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A SMALL COLLECTION OF JEWELLERY To include a sapphire and diamond ring, with a trio of oval cut sapphires, to channel set graduated brilliant cut diamond shoulders, approximately 0.32 carats total, 18 carat gold 2004 hallmark; together with a pair of 9 carat gold crossover freshwater pearl earrings; an eight cut diamond half eternity ring, stamped 18ct; a white paste set ring; and a simulated pearl pendant Size/dimensions: first ring size K; ear pendants 2.7cm long; second ring H 1/2 Gross weight: 15 grams

A SINGLE STONE DIAMOND RING BIRMINGHAM 1971 The brilliant cut diamond estimated to weigh 0.60 carats in an illusion setting, to an 18 carat gold shank Size/dimensions: finger size P Gross weight: 3.1 grams Condition Report: The diamond is bright and lively, colour estimated J/K, clarity SI3, some light wear Condition Report Disclaimer

A 1930S SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND BAR BROOCH The central oval cut sapphire between a section of old mine cut diamonds, approximately 1.10 carats total, to step cut sapphire terminals, scroll engraved sides, unmarked Size/dimensions: 8cm wide Gross weight: 8.9 grams Condition Report: The stones are all present and correct, bright and lively, The sapphire has a small window and some faint silk, approximately 8.3mm x 6mm x 2.4mm. The diamonds colour and clarity varying, colour mostly I-k, clarity mostly SI-I there is a added safety feature added to the clasp making the fitting safer to use. Condition Report Disclaimer

A DIAMOND CROSSOVER RING The principal brilliant cut diamond suspension set between crossover channel set brilliant cut diamond shoulders, approximately 1.17 carats total, the shank stamped 74 Size/dimensions: finger size K Gross weight: 4.9 grams Condition Report: The principal diamond colour estimated G/H, clarity VS, assessed in setting, approximately 0.74 carats. the diamonds are all present and correct, bright and lively, there is general wear to the setting commensurate with age and use, scuffs and small knocks. The shank size is approximate due to the shape of the shank. Condition Report Disclaimer

A PAIR OF RUBY AND DIAMOND CURVED EARRINGS The curved rectangular panels with a central channel set row of step cut rubies, between rows of brilliant cut diamonds, approximately 1.60 carats total, stud fittings Size/dimensions: 1.7cm x 1cm Gross weight: 5.9 grams Condition Report: The panels have some wear, stud fittings may not be original, the rubies are bright with some inclusions, the diamonds are bright and lively, the colour varying I-K, clarity mostly VS-SI. Condition Report Disclaimer

TWO 9 CARAT GOLD AMETHYST DRESS RINGS The first with a single oval cut amethyst within a textured leaf like surround, rubbed London import mark; together with an amethyst cluster ring, the circular cut amethyst within a textured gold setting, London 1972 Size/dimensions: finger sizes K Gross weight: 9.7 grams

A DIAMOND AND EMERALD CLUSTER RING LONDON 1986 The oval cut emerald within a surround of brilliant cut diamonds approximately 0.70 carats total, to trefoil scrolled 18 carat gold shoulders Size/dimensions: cluster 1.4cm long, finger size K Gross weight: 4.6 grams

AN EMERALD AND DIAMOND FLOWER HEAD CLUSTER RING The cluster with a central brilliant cut diamond, claw set above six oval cut emeralds, with a brilliant cut diamond border, approximately 0.80 carats total, the polished shank stamped 18ct Size/dimensions: cluster width 1.7cm, finger size K Gross weight: 5.8 grams Condition Report: The emeralds have numerous typical inclusions, including surface reaching, one has a crack, the diamonds are bright and lively, all present and correct, the shank has been subtly sized. Condition Report Disclaimer

A RUBY AND DIAMOND BAND RING The two rows of marquise cut rubies with a row of baguette cut diamonds between, approximately 0.37 carats total, with partial 18 carat gold hallmark and common control mark, maker's mark TP Size/dimensions: finger size K Gross weight: 6.1 grams Condition Report: The date appears to be 2022, MInimal wear to the setting Condition Report Disclaimer

AN 18 CARAT GOLD, RUBY AND DIAMOND BUCKLE RING LONDON 1989 The pavé set brilliant cut diamonds on a slightly tapered band, approximately 0.76 carats total, with channel set ruby bar Size/dimensions: finger size K Gross weight: 5.6 grams Condition Report: Some light surface scuffs, the diamonds are all present and correct, bright and lively Condition Report Disclaimer

A YIXING STONEWARE 'DRAGON AND CARP' TEAPOT AND COVER, BY WANG YUYING, REPUBLIC PERIOD 民國宜興龍魚茶壺，王玉英款China, 1912-1949. Finely potted with overlapping lobes forming raging waves, decorated to one side with a scaly dragon and to the other with a carp, flanked by the C-shaped handle and short spout, the cover with a finial in the form of a lingzhi-shaped cloud above a movable dragon head. The underside of the cover impressed with the artist's seal.Inscriptions: To the underside of the cover, 'Wang Yuying'.Provenance: From a private collection in Zagreb, Croatia.Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and surface scratches. The extendable tongue of the movable dragon head is lost.Weight: 286.5 gDimensions: Length 16.5 cmThis intricately potted teapot depicts the lively imagery of the legendary carp transforming into a dragon after leaping over the 'Dragon Gate', symbolizing the success of a candidate in passing the civil servant examination in ancient China and hence onto a path of honor and status.Literature comparison:It is widely believed that Shao Daheng (1796-1850) created the 'dragon' teapot, and stone wares of this form subsequently became in vogue. Examples are found in Wang Yiyu's collections, Nanjing, see Gu Jingzhou, Yixing zisha zhenshang, Appreciation of Yixing Stonewares, Hong Kong, 1992, p. 88, pl. 65. Compare a related example in the collection of K. S. Lo, in the Hong Kong Museum of Art ed., Yixing Purple Clay Wares - The K. S. Lo Collection, Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 104, pl. 59. Compare a closely related Yixing teapot by Wu Zhilai, dated to the early 20th century, at Sotheby's London, 7 April 2004, lot 315.Auction result comparison: Type: Closely relatedAuction: Bonhams Hong Kong, 27 May 2012, lot 593Price: HKD 37,500 or approx. EUR 5,800 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: A Yixing stoneware 'dragon' teapot and cover, Republican period, signed Kai XiangExpert remark: Compare the closely related form, motif, and execution, also with a movable dragon head. Note the darker color and the size (19.2 cm). 民國宜興龍魚茶壺，王玉英款中國，1912-1949年。茶壺成花瓣形，一側飾龍紋，一側飾鯉魚，兩側有彎曲執柄和短流。蓋飾如意雲狀鈕。上方有一個可移動的龍頭。 款識：壺蓋下可見“王玉英”款 來源：克羅地亞薩格勒布私人收藏。 品相：狀況極好，有輕微磨損和表面劃痕。活動龍頭的可伸縮的舌頭遺失。 重量：286.5 克 尺寸：長 16.5 厘米 文獻比較： 人們普遍認為，邵大亨（1796-1850）創作了“龍形”茶壺，這種形式的茶壺隨後開始流行。一件南京王玉英收藏茶壺，見顧景舟，《宜興紫砂珍賞》，香港，1992年，頁88，圖65。比較一件相近的羅桂祥藏品，見香港藝術館編，《宜興紫砂陶器 - 茶具文物館羅桂祥珍藏》，香港，2002年，頁104，圖59。比較一件非常相近的二十世紀初期吳雲根宜興紫砂茶壺，見倫敦蘇富比，2004年4月7日，lot 315。 拍賣結果比較： 形制：非常相近 拍賣：香港邦翰斯，2012年5月27日，lot 593 價格：HKD 37,500（相當於今日EUR 5,800） 描述：民國墨綠泥魚化龍壺 專家評論：比較非常相近的外形、主題，還有可動的龍頭。請注意深色顏色和尺寸 (19.2厘米)。

KOZAN: A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE TOKYO SCHOOL IVORY OKIMONO OF A CORMORANT FISHERMAN WITH CHILDRENJapan, Tokyo, Meiji period (1868-1912)The elderly fisherman holding a young child in one arm with a second child attempting to remove a sweetfish (ayu) from the mouth of the cormorant while holding a lantern at his feet. The elderly fisherman barefoot and dressed in simple robes with a grass apron, his face bearing a charming expression of great satisfaction at having the children with him as he fishes. The large cormorant tied with a harness attached to the belt of the fisherman, the bird detailed with fine feathers. The figures are finely carved with impressive incision work and staining. The base signed in a square reserve KOZAN.HEIGHT 30.9 cmCondition: Very good condition with minor wear, expected age cracks, and natural flaws including one nerve channel to the base. The handle of the lantern re-stuck.Provenance: From an old private collection in southern Germany, assembled between 1975 and 1982. An old collector's label to the base of the figure, 'OKIMONO, Komeran-Fischer Ivory. Jap. Meiji ca. 1880. Sign Naga-san. DM 9,000.'Cormorant fishing (ukai) was at one time the primary method of catching ayu (sweetfish). It is first attested in the Book of Sui (636 AD), an official history of the Sui Dynasty in China, and was said to be a method invented in ancient Japan. To control the birds, the fishermen tie a loose snare near the base of the bird's throat. The snare prevents the bird from swallowing large fish, which are held temporarily in their gullet. When a cormorant has caught a fish in its throat, the fisherman brings the bird back to the boat and has it regurgitate the fish. Cormorant fishing was often most effective at night when the fish would swarm to the surface causing the fishermen to use large torches for lighting and to draw the fish in.Auction comparison:Compare a related Tokyo school ivory okimono of a cormorant fisherman with his cormorant, signed Eizan, at Bonhams, Fine Japanese Art, 16 May 2013, London, lot 305 (sold for GBP 6,259). Compare a closely related composition of an elderly man catching turtles with two children, signed Kakihan, at Zacke, Asian Art Discoveries, 27 January 2022, Vienna, lot 644 (sold for EUR 6,320).Trade Certificate: The trade certificate for the sale of this lot within the EU has been granted (permit number DE-K-221108-374). This item contains ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoise shell, and/or some types of tropical wood and is subject to CITES when exporting outside the EU. It is typically not possible to export such items outside of the EU, including to the UK. Therefore, after this item has the necessary trade certificate, it can only be shipped within the EU or picked up in our gallery in person.

TOMOTADA: A GOOD KYOTO SCHOOL IVORY NETSUKE OF A DOG WITH AWABIAttributed to Yamaguchi Okatomo, signed Tomotada 友忠Japan, Kyoto, 18th century, Edo period (1615-1868)A sublimely carved and beautifully worn, old ivory netsuke, bearing an unctuous yellowish patina, depicting a dog wearing a collar and holding a large awabi shell between its paws. The dog (inu) has floppy ears, inlaid eyes, and a pleasingly curling tail, all executed in the manner of Yamaguchi Okatomo. The hairwork is neatly incised but heavily worn, mostly visible in the crevices and unexposed areas of the carving. Signed underneath one leg TOMOTADA. Large himotoshi formed by one cord hole underneath and two further holes to one side.HEIGHT 3.5 cm, LENGTH 3.7 cmCondition: Good condition with several natural age cracks and some tiny old, smoothed-out chips.Literature comparison:Compare a closely related ivory netsuke depicting the same subject, signed Okatomo, illustrated in Meinertzhagen, Frederick / Lazarnick, George (1986) MCI, Part B, p. 620.Auction comparison:Compare a related ivory netsuke of a dog and pup, attributed to Yamaguchi Okatomo, at Zacke, Fine Netsuke & Sagemono, 22 April 2022, Vienna, lot 47 (sold for EUR 7,584).Trade Certificate: The trade certificate for the sale of this lot within the EU has been granted (permit number DE-K-230523-296 ). This item contains ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoise shell, and/or some types of tropical wood and is subject to CITES when exporting outside the EU. It is typically not possible to export such items outside of the EU, including to the UK. Therefore, after this item has the necessary trade certificate, it can only be shipped within the EU or picked up in our gallery in person.

TOMOTADA: AN IVORY NETSUKE OF A DOG WITH BALLSigned Tomotada 友忠Japan, Kyoto, 18th century, Edo period (1615-1868)The dog (inu) wearing a collar with bell and protectively holding a large ball between its paws, its face with a charming expression, the eyes inlaid in reddish horn. The details, such as the curling tail and pronounced spine and rib cage, are finely carved. The ivory bearing a beautiful, warm yellowish patina, clearly loved and handled by several generations. Large himotoshi underneath and to the side. Signed TOMOTADA within a rectangular reserve under the left hind paw.LENGTH 4.1 cmCondition: Good condition with several age cracks. Attractively worn with a fine patina.Provenance: The Gabor Wilhelm Collection, Paris.Auction comparison:Compare to a closely related ivory netsuke of a female dog and pup, signed Tomotada, at Zacke, Fine Netsuke & Sagemono, 29 October 2021, Vienna, lot 52 (sold for 5,688 EUR).Trade Certificate: The trade certificate for the sale of this lot within the EU has been granted (permit number FR2207511156-K). This item contains ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoise shell, and/or some types of tropical wood and is subject to CITES when exporting outside the EU. It is typically not possible to export such items outside of the EU, including to the UK. Therefore, after this item has the necessary trade certificate, it can only be shipped within the EU or picked up in our gallery in person.

KAIGYOKUSAI: A FINE IVORY NETSUKE OF A FISHER GIRL (AMA) WITH TENAGA MONKEYSSchool of Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (1813-1892), signed Kaigyokusai 懐玉齋Japan, Osaka, second half of the 19th centuryFinely carved, the standing fisher girl turning to look up at the monkey seated on her shoulders, stabilizing the monkey's two legs, as the long-armed monkey reaches down and holds the arms of its young seated at the ama's feet. The fisherwoman dressed in the grass skirt of a pearl diver, having a serene expression on her face, a pouch tied to her waist. The monkeys are naturalistically carved and have inlaid eyes of tortoiseshell. The 'chimney type' himotoshi formed by one aperture to the back with the second beneath the skirt. Signed within a polished reserve KAIGYOKUSAI.HEIGHT 6.8 cmCondition: Very good condition with minor wear.This rather unique netsuke is finely balanced by the lanky arms which link the two monkeys, and which are a reference to the legendary yokai-fisherman Tenaga. In this amusing netsuke, the ama employs a Tenaga-monkey to fish its young out of the water.Auction comparisonCompare a related ivory netsuke attributed to Kaigyokudo (Kaigyokusai) Masatsugu, signed Masatsugu, depicting Okame with a monkey, at Christie's, The I.A. and Cecile Mann Victor Collection of Netsuke, 20 April 1989, New York, lot 58.Trade Certificate: The trade certificate for the sale of this lot within the EU has been granted (permit number FR2307502999-K). This item contains ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoise shell, and/or some types of tropical wood and is subject to CITES when exporting outside the EU. It is typically not possible to export such items outside of the EU, including to the UK. Therefore, after this item has the necessary trade certificate, it can only be shipped within the EU or picked up in our gallery in person.

A LARGE IVORY AND MIXED METAL KAGAMIBUTA WITH ROOSTER, BAMBOO, SNAIL AND SPIDERUnsignedJapan, c. 1860The shibuichi disc worked in iro-e takazogan with a proud long-tailed rooster and offspring next to bamboo shoots and a long bamboo stalk with a crawling snail, the top showing bamboo leaves and a spiderweb with a spider hanging from a loose thread. The back with a central himotoshi, the cord attachment beneath the disc.DIAMETER 5 cmCondition: Very good condition with few expected natural age cracks to the bowl and some nibbling to edges of the metal disc.Provenance: La Licorne, Paris, September 1995. Ex-collection Guy de Lasteyrie, acquired from the above. De Lasteyrie is a member of the Lasteyrie du Saillant family and is considered among the leading French collectors of netsuke.Trade Certificate: The trade certificate for the sale of this lot within the EU has been granted (permit number FR2207506418-K). This item contains ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoise shell, and/or some types of tropical wood and is subject to CITES when exporting outside the EU. It is typically not possible to export such items outside of the EU, including to the UK. Therefore, after this item has the necessary trade certificate, it can only be shipped within the EU or picked up in our gallery in person.

A FINE NAGOYA SCHOOL WOOD NETSUKE OF ONO NO KOMACHIUnsignedJapan, Nagoya, first half of 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868)Ono no Komachi, one of the 6 great poets of the 9th century, once a beautiful and vibrant woman, is depicted here as an old woman seated on the floor with a large straw hat on her back and a gnarled cane in her left hand, her right hand clutching a pouch. Dressed in a tattered robe decorated to the hem with a geometric design, her long hair, parted in the middle, falls over her back. The deep-reddish cherry wood bearing a superb patina. Good himotoshi to the back.HEIGHT 3 cmCondition: Losses to the staff and some minor wear, otherwise in good condition.Ono no Komachi was a Japanese waka poet, one of the Rokkasen (six best waka poets of the early Heian period) and was renowned for her extraordinary beauty. Several legends tell of her mistreatment of her many lovers. In the arts, she is often depicted as an old, withered hag and has thus become a symbol of the impermanence of beauty.Literature comparison:Compare a closely related boxwood netsuke of Ono no Komachi, signed Masakatsu, illustrated in Davey, Neil K. (1974) Netsuke: A comprehensive study based on the M.T. Hindson Collection, p. 225, no. 690.

HOSAI MASAHIRO: A FINE ANABORI IVORY NETSUKE REFERENCING THE LEGEND OF CHORYO AND KOSEKIKOBy Hosai Masahiro, signed Masahiro 正廣 with seal Hosai 芳齋Japan, Tokyo, c. 1860A remarkable and intricately carved ivory netsuke, the manju-type netsuke fitted with a 'faux lid' carved in relief with a ferocious sinuous dragon forming a circle, one side pierce-carved in anabori with a design of Choryo handing back the shoe to Kosekiko after having defeated the water dragon. Two himotoshi and signed MASAHIRO with red seal HOSAI underneath. The artist was known for his meticulous anabori carvings and was a pupil of Adachi Masanobu.DIAMETER 3.7 cmCondition: Very good condition with few natural age cracks.Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's, 13 March 1987, London, lot 39. German private collection, acquired from the above.Zhang Liang (known as Choryo in Japanese) was a Chinese military strategist and politician who lived in the early Western Han dynasty. The present netsuke depicts the legend of when Choryo met the old man Kosekiko (Huang Shigong) on a bridge. The old man began to teach the art of war to Choryo and one day Kosekiko wanted to test Choryo and threw a shoe into the river where a powerful water dragon lived. The dragon seized the shoe and Choryo defeated it and gave the shoe back to Kosekiko. The present netsuke shows exactly this scene - the proud Choryo, with one foot on the dragon's head, is presenting the shoe to Kosekiko who is mounted on a horse atop a bridge. According to legend, Choryo used the teachings of Kosekiko as a military adviser to Liu Bang, the founder of the Han dynasty.Trade Certificate: The trade certificate for the sale of this lot within the EU has been granted (permit number DE-K-230523-303). This item contains ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoise shell, and/or some types of tropical wood and is subject to CITES when exporting outside the EU. It is typically not possible to export such items outside of the EU, including to the UK. Therefore, after this item has the necessary trade certificate, it can only be shipped within the EU or picked up in our gallery in person.

KAIGYOKUSAI MASATSUGU: A FINE IVORY NETSUKE OF JO AND UBA INSIDE A PINECONESchool of Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (1813-1892), signed Kaigyokusai Masatsugu 懐玉齋正次Japan, Osaka or Tokyo, late 19th century, Meiji period (1868-1912)Depicting a pinecone, carved from two parts, hinged together and openable, the lustrous exterior superbly polished, naturalistically carved, and with pine needles, the inside revealing a densely carved and remarkably intricate depiction. The famous elderly couple Jo and Uba are nestled under an imposing pine tree, sharing tea. The other side of the pinecone is carved in relief with swirling clouds. Signed underneath KAIGYOKUSAI MASATSUGU.HEIGHT 4 cmCondition: The hinged mechanism is repaired. A tiny chip to the edge of the pine tree to the interior. Generally good condition and presenting well.Provenance: Old French private collection, acquired in Tokyo, May 8, 1968, from the Tokyo Art Club.Jo and Uba, the pine spirits who were thought to inhabit two pines at Takasago and Sumiyoshi, are depicted here as an old couple. According to legend, Jo makes a trip to Sumiyoshi nightly to visit his love. The two spirits represent eternal fidelity, good fortune, and longevity.Auction comparison:Compare a near-identical ivory netsuke, attributed to Kaigyokusai Masatsugu, at Bonhams, Fine Japanese Art, 19 May 2009, London, lot 170 (sold for GBP 3,600).Trade Certificate: The trade certificate for the sale of this lot within the EU has been granted (permit number FR2307500499-K). This item contains ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoise shell, and/or some types of tropical wood and is subject to CITES when exporting outside the EU. It is typically not possible to export such items outside of the EU, including to the UK. Therefore, after this item has the necessary trade certificate, it can only be shipped within the EU or picked up in our gallery in person.

OKAKOTO: AN IMPRESSIVE AND LARGE IVORY NETSUKE OF A TARTAR ARCHERBy Yamaguchi Okakoto, signed Okakoto 岡言Japan, Kyoto, late 18th century, Edo period (1615-1868)Published & Exhibited: Association Franco-Japonaise, Netsuke Sagemono, Paris, 2019, p. 66, no. 110.A dramatic representation of a Tartar archer dynamically swinging his bow back, his loose sleeve swinging upwards as a result, and readying two arrows as he eyes an enemy in the distance. His detailed robe is beautifully carved and engraved with various sumi-stained patterns, the buttons of his coat are inlaid in dark horn, as are the eyes and finial of his quadrilobed hat. The archer has a grim expression with a wild windswept beard, reminiscent of the demon queller Shoki. The superbly carved backside, which is unusually thick and appealingly rounded, shows the kirin-form quiver with neatly incised scales and head, and the beautifully excavated, asymmetrical himotoshi next to the signature within a rectangular reserve OKAKOTO. The ivory bearing a deep-yellow patina, particularly to the back.HEIGHT 8.2 cmCondition: Very good condition, few natural age cracks and typical wear.Provenance: Jan Lühl Antiques, Paris, April 1991. Ex-collection Guy de Lasteyrie, acquired from the above. De Lasteyrie is a member of the Lasteyrie du Saillant family and is considered among the leading French collectors of netsuke.Yamaguchi Okakoto was a pupil and younger brother of Yamaguchi Okatomo. His work is considerably rarer than those of other members of the Oka school. While this is a known subject by Okakoto (Fuld's Netsuke and Ojime Index lists five examples) this appears to be the largest and finest model of this group, possessing remarkable sculptural quality and boldness in the execution.Auction comparison:Compare a closely related, yet smaller (6.8 cm), ivory netsuke of a Tartar archer by Okakoto at Christie's, Japanese Art & Design, 12 May 2010, London, lot 1 (sold for GBP 10,625).Trade Certificate: The trade certificate for the sale of this lot within the EU has been granted (permit number FR2207506631-K). This item contains ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoise shell, and/or some types of tropical wood and is subject to CITES when exporting outside the EU. It is typically not possible to export such items outside of the EU, including to the UK. Therefore, after this item has the necessary trade certificate, it can only be shipped within the EU or picked up in our gallery in person.

A CHARMING IVORY NETSUKE OF DAIKOKO LIFTING A RICE BALEUnsignedJapan, 18th centuryThe God of Wealth and Agriculture, Daikoku, dressed in voluminous garments, grimaces as he crouches over a bale of rice straining to lift it. The bale secured with neatly incised ropes. Large himotoshi to the base opening to the back.HEIGHT 3 cmCondition: Good condition with minor age cracks.Provenance: Collection of Dr. Ferdinand and Dr. Gudrun Thaler-Szulyovsky, thence by descent in the same family. The couple, who had both been practicing law, met in 1967 through their mutual passion for art. Together they built a substantial and diverse art collection over many decades.Literature comparison:Compare a related netsuke of Daikoku with a rice bale by Masakazu, illustrated in Davey, Neil K. (1974) Netsuke: A comprehensive study based on the M.T. Hindson Collection, p. 65, no. 164.Trade Certificate: The trade certificate for the sale of this lot within the EU has been granted (permit number AT 23-B-0389).This item contains ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoise shell, and/or some types of tropical wood and is subject to CITES when exporting outside the EU. It is typically not possible to export such items outside of the EU, including to the UK. Therefore, after this item has the necessary trade certificate, it can only be shipped within the EU or picked up in our gallery in person.

A GROUP OF FIVE NETSUKEJapan, 19th centuryThe first, an ivory carving of a frog seated atop a folded lotus leaf with dark bone inlaid eyes, the lotus step attached to the base of the leaf with a single bud issuing from it. Signed to the base.The second, an ivory netsuke depicting Daikoku riding a large rat across a bridge while holding a sack and below the bridge Shiei rides a large fish. A single himotoshi through the base. The base signed within a red lacquer rectangular reserve.The third consisting of a stained ivory netsuke of a recumbent ox. The ox naturalistically rendered with a lead rope attached to its nostrils. Two himotoshi along the base.The fourth, an ivory mixed metal kagamibuta depicting a beauty stirring the water with a stick. The disc is fitted into a superbly polished, shallow ivory bowl. Central himotoshi to the back, the cord attachment beneath the disc.The fifth, an ivory netsuke depicting a seated Hotei holding his fan, wearing checkered robes and a two-case inro attached to his belt by a manju netsuke. Two himotoshi to the base. The base incised with a signature.LENGTH 6.8 cmCondition: Good condition with wear, expected age cracks, chips, small nicks, and losses.Provenance: German private collection.Trade Certificate: The trade certificate for the sale of this lot within the EU has been granted (permit number DE-K-221108-386).This item contains ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoise shell, and/or some types of tropical wood and is subject to CITES when exporting outside the EU. It is typically not possible to export such items outside of the EU, including to the UK. Therefore, after this item has the necessary trade certificate, it can only be shipped within the EU or picked up in our gallery in person.

A GROUP OF TWO JADEITE BANGLESChina, mid-20th century. Each of circular form, the polished semi-translucent stones in various shades of green, icy white, and pale gray. One with 14 K gold metal munts. Accompanied by an embroidered storage pouch and a silk fitted storage box.Condition: Good condition with minor wear. One restored with gold mounts.Provenance: Viennese private collection, in the family collection since c. 1980s.Weight: 36 g and 37 gDimensions: Inner diameter 5.6 cm each

HARRY POTTER INTEREST, THE TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD Collector's Edition, comprising book with applied skull and silvered mounts, First Edition, pub. Children's High Level Group, December 2008, housed in velvet pouch bearing embroidered J. K. Rowling signature, accompanied by set of Collector's Edition Prints in original envelope, all housed in book-form casing with tooled pictorial cover and spine

Three: Nursing Sister Katherine I. Hall, South African Military Nursing Service 1914-15 Star (N/Sister. K. I. Hall S.A.M.N.S.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (S/Nurse. K. I. Hall.) light contact marks from Star, generally very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Katherine Irene Hall joined the South African Military Nursing Service on 8 September 1914 for service in German South West Africa. Initially posted to Luderitz Bay, she was discharged on 25 June 1915 upon the cessation of operations in this theatre. Re-enlisting on 22 December 1915 for service in East Africa, she served at No. 2 General Hospital and aboard the Hospital Ship Ebani from 4 May 1917 to 15 June 1917. She later sailed for England aboard the Hospital Ship Neuralia on 15 April 1918, but any further service was hampered by failing health and she was discharged on 13 October 1919. Sold with copied Service Record.

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C. (2), G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (K.33351 G. Scott. L. Sto. H.M.S. Pembroke.); E.II.R., 2nd issue (FX.910778 J. Williams. L.A.M. H.M.S. Fulmar.) the first very fine, the second extremely fine (2) £70-£90

A rare and early Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and ‘First Day of the Somme’ Second Award Bar group of five awarded to Acting Sergeant W. K. Palmer, 15th Field Company, Royal Engineers Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (17739 Cpl. W. K. Palmer. 15/Fd: Co: R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp (17739 2. Cpl. W. K. Palmer. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with modern M.I.D. oak leaves (17739 A. Sjt. W. K. Palmer. R.E.) ; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (17739 W.O. Cl. II. W. K. Palmer. M.M. R.E.) mounted on card for display, light contact marks, otherwise very fine and better (5) £1,400-£1,800 --- M.M. London Gazette 3 June 1916: the first list of awards of the newly instituted Military Medal . M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 1 September 1916: just two such awards listed including Palmer. Prior to this gazette, 10 Bars to the M.M. had been awarded, in the gazettes of 10 August 1916 (2 awards) and 23 August 1916 (7 awards), thus making Palmer’s award one of the first 12 Bars awarded. M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1916. The 15th Field Company War Diary records the presentation of the M.M. to Palmer by the G.O.C. at Henencourt on 27 June 1916, and later the award of his second M.M. [Bar] ‘for conspicuous gallantry on the nights of 1st July and 17th’. The 15th Field Company was at Ovillers Post, near La Boiselle, on 1 July and in action there and on the night of 17-18 were involved in a night operation to consolidate a mine crater under heavy fire near the front line at Beuvry, but were shelled out. Sold with copied research including War Diary extracts.

12th Frontier Force Regiment (Sikhs) Sweetheart Brooch. A fine sweetheart broach in 18 carat white gold and diamonds, crowned regimental devise with black enamel title scrolls, to the rear stamped ‘18k, C&K’, with pin and safety chain, very good condition £160-£200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

A Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Matron Katherine A. J. Smythe, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, who served aboard Egyptian hospital trains, and was twice Mentioned in Despatches The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918, on lady’s bow riband; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sister’s) shoulder badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; 1914-15 Star (K. A. J. Smythe. B.R.C.S. & O.S.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (K. J. A. [sic] Smythe. B.R.C.S. & St. J. J.) good very fine (5) £600-£800 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 10 June 1918. M.I.D. London Gazettes 13 October 1916 and 7 July 1917. Katherine Altamont Jane Smythe was born in 1867 and took her nursing studies at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London from 1892 to 1895. She joined the British Red Cross and Order of St John of Jerusalem in August 1914, and was posted to Egypt where she was twice Mentioned in Despatches by Sir Archibald Murray and later recognised with the Order of the British Empire. She ended her military service on 17 March 1919 as Matron of Hospital Trains, her address at that time recorded as The Arsenal, Alexandria.

A Second War R.R.C. group of six awarded to Principal Matron Kathleen M. Cooper, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service, late British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, who rose from Pantry Maid to Principal Matron in a nursing career spanning more than 30 years Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, reverse dated ‘1944’; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background, on lady’s bow riband; 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, the second with minor white enamel loss, very fine (6) --- R.R.C. London Gazette 8 June 1944. The original recommendation from the Officer Commanding, R.N. Auxiliary Hospital, Seaforth, states: ‘The above-mentioned Acting Matron, Q.A.R.N.N.S., joined this hospital before the complement of Nursing Sisters and V.A.D.’s was completed. She has organised the nursing of patients in the hospital with the greatest efficiency and zeal, and has opened Quarters for the Nursing Sisters and a hostel for V.A.D. Members. She has so arranged these that the Sisters and V.A.D.’s are contented and happy, thereby increasing the efficiency of the work carried out by those members of the staff. She has also organised the duties and Quarters with the Superintending Sister at R.N.A.H. Woolton with equally satisfactory results. The hostel for the V.A.D.’s at Woolton is not yet ready, but they have been as contented and happy as it has been possible to make them in the hospital itself. I am most impressed with the standard of nursing efficiency reached by the V.A.D. nursing members who have received the greater part of their nursing instruction and practical experience in this hospital. She has been available, first as the Senior Superintending Sister and later as Acting Matron, for advice to all establishments in the Port of Liverpool in which Sisters Q.A.R.N.N.S. are carried, and in this also she has been of the greatest assistance.’ Kathleen Margaret Cooper served from 11 October 1917 with the British Red Cross Society as an Ordinary Member of the 4th Hampshire Voluntary Aid Detachment. Appointed to Pantry Maid and Nurse duties at Highfield Hall in Southampton, she later undertook her nursing studies at Birmingham General Hospital, qualifying SRN on 19 March 1926. Entering Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service as Nursing Sister on 2 July 1928, she served at Plymouth and on the island of Malta from 1932 to 1935. Advanced Superintending Sister on 8 February 1941, she was awarded the A.R.R.C. in the London Gazette of 1 July 1941 and posted to the Royal Naval Auxiliary Hospital at Seaforth on 5 June 1942. Transferred to Chatham in 1950, she ended her service as Principal Matron and died at Castle Cary, Somerset, on 21 April 1982. Sold with the recipient’s original General Nursing Council for England and Wales silver and enamel badge, engraved to reverse ‘K. M. Cooper S.R.N. 42349 19.3.26’; Royal Life Saving Society bronze medal, awarded to ‘K. Cooper Aug. 1934’; Silver and enamel badge of the G. H. B. League; B.R.C.S. ‘For Service’ badge, No. 24747; with two original group photographs of the recipient.

St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (1315 Corpl. W. K. Fleming Bradford Corps.) nearly very fine £240-£280

Four: Boatswain’s Mate C. Shrimpton, Royal Navy Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; China 1857-60, unnamed as issued; Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (C. Shrimpton, Py. Offr. 1 Cl. H.M.S. Victor Eml. 73-74); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Cs. Shrimpton Boatsns Mate. H.M.S. Hector 20ys) engraved naming, scarce variety with years on edge, mounted for wear, cleaned, light contact marks overall, therefore very fine (4) £800-£1,200 --- Provenance: Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. Charles Shrimpton was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, in March 1836. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in July 1851. Shrimpton served with H.M.S. Blenheim between July 1851 and June 1856. He served with H.M.S. Tribune from June 1856 until August 1858, when he was discharged from the service whilst at Hong Kong, ‘having completed his apprenticeship as an Ordinary Seaman.’ Shrimpton rejoined the Navy in August 1859, and served as an Able Seaman with H.M.S. Trafalgar before advancing directly to Petty Officer status (Captain Mizzen Top) in April 1860. Subsequent service included as Boatswain’s Mate with H.M.S. Victor Emmanuel from November 1873 to May 1874, before transferring to H.M.S. Hector the following month. Shrimpton was Shore Pensioned in May 1875 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in April 1875). Sold with copied service papers and research.

Five: Gunner M. E. Hutchinson, South African Mounted Rifles 1914-15 Star (Rfm. M. E. Hutchinson 2nd S.A.M.R.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Gnr. M. E. Hutchinson. S.A.M.R. - F.A.B.); War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, these both officially impressed ‘86786 M. E. Hutchinson’, lacquered, nearly very fine and better Five: Lieutenant W. G. K. Parker, South African Engineering Corps 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Africa Service Medal, these all officially impressed ‘228793 W. G. K. Parker’; together with the recipient’s riband bar, good very fine (10) £100-£140 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 23 May 1946 (Mediterranean).

An exceptionally rare Uganda campaign pair awarded to Miss Gertrude E. Bird, Church Missionary Society, who came to be regarded as the ‘spiritual mother’ of the Ugandan missionaries East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (Miss. G. E. Bird.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband, extremely fine and extremely rare (2) £1,400-£1,800 --- Provenance: Ulrich Collection 1952. Gertrude Elizabeth Bird was born in 1864 and lived in Balham, London. A former Lady Superintendent of the Young Women’s Christian Association, she joined the Church Missionary Society in 1894 and was trained at ‘The Olives’, being accepted as a missionary on 4 June 1895. To fully appreciate her remarkable life, it would be appropriate to consider the words of Mr. Albert R. Cook, when speaking of her retirement from the Uganda Mission: ‘Miss G. E. Bird was one of the pioneer lady missionaries in Uganda, and had it not been that she had to leave the mission for five years, from 1909-1914 (being perforce kept at home by family circumstances), she would have had the longest term of service of any Uganda missionary. As it is she had thirty-five years of active work in the Mission. Miss Bird joined the missionary staff in 1895, being stationed for a year at Frere Town on the Coast with the idea of learning sufficient Kiswahili during that time, to be a help to the ladies with the porters of the large missionary caravan which it was purposed to send up to Uganda during the following year. There we found her on October 1, 1896, when our party disembarked at Mombasa, and during the trying two months’ wait at the Coast with its heart-breaking delays in getting the caravan together, and the three months’ strenuous march to Uganda that followed, we learnt to admire the equable temper and the quiet courage of Miss Bird. For it must be remembered that it required a great deal of physical endurance as well as patience and cheerfulness for ladies to undertake such a journey in those days. Few things struck the Prince of Wales more during his visit to Uganda in 1928, than the story of their march. The other two ladies who shared her experience in 1896 were Miss Timpson (now Lady Cook) and Miss Bertha Taylor (now Mrs. Harry Maddox). These three, happily all still alive, arrived at Kampala in Feb., 1897, and Miss Bird was located with Miss Pilgrim to Ngogwe in Kyagwe, where she worked under the Rev. G. K. Baskerville... Here, for nearly four years, Miss Bird found a field worthy of her energies and laid the foundation of her wide knowledge of women’s work in Uganda. Located to Namirembe, she became a real power in Christian work. Visiting, teaching the woman or school children, or taking bible classes, and committee meetings occupied a very full life, and yet I think those who knew her most intimately would agree that it was more what she was than even what she did, that was of greatest value. Few have won a more fragrant tribute from Baganda.’ Bird received the East and Central Africa Medal for her part in staffing the hospital at Namirembe during the Sudanese uprising of 1895-96. Alongside other missionaries, she took care of the wounded and sick Waganda tribespeople. Her Jubilee Medal is further confirmed in the records of the Church Missionary Society: ‘Miss Gertrude Elizabeth Bird, Missionary, Uganda’. Exercising a gracious influence throughout her long life, Gertrude E. Bird died on 17 April 1949. Sold with copied research confirming the above.

An impressive Order of St. John pair awarded to Sister Flora K. Fitzmaurice, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve, who risked her own life to save others during a serious typhus outbreak in 1897 The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background, on lady’s bow riband, the reverse privately engraved ‘Flora Kathleen Fitz Maurice Inniskea Augt. 1897. Conferred Augt. 1898.’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Sister F. K. Fitzmaurice. I.Y. H.P. Staff.) good very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Flora Kathleen Fitzmaurice trained as a nurse at the City of Dublin Nursing Institution and was one of 11 nurses selected from that hospital to nurse the victims of a typhus outbreak on the remote west coast island of Inniskea. Located off the coast of the Belmullet peninsula in County Mayo, the island offered extremely primitive working conditions. An extract from the British Journal of Nursing offers a vivid description: ‘The nurses who first went to the island had to cook both for the patients and for themselves, to wash their own clothes and to do everything that was possible under the circumstances for the patients also. The food was scant and of very bad quality. There were no beds, and when the nurses had done a hard day’s work in all the filth and misery prevailing among the people, they were often unable to cook any food for their own use, and had to go without... They had at one time forty-eight cases of typhus to nurse in the separate huts, and had to visit all of these patients two or three times a day. They made no complaint, but worked on until they both broke down, and both took typhus fever from those whom they were attending.’ Contracting typhus herself, Fitzmaurice was fortunate to survive. She was later decorated with the Order of St John of Jerusalem, the bestowal by the Countess Cadogan at the Vice-regal Lodge offering public recognition to both the individual nurses and the Order of St John, the group citation noting: ‘in recognition of very conspicuous and devoted conduct in the month of June, during an outbreak of virulent typhus fever on the Island of Inniskea on a very wild and barren part of the west coast of Ireland.’ Making a good recovery, Fitzmaurice enrolled in Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve on 2 July 1900, and served on the Staff of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Dreelfontein during the Boer War. Sold with private research and a copied group photograph of the 11 nurses decorated by the Countess Cadogan, the recipient being among their ranks.

A Great War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Chief Commandant Lucy M. K. Pratt-Barlow, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, later Auxiliary Territorial Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military), Member’s 1st type, Lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (D.Ctr. L. M. K. Pratt-Barlow.); War Medal 1939-45 privately named ‘Ch. Cmdt. K. L. M. Pratt-Barlow A.T.S.’, note order of initials, very fine (4) £200-£240 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918. Lucy Marjorie Kathleen Pratt-Barlow (née Fraser) was born on 5 January 1881, the daughter of the British Consulate General of Algiers. She later married Edward Alexander Pratt-Barlow and is recorded in 1908 as living at 7 Lower Grosvenor Place in Belgravia. She served as Deputy Controller in Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps from 12 July 1917 to 19 October 1918, and is later recorded in November 1939 as a Chief Commandant in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Advanced War Substantive Senior Commander on 15 September 1941, she survived the Blitz and retired to Banbury, Oxfordshire. M.I.D. unconfirmed.

A Great War R.R.C. group of five awarded to Matron Charlotte I. K. Sumner, British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem, late Territorial Force Nursing Service, who helped to evacuate large numbers of sick and wounded from Antwerp in September 1914 Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; 1914 Star (C. I. K. Sumner. B.R.C.S. & O.St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (C. I. K. Sumner.); Belgium, Kingdom, Civic Decoration, Second Class, 1 clasp, 1914-1918, silver and enamel, edge bruise to BWM, otherwise good very fine (5) £1,000-£1,400 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 26 February 1917. Belgium Croix Civique Second Class London Gazette 3 October 1922: ‘For distinguished service rendered during the war of 1914-19.’ Charlotte Irene King Sumner was born in Cheetham, Lancashire, in 1875. Qualifying as a nurse at the Leicester Royal Infirmary from 1900 to 1905, she joined the Territorial Force Nursing Service and was appointed Matron in the London Gazette of 9 December 1910. She enjoyed a year nursing in France, at Tourlaville, Calais and Paris, before returning to England in 1912 and taking appointment as Matron of the Princess Christian Military Hospital in Englefield Green. Enjoying the balmy summer of 1914 in Belgium, it seems that Sumner soon found herself accidentally caught up in the machinations of the Schlieffen Plan; rather than catch the next ferry home to England, she chose instead to stay in Belgium and volunteered her services to the Brussels unit of the B.R.C.S. & O.St.J.J. The story of her life at this time was later published in The Gentlewoman magazine on 10 March 1917: ‘One of the most remarkable instances of bravery on the part of our nurses is that displayed by Miss C. I. K. Sumner who was nursing in Antwerp in August and September 1914. She stayed on during the bombardment, only leaving the town when it was taken on October 9th. The detachment to which she belonged took with them as many wounded as could be moved, and made their escape to Holland, where for some time they had merely the barest necessities, and were working under great difficulties.’ Returning to France, Sumner spent further time as a Sister with the British Committee of the French Red Cross. She was later awarded the R.R.C. whilst serving as Matron at the Princess Christian Military Hospital in Englefield Green and was further decorated by His Majesty The King of the Belgians with the uncommon award of the Belgian Croix Civique. Transferring to Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, Sumner continued to care for others for many years before retiring to Poole in the late 1930s. She died in 1949.

A Kriegsmarine Mine Sweeper Badge. A very good example, maker marked ‘R. K.’ [Rudolf A. Karneth & Sohn, Gablonz]. Vertical gilded magnetic pin, mid-War production with gold washed wreath, very good condition and scarce by this maker £150-£200

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of six awarded to Matron K. M. Hawkins, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, late Queen Alexandra’s Military Families Nursing Service and Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; 1914-15 Star (S. Nurse K. M. Hawkins. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Sister K. M. Hawkins.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (6) £400-£500 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 31 July 1919. M.I.D. London Gazette 11 June 1918. Keziah Millicent Hawkins served with the Q.A.I.M.N.S. Reserve in France and Flanders from 9 December 1914 to 9 November 1915. Transferred to Egypt and then Macedonia from 1 February 1916 to 9 May 1918, she returned to England and served as Sister at the Military Hospital in Shorncliffe. Mentioned in Despatches, she later received the A.R.R.C. at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 3 December 1919. Appointed post-War to the permanent establishment of the Military Families and Military Isolation Hospitals as Staff Nurse, she soon became Sister in Charge upon the reorganisation of the service, her new rank confirmed in Queen Alexandra’s Military Families Nursing Service on 20 March 1924. Posted variously to Palestine, Egypt and Devonport, her unit was absorbed into the Q.A.I.M.N.S. in 1926. Hawkins went on to serve in Shanghai from 1927 to 1929 and at Delhi and Jubblepore from 1936 to 1940. She retired from the service soon thereafter, although the Indian Army List notes her re-employed until at least 1942.

An Order of St. John pair awarded to K. D. Wadia, St. John Ambulance Brigade (India) The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background, in case of issue; India, Dominion, Order of St John Ambulance Brigade, Seva Medal, type with portrait of Gandhi, the reverse engraved ‘448 K. D. Wadia III Distt. St. J.A.B. 1956’, bronze, very fine (2) £70-£90

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (1009. Pte. E. Keyes, 99th Foot.) toned, edge bruising and polished, otherwise nearly very fine £600-£800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Edward Keyes was born in Newtownsands, Kerry, Ireland; a 22 year old Labourer, he attested for the 85th Brigade at Tralee on 1 February 1878, and joined the 99th Regiment of Foot the following day. Keyes served overseas in South Africa, 2 December 1878 to 29 December 1879; Bermuda, 30 December 1879 to 7 March 1881; South Africa, 8 March 1881 to 30 December 1881; and India 31 December 1881 to 19 March 1884. Discharged to the Army Reserve on 27 March 1884, Tralee District, and from 3 May 1884, Devizes District. Keyes re-joined the Colours joining his old Regiment, now styled the Wiltshire Regiment (Private No 1235), serving at home only. He was discharged on 1 February 1890, after completing 12 years and 12 days service. Edward Keyes was possibly mentioned in Colonel C. K. Person's despatch on the defence of Fort Ekowe, 24th January to 4th April, 1879: "Connected with the vedette [mounted sentry] duties, I wish to mention a circumstance which I think reflects great credit upon Captain Sherrington, Native Contingent, and the undermentioned men, viz - Corporal Adams, Native Contingent, Privates Whale, Robson, Higley and Keys, 99th Regiment, and Trooper Garlands, Victoria Mounted Rifles. The vedettes, shortly after our arrival at (Fort) Ekowe, were daily annoyed when they patrolled in the morning, before finally taking up their posts, by the fire from a party of Zulus from a high hill. It was believed that this party took up their position very early in the morning, and Captain Sherrington and the above party volunteered to go out at night and lie in wait for them behind some rocks near the top of the hill, being utterly ignorant, however, of the number of the Zulus. I consented and this little expedition resulted in three Zulus being wounded (though not so seriously as to prevent them from making good their escape) and the vedettes never being annoyed from this hill again. In fact no Zulu was ever afterwards seen there... I have, &c. C. K. Pearson, Colonel, Commanding No. 1 Column.” There are two soldiers on the 99th Regiment South Africa 1879 medal roll named ‘Keyes’ (none spelt ‘Keys’), viz 1009 Private Edward Keyes and 2106 Private Thomas Keyes, one of whom was with Captain Sherrington's party. Neither service record, however, makes mention of either being mentioned in despatches. "C", "E" and "H" companies of the 99th Regiment formed part of the Fort Ekowe garrison. Sold with copied gazette notice and medal roll extract

Efficiency Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue, T. & A.V.R. (W/431806 Cpl D K Goh WRAC) extremely fine £60-£80 --- D. K. Goh was awarded the Efficiency Medal (Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve) per MOD List No. 131 of 1982; there are approximately 110 issues of this medal to the WRAC.

Pair: Temporary Nurse Evelyn K. Christie, Indian Forces British War and Victory Medals (Nurse E. K. Christie.) very fine Pair: Nursing Sister Minnie G. Hunter, British Red Cross and Order of St. John of Jerusalem British War and Victory Medals (M. G. Hunter. O.St.J.) good very fine (4) £80-£100 --- Evelyn K. Christie served as a Temporary Nurse at the Civil Hospital in Karachi. She also nursed at No. 40 British General Hospital in Basrah from October 1917 to August 1918. Minnie Gertrude Hunter lived at The White Cottage, Avenue Rise, Bushby, and served overseas as a Nursing Sister at the St John Ambulance Brigade Hospital in Étaples. She also nursed at Coombe Lodge Red Cross Hospital in Great Warley, Harrogate Red Cross Hospital, Didsbury College Red Cross Hospital, and at Barry Road Primary Hospital in Northampton from November 1918 to March 1919.

A 9ct gold sapphire and diamond ring, size K, weight 1.7gms Condition Report:Available upon request

A 9ct gold diamond cluster ring, set with estimated approx 0.20cts of brilliant cut diamonds, finger size K, weight 3.3gms Condition Report:Available upon request

A vintage ring set. Comprising of a 9ct and platinum diamond solitaire of estimated approx 0.20cts, with further diamonds set to the shoulders taking the total to 0.25cts in total. Finger size J1/2, stamped Bravingtons to the inner shank. Together with a 9ct gold wedding band with all over star engraving, hallmarked London 1979, finger size K, weight together 4gms Condition Report:Available upon request

A 9ct rose gold ring hallmarked Birmingham 1938, set with rose cut diamonds and red gems, size O1/2, together with a 9ct sapphire set ring hallmarked 1909 size K, weight together 3.4gms  Condition Report:Available upon request

An 18ct gold clear gem set butterfly pendant, weight 3.2gms, a 9ct gold mounted golden rutilated quartz pendant with yellow diamond accents on a bobble rope chain 42cm, a 9ct diamond and hardstone rondel pendant, a 9ct iolite ring size K, weight together 12.8gms Condition Report:Available upon request

A leather cartridge case by Cogswell & Harrison Ltd. of 142 New Bond Street & 226 Strand, London, with manufacturer's paper label applied to interior of lid, measuring approx. 38cm x 28cm x 13cm, with assorted contents to include a leather-cased set of three horn tumblers, Hohner harmonica and card sign advertising the services of Gordon K. Bell, Chiropodist Masseur & Electro-therapist Condition Report:Available upon request

A collection of silver and white metal, including a pill box stamped 925 in the form of a crown, another rectangular example, another with an inset cabochon lid, a white metal box, of circular form, with embossed scrolling foliate decoration, a silver toothpick holder, by M K (J) Ltd, Birmingham, another white metal example (6) Condition Report:Available upon request

A 9ct gold large citrine ring, citrine approx 18mm x 13mm, finger size P1/2, and a 9ct purple gem ring size K, weight together 8.4gms Condition Report:Available upon request

14ct gold diamond set solitaire ring, size K, 3.3g. UK P&P Group 0 (£6+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

9ct gold cluster ring set with garnets, size K/L, 3.3g. UK P&P Group 0 (£6+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

Bali/Ubud art canvas painting signed K. Mawi, Bali Tebesaya Ubud. Cranes in the  enchanted monkey forest 66x82cm framed

Ladies Church's shoes and K sheepskin boots 

A group of five gentleman's wristwatches A Seiko stainless steel chronograph wristwatch, ref.6138-3002, automatic movement, black dial with white hours and minutes track, subsidiary dials for elapsed time, white hands with luminous inserts, yellow chrono hands, day and date at 3, brushed tonneau case with screw-down back, pull-out crown flanked by twin pushers, stainless steel bracelet with fold-over clasp, 42mm; a K Worcester gold plated automatic centre seconds wristwatch, 34mm; a Depraz gold plated manual wind wristwatch, 35mm; a Rotary Super Sports chrome plated manual wind wristwatch, 29mm; and a Timex stainless steel manual wind wristwatch, 30mm. (5) Condition:Seiko Chronograph:Case and back: Noticeable scratches and abrasions throughout consistent with age and use.Crystal: 4-5 scratches and some micro-abrasions.Dial: Appears good.  Only a little life in the luminous dot hour markers.Hands: Some minor tarnishing to all.Strap: Fairly loose and stretched.  Clasp unsigned.  Abrasions throughout.Movement: Winds, sets and runs.  Chrono functions and advances the sub dials.  Chrono hand does not reset precisely to zero (it's 4/5 sec off)Depraz Case and back: Noticeable scratches and some wear to plating.Crystal: Scratched overall.Dial: A few tiny tarnishing spots.Hands: Very slightly tarnished.Strap: Signs of age and use.Movement: Winds, sets and runs. K Worcester Case and back: Noticeable scratches and some wear to plating.Crystal: Scratches and abrasions throughout.Dial: Fair to good.Hands: Very slightly tarnished.Strap: Signs of age and use.Movement: Not running.Rotary Case and back: Heavily scratched.Crystal: Heavily scratched.Dial: Some discolouring and tarnishing.Hands: Fair.Strap: Missing.Movement: Winds and sets.  Runs for a few seconds.Timex Case and back: Scratches and micro-dents.Crystal: Fine abrasions throughout.Dial: Fair to good.Hands: Some tarnishing.  Loss to lume on hour hand.Strap: Heavily worn.Movement: Winds, sets and runs. All watches are deemed to have been serviced and/or repaired in their lifetime with parts possibly replaced.  While a watch may be described as 'working' at the time of the report, they are not guaranteed for timekeeping or water resistance - it is advised that all watches are inspected and serviced by a qualified jeweller or the original manufacturer before full use.

A platinum yellow zircon and diamond ring, designed as a central round mixed cut yellow zircon, claw set to tapering baguette cut diamond set shoulders, ring size K, weight approx 4.5g

A single stone diamond ring, with baguette cut diamond set shoulders, the white metal shank stamped '18ct', size J, together with a diamond set band, the white metal shank stamped '18ct', size K 1/2, and a further diamond set ring, not stamped, size K, total weight approx 8g (3)

An early 20th century five stone ring, designed as three graduated old cut diamonds interspersed with two untested blue stones, all claw set in white metal to yellow metal shank, stamped '18ct', ring size K, weight approx 3g

An 18ct gold sapphire and diamond ring, size J, together with an 18ct white gold sapphire and diamond cluster ring, size K, total weight approx 5.8g (2)