The Indian Mutiny medal awarded to Assistant Surgeon L. F. Dickson, 2nd Sikh Police Corps, who was also attached ‘in medical charge in the field’ to Shannon’s Naval Brigade, February-September 1858; he afterwards emigrated to Australia but finally settled on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where a nature reserve today bears his name Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Asst. Surgn. L. F. Dickson 2nd Sikh Police Corps) good very fine and rare £1,200-£1,600 --- Lindsay Frederick Dickson was born on 26 October 1834, at Cheltenham, son of the distinguished physician Samuel Dickson later of 28 Bolton Street, Mayfair and his wife, ‘the beauty of Edinburgh’, Eliza, daughter of David Johnston of Overton and niece of Lord Campbell, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland. Samuel, after serving with the 30th Regiment of Foot in Madras for five years, published a book on the tropical diseases of India. His surgery of over 7,000 patients in Cheltenham made him a wealthy man but Samuel Dickson was a controversial physician who, by 1860, at his own expense, produced a monthly hand-written journal, The People’s Medical Enquirer, in which he advanced the cause of Dicksonian truth whilst exposing the errors of others. Samuel waged a long campaign against bloodletting which, he felt, weakened patients and instead he advocated the use of stimulants such as Quinine and alcohol. His lectures on the ‘Fallacies of the Faculty’ and the ‘Chrono-thermal System of Medicine’ were treated by the medical establishment with scepticism and he was ostracised by his peers. While he was not without supporters in England, his chief following was in the United States where the Penn Medical College of Philadelphia was founded to teach his doctrines. Lindsay was educated Aberdeen University, King's College, London, M.R.C.S. 1856 and L.S.A 1856, and St. Andrews, Scotland, M.D. 1857. He was appointed Assistant-Surgeon, 4 August 1857; Surgeon, 4 August 1869; Surgeon-Major, 1 July 1879; Brigade-Surgeon, 27 November 1882, and retired the following year. His Employment and Services in the Field plus additions are as follows: He arrived at Calcutta, 5 December 1857, and was appointed to accompany a detachment of recruits of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fusiliers from Barrackpore to Cawnpore where, on 8 February 1858, he was appointed to the Shannon’s Naval Brigade, being present with it until its departure back to Calcutta in September 1858. He was in medical charge in the field in the absence of Surgeon Flanagan, who had been taken with fever. ‘The Devil's Wind’ by Verney states that the hospital at Lucknow was in such an exposed position that it was relocated to a village 150 yards away. The enemy received information of the move and redirected their fire, whereby two camels were killed by round shot and another went through the building where Dr. Dickson and some staff were operating. On 10 October 1858, he took medical charge of a detachment of recruits, 70 women and 70 children to Allahabad per the flat Mala Ganga arriving at Calcutta on 10 November. On 18 November 1858, he took medical charge of the 2nd Sikh Police Battalion at Bulleah which was engaged in protecting the Gorackpore Frontier towards Nepal. In January 1859 he transferred to 20th Regiment Punjab Infantry, during several expeditions against flying parties of rebels in the Shahabad District. In September 1859 he was placed in medical charge of the 3rd Sikh Cavalry at Tirhoot and accompanied the regiment to Segowlee until forced by illness to go to Dinapore, where he was ordered to England for 15 months on Medical Certificate, returning to India on 9 August 1861. He served 5 years with the Mewar Infantry, with a brief period with the Malwa Bheel Corps; served 2 years, Bengal Artillery; 8 months, Bengal Sappers and Miners; 6 months each with 25th and 28th Bengal Native Infantry; and one year with 13th (Shekhawatti) Native Infantry. He served further various lengths of service in Civil Charge of the districts of Azimgarh, Mymensingh, Nagode and Roorkee. On 15 June 1869, Lindsay Frederick married Charlotte, the daughter of John Kirkpatrick, former Chief Justice of the Legislative Council of the Ionian Islands, and his wife Jean, at Edinburgh. Through her uncle William Kirkpatrick of Malaga, Charlotte was a direct cousin of the future Empress Eugenie. Charlotte bore Lindsay 8 children, although 3 died tragically young. On retirement, after serving for 22 years and 6 days, he sailed with his family to Australia. The Register of the Medical Practitioners for 1885 in the Victorian Police Gazette shows that Dr. Dickson had already registered in Melbourne as early as 7 May 1880. Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac for 1881 shows that he also registered in the town of Bothwell, a remote outpost on the island. Dickson and family remained in Australia for 5 years. In the late 1880s Dickson joined an established community of soldiers’ families who had come from India to settle on Vancouver Island. They were attracted in part by the excellent trout and salmon fishing on Cowichan River and Lake, but also by low property prices. Dickson bought a property on Denman Island and a house in Vancouver, wintering in Santa Cruz, California where he established a medical practice. In 1889 he further purchased the Cowichan Lake Hotel, remotely located on the mouth of the Campbell River. An Angler’s Paradise – Sport fishing and Settler Society on Vancouver Island 1860s-1920s, by Diana Pedersen, gives an atmospheric account of their lives and experiences with Dickson being one of the leading citizens of the community. At Santa Cruz Dickson was exposed to the new pastime of big-game fishing that was sweeping the sporting world. He brought his knowledge of angling for large salmon from Monterey Bay to the Campbell River, where he was considered an authority on tackle and lures, and even patented a reel of his own design at El Paso. In 1903 he created two salmon-angling world records at the Campbell River; the first, confirmed by the The Field magazine, to which Dickson contributed many articles, was for the greatest weight of salmon caught by a rod in one day; 12 Tyee (Chinook) salmon were landed weighing 458 pounds. The second was for the greatest weight of salmon caught by a rod in 16 days of fishing, an impressive 92 Tyee weighing 3,665 pounds. As a respected medical authority, his expertise was sought by provincial and legal health authorities. At the time of a local outbreak of smallpox he was appointed Municipal Health Officer and Public Vaccinator for the Cowichan District. Between 1890 and 1893 he served as medical examiner and testified at inquests in several cases of accidental or unexplained deaths. In October 1891 he rowed 40 miles to Saturna Island to conduct a post mortem examination on a man who had fallen and died during an attack of delirium tremens. His wife Charlotte, who had diabetes and had been ill for some time, died at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Victoria in February 1907, aged 64. Dickson died of throat cancer on 25 April 1908, but not before he had married Elizabeth in October 1907. Both Lindsay and Charlotte were buried in the family plot at Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria. After a 10 year campaign by the Denman Conservancy Association, 134 acres of forested land and foreshore, part of the Lindsay Dickson estate, was purchased by the Province of British Columbia in 2001 and transferred to the Islands Trust Fund. It is now known as the Lindsay Dickson Nature Reserve, making it one of the most pristine unlogged forests in British Columbia. Lot is sold with a comprehensive file of research together with Wills and the service reco...
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Chapman, Abel Collection of works On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa with Studies in Bird-Life. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, 2 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 32 halftone plates, 4 pp. advertisements to rear, inscribed to 'The skipper, from the author' on the front free endpaper, rubbing to extremities, split to head of front joint, spotting to endpapers [Czech Africa p. 59];Savage Sudan. Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, map frontispiece, 29 halftone plates from photographs, cloth slightly rubbed and marked [Czech Africa pp. 59-60];First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling. London: Horace Cox, 1896. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all plates as called for (several folding), occasional spotting to text;Wild Spain (España Agreste). London: Gurney and Jackson, 1893. First edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper ('Abel Chapman, nest off Crowhall Moor, June 23, 1927'), original cloth (recased), folding map, all plates as called for;Unexplored Spain. London: Edward Arnold, 1910. First edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, all plates as called for, spine slightly rubbed.Together with 12 others (these not collated), including: Abel Chapman, The Borders and Beyond, 1924, Retrospect, 1928, Wild Norway, 1897, Memories, 1930 (all first editions, original cloth), and Bird-Life of the Borders, 1907 (second edition, original cloth); Frederick Courtenay Selous, Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa, 1893, A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa, 1893, Sport and Travel East and West, 1900 (first, third and first editions, all in original cloth); J. G. Millais, The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 1904 (first edition, one of 1,025 copies, 3 volumes, large 4to, original cloth, plates, cloth mottled, wear to spines), The Wildfowler in Scotland, 1901 (first edition, 4to, original half japon, mottled), Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, 1918 (first edition, original cloth, ex Aberdovey Literary Institute), Wanderings and Memoires, 1919 (first edition, original cloth)Note: Note: '[Chapman's] African adventures culminated in On Safari (1908) and Savage Sudan (1921) - the first natural history book about this area - which were entertaining and vivid accounts of east Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan' (ODNB).
Golf Collection of rare biographies, manuals and club histories Tulloch, W. W. The Life of Tom Morris, with Glimpses of St Andrews and its Golfing Celebrities. London: T. Werner Laurie, c.1908. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, 25 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece (listed as 27, with 2 plates each containing 2 images), spine rolled, binding slightly rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription to initial blank, occasional spotting to text-block;Idem. The Life of Tom Morris. London: Ellesborough Press, 1982. Facsimile edition, one of 100 copies signed by J. H. Neill, captain, Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, 1981-2, 8vo, original green morocco, all edges gilt, slipcase, spine sunned, section of discolouration to upper inner corner of front board;Forgan, Robert. The Golfer's Manual, including History and Rules of the Game, with Hints to Beginners. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. (Limited), c.1907. Presumed seventh edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 8 halftone photographic plates (including a portrait of 'Old Tom Morris' as frontispiece), 4 pp. advertisements to rear, with the 'Rules of Golf' section dated 1904, and notice of James Anderson's record round on St Andrew's Links in 1906 to verso of contents page;Dow, James Gordon. The Crail Golfing Society 1786-1936. Being the History of an Eighteenth-Century Golf Club in the East Neuk of Fife. Edinburgh: published at the office of Golf Monthly, 1936. First edition, one of 250 copies only, 8vo, original two-tone cloth, 7 halftone photographic plates, pale mottling to covers, blind stamp (Broadleys, Crail, Fife) to title-page;[Knight, William Angus, editor]. On the Links. Being Golfing Stories by Various Hands. With Shakespeare on Golf. By a Novice. Also, Two Rhymes on Golf by Andrew Lang. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, 8 pp. advertisements, custom case;Flint, Violet. A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil on the Links of St Andrews. St Andrews: W. C. Henderson & Co, 1897. Third edition, 4to, later cloth, 8 plates, text spotted;and 12 others, including: J. B. Salmond, The Story of the R. & A., 1956 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, torn dust jacket, inscribed by the author on the title-page, signed by various R & A members on the front free endpaper including Ferguson Morton, Baron Morton of Henryton, Charles MacAndrew, Baron Macandrew, and similar); The Book of St Andrews Links, Ellesborough Press, 1984 (facsimile edition, one of 200 copies signed by golfer J. Stewart Lawson, 8vo, original green morocco, spine sunned, slipcase); Robert Forgan, The Golfer's Manual, c.1980 (facsimile edition of the 1897 edition, 8vo, original cloth); Andra Kirkaldy, Fifty Years of Golf: My Memories, 1921 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth); Andrew Lang & others, A Batch of Golfing Papers, c.1892 (original cloth, ex library); Violet Flint, A Golfing Idyll, 1978 (facsimile edition, of 150 copies); 2 others editions of Lang's work; and similar
A collection of darners and bygones, comprising various wooden and other darners, a boxed game of 'Merelles', labelled for 'D.H. Greenin, Fancy Repository, 20 and 21 East Street Brighton', instructions pasted to interior of lid, four brass button slides, wooden butter pats, gypsy clothes pegs, pot menders, 'Davis' safety milk boiler, champagne tap, 'John Bond's Crystal Palace Writing Tablet', three buckles, coral necklace, boxwood brush, vesta, sand glass and sundries. (qty) From the collection of the late Christabelle and David Davey.
Two French pierced bone boxes each containing a miniature game of skittles, possibly French Napoleonic Prisoner of War work, one of pierced barrel form and containing seven skittles, box 7.4cms, and another of pear shaped form, small area of vertical slits missing, containing nine skittles, box 7.4cms. (2)
A Pope Joan board and a money box, in the Tunbridge style, the circular fan divided board with central lidded box decorated with playing cards, the outer rim with playing cards and floral panels and three titled panels 'Matrimony / Game / Intrigue', 27cms dia., the money box in the form of a circular painted cottage with a figure at the stable door, 8.7cms dia. at base, 12.5cms high. (2) From the collection of Dr. Brian Austen
Swatch Le Walk Le game stop watch SSK105 Andale with game and SSK104 Metal Flash both with game, in Unworn condition, Original packaging Unopened, part of series commemorating the opening of the Channel Tunnel. Circa 1994. (2)Condition Report: In unworn conditionplease note that the movement has not been tested for the accuracy of time and may need a service and or battery replacement at the buyer's expense.Ewbanks does not guarantee the future working of the movement and we do not guarantee the authenticity of any individual component parts since subsequent repairs and restoration work may have resulted in the replacement of original parts
Trump card indicator / ''Trumps'' playing card game marker silver. Rare piece. This is an example of a trump card indicator for the well-known Bridge game. It contains ivorine squares to indicate the trump suit, hearts, clubs, diamonds, or spades. Also there is a blank to indicate 'No Trumps' which stands for: no trumps. United Kingdom, London, Henry Perkins & Sons, 1919, hallmarks: lion, panther's head, maker's mark, d - signs of wear and dents. 37 grams, 925/1000. Dim. L 2.6 cm, W 5.5 cm, H 4.8 cm.
A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE CHERUB FIGURES POSSIBLY PERSONIFICATIONS OF WINTER AND SUMMER (2)Late 19th Century One modelled with a hunting horn and game, 39cm high; the other modelled with a basket of flowers and fruit, 39cmCondition Report:Carrying game - generally good condition with wear to the high points of the decoration. Some discolouration, possible paint, to the horn and wear to the patina on the back of the leg.Basket of flowers - Missing what was being carried in right arm; some pitting and variation to the patina; repair to front foot where it fixes on to the base
Muffin the Mule toys and memorabilia, Muffin the Mule Modelling Handicraft, rubber moulds, in original box —12in. (30.5cm.) wide; The Television Hankies, Chad Valley Picture Cubes and Card Game, in original boxes; a Huntley & Palmers Muffin and Peter tins; a glass dish; and Cullingford soaps - Muffin, Peregrine and two Louise, in original boxes
A late 19th century botanical lotto, twelve cards with garden flowers, oval cards with common and botanical names of plants, key to plants, in original plain wood box with sliding lid —12in. (30.5cm.) wide; and The Game of Schimmell or Bell and Hammer, with gavel, five cards, instruction card and six die, in original wooden box with sliding lid
Two rare Raphael Tuck & Sons Nursery Rockers with children circa 1908, chromolithographic embossed cardboard with hinged right side, the reverse with printed poem - A Game of Gallop, two girls riding a rocking horse —7 3/4in. (19.5cm.) wide (repaired legs) and Tally-Ho! - a boy in Pinks riding a wooden horse
A rare Peter Gurney Ltd Panko or Votes for Women Suffragette card game circa 1910, The Great Card Game Suffragists v Anti-Suffragists, pictures by E.T. Reed of Punch, forty eight illustrated cards and instructions, in original box (two cards missing corner, cards worn, box damaged and rules taped)
Chloe Preston Peek-A-Boos and Dinkie, The Peek-A-Boos in Winter, Humphrey Milford Press —13 1/2in. (34cm.) wide (edges worn, but good condition); The Peek-A-Boos at School (line drawings coloured in); The Chunkies (damaged spin and line drawing lightly coloured in); and Spear’s The Dinkie Bowling Game
A John Wallis New Geographical Game Exhibiting a Tour through England & Wales circa 1802, hand-coloured folding game laid on canvas, in original sleeves, published March 8th 1802, map dated 24th December 1794, probably from the first date, but re-issued in a new sleeve, using up remaining maps —26in. (66cm.) wide (slight wear)
Muffin the Mule ephemera and books, three Oriole records in sleeves, a Moko Toys Molly Blake jigsaw, in original box; Card Game, in original box; a Muffin Economy Design pattern in envelope; six photographs of people riding a Muffin; other printed matter, some plastic buttons, books and membership card
Games with military connections, a C W Faulkner & Co From sailor Boy to Admiral, a board in sections, six men gaming pieces, instructions, in original box; a Photochrom Co Ltd 1st World War ‘Obliterating Germany The Latest War Puzzle’, in original envelope —6 1/2in. (16.5cm.) wide; board from The New Game from Ranks to Commander in Chief; and The International Card Co The Cavalry Game, in original box
Pixyland-Kew A A Milne and E H Shepherd’s Winnie the Pooh and friends, hollow-cast lead figures painted in bright colours comprising Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit and Kanga and Roo —1 1/2n. (4cm.) height of Pooh (fair, Rabbit and Piglet each missing an ear); with rare The Teddy Toy Company Winnie-the-Pooh Race Game four-fold board and rules
A rare 19th century J Passmore Professor Punch The Laughable Game of What D’Ye Buy game, comprising twelve hand coloured trade cards including Toyman, Milliner and Publican, six product cards for each trade including a Dressed Doll, A stiff glass of Grog, A Poke Bonnet and A Poll Parrot, instruction book, in original wooden box with sliding lid featuring Mr Punch —6in. (15cm.) wide
Three Valentine & Sons Ltd Pip Squeak and Wilfred shaped children’s books, The Adventures of Pip & Squeak of the Daily Mirror seated in a wooden tub called H.M.S. Pip & Squeak —11in. (28cm.) high; The Life Story of Wilfred and The Life Story of Pip with moving heads (some wear and loose ages); and The Gugnunc race Game, folding board with three counters
Games and Card Games, Jaques & Son - The World Parliament or Vote by Ballot, Candid Confessions and The National Gallery, in original boxes; a H N Myers & Co Ups & Downs, a Chad Valley Fleet Street and Parker Brothers The Game of Great Artists, in original boxes; Hunt & Sons playing cards; Halma board and wooden box; a Jacques red and black leather rolled Portable B.C.D. Board with draft pieces, in case; empty The Auction House box, cribbage board and unboxed Who Buys?
A rare British Ups and Downs in India - colonial religious board game, game for boys and girls deciding the adventures of a missionary from the day he sails from the homeland to the triumphal opening of a new church in India, folding board —32 1/4in. (82cm.) long and box with four figures and play cards, 1910-20s
Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, Alice - a Ponda Jig-saw The Mad Tea Party, in original box; Raphael Tuck Alice in Wonderland with ‘Come to Life’ panorama; Mabel Lucie Attwell Alice in Wonderland; a Journey Alice dexterity puzzle and two other books; Peter Pan - Pepys Card Game, in original box, Juvenile Production Peter Pan & Wendy and Hodder & Stoughton Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens; Hutchinson L Frank Baum Wizard of Oz and Kenneth Grahame’s First Whisper of The Wind in the Willows
A late 18th century E Newbery and John Wallis The Royal Genealogical Pastime of the Sovereigns of England hand coloured folding game, laid on canvas, ‘From Egbert to George III’, in original sleeve, published Nov 30 1719 —29in. (74cm.) wide (slight wear) - in a childish hand in ink on reverse ‘I Bain and J Fyler’
Hank the Cowboy toys and memorabilia, a Chad Valley hoopla game —16 1/2in. (42cm.) high; Chad Valley Hank Picture Cubes, Drawing Slate and Jig-saw, in original boxes; two Cullingfords Silver King soaps, in original boxes; a Barnsbury Puppet, in original box; two other puppets and other items
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