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Lot 1000
Scottish Iona silver brooch/kilt pin by Robert Allison Glasgow 1924, silver bamboo bangle by Adie & Lovekin Ltd Birmingham 1912, hallmarked silver cycle road race medal 1912, pair hallmarked silver cuff-links, bracelets etc Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Lot 2338
A George V Presentation Silver Salver, Atkin Brothers, Sheffield 1917, with shaped rim on scroll supports, engraved to the centre with the badge of the Royal Army Medical Corps and facsimile signatures, the reverse with presentation inscription to Capt.A.C.Vidal D.S.O on the occasion of his marriage, from his brother officers...Chatham, 24th September 1917, 37cm diameter, 45oz 6dwt Provenance: Ampleforth Abbey Major Alan Cunliffe Vidal was captured in France August 1914, he was eventually held at the Wittenberg POW camp where he was a key part in the treatment of a large scale Typhus outbreak within the camp in 1915. It is thought of the 13,000 prisoners held at the camp, there were up to 1,200 patients at any one time. He was finally released in February 1916, and on his return awarded the Distinguished Service Order and Gold Medal of the Order of St. John for his service in combating the epidemic. After the war, and a brief stint in India, he joined Ampleforth as the College doctor where he resided until his death in 1956.
Lot 6349
A RAF/SAAF Bomb Aimers medal group consisting of 1939-45 star, Italy star, France and Germany star, Defense and War medals, with portrait photo, airman's pay book, documents etc to 1587619 F/SGT DENNIS SMART 31 SQD SAAF. Flew on various operations in 1944-45 over Italy and Germany with the MEF
Lot 6418
A WWII and later medal group to D-Day Veteran JX429142 T.F. BABESTER A/AB R.N consisting of 1939-45, Atlantic (with France and Germany clasp) and Italy stars, war medal, Naval GSM (with Minesweeping 1945-51 clasp) and Imperial service medal. Together with Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur medal. Tom joined the Navy aged 17. In 1942 he was Coxswain of a tank landing craft on D-Day, ferrying troops and supplies between the ships and the Normandy beaches in the weeks after D-Day. He was then involved in the construction of a Mulberry Harbour and had involvement with mine sweeping operations after the war in the Red Sea and Mediterranean (around the Greek Islands). After VE Day, he was trained for the invasion of Japan. He later worked at Foulness Island for the MOD for 30 years until he retired. (See lot 6073 for associated lot)
Lot 6417
A WWI, WWII and post-war medal group consisting of WWI 1915 trio named to WSA. 118. J.W. HUBBARD SKR. R.N.R., 1935 Jubilee medal, 1937 Coronation medal, WWII Defence and War medals and MBE medal. Royal Naval Reserve medal named to 2381 W.S. J.W. HUBBARD CH SKPR R.N.R. and Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (10)
Lot 6411
A WWII casualty group of medal to LEONARD CHARLES PERCIVAL from Wymondham, of the 4th Bn Royal Norfolk Regiment who died between 10th and 13th February 1942 aged 25. This was during the time of the Battle of Singapore when Singapore fell to the Japanese. The lot also includes original issue box, relic bayonet and photograph etc
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Lot 3106
Irish Coins, Ireland, James II, Civil War Coinage, ‘gunmoney’ silver proof shilling, May 1690 [May in script], laur. bust l., rev. crown on crossed sceptres, pearls on bands, wt. 3.92gms., medal die axis, engrailed edge (S.6582DDD; D&F.463), extremely fine with hints of original brightness, extremely rare, a choice specimen *ex Baldwin’s vault
Lot 3126
Foreign Coins and Medals, Australia, Sydney, Halloran School, large silver prize medal, 1819, engraved by Samuel Clayton, and signed ‘S. Clayton Del et Sculpt’, awarded to Robert Campbell, Minerva stands with shield and spear, an owl at her feet, holding the hand of a young student, who holds an open book, beyond steps lead up to the temple of Fame and a church, legend on scroll above, ARDUA PRIMA VIA EST; SED FIT LABOR IPSE VOLUPTAS, rev. legend in 10 lines: INGENUO, MAGNÆQUE SPEI ADOLESCENTI Robertus Campbell, PROPTER INSIGNES IN ARTIBUS PROGRESSUS, SIGNUM HOC HONORARIUM DEDIT PRÆCEPTOR EJUS, ET AMICUS, Laurentius Halloran SS.T.P. 1819 [To Robert Campbell a worthy young man of great promise, his teacher and friend Lawrence Halloran, SS.T.P. gave this award for distinguished progress in his studies – 1819], 73mm., set within a narrow plain border, suspension loop and ring, good very fine, extremely rare, the earliest of the surviving Halloran medals, being from the first year of its issue and an important work by one of Australia’s best known early silversmiths *ex Watts Collection ex Baldwin’s vault The most recent example of a Halloran School medal to be seen on the market was that awarded to Henry Halloran, the son of the school’s founder (ex Leslie Carlisle Collection, Noble Numismatics, Sydney, 22-25 November, 2016, lot 3599). Prior to that the medal was awarded in 1824 to John D. Tawell (Morton & Eden, 6 December, 2009, lot 351 [USA buyer]). Another similar medal, awarded in 1823 to William M. Campbell (no relation to Robert), was sold at auction in 2008 (Noble Numismatics, Melbourne, 22-24 July 2008, lot 705 [Dr. John Chapman Collection]; previously Spink Australia, Sale 24, lot 1018; now Private Collection). Noble also sold a medal awarded in 1826 to Joshua Frey Josephson (Melbourne, 8-10 July, 1998, lot 2898). Other medals are known to John Wild, 1820 (private collection); Francis Lord 1822 (Caroline Simpson Collection, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Sydney); and Charles Driver, 1822 (awarded 1822 but medal dated 1823, Powerhouse Museum). The engraver: Samuel Clayton was born in Dublin in 1783 and, with his siblings, was trained as an engraver by their father. He was found guilty of forgery and tranported to New South Wales aboard the Surrey, to serve a seven year sentence. Almost immediately he engraved the banknotes for the Bank of New South Wales, a bank of which he was later to become a proprietor 1816 (see Grimshaw, M E, in Proceedings of the Silver Society, London, 1984). The recipient: Robert Campbell (1804-1859), was the second son of Robert and Sophia Campbell. At the age of 6 he was sent to England and educated in London at a school in Pimlico, but he returned to Australia in 1819, in time to enrol at Dr. Halloran’s school and receive his medal at Christmas, 1819. He joined the family firm established by his father, also Robert, and became a partner in 1827. From the age of 18 he was a Freemason and was later installed as the first provincial Scottish Grand Master of the Province of Australia. He became active and successful in the politics of ending transportation (Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol I, 1966). The schoolmaster: Laurence Hynes Halloran (1765-1831) led a life that would be hard to invent. Born in Co. Meath, Ireland, he was orphaned at a young age, then educated at Christ’s Hospital. Whilst it seems he did eventually receive a doctorate in Divinity from King’s College, Aberdeen (1800), he was never the Anglican clergyman he claimed to be. His early career in the navy was halted when he jailed for stabbing a colleague to death and, though later acquitted, litigation became a feature of his life. Married for the first time, he settled in Alphington, near Exeter, and ran private schools. Miss Grimshaw publishes a medal of 1794, by the silversmiths H. & J. Sweet of Exeter that surely must be the inspiration for the Sydney medal (Silver Medals, Badges and Trophies from Schools in the British Isles 1550-1850, Cambridge, p. 21). Halloran was respected as an educator despite being charged with immorality and in 1796 the Alphington school was closed through insolvency. He rejoined the navy, now as a chaplain and, as Secretary to Lord Northesk, third in command (after Nelson and Collingwood) at Trafalgar and was present at the battle on board HMS Britannia. His appointment as Chaplain to HM Forces in the Cape started well but his past was to catch up with him and having then published some highly libellous poems he was sent back to England in 1811 where he remained for the next 8 years. Finding it impossible to get work he forged accreditation documents appointing him a as a curate. He was charged, found guilty and transported to Australia (like Samuel Clayton, for 7 years), arriving in Sydney on board the Baring in June 1819. With the support of the Vice-Regal Secretary, John Thomas Campbell (whom he had known in South Africa), and Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, CB (fifth and last autocratic Governor of New South Wales, 1810 to 1821), he was able to open his school without delay. His success as a schoolmaster, rather than the amazing details of his private life, led to the production of this high quality prize medal within a space of just six months. In 1825 Halloran’s school became the Sydney Free Public Grammar School, now Sydney Grammar School. References: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol I, 1966; Grimshaw, M E, ‘Laurence Halloran: schoolmaster, naval chaplain and convict’, Cambridge Numismatic Society. 19.9.1988). Further internet research is included with the lot.
Lot 3132
Foreign Coins and Medals, China/Germany, Li Huang Chang (1823–1901), official visit to Hamburg, silvered-bronze medal, 1896, facing bust wearing large hat, legend in Chinese around, rev. LI HUNG CHANG – BESUCH HAMBURG IM JUNI 1896, arms of Hamburg with lion supporters, 40mm. (L&M.935; Wurz.5175), certified and graded by NGC as Mint State 64 Li Huang Chang (Li Hongzhang) a Chinese politician, general and diplomat, served in important positions in the Qing imperial court. His military mistakes included support of Russia against the Japanese, but he was praised for his success in quelling the Taiping Rebellion. He was very much a pioneer of China’s military and industrial modernisation. He toured Canada, the USA and the West in 1896, attending the coronation of Nicholas II, and in England attended the Royal Naval Fleet Review at Spithead. His efforts in resolving the Boxer Rebellion proved to be his final diplomatic mission.
Lot 3135
Foreign Coins and Medals, Egypt, The Opening of the Suez Canal, large silver medal of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez, 1869, by Louis-Oscar Roty (1846–1911), draped figures of Labour offering a jar to the seated Commerce who holds aloft a torch, distant aerial panorama of the canal beyond, rev. legends, named cartouche on oak spray: THOMAS SUTHERLAND MP ADMINISTRATEUR, Sphinx and pyramid below, 60mm., extremely fine with rich grey tone *ex Glendinings, 26 March 1942, lot 157 ex Baldwin’s vault Sir Thomas Sutherland (1834-1922) was MP for Greenock between 1884 and 1890, thus dating the medal to those years. He started working for P & O SNCo in 1852 at the age of 18 and was sent East in 1854 to Bombay. He soon moved on to Hong Kong and by the time he was 26 years of age he had become superintendent of P & O’s Japan and China agencies, and had been appointed a member of the Hong Kong legislative assembly. It was whilst he was P & O’s Agent that, in 1864-65, he formed the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank [HSBC] - the first bank in China. He served as a director on its provisional board, then deputy chairman. He was recalled to London in 1866, where he worked his way up in P & O and was appointed Chairman in 1880, retiring in 1915. As a member of parliament he played a key part in the development of the Suez Canal. His discussions led to the ‘London programme’, which ‘conceded the main demands of the shipowners: a British committee based in London to deal with canal problems’ and ‘seven British directors selected from the shipping and mercantile communities’. He was appointed a director of the Suez Canal Company and in 1903 became one of three vice-presidents. He was created a KCMG in 1891 and a GCMG in 1897, and became a knight of the Order of St John and a member of the Légion d’Honneur. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the City of London, and the University of Aberdeen honoured him with an LLD in 1892.
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