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Lot 245
An emotive Great War pair, together with an extensive archive, awarded to Air Mechanic 1st Class F. Dearing, 20 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, who was mortally wounded during an aerial combat on the Western Front over Ypres on 26 September 1916, in which he and his pilot succeeded in shooting down an enemy aircraft, before being shot down themselves. Never regaining consciousness, Dearing died of his wounds later that day. He was just 16 years of age - one of the youngest Flying casualties of the Great War British War and Victory Medals (9882 Pte. F. Dearing. R.F.C.); Memorial Plaque (Frederick Dearing) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Memorial Scroll, ‘A. Mech. I Frederick Dearing, Royal Flying Corps’; together with the recipient’s card identity tag ‘9882 Dearing F. R.F.C. C.E.’, extremely fine (4) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Acquired by the vendor directly from the recipient’s family. Frederick Dearing was born in Shoreham, Sussex, on 2 March 1900, and attested underage for the Royal Flying Corps at Hove, Sussex, on 9 October 1915, giving his age as 18 years and 196 days. He served with the Royal Flying Corps as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the Great War on the Western Front from 17 January 1916, and was posted to 20 Squadron, with the rank of Air Mechanic 1st Class, on 1 June 1916. Dearing’s first engagement of note came on 8 September 1916 when, serving as the observer in at F.E. 2D, piloted by Second Lieutenant D. H. Dabbs, they succeeded in shooting down an enemy machine, before being victims themselves: ‘Second Lieutenant Dabbs and Air Mechanic Dearing had just sent an Aviatik two-seater side-slipping into the clouds apparently out of control when their FE was hit by ground fire that sent shrapnel ripping through Dabb’s arm and the FE’s petrol piping ad radiator. The FE rapidly began to lose height but, while Dearing strafed the German trenches 200ft below them, Dabbs was able to glide it back across the lines to a safe forced landing in a field near Fleurbaix. However, this was in full view of a German artillery emplacement whose gunners quickly laid down a barrage of shells all around the grounded machine and Dabbs was hit in the leg by shrapnel and Dearing helped him from the cockpit. In a letter home, dated 11 September 1916, Dearing wrote of the incident: ‘I have had several trips up in an aeroplane over the lines and I brought a German aeroplane down, and soon after we were brought down ourselves, but fortunately behind our own lines. When I got back to camp one of the chaps told me that I was supposed to be dead and the troops seemed quite surprised to see me on parade and looked at me as though I were a ghost. This happened last Friday and I would have told you about it but I thought you might get the wind up or something.’ However, on 26 September 1916 Dearing’s luck ran out: ‘At 7:30 a.m. Second Lieutenant A. F. Livingstone and Air Mechanic Dearing were patrolling at 12,000 feet near Ypres in F.E. 2D A8 when Livingstone dived on a lone German machine 2,000 feet below them but, as he later recorded in his combat report, he dived too far and found it necessary to go alongside the hostile aircraft in order to regain height. Both machines were firing at each other at this point and, as the FE climbed above the German machine at close range, the enemy observer’s answering free hit both the British flyers, wounding Livingstone in the ankle and Dearing in the neck and head. Livingstone brought the machine down to a successful forced landing just south of Vlamertinghe but it was too late for Dearing, who died shortly afterwards at No. 10 Casualty Clearing Station.’ Dearing’s Commanding Officer, Captain R. Stuart Maxwell, wrote to Dearing’s mother: ‘I am just just writing to tell you the splendid circumstances in which your son received the wound from which he afterwards died. He was acting as gunner observer on the morning of 26 September, when they engaged a German machine in aerial combat. Your son managed to put in such fine shooting that the German machine was sent crashing down just behind his own lines. The pilot, Second Lieutenant Livingstone, was rather badly wounded in the feet almost at the same time that your son was hit, right at the end of the scrap. He brought the machine down at once, however, and your son was in the Doctor’s hands in a very short time. He never regained consciousness, and died in hospital about 1:30 p.m. on the same day. I was very sorry that we were unable to tell him that the German machine was brought down. He was a mere boy, and as game and plucky as any observer I have ever had to do with. It will, I hope, relieve you in your almost unbearable grief to know that he died doing his job as gallantly and as well as any man could, and that those of us who knew him during the last few months looked on him as a really splendid youngster ,who feared nothing and was always ready to undertake any work, however dangerous.’ Second Lieutenant Livingstone also wrote thus: ‘I feel I must write to convey to you my sincere sympathy in the loss you have sustained in the death of your son Frederick. His loss will be deeply regretted in the Squadron as he was a very good and keen observer. It is some satisfaction to know that we succeeded in bringing down the German machine.’ Dearing is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. He was just 16 years of age. Sold with a large archive of original documents and ephemera, including various letters from the recipient to his mother, and vice versa; various postcards from the recipient to his sister; a selection of R.F.C. Dinner invitations; War Office notification of his death; telegram from the recipient’s mother to her husband (Dearing’s step-father) informing him of Frederick’s death; Imperial War Graves Commission correspondence, including a photograph of the recipient’s original grave; a large number of hand-written and typed letters of condolence to the recipient’s mother, including those from Second Lieutenant Livingstone; postcard photograph of the recipient; various newspaper cuttings; remnants of a R.F.C. cap badge; and copied research.
Lot 1504
A French bronze and ormolu Pendule au Sauvage mantel clock: in the style of Jean-Simon Deverberie, having an eight-day duration timepiece movement with a silk suspension, the round engine-turned gilded dial having a white enamel chapter ring with black Roman numerals and blued steel moon hands, the ormolu case having a bronze figure of a huntress holding a bow and arrow with a quiver of arrows to her back, wearing a gilded skirt and with inset glass eyes, standing beside a water flagon and dead game bird lying on a bale and with a gilded palm tree to the side, the oval base with an applied bronze floral mount to the front, height 25cm.*Notes This style of clock first came to fruition in the late-18th century and was very much influenced by the writings of authors including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and manufacture coincided with the abolition of the slave trade in France with the Convention Decrete in 1793. Various forms of this clock were produced at this time, often using the same figure, but with different themes. One example swaps the palm tree for an anchor and has the figure leaning on a bale, whereas another is known showing the figure pouring a sack of coffee into a barrel which takes the place of the bale with the more elaborate models having further bronze figural mounts with more elaborate settings.* Notes Reference Pierre Kjellberg 'Encyclopedie de la Pendule Francais' Pub. Les Editions l'Amateur Paris 1997, pages 342-359.
Lot 77
HERMES; a 100% silk scarf 'The Royal and Ancient Game of Golf', designed by Phillipe Ledoux in 1968 and reissued in 1986, depicting golfers in the Scottish Highlands in turquoise brown and orange, 90 x 90cm. Additional InformationThe scarf is in a used condition but has no staining or snagging to the edges.
Lot 601
FOOSBALL TABLE,1930s, French, an Art Deco table football game, with metal figures in white and red jerseys, gloss black finish, with chromed details to the side, 167cm wide138cm deep93cm highCondition report: Good restored condition - see additional images. Table has been re painted at some point and also the players. The money slot has been amended so you dont need to add money for a game. See photos --- game working fine.
Lot 605
EARLY COMPUTER,1960, a rare home-made valve noughts and crosses style computer game, in chipboard box and sliding cover with light blue Formica operation panel and push-pull buttons to operate the noughts,31cm wide33cm deep22.5cm highCondition report: Lights up and seems to be working in some form.
Lot 128
Seven early 20th century tea tins; mostly Lyons' Tea including, The Grand National Drink tin, octagonal form with spinning game top, Staplechase illustrated sides, 14cm; Mirror of Reflection, with mirror mounted into the front, 131cm; All the Year Round with changeable calendar to front, 13cm; Green Label Tea Degrees Better, with thermometer mounted to the front, 13.5cm; Save You Money money box shaped chest, width 14cm; early motor car and horse coach illustrated sides, 17cm; and a small Tabloid Tea tin.
Lot 75
16x 1970s/80s toys, games, etc. Including; a Ramtex Space Invaders/Block Busters electronic game. Palitoy electronic Cue ball game. Waddingtons 'Compute-a-tune. A Grandstand 'Munchman'. A Tomy Palitoy 'Blip' tennis game. A Music Maker record player. Petite typewriter. An Atomic Arcade Pinball machine. Arco shooting arcade machine. A Tomy Demon Driver Auto Raceway. A Bambino Soccer electronic game. Plus a few other similar items. Some games boxed, some with original inner packing pieces, instructions, etc. some wear. Contents GC-VGC for age. £60-80
Lot 77
6x 1970s/80s boxed toys and games. Including 5x games by Ideal Toys; 'Tin Can Alley' shooting range. 'The Monster' game. 'Electronic Detective' computerized 'Who-done-it game. 'The Generals' Electronic Strategy game. 'Doctor, Doctor!' game. Plus a Chad Valley 'Electronic Space Thunder' shooting game. All boxed, some with original inner packing pieces, instructions, etc. some wear. Contents GC-VGC for age. £50-70
Lot 78
5x 1970s/80s boxed toys and games. Including; a Corgi 'Slam Bam Sam' comprising 2x remote controlled Beatle cars with detachable parts. Matchbox Cascade ball bouncing game. A Lakeside 'Action Canyon' puzzle game. Matchbox 'Streak Racing' box of track and accessories. An Action Games & Toys Ltd. 'Creeps' game. All boxed, some with original inner packing pieces, instructions, etc. some wear. Contents GC-VGC for age. £50-70
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