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A group of four First World War medals, comprising; the 1914-15 Star to 7715 L.Cpl H.G.Lang. Devon: R., the 1914-18 British War medal and the 1914-19 Victory medal to 7715 Sgt.H.G.Lang. Devon.R. and the French Medaille Militaire named 7715 Sergt H.G.Lang, mounted on a bar as worn, the four corresponding dress miniature medals, mounted on a bar as worn, a cap badge detailed The Welsh, a First World War period discharge badge numbered 448012 and three base metal commemorative medals. Illustrated.
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ANCIENT COINS, Roman Coinage, Diocletian, Argenteus 3.24g, Carthage, DIOCLETI-ANVS AVG, laureate bust right, rev F ADVE-NT AVGG NN, Africa standing facing, head left, in long drapery with elephant-skin head-dress, holding standard and tusk, lion with captured bull at her feet to left, P in exergue, 12h (RIC 13a). Very fine/about very fine and rare.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France,Marie de’ Medici (1573-1642), uniface cast Bronze Portrait Medal, 1601, by Guillaume Dupre and signed with monogrammed initials, bust left wearing embroidered dress and wide and deep lace ruff, MARIA DE MEDICIS REG FRANC, 44mm (BMC [Jones] 13, reverse; Maz 631, also uniface). Very fine with pleasant patination, pierced at top (outside of beaded border), very rare. The piece is recorded as the reverse of a portrait medal of Henri IV (dated 1602), of which there is a uniface example in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France,Georges Tonnellier (1858-1937), sculptor, medallist and engraver of cameos, a pair of Hardstone Cameos, carved in sardonyx and believed to be Tonnellier and his wife, she to right, her hair tied back, her dress fixed with brooch, signed behind, G+TONNELLIER+1894, 47mm; he to left in jacket and small bow-tie, 46mm (cf BDM VI, 112). Handsome ‘fin de siècle’ pieces, painstakingly executed, extremely fine. Tonnellier was a student of Charles Gauthier and Aimé Millet, and throughout his career received a number of medals for works exhibited in the Salon. A number of his cameos are in the Musée Galliera and a memorial statuette for the sinking of the Titanic (1912) is in the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore.
![COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Sweden, Christina (1626-1689, Queen 1632-1654), Accession, cast Silver Medal [1632], bust three-quarte](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1806/2712033/1587-11-1806_468x382.jpg)
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Two ivory portrait medallions, English, circa 1825 both in profile to sinister, one carved with Sir Walter Scott after Chantrey, the other an officer in dress uniform, mounted on black glass in original turned oval wood frames height of larger 7.7cm, 3in (2) Provenance Christie's London, 2 May 1995, lot 9 Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781-1841) produced two busts of Scott; that which served as the model for the present lot is in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
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A Meissen figure of female hurdy gurdy player circa 1745 modelled by J.J. Kandler, and possibly J.F. Eberlein, seated on a rocky mound, wearing a white dress with green ribbons and edged with a band of indianische Blumen, and a yellow apron, the base applied with leaves and flowers crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear of base 13.5cm., 5.25in. small chip to edge of left sleeve and two two leaves Kandler's Taxa of 1740-48 includes "1 sizend Tyroler Madgen auf der Leyer spielend..." [1 seated Tyrolean girl playing the hurdy-gurdy]; quoted by Rainer Ruckert, Meissener Porzellan, no.934. Another example is in the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, published by Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked, no.89, where the author notes that Eberlein may have reworked the earlier model by Kandler.
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a rare Great War Royal Naval Division M.C., M.M. group of six to Sub. Lieut. R.H. Brewer, R.N.V.R., comprising: Military Cross, Geo. V (unnamed as issued); Military Medal, Geo. V (A.P.O., Hood Bn., R.N.V.R.); 1914-15 Star (L.S., R.N.V.R.); British War & Victory Medals (S. Lt., R.N.V.R.); Mercantile Marine Medal (erased), mounted loose style for wearing (in 2 groups), generally extremely fine; together with a mounted group of related dress miniatures, the official case for the M.C. and two named Masonic medals (15) M.C. London Gazette: 11 January 1919. He displayed conspicuous gallantry and initiative when part of the line was held up. He crept forward and bombed and captured a machine-gun post that was impeding our advance, which was then able to proceed. m.M. London Gazette: 17 April 1917. born in 1883 and a native of Nottingham, Robert Harold Brewer was employed as a Ship’s Steward in the Merchant Navy before the Great War and did not join up until 7th August 1915, thereby confirming the award of the Mercantile Marine Medal; the reason for the erasure of the naming on Brewer’s medal remains an enigma however and may simply be the result of loss of the original. Rated Able Seaman upon joining the R.N.V.R., he was made L.S. in September 1915 and briefly served as an Acting Petty Officer in February 1917. Commissioned Sub. Lt. in February 1918, he was wounded at least once in action and ended his war service with a brief commission in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
![four to Major [Sir] W.E. Crum, Calcutta Light Horse, Indian Army: Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.), Civil Division, Offi](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10011/2712024/515-113-10011_468x382.jpg)
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four to Major [Sir] W.E. Crum, Calcutta Light Horse, Indian Army: Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.), Civil Division, Officer’s breast badge, type 1; British War Medal; Delhi Durbar, 1911 (unnamed); Volunteer Force Long Service, Geo. V (Major, Cal. Lt. Horse), officially engraved, mounted for wearing, extremely fine; together with a mounted group of 4 dress miniatures, two riband bars and a Calcutta L.H. badge (11) Major Sir Walter Erskine Crum, Kt. Batchelor, O.B.E. (1874-1923). Served as a Major in the Calcutta Light Horse (1913-20) and was both President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce as well as a Member of the Indian Imperial Legislative Council between 1919 and 1920 (O.B.E., 1918; knighted 1920).
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four to Major-General V.J. Dawson, C.V.O., Coldstream Guards: Coronations, 1902 & 1911, both silver (unnamed); Egypt & Soudan, 1882, rev. undated, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (Capt., Coldm. Gds.); Khedive’s bronze star for 1884-6, mounted for wearing, all extremely fine and housed in an old Hancocks case; together with a mounted group of 5 dress miniatures including the C.V.O., also cased (9) General Vesey John Dawson, C.V.O. (1853-1930) entered the Coldstream Guards in 1871 and received successive promotions until retiring with the rank of Major-General in 1914. Served in the Soudan with the Guards Camel Regt. and was present at Abu Klea and El Gubat, and also at the reconnaissance of Metammeh (medal and 2 clasps). Thereafter he was O.C. of the Irish Guards, 1900-07, and also commanded both the 2nd London Division (T.F.) and the 15th Brigade, Belfast, 1906-08. He received his C.V.O. in 1902, probably for Coronation duties, but this is no longer present with the group.
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the impressive group of orders and medals awarded to Brigadier-General Sir Douglas Dawson, Royal Household, late Coldstream Guards, comprising: Royal Victorian Order (G.C.V.O.), Knight Grand Cross set of insignia, comprising sash badge and breast star (both officially numbered 351); Order of the Bath (K.C.B.), Civil Division, Knight Commander’s set, hallmarked 1922-3; Order of the Bath (C.B.), Military Division, Companion’s neck badge, all in fitted cases of issue with appropriate ribbons; Order of St. Michael & St. George (C.M.G.), Companion’s breast badge, in gold and enamel, converted for neck wear; Egypt & Soudan, 1882, rev. dated, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (Lieut., 2/Cdm. Gds.); Jubilee, 1887, with bar 1897; Coronations, 1902 & 1911, both silver; France, Legion dHonneur, Grand Officer’s badge, in gold and enamel, with riband rosette; Turkey, Order of the Medjidjie, 5th (?) class badge; Khedive’s bronze star for 1882, these last seven mounted court-style and contained in a Hunt & Roskell case; together with Order of the Garter, Secretary’s badge, by Garrard, in silver-gilt and enamel; the State Chamberlain’s Key, GVR, in silver-gilt, with riband for wearing, both in fitted cases of issue; and a Grant of Arms to the recipient dated 1915, with seal, in GVR tooled leather box of issue, all items extremely fine, the Garter Secretary’s badge extremely rare and the ceremonial key unique (lot) Sold with this lot is a mss. note by Sir Douglas Dawson explaining that he was the first and only State Chamberlain, thereby making his ceremonial key unique: key worn by me in Household dress as State Chamberlain 1920-25. The appt was created in 1920 and abolished when I retired. The Lord Chamberlain being by then a permanent official, the post was no longer necessary. i was thus the first and last State Chamberlain
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A collection of jewellery, to include a rounded rectangular hardstone cameo brooch; an oval banded agate brooch (lacking pin); a pair of turquoise cabochon set pendant earrings; a cased fob watch suspended from a 9ct gold bar; a cased set of six enamel and mother of pearl decorated dress buttons; a seed pearl set brooch; assorted earrings; paste set items and a gilt metal lady's belt (Qty)
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A 9ct gold gentleman's dress ring, collet set with a rectangular granite panel, flanked to either shoulder by a single cut diamond; a 9ct gold signet ring, with engraved initials in script; a 9ct gold mounted signet ring set with an oval onyx panel; an illusion set diamond single stone ring; together with two 9ct gold wedding bands (6)
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