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Lot 586
A scarce souvenir programme for the Royal Military College Fete and Gala at Sandhurst featuring a football match between Tottenham Hotspur (Cup Winners) and Fulham on 14th May 1921, 52 pages with pictorial card covers, the football match featured on p.41; sold with a scan of the match report published in The Times 16th May 1921 and a further scan of a teamsheet relating to the match (3). The gala programme covers all of the events that took place at Sandhurst on 13th & 14th May 1921 under the patronage of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and the Duke of Windsor. The purpose of the gala and fete was to raise money for the enlargement of the Royal Military College’s chapel in order that nearly 4000 names of past Sandhurst cadets who fell in the Great War could be cut on the walls. Other sporting attractions at the two day event included a cricket match between the College and Mr H.D.G. Leveson-Gower’s XI, and a gymkhana. The football feature announces that a teamsheet, priced 3d, will be sold at the ground, and a scan of one of these originals is offered with the lot. Both articles also announced that the match ball was to be autographed by the Prince of Wales and both teams for auction after the game. The Times reported that the ball sold for £55 to Mr C.D. Roberts, chairman of Tottenham Hotspur FC. The newspaper report also states that the Prince of Wales personally kicked-off the match and that he awarded gold souvenir medals to both teams. Spurs fielded the side that had won the F.A. Cup the previous month with just one change, Charlie Wilson replacing Jimmy Cantrell at centre-forward. In a 60-minutes match the Cup winners beat Fulham 4-0 with goals by Grimsdell, Banks, Wilson & Bliss. Tottenham returned to Sandhurst for the corresponding event in 1922 to contest a match with Chelsea.
Lot 589
Five pre-war and wartime programmes for matches played at White Hart Lane, Tottenham Boys v Birmingham Boys 2nd March 1935, 1st Coldstream Guards v Royal Army Service Corps 28th April 1938, and three Tottenham Hotspur wartime homes v Chelsea 4th September 1940, Cardiff City 21st March 1941 & Brighton & Hove Albion 9th October 1943
Lot 630
A 1950s football autograph collection, including original signatures on football club letterhead including Nottingham Forest & Charlton (also some with facsimile sigs), a Manchester United facsimile group but personally signed by Tommy Taylor complete with original postal envelope in Taylor’s hand, plus autograph album pages with team-groups for Chelsea, Soccer Springboks, Swansea, Celtic, Coventry, Leicester, Hull, Bury, Port Vale, Preston, Burnley, Wrexham, Wolves, Chester and others , plus individual cut-out signatures, signed match programmes, and signed newspaper pictures of sportsmen pasted onto album pages, also a signed letter from W E Houghton, Harry Johnstone, Les Shannon, Jack Burritt, Vic Rouse, Doug Rudham, Jimmy Gould, the lot including some non-football sporting content including speedway riders, boxers etc.; the lot also including signatures of cricket tourist to South Africa, 1969-70 Australians, the 1953-54 NZ tour, MCC 156-57; also a South Africa v British Lions 2nd Test programme 1974 signed by the two captains and others
Lot 659
An autographed case bound limited edition of the 2000 F.A. Cup final official programme the last to be played at the old Wembley Stadium between Aston Villa and Chelsea, the programme containing an autograph sheet from both teams, very neatly signed, one laid down inside the front cover, and the other to the back cover, bearing a total of 19 Chelsea signatures and 22 Aston Villa signatures; sold together with a reproduction of the programme for the first F.A. Cup final at Wembley stadium in 1923 (2). It should be noted that the autographs were not originally part of the limited edition package for this programme. They were obtained subsequently by the present vendor.
Lot 671
A good autograph book compiled circa 1921-23, with team-groups for the Spurs 1921 and Huddersfield 1922 Cup winners, plus Northampton, Charlton, Dulwich Hamlet, WBA (twice), Chelsea, Sheffield United, Fulham, Burnley, Middlesbrough, Aston Villa, Preston, Bolton, Sunderland, Newcastle, Man City, plus individual autographs on photocards of Charles Buchan, Horace Barnes, Cecil Parkin plus the cricketer J W Hearne, and the heavyweight boxers Joe Beckett & George Cook
Lot 729
A collection of eighteen Rosywise club mascots, each mascot bearing a paper label giving date, sample number, of which each is No.1, and club they relate to, clubs include Arsenal, Chelsea, Glasgow Rangers, Newcastle United, Leeds United, Sunderland, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham, Aston Villa etc; and five design sheets, comprising: Samson Cat (Sunderland); Wolfie (Wolverhampton Wanderers); and Broxi Bear (Glasgow Rangers), framed and glazed. sample number, of which each is No.1, and club they relate to, clubs include Arsenal, Chelsea, Glasgow Rangers, Newcastle United, Leeds United, Sunderland, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham, Aston Villa etc; and five design sheets, comprising: Samson Cat (Sunderland); Wolfie (Wolverhampton Wanderers); and Broxi Bear (Glasgow Rangers), framed and glazed (18). The above mascots are pre-production samples and are unique
Lot 626
Wencelaus Hollar (Von Parachna) 1607-1677- "Ranulphi Crew"; etching, published 1664, 30x20cm: Thomas Rowlandson 1756-1827 & Augustus Charles Pugin 1768-1832- "Military College, Chelsea and British Institution, Pall Mall"; hand coloured etchings with aquatint, published Jan 1st 1810,at R Ackerman's repository of Arts, 101, Strand and April 1st 1808, respectively: Horatio Joseph Lucas 1839-1873- Cathedral; dry point etching, monogrammed within the plate and dated 1870: together with a folio of further 17/18/19th century etchings, woodblocks and engravings by and after various hands, to include examples after G Baxter, Antonio Canal Canaletto 1697-1768, William Hogarth 1697-1764 and others, (a lot) (unframed)
Lot 126
a Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain Teawares, late Qianlong (1735-1795), comprising a pair of coffee cups and saucers, two shaped oval spoon stands, a shaped circular teapot stand, a milk jug (cover lacking), a globular teapot and cover, a high "Chelsea" type ewer, two coffee cups and saucers, a teapot stand, two spoon trays, two tea bowls, a sugar bowl, an English teapot stand, and an English spoon tray, all printed in underglaze blue with chinoiserie landscapes, a similar cylindrical teapot, painted with flowers, and a box and cover (24)
Lot 900
* Follower of Thomas Girtin 1775-1802- "Chelsea Reach Looking Towards Battersea"; watercolour, 12.5x22cm: together with a mezzotint of the same title, published by Gems of art, Plate 7, Aug 1st 1823, by W B Cooke, 9 Soho Square, engraved by Thomas Goff Lupton 1791-1873, after Thomas Girtin 1775-1802, in a shared mount, (2)
Lot 1
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Maida (Saml. Smith, 35th Foot) refixed suspension claw, edge bruising and heavily polished, thus fine £700-900 ex Glendining’s, May 1903; only 16 Military General Service 1793-1814 Medals are known to have survived to members of the 35th Foot. samuel Smith, a frame work knitter, was born in Arnold, Nottinghamshire and enlisted in the 35th Foot in July 1799, aged 19 years. just over two months later, ‘he received a gunshot wound in the head in action in Holland on 2 October 1799’ (his discharge papers refer), so whether he was fit enough for duty at the capture of Malta in the following year remains unknown. But he was certainly back on the strength of the 1/35th at the time of the Sicily operations and Calabria Expedition in 1806, for, as further verified by his discharge papers, he received another gunshot wound ‘at Maida in the right hip on 4 July 1806’. in 1807 the Regiment was sent to Egypt, from there proceeding to Italy and taking part in the capture of the Ionian islands in 1809, before returning to England and then to Ireland in 1817. smith was finally discharged in Brighton in November 1818 (WO 97 & WO 116/28 refer), and in the 1851 census he is shown as living at 162 Knight’s Square, Arnold, Nottingham ,with his wife Susannah. Described as a ‘F.W.K [Frame Work Knitter], Chelsea Pensioner’, he was then 71 years of age; just 46 survivors of the 1/35th lived to claim the Medal and ‘Maida’ clasp, the Regiment’s only such entitlement. £700-£900
Lot 5
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Barrosa (J. Wise, 3rd Foot Gds.) nearly extremely fine £800-1000 james Wise, a 21 year old weaver from Mells, Somerset, joined the 3rd Foot Guards in April 1805, following two years service in the Somerset Militia. in March 1811, he was to be found in Spain on the heights of Barrosa, near Cadiz, one of three companies of his regiment present, part of a force of 10,000 Spaniards and 5,000 British from Cadiz who had been landed further up the coast in a projected attack on the French besiegers of the city - Cadiz was besieged, without success, by the French for no less than 30 months during the Peninsula War and there was a British element always present in the town. On the 5th, as this army was approaching Cadiz, the French suddenly attacked, Lieutenant-General Graham, C.O. of the British force, regrettably being deserted by his Spanish allies and left painfully exposed to a French attack from two directions. a furious fire fight ensued, one of the severest of the whole war, with the result that the French were driven down the slopes with great loss. The Guards had been on the march all morning, and had not had time to cook any breakfast, but, nonetheless, eagerly pressed forward to engage four battalions of Ruffin’s infantry stood atop the ridge - the 1st Foot Guards, in the first line, were supported by the 3rd Foot Guards with Graham himself at their head. At length, as the French fell back, Graham shouted for his men to advance with the bayonet, as a result of which the enemy left behind some 3,000 killed or wounded (or prisoners), including General Ruffin and several of his officers. About a quarter of the British had also become casualties, such was the intensity of the fighting, among them James Wise. he was duly discharged in June 1811, aged 27 years, on account of ‘having lost his right arm in the Battle on the Heights of Barrosa near Cadiz on the 5 March 1811’. The 1851 census reveals him as a Chelsea pensioner, aged 66 years, and living in Mells with his wife, Hannah, aged 62, and daughter Elizabeth, 25, a seamstress. He died in January 1854 in the Bath pension district, which included Mells. £800-£1000
Lot 6
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Albuhera (David Davis, 7th Foot) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £1000-1200 david Davis, a weaver from Myvott, near Welshpool, enlisted in the 7th Foot in April 1809, aged 29 years. he subsequently fought with his regiment at Albuhera in May 1811, in which action he received gunshot wounds to his hand and right hip (WO 97/342 refers), a perhaps not startling revelation in lieu of the overall British casualty rate of 61% - of the 28 officers and 540 men present, two officers and 47 men were killed, and 13 and 287 wounded. Moreover, it was the 7th who came off worse in Myers’ Fusilier Brigade, when they attempted to break the dreadful deadlock between the French and the rapidly diminishing remnants of the 2nd Division: ‘The Fusilier Battalions, struck by the iron tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships. Suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with what a strength and majesty the British soldier fights ... Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry and the mighty mass (of the enemy), giving way like a loosened cliff, went headlong down the ascent. The rain flowed after in streams discoloured by blood, and 1500 unwounded men, the remnant of 6000 unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill!’ Davis served with the Regiment until March 1813, when he was transferred to the 13th Royal Veterans’ Battalion, and, in April 1815, was finally discharged in consequence of his old Albuhera wounds. in 1842, he applied to Chelsea Hospital from his residence in Welshpool for admission as an in-pensioner, and went before the Board on 27 September. The subsequent report noted that he was ‘wounded in the hip and left hand at Albuera’, and that his wife and two step-daughters were resident in America, but nonetheless his application was unsuccessful (WO 23/165 refers). Then in February 1866, when aged around 86 years, and living in the Cardiff district, he applied for an increase in his 6d. a day pension, but this, too, was refused. £1000-£1200
Lot 7
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Albuhera (Hugh Parbut, Serjt., 39th Foot) edge bruise and light contact marks, otherwise very fine £1000-1200 Hugh Parbut (or ‘Parbett’), a shoe-maker from Malpas, Cheshire, enlisted in the 39th Foot in May 1806, aged 20 years, and must have had previous service in the Militia, for he was appointed a Corporal with immediate effect; so, too, to Sergeant, just a few months later, in which rank he remained for the duration of his 25 years with the Colours: ‘Served for four years in the Peninsula. Severely wounded in the thigh at the battle of Albuhera and was present at the battles of Busaco, Badajos, Roi De Nevline, Campo Mayor, Albuhera, Lusantes. Three years with the Army of Occupation in France and the remainder with the Regiment and Depot at Home’ (WO 97/557 refers). the 2/39th formed part of Abercrombie’s Brigade at the battle of Albuhera and lost 98 men killed and wounded. Abercrombie’s and Hoghton’s Brigades had been sent to meet a massive French assault directed on the Spanish who were occupying the southern flank of the British position. A concentrated firefight ensued and enormous casualties were suffered by both sides. An attack by Myers’s Fusilier Brigade eventually broke the deadlock and the French were driven from the field, by which time half the British infantry were casualties. discharged in January 1832, Parbut returned to Malpas in Cheshire, the 1851 census revealing that he was resident at 53 Church Street, with his wife, Ellen, and a ‘Chelsea Pensioner’. He died in the Chester area in January 1861. £1000-£1200
Lot 8
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Albuhera (George Small, Serjt., 57th Foot) with riband buckle, edge nicks, very fine £1800-2200 Just 38 ‘Albuhera’ Military General Service 1793-1814 Medals are known to have survived to men of the 57th, four of them as single clasps. george Small, a labourer from Glasgow, originally enlisted in the 89th Foot in December 1793, aged 19 years, but transferred to the 8th Foot in July 1795 and thence to the 57th in March 1796. Having then served in Barbados and Trinidad until June 1802, he was advanced to Corporal in May 1803 and to Sergeant in October 1804, and arrived in Spain via Gibraltar in the autumn of 1809. during the early part of its service in the Peninsula, the Regiment, which contained a number of turbulent characters in its ranks, received the nickname of the ‘Steelbacks’, from the amount of flogging administered to its men and the way they bore their punishment; but, following its famous part at the battle of Albuhera in May 1811, they became known as the ‘Die Hards’, their Colonel having called out on being carried wounded from the battlefield, ‘Die Hard, 57th! Die Hard!’ And so they did, suffering terrible casualties in a close range ‘firefight’ perhaps never equalled in military history - thus from an original strength of 31 officers and 616 men, two officers and 87 men were killed, and 21 officers and 318 men wounded. Marshal Beresford, not normally noted for his eloquence, paid this magnificent tribute to the British infantry under his command: ‘It is impossible by any description to do justice to the distinguished gallantry of the troops; but every individual nobly did his duty; and it is observed that our dead, particularly in the 57th Regiment, were lying as they fought, in ranks, and every wound was in front’. on 17 November 1812, in the terrible conditions of torrential rain and mud encountered during the retreat from Burgos, Small was posted ‘missing’, almost certainly one of over a thousand Allied stragglers carried off during the retreat by the French cavalry. Interestingly, he appears on a list of British prisoners arriving at Cambrai prison on 14 February 1813, ‘Venant d’Espagne’ (ADM 103/467 refers), while on returning to the 57th on 23 June 1814, he was demoted to Private ‘Per General Order of this Date’, a procedure which seems to have been adopted in the case of all returning P.O.Ws. Be that as it may, he quickly re-established his credentials in the 2nd Battalion and was re-appointed Corporal in February 1815 and Sergeant in August of the same year. transferring to the 8th Veterans’ Battalion in December 1815, Small was finally discharged as ‘worn out’ in April 1816, aged 42 years, and awarded a Chelsea pension of 2/1d per day (WO 97/1128 and 1133 refer). In the period 1845-1854 he was living in Barton on Humber, near Hull, the 1851 census recording that he was living there with his wife Elizabeth and a granddaughter, and his occupation as ‘Pensioner Sergeant 57th Regiment’. He was still alive in 1864 when he would have been 90 years old (WO 23 refers). £1800-£2200
Lot 11
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Maida, Java (J. McAuley, 78th Foot) occasional edge knocks and contact marks, nearly very fine £1000-1200 Ex Glendining’s, May 1926. just 18 Military General Service 1793-1814 Medals were issued with this clasp combination, all of them to the 1st Battalion, 78th Foot, and of these four are known to have survived. john McAuley (or McAully) was from Uig, Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides. the battle of Maida was fought on 4 July 1806, in Calabria, Southern Italy and resulted in a heavy defeat for the French whose loss was estimated at some 2000. British casualties were significantly lighter, with the 78th and 81st bearing the brunt. in April 1811, the 78th left Madras for Java with a strength of 1027 men, comprising ‘835 Highlanders, 184 Lowlanders and 8 Irish or English’, all of whom were actively engaged in the operations on the Island between 14th -26th August. Indeed there was considerable fighting against the Franco-Dutch forces and the final assault, made at the point of the bayonet on the morning of 26 August, on a force of some 20,000 of the enemy in entrenched positions, carried all before it - they were completely overthrown and about 1,700 prisoners taken. However, the attackers lost 154 killed and 786 wounded during these operations, 164 of them from the ranks of the 78th, and including John McAuley, whose discharge papers state he was suffering from a ‘diseased jaw from a wound received in action in Java’ (WO 97/887 refers). having been discharged in May 1813, McAuley went before a Chelsea board for assessment for an out pension in June 1814, his total service being stated as 11 years 10 months, evidently including some time with the Fencibles, and his complaint a ‘wounded jaw at Java’. He was duly awarded a pension of 9d. a day (WO 120/28 refers) and died in Glasgow on 3 October 1869. £1000-£1200
Lot 13
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Corunna, Vittoria (Thomas Day, 59th Foot) edge nicks, good very fine £1000-1200 Thomas Day, a labourer from Roscrea, Tipperary, enlisted into the Tipperary Militia in March 1806, and volunteered for the 2/59th in November of the following year. he went with the Regiment, 640 strong, to Spain in October 1808 and marched out to join Sir John Moore’s army, which, by this time, had been forced back towards Corunna. After the rigours of this retreat, the 557 remaining fit men took part in the battle fought on 16 January 1809 - at nightfall the Flank Companies of the 2/59th were still fighting and were the last British troops to be still engaged when the battle died down. Casualties were 60 killed and wounded, leaving 497 to be disembarked in England. Unfortunately, the ship aboard which the Battalion was first embarked was discovered to be sinking, and the troops had to be immediately evacuated before being re-embarked. it is not clear whether Day was with his colleagues on the Walcheren expedition in 1809, but in July 1812 he was back around Cadiz, and in early 1813 the 2/59th was brigaded with the 4th and 47th in the 5th Division of Wellington’s army. Their first major action was at Vittoria on 21 June 1813, when 144 men were killed and wounded in heavy fighting for possession of the bridge at Gamarra Mayor: ‘Robinson’s Brigade (4th, 47th & 2/59th) had stormed Gamarra Mayor, defended by the French 118th & 119th ... This was a brilliant and costly affair- it being no light matter to attack in column of battalions the barricaded streets of a compact village. The British, however, burst in - Colonel Brooke with the 1/4th being the first to force an entrance: the French abandoned three guns which had been placed in the barricades, and fell back in disorder across the bridge. general Robinson endeavoured to improve the success by instant pursuit, but the French had guns bearing on the bridge, which swept away the first platoons that tried to cross it. Very few men reached the other side, and they were shot down before they could establish a lodgement on the farther bank’ (Sir Charles Oman, Wellington’s Army, refers). the 59th’s C.O., Lieutenant-Colonel Fane, was killed by a cannon ball, and Day was badly wounded in the arm and rendered unfit for further service, a fact confirmed in the Chelsea register of soldiers discharged through disability and wounds: ‘Wounded arm in action at Gamarra Mayor, 21 June 1813’ (WO 116/18 refers). day was eventually invalided to England, after a lengthy stay in hospital, and was discharged in February 1815 with a pension of 6d. a day. He died in the Kilkenny district on 21 December 1860, aged 73 years. £1000-£1200
Lot 24
Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz (W. Gunner, Serjt., 88th Foot) suspension claw refixed, one or two edge bruises, otherwise better than very fine £1200-1400 william Gunner, a native of Crondall, Hampshire, enlisted in the 88th Foot in September 1802. a Corporal by the time he was disembarked with the 1st Battalion at Lisbon in April 1809, he first went into action at Talavera that July, while in the the following year the 3rd Division, in which the 88th was brigaded, came under the command of Sir Thomas Picton, under whose leadership the Battalion developed into one of the best in the army, and were always to be found in the forefront of the battle. in September 1810, at Busaco, the Battalion took part in a critical bayonet charge and received Wellington's special praise; in May 1811, at Fuentes D'Onoro, it was involved in further work with the bayonet, at one point disposing of about 100 Frenchmen trapped in an alleyway; and in January and April 1812, during the storming of the fortresses at Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, it was one of the leading assault battalions: in the latter action, escalading the walls of the castle, in what was intended as a subsidiary attack, the 88th in fact succeeded in taking the ramparts, whereas the main assault failed - by an irony their opponents were the French 88th Regiment. casualties were again high, the Battalion losing 144 killed and wounded, among the latter being Gunner, who was hit in the left shoulder. He was invalided to England in January 1813, attended a Chelsea Pensions Board that October and was admitted as an out-pensioner on 1/- a day (WO 116/15 refers). Then aged 30 years, he had latterly served in the rank of Sergeant. he died in Crondall on December 1853, aged 70 years. £1200-£1400
Lot 25
Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Talavera, Albuhera, Salamanca, Vittoria, Toulouse (James Raynor, 4th Light Dragoons) extremely fine £1000-1200 Ex Baldwin, January 1953; just 35 Military General Service 1793-1814 Medals are known to have survived to men of the 4th Light Dragoons, 24 of them with the ‘Albuhera’ clasp. james Raynor was born in Nottingham in 1791 and enlisted in the 4th Dragoons in October 1807, aged 16 years. the Regiment, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Edward Somerset, arrived at Lisbon in April 1809, with Raynor on the strength of Captain Wright’s Troop, and first went into action at Talavera, where it charged alongside the 23rd Light Dragoons - but fortunately managed to avoid the hidden nullah that proved so fatal to the 23rd. in April 1811, Raynor and his comrades were sent to assist in the operations around Badajoz and so became involved in the battle of Albuhera in the following month, when, under the cover of a thunderstorm, the French cavalry virtually annihilated Colborne’s Brigade. In response, the 4th Dragoons, part of Lumley’s Brigade, were launched against the enemy Hussars and Lancers, even though heavily outnumbered, and, to begin with at least, managed to check the latter’s excesses; later still, they acted in support of Cole’s critical and strikingly successful infantry assault on the deadlocked protagonists. shortly after, on 25 May, Lumley’s Brigade, 980 sabres strong with the addition of the 3rd Dragoon Guards and 13th Light Dragoons, together with another 1000 Portuguese and 300 Spanish, was screening Beresford’s movements and had taken up a position behind the bridge and village of Usagre, a defile through which the French must pass. The two leading regiments of French Dragoons were allowed to come over the bridge and, while the third regiment was coming across and other horsemen were strung out through the village, Lumley charged suddenly upon the first brigade - the French were thrown into complete confusion, being quite unable to manoeuvre, losing 250 killed and wounded and 80 prisoners. This model action, known as the ‘Combat of Usagre’, is warmly spoken of by cavalry authorities. in February 1812, the 4th Dragoons became part of Le Marchant’s Heavy Brigade and at Salamanca that July took part in the famous charge against a mass of broken French infantry, when three divisions were destroyed in some 30 minutes. This was the most decisive, perhaps the only decisive, stroke by cavalry in any of the Duke’s Peninsula battles. Unfortunately Le Marchant, that rare bird, a British cavalry commander of real ability, was killed in the action, shot through the spine. after further service at Vittoria and Toulouse, Raynor was embarked for India, from where he was invalided back to England in December 1823, a victim of chronic dysentery. Placed on the strength of the 3rd Royal Veterans’ Battalion in July of the following year, he was finally discharged at Chatham in June 1826, aged about 35 years. in July 1860 he was admitted as an in-pensioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, where he died in March 1865; interestingly, a William Raynor, also from Nottingham, served with James throughout his career in the 4th Dragoons, and may well have been his brother - his Peninsular Medal is also known to have survived. £1000-£1200
Lot 26
Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Busaco, Albuhera, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (John Perring, Corpl., 28th Foot) edge bruising, otherwise better than very fine £1000-1200 Ex Glendining’s, October 1952; just 35 Military General Service 1793-1814 Medals with the ‘Albuhera’ clasp to the 28th Foot are known to have survived. john Perring (or Perrin) was born in Kingsbridge, Devon and enlisted in the 28th Foot from the Army Reserve in the rank of Corporal in October 1805, and remained employed in the same rank throughout his 13 years with the Colours. posted to the 2nd Battalion, but hospitalized in the Peninsula from December 1809 to May 1810, Perring first went into action at Busaco later that year, and, in May 1811, at Albuhera, where, as part of Abercrombie’s Brigade, and in common with the rest of the British infantry, the 2/28th suffered heavy casualties, losing 164 killed and wounded from a strength of 519 men. after the disaster to Colborne’s Brigade at the hands of the Polish Lancers, when only one battalion (the 2/31st) of the four was left standing, the main infantry fight was sustained by Abercrombie’s and Hoghton’s men and this is when the bulk of the casualties occurred. Seven British battalions, about 3,700 men in a two deep line, were left facing the survivors of two French divisions, at least 7,800 men. A close range firefight developed, perhaps without equal in the annals of military history. The stalemate was broken by a gallant charge of the Fusilier Brigade and the French were eventually forced from the field. following further actions in the Pyrenees and the crowning battles of Orthes and Toulouse 1813-14, the 2nd Battalion was disbanded, and Perrin transferred to the 1st Battalion, which was shortly thereafter embarked for the Waterloo campaign. At Quatre Bras, the 1/28th were harrassed by the French cavalry and lost 45 men, while at Waterloo itself the Battalion’s casualties totalled 177 men out of a strength of 557 - his name appears on a regimental list of men present at the great battle and consequently entitled to extra pay. perring was discharged at Corfu in February 1819, aged 41 years, in consequence of a ‘Reduction in the establishment of the Regiment’. Listed in the 1851 census as a 72 year old Chelsea-out-Pensioner resident with his wife in Halwell Village, Harberton, Devon, he died in September 1852. £1000-£1200
Lot 32
Army of India 1799-1826, 2 clasps, Laswarree, Capture of Deig (J. Travers, 8th Lt. Dragns.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, minor edge bruises, otherwise better than very fine £3000-3500 Ex Cheylesmore Collection 1930, Needes Collection 1939, Loxley Collection 1949, and Elson Collection 1963. approximately 100 clasps issued to European recipients for the battle of Laswarree, and approximately 103 clasps for the capture of the fort at Deig. john Travers was born at Ardagh, County Longford, and enlisted into the 8th, or Royal Irish, Regiment of Dragoons at Longford on 29 April 1798, aged 17, for unlimited service. He served throughout in the rank of private until his discharge at Fort William, Calcutta, on 14 December 1822, in consequence of ‘being permitted to reside in India as an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital.’ Sold with copy discharge papers. £3000-£3500
Lot 39
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Capture of Deig (E. Skinner, 22nd Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruise and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and very rare £3000-3500 Only one corporal and seven privates of the 22nd Foot lived to claim the medal, all with the single clasp for the capture of Deig. Two other examples have been on the market, one of which resides in the Patiala Collection in India. Approximately 103 clasps for Capture of Deig were issued to European recipients. edward Skinner was admitted to Chelsea Hospital as an out-pensioner on 22 March 1820, due to ‘long service, ill health and unfit’. Born at Lambeth, Middlesex, he served 3 years as a Sergeant, 1 year 10 months as a Corporal, and 17 years 10 months as a Private, of which 16 years he served in the East Indies. £3000-£3500
Lot 44
Army of India 1799-1826, 2 clasps, Nepaul, Ava (S. Clough, 53rd Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, good very fine and rare £1800-2200 Ex Gaskell Collection 1911, Needes Collection 1940, Dalrymple-White Collection 1946, and Elson Collection 1963. only 7 officers and 10 men of the 53rd received this medal for Nepaul. Clough’s medal is unique to the 53rd with an additional clasp for Ava gained with the 13th Foot. Assistant Surgeon Miller was attached to the 53rd Foot in Nepaul and to the 47th Foot at Ava but is shown on the roll of the latter regiment. samuel Clough was a weaver from Oldham, Lancashire, prior to enlisting into the 53rd Foot. He was admitted to Chelsea Hospital as an out-pensioner from the 13th Foot on 11 October 1826, aged 39, in consequence of ‘wounded right leg and long service’. He is stated to have served in the 53rd for 17 years 8 months, and then in the 13th Foot for 4 years 1 month, of which he spent 19 years 11 months on India service. Sold with copy Chelsea Hospital admission details. £1800-£2200
Lot 239
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Defence of Lucknow, Lucknow (P. Cunningham, 90th Lt. Infy.) suspension refixed, edge bruising, contact marks, good fine £400-450 Phillip Cunningham, 90th Light Infantry, served as part of the 1st Relief Force. He died as a Chelsea Pensioner on 26 March 1902. Sold with copied Death Certificate and copied roll extracts. £400-£450
Lot 523
The extremely rare badge of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert bestowed upon Blanche Julia, Dowager Countess of Mayo, upon her appointment as Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria in 1872 the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, 3rd Class badge (1880-1902) [2nd Class when awarded in 1872], comprising a shell cameo of the conjoined busts of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort, signed J. Ronca of Chelsea, surrounded by a gold border set with twenty half pearls and four diamonds, surmounted by gold and enamel crown set with rubies, emeralds and diamonds, small gold loop for suspension, mounted on Lady’s bow as worn, contained in a later case with gold blocked inscription, minor scratches to cameo, otherwise extremely fine and of the highest rarity £12000-15000 provenance: Sotheby March 1995. the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert was instituted by Queen Victoria in 1862 as a private family award to commemorate Prince Albert. A second class was added in 1864, and the Order was extended to four classes in March 1880, but limited to the Sovereign and forty-five ladies. The first two classes were reserved for Royal Ladies [the second class being specifically for those of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters who were not British princesses], the third class for the Mistress of the Robes and Ladies of the Bedchamber, and the fourth class for Women of the Bedchamber. The fourth class badge did not have a cameo portrait but comprised the entwined ciphers of VR and A, set with brilliants and half-pearls, surmounted by a gold and enamel crown set in diamonds. The Order ceased to exist in May 1902, but its members survived into the present reign. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, the last surviving member of the 1st Class, died in 1962, and Queen Victoria’s last surviving granddaughter, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the last surviving recipient of the 2nd Class, died in 1981. approximately 34 Ladies were awarded the 2nd Class (3rd Class from 1880) of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert during the period of its existence from 1862 until the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. Insignia from this Order very rarely comes on the market and some price comparisons from three decades ago make surprising reading. A 3rd Class badge sold at Sotheby in June 1973 for £4200, whilst in the same sale the Victoria Cross group to Colonel J. C. Daunt sold for £2300 [Magor Collection, DNW July 2003, £126,500]. Another 3rd Class badge was sold by Sotheby in February 1975 for £6500, on which occasion the Victoria Cross group to Major John Cook realised £3700 [Ritchie Collection, DNW September 2004, £94,300]. the Honourable Blanche Julia Wyndham was born on 21 November 1826, daughter of the 1st Baron Leconfield. She married in 1848 to the 6th Early of Mayo, later Viceroy of India, who was assassinated in February 1872. She was appointed to the 2nd Class of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert on 11 May 1872, to coincide with her appointment as a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen. She became an Extra Lady of the Bedchamber in 1874 and remained as such until the Queen’s death in 1901. In 1878, she was appointed one of the founding Companions of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, established to commemorate the Queen becoming Empress of India (see Lot 524). The Dowager Countess of Mayo died on 31 January 1918. £12000-£15000
Lot 639
Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (2566 R.Q.M. Sjt. J. H. Roberts, Gds. M.G.R.) some contact marks, nearly very fine £100-140 M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with the War’. The recipient came from Chelsea. £100-£140
Lot 776
Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Corunna, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz (Thos. Holloway, 52nd Foot) small edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1200-1400 Thomas Holloway was born at Cam, Gloucester, and was a wheelright before enlisting into the 52nd Foot circa 1800. He served 13 years and 2 months as a Private before being discharged to Chelsea Hospital as an out-pensioner on 9 December 1812, having ‘lost left eye & wounded hip at Badajoz’. He was then aged 32 and granted a pension of 1 shilling per day. Sold with copy of Chelsea register entries. £1200-£1400
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