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Click here to subscribeNo Reserve - Yellow gold / platinum Art Deco ring with approx. 1.36 ct. diamond and synthetic sapphires. Set with eight Old European cut diamonds totaling approx. 1.36ct. (VS-SI / H - K) and faceted synthetic sapphires. In good condition. Hallmarks: Dutch assay mark 585 and PT950. Ring size: 16.75 mm / 53 mm. Weight: 3.15 grams. This lot will be auctioned without reserve price.
No Reserve - 14K yellow gold entourage ring set with approx. 1.37 ct old cut diamond. Set with ten Old European cut diamonds totaling approx. 1.37 ct, (SI - P / H - I), of which the central diamond is approx. 0.56 ct. (5.35 x 5.43 x 3.01 mm) (SI / K - L). In good condition. Hallmarks: Dutch hallmark 585. Ring size: 18.5 mm / 58 mm. Weight: 4.43 grams. This lot will be auctioned without reserve price.
KRIKOR BEDIKIAN (FRENCH, 1908-1981)Places des Vosges, Automne signed 'K. Bedikian' (lower right), further signed and titled (verso) oil on canvas 65 x 55cm ARR Provenance Private collection, UKCondition reportA little fine craquelure lower left to head of middle seated person on bench.A horizontal line visible from centre left edge running through tree with orange leaves but this appears to be original to canvas/the work.Otherwise appears in generally good presentable condition and ready to hang.
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972)Private, 1st K. A. R. signed with initials 'M. M.' (lower right), inscribed with title (lower centre) and further inscribed (to backboard) watercolour 36.5 x 26.5cm (unframed) ARR Provenance The artist, thence by descent to her grandson; Private collection, UKFootnoteMargaret was brought up in Horsted Keynes, East Sussex. She studied art at the Slade under Professor Tonks alongside Gwen and Augustus John. She then set up and ran a small commercial art studio in London. When she married, she moved to Nyasaland (Malawi) with her husband who worked for the Agriculture Department of the Colonial Office. They had a small farm of their own where Metcalfe stayed until moving back to the UK in the early 1960s. Throughout her long life she produced a large and varied body of work, much of it recording the people and landscapes of her beloved African home. She regularly exhibited her work both in Malawi and South Africa.The purpose of this sale of work is to raise money for the charity “Mary’s Meals” so as to provide free lunches for schoolchildren in Malawi.
Paris (Matthew). Flores Historiarum per Matthaeum Westmonasteriensem collecti: praecipue de rebus Britannicis: Ab exordio mundi usque ad annum Domini MCCCVII. Et Chronicon ex Chronicis, ab initio mundi usque ad annum Domini MCXVIII deductum: Auctore Florentio Wigorniensi monacho. Cui accessit Continuatio usque ad annum Christi MCXLI per quendam euisdem coenobii eruditum, 2 parts in 1, Francofurti: Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & heredes Joannis Aubrii, 1601, publisher's woodcut device to title and verso of final leaf, woodcut initials, occasional early annotations in brown ink (especially to the chronicle of Florence of Worcester towards rear of volume), probably in the hand of Robert Jocelyn, Earl of Roden, some light foxing and a few small marginal waterstains, old annotation referring to the 'Catalogus Histor' of John Joscelyn to recto and verso of front endpaper, engraved armorial bookplate of the Earl of Roden K. St. P. to front pastedown, with old shelf label to upper outer corner, old calf, modern good-quality reback, folioQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden (1788-1870), styled Viscount Jocelyn between 1797 and 1820, Irish Tory politician and supporter of Protestant causes (bookplate).Reprint of the second edition (London, 1570) of Matthew Paris's important historical chronicle (formerly attributed to 'Matthew of Westminster'), as edited by Matthew Parker. The text covering the period to 1259 is based on the author's Chronica Majora; the 1259-1307 text was compiled and composed by various writers at St. Albans and Westminster; the text from 1307 to 1325 is by Robert of Reading. Includes the chronicle based on the work of Marianus previously attributed to Florence of Worcester, now attributed to John of Worcester.
Putnam, publisher. Hawker Aircraft since 1920, by Francis K. Mason, 1st edition, London, 1961, British Aircraft 1809-1914, by Peter Lewis, 1st edition, 1962, Bristol Aircraft since 1910, by C. H. Barnes, 1st edition, 1964, Boeing Aircraft since 1916, by Peter M. Bowers, 1st edition, 1966, Miles Aircraft since 1925, by Don. L. Brown, 1st edition, 1970, Armament of British Aircraft 1909-1939, by H. F. King, 1st edition, 1971, together with other mixed edition Putnam published aviation reference, all with numerous monochrome illustrations, all original cloth in dust jackets, some covers price clipped, rubbed & slightly faded, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (3 shelves)NOTE:51 volumes
London. A collection of approximately 140 maps and prints, mostly 19th & 20th-century, engraved maps, views, plans and road maps of London, London streets and environs, mostly uncoloured, including examples by or after W. Clarke, B. Cole, J. & C. Walker, W. & A. K. Johnston. Faithorn & Newcourt, A & C Black, Thomson, Robert Wilkinson, Alex Hogg, Edward Weller, Bonner, Tallis, Walker & Boutall, Alfred Lambert, J. Stockdale, Sid Hall, G. Bickham, Sutton Nicholls, James Basire, J. Booth, J. T. Pickvurn, Hoorwood, Ordinance Survey, Stanford's Geographical Establishment, Thorntons New & Complete survey, Stows Survey, Noorthouk's History of London, The London Magazine, Harrison's History of London and The Illustrated London News, some duplicates, various sizes and condition QTY: (approx. 140)
Cruchley (G. K. publisher). Cruchley's Complete Railway & Station Map of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland, This Map is Half the Scale of the Ordnance Map of England, circa 1860, double-page calligraphic title, index map and 65 (complete as index map) engraved double-page maps, all with contemporary wash colouring, index maps and sheets 1, 2, 3, 10 and 19 with repaired closed tears, some affecting the printed image, additional unattributed railway map of Scotland tipped in before the title page, later endpapers, later half cloth over contemporary boards with contemporary morocco gilt title label to the upper siding, worn and stained, folioQTY: (1)
Perkins (John). A Profitable Booke of Master John Perkins Fellow of the Inner Temple. Treating of the Lawes of England, London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1609, [24],168 leaves (A-B12, B-P12), title with small woodcut device, black letter text, contemporary ownership signature to front blank of Edward Kelley, some marginal annotations in brown ink (presumably in his hand), contemporary blind-ruled full calf, with blind stamped ownership initials to each cover E K, modern reback with morocco gilt spine label, a little rubbed and wear to outer corners, 12moQTY: (1)NOTE:STC19642.
Glaisher (James, 1809-1903) [and Glaisher, Cecilia Louisa, 1828-1892]. Snow Crystals, Observed by James Glaisher, Esq., F.R.S., from February 8th to March 10th, 1855, no place, [1855], letterpress drop-title and 63 wood-engraved monochrome plates printed individually in black, blue, brown, green or grey on rectos of thin card, images 75 x 75 mm, three ownership inscriptions to title, P[eter] Le Neve Foster, W[illiam] B[olger] Gibbs (in pencil) and Michael K[ingsley] Williams, sepia half-tone illustration of ‘Spray Ridges of Ice’ after a photograph by Herbert Ponting bound before title, all edges gilt, early 20th-century green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf (dated 1907), slightly rubbed, spine browned, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Peter Le Neve Foster (1809-1879) was an English barrister and mathematician. He is known as an innovative secretary of the Royal Society of Arts. Foster was an early amateur photographer, and was one of the founders of the Photographic Society and a pioneer photographer of the Calotype Club. He was a contributor to scientific and technical journals; in the Journal of the Society of Arts he wrote a good deal, but generally anonymously. He would have crossed paths with Glaisher at scientific meetings.One of his sons was Sir Clement le Neve Foster FRS (1841-1904), an English geologist and mineralogist.William Bolger Gibbs FRAS (1834-1925), was a Member of the Stock Exchange, but took a great deal of interest in astronomy, mathematics, microscopy and geology. He would have come into contact with the Foster family through shared scientific interests and related society meetings.Michael Kingsley Williams (1929-1958) switched from studying engineering to medicine while at Merton College, Oxford. He worked as a GP in Surrey for most of his life. The address given by him on the title-page is 12 Tower Park, Fowey, where his father was a vicar.Christie’s New York sold an identical set (loosely contained in a box) for USD 20,160 (27 January 2023, lot 35). Their suggestion that it was perhaps a unique set is now clearly incorrect but no other sets beyond these two have been located.As part a ‘Wonders of the Microscope’ soirée held by the [Royal] Microscopical Society of London on 11 April 1855 James Glaisher presented a special exhibition of photographs depicting snow crystals. Preparation for the exhibition was undertaken in collaboration with his wife, Cecilia Louisa Glaisher, a photographer and printer who redrew the observations for publication. During his presidency, the R.M.S. was granted a Charter and one of the Glaishers' magnified snowflakes was selected to be the Society’s official emblem, and remains so today.‘At the same time as making her photogenic drawings of ferns, Cecilia Glaisher was working with her husband, James Glaisher, superintendent of the Meteorological and Magnetic Department at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, on a study of snow crystals.Their observations, made through lenses of different power, resulted in an important scientific paper, 'On the Severe Weather at the beginning of the year 1855; and on Snow and Snow-Crystals'. It was read by James Glaisher at the Fifth Annual General Meeting of the British Meteorological Society on May 22nd, 1855, and was subsequently published by the Society in their 5th Annual Report.The paper was illustrated by 151 reproductions of precise schematic drawings of snow crystal forms which, Glaisher wrote, ‘were executed by Mrs Glaisher from rough sketches of my own.’ These illustrations have been described as ‘the most accurate observations published before the development of photomicrography.’’ (Ceciliaglaisher.com)The first four pages of Glaisher’s paper (including title-page with decorative rule) contain 88 numbered black and white illustrations of snow crystals reproduced at a diameter of 2 cm each. Glaisher wrote that ‘the greater number [of snowflakes] fell during the present year (1855), and before Feb. 8’ and that they had been observed through ‘a lens of very moderate power’, adding that ‘they are chiefly valuable as showing the general effect to the naked eye.’ These are followed by 63 crystals [as in the lot offered here] seen more greatly magnified, often examined under a microscope, the result of observations on 8 days between 8 February and 10 March. They were reproduced two to a page at a diameter of 7.5 cm and were ‘selected rather as varieties illustrative of a class, than for any special symmetry of form’.
Fortescue (John). De laudibus legum Angliae writ[t]en by Sir John Fortescue L. Ch. Justice, and after L. Chancellor to K. Henry VI. Hereto are joind the two Summes of Sir Ralph de Hengham L. Ch. Justice to K. Edward I. commonly call[e]d Hengham magna, and Hengham parua. Never before publisht. Notes both on Fortescue and Hengham are added, London: For the Companie of Stationers, 1616, [16] p., 132, [3] leaves; 56, [12], 35, 34-159, [3] p., without initial blank, title with wear and loss to margins and lined to verso, text to first part in double-column printed in black letter and roman type in Latin and English, second part title with early inscription to upper margin, text to second part in single-column Latin text, final blank present with early manuscript notes, occasional early underscoring and marginalia, light worming at head to some leaves towards rear of volume, some toning, light dust-soiling and few leaves with very light damp-staining, 18th-century marbled calf, modern reback with gilt decorative motifs to spine compartments and red morocco title label, small 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:STC 11197.The first part is a translation by Robert Mulcaster of: De laudibus legum Angliae.
Mosquito Aircraft Museum Signed Collection of 22 FDCs & one unsigned signatures include G P Aird, R K Dowd, Don Daines, M S Goodfellow, S Brecken, plus many others, good condition. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Battle of Britain Collection of 5 Signed FDCs signatures include Dennis David, H K Wakefield, Tom Neil, plus others, good condition. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Mosquito Aircraft Museum Signed & one unsigned Collection of 14 FDCs signatures include S Brecken, A R Edmunds, G P Aird, D S Hicks, R K Dowd, plus others, good condition. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
RAF Museum Collection of 22 Signed FDCs signatures include Winston S Churchill (Grandson), J D Lomas, K L Handscomb, D Ward, R Head, Sir Michael Beetham, plus many others, good condition. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Royal Air Force Airfields Signed Collection of 36 FDCs signatures include G D Andrews, K J White, G Taylor, G M Hermitage, J Greig, plus many others, good condition. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
A small collection of jewellery, comprising; a 9ct gold garnet cluster ring, size N, a 9ct gold five stone opal and garnet ring, size Q 1/2, a synthetic sapphire ring, the yellow metal shank indistinctly stamped, size K, a 9ct gold tanzanite and diamond pendant on chain, a 9ct gold heart shaped locket pendant on chain, a 9ct gold red paste and split seed pearl bar brooch and a yellow metal entwined hoop brooch, not stamped, total weight approx 20.8g (7)
A sapphire and diamond ring, not stamped, size I, together with a stylised buckle ring, stamped ‘9ct’, size P, a single stone amethyst ring, stamped ‘9ct’, size J, an opal set ring, stamped ‘9ct’, size F 1/2 and a stone set band, stamped ‘9ct’, size K, total weight approx 11.2g (some damage) (5)
A late 19th century three stone emerald and diamond ring, designed as a central square faceted emerald flanked to each side by an old mine cut diamond, all claw set in yellow metal, the yellow metal shank stamped '18ct', ring size K, weight approx 3.1gCondition:Diamonds each measure approx 4.4mm x 4mm x 1.2mm deep, clarity estimated approx SI1-SI2, colour estimated approx G-H, emerald measures approx 5.4mm x 4.3mm x 3.5mm deep, some abrasion to the facet edges and internal inclusions, wear to claws and mount, general wear, refer to images
A Victorian three stone ruby and diamond ring, hallmarked London 1877, ring size O, together with an 18ct gold seven stone ruby and diamond ring, hallmarked Birmingham 1909, size P, an 18ct gold three stone sapphire and split seed pearl ring, hallmarked Chester 1907, size K, a seven stone emerald and diamond ring stamped '14k', size O and a blue stone set bar brooch, not stamped, total weight approx 12.8g (5)
A 9ct yellow gold and citrine ring, size N 1/2, together with an 18ct yellow gold wedding band size K, a 9ct yellow gold band, size L, two gilt metal pendants, and a gilt metal and green guilloche enamel pendant on gilt metal chain. (qty) 9ct citrine ring 3.5g; 18ct band 4.5 grams; 9ct band 1.5 grams
A pair of Japanese Imari-ware 'La Dame au Parasol' platesEdo periodEach painted in underglaze blue and enamelled and gilt to the centre with an elegant lady wearing a kimono, and her maidservant holding a parasol, the reverse with seven iron-red insects, 22.5cm diameter each (2).Provenance: K. Main Collection, J-22 (label associated to one plate).The Dame au Parasol is one of the most famous designs by Cornelis Pronk, the famous Dutch draughtsman and porcelain designer. He was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to produce a number of designs to be produced by Chinese and Japanese potters; the Dame au Parasol is the only design known to exist in both Chinese and Japanese porcelain.According to contemporary sources it was not possible to agree a reasonable price with Japanese potters, so no orders were made; a few plates of this design are however known, and in Museum collections worldwide, including the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) or the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Gift of Leo and Doris Hodroff), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New-York). Cf. C.J.A. Jorg, Pronk Porcelain, pp. 71-3; T. Volker, The Japanese Porcelain Trade of the Dutch East India Company after 1683, (Leiden, 1959), p. 78-81.For a similar example, see Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, (London, 1965), pl. 46A. Condition Report: Expected light wear consistent with age and firing imperfections consistent with type, including some spots of crazing to glaze.One dish with approx. 8x5.5cm U-shaped rim section broken off and restored, with circular infills to the reverse to suggest it was possibly originally riveted.
Sidney Whitehead-Smith – Portrait of a Man wearing a Beret in a Mountainous Landscape, early 20th century scraperboard, signed, 36cm x 27cm, together with a pen with ink illustration, four pencil drawings by the same hand, and approximately 30 further watercolours and drawings by different hands including examples from the 19th and 20th century, within a folio. Note: Sidney Whitehead-Smith was an artist, sculptor and illustrator who lived for many years in Rugby, Warwickshire. He provided illustrations for John H. Fuller Davies ‘Infirmary’ (Arthur Stockwell Ltd, 1934) and A.J. Cronin’s ‘Kaleidoscope in K’ (1933). A posthumous exhibition dedicated to his artwork was held at Galerie 39, Rugby, Warwickshire in 1967.
A collection of Popular Chart Hits CD Albums and CD Singles from 1980s to 2000s. Includes artists: Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse, Robbie Williams, Fergie, Dido, Queen, Phil Collins, Sheryl Crow, Lenny Kravitz, Justin Timberlake, K-Pop SuperM (still sealed) and more. Overall condition: Very Good Plus unless stated otherwise.
Four: Leading Telegraphist C. E. Clark, Royal Navy, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War off Norway on 10 June 1940 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (K.112675 C. E. Clark. L. Tel. H.M.S. Mercury.) good very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Charles Edward Clark was born at Brighton, Sussex, on 18 June 1909 and commenced his naval service as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Ganges on 19 December 1924, with the service number J.112675, being appointed a Boy Telegrapher in H.M.S. Curacoa on 23 April 1926. He was advanced to Ordinary Telegrapher on 18 June 1927 and Telegrapher in March 1928, and was promoted to Acting Leading Telegrapher on 21 November 1939 when serving in H.M.S. Victory I. Clark was serving as Leading Telegrapher in the British troop transport H.M.S. Vandyck when it was sunk on 10 June 1940, by Luftwaffe dive bombers, off Andenes, Narvik, while assisting in the evacuation of Norway during Operation Alphabet. Two officers and five ratings were killed, and 29 officers and 132 ratings, including Clark, were captured and taken Prisoner of War. He was held at Stalag 9C, Bad Sulza, Mulhausen, Germany for the remainder of the War, until being repatriated to Portsmouth in May 1945. He was awarded the Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in November 1945, and was invalided Permanently Unfit for Naval Service in June 1947. Sold with copied record of service.
China 1857-60, no clasp (J. Manser, Boy 1 Cl, H.M.S. Vulcan) an officially impressed later issue, good very fine £160-£200 --- Provenance: Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. John Manser was born in Battle, East Sussex, on 13 December 1843. He first entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Victory in November 1858 and was drafted as Boy 1st Class in September 1859 to H.M.S. Vulcan, from which vessel he was sent to H.M.S. Melville and invalided from the service on 2 December 1861. His medal was issued on 4 October 1910, over 50 years later, and is officially impressed in the style in use at the time (the same style as used for the Persian Gulf 1909-14 awards to the Naval General Service Medal 1915-62). Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extract. Note: China Medals to the Royal Navy were issued unnamed; consequently such later issued examples provide the only means of obtaining officially named medals to the Royal Navy.
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (John Fabian, Skd Shipwt. H.M.S. Hecla.) impressed naming, suspension slack, nearly very fine £70-£90 --- Provenance: K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, February 1997. John Fabian was born in Landport, Hampshire, in March 1857. He joined the Royal Navy as a Shipwright in June 1879, advanced to a Skilled Shipwright in January 1883, and to a Leading Shipwright in February 1890. His service include with H.M.S. Hecla from November 1888 to October 1892 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in February 1891). Fabian was invalided from service on 9 July 1897. Sold with copied service papers.
Six: Able Seaman E. P. Moore, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (LD.X1542 E. P. Moore AB RNVR) mounted as worn, the LS&GC an official Replacement marked as such, some spotting to Stars, generally good very fine Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (2), 2nd issue, fixed suspension (302294 G. Burton. S.P.O. H.M.S. Danae.); 3rd issue, coinage head (K.66965 A. W. Fuggle, Sto.1, H.M.S. York,); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J.107056 Dev. B.16208 L. L. White. A.B. R.F.R.) minor edge bruise to second, very fine and better (9) £100-£140 --- Sold with a Royal Navy Historic Flight lapel badge; and another naval lapel badge.
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (T/4537230 Dvr. R. J. Patchett, R.A.S.C.) nearly extremely fine £70-£90 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2007. James Pratchett, Corporal, Royal Army Service Corps, died of pulmonary tuberculosis, on 20 May 1946, aged 26 years. In civilian life he had been employed as a bus conductor; he was the son of Joshua and Emily Pratchett of Shipley and husband of Mary K. Pratchett of South Littleton, Worcestershire. Pratchett was buried in the Windhill Methodist Cemetery, near Shipley. Sold with copied Death Certificate.
East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Lake Nyassa 1893 (J. Coghlan, A.B., H.M.S. Adventure.) very fine and rare £3,000-£4,000 --- Provenance: K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. Only 28 clasps were awarded to naval European officers and men who manned the boats Adventure and Pioneer. These ships were built at Jarrow-on-Tyne, sent out to Africa in sections, and hauled over two hundred miles through virgin country and jungle to the edge of the lake where they were assembled. This remarkable undertaking, reflected in the appropriate names given to the ships, was in many ways the precursor, or even the inspiration, of the Naval Expedition to Lake Tanganyika in 1915. John Coghlan was born in Preston, Lancashire, in November 1870. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in October 1896 aboard the Boy Training Establishment H.M.S. Impregnable. Rated Boy 1st Class in November 1887, he joined his first ship H.M.S. Royal Adelaide in November 1887. He was transferred to Defence in September 1888, and it was in this ship that Coghlan was advanced to Ordinary Seaman 2nd Class on 10 November 1888. He returned to Royal Adelaide for a short period before joining Mariner in December 1888. Whilst in this ship he advanced to Ordinary Seaman 1st Class in July 1889, and to Able Seaman in July 1891. Coghlan next served aboard the following Ships Victory I (March 1891), Excellent (May 1892), Victory I (April 1893), Raleigh (June 1893), and Adventure (August 1893). In this ship he took part in the action on Lake Nyassa in November 1893. Coghlan returned to Victory I in January 1894 and next joined Active in May 1895. He advanced to Leading Seaman but was disrated to Able Seaman in April 1896. In this rank Coghlan served in the following ships: Victory I (May 1896), Anson (October 1896), again being advanced to Leading Seaman in May 1898, Hibernia (April 1899), Anson (June 1899), Duke of Wellington (February 1900), and Alexandra (April 1900). He joined the Coastguard Service in May 1900 with rank of Boatman and served in the stations at St Mary's, Brixham and Torquay. Coghlan was pensioned ashore in June 1911 and joined Portsmouth R.F.R. He was recalled on 2 August 1914 to H.M.S. Vernon, but released on 19 October to take up a shore appointment in the dockyard. Coghlan’s short active service did not qualify him for the British War Medal.
Three: Leading Stoker G. W. H. A. Smith, Royal Navy, killed in action at Jutland aboard H.M.S. Black Prince 1914-15 Star (K.30288 G. W. H. A. Smith. Act. L. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K.30288 G. W. H. A. Smith. Act. L. Sto., R.N.) together with Memorial Plaque (George William Harcourt Avondale Smith) plaque holed at 3 and 9 o’clock, otherwise good very fine (4) £260-£300 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- George William Harcourt Avondale Smith was killed in action whilst serving aboard H.M.S. Black Prince at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. H.M.S. Black Prince met her fate when she lost touch with the British fleet and turned south in an attempt to rejoin. At about 12:15 a.m. she was still on the same course when she encountered the German High Seas Fleet steaming toward the Horn Reefs. The position of the Black Prince was hopeless from the start, for she was at once the centre of the German searchlights. She was swept from end to end for two or three minutes by salvos from heavy guns. She then caught fire and blew up with the whole of her ship’s company; out of a total of 37 officers, 815 men and 5 civilians, there was not one survivor.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (Tpr. J. Burdon. Murray’s Horse) two small edge bruises, otherwise good very fine and rare £300-£400 --- This irregular corps was raised in Natal, mostly in Pietermartizburg district, during the last week in October 1899, and took the field in the Anglo-Boer War early in November, about 80 strong, under the Hon. Thomas Keir Murray, ex-Colonial Secretary of Natal, who held the rank of Commandant. Within a week the strength had risen to 150. No military rank was held by members, they being purely civilians who had volunteered to assist, in a military capacity, the military forces in any possible way in face of the invasion of Natal by the enemy forces early in the war, their rapid advance down country, and the investment of Ladysmith. The members provided themselves with everything - horse, arms, equipment, uniforms and other necessaries at their own cost, and they served without any pay or allowances, except rations and ammunition. Their particular efficiency lay in their value as scouts, guides, interpreters and intelligence work. Many of the members had an intimate knowledge of the districts operated in, were good Zulu and Afrikaans linguists, and full of veld craft. This force was really a commando, with an organisation, or absence of any, similar to the system of Boer commandos, but with military discipline. The first and urgent duties of the corps were that of patrolling the districts south of the Tugela River, and putting up at big a show of force as possible during the critical fortnight following the retirement of the British forces across the Tugela River, closely beset by the enemy in strength, pending the arrival of reinforcements from Cape Town and overseas, being hurried northwards to stem the tide of invasion. These duties Murray's Horse carried out with great determination and efficiency. Thereafter a portion of the force was released from their military duties, but Commandant T. K. Murray, and the bulk of the unit, now known as Murray's Scouts, remained on active service with the Natal Field Force until the relief of the beleaguered Ladysmith on 28th February 1900, when they, too, were released from military service and returned home. (A Short History Of The Volunteer Regiments Of Natal And East Griqualand, Past and Present, compiled by Colonel Godfrey T Hurst refers.)
Five: Private E. T. Jones, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, later Rifle Brigade India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98, second and third clasps loose on separate carriage, as issued (3952 Pte. J. Jones 2nd. Bn. K. O. Sco: Bord.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (3592 Pte. E. Jones. K. O. Scot: Bord:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3592 Pte. E. Jones. K. O. Scot: Bord:); British War Medal 1914-20 (456 Pte. E. T. Jones. Rif. Brig.); Victory Medal 1914-19, naming erased; scratch to obverse of KSA, very fine (5) £300-£400 --- Edwin Thomas Jones was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, in 1872, and attested for the King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Berwick upon Tweed on 24 January 1891. A labourer by trade, he initially served with the 1st Battalion but transferred to the 2nd Battalion upon embarking for the East Indies on 23 January 1892. His Army Service Record notes his presence at the Relief of Chitral in 1895 and service with the Tirah Expeditionary Force from 1897 to 1898, and confirms entitlement to three clasps. It further notes service in South Africa from 4 January 1900 to 15 August 1902, during which time the South African Field Force by J. B. Hayward records him as wounded in action at Waterval Drift on 15 February 1900. Transferred to Army Reserve 2 June 1903, Jones was discharged upon termination of engagement on 1 June 1907. He later joined the 7th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, on 4 September 1914, and transferred three weeks later to the 20th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Posted to Egypt from 3 January 1916 to 20 February 1919, he was discharged and returned home to 13 Westlock Crescent, Leeds.
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