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Lot 500
William Henry Buck (Norwegian/Louisiana, 1840-1888), "Fishermen in the Shade of the Live Oak Tree, Louisiana Bayou", oil on canvas, signed and inscribed "N.O." lower right, 16 in. x 22 in., framed. Note: The painting offered here is an exquisite example of a William Henry Buck Louisiana landscape painting. The composition is dominated by a large moss-laden oak tree, a hallmark of Buck’s work, which is silhouetted against a cerulean blue sky which reflects on the water of the bayou in the left foreground. Two African-American figures are on the pier fishing. Buck uses fine detail and brushwork throughout the composition which is striking for its luminosity and effects of light and shadow.
Lot 531
Clarence Millet, A.N.A. (American/Louisiana, 1897-1959), "French Quarter Garden", oil on canvas board, signed lower right, signed and titled on backing paper en verso, 15 in. x 18 in., original frame. Provenance: Acquired from the Artist; Doris Crary Bennett, New Orleans; thence by descent. Note: Clarence Millet returned to New Orleans in 1924 after completing studies at the Art Students’ League in New York. His favored subject during this time was the distinctive buildings and life of the French Quarter. In this vividly colored painting, Millet depicts a verdant courtyard with two young girls in the foreground. The distinctive architecture of the Vieux Carré lies beyond the garden wall, with the spires of St. Louis Cathedral visible in the background. As is found in Millet’s best paintings, there is an atmospheric quality to his rendering of light and shadow and a sense of the breeze moving through the trees.
Lot 1095
* PATRICK RAIMONDI TAYLOR, SURVEY MACHINE digital collage 58cm x 58cm Framed and under glass Note: Raimondi Taylor scours electronic fairs for de-funked electronic items he can recreate into new 'viewing' machines. In his studio he assembles these parts that are both have a function and form to administer light, These machines reveal the paths that light can take within them, both optically and electronically. Various components from disassembled machines (scanners, cameras, projectors, etc) have been photographed separately and then re-arranged in order to build new ones. His study of the Rube Goldberg machine, the name itself was made and an official adjective defined as accomplishing something simple through complicated means. Since graduating from Brighton University of Art & Design, Raimondi Taylor has been invited to exhibit at the 'Pingyao International Photography Festival 2014,' as well as the Brighton Photo Fringe and Fotopub in Slovenia.
Lot 1542
CAPTAIN WILLIAM BAILLIE (IRISH, 1723-1810)Black and white engraving of Hansken the Elephant taken from a drawing by RembrandtPublished 1 August 17788½ x 11 inches (22 x 29 cm.)Captain William Baillie (1723-1810) was born at Kilbride, Co.Carlow. He was educated at Dr. SheridanÍs School in Dublin. He travelled to London with the intention of studying law but decided to follow his younger brother into the army. He joined the 13th Regiment of Foot and was present at the Battle of Culloden, 1746. Afterwards he joined the 51st Regiment and fought at the Battle of Minden, 1759. He moved to the 17th Light Dragoons before relinquishing his Commission in 1761. He now commenced a career in the arts. He was an advisor to The Marquis of Bute and Lord Liverpool. His fame rests with his work as an engraver, primarily with his prints after the works of Rembrandt (1606-1669). These works were published in two large volumes by John Boydell, titled A series of 225 Prints and Etchings After Rembrandt. Examples of his work can be found in The National Gallery of Ireland; The Metropolitan Museum, New York; and The Getty Museum, California.The elephant, Hansken arrived in Holland in 1637 as a gift to The Prince of Orange from The Directors of The East India Company. The unlikely sight of such an exotic animal in The Netherlands at the beginning of the seventeenth-century inspired Rembrandt to make drawings of the elephant (one of which is in the collection of The British Museum). The elephant was kept at The Prince of OrangeÍs Palace at Rijswijk. When The Prince took up a position in Brazil, the elephant was given to his cousin, Johan Maurits. He sold her to an entrepreneur who put her on show throughout The Netherlands and later in France, Germany and Switzerland. She arrived in Italy where she performed her repertoire of thirty-six tricks, opening doors, waving flags, etc. She died in Florence in 1654. Her skeletal remains can be seen today in The Museo della Specola.
Lot 348
*A Rare Great War ‘Q-Ships’ D.S.M. and Bar ‘M.i.D.’ Group of Three to Chief Petty Officer William John Adams, Royal Navy, for services in Q-8 or S.S. Vala in action against enemy submarines, one of which would later sink Q-8 with the loss of all hands, including the recipient, comprising: Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (189087 W. J. Adams, P.O.1 Cl. Special Service. 22. Oct. 1916) with second award bar, reverse impressed (3rd January 1917); Naval General Service Medal, 1915-62, single clasp, Persia Gulf 1909-1914 (189087. W. J. Adams, P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Fox.); 1914-15 Star (189087. W. J. Adams. P.O. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (189087 W. J. Adams. C.P.O. R.N.), with MiD bronze oak leaves; Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (189087 W. J. Adams, P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Fox:); Group swing mounted on bar with reverse brooch pin, light marks, otherwise good very fine (6). S.S.M.: London Gazette, 1 January 1917; Bar to D.S.M.: London Gazette, 23 March 1917; M.i.D.: London Gazette, 27 July 1917. William John Adams, of Littleham, Exmouth, Devon, was born on 9 June 1879 and had previously worked as a Butcher’s Assistant before joining the Royal Navy on 13 June 1896. He served in WW1 as part of the crew of Q-8, the former British collier S.S. Vala of 1016 tons, under the command of Lieutenant-Commander A. A. Mellin, R.N. With an armament of four 12-pounder guns, Vala came across and engaged a German submarine on 22 October 1916, which was later credited as ‘probably’ destroyed. In addition, on 16 January 1917 she had a further encounter with an enemy U-boat, this time credited as ‘possibly’ destroyed. For these ‘Q-Ship’ actions Petty Officer Adams received the D.S.M. and Bar, and was promoted to Chief Petty Officer. Included in his copied paperwork, describing his recommendation for D.S.M. & Bar is a short excerpt of handwritten notes, which appears to relate to the above and show that the recipient was firing the deck gun which sunk the enemy submarine: “In action. Sunday 20th May. G.L.S.I. Did not see submarine until the order action was given and gun brought to bear on the object as soon as object appeared in the telescope submarine fired and I fired…hit just by her gun fore side of conning tower. I also fired as soon as gun was loaded but the object was not very plain because of the explosion of shell and my shot went just short but ricchot (?) hit. Object then periscope laying across to starb(oard). 3rd shot also hit fore side of conning tower, submarine listing to starb(oard). 4th fired submarine hull just visible, hit with good result.” (W. J. Adams. C.P.O. G.L.II No.189087). Later, under the command of Cdr. Leopold Bernays, the Vala was tragically lost with all hands later in 1917 when, having last been heard of at Queenstown on 20 August, Harold Auten was sent out in the sloop Heather to search for remaining survivors or signs of the ship’s destruction. As ordered, he carried out an extensive search but returned empty-handed, having found neither survivors nor wreckage of the Vala. The S.S. Vala was officially paid off as from 25 August, 1917, but it was only after the war that it was revealed that Vala had in fact been destroyed by Commander Egon Von Warner ‘sUB-54 on 20-21st August off the west coast of France. Later reports state that the vessel had been hit by two torpedoes, and that roughly 28 to 34 men had abandoned ship into small boats in rough seas. Despite this, the boats and men were never found. Ex Spink, 18 July 1995, lot 307, where trio in smaller style impressed naming (also called ‘later style’ naming or ‘style no. 3’ by Williamson) was incorrectly catalogued as renamed. Duplicates of the D.S.M. (this lacking a named reverse bar) and N.G.S. are known to the market, reputedly issued to his brother. Offered with useful copied service papers and research.
Lot 42
*China, Republic, Order of the Golden Grain, Sixth class breast badge, in silver, gilt and enamels, width 50.5mm, in cloth case of issue, with printed paper label attached to reverse inscribed Dr. N. H. Bolton, and with related lapel fitting, extremely fine. London Gazette: 13 September 1921: Medical Officer Shanghai-Nanking Railway. Norman Hay Bolton practiced medicine in Shanghai, as well as being Chief Medical Officer of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway he was also commissioned Lieutenant in the Shanghai Volunteer Corps in January 1916, subsequently resigning his commission and transferring to the Shanghai Volunteer Light Horse as a Trooper. Offered with copied research.
Lot 241
*A Scarce and Early Victorian Naval L.S.G.C. ‘Wide’ Group of Six awarded to Chief Bosun’s Mate William Johns, Royal Navy, comprising: Baltic ,1854-55; Crimea, 1854-55, single clasp, Sebastopol; China 1857-60, 3 clasps, Fatshan 1857, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1860, these first three all unnamed as issued; Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Gunr’s Mate W. Johns, H.M.S. Aurora); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (W. Johns, Chf. Bo. Mate, H.M.S. Cambridge 20 Yrs.); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed and fitted with Crimea suspension; light contact marks to the earlier medals, otherwise good very fine and a fine early naval group (6). Ex Capt. K.J. Douglas-Morris Collection, part 1, D.N.W., 16 October 1996, lot 204. William Johns was born at Millbrook, Devon on 25 February 1837, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Impregnable on 30 October 1851, being transferred to H.M.S. Valorous on 18 December 1852. He was advanced to Boy 1st Class in February 1855 although he soon left this ship in August 1856. He rejoined the Navy as an Ordinary Seaman aboard H.M.S. Raleigh on 4 October 1856, whose commanding officer was Commodore Hon. Henry Keppel, designated Second in Command of the Fleet on the China Station. On 26 October 1856 Keppel sailed Raleigh from Portsmouth Harbour without the use of tugs, said to be the last sailing frigate so to leave that harbour under canvas. On 14 April 1857, some thirty miles distance from Hong Kong the Raleigh struck an uncharted and submerged rock just nine feet below the water causing serious damage to her hull. Despite the pumps being worked as hard as possible the continued to slowly fill with water, but fortunately a favourable wind allowed her to be beached on some mud shoals a few miles from Macao. After passing through Alligator, Sybille and her tender Macao Fort, William Johns served aboard Actaeon in December 1857, receiving advancement to Able Seaman in May 1858, to Leading Seaman in January 1862, and finally to Captain’s Coxswain three months later. After two months aboard Russell as Captain of the Forecastle, he subsequently served aboard Aurora (1863-67) as Captain of the Foretop and Gunner’s Mate, Cherub (1867-70) as Acting Gunner 3rd Clarr R.N., and Cambridge (1870-73) as Gunner’s Mate and Chief Bosun’s Mate. In this vessel he received his L.S. & G.C. medal when pensioned with 20 years’ service on 22 April 1873. Offered with copied original service papers.
Lot 329
*A Scarce Lifesaving Group of 3 awarded to Storekeeper and Able Seaman John Ken Whelan of the White Star Liner S.S. Baltic for his role in saving the stricken members of the Newfoundland schooner Northern Light, comprising: Sea Gallantry Medal, G.V.R., bronze issue (John Whelan, “Northern Light” 6th December, 1929.), with reverse brooch pin, in original monogrammed case of issue; Lloyd’s Gallantry Medal, bronze issue (Storekeeper John Whelan “Northern Light” 6th December, 1929), 36mm width, with ring suspension and reverse brooch pin, in original case of issue; Lifesaving Benevolent Association of New York, bronze medal, by Tiffany & Co., engraved top bar suspension dated ‘December 6, 1929’, reverse engraved ‘John Whelan’, in original branded & named box of issue; extremely fine (3). Sea Gallantry Medal, Edinburgh Gazette, 13 March, 1931 – ‘in recognition of the gallantry displayed by them in rescuing the shipwrecked crew of the Newfoundland Schooner “Northern Light” which was in distress in the Atlantic Ocean on the 6th December 1929.’ The recommendation recorded by the Board of Trade reads as follows: ‘The schooner Northern Light of St John’s, Newfoundland, was in distress in the Atlantic Ocean on the 6th December 1929 and the Baltic went to her assistance. A very strong westerly gale was blowing and a heavy sea was running. After the Baltic had been manoeuvred into position at windward, oil was forced overboard to facilitate the SS Baltic launching of a lifeboat. It was only with difficulty that the boat was got away in charge of Mr Walker and manned by the men named. The boat approached near enough to the Northern Light to enable a line attached to a piece of wood which had been floated from the schooner to be secured and made fast to the boat. By means of this line the schooner’s crew then succeeded one by one in reaching the life-boat, except one man who was drowned owing to the line being dragged from his grasp by the pitch of the boat in the heavy seas. The risk was great and the life-boat had great difficulty in returning to the Baltic, where rescued and rescuers had to be got on board by means of lines, and the boat abandoned. (9.2.31)’ . For his gallantry in these events, John Whelan was awarded the above medals as well as a Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Medal (not offered here). The details and events of this shipwreck received much coverage in The New York Times, and the ten members of the White Star Liner Baltic were given their various individual silver and bronze medals in addition to $100 in gold by the Life Saving Benevolent Association of New York. Offered with a copied photograph of the recipient with some annotations, apparently made by a member of the family.
Lot 270
Queen’s South Africa, 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (5694 Pte P. Ringe, 1: Bord: Regt), light surface marks, good very fine. Private Paul (Floyd) Alfred Ringe, son of Charles and Mary Ringe of Hampstead, North London, attested for service on 26 October 1899 ,aged 18 years and 9 months for five years’ service. On his discharge in 1904 he joined the Territorial Force for a further four years. Offered with copies of both his Short Service and his Territorial Force attestation documents.
Lot 218
*An Early Pair of Baronet of Nova Scotia Badges: The Musgrave Baronets of Hayton Castle, comprising: (i) A gold and enamelled badge in the shape of a crowned shield, of multi-part rivetted construction with hinged suspension loop, circa 1790, possibly by Rundell & Bridge and attributed to Sir William Musgrave, 6th Baronet (1735-1800); the plain gold reverse engraved Dominus at crown and Edwardus Musgrave de Castellis de Scalebye et Hayton Miles Baronettus Creatus 20: Octob: 1638. on shield, 45mm (including crown and suspension) x 25.7mm, some enamel losses to crown and top of shield, otherwise good very fine and of high quality; (ii) crowned gold and enamelled oval badge, circa 1820, probably by Rundell, Bridge and Rundell and attributed to Sir James Musgrave, 9th Baronet (1785-1858), the reverse in gold, the crown with detailed engraving, the outer border of the oval badge engraved in capitals Fax Mentis Honestae Gloria. (motto of the Baronets of Nova Scotia), the centre engraved in italics Dominus Edwardus Musgrave de Castellis de Scalebye et Hayton Miles Baronettus Creatus 20: Octob: 1638., 72.5mm (including crown and suspension) x 35.5mm, with original neck riband, reverse and enamels with light scratches, about extremely fine and of very fine quality (2). The Musgrave Baronetcy was established in 1638 when Charles I advanced SIR EDWARD MUSGRAVE to the dignity of Baronet of Nova Scotia. Sir Edward was later to distinguish himself in the Royalist cause and was created Colonel by Charles I. He raised a regiment on behalf of the king which he financed himself and which was eventually to cost him some two thousand pounds per annum, found by selling parts of his estate. When at the Battle of Worcester Charles II had his horse shot under him, Sir Edward placed the Prince on his own mount. Following the battle he escaped to Scotland where he sought sanctuary with the Duke of Gordon; Cromwell demanded that Gordon should surrender him but Sir Edward escaped to the Isle of Man where he remained until the Restoration. His estates and honours were then returned to him. SIR WILLIAM MUSGRAVE, 6TH BARONET succeeded his brother in 1755 and became a barrister in 1758, subsequently becoming bencher, reader and finally Treasurer of the Middle Temple. He was made a Commissioner of the Revenue in 1763 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1774, becoming Vice-President in 1780; he was additionally a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1778 and its Vice-President, in 1786. He was appointed a Trustee of the British Museum in 1783 and a Commissioner for auditing the Public Account in 1785. He died without issue 3 January 1800 and is buried at St. James’s, Westminster, where his monument can still be seen. SIR JAMES MUSGRAVE, 9TH BARONET succeeded his father in 1814. A keen sportsman, aficionado of prize-fighting and a prominent member of the Quorn Hunt, he died in 1858 to be followed in turn by his brother, SIRWILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUSGRAVE, the last Baronet and former Rector of Chivenor, Oxfordshire (who died without issue in 1875).
Lot 237
*Military General Service, 1793-1814, one clasp, Corunna (Geo. Stevenson, Ensn. 1st Ft. Gds), edge bruising, otherwise very fine. Ex Glendining, March 1969; Ex Spink, 28 March 1995, lot 729. George Stevenson entered the British Army in 1804 at the age of 20, by purchase of a Cornetcy in the 14th Light Dragoons. He subsequently bought a Lieutenancy in the same regiment the following year and in 1807 purchased a Lieutenancy in the 1st Foot Guards. Whilst some sources suggest that he retired in 1810, other sources suggest that from 1809-40 he served in the following regiments, 3rd Dragoons, 3rd Dragoon Guards, 6th Dragoons and 7th Dragoon Guards. His name is recorded in ‘Wellington’s Men Remembered: Volume 2’ by J. & D. Bromley as having died on 25 July 1863 at Brighton where he is buried in St Andrews Church, Hove.
Lot 236
The Officer’s 10 Clasp M.G.S. awarded to Major-General John Napper Jackson, 94th (Scotch Brigade) Foot and 99th (Lanarkshire) Foot, who started his military service at the age of just 9 years old, and saw varied service at many of the major battles and actions in Portugal, Spain and France. He later helped to foil an attempted mutiny on the high seas aboard the convict ship Somersetshire in 1842 near Cape Town whilst en route to Van Diemen’s Land, comprising: Military General Service, 1793-1814, 10 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, with additional silver top bar engraved ‘Peninsula’ and top bar with reverse brooch pin (J. N. Jackson, Captn 94th Foot), rank ‘Captn’ carefully erased, officially re-impressed and corrected [see footnote] over faint ‘Lieut’, good very fine or better. John Napper Jackson was born in Dublin, Ireland, c. 1796 and began his army career as an Ensign with the 94th (Scotch Brigade) Foot on 1 July 1805 - at the age of just nine years old. Promoted to Lieutenant on 1 January 1806, he was only fourteen when he commenced four years of active service in the Peninsula between February 1810 and April 1814, during which time he was promoted to Captain on 28 February 1812. Throughout his service in the Peninsula he was present at some thirty battles and actions, including: the Siege of Cadiz, Lines of Torres Vedras, the siege and storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, the third Siege of Badajoz and storm of the castle by escalade, Fort China (in command of an escort of the third division), Nive, Nivelle and numerous others between. Having earnt himself a Military General Service Medal with ten clasps before the age of nineteen, and having served at the rank of Captain for roughly 2 years before the campaign’s culmination, it is understandable that he might later have asked his medal (impressed as ‘Lieut’) to be re-impressed by the mint with the correct rank, as we see here. He served for a time on Half-Pay with the 43rd Light Infantry during 1822 before later joining the Light Company of the 99th (Lanarkshire) Foot on its formation in 1824 – already by this time an experienced fighting soldier with twenty years’ service, and still only twenty nine years old. He went with the Regiment to Mauritius and Australia, where he acted in command for two years during Colonel Despard’s absence in New Zealand. During this time he played a part in the suppression of an attempted mutiny aboard the convict ship Somersetshire in 1842, where soldiers of the 99th and 50th Regiments formed the guard. As recorded in his obituary in the Army and Navy Gazette: ‘He was a passenger on board the convict ship Somersetshire, proceeding to re-join the 99th Regiment, then in Van Dieman’s Land, when a mutiny broke out by a part of the guard [Private soldiers in the 99th Foot] conspiring with the convicts to take the vessel. Three of the soldiers implicated in this atrocious offence of murder etc. were convicted and transported for life.’ Having put into Cape Town, the three soldiers of the 99th Foot (Agnew, Chisholm, Kelly) faced trial on board and were prosecuted by Lieutenant Colonel Jackson himself, to whom the plot had been leaked by the ship’s cook, and all three were found guilty, the ringleader Agnew was initially sentenced to death by firing squad (but appears to have had this reduced to hard labour and imprisonment), and the others were placed in irons on board to continue to Van Dieman’s Land for a life’s sentence. Continuing, Jackson later commanded the 99th Regiment in Ireland and Aldershot where they gained a ‘tremendous reputation’ for smartness in dress and drill. Afterwards described by a fellow officer as ‘Moltke of the Nines’ he was seldom seen off the barrack square and never known to go on leave. He was for a time Colonel of the 3rd West India Regiment in 1862, before returning to become the Colonel of the 99th Regiment from 1863 until his death after a short illness at St Helier’s, Jersey, on the 25th of January 1866, at the age of seventy two. He had previously been noted as a resident of Bath. Ex Glendining, 1970.
Lot 240
*An I.G.S. Pegu & Long Service Pair awarded to Private John Lloyd, 51st (K.O.Y.L.I.) Regiment, comprising: India General Service, 1854-1895, single clasp, Pegu (John Lloyd. 51st Regiment.), late issue or regimental impressed naming in small capital letters; Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, V.R. (1804. John Lloyd, 51st Foot); pair loose, a few light marks in places, very fine / good very fine (2)
Lot 299
*A Great War & Iraq G.S.M. Group of 4 awarded to Captain Leslie Dundas Watson, King’s Dragoon Guards, late 7th (The Princess Royal’s) Dragoon Guards, comprising: 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. L. D. Watson. 7/ D. Gds.);British War and Victory Medals (Capt. L. D. Watson.); General Service Medal, 1918-62, G.V.R., single clasp, Iraq (Lieut. L. D. Watson.); group swing mounted on bar, offered with matching miniature group (Victory Medal missing), and other apparently related miniatures including WWI Pair and Afghanistan medal (no clasp), light contact marks & small edge bruises, about good very fine (10). Leslie Dundas Watson was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 26 May 1894, the son of Thomas William Watson and Lucy Hamilton. He was educated at Rugby School and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, being commissioned from Gentleman Cadet to 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Dragoon Guards on 15 August 1914. He served in France, and later in Iraq, reaching the rank of Acting Captain whilst commanding a Squadron in late 1918. In January 1923 he transferred to the King’s Dragoon Guards, with whom he served as part of the Reserve of Officers until as late as November 1945. He died in Ipswich on 5 May 1975. He was married to Enid Margaret Conran, with whom he had two children, Gillian Watson, and Sir Simon Conran Hamilton Watson, 6th Baronet. His WWI MIC gives an early contact address as ‘Neilsland, Hamilton, Scotland’.
Lot 234
*Naval General Service, 1793-1840, single clasp, 14 March 1795 (R. Honyman, Lieut. R.N.), with segment of original ribbon, old cabinet tone, once very gently polished with light hairlines, otherwise good extremely fine and lustrous. Admiral of the Blue Robert Honyman was born in December 1767 at Orphir, Orkney, son of Sir Patrick Honyman of Clestrain Hall, Stromness (a descendant of Robert, first Earl of Orkney, natural son of James V of Scotland) and Margaret Sinclair; half-brother to William Honyman, Lord Armadale. Educated at Edinburgh, he entered the Royal Navy on 20 April 1782 as Captain’s servant aboard H.M.S. Queen under Captain Patrick Sinclair, his father-in-law, and saw service in the North Sea. He reached the rank of Midshipman the following year in September 1783 whilst aboard the Hyaena on the Irish Station, and then was again promoted to Lieutenant on 21 October 1790 whilst employed aboard the Powerful. On the renewal of hostilities against the French in 1793 he obtained a position aboard H.M.S. Diadem and sailed for the Mediterranean, where he was present at the occupation of Toulon. He was later present aboard H.M.S. St George, the flagship of Sir Hyde Parker, where he was wounded during Admiral William Hotham’s action on 14 March 1795 against the French Fleet off the coast of Genoa (also known as the Battle of Genoa). Fighting alongside their Neapolitan allies, the British won the encounter and captured two French ships of the line in the process; the Ça Ira and Censeur, with Captain Horatio Nelson playing a prominent role in the battle. Receiving a second commission by promotion on 13 August 1796, Captain Honyman assumed command of the sloop Tisiphone on 4 May 1797, and during that same year he was responsible for the capture of the French privateers La Prospére (14) and Le Cerf Volante (14) with a total of 136 men. He achieved the Post-rank of Captain on 10 December 1798, and in 1800 conveyed Admiral Robert Montagu to Jamaica. Whilst serving aboard H.M.S. Leda off the coast of France Captain Honyman took the opportunity to attack an enemy gunboat flotilla on 29 September 1803, driving two gunboats onshore. In another attack on 24 April 1805 he discovered 26 enemy vessels rounding Cape Grisnez, and during a two hour encounter he succeeded in cutting off seven schuyts, carrying a total of 18 guns, 1 howitzer and 168 men travelling from Dunkerque to Ambleteuse. Captain Honyman and the Leda continued to see action during the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope and the capture of the Rolla brig and Volontaire frigate at Table Bay. Honyman also played a part in the operations at Rio de la Plata, and in the capture of the privateer L’Adolphe (18) in December 1807, prior to her wrecking near the entrance of Milford Haven on 31 January 1808, for which Honyman was acquitted of all blame owing to the understandable mistakes of the pilot made in terrible conditions of fog and adverse weather. He became Rear-Admiral on 27 May 1825, Vice-Admiral on 10 January 1837, and full Admiral on 19 February 1847. He was elected M.P. in 1802 for Orkney and Shetland whilst serving the Royal Navy as a Lieutenant, retiring from further parliamentary work in 1807. He was married to Margaret Henrietta Knight, and he died in Paris c. 21 March 1848, as recorded in contemporary newspapers. John Graham of Fintry described Honyman in 1805 as ‘the most warm hearted worthy man I ever saw.’
Lot 279
*An Scarce Officer’s Tibet and N.W. Persia Group of 5 awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Harvey St. George Hume Harvey-Kelly, 2nd / 1st Madras Pioneers, late 32nd and 64th Pioneers, Indian Army, comprising: Tibet 1903-05, single clasp, Gyantse (Lieut. H. St. G. H. Harvey. Kelly 64th Pioneers); British War Medal (Maj. H. St. G. Harvey Kelly.); General Service Medal, 1918-1962, single clasp, N. W. Persia (Major H. St. G. H. Harvey Kelly.); India General Service Medal, 1908-1935, single clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Maj, H, St, G, H, Harvey-Kelly, 2-1 M, Pnrs,); Jubilee Medal 1935; Group loose, with original riband bar, lightly polished and cleaned, very fine or better (5). The Harvey-Kelly family were a landed family from Westmeath, Ireland, and Harvey St. George Hume Harvey-Kelly was born in 1880. He passed out from Sandhurst in 1899, following which he received his first commission as a Second Lieutenant (Unattached List) in the Indian Staff Corps on 17 January 1900, as shown in the original warrant included with the lot. Soon after he was made a 2nd Lieutenant with the 32nd Pioneer’s, and sent to join Younghusband’s Tibet campaign of 1903-05, where he was present at the action at Niani (also spelt Naini) on 26 June 1904, on the strategic main road leading to Gyantse. As recorded in his personal journal, the storming and subsequent capture of this heavily fortified monastery was his first experience of battle (‘My first show!’), and he wrote: “2 Coys 32nd were ordered to attack under B- [Colonel Herbert Ralph Brander, C.B.] skirmished around selected house + garden about 150 yds from the village, and as we approached on the other side the enemy opened fire. A row of 4 houses loopholed & barricaded doors + windows, nothing to be seen but puffs of smoke, and we in a ditch, open fields between us, firing at the loopholes…maxims chattering, 7 pounders banging. After a while the enemy fire died down and then ceased. ‘That’s all that then, said B-, if they know what’s good for them – they’ve bolted. I’m going to rush the house.’ which with a wild yell he proceeded to do. Up we jumped and followed him but no sooner had we shown ourselves than the enemy’s fire recommenced. They had been waiting for a better target. On we ran, one man down on my left, & so up to the first house. B- hammered on the door, so did the Sepoys, not a sound from within and no way of getting in. No signs of Tibetans, must have bolted. Gun cotton was left behind by order…Orders came from Colonel Hogge – 23rd will clear the houses, 32nd the garden in the middle of the village. The garden was a walled in enclosure – loopholed – gateway bricked up, and a clear run of 60 yards to reach it. B started giving orders to circle behind…we followed, not a sign of the enemy, our own shrapnel playing hell’s bells above our heads. B reached the gate and we had the bricks down, waiting to rush them. Another minute and we were in. Not a soul in the place. Having carried out our orders, there we sat in the shade of a tree and had tiffin…until it was time to march to Gyantse.” Harvey-Kelly also took part in the operations at and around the mountain fortress at Gyantse, between 5 May and 6 July 1904, and then during the march to Lhassa between 14 July and 3 August 1904. Afterwards he served in the 64th Pioneers between c. late 1904 and 1907, and then in North West Persia and Waziristan between September 1919 and May 1921 with the 2nd Battalion / 1st Madras Pioneers. He retired from service in the Indian Army in 1928, whereupon he joined the South Indian Railway as Executive Officer, Golden Rock Colony. He worked in this capacity until 9 October 1935, when he decided to leave India and return home, having been presented with the King’s Silver Jubilee medal at a Durbar in Trichinopoly just weeks before on 3 September 1935. He appears to have spent his retirement in Bedford, where his sons attended Bedford Modern School. He sons served with distinction in the Great War: Herbert Dunsterville Harvey-Kelly was a famous pilot - the first to land in France and the first RFC pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft before being shot down in Bloody April and dying from wounds. Another son, Charles Hamilton Hume Harvey-Kelly, became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Baluch Light Infantry, served as Military Attaché to Kabul, and won the D.S.O. This group offered with an original warrant, portrait photograph, an original copy of the ‘Farewell Address’ to Harvey-Kelly from the Golden Rock Colony, letter from the South Indian Railway Co. confirming his nomination for the King’s Silver Jubilee Medal 1935, and other related research. Harvey-Kelly’s archive, including his journal and photographs of the Tibet expedition, will be offered for sale at Sotheby’s London, Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History, 15 November 2016
Lot 260
*India General Service, 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4738 Pte W. Connor 2d Bn K. O. Sco. Bord:), suspension a touch loose, lightly toned, minor edge bruise, otherwise good very fine. Private William Connor was born on 1 December 1876 at Fyzabad in Bengal, India, the son of John Connor, a Private in the 25th Foot (later King’s Own Scottish Borderers) and Marion née Darrach of Islay, Scotland, whom he had met and married in Glasgow before travelling to India. Tragically, John Connor died in the cholera outbreak in Fyzabad in 1877, leaving Marion with four young children, one of whom was William Connor. She remarried within the year to another soldier, Thomas Septimus Woodman. In due course, they returned to Scotland and settled in Glasgow where William was recorded in the 1891 census as a Van Boy. Following in the footsteps of his brother Thomas, William Connor, who had served in the Militia with the Highland Light Infantry, enlisted in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers in November 1893 and served with the Regiment in India from November 1895 to November 1903 and in Burma from November 1903 to November 1905. He was discharged in November 1905 after 12 years with the colours. The Medal is offered with a copy of Private Connor’s service history from the National Archives and of the Roll showing entitlement to the Medal and the two clasps.
Lot 250
Afghanistan, 1878-1880, no clasp (2606, Pte F. Chap - Ian, 2/7th Foot), erased and renamed, possibly officially, ‘m’ of Chapman incomplete, cleaned, a few light scratches, very fine. Private Frederick Chapman was born at Offley, near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in 1853 and enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers on 14 January 1873. He served with the Regiment in Afghanistan from February 1880, and ‘distinguished himself’ [at the] Siege of Kandahar 1880’ (recipient’s service papers refer). He was honourably discharged on 25 April 1899 after 26 years and 102 days with the Colours. Offered with twelve sheets showing his full service history, medical record, battalion roll extract and a copy of the Medal Roll confirming entitlement.
Lot 257
*East and West Africa, 1887-1900, single clasp, Benin 1897 (H. Dawson, P.O. 1 CL. H.M.S. Forte.), lightly toned, a few light obverse marks, good very fine. H.M.S. Forte was an Astraea Class second class cruiser launched on 9 December 1893. Offered with a copy of the Admiralty Roll confirming Petty Officer First Class Harry Dawson’s entitlement to the medal and to the clasp which were awarded to him on 8 July 1898.
Lot 346
*Indian Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. 1st type (1446 Havdr: Barkat Shah 51st Sikhs (F.F.)), some contact marks & light pitting, nearly very fine. M.i.D.: London Gazette, 19 October 1916 (Indian Expeditionary Force ‘D’ – Mesopotamia). The 51st Sikhs were present during the Mesopotamia Campaign and were based at Ali Gharbi. Half of the 51st Sikhs were used in the attempted but ultimately unsuccessful Relief of Kut, where the 51st Sikhs’ commanding officer Lieutenant-Colonel William Beadon was killed during the ‘action of the Wadi’ on 13 January 1916 in the face of fierce Ottoman resistance, along with Captain Hunter Forbes and Major P E Knapp. It seems plausible that his M.i.D. (and potentially also the I.D.S.M.) relate to this action.
Lot 332
*U.S.A., A Presidential Gold Life Saving Medal of Australian interest, engraved “TO J. HENDERSON of the Newcastle Volunteer Life-Saving Crew, in recognition of his heroic services in effecting the rescue, Sept. 27” 1909, of the Captain and his wife and the crew of the American schooner ALPENA.”, with reverse of suspension clasp and edge of medal marked ’22 Ct.; light hairlines and small surface grazes behind head and to neck of portrait, otherwise extremely fine. The wreck of the Alpena on 25 September 1909, off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, is described in detail in the article ‘Two Brave Italians’ by Paul Street (L.S.A.R.S. Journal No.57). The four-masted schooner Alpena was en route from Melbourne to Newcastle to collect a shipment of coal when it was hit by a very severe gale near ‘Nobbys’. In her attempt to make port with the help of the tug Levert, a squall parted the line between them, leaving her stranded. A pilot steamer, Ajax, under Captain Richard Page, then towed out the Newcastle lifeboat Victoria, under Coxswain Antonio Costa, to assist in saving the lives of the greatly endangered crew. First saving the life of the Captain’s wife, with some difficulty, the lifeboat was towed back to save the crew. Bringing 23 crew on board, the lifeboat was capsized twice by huge waves, throwing 20 of the 23 back into the water. From this, the lifeboat recovered 13 people, and the Ajax a further 6. For their efforts, some 14 Presidential Gold Lifesaving Medals were awarded to the lifesaving crews by President William Taft, including J Henderson, whose name is confirmed in the article. Rescue crew members later described this event as the worst night of their lives. Offered with copied research, including the above article in full. The medal was included previously in our auction of 27 June 2016 (lot 392) but is now re-offered due to default.
Lot 176
A 1930s British teddy bear, with light golden mohair, clear and black glass eyes, pronounced clipped muzzle, black stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head, jointed limbs and inoperative squeaker - 221?2in. (57cm.) high (pads replaced, some general wear, balding to forehead and eyes are odd sizes)
Lot 530
A Francois Gaultier bebe No.8, with fixed brown glass eyes, delicately painted closed mouth, light brown brows, pierced ears, original blonde hair wig on cork pate, jointed cloth covered Gesland body with composition shoulder, lower arms and legs, ink stamp on body for ‘5 rue Berenger’, a dark burgundy ribbed silk dress buttoning down the entire front, a brown velvet bonnet and cape with white rabbit fur trim, under garments and tan leather shoes - 211?4in. (54cm.) high
Lot 451
‘Madeleine’ a Käthe Kruse Doll No.I, with painted cloth head, light brown hair and hazel eyes, jointed cloth body with wide hips and sewn on thumb, red printed 19132 on left foot - 17in. (43cm) high (some wear to hair and around mouth, small patches to hands); a quantity of mainly well homemade clothing including a pink coat with matching hat; embroidered bibs; and knitted gloves; three reference books; and three original photographs of Madeleine and her original owner in circa 1919 and 1922 - Provenance - This doll and the following three lots were the childhood dolls of Ariane Balland who was born in Geneva on 29th December 1916. Madeleine, Claude and Oursi (lot 99) were her life-long companions
Lot 148
A fine Steiff white mohair teddy bear 1920s, with brown and black glass eyes, pronounced muzzle, brown stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head, jointed elongated limbs with felt pads, hump, inoperative growler and FF button with remains of white label - 201?2in. (52cm.) high (very slight thinning to right cheek, needs a light clean); and a post-war multi-coloured plush ball
Lot 469
A pair of Lenci pressed-felt girl and boy, the boy with brown painted side glancing eyes, dark brown mohair wig, jointed cloth body, knitted yellow, brown and blue cardigan, matching socks, brown felt shorts, cream shirt and beige leather shoes - 163?4in. (421?2cm.) high; and a similar girl with light brown mohair wig, eau de Nil knitted jumper, yellow wool skirt and matching hat, underclothes and brown leather shoes (some fading and light spotting to boy)
Lot 171
An early British teddy bear, with light golden mohair, black boot button eyes, pronounced muzzle, remains of black stitched nose and mouth, large ears, swivel head, jointed limbs with brown cloth pads, inoperative growler and brown knitted outfit - 143?4in. (371?2cm.) high (face worn, general wear, hip joints need attention and eyes possibly replaced)
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