captain in the Grenadier Guards in June 1904, he resigned his commission in May 1908, and was appointed Comptroller to the Household of H.R.H. The Duchess of Albany in November of the same year. He carried the Duchess of Albany’s coronet at King George’s coronation in 1911. Recalled from the Reserve of Officers in August 1914, he was appointed Brigade Major on 28 December 1914. He served in France from 6 November 1915, was mentioned in despatches three times and awarded the D.S.O. Promoted to temporary Major (Guards) 25 February 1918, and confirmed as Major on 20 April 1919, he was created O.B.E. in June 1919. Seymour was made M.V.O. 4th Class for his services to The Duchess of Albany in January 1922, and appointed Equerry to H.M. Queen Alexandra on 1 January 1923. He was appointed to be C.V.O. in November 1925 and, shortly afterwards, on 1 December, appointed to the office of Comptroller to H.R.H. Princess Victoria and created a K.C.V.O. for these services in January 1934. He held the appointment as Extra Equerry to King George V, King Edward VIII, and to King George VI. Edward Seymour married, 29 July 1905, Lady Blanche Conyngham, daughter of 4th Marquess Conyngham. They had a daughter, Verena Mary Doyne, born 24 May 1906, and a son, John Edward, born on 18 October 1915. Sir Edward Seymour died on 28 February 1948.
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Sergeant C. Utting, Royal Engineers, for his gallantry at Neuve Chapelle on 10 March 1915 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (607 Sjt: C. Utting. 2/F. Co. R.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (607. Cpl. C. Utting. R.E.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (607 L.Cpl. C. Utting. R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp (607 Sjt. C. Utting. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (607 Sjt. C. Utting. R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (607 Sjt: C. Utting. R.E.) mounted court-style for wear, light contact marks to the Boer War pair, these very fine, the rest better (7) £800-£1,000 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 123 June 1915; citation published 30 June 1915: ‘For conspicuous gallantry at Neuve Chapelle on 10 March 1915 when seven of his men had been killed or wounded by a shell, in going back under machine gun fire, improvising stretchers, and getting three of the wounded under cover. Sergeant Utting has also done much good work in the trenches since November 1914.’ Charles Utting attested for the Royal Engineers and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and then with No. 2 Field Company during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 November 1914. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient, taken from The War Illustrated, 9 October 1915.
Renamed Medals (4): India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1887-89, Burma 1885-7, clasps remounted in this order, as usual (No. R.A./49647 Bombardier P. J. O’Gorman. No. 4 Bty. 1st. Bde. Lanc. Div. R.A.) renamed; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (6166 Pte .A. Williams. Hampshire Regt.) renamed; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2) (5136 Cpl. E. Austen 2nd. Devonshire Regt.; 116 Pte. J. F. C. Hurrell. C.M.S. Corps) both renamed; contact marks, generally nearly very fine (4) £100-£140
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901 (23987 Pte. F. J. Wolhuter. C.C.C.C.) minor edge bruising, very fine £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- F. J. Wolhuter served with the Cape Colony Cyclist Corps.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Wittebergen (2635 Sejt. R. Morrison, 2: Sea: Highrs:) good very fine £200-£240 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- R. Morrison was wounded at Jagersfontein on 24 December 1900.
Six: Captain W. J. Geary, Cape Police, later South African Mounted Rifles Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (385 Sgt. W. J. Geary. C. Pol); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut: W. J. Geary. Cape P.D. 1.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Captain W. J. Geary. C.P. Dist. 1.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. W. J. Geary 1st S.A.M.R.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Capt. W. J. Geary.) generally very fine and better (6) £500-£700 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
‘With the ensign at half-mast, and the Union Jack as a pall, the funeral procession, attended by all but four very bad cases, started at nine o’clock, and the burial service being read, the remains were consigned to their last icy resting place in this world. Improvising a crude cross, formed with a boat’s oar and a spare sledge-batten, it was placed at the head of the grave, with the following inscription: “Beneath this cross lie buried the remains of Geo. Porter, R.M.A., who died on June 8th 1876. Thy will be done.” Of all the melancholy and mournful duties I have ever had to perform, this has been the saddest. A death in a small party like ours, and under the present circumstances, is a most distressing event, and is keenly felt by all. During the service all were more or less affected, and many to tears.’ Commander A. H. Markham’s Northern Sledge Party Journal refers. A rare and emotive Arctic 1875-76 Medal awarded to Gunner G. Porter, Royal Marine Artillery, a member of Markham’s Northern Sledge Party whose sacrifice was commemorated by the naming of “Porter Bay” on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island Arctic Medal 1875-76 (G. Porter, Gnr., R.M.A., H.M.S. Alert) edge bruising, very fine £8,000-£10,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: J. B. Hayward (Gazette No. 7, June 1976, Item 198); of four casualties from the 1875-76 Expedition, the Arctic Medals of two of them reside in public institutions; Dix Noonan Webb, June 2008. George Porter enlisted in the Royal Marine Artillery in Birmingham in September 1866, aged 18 years, giving his trade as varnisher. Having then collected one Good Conduct Badge, he committed a spate of misdemeanours in the period 1869-74, ranging from absence without leave to the loss of a ‘rammer overboard through carelessness at gun drill’, the cost of which latter implement was deducted from his wages. Then in April 1875, he joined the Alert, under Captain George Nares, in which ship, in the following month, he sailed for the unknown “High Arctic”, where, in company with the Discovery, Nares was to explore North-West Greenland and the northern regions of Ellesmere Island. For his own part, Porter was one of just seven R.M.A. men employed on the expedition, and indeed one of only 13 such servicemen who qualified for either of the Arctic Medals issued in the 19th century. And in common with his R.M.A. predecessors from the Franklin Search Expeditions, Porter was tasked with handling cannisters of gunpowder to blast frozen obstructions, and in creating ‘ice docks’ for the ships' winter quarters, the latter work again entailing the use of gunpowder, and of giant ice saws. Another duty he shared with his predecessors was that of officers’ servant, in Porter’s case to Lieutenant Pelham Aldrich, who, in his journal entry of 8 August 1875, observed: ‘My servant Porter is a character. He has just been telling me of a dinner he has had of the heart of a Walrus, which he captured this morning. I expressed a hope he would not be ill after it - "That is if it is good to eat" says he, alluding to a remark he had made about it being better than some sheep's liver we had the other morning! - and then he finished up with "I eat a tidy lot of it Sir" - "this 'Eart was ate too Sir" - I am to have some this morning though somewhat doubtful in the subject it is nevertheless a good thing to find out what we can actually devour with infinity in case of future requirements.’ By late August, the ships had reached Discovery Harbour, on the northern side of Lady Franklin Bay, Ellesmere Island, the site chosen for Discovery’s winter quarters. The Alert, meanwhile, continued up Robeson Channel to Floeberg Beach, to 82º 82'N - the highest latitude reached by any ship up to that time - and established her winter quarters on 1 September. Shortly afterwards, Autumn sledge parties established depots northward at Cape Joseph Henry for extended journeys the following spring, but at this stage, at least, Porter would appear to have been spared such challenging work - and the accompanying threat of snowblindness, frostbite, blistering of the skin and extreme thirst caused by inhaling cold, dry air and exhaling moisture. Instead, happily, he added a second Good Conduct Badge to his accolades on New Year’s Day 1876. Markham’s Northern Sledging Party In the Spring, three major sledging parties - two from Alert and one from Discovery - set out to explore toward the North Pole and along the north coasts of Ellesmere Island and Greenland, the journey ahead being likened by one Arctic officer to far worse than going into action - in fact he had never ‘seen such labour, and such misery after. No amount of money is an equivalent ... Men require much more heart and stamina to undertake an extended travelling party than to go into action. The travellers have their enemy chilling them to the very heart, and paralyzing their very limbs; the others the very contrary.’ And so it was, on 3 April, that Lieutenant Aldrich's Western Sledge Party and Commander Albert H. Markham's Northern Sledge Party left the ship, along with supporting sledges. Markham's party comprised H.M. Sledges Support, Marco Polo (with a boat) and Victoria (with another boat and Porter), the object of the journey being to attain the highest northern latitude possible, and to determine to possibility of a more fully equipped party reaching the North Pole. The departure was poignantly described by Markham: ‘At eleven o'clock, everything being in readiness for a start, all hands assembled on the floe, and prayers were read by [Reverend] Pullen. The hymn, "[Praise] God, From Whom All Blessings Flow," was then sung, after which the order was given to "fall in," and amidst the hearty cheers of those few who were left behind, the sledging parties moved off. The captain and officers accompanied us for a short distance, when, wishing us God-speed, they turned to go back. This was a signal for three cheers from the travellers, after which they settled down to their work, and the march was steadily commenced.’ Shortly after leaving the Alert, Markham noted a temperature of 33º below zero and described the travelling as ‘by no means good, snow deep, and the sledges dragging very heavily’, the former factor ‘rendering the task of writing up our journals when we halted extremely unpleasant and painful’: on the second day the temperature plummeted to 45º below zero. And by 10 April, after marching nine to ten hours every day, Markham wrote, ‘We experienced heavy work in cutting a road [with pick axe and shovel] through the line of shore hummocks that gird the coast, and did not succeed in reaching the depot [at Cape Joseph Henry] until eleven o'clock.’ Here the Northern Sledge Party collected provisions for 63 days. The next morning was thick and foggy, to which was added a heavy snow fall. The supporting sledges returned to the ship, and the two extended parties pressed onward: the Northern Sledge Party leaving terra firma and pushing straight out onto the rugged polar pack, while the Western Sledge Party continued exploration of Ellesmere's coast to the westward. Markham's sledges Marco Polo, Victoria and Support weighed a total of 6,079 lbs. - 15 men were dragging a staggering 405 lbs. per man - which offers some appreciation of the effort it took to get through the snow and over hummocks of ice as high as 20-30 feet. No surprises then that Markh...
Three: Brevet Colonel H. Mercer, 3rd Dragoon Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Major H. Mercer, 3/Drgn: Gds.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Bt. Col. H. Mercer.); Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed, mounted as worn, the first with edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine, otherwise good very fine or better (3) £300-£400 --- Herbert Mercer was born at Sandling Place, Maidstone, Kent, and was educated at Harrow and Cambridge. He was commissioned into the 3rd Dragoon Guards in 1884; served in the South African War in 1901 and 1902, taking part in operations in the Transvaal in May and July 1901; in Orange River Colony February 1901 to 31 May 1902; on the Zululand Frontier of Natal in September and October 1901; and in Cape Colony in February 1901. He was Mentioned in Despatches, and awarded the Queen’s medal with 5 clasps. He completed to command regiment in 1908, retiring that same year. Mercer served in (Northern) Ireland during the Great War as a Security Officer (entitled to B.W.M. only); he was also a Unionist Member of Parliament for the Sudbury Division of West Suffolk 1922-23. He died on 8 February 1944.
Five: Private W. J. Hoare, Rifle Brigade Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal (6411. Pte. W. J. Hoare. Rifle Bde.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6411 Pte. W. Hoare. Rifle Brigade.); 1914-15 Star (6411 Pte. W. J. Hoare. Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (6411 Pte. W. J. Hoare. Rif. Brig.) mounted for display in the incorrect order, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £200-£240
Four: Major A. J. Attwood, Cape Police Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (499. Cpl. A. J. Attwood. C. Pol.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State (Lieut: A. J. Attwood. Cape P.D. 1.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut: A. J. Attwood. C.P. Dist. 1.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, unnamed as issued, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, with integral top riband bar, scratch to obverse of QSA, light contact marks, generally very fine (4) £800-£1,000 --- Arthur J. Attwood enlisted in the Cape Police on 22 September 1890 and served in the Bechuanaland Rebellion of 1897 with the rank of Corporal. He saw further service during the Boer War, and served with ‘C’ Squadron during the Siege of Kimberley. Commissioned Lieutenant in the 1st South African Mounted Rifles on 1 April 1913, he took part in the 1914 Rebellion from 1 September to 23 October 1914, and then during operations in German South West Africa from 18 May to 9 July 1915. Appointed an Acting magistrate at Otkiwarongo, South West Africa, in 1915, he saw further service as a Major with the Union Defence Force during the Second World War. He died in Pietermaritzberg in 1973 at the age of 102. Sold with copied medal roll extracts.
A fine Boer War D.S.O. group of three awarded to Colonel F. R. Twemlow, North Staffordshire Regiment, who commanded the 4th Battalion in South Africa and later at home - and following the outbreak of the Great War, raised the 3/6th Territorial Battalion Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lt. Col. F. R. Twemlow, D.S.O., N. Staff: R.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 Lt. Col. F. R. Twemlow. D.S.O. N. Staff. R.) engraved naming, mounted ‘cavalry style’, and housed in a Spink, London, red leather case, about extremely fine (3) £1,600-£2,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Spink Numismatic Circular, January 1983. D.S.O. London Gazette 27 September 1901: ‘In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa.’ Francis Randle Twemlow was was born at Smallwood, Cheshire, on 20 December 1852, the son of the Reverend Francis Cradock Twemlow of Peatswood, Staffordshire, and was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. Joining the Militia on 8 August 1874, he served in South Africa during the Boer War from March 1900 to May 1902 - including as Commandant, Fraserburg District, from December 1900 to August 1901, and as Officer Commanding, 4th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, from August 1901 to February 1902 (in the absence of Colonel Mirehouse, C.M.G., on sick leave). For his services in South Africa he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901), and was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Twemlow was invested with his insignia by H.M. the King on 24 October 1902. Twemlow commanded the 4th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, from 13 December 1905 to 29 August 1908 and was promoted Honorary Colonel on 14 December 1906. Following the outbreak of the Great War he was commissioned to raise a new Territorial Battalion (3/6th North Staffordshire Regiment) on 4 April 1915, and was gazetted to the Territorial Force Reserve on 14 December 1915. Sold with two original letters sent to the recipient from Field Marshal Lord Roberts, V.C., K.G. &c.. The first hand written, dated Sefton House, Sefton Park, Liverpool, 30 January 1906, and reading: ‘Dear Colonel Twemlow, I will, with pleasure, present you at the Levée on the 20th instant. Believe me, yours very truly, Roberts’ With original envelope addressed to ‘Colonel Twemlow, D.S.O., Peatswood, Market Drayton’ The second typed, dated Englemere, Ascot, Berkshire, 5 October 1914, and reading: ‘Dear Colonel Twemlow, Please accept my best thanks for your handsome gift for the use of the Cavalry Reserve Regiments. I hope you may feel rewarded for your generosity by the knowledge that you are facilitating the training of the reinforcements which are needed to support our gallant soldiers at the seat of war. I am, yours very truly, Roberts, F.M.’
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