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Six: Captain O. Bake, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (Lieut. O. Bake, R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Commr. O. Bake, R.N.); Victory Medal 1914-19, erased; 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted for wear, some scratches, nearly extremely fine Three: Engineer Commander C. B. Sheppard, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (Eng. Commr. C. B. Sheppard. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Eng. Lt. Cr. C. B. Sheppard. R.N.) extremely fine (9) £160-£200 --- Orrell Bake was born in London on 12 February 1886. A pupil at Britannia Naval College from 15 May 1901 to 15 September 1902, he entered the Royal Navy two months after passing out. He saw service during the Great War first in command of H.M.S. Cygnet when she collided with S.S. Glenbrook during a mooring operation through what was determined to be an error on either Bake's part or that of the steamer's commanding officer, but no damage was done. However, on 10 December 1914, H.M.S. Cygnet was damaged when she collided while entering Felixstowe Dock. Though Bake was merely cautioned in this instance, in March 1915 he collided with S.S. Brighton Queen and for this he was superseded in command and sent to the first class protected cruiser H.M.S. Powerful where he assumed gunnery duties. On 17 June 1916, he was appointed to H.M.S. Theseus, again for gunnery duties. Advanced Lieutenant-Commander on 31 December 1916, he was superseded on 31 December 1917. Bake was appointed in command of the destroyer H.M.S. Leonidas on 19 March 1918, after which, on 7 September 1918, S.S. Persia was torpedoed and Bake impressed the Admiralty with the services he rendered in the aftermath, which resulted in no loss of life. Post war, he was was appointed in command of the destroyer H.M.S. Rapid on 1 February 1919. On 1 October 1920, Bake was appointed to the drill ship President, for service in the Admiralty Compass Department as an Assistant, 1st Class and Establishment Officer. From March 1924, Bake alternated between having charge of a group of destroyers in reserve and unpaid time, before being placed on the Retired List at his own request with the rank of Commander on 1 June 1927. Recalled for service during the Second World War, he was appointed as Sea Transport Officer, Newhaven, on 4 September 1939 before an appointment as District Sea Transport Officer, Barrow-in-Furness with acting rank of Captain on 19 June 1941. Bake was appointed as District Sea Transport Officer, Iceland (C) with acting rank of Captain on 19 August 1941. He was ordered to return to Portsmouth on 19 January 1942. On 2 March, 1942, Bake was ordered to proceed in H.M.S. Stag to Alexandria, becoming District Sea Transport Officer, Egypt on 22 April 1942. On 2 May 1942, however, Bake was placed on the seriously ill list with malaria. He recovered and was removed from the list eight days later. On 10 May 1944 he was appointed to H.M.S. Stag as N.C.S.O., Suez, and afterwards served in a variety of similar capacities through to the end of the hostilities, including as Naval Chief Staff Officer on staff of Flag Officer, Levant and Eastern Mediterranean. He was retired to the Emergency List on 16 March 1947. Orrell Bake died aged 91, at Lewes, Sussex, during the first quarter of 1978. Sold with copy service records. Cecil Barnabas Sheppard was born on 11 June 1882 in Lympstone, Devonshire. He attested for the Royal Navy on 4 July 1904 and saw service during the Great War in H.M.S. Miranda at the Battle of Dogger Bank and in H.M.S. Sandhurst at Scarpa Flow. He saw later service in H.M.S. Northesk in the Mediterranean and at Sebastapol during the evacuation of the Crimea during the Russian Civil War. Appointed Engineer Commander on 31 December 1920, he was placed on the Retired List at his own request on 25 July 1922. Recalled for Second World War service on 12 January 1940, he served in the U.K. as an officer at Lincoln until 12 February 1944, when his appointment was terminated and he returned to the Retired List the following day. He died, aged 74, in Exmouth, Devonshire, on 18 September 1956. Sold with copy service record.

Three: Gunner G. T. Beaton, Royal Field Artillery, who was killed in action at Armentières on 6 October 1915 1914-15 Star (1241. Gnr. G. T. Beaton. R.F.A.) officially re-impressed; British War and Victory Medals (1241 Gnr. G. T. Beaton. R.A.) good very fine (3) £70-£90 --- George Tait Beaton was born at Milnathort, co. Kinross, Scotland, on 24 September 1895 and was educated at Rutherford College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He passed the Boy Clerks’ Examination for the Civil Service on 19 May 1911 and entered H.M. Office of Works, Whitehall, on 26 June 1911. He next joined the London City and Midland Bank on 1 April 1912, and transferred to the Newcastle-upon-Tyne branch on 30 September 1912. On the outbreak of the Great War Beaton ‘volunteered the week war was declared, and joined the 1st Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, on 9 August 1914. He left for France with this Brigade on 16 April 1915; was in the firing line for six months, and was killed in action near Armentières on 6 October 1915, being shot by a sniper whilst acting as a telephonist in the first-line trenches. He had been complimented by his officers for smart and intelligent work, and his Colonel wrote: “He is a very great loss to us... and very much beloved by his officers and the rest of the battery, and we had decided to recommend him for a commission.” His Major wrote: “He was one of the very few whom I always felt I could entirely trust in the performance of his very important duties; he would have been a most valuable soldier, and a good officer.” His Section Commander also wrote: “It was impossible not to notice him from amongst other men. The first day I went to the trenches he was a great help to me, and always afterwards he was the same... He was so intelligent, and obliging and straight, and altogether a fine fellow; his death has been a great loss to us all. I can easily tell how much he was liked by what I hear our men say, and it has cast a gloom over the battery. We all had a great affection for him.”’ (The Roll of Honour refers). Beaton is buried in Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, France. Sold with copied service records and other research.

A post-War C.B., 1953 Coronation C.V.O. pair awarded to Eric Bedford, Esq., who served as Chief Architect to the Ministry of Works from 1950-70, and designed the Post Office Tower which was, on its completion, the tallest building in Britain The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt, with neck riband, in Collingwood, London, case of issue; The Royal Victorian Order, C.V.O., Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘1165’, with neck riband, in Collingwood, London, case of issue; together with the related miniature awards mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (2) £400-£500 --- C.B. London Gazette 13 June 1959. C.V.O. London Gazette 1 June 1953: ‘On the occasion of Her Majesty’s Coronation.’ Eric Bedford was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, on 23 August 1909 and was educated at Thornton Grammar School, before becoming an apprentice with a firm of architects in Leicester. In 1934 he won a Royal Institute of British Architects competition for the design of a railway terminal, and two years later joined the Ministry of Works, becoming its youngest Chief Architect in 1950, at the age of 41. In 1953 Bedford was given responsibility for the design of the backdrop to the 1953 Coronation. The project, for which he was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, included four steel arches, surmounted by gold and silver lions, white unicorns, and a coronet, was popular and well received. He was also responsible for the Post Office Tower (now known as the BT Tower) in central London, which upon its completion in 1964 was, at 177 metres, the tallest building in Britain. Described by Pevsner as ‘a notable 1960s landmark’, some of his other government buildings were less aesthetically pleasing, with his (now-demolished) Marsham Street development in Westminster being described by the same authority as ‘ruthlessly logical, but a spectacular failure, the very image of faceless bureaucracy’. Bedford was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1959 Birthday Honours’ List, and retired in 1970. He died in Worcester on 28 July 2001. Sold together with the Bestowal Documents for both awards, both mounted in matching glazed display frames; and copied research.

A post-War C.B.E. group of seven awarded to Captain A. C. ‘Pitcairn’ Jones, Mercantile Marine, who over the course of his sea-going career visited Pitcairn Island over 100 times The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with full and miniature width neck ribands, in Collingwood, London, case of issue; British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Arthur C. Jones.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards and full and miniature width riband bars, nearly extremely fine (7) £400-£500 --- C.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1964: Captain Arthur Conway Jones, Lately Commodore Master, S.S. Corinthic, Shaw Savill and Albion Company Ltd., London. Arthur Conway Jones was born in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, on 15 July 1898 and served with the Mercantile Marine during the Great War. He was awarded his Master’s Certificate in 1924, and for most of his career was employed by the Shaw Savill and Albion Line, whose vessels worked the London to New Zealand route. Throughout his life he held a great interest in Pitcairn Island, that tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that was the initially settled by the surviving mutineers of H.M.S. Bounty. Jones first sighted Pitcairn Island in 1919, and over the course of his sea-going career visited the island on over 100 occasions; whilst other Masters would often skip the stop on their trans-Pacific passages, Jones always made it, and his visits, carrying supplies, and Pitcairners themselves, provided a vital life-line to the islanders. In the early 1950s he also carried shipments of saplings from New Zealand to held restore the island’s vegetation. Not surprisingly, he was known throughout the Line as ‘Pitcairn’ Jones. Jones saw further service with the Mercantile Marine during the Second World War, and retired in 1963. For his services he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Jones Point in Bounty Bay, Pitcairn, is named in his honour. Sold with various photographs of the recipient on Pitcairn Island; various letters to the recipient from Pitcairn Islanders, with Pitcairn Island stamps; various Shaw Savill and Albion ephemera; and copied research, including an amusing account of a stowaway to Pitcairn Island who was accompanied by a pet chimpanzee.

Pair: Lieutenant B. K. Garvice, Royal Field Artillery, late 1st Pioneer Battalion, Canadian Engineers British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut. B. K. Garvice.) mounted for wear, good very fine (2) £60-£80 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 23 December 1918. Basil Kendale Garvice was born in Bideford, Devon in August 1885. He was employed as a Civil Engineer in Victoria, British Columbia prior to the Great War. Garvice initially served as a Pioneer with the 1st Pioneer Battalion, Canadian Engineers prior to becoming an Officer Cadet with the British Army. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery in May 1917. Garvice died in Ladysmith, British Columbia in March 1964.

Family Group: Four: Wing Commander W. E. Ennis, Royal Air Force, late Royal Engineers and Corps of Military Accountants British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. W. E. Ennis); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as originally worn, generally very fine or better Three: Sergeant P. J. W. Ennis, 102 Squadron, Royal Air Force, an Air Gunner whose Whitley was shot down whilst on a raid to Essen, 3/4 July 1941 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted for wear, generally good very fine (7) £500-£700 --- Wilfred Edmund Ennis was the father of P. J. W. Ennis and A. S. R. E. Ennis, and resided as 136 Hale Lane, Edgware, London. He enlisted in the 15th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Prince of Wale’s Own Civil Service Rifles), and served in the ranks until his was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in March 1915. Ennis advanced to Captain and transferred to the Corps of Military Accountants, subsequently transferring to the Royal Air Force. He re-engaged as Temporary Squadron Leader in September 1940, advanced to Wing Commander and served at Coastal Command HQ, Northwood. Sold with the following items and documents: Riband bar; Letter to recipient from his A. S. R. E. Ennis from Driffield, dated 16 May 1941; Telegram informing recipient that his son P. J. W. Ennis is missing from operations; Letter from Buckingham Palace to recipient expressing condolences on the loss of two sons during the war, dated 8 August 1945; Two Air Ministry Letters addressed to recipient concerning burial and circumstances behind the death of P. J. W. Ennis, dated 26 May and 17 August 1949 respectively; Enclosure for photographs of grave of P. J. W. Ennis to recipient on behalf of the Under Secretary of State for Air, dated 23 March 1950. Patrick Joseph William Ennis was the son of the above, and the younger brother of A. S. R. E. Ennis. He was educated at Wimbledon College, and joined the Royal Air Force in 1940, carrying out his initial training as an Air Gunner/Wireless Operator at No. E. & W. S. Ennis was subsequently posted to No. 19 O.T.U., and having advanced to Sergeant, was posted for operational flying with 102 Squadron (Whitleys) at Topcliffe in June 1941. He flew in just 2 operational sorties - the first being to Bremen, 27 June 1941. Sergeant Ennis was killed in action on a raid to Essen, 3/4 July 1941, and the following detail is given by an Air Ministry Letter to his father dated 17 August 1949: ‘As you know, your son was a member of the crew of Whitley Z 6573, 102 Squadron, which took off from Topcliffe at 23.14 hours on 3rd July, 1941, for Essen. Nothing was heard during the war of the fate of any of the five occupants, and their death was presumed to have occurred on 4th July, 1941. In 1946 we found among captured German documents an index card recording the death on 4th July, 1941, of three unknown members of the crew of a Whitley and their burial in the main cemetery at Neuss, four miles west of Dusseldorf (British Zone), in Plot 5, graves 9, 10 and 11. We accordingly sent a special enquiry to the Royal Air Force Missing Research and Enquiry Unit operating in the British Zone, asking them to investigate and notifying them that Whitley Z 6573 was the only aircraft of that type not accounted for on 4th July, 1941. At the end of 1946 a report was received from the Unit to the effect that an Allied aircraft had been shot down at 01.10 hours on 4th July, 1941, at Kaarst, four miles north-west of Neuss. It had exploded with its bomb-load on crashing and identification was not possible at the time. The dead were buried at Neuss. Exhaustive interrogation of local inhabitants was not very productive but the search officer was reasonably certain that the aircraft was your son’s Whitley. In the hope of positive identification, exhumation of the graves at Neuss was ordered. Unfortunately the volume of research in the Ruhr area was so great that it was not till this year that we received the examination reports. As you will have appreciated, the nature of the crash was such that only fragmentary remains were found in the three graves but enough was found to prove that these graves contained the remains of all five members of the crew. In grave 9 were found a corroded Ronson lighter and a smashed gold ring with the initials P. J. E. This identified your son Sergeant P. J. W. Ennis. These relics were in so bad a state that they were left on the body. Had they been in reasonably good condition, then they would have been sent to us and by us to you. As we told you in Air Ministry Letter of 26th May, the graves have been moved to the British Military Cemetery, Rheinberg. Your son lies in Plot 6, Row B, Grave 9, and the other four members of his crew in Plot 6, Row B, communal graves 10 and 11.’ Sold with the following items and documents: Air Gunner’s Brevet; Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book (26 October 1940 - 3 July 1941) annotated ‘Death Presumed 4.7.41’; named forwarding slip for recipient’s Log Book. For the medals awarded to A. S. R. E. Ennis, see Lot 24.

The Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of five awarded to Captain F. W. M. Cornwallis, 17th Lancers, attached Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry), who, having rejoined his cavalry regiment in Ireland in 1920, was gunned down during the Irish War of Independence by a gang of I.R.A. volunteers in the bloody Ballyturin Ambush near Gort, Co. Galway, on 15 May 1921 Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved ‘F. W. M. Cornwallis. 17th Lancers.’; 1914 Star, with copy clasp (2. Lieut: F. W. M. Cornwallis. 17/Lrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Major F. W. M. Cornwallis.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, reverse dated 1914-1917, with silver star on riband, mounted together with related miniature medals, riband bar and 17th Lancers and Machine Gun Corps lapel badges, in a felt lined wooden frame with ivorine label, inscribed ‘Captain Fiennes Wykeham Mann Cornwallis., M.C., Croix de Guerre. 17th Lancers. Killed in the service of his country whilst with his regiment at Gort. Co. Galway. Ireland. On May 15th 1921.’, extremely fine (5) £3,000-£4,000 --- M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For distinguished service in connection with Military Operations in France and Flanders’ French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 10 October 1918: ‘For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign’ Fiennes Wykham Mann Cornwallis was born on 21 August 1890, the eldest son of Colonel Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, later 1st Baron Cornwallis, of Linton Park, Kent, who was Conservative M.P. for Maidstone and Chairman of the Kent County Council. His grandfather, Major Fiennes Cornwallis (Wykeham Martin), of the 4th Light Dragoons, took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, as a University Candidate he was commissioned Second Lieutenant from the West Kent Yeomanry into the 17th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Lancers on 20 August 1913, and was stationed with them at Sialkot, India at the outbreak of the Great War. In October 1914 his regiment was deployed to France as part of the 2nd (Sialkot) Cavalry Brigade in the 1st Indian Cavalry Division (later renamed 4th Division), Cornwallis serving with them on the Western Front from mid-November (ineligible for 1914 Star clasp). Cornwallis was advanced Lieutenant on 27 February 1915 and was seconded for service with a Brigade Machine Gun Squadron on 2 February 1916. Advanced acting Captain whilst Second in Command of a Machine-Gun Squadron on 10 July 1917, he was made temporary Captain in November and acting Major while commanding a Squadron on 5 June 1918. For his services with the 3rd Squadron Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry) he was awarded both the Military Cross and the French Croix de Guerre. Cornwallis was initiated into the Douglas Lodge No. 1725 of the Freemasons in Kent in 1919 and the following March was restored to the establishment of the 17th Lancers who at this time were in County Cork, Ireland, aiding the Civil Power against Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence. Ballyturin Ambush, Galway, 15 May 1921 On 15 May 1921 Cornwallis was driven to a party at Ballyturin House near Gort, Galway by District Inspector Cecil Blake of the Royal Irish Constabulary. They were accompanied by Blake’s pregnant wife Lily, Lieutenant McCreery of the 17th Lancers and Margaret Gregory, the widowed daughter in law of Lady Gregory of Coole Park. The group spent the afternoon visiting the Bagot family at the house and playing tennis. Leaving in the early evening, they found the gate shut at the end of the drive and Cornwallis went to open it. Suddenly there was a shout of ‘hands up’, shots were fired and the car’s windscreen was shattered by bullets. Cornwallis tried to take cover behind the wall near the gate and the occupants of the vehicle tried to jump out and shield themselves to the left of the car as intense firing opened up. After 3 or 4 minutes the shooting ceased with one heavy volley at close range. Mrs Gregory, who had been allowed to survive, then saw her companions’ bodies huddled together on the ground, shot to death. Captain Cornwallis was later found dead on the outside of the wall on the right of the gate. The ambushers, a gang of around twenty I.R.A. volunteers in civilian clothing, a few masked but most with blackened faces, then came up to the car and searched the bodies and the car and retrieved any weapons. Eventually Mrs Gregory was allowed to go and she walked back up towards the house. At the same time, the Bagots, having heard the shooting, were running down the long drive to the gate. Mrs Gregory was handed over to Miss Molly Bagot and John Bagot was held at gunpoint and handed a note which apparently read: 'Volunteer HQ. Sir, if there is any reprisals after this ambush, your house will be set on fire as a return. By Order IRA.’ Constable Graham Poole, an ex-Tan, was present at Ballyturin immediately after the murders and described the brutal carnage the killers had left in their wake: ‘One man [Cornwallis] was by the gate slumped against a wall, he had been shot in several places and was quite dead. Inside the gate was a motor car containing the body of one of our men, an auxiliary named Blake, he was totally peppered with shot and the car was full of blood. On the path behind the car was a woman whose head was literally hanging off, she was covered in blood and peppered beyond recognition, she had been placed upon another dead man in a sexually explicit position, the woman was later reported to be Mrs Blake. The two dead men were army officers.’ (The Black and Tans in Galway during the Irish Troubles by Constable Graham Poole refers). During these investigations by Crown Forces near the scene following the ambush a Constable named John Kearney was also shot dead, raising the body count to five. The British said he was killed by the I.R.A. who were still at the scene but his death may have been an accident. It is even thought by some that he was shot by the police as an informer, for passing information to local republicans. A witness statement from an I.R.A. man who took part in the ambush gives some background to the motive for the attack, describing District Inspector Blake in the following terms: ‘The man had built up a very bad reputation for himself in the district. Threatening women with his revolver in the homes of wanted men. And going into the shops in the town and throwing his revolver on the counter with a demand to be served at once. His wife also carried a revolver and when shopping threatened those serving her at the counter that if anything happened to her husband she would shoot and burn the town.’ Going further, in his 1943 book ‘The House of Gregory’, Vere R. T. Gregory claims that the Ballyturin ambush was retaliation for an incident in which soldiers or police had tortured three local men for information, by forcing them to dig their own graves and then threatening to bury them alive. Gregory also mentions being told by his stepsister that it was rumoured in the vicinity that Lady Gregory had conspired with the I.R.A. in planning the ambush, and this was why her daughter had survived - unsubstantiated gossip that is unlikely to be true. In a broader context, the events of the 13 to 15 May 1921, which coincided with elections to the Home Rule Parliament in which Sinn Fein swept the board, saw 15 soldiers and policemen slaughtered in a two day killing spree across Ireland ranging from Dublin, Tipperary and Castletownbere to these events at Ballyturin, Galway and are now seen as instrumental in bringing the British government towards signing the truce two months late...

The historically interesting South Africa 1834-53 Medal awarded to Mr. R. Graham, Cape Irregular Cavalry and Civil Commissioner of Albany; he was the son of Colonel John Graham, the Founder of Grahamstown South Africa 1834-53 (Mr. R. Graham, Cape Irregular Cavalry) officially renamed in large engraved serif capitals (see Footnote), good very fine and unique to unit £800-£1,000 --- Robert Graham, the only son of Colonel John Graham and Johanna Catharina Cloete, a descendant of Jacob Cloete, the first permanent settler at the Cape, was born at Grahamstown, the settlement that his father established in 1812. He served as Civil Commissioner of Albany, and commanded a Corps of Irregular Cavalry during the Third Kaffir War, 1851-53. ‘With reference to an application for a Kafir [sic] War Medal for Mr. R. Graham, who commanded a Corps of Irregular Horse during the Kafir War of 1851-2. By a General Order dated Horse Guards 19th December 1857 the period for the reception of Claims of this nature has been limited to the 1st December 1858 which has now expired - but as the Claimant in the present case has preferred his application prior to that date, although it was not received until the prescribed period had elapsed, and as he was probably not aware at the time of the existence of the General Order in question, Major General Peel has recommended to His Royal Highness the General Commanding in Chief, that the observance of the strict letter of the General Order referred to, should be waived in the present instance as a special case, and the Claim be taken into consideration - and His Royal Highness having expressed his entire concurrence in that recommendation, has informed Major General Peel that the Claim appears to be valid. Under these circumstances, directions have been given for the preparation of a Kafir War Medal for Mr. Graham accordingly.’ (Letter to Lieutenant-General Sir H. G. Smith, Bt., G.C.B. from the War Office, dated 20 January 1859, refers). It would appear that, whilst Mr. Graham’s medal has been renamed, this was officially done at the Royal Mint utilising a previously named but unissued medal, to avoid the need to carry out the 48 separate operations required to produce a single impressed medal from start to finish.

A post-War Order of St. John group of six awarded to Warden R. S. A. Allen, Civil Defence Warden Services, late Mercantile Marine, who was awarded a King’s Commendation for Brave Conduct for his services during the Second World War The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background; British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Ralph Allen); Defence Medal, with K.C.B.C. silver laurel leaves; Civil Defence Long Service Medal, E.II.R. (R. S. Allen) crudely engraved naming; Service Medal of the Order of St John, with three Additional Award Bars, unnamed, mounted as worn, generally very fine (6) £300-£400 --- Serving Brother, Order of St. John London Gazette 23 June 1970. K.C.B.C. London Gazette 31 October 1941. ‘For brave conduct in Civil Defence.’ The original Recommendation states: ‘On the night of 11 April 1941, an enemy parachute mine fell in Derby Road, Southampton, and wrecked approximately 120 houses. In one of these wrecked houses there were 5 casualties with face injuries due to the blast, plus small cuts and abrasions to arms ands legs. Before the house collapsed there were 2 persons in the upper part of the house and 3 persons on the ground floor, and when the house collapsed all 5 persons were buried with the debris on top of them. Mr. Allen, who is a member of St. John Ambulance Brigade, and a part-time Warden, tunnelled under the debris and administered First Aid to these trapped people. Two of these casualties were pinned down by sections of wooden beams. After administering First Aid, he obtained help of other Wardens and these beams were sawn through, and the injured persons sere then released. Throughout these operations which lasted approximately half an hour, he displayed outstanding courage, coolness, and was an inspiration to his fellow Wardens. Fire and escaping town gas added to his difficulties.’ Rudolph Sidney Albert Allen was born in Southampton on 11 May 1898 and served during the Great War in the Mercantile Marine, attesting under the slightly less Germanic-sounding Christian name of Ralph. Amonst the ships he served in was the Cunard Line’s S.S. Aquitania, that had been requisitioned as a troopship. During the Second World War he was employed as a Warden with the Civil Defence Warden Service, and was awarded a King’s Commendation for Brave Conduct for his services in Southampton in April 1941. He was created a Serving Brother of the Order of St. John in 1970, and died in Southampton in 1978. Sold with copied research.

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Capt. D. G. Cannon. R.A.O.C.) nearly extremely fine £80-£100 --- Douglas Gordon Cannon was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1914. He attested for the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps at Halifax in December 1939, and was commissioned Lieutenant and posted overseas in September 1940. Cannon advanced to Captain in July 1942, and to Major in August the following year. Service included in France from, 7 July 1944. He was discharged in February 1947 (entitled to 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star; Defence Medal, CVSM and Clasp, and War Medal), and transferred as Captain to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps the same year. Having moved to the UK, Cannon retired from the army in December 1952, and in later life was employed by the Civil Service as an Inspector of Armaments. He died in the General Hospital, Burton on Trent in February 1965. Sold with copied Canadian service papers, and photographic image of recipient.

France, Medaille d’Honneur de L’Institut de Sauvetage de la Mediterranee, Marseilles, silver, the reverse engraved ‘S.S. Bodil, 22-7-1938, G. Aleia’, good very fine £40-£50 --- The Danish steamship Bodil was bombed and sunk on 22 July 1938 by unknown aircraft off the Balearic Islands during the Spanish Civil War, with the survivors picked up by H.M.S. Shropshire, of the 1st Cruiser Squadron, and landed at Marseilles.

An unattributed O.B.E., A.F.C. group of four miniature dress medals The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type badge, silver-gilt, on 2nd type riband; Air Force Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, mounted as worn, very fine An unattributed M.C. group of four miniature dress medals Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., with integral top riband bar, mounted as worn, very fine An unattributed B.E.M. group of six miniature dress medals British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 2nd issue; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, mounted as worn, very fine An unattributed group of five miniature dress medals British War and Victory Medals; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48, mounted as worn, very fine (19) £80-£100

A mounted group of forty-two miniature dress medals representative of the medals worn by H.M. King Hussain of Jordan Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom, Order of Hussein bin Ali; Order of the Renaissance; Hashemite Star; Military Gallantry Medal; Order of the Star of Jordan; Order of Independence; Order of Military Merit; Medal for the Battle of Karama 1968; Medal for the Great Ramadan War 1973; Silver Jubilee Medal 1977; Iraq, Kingdom, Order of the Hashemite Collar; Morroco, Kingdom, Order of El Mohammed I; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile; Iraq, Republic, Order of the Two Rivers; Syria, Republic, National Order of Ummayad; Lebanon, Republic, Order of Merit; Tunisia, Republic, Order of Independence; Oman, Sultanate, Order of Oman; Saudi Arabia, Order of Abdul Aziz Al Saud; Yemen, Kingdom, Order of Ma’arib; Libya, Republic, Order of the Grand Conqueror; Iran, Empire, Order of Pahlavi; Great Britain, The Royal Victorian Order; Greece, Kingdom, Order of the Redeemer; France, Fifth Republic, Legion of Honour; Germany, Federal Republic, Order of Merit; Malaysia, Federation, Order of the National Crown; Pakistan, Republic, Order of Pakistan; Spain, Kingdom, Order of Isabella the Catholic; Romania, Republic, Order of the Twenty Third of August; Mexico, Republic, Order of the Aztec Eagle; Philippines, Republic, Order of Sikatuna; Japan, Empire, Order of he Chrysanthemum; Austria, Second Republic, Order of Merit; Yugoslavia, Republic, Order of the Grand Star of Yugoslavia; Italy, Republic, Order of Merit; Great Britain, Order of the Bath (Military Division); Netherlands, Kingdom, Civil Order of Merit of the Netherlands Lion; Spain, Kingdom, Order of the Golden Fleece, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, mounted for wear, about extremely fine and a remarkable set (42) £1,500-£2,000 --- Owing to the completeness and the rarity of some of the miniatures in this group, it would appear likely that this group of miniatures was mounted with the intention that it would be worn by H.M. King Hussain (who doubtless would have had various miniature groups both for wear and in reserve).

A Great War 1917 ‘French theatre’ M.M. awarded to Sergeant H. C. Saunders, 47th Battalion (British Columbia), Canadian Infantry, who was later commissioned in the British Columbia Regiment and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Saunders served on the Western Front as a Sopwith Camel pilot with 46 Squadron, and was killed in action as a result of aerial combat near Epehy, 18 September 1918 Military Medal, G.V.R. (629366 Sjt: H. C. Saunders. 47th/Can: Inf:) nearly very fine £400-£500 --- M.M. London Gazette 19 November 1917. The original recommendation states: ‘This N.C.O. led his platoon into action when his Officer became wounded. He was in charge of the left flank of his company during six counter attacks. By skilfully organising rifle grenades and bombing sections and exercising proper fire control, and by his own example, courage and initiative his platoon inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy.’ Herbert Clement Saunders was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada in August 1885. He was the son of Doctor H. J. Saunders, and was employed as a Civil Engineer prior to the war. Saunders attested for the Canadian Expeditionary Force in June 1915, and served with the 47th Battalion (British Columbia), Canadian Infantry in the French theatre of war (entitled to Great War pair). He advanced to Sergeant, and subsequently served with the 72nd Battalion (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), before being commissioned into the British Columbia Regiment and transferring to the Royal Flying Corps, 11 March 1918. Saunders was posted for operational service as a pilot with 46 Squadron (Sopwith Camels) and reported missing in action, 18 September 1918. Lieutenant Saunders was later confirmed as a killed in action as a result of an aerial combat east of Hesbecourt near Epehy, when he was seen going down in flames at 11.50 am. He is buried in Templeux-le-Guerard British Cemetery, Somme, France. Sold with copied service papers.

A Second War ‘Civil Division’ B.E.M. awarded to Mr. W. J. Coogan, Engine-room Storekeeper, S.S. Toor Head, Ulster Steamship Company Ltd. British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (William J. Coogan) in Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine £100-£140 --- B.E.M. London Gazette 15 June 1945.

The Photograph History of the Civil War, 5v, etc

Vintage reproduction of the Russian Civil War poster – Comrade Lenin Cleans the Earth from Filth – featuring a caricature by Russian satirist, caricaturist and poster artist Viktor Deni of Vladimir Lenin with a large broom sweeping the Pope, Capitalist and Tzars off the globe. Good condition, creasing, tears, paper losses in right corners, tape on edges, staining. Country of issue: Unknown, designer: Viktor Deni, size (cm): 69x49, year of printing: 1970s.

American civil war folding bowie knife John B Hobson Sheffield, length when open 24cm

(BOOKS) THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION AND CIVIL WAR IN ENGLAND VOLUMES I & 2 by Edward Earl of Clarendon (William Smith, 1840), full polished calf with paneled gilding, ribbed gilt decorated spine with gilt lettered title and author in green Morocco bandsProvenance: deceased estate Carmarthenshire

ANTONI CLAVÉ I SANMARTÍ (Barcelona, 1913 - Saint Tropez, France, 2005)."Untitled.Mixed media on paper.Signed in the lower left corner.Size: 76 x 57 cm; 101 x 71 cm (frame).In this mixed media painting on paper, Clavé superimposes realities that seem to emerge from an organic background, like spectral faces interspersed with dense brushstrokes and areas that appear to have been resolved by frottage. Thus, organic insinuations are laminated with geometrical configurations. Clavé experiments with a variety of techniques and languages, so that on the same surface, touches of spatula, gesture, expressionism and abstraction dialogue with each other. The result is an arduous dialogue with the Baroque tradition and its play of chiaroscuro. Antoni Clavé is one of the most important figures in Spanish contemporary art. Trained at the San Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, Clavé initially devoted himself to advertising graphics, illustration and the decorative arts. In 1936 he took an active part in the Civil War, joining the Republican ranks, which led him to go into exile in France at the end of the war. That same year, 1939, he exhibited the drawings he had made on the battlefields. He settled in Paris, where he met Vuillard, Bonnard and Picasso. From this period onwards, Clavé began to develop an oeuvre marked by a different, less classical style. During this period his figures gradually lost their precision and form, giving way to the lines and a personal range of colours and textures that were to become the main features of his works from that time onwards. He was already enjoying great international prestige at the time when he began to be recognised in Spain, after his exhibition at the Sala Gaspar in Barcelona in 1956. In 1952 he made the sets for Charles Vidor's film "Hans Christian Andersen", and was nominated for an Oscar. In 1954 he gave up decorating to devote himself to painting. In the 1960s he painted a tribute to El Greco, and his painting at this time reveals the influences of that master, as well as those of the Baroque painters. Of particular relevance is the theme of the knight with his hand on his chest, a reference that would be repeated in Clavé's future works. This period is characterised by the definitive transition to abstraction. In the 1970s Clavé's work continued to evolve, using various techniques such as collage and inventing new ones such as "papier froissé", the result of a chance use of aerosol on crumpled paper. In 1978, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, now the Centre Georges Pompidou, devoted a retrospective to him that made him one of the most prestigious artists of his generation. In the 1980s he dedicated a series of works to Picasso under the title "To Don Pablo". His latest works are characterised by the recreation of textures within abstraction, with a profuse use of papier froissé. He was awarded prizes at the Hallimark in New York in 1948, at the Venice Biennial in 1954 and at the Tokyo International Biennial in 1957. In 1984 the Spanish state recognised his artistic value with the exhibition of more than one hundred of his works in the Spanish pavilion at the Venice Biennale. That same year he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Clavé's work can be found, among many others, in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the Tate Gallery, the Modern Art Museum in Paris and Tokyo, the British Museum and the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid.

NO RESERVE English Civil War.- Burnet (Gilbert) The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, etc. In which an Account is given of the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland, first edition, engraved portrait to half-title verso, engraved portrait of Charles I, vignette portrait to p. 380, full-page portrait to p. 416, without the 'Addenda' leaf inserted between a5 and a6, light soiling to title and margins, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, corners worn, [Wing B5832], by J. Grover, 1677; and 4 others, English Civil War, folio & 4to (5)

NO RESERVE English Civil War.- Bibliotheca regia, or, The Royal Library, containing a collection of such of the papers of His late Maiesty King Charls, the second monarch of Great Britain, as have escaped the wrack and ruines of these times, 2 parts in 1 vol., with penultimate errata f., lacking engraved plates and final blank f., title a little soiled, light marginal toning, ink inscriptions to endpapers and occasionally to margins, B5 with loss to margin affecting a few letters of text, G3 with tear to foot running into text, 2 or 3 other leaves with marginal loss or tearing, contemporary calf, rebacked, upper cover detached, [Wing C2151], for Henry Seile, 1659 § Poyer (John) The declaration of Col. Poyer, and Col. Povvel, and the officers and soldiers under their command, which they desired to be published to the whole kingdome, bookplate to front pastedown, later calf-backed boards, [Wing P3122], 1648 § [Perrinchief (Richard)] The Royal Martyr: or, the Life and Death of King Charles I, first edition, lacking engraved frontispiece, N1 creased, bookplate and ink inscriptions to pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, [WIng P1601], by J. M., 1676; and 4 others, similar, 8vo (8)

NO RESERVE English Civil War.- Exact (An) and most Impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial, and Judgment (according to Law) of Twenty nine Regicides, the Murtherers of His Late Sacred Majesty of most Glorious Memory, title a little soiled, worming and damp-staining, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, lower joint cracked, worn, [Wing N1403A], for Andrew Crook, 1660 § Holles (Denzil) Memoirs of Denzil Lord Holles, Baron of Ifield in Sussex, from the Year 1641, to 1648, engraved portrait frontispiece, short tear to foot of title, a good copy otherwise with wide margins, ink ownership inscriptions including one of "M. Cholmeley", contemporary speckled calf, joints cracked, some wear to spine ends and corners, a little rubbed, [Wing H2464], for Tim Goodwin, 1699; and 4 others, similar, 8vo (6)

NO RESERVE Fuller (Thomas) The Historie of the Holy Warre, fourth edition, engraved folding map of Palestine (torn and repaired), with final blank, lacking engraved additional title, [Wing F2439], Thomas Buck, 1651 bound with The Holy State, second edition, engraved additional title, engraved portraits in text, [Wing F2444], Cambridge, by R. D., 1648, together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional light damp-staining to lower corner, occasional light worming to head, some light marginal soiling, contemporary calf, rebacked, retaining original backstrip, rubbed, some wear to corners; and 2 others by the same, folio (3)⁂ The lot includes a copy of Fuller's Church History belonging to Joseph Lee "Ex dono Ornatissimo amici Beauc: St. Joh: Equit. Aurat" Beauchamp St. John (1594-1667), politician, MP in the Short and Long Parliaments and supporter of the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War.

2 framed stamp collection including civil war and legends of the west also including misc loose stamps

A selection of Home Front paperwork and books including original Home Guard Training Manual, Civil Defence forms, Penzance War Weapons Week 1941 notice, ARP certificate, ration coupons, newspapers, Life on the Home Front volume, The British Home Front 1939-1945 vol. and others etc.

A Second War Civil Defence embroidered arm-band, Cornwall and Devon Civil Defence shoulder titles, Warden and Ambulance shoulder titles, Civil Defence lapel badges etc.

A Second War Civil Defence Corps Warden's arm-band, printed cotton Civil Defence arm-band, three Warden's shoulder titles, two lapel badges etc.

A selection of Second War Home Front insignia including Civil Defence printed arm-band, Civil Defence Corps Headquarters arm-band, Civil Defence Corps Rescue arm-band, Rescue shoulder titles, Headquarters shoulder titles, ARP badges, buttons, lapel badges etc.

The War Story of the Sticky Grenade by Kay Brothers Limited together with a relating latter from Kay Brothers Limited dated 1947; silver ARP badge, National Identity certificate, Civil Defence Fire Precautions booklet and others, etc

A selection of Second War women's insignia including WVS Civil Defence cloth badge, Civil Nursing Reserve cloth badge, WVS Civil Defence lapel badges, Women's Land Army badge, Red Cross arm-band dated 1943, buttons etc.

A selection of World War II Civil Defence insignia including Civil Defence arm-band, Civil Defence Corps Welfare arm-bands - King's Crown and Queen's Crown; Civil Defence lapel badges, buttons, chevrons and a selection of Ministry of Foods war-time bowls with spoons

SHAFFNER, Col. T. - History of the United States of America, London, lge. 8vo, 19th Century half calf, spines gilt, engraved plates, 2 vols, (one folding plate damaged) snag to top of one spine, maps, circa 1865. Does not include the Civil War

Cigarette Cards / Gum Cards : Civil War News set of 88 complete - in good cond & clean - checklist card

Cigarette Cards / Gum / Trade : 2 Albums inc USA Drag racing (33), various others cards Mars ?repro plus an album of American Civil War mostly modern sets

A late Victorian ebony, palmwood and ivory inlaid display cabinetprobably by Gillow and Co. or Lamb of ManchesterWith ivory stringing, the central bevelled glass inset astragal glazed door enclosing two shelves, flanked by a pair of twin raised panelled quarter veneered and tablet inlaid doors, each enclosing one shelf, above a Greek key inlaid frieze, over a central bevelled glass inset astragal glazed door, enclosing one shelf, flanked by two raised panelled tablet inlaid and roundel centred doors, interspersed throughout with reeded pilasters, the Chubb lock plates stamped with serial numbers and also stamped: 'CHUBB PATENT, 128 QUEEN VICTORIA ST., ST. PAUL'S, LONDON', 110cm wide x 36cm deep x 172cm high, (43in wide x 14in deep x 67 1/2in high)Footnotes:ProvenanceThe offered lot previously belonged to the grandfather of the current owner and vendor. And it is thought by family repute that the great grandfather, Sir Charles Alexander Innes KCSI CIE(1874-1959), originally acquired this display cabinet at the end of the 19th century. Both of these forebears lived and worked in colonial India and Burma, where they were evidently central figures in the administrative running of the British Empire overseas.It seems highly likely that the present piece remained in imperial India until the country gained its independence in 1947, from which time onwards the cabinet evidently permanently returned to England with the family.Sir Charles Alexander InnesCharles Alexander Innes, who was born in Secunderabad, Hyderabad, went on to pass the Indian Civil Service exam in 1897 following an education at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College, Oxford. Charles travelled to the Madras Presidency where he was employed as a settlement officer in Malabar, in which capacity he also supplied material for The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Then he took up the role of Deputy Secretary to the Indian government. By 1916 Innes had been elected Director of Industries and Controller of Munitions in Madras. After World War I, Innes was appointed Foodstuffs Commissioner with the Indian government. In 1920, as secretary in the Commerce Department, one of his additional responsibilities was to oversee the functioning of the railways. During the following year, Charles Alexander was made Head of the Commerce Department. Two highlights from the period of his term were: the partition of the general finance budget from the railways budget and the foundation of a policy known as 'discriminating protection', the latter of which granted India more self-determination in the area of fiscal policy.The establishment of a Tariff Board of inquiries, which was of massive assistance to the rapidly expanding steel and iron industries in India, was also a policy accredited to Innes. This in turn set up the system which subsequently provided major support in terms of both arming and bolstering the allied forces during World War II. Having been honoured with the position of Governor of Burma in 1927, he went on to serve as such until 1932. Ultimately Charles Alexander was chairman of the Mercantile Bank of India between 1938 and 1952, after initially joining the Bank's board in 1933.Among the most significant distinctions bestowed upon Innes throughout his life were; Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (1919 Birthday Honours) for services during the war; Companion of the Order of the Star of India (1921 Birthday Honours); and Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (1924 New Year Honours).In 1900 Sir Charles, who was actually descended from the Inneses of Drainie, married Agatha Rosalie, who was the daughter of Colonel Kenlie Stevenson of the Indian Army. Together they had four sons and one daughter. Their daughter Rosalie married Thomas Wynford Rees, the latter being Charles Alexander's private secretary during Innes's tenure as Governor of Burma. During much of his career Rees served as a highly decorated officer in the British Indian Army but eventually progressed to attain the rank of Major General.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alexander_InnesThe item within this lot containing ivory has been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (Section 10). Ref AQ698FPU.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TP Y ФTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory and cannot be imported into the USA or any country within the EU.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

British Isles. Hollar (Wenceslaus), Untitled map of the British Isles, [1643 or later], uncoloured etched map surrounded by sixteen vignettes with descriptive verse (if somewhat cryptic) below the image,QTY: (1)NOTE:Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 529. A scarce allegorical map which offers a satirical political commentary on the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil War.

Fitz John Porter ALS dated 13TH June 1889 interesting content taken from the Kirby collection. Fitz John Porter (August 31, 1822 - May 21, 1901) (sometimes written Fitzjohn Porter or Fitz-John Porter) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War. He is most known for his performance at the Second Battle of Bull Run and his subsequent court martial. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

45 B.C. A biconical facetted lentoid-section sling lead shot (glans) specimen with inscription '[C] A [ES]' referencing Julius Caesar. Cf. D'Amato, R. and Sumner, G., Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier: From Marius to Commodus, 112 BC-AD 192, London, 2009, fig.32, p.45, for similar glandes from Zaragoza Museum, the one with the name of Pompey inscribed coming from Munda battlefield too; Schinco, G., Small, A.M., 'A previously unknown siege of Botromagno/Silvium: the evidence of slingshots from Gravina in Puglia (Provincia di Bari, Puglia)' in Papers of the British School at Rome, 2019, pp.1-52, figs.31,37. 66.91 grams, 36 mm (1 3/8 in.). Found near to an important village site, close to Seville, 1960-1970. From an old Spanish collection. Swiss private collection. Accompanied by a copy of the Spanish export licence. Accompanied by an academic paper by military specialist Dr Raffaele D'Amato, dated 4th May 2022 and titled Roman Res Publica - Lead Slingshots (glandes) of Caesarian Age - 45 B.C circa. The shot (type IIb of the Völling classification) is marked with the abbreviated name of Julius Caesar; it was used in quantity at the Battle of Monda (or Munda) against the last fellows of Pompey, the leaders of the Optimates, on the 17th March 45 BC. Similar shots were used in the civil war among Pompey and Caesar, and in all Caesar's wars. The funditores of Caesar's age were part of the light infantry. Caesar wrote of his Balearic slingers during the conquest of Gaul. They typically wore a short tunic, with leather or rope sandals, and a sort of overcoat. They used satchels to carry very deadly lead-like stones or bullets. The men employed several slings: one was tied around the head for quick deployment should the other break during the battle.

A 17TH CENTURY CIVIL WAR CROMWELLIAN BACK PLATE with original leather straps. 40cm high 35cm wide

Collection of Hand Painted Plastic 25mm American Civil War Federal Cavalry

Collection of Hand Painted Plastic 25mm American Civil War Confederate Soldiers

A quantity of US Grand Army of the Republic Civil War veterans' medals

A quantity of US Grand Army of the Republic Civil War veterans' medals, rank bar suspender slides, a lapel badge and 33rd National Encampment souvenir badge

A US Civil War Campaign Medal - Navy and Marine Corps

Two Stone Mountain US Civil War Confederate Memorial bronze medallions, 37 mm

Five Sons of Veterans of the US Civil War medals

A group of Second World War Home front publications including Civil Defence information leaflets and a child evacuee application form

English Civil War Period Lobster Tail Helmet or ‘Dutch Pot’ c.1640-1650, one piece skull embossed with 6 radial ribs surmounted by an iron suspension ring, 4 lame articulated neck guard with turned over edge, fixed peak with turned over edge deeply struck with armourer’s mark and the letter I, sliding adjustable nasal bar with swollen finial secured by thumb screw and staple, ear flaps pierced for hearing (leather suspension straps replaced), good age patina overall. 

(Felbrigg Hall), Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, 6 titles, all 1st editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'Felbrigg, The Story of a House', 1962, illustrations from photos, ownership signature of Catherine Gurney August 1963 to FFEP; 'Norfolk Portraits', 1944, Catherine Gurney bookplate FFEP; 'A Norfolk Gallery', 1958; 'Norfolk Assembly', 1957; 'Forty Norfolk Essays', 1961; 'Norfolk in the Civil War', 1969. From the collection of Father Peter Harris (6)

An unusual collection of eight Spanish Civil War figurines, 1930s, in painted terracotta, each stamped to base 'J. Rado e Huo, Escultor, Gracia, 6 Granada', each in various military uniforms, three with silk flags including a Falangist flag, the bases variously inscribed 'Viva Franco', 'Viva Espana', 'Un Estado' and 'Una Patria', approx. 5¼in. (13.25cm.) high, some losses to weapons and small chips to hands and one hat, one figure has several cracks to legs and glued repair to head, another with glued arm. (8)

EDUARDO CHICHARRO BRIONES (Madrid, 1905 - 1964)."Manola".Oil on panel.Signed in the right margin.Measurements: 37 x 27 cm; 52 x 43 cm (frame).Painter and poet, one of the main theoreticians of Postism together with Carlos Edmundo de Ory and Silvano Sernesi, he was the son of Eduardo Chicharro y Agüera, who had been the chamber painter of King Alfonso XIII. In 1912 his father was appointed director of the Spanish Academy in Rome and the family moved to the Italian capital, where they remained until 1925. Eduardo Chicharro Briones returned to Spain to do his military service, and in 1928 he returned to Rome to enjoy a scholarship from the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts, remaining in the Italian capital until 1935. During these years he came into contact with the surrealist painter Gregorio Prieto, with whom he carried out a series of artistic experiments that anticipated Postism, and with César González Ruano. He then made a series of trips around Europe and returned to Spain for good in 1943, when he was appointed professor of artistic drawing at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid, as well as professor of drawing pedagogy at the San Fernando Royal Academy. Around this time he began to frequent the intellectual gatherings in cafés, especially the Café Pombo. In 1944, together with Ory and Sernesi, he created Postism, an aesthetic movement that was intended to be an alternative to the uprooted poetry of the time, and which sought to synthesise all the avant-garde movements developed before the Civil War. His pictorial work is currently held in various collections, mainly private collections.

PERE JOU FRANCISCO (Barcelona 1891 - Sitges, 1964)."Prou", 1939.Bronze sculpture on marble base.Signed on the base.The base has slight cracks in the corners.Measurements: 39 x 12 x 13,5 cm. Pere Jou was a well-known Catalan sculptor, intimately related to the town of Sitges where he left an important sample of his work. From a young age he combined his work as a sculptor with that of a carpenter and cabinetmaker. He studied at the Ateneo Obrero de Gracia, where he was a disciple of Pablo Gargallo, who recognised his talent and reinforced it by giving him the opportunity to participate in the impressive sculptural work at the Hospital de Sant Pau. At the age of twenty-five, the painter Miquel Utrillo chose him as the sculptor for the decoration of the Maricel Palace that the millionaire Charles Deering was building in Sitges. Jou created more than fifty capitals, lintels and other decorative elements, all richly carved with images taken from famous fables, as well as contemporary events and characters whose faces were inspired by his work colleagues or local people. In 1931 he held his first individual exhibition at the Galeries Laietanes in Barcelona. After the Civil War he devoted himself mainly to the restoration of religious imagery damaged during the conflict and later devoted himself to teaching at the Massana School in Barcelona. His most famous works are the alabaster columns that flank the throne of the Virgin of Montserrat.

NO RESERVE Austrian Civil Code.- Sveobshtii Gradjanskii Zakonik Za Sve Niematske Nasledne Zemle Austriiske Monarkhie, first Serbian edition, 3 parts in 1, contemporary ink ownership name to front free endpaper, occasional very light foxing or staining, late 19th century cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in German, Vienna, Pismeny ts. k. Dvorne i Drzhavne Pechatne [Court and State Printers], 1849.⁂ Rare first, and according to the catalogue of the Austrian National Library, only edition in Serbian of the codified Austrian Civil Law which was published first in 1811 (reprinted up to 1909 with that date). In the year 1849, after the defeat of the revolution, which saw Croats and Serbs (who lived on both sides of the Austro-Turkish border) uniting and rising up against their Hungarian and Austrian masters, the Austrian code was extended to regulate the societies of Hungary, Serbia and Croatia, leading to the present translation. The code was largely the work of Karl Anton Freiherr von Martini and Franz von Zeiller, and draws heavily on the ideals of equality before the law to be found in the Napoleonic code. Heavily revised during the First World War, it remains the basis for Austrian civil law to this day. The Serbs, however, already had a civil code, the work of Jovan Hadzic in 1844, which remains largely in place, explaining the lack of further Serbian editions of the present code.

Second World War brass and enamel ARPS Civil Defence Instructors badge, together with ATS badge, H.M. Coastguard Coast Life Saving Corps badge and others.

A Britains Deetail No. 7470 12 piece Gatling gun trade box containing 10 various mixed examples, to include British Infantry and American Civil War

A Britains hollow cast lead soldiers American Civil War group to include 9 Union Infantry including slouch hat officer, bugler, standard bearer, together with 9 confederate infantry including slouch hat officer, 4 confederate gunners, 8 confederate cavalry, officer and Britains Picture Pack CSA Trooper at the Halt (30)