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A First War Military Cross with 1914/15 star trio of Medals awarded to Capt. I. B. Greig 8th/DCLI, the Military Cross engraved "I. B. Greig 8th DCLI January 29 1918", the victory medal with mentioned in dispatches emblem "For Conspicuous Gallantry and Devotion to Duty. When commanding a raid on the enemies outpost line he pushed his attack with such dash and determination that he gained all his objectives, inflicted a large amount of damage on the hostile works, and having dealt effectively with a counter-attack, was able to effect his withdrawal under heavy shell fire with a minimum loss. His personal reconnaissance prior to the raid of the enemies outpost lines contributed to its success"
Four North African and Indian brass trays - the largest in copper, Egyptian, first half 20th century, chased with a chariot scene within a border of classic Egyptian iconography, 63cm diameter; the other three in brass, two of circular form, the other scalloped, with chased decoration, 45.5cm to 60cm diameter; together with a painted turned wooden folding tiffin table stand with six supports. (5)
A 14ct yellow gold, enamel, ruby and diamond ceremonial sword brooch - first half 20th century, unmarked, tests as 14ct, the sword set with square cut rubies and single cut diamonds, an enamel Cross of St George to the guard, 5.7cm long, in a 'Hicklenton & Phillips, Goldsmiths, 90 Cheapside EC2' morocco case.
Walton (Izaak); Rackham (Arthur(, Illus.: The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man's Recreation - first edition (thus), pub. London: George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1931, green and black printed title, pictorial endpapers, 12 colour plates with tipped-in tissue guards, orig. blue-green pictorial cloth gilt with dust jacket, 4to.
A Ravenscroft & Willis barrister's gown - 1950s, the nametape handwritten in ink 'Rose Heilbron QC' by the celebrated lawyer. Condition - good. (Dame Rose Heilbron DBE (1914-2005) was, after Helena Normanton KC, the second woman to take silk. She was at the age of 34 the youngest to do so since Thomas Erskine in 1783. She was the first woman to lead the defence in a murder trial, to sit at the Old Bailey and to be appointed a Recorder. In 1974 she became the United Kingdom's second female High Court judge (after Elizabeth Lane, who had been appointed in 1965).
Rackham (Arthur) illus.: The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby Esqre - pub. London: J.M. Dent, 1907, first edition, 24 mounted colour plates with tipped-in lettered paper guards, also tinted illustrations and black and white drawings to text, orig. pictorial green cloth gilt, decorated endpapers, 4to.
Rackham (Arthur), illus; Phillpotts (Eden): A Dish of Apples - first ed., c.1910, pub. London & NY, Hodder & Stoughton, pictorial end papers, three colour plates with tipped-in tissue guards, black & white illus. throughout, orig. grey pictorial cloth, 8vo; together with Hawthorne's Wonder Book, illus. Rackham (Arthur), pub. London & NY, Hodder & Stoughton, red pictorial cloth gilt, 4to, water damage to top edge). (2)
A large Chinese porcelain famille rose verte baluster vase - first half 20th century, bearing a six character Kangxi mark, decorated with vases and a wine ewer, on a yellow, 'crocodile skin' style ground decorated with flowers and auspicious objects, above a lappet border to the foot and rim, 41cm high.* Condition: In good condition, with no faults. No chips, cracks, hairlines or restoration.
A pair of large Japanese porcelain baluster shaped vases - first half 20th century, painted with a phoenix, its tail issuing polychrome leaves and diaper reserves on a blue ground, the domed foot with lappet and stylised beast decoration and a similar band of stylised beasts to the neck, the rim with a band of ruyi motifs, iron red three character mark painted to base, 43.5cm high.* One vase in good condition with no faults. The second vase with a small chip to the rim, and a flake to the enamel to one of the diaper reserves. The inside of the neck has some flaking to the white surface, which appears to have been painted over the underlying glaze, but there is no damage evident to the neck of the vase, so it doesn't appear to be restoration.
Peter Wheeler (20th century): Whitefriars interest - an engraved glass panel, created by the young artist Peter Wheeler at Kingston College in the 1960s, for a national competition for an installation in the new Coventry Cathedral, wheel engraved with a female jester riding a hobby horse, 83 x 34.75cm, within a teak frame, in good condition with no damage. * Peter Wheeler worked at Whitefrairs after graduation, as Geoffrey Baxter's assistant. He introduced the first Studio range of low value, high cost glass at Whitefriars in 1969, under Baxter's supervision.
Two 19th century silver mustard pots - the first early Victorian, by Edward, Edward Jr., John and William Barnard, London 1839, drum form with pierced foliate scroll decoration, anthemion thumbpiece and joined scroll handle, 6.7cm high; the other George III, John Emes, London 1805, of barrel form with reeded borders and angular scroll handle, both with blue glass liners, silver weight 230g.

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