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Click here to subscribeCOMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Exhibition of Art Treasurers, Manchester, 1857, Copper Medal, by Pinches, bust of Victoria left, VICTORIA REGINA, rev view of the exhibition building, 41mm (BHM 2607); Visit to the Corporation of London, 1837, Copper Medal, by W Wyon, diademed bust left, VICTORIA REGINA, rev façade of the Guildhall, 55mm (BHM 1775; Eimer 1304). Extremely fine and good very fine. (2)
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A Natal Police and South African Mounted Rifles group of 6 awarded to Trooper/Rifleman G. W. Cooke, comprising Queen’s South Africa Medal, third type with 5 clasps, Natal, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (1597 Tpr: G.W. Cooke. Natal Police); Natal Rebellion Medal 1906, 1 clasp 1906 (Tpr. G.W. Cooke. Natal Police); 1914-15 Star (Rfm. G.W. Cooke 3RD S.A.M.R.); British War and Victory Medals 1914-1920 (Rfm. G.W. Cooke 3RD S.A.M.R.); Permanent Forces of the Empire Beyond the Seas Long Service and Good Conduct Medal GVR (No. 1153.Rifleman G.W. Cooke. S.A.M.R.). Toned, very fine. (6)
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, World Medals, Japan, Order of the Golden Kite, 5th Class, in box; Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, 8th Class, 1920s manufacture, in box; Japanese Military Wound Badge, Combatant Version; Japanese Taisho Enthronement Medal 1911-13, in box; Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure, 5th Class, c.1980, in box; Japanese 1931-34 Manchurian Incident War Medal, in box; Japanese First National Census Commemorative Medal, in box; Japanese Industrial Trade Union Merit Badge, Silver, in box of issue; Japanese Commemorative Badge of the 25th Anniversary of the Red Cross, in box; Japanese Dark Blue Ribbon Merit Medal, Showa 37 (1962), in box; Manchurian Border Incident War Medal 1938, in box; Japanese Red Cross - Silver Cross of Merit for men, in box; Japanese Red Cross Men’s Life Member Medal, in box; The Order of the Golden Kite average, loss of enamel to arms of star, Military wound badge in good condition, otherwise very fine. (12)
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Single British Campaign Medals, Crimea Medal 1854-56, four clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (R. Bradley. 1st Btn. Scots Fslr. Gds.), officially impressed. Toned, edge bumps, otherwise very good. purchased from A H Baldwin & Sons Ltd, January 1938 for £1-15-0 In 1938 checked by Regimental HQ as correct by their records. In 1955 checked by Regimental HQ as correct by their records except they stated that there is no record of bars for Alma, Balaklava and Inkermann. Bradley received no other medals. He enlisted on 20 May 1854 and was discharged on 5 November 1856.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, World Medals, Japan, World War One Victory Medal, in box; Manchurian Border Incident War Medal 1938, in box; Manchurian Imperial Visit Commemorative Medal, in box; Japanese Red Cross Gold Members Badge, in box; Japanese Merit Badge – Tokyo City Civic Group, in box; Japanese China Incident War Medal 1937-40, in box; Japanese Red Cross Ladies Special Member medal in box; Japanese Showa Enthronement Medal 1928, in box. Generally very fine. (8)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Italy, Papal Medals, Innocent XII (1691-1700), Copper Medals (2), The Curia Innocenziana on the Montecitorio, Bronze Annual Medal, Year 4 (1694), rev façade of the Palazzo, 36mm (Linc 1551); Jubilee, 1699, rev angel, 36mm (Linc 1568). Attractive well-struck and extremely fine, the second with die crack. (2)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Italy, Papal Medals, Peter (757-767), Cast Restitutional Bronze Medal, said to be in the style of Girolamo Paladino (active 17th Century), bust right, S PETRVS AP I PON M, rev keys below papal mitre, 41mm, seemingly of significant age (Linc -; Hall -); another, similar, unidentified but possibly Gregory VI or X. Both very fine, first pierced. (2)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Jacobite, Marriage of James (III) to Princess Clementina, 1719, Copper Medal, by O Hamerani, his bust right, IACOBVS. III. D.G.M. B. F. ET. H. REX, rev her bust left, CLEMENTINA. MAGNA. BRITANNIAE. ET. C. REG., 48mm (Eimer 485; MI ii 446/52; Woolf 37.1). About very fine, rare.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A Great War Trio awarded to Private C.F. Nicholls, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps, comprising 1914-15 Star (10239 Pte. C.F. Nicholls. K.R.Rif.C.); British War and Victory Medals 1914-1920 (10239 Pte. C.f. Nicholls. K.R.R.C.). Toned, fine (3) Private Charles F Nicholls landed in France on 14 July 1915 his Medal Index Card also shows service as Private 565970 of the Labour Corps.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Campaign Groups and Pairs, An Extremely Rare Pairing of “Father and Son” Naval General Service Officers Medals awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry John Murton, Royal Marines, recipient of a Sword of Honour from the Lloyds Patriotic Fund for Gallantry for his role in the cutting out of the Schooner Giganta at Viega, and to his son Lieutenant Henry Fortescue Murton, Royal Marines, comprising Naval General Service Medal, 1793-1840, single clasp, Egypt (H.J. Murton R.M.), the initials erased and engraved, surname and rank officially impressed; Naval General Service Medal, 1793-1840, single clasp Navarino (H.F. Murton, Lieut R.M.), the initials erased and engraved, surname and rank officially impressed. One or two tiny marks and minor nicks to first, otherwise good very fine, toned, the second with occasional small marks and reverse rim nicks, generally very fine, lightly toned. (2) Lieutenant Colonel Henry John Murton, Royal Marines, was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant 1 May 1798 and led a distinguished career. As recorded in Hart’s Army list for 1851: “Lt. Col. Murton served in the North Sea and Helder expedition, 1799, served in the Egyptian Expedition {aboard HMS Rodney} and the East Indies, 1801; in the West Indies, slightly wounded 1804, on the coast of France engaged with an enemy Flotilla in 1805; the Mediterranean in 1806 cutting out enemy vessels from under the Batteries, and was voted a Sword from the Patriotic Fund; the Coast of Spain aiding the Guerrillas; served in Holland 1813, Medal for service in Egypt”. He retired on Full Pay 12 February 1842 and died at Brompton (Chatham) January 1854. Also entitled to the Sultan’s Gold Medal for Egypt. The inscription of his Lloyds Sword reads: “From the Patriotic Fund a Lloyds to Lieut. H.L. (Henry John) Murton of the Royal Marines HMS Renommee for his Gallant Conduct in the Command of the Marines Employed in Boarding & Carrying the Spanish Schooner Giganta of 9 Guns & 38 Men under the Batteries of the Town and Tower of Viega 4 May 1806”. This sword appeared on the market in 1996 and 2003, being originally sold by Sotheby’s in 1966, just months prior to the medals. His son, Lieutenant Henry Fortescue Murton, Royal Marines, served at the Battle of Navarino aboard HMS Asia. He appears to have resigned from further naval service as a result of a conflict between himself and Captain William Wise, whilst serving on HMS Thunderer, stemming from a perceived act of indiscipline. For this, Captain Wise ordered Second Lieutenant Murton to keep the first watch (8.00pm to Midnight) whilst in Port in Malta. As Royal Marine Officers were not usually expected to keep watch, this order angered Murton who promptly offered his resignation, which equally promptly seems to have been accepted – as he was shipped home. In June 1834, his father, then Captain H J Murton, wrote an appeal for reinstatement, which was apparently unsuccessful. Research appears to show that rather curiously; he died at Waco, Texas, in April 1880, aged just 44 years. The hypothesis which has been drawn by previous cataloguers is that both medals must have been issued as “H. Murton, Lieut R.M.” (A coincidence between their ranks and medal entitlement at the time of issue) and that the recipients had their initials added subsequently to distinguish clearly between father and son. As such, the NGS roll showing entitlement only to H J Murton (a unique surname) for a two clasp NGS for Egypt and Navarino, with both awards shown in the rank of Second Lieutenant for actions many years apart, can only be erroneous. Sold with a quantity of detailed research, including a photocopy of Lt Colonels “Memorial” letter of petition including further details on his son’s career. This suggests that when sold in July 1966, the lot, including Lt Col Murton’s Sultan’s Gold Medal for Egypt, was a complete father and son family group. ex Sotheby’s, July 1966, both medals sold with a Sultan’s Gold Medal for Egypt for £70.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A World War Two Territorial Group of 5 awarded to Private F Lawson, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, comprising 1939-1945 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals, 1939-1945, Efficiency Medal, GVIR, Territorial Clasp (7894800 Pte. F. Lawson. R.A.O.C.); the last medal officially impressed, remainder unnamed as issued, group mounted on board for display, with riband bar and 3 cap badges, the first to the RAOC, one to the Military Police, the first to the Tank Corps, perhaps showing other service; A WW2 Group of 4, comprising 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Defence and War Medals, 1939-1945, sold with original OHMS box addressed to ‘Mr W Lees, 62 Kings Road, Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire’ with original ribbons and transmission slip; A WW2 Pair, comprising Defence and War Medals, 1939-1945, sold with original OHMS boxes addressed to ‘F Duffield 132 Hollyhedge Rd, Wythenshawe, Manchester’ with original ribbons and transmission slips. First group about extremely fine, lightly toned, the others as struck. (11)
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A Great War and World War Two Group of 5 awarded to Private J. Campbell, Cameron Highlanders, comprising 1914-15 Star (9225 Pte. J. Campbell Cam’n Highrs.), British War and Victory Medals 1914-1920 (9225 Pte. J. Campbell Cam’n Highrs.), 1939-45 Defence Medal; 1939-45 War Medal, unnamed as issued; and 1914-15 Star, awarded to (3357 Pte. J.W. Denman L. Pool. R.), Victory Medal 1914-1919 (3357 Pte. J.W. Denman. R. Lanc. R.). Lightly toned, very fine, first group mounted for wear. (7) Private John Campbell landed in France on 19 December 1914, he was discharged with a Silver War Badge on 16 April 1919. Private John W Denman landed in France on 27 December 1914 his Medal Index Card shows service with the Royal Lancashire Regiment and the Labour Corps he was discharged to Class Z on 17 March 1919.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Italy, Ippolito II d’Este (1509-1572), Cardinal, Cast Copper Medal, by Gianfederigo Bonzagna, 44mm (Arm I, 222, 4; Att I, 962), a modern cast; Dante, Iron Medal, 50mm; Cecilia Gonzaga (1426-1451), Cast Lead Medal, 84mm (Pollard 20; Kress 17); Lodovica, daughter of Giovanni Tornbuoni, patinated uniface Copper Medal, bust left, 79mm (cf Kress 297 obverse); Giovanni Mirandola, uniface Bronze Medal, after Fiorentino, 80mm (Kress 277), re-engraved with erroneous legend; Catelano Casali, Cast Bronze Medal, by Sperandio, 65mm (Arm I 67, 15), a late cast; Germany, Willhelm Löffelholz zu Kolberg (1501-1554), Silvered Copper Medal, 36mm (Wurzb:5244); Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon, Cast Debased Silver Medal, 40mm, a late cast; France, Francis I by Benvenuto Celloni, cast in Base Metal or Lead, 42mm; and a Louis XIV, Denier Tournoi, Paris 1649. Generally fine to about very fine. (10)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, The Church and Bishops, Lead Medal, 1688, a Jesuit and a monk with a pickaxe attempt to undermine the church, THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAILE AGAINST IT, rev medallic busts of the seven bishops, edge UPON THIS ROCK I HAVE BUILT MY CHURCH, 40mm (MI i 626/43). Good very fine and extremely rare.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Single British Campaign Medals, The Rare Scinde Medal with Hyderabad 1843 Reverse awarded to Acting Gunner R. White of the Honourable East India Company Ship Meteor (R: White Act: Gr E:I:C:SR Meteor), officially impressed naming fitted with original German silver bar suspension. Good very fine and rare. Only 50 medals with the Hyderabad reverse were issued to European recipients aboard Meteor (16), Comet (17) and Nimrod (17). However twenty-one of these medals were not claimed by the recipients and were subsequently returned to the India Office. According to a note on the medal roll, Acting Gunner White’s medal, together with examples for the Meteor and Nimrod, were “Given to Mr Stewart Mackenzie [a well-known collector of medals] in exchange for a new medal by permission of Lord G. Hamilton 24 April 1877”. The remaining eighteen returned medals were in all probability melted down, leaving as few as 32 medals issued. Richard White, a Londoner, is recorded in the list of European Seamen in the Indian navy Establishment up to 31 December 1842, as being 34 years of age and belonging to the H.C.V Meteor. He arrived from England in the Lady East in 1840, and received the Honourable Company’s Bounty on 18 February of that year. He signed on for five years’ service, but died at Sakhen on 20 September 1843. Ref: IOL L/MAR/C/745; Medals awarded to the Indian Navy for the Sind Campaign 1843 (Bullock) ex Whalley Collection, 1877 ex Payne Collection, 1910 ex Ritchie Collection, 2005
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Italy, Ermes Flavio de Bonis (c.1460-1514), formerly known as Lysippus the Younger, Bronze Portrait Medal of Giovanni Alvise Toscani (1450-c.1478), bust left, IONNES ALOISIVS TVSCANVS AVDIT ARCAM, rev Pallas standing on dolphin, looking left and holding a snake-entwined staff, L-P to either side, QVID NON PALLAS in exergue, 33.5mm (Pollard, Bargello 176; Hill, Corpus 808; Armand II, 28, 14; Pfisterer A.18). Good fine, an original cast with light brown patina.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, George II, Jernegan’s Lottery, 1736, Silver Medal, by J S Tanner, Minerva between military trophies and emblems of the arts and sciences, BOTH HANDS FILLED FOR BRITAIN, with GEORGE REIGNING in exergue, rev GROWING ARTS ADORN EMPIRE, with CAROLINE PROTECTING 1736 in exergue, Queen Caroline watering palms, 39mm (Eimer 537; MI ii 517/72). Very fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Turkey (Medals illustrative of both Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them), Ottoman Empire / Russia / Britain, Crimean War, Fall of Sebastopol, 1855, Bronze Medal, by Messrs Pinches, scales within wreath and rays above a trophy of flags, view of the siege within, rev eagle on thunderbolt above the Malakoff fort, THE MALAKOFF TAKEN BY THE FRENCH, 50mm (BHM 2573). Extremely fine, rare.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Switzerland, John Calvin (1509-1564), 300th Anniversary of the Reformation in Geneva, Massive Copper Medal, 1835, by Antoine Bovy (1795-1877), prominent bust to left, wearing cap and fur-collared gown, JOHANNES CALVINUS NATUS NOVIODUNI 1509 MOR TUUS GENEVÆ 1564, rev Gothic pulpit, legend in three panels, IL TEINT FERME | COME S’IL EVST VEV CELVY | QVI EST INVISIBLE, legend around, CORPORE-FRACTUS : ANIMO-POTENS : FIDE-VICTORE | ECCLESIÃ-REFORMATOR-GENEVà | PASTOR-ET-TUTAMEN, 108mm (Whiting 682; Stucker 791). Slight bruising to edge, otherwise about extremely fine and very rare. This medal has been described as the “king” of all Calvin commemorative medals.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Miscellaneous, A Miniature Member of the Victorian Order, World War Two, India Independence Group of 9, comprising Royal Victorian Order Members shoulder badge, 1939-45 Star, Defence Medal on ornate suspender on Burma Star ribbon, 1939-45 War Medal, 1939-45 India Service Medal, General Service Medal, EIIR, 1 clasp Malaya, Coronation Medal 1953, Long Service and Good Conduct Medal EIIR, Regular Army, India Independence Medal 1947. MVO all enamel present, all toned, mounted for wear on frayed ribbons, otherwise good. (9)
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Miscellaneous, A Collection of Original Documents Pertaining to Major Sir Edward Fitzgerald Law K.C.M.G. C.I.E. who served on the Reserve of Officers and was Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s Commissioner on the International Financial Committee at Athens, comprising original notification document for the award of the appointment to the Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, dated 10 June 1898; The original covering letter from The Chancery for the Order of St Michael and St George enclosing the Warrant of a Knight Commander; The Warrant of a Knight Commander signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria under “Royal Sign Manual”; The Warrant From the Court of the Order of St Michael and St George signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, dated 1 May 1898; The Warrant appointing Edward Law Esq to be Her Majesty’s Commercial Secretary in any of her Embassies and Legations abroad, dated 8 March 1894, signed under “Royal Sign Manual” by Her Majesty Queen Victoria and signed “Rosebury” (Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery – Prime Minister 1892-1894; The appointment Warrant appointing Sir Edward to a place on the Council of The Governor General of India, dated 29 November 1899, signed under “Royal Sign Manual”, to top left By Her Majesty Queen Victoria, this a hand-written Warrant also signed “Salisbury” (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury – Prime Minister 1895-1902); The appointment Warrant appointing Edward Law Esquire to the position of Commercial Attaché, dated 9 August 1887, signed under “Royal Sign Manual”, to top left By Her Majesty Queen Victoria, a hand-written Warrant also signed “Salisbury” (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury – Prime Minister 1895-1902); The Handwritten Appointment Warrant for Sir Edward on his appointment to an International Committee “to enquire into the measures of financial and administrative reform which it is expedient to introduce into the Government of the Island of Crete”, dated 5 January 1906, signed under “Royal Sign Manual” by His Majesty Edward VII; The transmittal letter for the Edward VII Coronation Medal, dated August 1902; The Grant of the Dignity of a Companion of The Order of the Star of India signed under “Royal Sign Manual” by His Majesty King Edward VII. Generally good condition. (10)
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A Great War Trio awarded to Trooper A. Metcalfe, Royal Horse Guards, comprising 1914-15 Star (1847 Tpr: A. Metcalfe. R.H. Gds:); British War and Victory Medals 1914-1920 (1847 Tpr. A. Metcalfe. R.H. Gds.); and A Great War Trio to the Royal Horse Guards and Guards Machine Gun Regiment, awarded to Trooper J. Spence,, comprising 1914-15 Star (2037 Tpr. J. Spence R.H. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals 1914-1920 (2037 Tpr. J. Spence R.H. Gds.). Toned, very fine. (6) Trooper Arnold Metcalfe landed in the French Theatre of War on 19 May 1915. Sold with copy M.i.C. Trooper John Spence arrived in France on 8 October 1915, his Medal Index Card showing Service as 2037 Trooper Royal Horse Guards and Trooper 5857 Guards Machine Gun Regiment. Trooper Spence was discharged 31 March 1920.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Sweden, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840), founder of physical anthropology, Copper Medal, 1825, by Loos, 50th Anniversary of his degree at the University of Göttingen, bust left, rev three skulls (Caucasian, African, Mongolian), NATURAE INTERPRETI OSSA LOQUI IUBENTI PHYSIOSOPHILI GERMANICI, 50mm (Brett 125; Storer 398). Extremely fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, France, Henri of Artois, Count of Chambord, duc de Bordeaux (1820-1883), the Pretender Henri V, Copper Puzzle Medal, 1848, unsigned, bust right, pictogram legend around, rev pictogram legend in four lines, 41mm (Collignon, 1848-1852, 1199). Extremely fine, scarce.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Exploration, Sweden, Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897), the Discovery of the Bodies of Andrée, Nils Strindberg (1872-1897) and Knut Frænkel (1870-1897) of the Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897, Bronze Medal, 1930, by Alfred Ohlson, conjoined busts of Andrée, Strindberg and Frænkel right, rev overhead map of Spitzbergen, Svalbard and Kvitoya, on which the path of the expedition is delineated, 56mm. Extremely fine and rare. The Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897 was an ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. Andrée had proposed a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Russia or Canada which, with luck, would pass straight over the North Pole. It was not to be and all three perished. The medal commemorates the discovery of their remains.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Italy, Papal Medals, Cast Bronze Medals (4), Clemente, Bishop of Mende (1483-1504), uniface, c.1494-1499 (cf Hill, Corpus 843; Arm II, 109, 2; Kress 230; Pollard 262); Paul II (1464-1471), 1465, rev the Tribune of St Peter, 33mm (cf Linc 363); Sixtus IV (1471-1484), rev Sts Francis and Anthony with the Pope, 40mm (Linc 386-87); Alexander VI (1492-1503), rev the papal coronation, 42mm (Linc 47); and a struck Medal, rev the closing of the holy door, 44mm (Linc 412). Generally very fine and better, third pierced, all later casts or strikes. (5)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Philip and Mary (1554-1558), The Siege and Battle of Saint-Quentin (France), Cast Copper Medal, 1557, by Jacques Jonghelinck, armoured and laureate bust of Philip right, with small ruff collar, PHILIPPVS D G HISP ET ANGLIÆ REX, rev central medallion of St Quentin, legend in sixteen lines, ... HISPAN VND ENGELLAND ..., 35mm (MI 84/47; vL I, 17, 2; Smolderen 226/13). An excellent sharp cast with strong portrait, though lacking signature on truncation, with deep patination, good very fine and scarce. The Spanish, who had the support of British troops, won a significant victory over the French. Philip did not pursue his advantage and the sight of the battlefield is said to have given him a permanent distaste for war.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Egypt, Fuad (1918-1937), 10th International Postal Congress, Cairo, 1934, Bronze Medal, by P Minassian, bust left in uniform and fez, rev figure seated by rocky pyramid, above figures encircle the globe, 70mm. Choice, virtually mint state. The obverse copied from Percy Metcalfe’s medal for Fuad’s visit to England in 1927.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, ART MEDALS, Art Deco, Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs, 1925, Octagonal Bronze Medal, by Pierre Turin (1891-1968), semi-naked female figure seated in clouds, rev legend in tablet against floral background, EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS DECORATIFS ET INDUSTRIELS MODERNES PARIS 1925, 59mm. Small areas of gum on reverse, extremely fine. It was from this exhibition that the expression “Art Deco” was to emerge from ARTS DECORATIFS.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Miscellaneous, A Collection of Badges Belonging to Mrs Trefford Thomas Red Cross and Woman’s Auxiliary Police Corps, comprising Women’s Auxiliary Police Corps Badge numbered 12 to reverse, by Thomas Fattorini of Birmingham; Red Cross Penny a week fund lapel badge; Red Cross and St John War Organisation lapel badge by Gaunt of London Civil Nursing Reserve lapel Badge; The British Red Cross Society with County of Carmarthen suspension (8534 T. Thomas); British Red Cross Society Medal, clasp, Proficiency in Red Cross First-Aid (028514 D.M.T. Thomas); and a Red Crossing Nursing Slip on clasp dated 1943. Generally very fine. (12)
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A Boer War and Great War 1914 Star Trio awarded to Private W. Goodyer, Middlesex Mounted Infantry and the 4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, comprising Queen’s South Africa Medal, third type, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5959 Pte W. Goodyer. Middx: Regt M.I.); 1914 Star with copy Aug-Nov clasp (L-5959 Pte W. Goodyer. 4/Middx R.); British War and Victory Medals 1914-1920 (L-5959 Pte W. Goodyer. Middx R.). Toned, very fine. (4) Private William Goodyer enlisted into the Middlesex Regiment on 29 September 1899, he landed in France on 22 October 1914 being discharged wounded on 20 February 1918. Sold with copy MiC and Silver War Badge roll.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Exploration, Marine, France, Admiral Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville (1790–1842), polar explorer, explorer, cartographer and botanist, Monument to his Achievements, Bronze Medal, 1844, by E A Oudiné, head left, rev view of the monument in Paris, MORT SUR LE CHEMIN DE FER DE PARIS A VERSAILLES, 68.5mm (MH 199). Extremely fine, scarce. d’Urville circumnavigated the globe three times between 1822 and 1840. He surveyed New Zealand and New Guinea and his expedition to Antarctica and Australasia in two ships, the Astrolabe and Zélée, charted much of the north east of the Antarctic Peninsula. d’Urville, his wife and only child were killed in France’s first railway accident, at Versailles on 8 May 1842.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Single British Campaign Medals, The Very Rare Royal Navy Abu Klea Casualty Egypt Medal awarded to Able Seaman F.G. Nye. Comprising Egypt Medal 1882-89, undated reverse, with two clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (F.G. Nye A.B.). Toned, extremely fine and rare. The action at Abu Klea on 17 January 1888 lasted but little over ten minutes, a period of total confusion. The small Naval Brigade, totalling just 40 men under Lord Charles Beresford, with its Gardner machine gun, was posted inside the square, at one corner behind the Heavies (4th & 5th Dragoons, Scots Greys and Royal Dragoons) when the action commenced, Beresford quite naturally wanted to get his Gardner gun out into the open, beyond the square as obviously it could not be brought into action from the inside. On orders from Colonel Burnaby, numbers 3 and 4 companies of the Heavies were to open up and let the machine gun through. This manoeuvre, which may sound simple, in fact involved the movement of some 200 men and took place at the exact moment when the initial shock-wave of Dervishes hit these two companies of dismounted cavalrymen. The Gardner, as was its wont, jammed almost immediately and all its crew except Lord Beresford were killed. Able Seaman Frederick Nye was himself killed although it is not known if he was a member of the gun’s crew. The Naval Brigade had in total eight killed and seven wounded at Abu Klea. Born Islington, Middlesex, 1 February 1860, Frederick Nye first served as a Boy 2nd Class aboard HMS Fisgard joining the ship on 10 August 1875. He subsequently served aboard HMS Impregnable (1875-1877), where he was advanced to Boy 1st Class during August 1876; Ruby (1877-1880) where he was made Ordinary Seaman in February 1878, and advanced to Able Seaman whilst in Naval Barracks during January 1881, Alexandra (1883-1884) and finally borne on the books of Monarch for the Nile flotilla. He was killed in Action 17 January 1885 at Abu Klea. Sold with copy Service Papers and Naval Medal Roll for Abu Klea. ex Douglas-Morris Collection, DNW auction, 16 October 1996, lot 335 ex DNW auction, 18 May 2011, lot 248
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, France, Napoleon, Premier Consul à Vie, Restrike Copper Medal, by Mercie (Lyon), undated (1802), bare head left, ORBIS VIRO, rev legend in fourteen lines, GALLIÆ PERPETUO CONSULI BONAPARTE…, stamped COPIE on edge, 47mm (Bramsen 223). A dark ‘chocolate’ patina, virtually mint state and rare, even as a restrike.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Campaign Groups and Pairs, Great War Pair awarded to Private Frank Cambray, 19th Hussars, comprising 1914-15 Star (14427 Pte. F. Cambray. 19-Hrs), British War Medal (Pte), mounted on card for display. Pair toned, good very fine. (2) Private Frank Cambray was additionally entitled to the Victory Medal, and later served with the RFA.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, France, Napoleon, his marriage to Marie Louise, 1810, Copper Medal, by Manfredini, conjoined busts right, rev Hymen and Mars, SAEVUM PROCUL MARTEM FELIX TEDA RELEGAT, 42mm (Bramsen 961; Julius 2272); The Return of the Emperor in 1815, Copper Medal, by Denon; Napoleon III, Ministry of Agriculture, Copper Medal, 1856, by Caqué, 50mm; with early 20th Century French Marriage Medals (3), in silver. Second polished, otherwise generally very fine to extremely fine. (6)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand I (1503-1564), his desire to recapture the Danube from the Ottoman Turks, Cast Bronze Medal, 1551, by Leone Leoni, bust right in decorated armour, wearing Order of the Golden Fleece, rev the Danube reclines amidst rushes, IN SPEM PRISCI HONORIS, beaded border to both sides, 72mm (Att 36; Arm II, 236). About very fine, a later cast.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A Very Good Sudan, Boer War and Great War Gallipoli Peninsular Group of 7 awarded to Private J. Logan, Seaforth Highlanders and Highland Light Infantry, who was severely wounded at Omdurman and again at Magersfontein being taken Prisoner of War, comprising Queen’s Sudan Medal 1896-98, engraved in sloping serif capitals (4440 Pte J. Logan 1/ Sea: Hrs:); Queen’s South Africa Medal, second type, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (4440 Pte J. Logan 2: Sea: Highrs:); King’s South Africa Medal, 2 clasps , South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4440 Pte J. Logan Seaforth Highrs); 1914-15 Star (1549 Pte J. Logan High: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals 1914-1920 (1549 Pte. J. Logan H.L.I.); Khedive’s Sudan Medal 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum, Regimentally Impressed (4440 Pte J. Logan 1st Seaforth Highdrs). Very fine. (7) John Logan was born in Glasgow, Scotland, 10 December 1870, a cabinet maker by trade whose father had served with the 93rd Foot, The Thin Red Line, in the Crimea. He joined the Seaforth Highlanders on the 12 December 1892, undertaking basic training at Fort George, Scotland. His first posting was to the North West Frontier where he served for three years (receiving the India Medal 1895-1902 with the clasp Relief of Chitral). He served in Crete from March to November 1897 and Malta from November to January 1898 when the Battalion was sent to Egypt. He fought at The Atbara, 8 April 1898, and at the Battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898 where he was severely wounded by a Gun Shot Wound to his left side – “Captain Egerton was at his side as he fell bent down and cut away his kilt, then called for stretcher bearers” – when the bullet entered his side part of his kilt, the thick overlap part, was carried into the wound, this it was thought plugged the wound and stopped him from bleeding to death. He was sent back to England in a hospital ship and convalesced at Netley Military Hospital and was presented to Her Majesty Queen Victoria and her daughter Princess Beatrice when they visited the hospital, talking to Private Logan for five minutes about his wound and the Kilt that had saved him. He showed them the bullet which had been extracted from his side. Princess Beatrice enquiring if, at her expense, he would like it silver plated, an offer he declined. This incident reported in his local Scottish newspaper. On return to his Regiment he was thereafter known as “Plug Logan” after the incident with his kilt. As his period of engagement was coming to an end the Boer War was just starting in South Africa, he remained with the Colours, was mobilized and sailed with the 2nd Battalion to South Africa on the 21 October 1899 taking passage in the “SS Mongolian” landing at Cape Town. He was present at the battle of Magersfontein as part of the Highland Brigade where he was wounded and taken prisoner; he was captive for about a month before being freed by the British Forces. He was returned to England at the cease of hostilities and returned to Fort George to await release and transfer to the Army Reserve which took place at the beginning of 1903. He joined the Territorial Army in 1913 joining with six or seven other ex-Seaforth’s, one of them his brother-in-law, Hughie Wilkie, the 6th Battalion the High Land Light Infantry choosing this Regiment as it wore the McKenzie Tartan kilt. The Battalion remained in Scotland after the start of the Great War proceeding as part of the 51st Lowland Division to Gallipoli, Pte Logan landing on Helles Beach on 6 June 1915, he took part on 6 August 1915 in the attack on Achi Baba, however the Adjutant “McPhie”, told Logan to “stand down as he had a wife and six children”, the Battalion suffered very heavily in the attack attaining the Turkish Trenches for only a short while. On their return to the British Line it was found that Hughie Wilkie, John’s brother-in-law was missing. John immediately went out into no-man’s land to look for him tending to many of the Battalion’s wounded as he searched. Eventually Hughie returned to the lines on his own. Contracting Dysentery whilst on the Peninsula he was evacuated to England to Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow in October 1915. Pte Logan was discharged from the Army in September 1916 being no longer fit for further military service. During the German Spring Offensive of 1918 the fitness rules were relaxed and at the age of 48 John Logan enlisted in the Royal Air Force and was serving in France on 11 November 1918 being transferred to the “G” Reserve on 3 March 1919. His greatest regret of Army life was that whilst recovering from his wound in Netley Hospital after the Battle of Omdurman his tin box containing his India Medal and the bullet that wounded him were stolen. He died in Scotland 16 November 1938, aged 67. Sold with copied family history and copied photographs of Pte Logan in uniform and his wife Agnes Logan nee Wilkie, who he married on 11 November 1903.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Single British Campaign Medals, A Boer War Officer Casualty Queen’s South Africa Medal awarded to Lieutenant C.O. Basche, New South Wales Mounted Infantry; Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902, second type, ghost dates, 1 copy clasp Defence of Mafeking, named in large regional style capitals (Lieut. C. Oswald Basche 2nd. M.R.). Toned, very fine. Lieutenant Carl Oswald Basche 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles Died of Disease at Bloemfontein on the 16 April 1900. His name does not appear on the Defence of Mafeking Roll.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Lord Nelson (1758-1805), White Metal Medals (3), Battle of the Nile, 1798, unsigned, 38mm (BHM 452); Battle of Copenhagen, 1801, unsigned, 38mm (BHM 510); Death at Trafalgar, 1805, unsigned, 38mm (BHM 582, and vol III, p.281); another Copper Nile Medal, and a Brass Medalet, 1805, by Kettle, 24mm (BHM 575). Generally very fine or nearly so, fourth a well worn souvenir, second pierced. (5)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Lord Nelson (1758-1805), Death at Trafalgar, Copper Medal, 1805, by Thomas Webb, with reverse after John Flaxman, bust left with short hair, rev Bellona steps over the sea throw thunderbolts at burning galleys, IPSE BELLI FVLMEN, 52mm (BHM 577; Eimer 957; MH 507). An attractive example, struck on mottled flan, good very fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, ART MEDALS, “Syrie”, Bronze Medal, by Aleth Guzman-Nageotte (1904-1978), produced for the Société des Amis de la Médaille Française, c.1934, a Crusader knight on rearing horse before a walled castle, rev the veiled figure of Syria reclines under a waxing moon, a faun at her side, edge stamped and numbered 26, 85.5mm. Extremely fine. Aleth Guzman-Nageotte won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1929 for her medal work in 1908. She initially studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dijon and then Paris, working with Ovid Yencesse and later Patey and Dammann.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Italy, Carlo Borromeo (1538-1584), Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, Cast Gilt-bronze Medal, 1601-1610, bust left wearing cassock and biretta, B CAR BORROMEVS CARD ARCHIEP MEDI, rev lamb on altar, SOLA GAVDET HVMILITATE DEVS, 49mm (Att 199; Arm II, 263, 5; Bargello 821; V&T Bardini 46). Very fine with even patina, a later cast taken from a chased example.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Aviation, USA, Charles Lindberg (1902-1974), First Solo Trans-Atlantic Flight, New York to Paris, the “Lone Eagle” Heavy Silver Tribute Medal, 1927, by Charles Louis Hinton (1869-1950) for the Medallic Art Company (New York), bust three-quarters right in academic gown, rev the Spirit of St Louis flies above rising sun, between eagle’s wings, 70mm. Struck with matt surface, extremely fine and scarce in silver. The “Fine Silver” medal was originally sold for $5.50 and whilst the cheaper bronze examples are quite common, the silver examples are now scarce.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Music, The Royal Military School of Music, Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, by Charles Bell Birch (1832-1893), awarded 1912, to Horace Edwin Dowell, LRAM, arms of the company, rev Muse of music seated with lyre, named on edge, 55mm, in case of issue with companion miniature, 23.5mm, this with suspender and ribbon. Both extremely fine though edge scratches on first, the result of attempts to remove medal from case. (2) A newspaper cutting about the award give biographical details of Dowell. Born 1878, he enlisted 1894 as ‘boy’ in North Staffordshire Regt and served three years in South Africa, then Portsmouth Artillery. After this award he was appointed Bandmaster of the Cameronians (his father and brother were both Bandmasters in the Royal Marines). Since 1908 the Silver Medal has been, and still is, awarded annually to a Student Bandmaster of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A late World War Two, Malaya, Gurkha Group of 3 awarded to Rifleman Maite Bura, 10/ Gurkha Rifles, comprising 1939-45 War Medal, unnamed as issued; General Service Medal 1918-62, GVIR, 1 clasp , Malaya (21137237 Rfn Maite Bura 10/G.R.); India Independence Medal 1947 (5031309 Rfn. Maite Bura. 1 G.R.C.). Toned, about fine, mounted for wear. (3) Personnel of the 7th and 10th Gurkha Rifles chose not to remain in the British Army after independence transferring to the Indian Army in 1947.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, France, Protection du Premier Age, Ministry of the Interior Silver Award Medal, 1874, by Jules-Clément Chaplain (1839-1909), mother nursing a child, another at her feet, rev floral spray, named in tablet to “Docteur L Parisot”, 67.5mm. Matt surface, nearly extremely fine.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, France, André Henri Lavrillier (1885-1958), The War Memorial, Nice, designed by Alfred-Auguste Janniot (1889-1969), Bronze Medal, 1928, classical warrior brandishes sword alongside roaring lion, rev the Memorial showing two of Janniot’s reliefs, 72mm, in card case of issue. About extremely fine. This medal, which shows the bold, geometric lines of the Art Déco style, commemorates the unveiling of the Nice War Memorial in January 1928. Lavrillier was working from a design provided by Janniot who sculpted the reliefs on the memorial, two of which can be seen on the medal’s reverse. Lavrillier studied under his father, an engraver, and under Chaplain and Bourdelle. He won the Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving in 1914 and was later made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. Besides medals, he designed a number of coins.
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, Campaign Groups and Pairs, Royal Marines Group of 5 awarded to Corporal P.J.N. Conlon R.M., comprising 1939-45 Star; 1939-45 Defence Medal; 1939-45 War Medal, all unnamed as issued; Naval General Service Medal 1915-62, GVIR, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (CH/X.4750 P.J.N. Conlon Mne. R.M.); General Service Medal 1962-2007 EIIR, DEI GRATIA, 1 clasp, Borneo (CH/X4750 P.J.N. Conlon. Cpl. R.M.). Edge bruise to Naval General Service Medal at 6 o’clock, otherwise toned, fine. (5)
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, George III, British Victories of 1798, Copper Medal, by C H Küchler, armoured bust left, wearing Garter George on sash, rev Britannia amidst military and naval trophies, holds up statuette of Victory, MARI VICTRIX ..., 48mm (BHM 458; Eimer 897; Pollard 16, bust type 2); with a cast copy of Barnet’s Medal for Earl Howe (Eimer 854), First with die flaw to centre, extremely fine, second poor. (2)
ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MILITARY MEDALS, World Medals, Japan, Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd Class, 1980s period, in box; Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure, 7th Class, 1930/40s manufacture, in box; Japanese Commemorative Medal for Admiral Togo Heihatchiro – Russo-Japanese War, in box; Japanese 1904/1905 Russo-Japanese War Medal, in box; Japanese Imperial Soldiers Support League, Ordinary Members Badge, in box; Japanese Merit Badge and lapel pin for Municipal Council, in box; Japanese Red Cross Special Members Medal, in box; Empty Box for the Japanese Special Members Medal of the Imperial Soldiers Support League. Imperial Soldiers Support League fine, others generally very fine. (8)
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