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Click here to subscribe1939-1945 Canadian Memorial Cross and South Africa group of four. A Canadian Memorial Cross to F3325 Pte. D. (Donald) L. Dauphinee in presentation case with compliment slip and newspaper clippings; together with a an Africa Service Medal, Africa Star, Defence Medal and 1939-1945 War Medal all named to 65460 B. Healy; together with an Africa Star, unnamed. (6)
1914-1918 Royal Air Force Pair and three other medals. A 1914-1918 Great War Medal and Victory Medal to 693016 3.A.M. A. Gillett. R.A.F.; together with two 1914-1918 Great War Medals to 23477 Pte C.E. Grute. Devon R. and 23181 Pte. J. Doyle. A.S.C. a 1914-15 Star to O15089 Pte. C. Gilchrest. A.S.C.; and two memorial plaques to Thomas Christie and James Tees Scott. (7)
Medals: A rare Observer Corps MBE trio (possibly unique), MBE (Civil), Defence Medal and Royal Observer Corps Long Service Medal with three long service bars, named for Observer Officer R.G.J.W. Kent, swing-mounted, with MBE case, certificate and a scrap album relating to Kent's life and service; Wood (Derek), Attack Warning Red, The Royal Observer Corps and The Defence of Britain; and a Minton Royal Observer Corps 50th Anniversary commemorative plate (boxed). Note: Kent joined the Observer Corps as a Special Constable in 1930. He was appointed Assistant Duty Controller, The Centre at the outbreak of World War II and held that position throughout the war years. He became Observer Officer in 1947 and was appointed MBE in the New Years Honours List in 1966
A Queen's South Africa Medal group of four to 406 TPTR: G. WESTON. 14TH COY W.D.R.G.A., ORANGE FREE STATE and CAPE COLONY clasps, King's South Africa Medal to 406 TPTR: G. WESTON. CAPE G.A., South Africa 1901 and 1902 clasps, two WWI medals to C.Q.M.S. G.M. WESTON. 1ST S.A.I. and a prisoner of war cigarette case and one other
Militaria in seven glazed displays, containing:- Australian Peace Medallion 1919 with shoulder title and cap badge; Second World War Italian/German African Campaign Medal; four Spanish Civil War cap badges in a bone inlaid frame; East Lancashire Regiment bimetal cap badge; First World War French Army uniform button; Royal Scots Fusiliers glengarry badge; two lead musket balls recovered from the wreck of the ''Association'' circa 1700 (7)
NO RESERVE Anacreon. Anakreontos Teiou (graece)... praefixo commentario et variant. lect. Parmae: in aedibus palatinis, 1791.In-16° (mm 102x68). Pagine [4], 120, 122, [2]. Al frontespizio medaglia incisa su rame con ritratto dell'Autore, al recto di c. [Ï€]2 ritratto calcografico del dedicatario José Nicolas de Azara. Poche lievissime arrossature. Legatura coeva in marocchino con restauri, piatti con impressioni in oro, titoli in oro su tassello al dorso, tagli dorati, contropiatti e sguardie in seta azzurra.Dopo le prime edizioni di Anacreonte, di grande formato e datate rispettivamente 1784 e 1785, in cui Bodoni aveva offerto un saggio dei suoi nuovi caratteri greci, nel 1791 il tipografo regio ripropose due impressioni del poeta greco in due diversi formati, in octavo e in sedicesimo. Questa seconda, cui appartiene il presente esemplare, è definita da De lama una "graziosa edizioncella". De Lama II, 66; Brooks, 421; Giani, 16; Mingardi, Edizioni bodoniane, 106.16° (102x68 mm). [4], 120, 122, [2] pages. On title page copper medal with portrait of the Author, on the recto of fol. [Ï€]2 engraved portrait of the dedicatee José Nicolas de Azara. Some light foxing. Contemporary morocco with repairs, gilt-tooled decorations on the covers, gilt title on littering piece on the spine, gilt edges, azure silk pastedowns and flyleaves.After the first editions of Anacreon, of big format and dated rispectively 1784 and 1785, in which Bodoni offered an essay of his new greek types, in 1791 the royal printer revisited two pritings of the greek poet in two different formats, in octavo and in sedicesimo. This second edition, to which belongs this copy, is considered by De Lama a "graziosa edizioncella". De Lama II, 66; Brooks, 421; Giani, 16; Mingardi, Edizioni bodoniane, 106.
A collection of of insignia and medals, comprising: a Knight Batchelor's badge, silver gilt and enamel, maker's mark 'R.J.', London 1935, damage and loss to enamel, otherwise good very fine or better; the Order of the Bath, miniature badge (civil), with ribbon and buckle brooch, extremely fine; a Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, George V (WILLIAM MARTINEAU), extremely fine; University College London, a silver 3rd prize medal to G. Martineau for Chemistry 1852-3, nearly extremely fine; two 20th Century shooting prizes; a British War Medal 1939-45; and a K.R.R.C. cap badge. [8] Nb. The association of the named items is with the Martineaus of Kincraig, Scotland.
A collection of British awards, comprising: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, officer's breast badge (O.B.E.), cased, some loss to gilding; Imperial Service Medal to Richard Langmaid, 1st type, Edward VII, star (RICHARD H. LANGMAID), cased, loss to silver plating and very minor damage to enamel; Imperial Service Medal to William Short, George V, 2nd type (WILLIAM HENRY SHORT), cased, extremely fine; Naval General Service Medal 1909-62 to Able Seaman N.R. Marsh, R.N., Elizabeth II, clasp, Near East (P/SSX. 911375 N.R. MARSH. A.B. R.N.), some pitting to bust, otherwise good very fine and attractively toned. [4]
The C.B.E. group of eleven medals to Captain (later Rear Admiral) James F. Figgins, Royal Navy: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander's neck badge (military), 2nd type, cased, extremely fine; Naval General Service 1909-62, clasp: Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (MATE. J. FIGGINS, R.N. H.M.S. SWIFTSURE); 1914-15 Star, British War Medal 1914-20, Victory Medal (LIEUT. J. FIGGINS. R.N.); 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, Defence, British War 1939-45, Jubilee 1935, Coronation 1937, the last ten mounted for wearing, good very fine; with two sets of dress miniatures, one including the C.B.E. and WWII Awards, the other earlier; together with an Admiralty pin badge, an H.M.S. Firedrake tug-of-war prize fob (Harwich Forces 1916), and a quantity of associated ephemera. C.B.E. New Year Honours 1942 The first officer to be promoted Captain via the Rank of Mate (ref. www.dreadnoughtproject.org )
The Sea Gallantry Medal group of three to Chief Boatman (later Honorary Lieutenant R.N.) James Forrester Figgins, H.M. Coastguard, for services during the stranding of the 'Confido': Sea Gallantry Medal, EVIIR, first type small issue in bronze (JAMES F. FIGGINS STRANDING OF THE "CONFIDO" ON THE 16TH MARCH 1903); Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, VR, (J.F. FIGGINS, CHF. BTMN, H.M. COASTGUARD.); British War Medal 1914-20 (LIEUT. J. FIGGINS. R.N.). The first two good very fine, the last about extremely fine. The Confido was a ketch of 70 tons, stranded 16th March 1903 in Dublin bay with a cargo of iron and scrap. Six bronze medals were awarded for the arduous rescue work in heavy seas. The navy list indicates that this man was an honourary Lieutenant during the great war, and the Naval roll shows a Lt. J.F. Figgins entitled to the British War Medal only.
The Great War M.M. group to Private Stanley Harrop, East Lancashire Regiment and Machine Gun Corps, comprising: Military Medal, George V (153557 PTE S. HARROP. 37/M.G.C.); British War Medal and Victory Medal (38721 PTE. S. HARROP. E. LAN. R.), mounted for wearing (ribbons in the correct order, medals ordered: M.M., VM, BWM); with a ribbon bar bearing a second award rosette for the M.M.; a Divisional Gallantry Card, 2nd Division, congratulating the recipient (at this point in 2 Bn.) on 'his bravery and skill in carrying out a daring reconnaissance for machine gun positions near Behagnies August 25th, 1918'; together with a presentation wristwatch, the 9 carat gold case inscribed 'Presented to Stanley Harrop by St Andrews Church and School in Commemoration of his winning the Military Medal, European War 1914-1918. M.M. with official correction to regimental number, otherwise all good very fine, watch not running and lacks strap. Military Medal L.G. 24/01/1919 (Amended 17/06/1919) Second award not verifiable. The unit diary for the 25th August 1918 does not name this man, but describes the advance in this area and note that "the advance of the machine gun section was most ably carried out..........the conduct of all ranks during the operation was beyond praise" Note to self - illustrate watch and card in catalogue
The Kaisar-I-Hind medal to Arthur Frederick Cox, C.S.I., Indian Civil Service: Kaisar-I-Hind, VR, 1st class in gold, hallmarked 1901, with suspension brooch and in Garrard case. A.F. Cox 1848-1925. Childhood spent in India; educated Ealing Great Schools and King's College; intended for a career in medicine but put off by a visit to a dissection room; passed Indian Civil Service Exam, winning a total of £120 in prize money for his proficiency in the Tamil and Tegu languages; posted to India 1871; wrote North Arcot District Manual while in the Revenue Department there; concerned in numerous interesting cases, including one in which British officials were extorting money from Indians, and a native assistant used a form of oath involving holding burning camphor to induce the victims to testify, Cox being in effect accused by the perpetrators of having used torture (the case reached Parliament, where all suggestion of wrongdoing was rejected); Judge in Madras 1887-89; Accountant General Bombay 1889-94; Comptroller and Auditor General Calcutta 1894-1906; critical of Indian Government fiscal policy - his views ultimately supported in London; Kaisar-I-Hind 1st Class 1901; retired 1906
By order of the recipient: the remarkable and historically significant Operation Mikado/ Plum Duff pair of medals to Captain Andrew Legg, 22nd Special Air Service Regiment and Royal Hampshire Regiment, offered together with his Beret and associated memorabilia: Medals: General Service 1962-2007, clasp: Northern Ireland (LT A LEGG R HAMPS), mounted individually for wearing, uneven toning but otherwise extremely fine; South Atlantic, with three loose rosettes (CAPT A LEGG R HAMPS (SAS)), in original card box stamped 'WITH ROSETTE', extremely fine. [3] Together with: the recipient's beret, with OR's fabric badge as commonly worn by S.A.S. officers; the map which he carried on his mission into South America, showing, in small scale and without grid-lines or significant details, Tierra del Fuego and adjacent areas; his dress miniature GSM, his S.A.S. stable belt, blue fabric with metal buckle bearing the Regiment's winged dagger badge; an S.A.S. blue winged parachute badge, and a gold-on-red mess dress parachute badge; four S.A.S. Captain's rank slides; an S.A.S. wall plaque; and a copy of 'Ultimate Acceptance', the book written by the recipient about Operation Plum Duff, under the pseudonym William Barnes. Graduated from the University of Reading with a MSc in Applied Mathematics in 1976. joined the Royal Hampshire regiment in Northern Ireland in March 1977 via Sandurst Direct Entry Course No 9. Passed S.A.S. selection test and the subsequent officer's week in August 1978, but obliged to remain with his Regiment for another tour in Northern Ireland, and then required to take the selection test again, owing to a change of training personnel. Passed S.A.S. selection for a second time in August 1980, and joined B Squadron as a Troop Commander in January 1981. Served with the S.A.S. in Oman, Northern Ireland, and as part of the UK Anti-Terrorist team. Operation Mikado was a plan conceived at senior government level to deploy elements of the S.A.S. to Argentina to destroy the Exocet missiles that threatened the Falklands Taskforce, together with the pilots and aircraft based at Rio Grande. Operation Plum Duff was the code-name for an initial reconnaissance patrol to be led by Captain Legg which, during planning, mutated into a dual reconnaissance and/or opportunistic assault role. One consequence of this was that the eight man team carried explosives, and were obliged to reduce their allocation of rations to provide capacity for them. Legg, described as 'an unconventional officer who was popular with his men' flew via Ascension Island to a location over the frigid waters of the South Atlantic, where he and his team parachuted out of a specially converted C130 'Hercules', plunging with their equipment into the ice cold and turbulent ocean to await recovery by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Transferred by stages to the Aircraft Carrier H.M.S. Invincible, they set off on the last 450 miles of their journey in a stripped down Sea King helicopter, with a crew that specialised in difficult insertions and had trained to fly using night vision goggles. Planning had been conducted without any meaningful information about the military situation that they would face upon arrival, and unusually, the team themselves had been largely excluded from the deliberations. This had forced Legg to adopt a short term, reactive mindset. Upon approaching the primary drop off point, and believing that it might have been compromised, he ordered the crew to continue to a secondary location. They had been detected by Argentine radar, and the necessity of deploying countermeasures, together with foul weather, prevented this. Eventually they put down on the Chilean side of the border, and Legg set out to lead his men east into Argentina. Presently the inadequacy of their rations forced them to request a resupply using their increasingly erratic radio. By this stage their superiors in Hereford knew that the Argentines were aware of their presence, and had assumed that the men had already been captured. Upon making contact with their support team they were withdrawn by stages, always expecting to be re-deployed, until the order came for them to return to England, where a Board of Enquiry conceded that no blame could be assigned to Legg or the other personnel directly involved in the mission. Andrew Legg left the armed forces in 1983, oppressed by feelings of guilt at having been unable to destroy the Argentine's Exocet capability. But to us his medal group presents a very different aspect. Not only does it tell the story of a seminal operation in the history of the S.A.S., of a pioneering and death defying feat of long range infiltration, and give us a first rate example of the mysterious proceedings of the British Special Forces; it also stands as testament to a man who's outstanding qualities as an officer spared his men from the inevitable fate of being captured and killed that would have fallen to their lot had he allowed his instinct for circumspection to be overridden by a personal desire for glory. The truth is that there was never any real possibility of he and his seven men destroying the exocets. The military objective which Legg felt guilt at not attaining was not a real one. What was real was the absence of intelligence about their objective, as exemplified by his map. They didn't know the exact location of any of their targets, such as the missile stores or pilot's mess, and as we now know the Argentines had taken the elementary precaution or relocating these assets anyway. Also real were the 3,000 well armed soldiers who would have opposed them had they somehow contrived to walk to Rio Grande with only a small supply of explosives to eat. A contemporary nickname for Mikado was 'Operation Certain Death'. Another officer might have failed to avoid that certainty, led his men into the trap that awaited them, left the nation lamenting a military catastrophe and eight families lamenting a personal one, and left the Argentines celebrating a propaganda coup of titanic proportions. But Captain Legg trod carefully, balancing the massive weight of his superiors' expectations with the immediate and unfolding situation on the ground, and at no stage giving up, or relinquishing the desire to continue with his mission. Thus the only casualty was his promising career. On the occasion of the sale of his medals, it is fitting to observe that to an objective mind the outcome of his efforts was the only form of success that was ever a possibility.
The interesting composite Peninsular and Waterloo group of three medals to Lieutenant George Frederick Paschal, 2nd Line Battalion King's German Legion: Waterloo (LIEUT. G.F. PASCHAL, 2ND LINE BATT. K.G.L.), officially impressed but with engraved regimental number (possibly corrected), contact marks, very fine or better; Military General Service, glazed specimen, fitted with straight suspension and continental type vertical pin, 2 tailor's copy clasps: Nive, Nivelle, the frame engraved 'LIEUT FREDERICK PASCHAL, 2ND LINE BATT. K.G.L.', extremely fine; Hanover: Medal for Volunteers in the King's German Legion 1803-15, gilt bronze, unnamed as issued, good very fine or better; together with dress miniatures for the first and last; also offered with a collection of correspondence providing many interesting details of this man's career Entitlement to the two British Medals is confirmed on the roll, and though the third cannot be confirmed it might be assumed to be correct. It would appear that at one time the recipient or his family held the three original medals and a duplicate set comprised of privately named specimens, which have at some point been incorrectly combined. An internet search will reveal a similar group in private hands, also attributed to this man, in which the Waterloo and the Hanoverian medals are glazed leading to the supposition that not only the Waterloo, but also the Hanoverian medal in this group is the original. Later Lieut-Colonel 70th Foot. Also served command of auxiliary police for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and during the unrest that followed the passing of the Common Lodging Houses Act of 1851,
Four medals to William Tozer, Gunner's Mate, Royal Navy: Crimea, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (H.M.S. DIAMOND W. Tozer), privately engraved - the name in cursive script and the ship in capitals with small serifs, very fine; Second China War, 2 clasps, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1860 (H.M.S. BANTERER W.J.TOZER), privately engraved in capitals in the manner of the last, good very fine; Turkish Crimea, British issue, fitted with a straight suspension bar (H.M.S. DIAMOND. W.J. TOZER) privately engraved in the manner of the last, good very fine or better; Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct, Victoria, wide suspender (W.J.TOZER. GUNRS MATE H.M.S. ROYAL ADELAIDE 20 Yrs), engraved, good very fine or better; later mounted. Offered with a quantity of research including copy service records and medal rolls.
Two medal to Captain Henry Francis, 64th Foot: India General Service 1849-95, clasp: Persia (CAPT. H. FRANCIS, 64TH FOOT), impressed in serif capitals, contact marks, otherwise good very fine; Indian Mutiny, clasp: Relief of Lucknow (CAPTN. HY. FRANCIS, 64TH REGT)*, light contact marks, good very fine; each with original ribbon and buckle brooch; together with corresponding dress miniatures. * BBM notes 183 clasps to the regiment.
A Great War pair to 5595. 1 A.M. J.W.A. DELANEY, R.F.C.; a 1914-15 Star to 4385 PTE. P. LEWIS, R. DUR. FUS.; three Victory Medals (5348 PTE. M. LEWIS. R. D. FUS.; 80551 DVR. T. LEWIS. R.A.; L-2330 PTE. J KINSELLA 5-LRS); a Coronation Medal 1911, with dress miniature;a National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, silver, with 20 Year clasp, (4518 CHARLES H. C. WATERS); and a small assortment of commemorative medals, masonic badges, and similar items. [qty]
A Memorial Plaque, commemorating John Chatfield Russell*, in card case but lacking envelope; together with a British issue Lusitania Medal (POSSIBLE COPY - Check), boxed with explanatory note. [2] A soldier of this name is recorded as having been killed in action 22/10/1917, while serving with the 14th (Service) Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, in France and Flanders.
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