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Lot 89
Ethiopia Haile Selassie War Medal for Korea - When the Korean War broke out in 1950, Emperor Haile Selassie I raised a volunteer battalion from the Imperial Bodyguard for deployment under United Nations auspices. The force was named the Kagnew Battalion and fought alongside the United States Seventh Division. Between 1951 and 1954, three Ethiopian battalions (some 5,000 men in all) fought with distinction in Korea.
Lot 92
Ethiopian Imperial Order of the Star of Ethiopia, commander neck award - the Order of the Star of Ethiopia was founded by Emperor Menelik II in 1884-85 when he was Negus (King) of Shoa and prior to his becoming Emperor of Ethiopia in 1889, made by Maplin and Webb. Pre 1936 - 1941 Italian invasion version. A rare medal. GVF in original box of issue.
Lot 364
Four crowns, dated 1696, 1821, 1889 and 1890, together with a quantity of silver, cupro-nickel and bronze coinage, an assortment of medals and badges, to include a cased silver agricultural medal, an Edward VII coronation bronze medallion, various agricultural gilt badges, four fobs, seals, three £1 notes signed Catterns, Peppiatt, Page (a lot)
Lot 40
Garden Sculpture:Ernst Eisenmeyer Abstract figure Sheet copper Unique 1963 370cm.; 146ins high Born in 1920, Ernst Eisenmayer was the eldest son of Austro-Hungarian Jewish parents. He tried to escape Vienna after the Anschluss; the annexation of Austria by Hitler in March 1938. As Eisenmayer recounts in A Strange Haircut - an autobiographical account about leaving Austria written in 2008 - on his second attempt he was caught on the French border, transported to Saarbrücken prison and from there to Dachau Concentration Camp. Through his younger brother Paul, who arrived in Britain by Kindertransport in 1939, his brother~s guardian Professor J. L. Brierley acted as Eisenmayer~s sponsor securing him his trainee post and hence his release from Dachau. As such he was possibly one of the last prisoners to have been released from Dachau prior to the war. Following his arrival in England he was subsequently imprisoned in five different British Internment camps, including Onchan on the Isle of Man, where he produced sculpture for exhibitions and wrote for the camp newspaper. His drawing |Violinist at Onchan| was later published as a motif of a postage stamp of the Isle of Man. He later worked as a toolmaker and from 1944 he exhibited for the first time in an exhibition on Austrian art in exile before studying from 1946-47 at the Camberwell College of Arts. His paintings and graphic work of the 1940s and 1950s explore the cityscapes and inhabitants of war-time and post-war London; at which time he became friendly with Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) and his friendship with Victor Pasmore (1908-1998) who he first met at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. In 1962 Eisenmayer turned to sculpture with a series of carved serpentine and stone heads which were first shown at the Mercury Gallery in 1963. Developed from his earlier representations of the brutal features of a camp guard in Dachau and working in hard, textured stone, the heads explore themes of the conqueror and the hostage. Eisenmayer~s welded, carved and cast sculptures of the 1960s and 1970s, produced during the continuing climate of the Cold War, investigate the potentialities for individual and group personages to withstand the pressure of external forces and to act as markers of resistance, particularly in an uncertain age of nuclear capability. In this sense Eisenmayer~s works act as witness to some of the most tragic events of the twentieth-century, alongside capturing the excitement of post-war reconstruction, and overlooked aspects of modernity. This figure dates to this period and was constructed by Eisenmayer himself at Elizabeth Frink~s studio in Chelsea in 1963, then installed in the grounds of the house ~Long Wall~ belonging to and designed by the well-known architect Leslie Gooday, where it has remained until the present day. In the 1970s Eisenmayer was commissioned to undertake a number of large public sculptures including The Family Group for the Nottingham Carlton Forum and the complex steel and bronze sculpture for the British Pavilion at Expo~ 70 in Osaka, Japan. Eisenmayer~s work has recently undergone a revival of interest. Some of his works were exhibited in 2009 at the London Jewish Museum of Art as part of the exhibition |Forced Journeys, Artists in Exile in Britain 1933-45|. This was followed by a major retrospective exhibition of his work |Art beyond Exile| at the Sayle Gallery, Douglas, Isle of Man, followed by The Austrian Cultural Forum, London, both in 2012. Recipient of the Medal of Honour from the City of Vienna in recognition of his artistic work, Ernst Eisenmayer has exhibited in the UK, Austria, France, Italy, Israel, Japan, Slovenia, and the USA. He currently resides in Vienna. Photo captions; Eisenmayer constructing the figure at Elizabeth Frink~s studio in 1963~~ taken from the catalogue ~About the Dignity of Man~ - Ernst Eisenmayer - Life and Work - exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Vienna 2002. Eisenmayer maintained a long friendship with the architect Leslie Gooday. This shows him standing beside the sculpture in the garden of ~Long Wall~ in 1997, over 30 years after he had made it.
Lot 313
GROUP OF THREE WORLD WAR I SERVICE MEDALS, awarded to 2nd Lieutenant T.E. Storrs, viz 1914/18 MEDAL, gilt Victory medal and 1914/15 Star stamped to reverse PS-5703 L. CPL, T.W. Storrs R. Fus. each with ribbon and presentation card box, TOGETHER WITH THE KINGS BADGE plated metal in official Ministry of Pensions box (4)
Lot 319
QUEEN VICTORIA SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL and ribbon and three clasps - 'Transvaal'; 'Orange Free State'; and 'Cape Colony', awarded to 4619, Pte D Fitzpatrick, Royal Dublin Fusiliers and an EDWARD VIII SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL and ribbon with two clasps - 'South Africa 1901' and 'South Africa 1902' awarded to 4619, Pte D Fitzpatrick, Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Lot 637
TWO PENINSULA WAR MEDALS AWARDED TO SARGEANT BENJAMIN BREARLEY, 84TH YORK AND LANCASHIRE REGIMENT, FOOT PENINSULA WAR 'MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL 1793 - 1814' with ribbon and two clasps 'Nive' and 'Nivelle'; and a 'LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL', 1832 with ribbon and replacement hangar. The medals are mounted on a piece of his regimental jacket, and displayed in a glazed frame with a hand written descriptive card. The medals are sold with a 19th Century water colour by Benjamin Charles Brearley (the Rochdale artist) and grandson of Sargeant Brearley in uniform carrying a pike, signed with a monogram, 10 1/2" x 5", framed and glazed
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