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Lot 471
Philatelic Section: Newfoundland - fine collection including 1856 twenty four cents, 1897 to fifty cents, 1919 Caribou set mint, 1923 values to twelve cents, 1928 values to thirty cents mint, 1931 air set both no water mark and water mark, 1932 set to thirty cents and 1933 Joburg set mint, also various Newbrandwick & Nova Scotia and few loose items and Junior World album and Great Britain 1940s stamp centenary first day cover
Lot 478
Philatelic Section: Improved stamp album wrapped, Universal stamp album with world range, hundreds and hundreds of stamps, collected to 1960s, also various stamps loose and in packets etc, Great Britain first day covers, PHQ presentation packs and airmail postal stationery items and medium sized stock book with mint Poland and a box with over one hundred first day covers, slightly duplicated Jersey period 1970s, 80s also few world covers
Lot 479
Philatelic Section: two standard size stock books with range King George V, King George VI including some Silver Jubilee sets and Silver Wedding items, mint and used, also ring binder with various covers, first day covers etc including some 1937 Coronation sets and other useful items, some Commonwealth and range Great Britain more modern covers etc
Lot 510
Philatelic Section: Great Britain collection 1970s period, mint with commemorative and definitives to five pound, also two large ring binders with range first day covers etc, also 1997 Princess Diana Welsh presentation pack and 1972 Silver Wedding collection, commonwealth countries in special album
Lot 138
A Great War White Metal, YMCA Life Membership Presentation Plaque, inscribed ‘Jerusalem - Young Men’s Christian Association - Life Member - Field Marshal Edmund Lord Allenby - G.C.B., G.C.M.G., D.C.L., L.L.D. April 1933’ in its decorated leather sleeve. A Great War ‘Jerusalem’ White Metal Medallion, the centre with rampant lion, enclosed in the Star of David, dated 9.XII, 1917, the border inscribed ‘ The Conquest of Jerusalem’ repeated in Hebrew, in its presentation case. Provenance: Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo, thence by descent. ‘With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia’, Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo was born on 23rd of April at Brackenhurst, Southwell, Nottinghamshire. He was the son of Hyman Allenby and Catherine Anne Cane. He married Adelaide Mabel Chapman, daughter of Horace Edward Chapman and Adelaide Maria Fletcher on 30th of December 1896 at Donhead St. Andrew, Wiltshire. He died on the 14th of May 1936 at the age of 75 at 24 Wetherby Gardens, Kensington, London, without surviving issue. He was buried on the 19th of May 1936 at Westminster Abbey. Field Marshal Allenby was educated between 1875 and 1878 at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire, and at Royal Military College, Sandhurst 1881. He was commissioned in 1882 in the service of the Inniskilling Dragoons. He fought in the Expedition to Bechuanaland, 1883-1884. He fought in the expedition in Zululand, 1888. He gained the rank of Captain. He was Adjutant, 1889-1893. He gained the rank of Major, 1897. He fought in the Boer War, 1899-1902, where he was mentioned in despatches three times and received three brevets, two medals and eight clasps. He was Lieutentant-Colonel, commander of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers in 1902. He was invested as Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.) in 1902. He gained the rank of Colonel in 1905. He was Colonel of the 4th Cavalry Brigade between 1905 and 1909. He gained the rank of Major-General in 1909. He was Inspector of the Cavalry between 1910 and 1914. He was General Officer Commanding of the 1st Cavalry Division, British Expeditionary Force, 1914. He was General Officer Commanding of the Cavalry Corps, 1914-1915. He fought in the First World War, 1914-1918, for which he was mentioned in despatches seven times, received the thanks of Parliament, and was awarded £50,000 for his services. He was General Officer Commanding the 5th Corps in 1915. He was invested as a Knight Commander, Order of Bath (K.C.B.) in 1915. He was General Officer Commanding of the 3rd Army, 1915-1917. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1916. He gained the rank of General in 1917. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of St.Michael and St. George (G.C.M.G.) in 1917. He fought in the capture of Jerusalem on 9th December 1917. He was Commander-In-Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in 1918. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath (G.C.B.) in 1918. He was decorated with the award of Distinguished Service Medal (D.S.M.) (US). He fought in the battle of Megiddo on 19th September 1918 where he defeated the Turks. He gained the rank of Field Marshal in 1919. He held the office of High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan between 1919 and 1925. He was created 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo, and of Felixstowe, Co. Suffolk on 7th October 1919. He was invested as Knight of Justice, Order of St. John of Jersalem (K.J.St.J.). He was invested as Knight Grand Cross, Royal Victorian Order (G.C.V.O.) in 1934
Lot 173
A Boer War DSO Group of Nine to Lieutenant Colonel Frederick George Lawrence, South Wales Borderers, 24th Regiment, (i) Distinguished Service Order, VR, (enamel chips), (ii) OBE, GRI, silver-gilt,(iii) Queen’s South Africa Medal, three clasps, Transvaal, Orange Free State, Cape Colony (Lieut. F.G. Lawrence. D.S.O. S.W. Bord.), (iv) King’s South Africa Medal, two clasps South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. F.G. Lawrence. D.S.O. S.Wales.Bdr.), (v) 1914 Star (Capt. F.G. Lawrence. S.Wales.Bord.), (vi) British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. F.G. Lawrence), MID, oak leaf, (vii) Croix De Guerre, (France) with star, (viii) Croix De Guerre (Belgium), mounted for wearing, with related dress miniatures. Lawrence, Frederick George, was born 21 Aug. 1874, son of the late Hugh M. Lawrence. He was gazetted Second Lieutenant in the South Wales Borderers 10 Oct. 1894, and became Lieutenant 15 Nov. 1896. He served in South Africa, 1899-1902: as Railway Staff Officer 14 Jan. to 4 March, 1900, and 5 March, 1900 to 18 Aug, 1902, in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony and the Transvaal; was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901); received the Queen’s Medal with three clasps, the King’s Medal with two clasps, and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette, 26 June, 1902); Frederick George Lawrence, Lieut., South Wales Borderers. In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa, he was invested by the King on 24 Oct. 1902. He was Adjutant, 3rd South Wales Borderers, Brecon, 1 Sept. 1902 to 13 Sept. 1905; was promoted to Captain 3 March, 1906; was Officer, Company of Gentleman Cadets, Royal Military College, 1 Feb. 1910 to 31 Jan. 1914. He served in the European War; was promoted to Major 28 April 1915; held a Special Appointment, G.H.Q., B.E.F., 23 Oct. 1915 to 31 March, 1916; Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel 1 April to 20 Aug. 1916; D.A.Q.M.G., 4th Army, British Armies in France, 19 Nov. 1916 to 28 Jan 1917; A.Q.M.G., 15th Army Corps, British Armies in France, 29 Jan to 15 Sept. 1917. He was A.Q.M.G. Southern Command, from 31 March 1918, and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel; G.S.O.3., he married in 1902, Frances Mary, daughter of the late Osborne E. Mortimer, they had one daughter. A Photograph Album- A Collection of Approximately One Hundred, Black White and Sepia Photographic Images, Many of Related Regimental and Boer War Interest, the cover, bearing the inscribed initials of Lt. Col. F.G. Lawrence ‘F.G.L.’, Each page individually titled, including ‘R.M.C. Sandhurst, inEin Company’, 8in x 10in; ‘Fortification Class’, 5.5in x 9in; ‘2nd, S.W. Borderers, Southsea’, 8in x 11in; ‘2nd S.W. Borderers, Aldershot’, 8in x 11in; ‘Snapshot, 3rd Brigade training, Aldershot’, 4in x 6in; ‘Opening of new range, Hythe’, 8in x 11in; ‘2nd S.W. borderers, Colonel in Chief & Regimental Saff’, 8in x 11in; ‘Croydon Rugby Football Club’, 8in x 11in; ‘Coal Strikes, Merthyr Tydfil by Harris of Merthyr, 9in x 8in; ‘ditto’, 9inx 8in; ‘Pembroke Castle’, 6in x 8in; ‘Port Elizabeth, 1st Welch Regiment Landing’, 6in x 8in; ‘Port Elizabeth, landing horses’, 6in x 8in; ‘ Xmas Dinner given to 1st Welch Regiment by Ladies Patrioctic League at Port Elizabeth, 1899’, 6in x 14in; ‘Kimtarley Railway Staff including traffic manager, district engineer and their staffs, D.A.D.R., R.S.O. and staff’, 5in x 7in. A Photograph Album - A Unique Collection of Approximately Ninety Black and White Photographic Images, Forty Six Depicting Rail Bridges, Stations, Lines and Engines Many Destroyed by ‘Boer’ Operations in the Transvaal, the frontis-piece inscribed in ink ‘F.G. Lawrence, South Wales Borderers, South Africa 4.11.99 - 18.8.02’, Each page individually titled, including, ‘Emergency Amoured Train, improvised from Z.A.S.M. trucks, on first entry into Tansvaal’ 5in x 8in; ‘Naauwpoort Junction 1899’, 5in x 8in; ‘Panorama Norval’s Pont Bridge, showing break, Orange River and surrounding scenery’, 5in x 15in; ‘Norval’s Pont Bridge, showing break and down country mail train on deviation’, 5in x 8in; Vet River Cutting, with Infantry working parties of 9th K.R.R.’, 5in x 8in; ‘Leeuwspruit Bridge, where railhead party, 10th and 42nd Coy R.E. were attacked. Lt. Micklem wounded, Lt. North and 18 men captured, enemy driven off, 14th June 1900’ 5in x 8in; ‘ Valsh River Bridge, showing break’, 5in x 8in; ‘Roodeval Station, burnt by the enemy including several trucks of clothing in the background, 7th June 1900’, 5in x 8in; ‘Pretoria Railway Station’, 5in x 8in; ‘Kaapmuiden Bridge, showing break, deviation and remains of a derailment’, 5in x 8in, Kaapmuiden Deviation, showing closer view of derailment’, 5inx 8in. An Album - Containing A Unique Collection of Related Press Cuttings and Other Ephemera, Regimental, Boer War, Great War and Personal, including a training notice poster dated 1904 for the 3rd Battalion (Militia) The South Wales Borderers, Lieut.Colonel the Hon J.H.R. Bailey, D.S.O. Commanding and by the order of F.G. Lawrence, Adjt. 3rd Bn. The South Wales Borderers, printed at the County Times, printing works, Bulwark, Brecon, 20in x 15in; R.M.S. Kildonan Castle; Rorke’s Drift, Anniversary Ball Programme, 21st January, 1898; South Africa, 1900-02, Veterans Dinner Club, first dinner programme, 23rd January 1909; eight entertainment programmes dated November 1899; Officer’s Pass, Johannesburg & District, September 1901; Railway Staff Officer Appointment, Imperial Military Railways, 1.6.1900; H.M. Transport inBravarianin No.16, Capetown to Southampton, sailed August 18th 1902, List of Officers and Saloon Passengers. Provenance: Lt. Col. F.G. Lawrence, South Wales Borderers, 24th Regiment, thence by descent. The 24th. Great Marlborough led in days gone by, the gallant 24th, And Howard’s Green’s knew how to die, salute the 24th, At Talavera, many a son, laid down his life for a victory won, Can we forget the Duke’s inWell Done !in ?, honour the 24th, Died at the guns in ‘49, devoted the 24th, all that was left - inOne thin red linein stand fast the 24th, At Rorke’s Drift, Bromhead led the way, and gallant men fell fast that day, Their honoured names will live for eye, remember 24th, At Isandlwhana how they fought!, the brave old 24th, The heritage so dearly brought, hold fast the 24th, Melville and Coghill, side by side, Folding the colours round them, died: The empire honours them with pride, Heroic 24th, Link up brave deeds, and let the past, inspire you 24th, Die as they died, true to the last, prove you are the 24th, The silver wreath and colours bring, Salute and let the Empire ring, With your brave deeds,for God and King, Forget not 24th. Mrs Clare White, Sec. R.A.T.A
Lot 182
A Great War Group of Three to Driver Herbert John Camp Royal Horse Artillery, Late Highland Light Infantry, 1914 Star, 5th Aug-22nd Nov clasp (61860 Dvr.H.Camp. R.H.A.), British War and Victory Medals (61860 Gnr. H. Camp. R.A.), mounted for wearing. Private 10436 Private Herbert John Camp, 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry/61860 Driver Herbert John Camp Royal Horse Artillery, enlisted at St. Georges Barracks, Westminster 31st December 1906 aged 17. Posted to India, 15th September 1908 transferred to ‘S’ Battery Royal Horse Artillery March 1910, returned home 31st October 1913, discharged into Army Reserve, reported back to Woolwich 1914 for War Service. Royal Horse Artillery Tunic, of regulation pattern, blue cloth with worsted yellow cord frogging. Collection of related service papers, including Short Service document, dated 31st Dec 1906, Royal Army Temperance Association India, 12th October 1913 (Simla), Discharge Certificate 31st March 1920, etc. Collection of Postcards and other Photographic Images including ‘Delhi Durbar’ and Regimental interest. A Written Account from his Personal Diary, Before and During the Great War, 1906-1917. ‘The first battle and defence of Ypres’ 1914. ‘The first day we started, we were in action at dawn waiting for them to come along. At about 8 a.m. the cavalry reported that a large force of Germans was coming in our direction, so we ‘stood to’ by the guns, the horses were only 200 yards away in case of emergency. In about an hour from when we had the order, we saw them in thin grey masses coming along, (a fine target for artillery), we started, opened fire on them and as soon as we had got the range we started sending shrapnel into them as fast as we could fire. It was murder as we could see the shells bursting from where we were and they were tearing holes into the ranks of the German infantry, still they came on, their idea was to rush the guns, but nothing doing as they had no artillery with them, (at least none opened fire on us that day). we shortened our range and gave it to them for all we were worth’, ‘Passendale’, ‘The next day we were off again at 5 a.m. and went into action at a place called Passendale and it was our turn to catch it that day’, ‘I was wheel driver then of ‘A’ sub section gun team, my riding horse had his nose blown off and was still alive, I shot him and put him out of his agony quickly and put a gunners horse in his place, then the hand centre horse of our team got hit broadside and we had to shoot him’, ‘Whyschate’, ‘I was going up to bring my gun out of action, with our team when my horse got killed and I was wounded in the arm and leg, I was pulled out from underneath my horse and taken down on a stretcher’
Lot 186
A Second World War, (Typhoon) D.F.C. Group of Six to Flight Lieutenant G.E. Cassie of 263 Squadron, Distinguished Flying Cross GRVI, GRI (1945), 1939-1945 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, War Medal 1939-45, Defence Medal, Air Efficiency Award (Plt. Off. G.E. Cassie. R.AV.R.) 108836 Flight Lieutenant George Edward Cassie, 84 Group, 2nd, T.A.F., No.263 Squadron Recommendation For Award, ‘Flight Lieutentant Cassie is a Flight Commander in No.263 Typhoon Squadron who is on his second tour of operations with No.146 Wing, having completed 126 operational hours with No.193 Squadron on his first tour. He is a capable and very experienced pilot who has flown over two thousand hours, on many types of aircraft, has served for a long period as an instructor at No.1 A.A.S. and has flown nearly eight hundred hours on twin-engined aircraft. Operating from England in No. 10 Group, he carried out a large number of missions on Shipping Strikes in the Channel, Sweeps and Rangers over the Brest Peninsular and Ramrods on Flying Bomb sites in the Cherbourg Peninsular. In support of the Army in Western Europe he has achieved considerable success in leading his Flight on Armed Reconnaissances, on inInterdictionin of the enemy rail communications and in attacks on H.Q., Guns and Mortar Positions, Shipping and Barges, and concentrations of Enemy Troops. Despite the intense flak which protects these vital enemy objectives, he has invariably launched his Rockets and Bombs from minimum range. Flight Lieutenant Cassie is a keen, persevering officer who has displayed at all times a determination and tenacity which is exemplary. I therefore strongly recommend that Flight Lieutenant Cassie be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.’, Remarks of Officer Commanding Wing: ‘This officer has a long record of exceptional devotion to duty and has at all times shown a complete dis-regard for his own safety in his determination to inflict the maximum possible damage on the enemy’, Dated 2/5/45. Remarks of Officer Commanding Wing ‘A very experienced Flight Commander who has always displayed rugged determination & courage in his eagerness to engage the enemy’, Dated 29/5/45
Lot 191
The Gallant 24th - A Soft-bound Thirty-Five Page Publication ‘Dedication of a Brass Tablet at the Priory Church, Brecon, Sunday, January 23rd 1898’ - To the Memory of the Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the 24th Regiment Who Fell in Action During the Zulu Campaign of 1879. The Memorial was erected by all ranks past and present of the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 24th Regiment, now the South Wales Borderers, Victoria Cross Heroes Present at the Ceremony: R. Jones; J. Hook; William Jones; D. Bell; Col. E.S. Browne; F. Hitch; J. Williams, Atkinson C.T. The South Wales Borderers, 24th Foot, 1689-1937, University Press, Cambridge 1937 (first edition), inscribed in ink to frontis F.G. Lawrence. Records of the 24th Regiment, Warwickshire Regiment from its formation in 1689, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1892 (first edition)., (3) Provenance: Lt. Col. F.G. Lawrence, 24th Regiment, South Wales Borderers, thence by descent
Lot 120
A miscellaneous selection of pickle dishes, including a ‘Tiber’ pattern example, two Welsh scalloped shape dishes, a Spode ‘Lucano’ leaf-shaped dish and a Spode Caramanian leaf-shaped dish, mostly first quarter 19th century . Provenance: From the collection of the late Mrs G.D. Otto.
Lot 122
An assortment of miniature blue and white printed pottery dinner wares, including; a plate, sauceboat, ladle and serving dish of the Roger’s pattern, ‘Remains of an ancient building near Firoz Shah’s Cotilla, Delhi, and other items, mostly first quarter 19th century . Provenance: From the collection of the late Mrs G.D. Otto.
Lot 123
A miscellaneous group of mostly children’s pottery, including two black printed Kilnhurst Pottery ‘Wild Sports’ pattern plates, 9cm diameter, a blue and white printed teacup, saucer and plate printed with a girl with a goat, a pair of pearlware models of yellow birds, 8.5cm high and two small Staffordshire money boxes modelled as heads, 6cm high, various dates mostly first half 19th century . Provenance: From the collection of the late Mrs G.D. Otto.
Lot 133
An assortment of English blue and white printed pottery plates, including; a Davenport ‘View of the Imperial Park at Gehol’ plates, a Spode ‘Girl at the Well’ example, a Stevenson ‘Springer Spaniel’ pattern plate and a quantity of others, various dates, mostly first half 19th century. Provenance: From the collection of the late Mrs G.D. Otto.
Lot 136
An Enoch Wood & Sons pierced stand for a chestnut basket printed with a view of Dorney Court, Bucks., 26cm in length, impressed mark; and four various shped serving dishes including a ‘British Scenery’ example with rose-moulded handles, mostly first quarter 19th century. Provenance: From the collection of the late Mrs G.D. Otto.. See Coysh and Henrywood, Dictionary of Blue and White Printed Pottery, Vol. II, (1989) p. 72 for an example of the pierced basket stand, probably the actual one.
Lot 138
A mixed assortment of mostly Staffordshire blue and white printed pottery, including; a Spode lozenge shaped dish from the ‘Indian Sporting’ Series, ‘Hunting a Civet Cat’, a selection of sugar bowls and slop bowls and other dishes, mostly first quarter 19th century. Provenance: From the collection of the late Mrs G.D. Otto.
Lot 140
Five various Staffordshire blue and white printed pottery sauceboats, including a J.&W. Ridgway example, first quarter 19th century. Provenance: From the collection of the late Mrs G.D. Otto. See Coysh & Henrywood, The Dictionary of Blue and White Printed Pottery (vol.II), (1989), p. 150 for an image of the Ridgway jug and mention of Mrs Otto’s research.
Lot 141
Five various blue and white printed pottery ‘London’ shape teapots and covers, comprising; a Belle View Pottery ‘Lightning’ pattern example, a Belle View Pottery ‘Swans’ pattern example, and three other teapots and covers including a marked Spode example and a Riley example, various dates first quarter 19th century. Provenance: From the collection of the late Mrs G.D. Otto.
Lot 367
An Art Deco silver shaped octagonal low comport by Walker & Hall, Sheffield 1946, pierced with four spandrels of sunbursts and fretwork, on a moulded circular foot, engraved with a crest and a motto ‘Nobilis Est Ira Leonis’, 27.5cm (10.5in) wide, 621g (19.95 oz). Provenance: Ropley House, Alresford, Hampshire. The crest and motto belongs to the name of Stuart, a kinsman of the Marquesses of Bute. The first husband of Mrs Knatchbull Hugesson of Ropley House was Lord James Charles Crichton-Stuart, son of Sir John Crichton-Stuart, 5th Marquess of the County of Bute and Lady Eileen Beatrice Forbes.
Lot 7
From the print collection of Revd Canon D S Yerburgh three parcels of lithographs and prints relating to Welsh waterfalls, the first parcel comprising various individual mounted A3 lithographs published by Newman & Co, London, the second parcel comprising two sets of A3 lithographs by T C DIBDIN `The Waterfalls of Caernarvonshire`, the third parcel comprising a set of six from Dibdin`s Sketches in Wales
Lot 68
SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA early mixed media - elderly lady, signed with initials, 13.5 x 9.5 (Provenance: given to the owner whose letter reads `This framed picture, who I have always known to be by the artist Kyffin Williams, has been in my family since the 1940s. At that time the family were based in Llangollen and the picture was owned by my late grandmother who always referred to it as `Mrs Hughes`. We opened the original tape back to the picture for the first time in the presence of Mr Ben Rogers Jones of Rogers Jones & Co, Auctioneers on Wednesday, 8th September 2010, at the auction rooms, Colwyn Bay in order to identify it further` and to confirm that it had not been previously opened)
Lot 113
A small collection of 18th Century First Period Dr Wall Worcester coffee cans to include two silversmith shape examples, one fluted and four plain footed all decorated in underglaze blue and white with stylised flowers, foliage, insects and chinoiserie scenes, some with crescent marks, all A/F. (7)
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