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Click here to subscribeA German bisque shoulder- head dolls’ house housekeeper, with blonde moulded hair in ringlets, blue painted eyes, stuffed body and bisque lower limbs - 6 1/4in (16cm) high; and an all-bisque baby with moulded blonde hair, blue eyes, jointed at shoulder and hips with painted and moulded shoes and red crochet dress - 3 3/4in (9.5cm) high
An unusual German bisque shoulder-head dolls’ house doll with moulded lace cap, with blue painted eyes, moulded blonde hair swept up and held in place by a square lace cap painted black, blue and white with moulded blue ribbon coming down the face and tied under the chin, cloth body, carved bone lower legs and blue and white silk dress - 7in (18cm) high (body probably replacement and later dressed)
A rare large Grodnerthal wooden doll, 1830s, with carved and painted features, brown eyes, black painted hair hanging in tendrils onto face, carved jointed wooden body with painted lower limbs, painted red shoes, underclothes, lawn dress sparsely printed with flower sprigs, leg of mutton sleeves, pink shawl, white cotton bonnet and straw bonnet covered in figured pink silk - 221?2in (57cm) high (paint missing on right eye and some loss of varnish, and one foot repaired)
‘Elisabeth’, a rare Jumeau long-face Triste Bébé No.14, with fixed blue eyes, light brown brows, closed mouth delicately painted with slight gap between, pieced ears, jointed papier-mâché body with fixed wrists and blue ink stamp, green velvet dress, underclothes, brown shoes and green velvet handbag, head impressed 14 and painter’s L - 29in (73.5cm) high (head badly smashed and crudely stuck together, a piece missing from left temple and modern blonde wig) - The Jumeau Triste head was sculpted by the French sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
A china shoulder-head dolls’ house doll with jointed wooden body, with black painted and moulded hair in a bun at the back, rosy cheeks, jointed wooden body with china lower limbs, the legs with painted red ribbon garters and later yellow silk dress - 3in (7.5cm) high (upper legs replaced); and a tiny peg wooden doll
A French small Fashionable doll, circa 1880, with poured bisque shoulder head, hand cut slender dark blue eyes, feathered brow, delicately painted lips with part outline, blonde mohair wig on cork pate, gusseted kid body, stitched fingers, original blue silk dress, matching blue heeled boots with brass buttons, underclothes, white hat and remains of shop label on boot - 12in (31cm) high (some kiln dust speckling to face, top of dress starting to perish and boot missing one sole)
A German bisque headed Russian Royal Bride and Groom, a Kestner 133 child doll with blue sleeping eyes, pierced ears, blonde mohair wig, jointed composition body, original elaborate Cossack costume with very tall black velvet hat, metallic brocade long sleeved coat with glass pearls, blue velvet tunic and brown leather boots - 123?4in (32.5cm) high; and his bride, marked 418 or 448 with blue sleeping eyes, pierced ears, brown mohair wig, jointed composition body, elaborate costume with kokoshnik headdress, gold brocade dress ad coarse linen and purple linen puffed sleeves - 13in (33cm) high
‘Grace’, an Armand Marseille 390 child doll, with blue lashed sleeping eyes, brown mohair wig, jointed composition body, period clothes including a pink dress, a burgundy velvet coat, a school uniform and underclothes - 25 1/2in (65cm) high (needs restringing) - Provenance - the childhood doll of Joyce Mariabella White, born 29th June 1910, her daughter Elizabeth was given Grace in 1945 and the school uniform is a copy of her 1950s uniform for ‘The Mount’ in Worthing
A German bisque shoulder- head dolls’ house doll with elaborate moulded hair, with blue painted eyes, unusual pierced ears, blonde painted moulded hair in elaborate style piled high on the head with blue band, stuffed body, bisque lower limbs and dark brown dress - 7 1/2in (19cm) high (lower limbs replaced, nose a little rough and probably later dressed)
A good Chad Valley girl doll, 1930s, with pressed felt face, painted features, brown eyes, red mohair wig stitched into waves, jointed velvet body, original blue floral print summer dress, blue felt hat and shoes, woven label on right foot, blue card swing tag and white cleaning instructions tag - 17in (43.5cm) high (slight fading and light foxing to limbs)
A Kestner? 133 small bisque headed doll, with blue sleeping eyes, blonde mohair wig on plaster pate. Composition straight legged body and white cotton dress - 6 1/2in (16.5cm) high; and an all-bisque toddler doll with blue painted eyes, blonde mohair wig, moulded shoes and socks - 5in (12.5cm) high
A Kely & Hahn Walkure child doll, in original box, with brown sleeping eyes, moulded and brow painted brows, pierced ears, brown mohair wig, jointed composition body, original factory floral printed cotton dress with lace trim, underclothes, socks and black oil-cloth shoes, in original box base with end label, impressed 5 Walkure Germany - 171?2in (44.5cm) high (missing box lid)
AN ART DECO DIAMOND AND SAPPHIRE DRESS CLIP, open millegrain set overall with graduated rose-cut and old-cut diamonds forming an arrowhead design and flanked on either side by a row calibre cut sapphires, all in unmarked white metal, the reverse with flower head and scroll engraving, 3cm long. See illustration
* Greece, Dress Miniatures: A Second World War Air Force Mounted Group of Nine, comprising Order of St George (2), with and without Swords, in gilt and enamels; Order of the Phoenix, badges (2), in gilt and enamels and in silver and enamels; Air Force Flying Cross, 1940; War Cross, 1940-41; Distinguished Conduct Medal 1940; War Medal; and 1941-45 Star, mounted for wearing, extremely fine (9)
*Dress Miniatures: Russia, a miniature sword in silver and silver-gilt with pre-1898 84 zolotniki silver mark, having ten pendant rings each carrying a dress miniature in silver, gilt and enamels, comprising: Order of St Vladimir, Military Division, Order of St Stanislaus, Military Division, GREAT BRITAIN, Order of the Bath, Military Division, Order of S Michael and St George, FRANCE, Légion d’Honneur,BELGIUM. Order of Leopold, GREECE, Order of the Redeemer, ROMANIA, Order of the Star Military Division, with swords in angles for Military Bravery, EGYPT, Order of the Nile, by Lattes, POLAND, Order of Virtuti Militari, very fine (lot)
Dress Miniatures: an impaired Group of Ten mounted on a gold chain: AUSTRIA, Order of the Crown, in silver-gilt, with gold centre, reverse centre lacking; FRANCE, Légion d’Honneur, in gold and enamels and AUSTRIA, Order of Franz Joseph, in gold and enamels, these both lacking centres; VATICAN, Order of Christ, in silver-gilt and enamels; BAVARIA, Order of St Michael, in gold and enamels, reverse centre lacking; SWEDEN, Order of Vasa, in silver-gilt and enamels; SPAIN, Order of Charles III, in gold and enamels, NORWAY, Order of Olav type 1, WÜRTTEMBERG, Order of Friedrich and BELGIUM, Order of Leopold, these four all lacking centres, otherwise generally fine or better
*Family Group: Lieutenant John Joshua Nunn, 90th Foot, Pair: Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, engraved in capitals (Ensign J.J. Nunn, 90th Regt); and Indian Mutiny 1857-58, no clasp (Lieut. J.J. Nunn 90th Lt. Inf.), with related dress miniature of the Crimea medal (engraved naming, as the full-sized); and a Second World War Trio attributed to Lieutenant John Joshua Nunn, Irish Guards, comprising 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, and War Medal with oak leaf for mention in despatches, good very fine or better (6). JOHN JOSHUA NUNN (90th Foot) was killed in action during the capture of the Alum Bagh, 24 September 1857. JOHN JOSHUA NUNN (Irish Guards) was killed by sniper fire near Medjez-el-Bab Tunisia, 30 April 1943, while volunteering to rescue some wounded colleagues. He is buried at the Massicault Cemetery and was posthumously mentioned in despatches (London Gazette: 23 September 1943).
*Dress Miniatures: Group of Thirteen as worn by Major-General Sir Patrick Hehir, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G., Indian Medical Service and Principal Medical Officer at the Siege of Kut, comprising Order of the Indian Empire, Order of the Bath Military Division, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of St John, these all in gold and enamels, India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp Burma 1885-7, India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Tirah 1897-98, Samana 1897, 1914, British War and Victory Medals, last with oak leaf, India General Service 1908, 1 clasp Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Durbar 1903, Durbar 1911, Silver Lifesaving Medal of the Order of St John, mounted for wearing, extremely fine (13). Major General Hehir’s full-sized medals were sold by Dix, Noonan & Webb, September 2006.
*Dress Miniatures: Group of Seven, Order of the Star of India, Order of the Indian Empire, both in silver-gilt and enamels, Royal Victorian Order, in silver and enamels, India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98, Tibet, 1 clasp Gyantse, British War and Victory medals, court mounted, extremely fine (7)
*The C.B., C.M.G. and Boer War Group awarded to Colonel R.J.S. Simpson, R.A.M.C., comprising: The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion’s neck badge, in silver-gilt and enamels; The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, Companion’s neck badge, in silver-gilt and enamels; Order of St John, Officer’s breast badge, in plain silver; Queen’s South Africa, 3 clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, engraved (Major R.J.S. Simpson. R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa, 2 clasps South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, engraved (Major R.J.S. Simpson. M.B., C.M.G., R.A.M.C.); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, good very fine to extremely fine (6). C.B.: London Gazette: 4 June 1917; C.M.G.: London Gazette: 27 September 1901; M.i.D.: London Gazette: 27 July, 1917: ‘For valuable services in connection with the War’. The lot is offered with the following original documents, photographs and other items: Commission as Surgeon in the Army Medical Department, 3 February 1883; United Grand Lodge of Freemasons, certificate on vellum, 1883; Three letters of congratulation and recommendation, 1890-91; Grant of Dignity of a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, dated 27 September 1901; Official Notice of Appointment to the Order of St Michael and St George, Downing Street, dated 20 November 1902; Grant of Dignity of a Companion of the Order of the Bath, dated 4 June 1917; Notice of Mention in Despatches (on 27 July 1917), printed date 1 July 1919; Three pairs of khaki, uniform and dress uniform epaulettes, with Order of the Bath buttons and crowns, a gilt belt buckle and cap badge; A reprint of Simpson’s Modern Hygrometry (from the R.A.M.C. Journal, May 1923); Several obituary notes, including one in a copy of the University of Edinburgh Journal, Summer 1932. ROBERT JOHN SHAW SIMPSON, M.B., C.B., C.M.G. joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1883 and was in India before becoming Assistant Surgeon at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1891-96. From 1896-99 he served at Pietermaritzburg and on the outbreak of the Boer War organised the hospital at Wynberg, later becoming Secretary to the Principal Medical Officer. According to his obituaries he was Mentioned in Despatches for the Boer War as well as being appointed C.M.G. (in 1901). Following retirement in 1913 he rejoined on the outbreak of the Great War to take command of the Royal Herbert Hospital and was rewarded with the C.B. He died in November 1931 at the age of 73. See also following lot.
*Dress Miniatures: A cased group of five as worn by Colonel R.J.S. Simpson, comprising Order of the Bath (Military), in gold and enamels, Order of St Michael and St George, in gold and enamels, Order of St John, in silver, Queen’s South Africa, 3 clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, King’s South Africa, 2 clasps South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, and the ribbon only for 1911 Coronation (i.e. the miniature missing), of high quality manufacture, extremely fine (5)
*The Sicily Military Cross Group awarded to Captain Stanley Charles ‘Bombs’ Panter, Parachute Regiment, who was later captured at Arnhem and recommended for a Bar to his M.C., Nine: Military Cross, dated 1943, privately-engraved (Capt. S.C. Panter Parachute Regt.), together with an unconfirmed and undated bar for second award; 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with 1st Army clasp, Italy Star, France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953, privately engraved (Major S.C. Panter Royal Fusiliers); Territorial Efficiency Decoration, reverse dated 1955; with Netherlands, Battle of Arnhem bronze honorary medal, 59.5mm, engraved (Capt. S.C. Panter Para. Regt.), this in Gerritsen van Kempen card box of issue; good very fine or better, offered with much original documentation, related items and memorabilia (see below) (lot). M.C.: London Gazette: 23 December 1943: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and initiative in action. On the 14th of July 1943. The officer was in company with a part of the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment which had been dropped on the Catania Plain in Sicily, to secure the high ground South of the River Simeto. On two occasions this officer led small parties to deal with enemy machine-gun positions that were menacing the Battalion’s flank, on each occasion he succeeded in capturing the machine guns and killing or capturing the crews. Later this officer single-handed captured an enemy howitzer together with ammunition, and himself organised a gun crew from the men of the battalion and directed the fire from this weapon on to the enemy. Throughout the action he displayed great courage under heavy fire and complete contempt for danger.’ Territorial Efficiency Decoration: London Gazette: 25 February 1955. The lot is offered with the following: Two ‘dog tags’ (octagonal and circular), both named SC PANTER 165617 LIEUT CE; gun-layer’s badges (2), in gold braid and khaki; anti-tank and crown (2) badges in khaki; a trident badge; riband bar representing MC (with bar) and Panter’s first three Stars; and two (unmatched) Captain’s dress ‘stripes’; A Medjez El Bab skull-and-crossbones pennant, 1942;Sequence of photographs of the first parachute drop (by Panter) made from an American Dakota using a British parachute; Original telegrams and letters, including telegram to Fusilier Panter dated 25 August 1939 “Join 9 RF.” and various correspondence advising Mrs Panter that her husband was missing, 25 Sept. 1944 and later; Nine original personal greetings telegrams, circa 1937-41;Ticket for Buckingham Palace Investiture, 18 April 1944; Two original PoW Camp identity documents, both with photographs (one illustrated); Panter’s 112-page ‘Wartime Log’ (approx.. 100 pages filled), prepared during his time as a Prisoner-of-War and including: his interesting detailed personal account of Operation “Market” [sic], capture at Arnhem, interrogation, escape during a bombardment and subsequent recapture; “S” Company, 2nd Parachute Regimental roll and Memorial; numerous watercolours, sketches and drawings by Panter and some others, including views of Arnhem and Oflag 79; and cuttings, poems, other contributions, tickets, prison camp stamps, personal records, etc.; Memorabilia from Arnhem Commemoration and Memorial, September 1947;A 10th Bn. (T.A.) Parachute Regt. ‘Visitors Falling Plate’ runner-up medal, 1960, 38mm; International Police Association membership card with photograph, 1961; Newspaper cuttings, two pencil portraits and two portrait photographs, and photocopied research; A German photograph, taken after Panter’s capture and subsequently published in Germany, of his kit and equipment (clearly showing his name, with related 1996 correspondence). STANLEY CHARLES “BOMBS” PANTER, born in Warwickshire on 5 September 1909, joined the 9th (2nd City of London) Royal Fusiliers as a private soldier just before the outbreak of War in August, 1939, having previously been an active member of the Territorial unit based in Balham High Road, Tooting, South London. He fought in France and Belgium, was evacuated and granted an emergency commission as 2nd Lieutenant on 28 December 1940. In late 1941 Panter volunteered for the 1st Parachute Brigade shortly after its formation, and by July 1942 he was commanding an experimental airborne platoon nicknamed “Panter’s Pirates” before a formal transfer to the Parachute Regiment is recorded as having taken place on 1 August. He served in Tunisia, including Medjez El Bab, and as part of Operation Torch led a successful operational jump with parachute mortars over Tunis in December, 1942 (when he seems to have gained the sobriquet ‘Bombs’ for the first time). He was in Italy from September 1943 to 1 May 1944 before dropping with the A Company in Sicily (Operation Husky), and was awarded an immediate M.C. for Catania Plain. Panter landed near Arnhem on the afternoon of Sunday 17 September 1944 as T/Capt., Officer Commanding Support Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion and was closely involved in the capture and defence of the Arnhem Road Bridge under Frost, based at “Company HQ” to the north of the bridge where they held out until capture by the Germans on Thursday 21st. As Panter was wounded he was sent to a makeshift hospital but succeeded in obtaining boots and a revolver, and walked out of the building during Allied shellfire on the night of the 21st. Unluckily he did not get far, walking straight into a German patrol beside the river, and he was recaptured. Like many Arnhem prisoners he was sent initially to Stalag XIIA at Limburg before transfer to Oflag 79 (Brunswick), via Oflag XIIB; Oflag 79 was as it happened the former home of a German parachute regiment and was to be liberated by the U.S. Ninth Army on 12 April 1945. After the war Panter served with the Territorial Army until 1959, receiving the Territorial Efficiency Decoration in 1955, and he also joined the City of London Special Constabulary. He evidently wore an unofficial bar to his M.C. for Arnhem but it should be reiterated that although he was recommended for this by his unit it was not confirmed at Divisional - or, perhaps, ‘suits’ - level. Stan Panter died 0n 20 April, 1968.
A World War Two group of six medals, awarded to Surgeon Lieutenant D. D. Craig RN, including 1939-45 star, Atlantic star, Africa star, Italy star and a Navy general service medal with Palestine clasp 1936-39 and a set of corresponding dress miniatures together with two other WWII defence and 1939-45 medals
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A German Ordnungspolizei-type dress bayonet, chromed steel Solingen blade, metal hilt with crossguard stamped L. Sch III, 293, upcurved quillon cast with oak leaves, antler piece grip set with police eagle badge, eagle head pommel with feather detail, 44cm long overall; a Hitler Youth dagger, the blade stamped RMZ M7/118, coldpainted scabbard, 25.5cm long (2)
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