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Lot 412
Cigarette cards, Will's, a collection of 26 sets, all in individual c/m albums, various subjects inc. Allied Army Leaders, Safety First, Portraits of European Royalty (1-50 & 51-100), Physical Culture, Cinema Stars 1st & 2nd Series, Air Raid Precautions, First Aid, Aviation etc (mostly gd/vg)
Lot 93
Football, Reading FC, a good collection of special issue newspapers, 1970's onwards, mostly Reading Evening Post & Reading Chronicle Supplements including a full set of 'The Premier Post' covering Reading's first season in the Premier League, plus promotion issues, Simod Cup & other events (mostly vg) (1 large box)
Lot 49B
Stamps: Royal Commonwealth Society, collection of Commonwealth Silver Jubilee FDC’s, in an album (45 covers). Royal Wedding First Day Covers – Charles & Diana 1981, The Sumner Collection in an album (105covers). Together with other loose stamps & stamps in albums, miniature sheets, F.D.C.’s etc.
Lot 91
France 1939 Air cover for first flight France – Poland bearing block of 4 55c plus 5c stamps cds Paris with box cachet in red dated 1 June 1939 advertising flights to Finland & Poland, h/s return to sender (addressee not found), arrival stamps Warsaw on reverse dated 2 June ’39. A doomed postal service! Fresh.
Lot 71
AFTER CHARLES WYSOCKI 'Another Year at Sea', print in colours, pencil signed and numbered 737/2500, 71 x 28 cm; and Paul Bisson, 'Houghton Mill' and 'High Ham Mill', a pair, etchings in colour, pencil signed and numbered 28/350, 24 x 32 cm. (3). The first two items in the lot also with Certificates of Authenticity.
Lot 11
The Malayan Emergency M.M. group to Lieutenant (QGO) Dilman Rai, 1st Battalion 7th Gurkha Rifles: Military Medal, Elizabeth II, 1918-62, (21135681 A/L/CPL. DILMAN RAI. 7. G. R.); War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-632, clasp, Malaya, (RFN.); General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Borneo, Malay Peninsula, (LT. MM. 1/7 G.R.); Regular Army Long Service and Good Conduct, Elizabeth II, (LT. (QGO) M.M.), court mounted. Nearly extremely fine. M.M.: London Gazette 30/10/53 The recommendation submitted by Lieutenant Colonel J.D.F. Curling O.B.E. (13/05/53) states: During the past year this NCO has been constantly out on jungle operations. Whenever Terrorists have been encountered he has always been the first to close with them and has personally killed four and wounded a number of others. On 27th October 1952 this NCO, with four riflemen of his section, was in an ambush position in the LABU area of NEGRI SEMBILAN, when an armed terrorist appeared. Knowing the importance of capturing a Terrorist alive, he permitted the Terrorist to approach right up to him, and then exposed himself in order to attempt the capture The Terrorist however managed to draw a grenade and had to be shot before he could throw it. The calm action of this NCO in deliberately exposing himself at point blank range in order to achieve a capture was a fine example of cool, calculated courage. On 13th January, 1953, this NCO was on patrol in the SEREMBAN District of NEGRI SEMBILAN with two men of his section when two Communist Terrorists were encountered at a range of one hundred yards. The Terrorists opened fire and the NCO immediately charged them and killed one. Seeing the second Terrorist escaping he at once gave chase and and after a running fight over three hundred yards succeeded in killing the second. One Rifle, one Shot gun, ammunition, rations and important documents were recovered. The success of this operation was entirely due to this NCO's dash and personal courage in the direct face of enemy fire. The conduct of L/Cpl DILMAN RAI has at all times been of the highest order, and his courage and offensive spirit have been a magnificent example and inspiration to the men of his section and platoon.
Lot 225
Three late 19th/early 20th Century hunting swords, brass hilts with scallop shell guards, hoof terminal quillons, staghorn grips each set with three acorns, brass mounted scabbards; the first with slender 19 in. blade retaining traces of etched decoration, long hook type frog stud; the second with broad etched blade 16 in., steel scabbard, acorn frog stud; the third with slender blade 19.25 in., copper acorns to the grip, plain frog stud. [3]
Lot 29
A Glorious 1st of June Naval General Service Medal to Landsman Michael Kinsale, H.M.S. Valiant, two clasps, 1 June 1794, 23rd June 1795 (MICHL KINSALE.). Good very fine or better. At the seminal action of June 1st 1794, Admiral Lord Howe's fleet essayed a departure from the Naval doctrine of the day, by turning toward the enemy line and engaging at close quarters. Although Howe's orders were imperfectly executed by his captains, the British inflicted a convincing tactical defeat on the French. The 74-gun HMS Valiant was built at Chatham and launched in 1758. With a main armament of 30-24pdrs., she was -like all the other '74's' - a mainstay of the fleet throughout the second half of the 18th century. Her long service life involved several major refits, the last of which was completed in March 1794, just in time for her to see action at the Glorious First of June, the first fleet action of the French Revolutionary War. Acquitting herself well under Captain Thomas Pringle, she participated in the next major action against the French, at the Isle de Groix, on 23rd June 1795, before being sent to the West Indies the following year. After two lively encounters there, both of which resulted in enemy vessels captured or destroyed, she came home in 1799 and was laid up that autumn for use as a lazarette. Surviving another quarter-century, she was finally broken up in 1826 after a career spanning almost seventy years.
Lot 300
An album of Great War era cuttings, containing much material relating to Lieutenant Geoffrey Hamilton Leigh of the 13th (First Reserve) Princes Louise's Kensington Battalion (The London Regiment), including: telegrams from this man as he was about to be posted to the Continent (3rd November 1914), cuttings from the Kensington Times describing the progress of the war and conditions at the front, a further Telegram informing Mrs Leigh of her son being wounded (at the Battle of Aubers Ridge, May 9th 1915), further correspondence relating to a second wounding, and latterly to his return home in 1916, concluding with a cutting from the Times announcing his marriage in January 1920. Geoffrey Hamilton Leigh: Eton 1899-1909, 2nd Lt. 05/09/14, Lt., Capt. 01/06/16 (13th Co of London Regt); Temp. Major 15th Worcs. Reg 03/01/17; O.B.E. 03/06/19.
Lot 169
George II, Shillings (2), 1745, Lima, one nearly very fine, the other near fine ; Half Crown, 1816, fine, reverse better; Half Farthing, 1844, extremely fine; Pennies (2), 1861 (Obv. 6 Rev. G), 1862, first good fine, second near fine; Threepence, 1946, nearly very fine; Sweden, Krona, 1936, very fine. [8] (S 3703; 3788; 3951; 3954; 4112)
Lot 4
Two attributed to Major Henry Godley 28th Regiment of Foot: Turkey: Order of the Medjideih, Knight's Badge; Turkish Crimea Medal, Sardinian issue, contemporary tailor's copy by 'J.H', swiveling scroll suspension, both very fine; together with a pistol ball couched in uniform cloth and enclosed in a white metal souvenir case inscribed 'CEMETERY, SEVASTOPOL * 18TH JUNE 1855 *. Provenance: by descent through the family. The recipient is recorded as having been severely wounded on the 18th June 1855, on which day the British made their first unsuccessful assault on the Redan battery. The only part of the British force that was not repulsed was the 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Division under Major General William Eyre, in support on the left, which captured a cemetery at the foot of Picket House Ravine in a diversionary attack (McGuigan). Though it cannot be proved, it seems reasonable to suppose that this lead ball (preserved with the medals by the family) is that which struck down Captain Godley on that day.
Lot 194
Two 19th Century Indian all-steel axes, the first a tabor with small head to an octagonal section haft, allover silver koftgari decoration of scrolls and foliage incorporating arabic characters, length 49 cm (19.5 in.); the other with crescent head and square section spike, the slender haft with hemispherical butt, retaining traces of gold and silver koftgari, length 55 cm (21.5 in.) (2)
Lot 12
The M.B.E., Gulf and Cambodia group of six to Regulating Petty Officer Norman Gary Mansell R.N.: M.B.E., military; Gulf Medal 1990-91 (ARPO D173448P), clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991; United Nations Medal, UNTAC ribbon; R.N. Long Service and Good Conduct, Elizabeth II (RPO MBE D173448P); Saudi Arabian Medal for the Liberation of Kuwait; Kuwaiti Liberation Medal, 4th grade; the first four mounted for wearing. Very fine or better Entered Royal Navy 19/09/78; discharged to shore 14/01/97 with exemplary character. Served with Naval Party 1042 on Operation Lecturer in 1993. Offered with a small quantity of documents and photographs.
Lot 224
Two Continental hunting swords, the first with slightly curved single edged blade 20.5 in., struck with a mariner's cross mark, cast brass hilt with Green Man motif top the shell guard and pommel, slender knuckle bow, stag horn grip, late 17th Century; the second with straight fullered blade 24 in., engraved decoration to the forte, brass hilt with plain shell and pommel, slender knuckle bow, lacking scabbards, 18th Century. [2]
Lot 74
A collection of medallions (7), comprising: Great Exhibition 1851, Exhibitor's Medal, edge impressed (UNITED KINGDOM. CLASS 10. NO 420.), bronze 44 mm, cased (E 1459); Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria 1897 (3), bronze 56mm, gold 26 mm, silver 26mm, the first two in cases of issue and the last in Royal Mint envelope (E 1817a, E 1817b); Coronation of Edward VII 1902, silver 31 mm, in Royal Mint envelope (E 1871b);Exeter, Meat and Corn Market 1837, Obv. a view of the market, C. FOWLER. ARCHT, Rev. the arms of Exeter, silver 38 mm, cased; Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth, Obv. conjoined busts, rev. arms of the borough, PRESENTED BY THE MAYOR, ALDERMAN A.D. DAWNAY, silver 64 mm, hallmark Birmingham 1911, maker H.J & S., cased (alluded to S 1923). First five very fine or better, others extremely fine. Class 10 in the 1851 Exhibition was for 'Philosophics - Instruments and Processes depending upon their use, Musical, Horological and Surgical Instruments.
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Lot 59
Queen's South Africa Medals (2): 1st type (b) reverse, clasp, Cape Colony (1560 PTE A. ROBINSON, K.R.R.C.); 1st type (b) reverse, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Laing's Nek, Belfast (4777 PTE W.J. CARTER, K.R.R.C.), offered with copy research. The first with edge knock above rank, otherwise very fine or nearly so, the first with ghost dates. [2]
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