A Great War D.C.M., M.M. group of four awarded to Serjeant E. J. West, King’s Royal Rifle Corps distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (R-7339 Cpl., 6/K.R.R.C.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (R-7339 Sjt., D.C.M., 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (R-7339 Sjt., K. R. Rif. C.); together with a set of four miniature dress medals, good very fine (8) £1800-2200 d.C.M. London Gazette 13 February 1917. ‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He got on to the parapet under heavy fire, and drove back the enemy parties on both sides of the trench. Later, he rallied and led forward a party of men’. m.M. London Gazette 7 October 1918. edward James West was born in 1892. Coming from Staines and a Lino Maker by occupation, he enlisted into the K.R.R.C. on 18 November 1914. Serving with the 6th Battalion K.R.R.C. he was awarded the D.C.M. for conspicuous gallantry on 22 July 1916. Later serving with the 2nd Battalion he was awarded the M.M. for bravery. He was transferred to the Army Reserve on 10 February 1919. After the war he returned to employment with the Staines Lino Company and worked for a total of 48 years with them until his eyesight failed. He came to St. Dunstans in 1954. He died on 28 January 1972 leaving a widow and a married daughter. According to the vendor who purchased these medals directly from the family he was told that the M.M. was awarded for saving men’s lives on the Somme river. sold with copied research; the recipient’s Certificate of Transfer to Reserve; Certificate of Emloyment during the War; handwritten notes re the forwarding of the D.C.M. and M.M. dated 1919; a letter from St. Dunstan’s re. a pension, dated 2 March 1954; St. Dunstan’s Golden Jubilee 1915-65 London Reunion Invitation Card to Mr and Mrs West; together with a Menu, which includes a list of St. Dunstaners (including West) attending; St. Dunstans Review, March 1972 - with obituary; several photographs including two of the recipient in uniform; and one of recipient’s sweetheart whom he later married; also with a K.R.R.C. cap badge and three metal and two cloth badges and a leather wallet. £1800-£2200
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China 1842 (P. A. Helpman, Lieut. H.M.S. Columbine), with replacement silver mount and contemporary gold swivel straight bar suspension, with gold buckle and brooch bar, edge bruising, very fine £750-850 Philip Augustus Helpman entered the Royal Navy on 19 July 1821; passed his examination in 1828 and obtained his first commission on 26 March 1839, following service aboard the gig Fair Rosamund and an attack on a pirate brig off Benin. On 3 January 1840 he became an Additional- Lieutenant of the Wellesley, on the East India Station; and on 19 Jan. 1841, was there appointed to the Columbine. He served in the China campaign, where, besides sharing in the actions of May 1841 against Canton, he served on shore in those of March 1842 against Tsekee, and further participated in the attack of 16 June on the batteries at Woosung. For his services in the campaign Helpman was advanced to the rank of Commander on 23 December 1842. On 20 Feb. 1846 he was appointed Coast Guard Inspecting Commander at Sunderland and placed on Retired Pay on 5 February 1858. king John VI of Portugal's Jewel: Portrait Badges Awarded to Officers of H.M. Ships Windsor Castle and Lively for a 'Nasty Occurrence'. Ref K. Douglas-Morris Naval Medals 1793-1856, p. 209 records the names and ranks of all officers aboard H.M. Ships Windsor Castle and Lively on 13 May 1824, and therefore probable recipients of King John VI of Portugal's 'Portrait Badges'. Philip Helpman is shown as Midshipman on the Windsor Castle with a footnote for his entitlement to the China Medal 1842. Whilst the Portuguese Jewel is not known to Helpman, other ‘Portrait Badges’ are known to other Midshipmen on the Windsor Castle and it is therefore possible that Helpman also received one. Sold with copied research. £750-£850
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (4683 Tpr. K. Barkham, 50th Coy. 17th Impl. Yeo.) lacquered, nearly very fine £160-180 Trooper Barkham was a member of the original 50th (Hampshire) Company, 17th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, and landed in South Africa on 4 May 1900. £160-£180
Victory Medal 1914-19 (9) (J.42503 A. Dainton, Boy 1, R.N.; L.3909 H. G. Dakers, O.S., R.N.; K.32128 W. Edwards, Sto.1, R.N.; 347399 F. W. Wilkins, C.E.R.A.2, R.N.; Ply.13854 Pte. E. F. Fisher, R.M.L.I.; 1DG-6044 Pte. F. Tizzard, 5-D. Gds.; 22046 Pte. F. Kirkham, North’d. Fus.; 235270 Pte. J. A. Cooke, L’pool. R.; 22300 Gnr. C. H. Gaudie, 3 D.A.C. A.I.F.) nearly very fine and better (9) £140-180 Boy 1st Class Arthur Dainton, R.N., was killed in action whilst serving on the battlecruiser Invincible at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. He was the son of Charles Henry and Ellen Dainton of 38 Granville Road, Woodford, London. officer’s Steward 2nd Class Henry George Dakers, R.N., was killed in action on 1 January 1915 when the battleship Formidable was torpedoed and sunk by the U.24 off Portland Bill. stoker 1st Class W. Edwards, R.N., died on 5 July 1918 whilst serving aboard the destroyer Landrail. He was buried in the Cefn Crib Baptist Graveyard. chief Electrical Artificer 2nd Class Frederick William Wilkins, R.N., was killed in action whilst serving on the armoured cruiser Black Prince at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. He was the husband of Beatrice C. Wilkins of 46 Tennyson Road, Copnor, Portsmouth. private Ernest Frederick Fisher, R.M.L.I., serving on H.M.S. Doris, died on 23 May 1918. He was the son of Mr & Mrs Frederick Fisher of 23 Falcon Road, Guildford, Surrey. His name is recorded on the Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial. francis Tizzard was born in Dorchester, lived in Tolpiddle and enlisted at Dorchester. Serving with the 5th Dragoon Guards, he was killed in action on 16 November 1914. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. frederick Kirkham was born in Walsall, Staffordshire and enlisted at Buxton, Derbyshire. Serving with the 12th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, he was killed in action on 14 March 1916. He was buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, and was the son of Joseph and Jane Kirkham of Reaps Moor, Staffordshire. lance-Corporal James Ashton Cooke was born in Haslingdon, Lancashire and enlisted at Manchester. Serving with the 6th Battalion Liverpool Regiment, he was killed in action, 21 October 1918, aged 20 years. He was buried in the Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension and was the son of Robert and Edith Cooke of 39 Queen’s Road, Oldham. gunner Charles H. M. Gaudie, 3rd Division Ammunition Column, Australian Army Service Corps, died on 23 January 1920, aged 38 years. £140-£180
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948), a letter dated 13.2.46 from Gandhi to Agnes Phillips, handwritten by another but signed 'Love, yours, M. K. Gandhi' by Gandhi and with 'Agnes' inserted by him after 'My dear'. Contained in a typewritten envelope, the last paragraph of the letter reads: 'My doings you should follow from the papers. This is merely a line to tell you that my love does not suffer because I do not hear from you or because you are so far away from me'. Agnes Phillips, born in St Helen's in 1884, was the niece of the Reverend Charles Phillips of Johannesburg. Gandhi met her when she moved to South Africa at the beginning of the last century to look after her uncle's children. They remained in contact for the rest of Gandhi's life and he visited her regularly. Provenance: by family descent
Middlesex Imperial Yeomanry, a scarce EVIIR die-stamped bronze osd cap (lacking blades), two pairs brass ‘MIY’ shoulder titles; MIDDLESEX YEOMANRY a scarce die-stamped bronze GVR cap (lacking slider) and a similar GVR white metal cap; 9th London Regt a rare pair of cloth shoulder titles ‘QVR’ black on khaki (some mothing); silver bullion on scarlet crossed rifles marksman's arm badge, 13 black horn buttons K/C over St George/Dragon worn by 9th Bn London; Princess Mary's 1914 tin (empty and discoloured). Good condition. (24)
WWII Division Signs, ‘R’ Force (embroidered ‘R’ on black shield) (worn); 34th Armoured Div (printed, some fading); R.E Airfield Construction Groups (embroidered, some wear) ‘AUSTRALIA’ embroidered shoulder title white on khaki together with Div sign khaki/light blue triangles on pale grey backing, Polish Forces embroidered grey eagle on pale khaki hessian oval; unknown large black shield maroon border with embroidered cross in yellow ad black swords on top arm of cross, all on khaki backing. Cloth shoulder titles, printed, ROYAL NAVY, MONMOUTHSHIRE, HEREFORDSHIRE (all from uniform, some fading) embroidered ‘SHARPSHOOTERS’ (yellow/green, worn) ‘IRISH GUARDS’ (white/green), ‘CAMERONIANS’ (black/green) ‘CIVILIAN/MIL.GOV/OFFICER’ (gold on green), all removed from uniform; together with a K/C General's cap badge and one relevant collar tab, a Royal Naval officer's K/C cap badge-some wear to the latter item and the gold wire oxidised on both. Some wear over all. (18)
A late 19th Century Swiss Silver Cased Full Hunter Pocket Watch, Billodes for the Turkish market, the silvered and gilt jewelled movement with bi-metallic balance, to a Turkish enamelled dial (hairline), and signed K Serkisoff & Co, Constantinople, with outside minute track and subsidiary seconds and spade hands, in a hinged case with base cuvette and engine turned covers to a vacant cartouche, width 2”
Arthur Karel Maderson (b.1942) Beach Scene signed lower right "A K Maderson" oil on board 19 x 27cm Provenance: Private collection, UK Arthur Maderson was born in London and studied at Camberwell School of Art under Frank Auerbach and Robert Medley. He exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and won the Cornellisen Award for most distinguished artist in 1987. He has had solo exhibitions in London and Ireland. In 1989 Maderson settled in County Waterford, but travels frequently and paints in the Cevenne in the south of France.
An 18th Century 30 Hour Oak Longcase Clock, Circa 1720 of good colour & patination. The single handed 11 inch (28 cm) square brass dial inscribed W.Hough, Wrexham along the chapter ring encircling a matted centre engraved with scrolling foliate sprays surrounding a calendar aperture & having decorative brass spandrels to the corners. The thirty hour movement striking the hour on a bell. The hood carved with the initials M D K 1740, and having turned columns flanking the glazed door. The arch-topped slender trunk door edged in applied D-mouldings. Standing 75½ ins (192 cms) high, 17½ ins (44.5 cms) wide and 11½ ins (29 cms) deep.
Two Zurich saucers, finely painted with a gentleman or peasant in a landscape, with gilt dentil rim, 13cm diam, impressed K or N, painted Z in underglaze blue, c1770 ++The painting of both saucers very slightly scratched as a result of stacking wear, the gilding on the rims a little rubbed in places. On one saucer a small flat rim chip but both still quite attractive. No restoration
Ladies' antique diamond solitaire ring, comprising cushion shaped old European cut diamond, approx. 1.40 carats, valuation gives clarity as SI & colour as K, in six double claw setting, chenier tube shoulders, each set with three eight cut diamonds in beaded settings, plain polished shank, stamped 18ct & platinum, size L or 5.3/4 US, (2.9g) comes with insurance valuation of £6500.00
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