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Click here to subscribeTwo early twentieth-century silver novelty grenade form table lighters, applied with a cast flame-form surmount, secured by a screw thread, A & J Zimmerman Ltd., Birmingham 1928 and 1939, height (of larger) 8.8cm, height (of smaller) 8.2cm, weighted, actual silver weight indeterminable, combined weight 617g/19.83ozt gross all-in approx (2)
Hong Kong Volunteer Corps Edwardian Garrison Artillery helmet badge c.1902-08. Good RARE die-stamped British made white metal crowned strap HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS resting in laurel sprays on NULLI SECUNDUS IN ORIENTE scroll; voided centre flaming with grenade on GARRISON ARTILLERY scroll over Royal Arms. Original pointed slider. Original red felt central backing.VGC Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY
Hong Kong Volunteer Corps Victorian Field Battery Artillery helmet badge c. 1893-1902. Good rare die-stamped British made white metal crowned strap HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS resting in laurel sprays on NULLI SECUNDUS IN ORIENTE scroll; voided centre flaming with grenade on FIELD BATTERY scroll over Royal Arms. Pin fitting replaced with loops otherwise VGC. Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY
102nd Royal Madras Fusiliers pre 1881 Officer's fur cap grenade badge. Fine rich gilt flaming grenade; mounted on the domed ball, a crowned strap ROYAL MADRAS FUSILIERS with central floreated lined 102 resting on laurel sprays entwined with scroll bearing battle honours with silver Tiger on SPECTAMUR AGENDO scroll below. Stout pagri pin & hook. VGC Became 1st Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers on Friday 1st July 1881. Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY
Grenadier Guards Warrant Officer's pattern tunic. A very good bright example. Scarlet cloth with blue facings to the cuff, collar and epaulettes. The epaulettes are with bullion embroidered Royal cypher. The collar is of bullion lace mounted with silvered flaming grenade. The cuffs are with two lines of bullion lace denoting Warrant Officer. To the right sleeve bullion badge. Complete with post 1953 anodised buttons. Scarlet remains fresh. GC ... Accompanied by dark blue overall trousers with scarlet line (2 items) Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY
Bombay Artillery Victorian Indian Army Officer's pre 1858 plume holder badge. Fine rare gilt flaming grenade; the ball mounted with the Royal Arms over silver gun, with mounted wheel, resting on gilt scroll BOMBAY ARTILLERY. Screw posts. VGC The entire HEIC army was transferred from the Company to the Crown on 1st November 1858 as a result of the Indian Mutiny. Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY
7th (or Royal Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot glengarry badge c. 1874-81. Fine scarce die-stamped brass flaming grenade, the ball bearing crowned Garter and Rose with small 7 to centre. Brass loops North & South. VGC This is the actual item photographed as No. 14 in MHS Bulletin No. 211 Some Royal Fusilier Forage Cap Badges by Douglas Twomey Payment by Bank Transfer ONLY
A pair of silver mounted 'Dragon of Wantley' table lighters. Walker & Hall, Sheffield, 1932. Realistically modelled as dragons with twisted antelope horn bodies, each embossed to the chest with the words 'Ye Dragon of Wantley' and designed with wicks protruding from mouths and snuffers on chains, an arrow form lighting rod to the chest of one dragon, approx. 53.2cm long, 15cm high (2)Note: Please note that this lot is subject to CITES regulations (Appendix III). Please check your country's import regulations before bidding. It is the buyer's responsibility to obtain any relevant export licences. Footnotes: The Dragon of Wantley is a legend about a huge and terrible bat-winged dragon that was said to inhabit Wharncliffe Crags, near Sheffield in South Yorkshire. The legend was recounted in a comic ballad in 1685 and later made into an opera by Henry Carey in 1787. It tells the story of a dragon which terrorised villages, devouring trees, buildings and people before being slayed by a comic, inebriated knight in a bespoke suit of Sheffield armour. The knight, More of More Hall, kills the dragon by delivering a kick up its ‘arse gut’; the only vulnerable spot on its scaly body.Some consider the ballad to be nothing more than a flippant twist on the standard ‘George & the Dragon’ tale, intended to satirise medieval romance. However, the South Yorkshire historian, David Hey has argued that the ballad probably had its origins in the 1590s, in litigation between local people and their landlord Sir Richard Wortley. The litigation concerned tithes and enclosures –common sources of conflict in Elizabethan times – and he believed Sir Richard Wortley (d.1603) to be the prototype for the allegorical dragon. In real life, he argued, it was deer, rather than dragons, which ‘ate up men’.These table lighters are thought to have military associations (each dragon rests a front foot on a grenade) and may have been used in officers’ mess halls.Condition Report: The lighters are in good overall condition. Heavy tarnish to the silver mounts. Some general scratching and nicking commensurate with age. Hallmarks clear. One dragon is missing the arrow-shaped lighting rod to its chest. Antelope horns in good condition with only some small scratches, minor losses and marks noted. Rear legs to one dragon slightly wobbly - screws possibly a little loose. The other dragon is steady on feet. Some discolouration and solder noted to silver in places (difficult to assess due to heavy tarnish). Some small flecks of gilt paint noted to one dragon. Both heads unscrew to reveal cavities for wicks. Overall a very nice pair of table lighters. Further images available to download via this link: https://we.tl/t-ns33FYfZbm
"Chine - Vase en porcelaine polychrome Qianjiang cai a decor d'une courtisane et de poeme, anses en forme de grenade, XIX-XXeme. - Chine - Vase en porcelaine polychrome Qianjiang cai a decor d'une courtisane et de poeme, anses en forme de grenade, XIX-XXeme. Ref Goldfield: GFAD1242 Poids: 830GR Mesures: H 235MM X L 110MM Condition : Usure normale - Weight: 830 g - Region: Chine - Sizes: H 235MM X L 110MM"
A selection of various military badges and insignia including Northumberland Fusiliers fur cap grenade adapted on a plaque, silver and enamelled Australian Commonwealth Forces sweethearts badge, Central Association VTC lapel badge, Gordon Highlanders cap badge, German 1914-18 Cross of Honour and others etc
United States of America USA American model 1905 (possibly 1910 modified) sword bayonet, the blade ricasso stamped 'SA Grenade 1917 US 760532',(SA for Springfield Armoury), blade length 40cm, bayonet length 52cm, with scabbard and brown leather frog. See Carter and Walter The Bayonet page 116 figure 272 and Brayley Bayonets An Illustrated History page 232 for a comparable example.
A Victorian Volunteer Artillery officer's sword, The 83cm blade etched with etched with scrolls, cannon, grenade, lightning bolts, owners monogram and DCAV, retailed by Hobson & Sons, with fishskin grip, steel scabbard, overall length 99.5cm.Blade and scabbard rusted, wire grip binding lacking.
A Glengarry Cap Badge to 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Foot, circa 1874-81, in die stamped brass, the reverse with two fixing lugs; a Glengarry Cap Badge to the Northumberland Fusiliers, post-1881, in die stamped brass, the reverse with three fixing lugs; a Fur Cap Grenade Badge to a Volunteer Battalion the Northumberland Fusiliers, in die stamped white metal, the reverse with two fixing lugs (3)
A Good Early 19th Century 5th Northumberland Fusiliers Officer's Shoulder Belt Plate, of three part construction, with silvered metal flaming grenade set with a laurel wreath entwined with battle honours, enclosing a garter strap inscribed QUO FATA VOCANT, furthe enclosing a voided St George and the Dragon over V, the gilt brass base plate with seeded decoration, the reverse with two hooks and two fixing lugs
A Good 5th Northumberland Fusiliers Officer's Albert Pattern Shako Badge, with gilt flaming grenade set with silver metal laurel wreath entwined with battle honours enclosing a garter strap inscribed QUO FATA VOCANT, further enclosing voided St George and the Dragon over V, the reverse with four pairs of fixing pins.
a Victorian Officer's Silvered Metal and Enamel Fur Cap Badge to the 3rd Durham Fusiliers, as a flaming grenade applied 3 over enamelled garter strap enclosing a cross, with ribbon legend below, the reverse with two wires and a fixing lug; a Victorian Brass Cap Badge to the Durham Fusiliers, with QV crown over a garter strap enclosing flaming crossed grenade, with two fixing lugs (2)
A Northumberland Fusiliers Officer's Fur Cap Grenade Badge, circa 1867-1904, in gilt brass, the globe applied with circlet inscribed QUO FATA VOCANT, enclosing voided St George and the Dragon, the reverse with a screw fixing post and a split blade fixing post; a Post-1953 Northumberland Fusiliers Officer's Gold Bullion Thread Dress Cap Badge and Pair of Collar Badges, each with yellow cloth backing (4)
Three OR's Northumberland Fusiliers Grenade Fur Cap Badges, each in die stamped brass, two with two fixing lugs to the reverse; a Collection of Northumberland Fusiliers Items, including a post-1953 officer's waist belt clasp with staybrite badge, cap and collar badges in brass, bimetal and staybrite, brass shoulder titles, three sweetheart brooches and a bookmark.
AN 1857 PATTERN ROYAL ENGINEERS OFFICER'S SWORD by F. W. Flight of Winchester, the 33" barrel etched with maker's mark, crown over VR, Royal Coat of Arms, flaming grenade and Royal Engineer's insignia amid foliate scrolls, foliate decorated hilt, shagreen grip and steel scabbard, 39 1/4" long (Est. plus 24% premium inc. VAT)Condition Report: Scabbard rusty, slight bend to tip, small area of pitting on blade, small paint spot on grip. Tight scabbard fit.
AN 1821 PATTERN ARTILLERY OFFICER'S SWORD by W. W. White of Woolwich, the 34 1/2" blade etched with "HM" initials, Volunteer Artillery insignia, Royal Coat of Arms, flaming grenade and a cannon within foliate scroll work, typical steel hilt, shagreen grip, leather officer's knot and steel scabbard, 41" long (Est. plus 24% premium inc. VAT)Condition Report: Generally good, some loose wires on grip.
WW2 British Cap Badges to include: Fife & Forfar Yeomanry, East Surrey's, Irish Guards, 7th Queens Own Hussars, Suffolks, 23rd Hussars, Royal Sussex Regt, KRRC, RASC, ATS, Royal Marines, RAC, RAF, Intel Corps, RAPC, West African Frontier Force, Prince Alberts Own, Royal Signals in Plastic and Bronze, RASC Officers x 2, Officers Bronze Life Guards, Gloucesters back badge, RA Flaming Grenade bronze, XIII - XVIII Royal Hussars, Royal Horse Artillery, Lothians & Border Horse, etc.
Three Vintage Action Man Palitoy Soldiers of the World Accessory Cards, cat no 34251 contents flame thrower, machete sheath, Sterling machine gun, missing ammo belt, Rifle Rack, collapsible rifle rack, with M16, M1 rifle and carbine (missing grenade launcher and Bunk Bed, canvas bunk bed with leaflet, missing one pole, all in fair to good condition. ( 3 items)
REGGAE/ DUB - LP COLLECTION. A quality collection of 37 reggae LPs. Artists/ titles include Horace Andy - Good Vibes (BAFLP 019, Limited No: 2558. Records VG+/ sleeve VG+), Errol Flabba Holt - Roots Radics Dub (RJLP001), Words In Dub (Pressure Sounds 101), African Head Charge - Voodoo Of The Godsent (M/ Sealed), Lee Scratch Perry inc Black Ark Experiments, Judgement In Babylon. Dub Syndicate - No Bed Of Roses (M/ Sealed), Barry Brown - Praises, Alpha Blondy - Jah Glory, Tack Head - Friendly As A Hand Grenade, Yabby You And The Prophets - Jah Will Be Done. Glen Brown, Reggae Willing & Able, Frankie Paul, Sir Coxsone & Duke Reid, Suns Of Arqa, Delroy Wilson, The Cables, Gregory Isaacs, Little Roy, Vin Gordon, I Man, Pablo Moses, Wayne Jarrett, Toots & The Maytals. Condition is generally VG+ to Ex+, odd one may drop to VG.
General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, South Arabia (2) (24080032 Pte. D. J. Absalom. Som. L.I.; 23869139 Pte. C. J. Shearn. Som. L.I.) slight scratches to second, very fine (2) £100-£140 --- D. Absalom attested for the Somerset Light Infantry and served with A Company in Aden from 21 May to 24 July 1966. The regimental gazette of October 1966 notes that he was wounded by a grenade. Sold with copied medal roll extract.
A scarce M.S.M. for gallantry awarded to Acting Company Sergeant Major J. S. Holborn, M.M., 4th Regiment, South African Infantry, who was twice decorated for initiative and courage and was later killed in action during the German Spring Offensive on 17 April 1918 Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (X15 A.Cpl. J. S. Holborn. 4/S.A. Inf:) traces of adhesive to reverse, minor edge bruise, nearly extremely fine and scarce to unit £300-£400 --- M.M. London Gazette 9 July 1917. The original recommendation - initially for a D.C.M. - states: ‘In the operations on 9 April [1917] this Non Commissioned Officer was in charge of a platoon and displayed great initiative and courage. In the attack on the second objective he led a bombing attack against a portion of the enemy and dispersed them. In the operations of 12 April, he again led his platoon in a very gallant manner and by his courage act - a very splendid example to the men. In this attack he was wounded, but in the arm and the leg but refused to leave his post for nearly four hours after being wounded and until he had been assured that his platoon was in a secure position.’ M.S.M. London Gazette 9 March 1917. The original recommendation states: ‘For Gallantry in the Performance of Military Duty. During a course of instruction in live grenade throwing, an N.C.O. threw a live mills bomb which lodged in the parapet of the trench just above his head. L/Cpl. Holborn pushed the man aside and grasping the bomb threw it over the parapet, thus averting a most serious accident and probably saving several lives. Deed performed at Bordon, 23 July 1916.’ John Simpson Holborn, a boilermaker, was born in Gourock, Scotland, around 1876, and attested for the 4th South African Infantry at Bordon on 29 November 1915. Allocated the Regimental number ‘X15’ and attached to “K” Company, he disembarked at Rouen for the Western Front shortly after his M.S.M. winning exploits and was promoted Corporal in the trenches on 8 August 1916. Further promoted Sergeant 6 November 1916, his service records state that he survived the Battle of the Somme but was wounded in action on 12 April 1917, during the action for which he was awarded the Military Medal. Evacuated to Eastbourne suffering from a severe gunshot wound to the right hip, he returned to Belgium in March 1918 as Acting Company Sergeant Major. He was killed in action a short while later on 17 April 1918; he has no known grave and is commemorated upon the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Sold with copied service record and private research.
‘The performance of duty by this rating has had a tremendous effect on the operations carried out by “Torbay” and there have been occasions when his efficiency has saved the submarine from probable disaster.’ High praise indeed. Commander A. C. C. ‘Crap’ Miers, V.C., D.S.O., R.N., in his assessment of Petty Officer Telegraphist E. K. Kember, D.S.M., in August 1942. The Second War submariner’s D.S.M. and Bar group of five awarded to Petty Officer Telegraphist E. K. Kember, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his services in H.M.S. Truant in Norwegian waters in 1940 and in H.M.S. Torbay in the Mediterranean in 1941-42; a key player in the achievements of the latter submarine, which was skippered by V.C.-winning Commander A. C. C. Miers, R.N., he also won a ‘mention’ following Torbay’s part in Operation ‘Flipper’, the ill-fated raid on Rommel’s H.Q. Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar (J. 133432 E. K. Kember, L. Tel., H.M.S. Truant) impressed naming; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, with small M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted court-style for display, good very fine (5) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- D.S.M. London Gazette 9 May 1940: ‘In recognition of daring, endurance and resource in the conduct of hazardous and successful operations in His Majesty’s Submarines against the enemy.’ Bar to D.S.M. London Gazette 7 July 1942: ‘For gallant service in successful patrols while serving in H.M. Submarine Torbay.’ The original recommendation states: ‘For great skill and exceptional devotion to duty during seven war patrols, as Higher Telegraphist Detector, in H.M.S. Torbay, in the course of which he has brought his department to a very high standard of efficiency, and been responsible on frequent occasions for enemy ships being sighted and subsequently sunk after he has reported the bearing on which to look out. On ten occasions of it being necessary to communicate submerged with other submarines on patrol, to check position or pass intelligence reports, he has been completely successful, sometimes at very long range, and on twelve occasions of carrying out special operations in shallow waters off the enemy coast, or making reconnaissances and attacking shipping in enemy harbours, the efficient working of the supersonic sounding machine, and the ranges obtained by S.S.T. of the beach and coastline have been invaluable. Upon no other rating has so much depended on numerous occasions of enemy A./S. searches, hunts and counter-attacks, and the success of the operations and the safety of the submarine have frequently required him to remain at his post for periods exceeding ten hours without relaxing his vigilance, and on many of these occasions, I have relied implicitly upon him, and never in vain. His alertness on 20 December [1941] when, due to a gyro failure, a torpedo commenced to circle may have saved the submarine, since he gave me warning in time to take the submarine deep.’ Ernest Kynoch Kember was born at Glandford Brigg, Lincolnshire, on 24 February 1914, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Telegraphist in the early 1930s. Volunteering for submarines in the following year, he qualified as a Higher Telegraphist Detector in September 1938, the same year in which he was advanced to Leading Telegraphist. Shortly after the outbreak of hostilities, he joined H.M. submarine Truant, and he remained likewise employed until February 1941, gaining advancement to Petty Officer Telegraphist and his first D.S.M. in the same period. The latter distinction arose from Truant’s early operations in Norwegian waters and, more specifically, her torpedo strike on the German light cruiser Karlsruhe on 9 April 1940. Truant was positioned off Kristiansand when she launched her attack, one of her torpedoes striking the enemy cruiser amidships on the starboard side, blasting a large hole in her hull and allowing thousands of tons of water to flood in. The flooding disabled her engines and electrical generators, which cut off the power required to operate her pumps. The order to abandon ship was given and the enemy torpedo boat Greif took off her crew before scuttling Karlsruhe with a brace of torpedoes. Kember was next deployed in Truant to the Mediterranean, in which she operated out of Gibraltar, Alexandria and Malta with notable success. In September 1940, she forced the scuttling of the German merchantman Tropic Sea and torpedoed and sank the Italian merchantman Providenza, the latter in a position off Ischia. And in December 1940, in the course of her 14th and 15th war patrols, she torpedoed and sank the Italian merchantman Sebastiano off Calabria and the tanker Bonzo off Punta Stilo, in addition to surviving a depth-charge attack from the Italian torpedo boat Alcione north of Tripoli, an attack that ‘shook Truant considerably. Returning to the U.K. in the new year, Kember joined the Torbay in April 1941, the commencement of his time under Commander A. C. C. ‘Crap’ Miers, R.N., who, over the coming months, would be awarded the V.C. and a brace of D.S.O.s for his aggressive leadership and mounting toll on the enemy. And that toll – and Torbay’s very survival – was largely owing to Kember’s skills as a Higher Telegraphist Director. So, too, in part to Miers’ unusual tactics when under depth-charge attack. Peter Padfield’s War Beneath the Sea explains: ‘His technique when hunted differed from that of most C.O.s; he never dived below about 80 feet - whether or not there was, as in this case, a ‘feather-bed’ layer - believing that the submarine’s frame and vulnerable hatch and other openings were in a better condition to resist the shock waves from depth-charges when not already under extreme pressure at maximum depth; further that he could more easily come up to periscope depth to review the position from 80 feet. By shutting off all auxiliary motors and maintaining the lowest speed compatible with holding trim, he hoped to remain undetectable by the Italian passive listening devices ... ’ If Torbay’s third war patrol in July 1941 was typical of her mounting Mediterranean score - her final ‘bag’ on that occasion amounting to the Italian submarine Jantina, the freighter Citta di Tripoli, the tanker Strombo, and several local troop and supply transports, including caiques – it also resulted in mounting controversy regarding the use of her guns against enemy soldiers and crew in just such troop-carrying caiques. The first indication of that controversy arose on 4 July, when Miers surfaced to engage with guns an enemy troop-carrying caique and schooner, between Andros and Euboea - having sunk both vessels, two Lewis guns were used from Torbay’s bridge to destroy ‘everything and everybody’. Then on 9 July similar tactics were employed against another troop-carrying caique - also laden with petrol, ammunition and food supplies. And it was on this second occasion that matters appear to have got out of hand, although it is worth noting that the enemy showed stout resistance on being boarded - a Corporal in the Special Boat Section had to shoot a German he saw about to hurl a grenade, and one of Torbay’s officers was compelled to dispatch another who was in the process of raising his rifle. Interestingly, this was not the first time that the R.N. had attracted adverse commentary from enemy survivors, German Naval High Command having alre...
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