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Lot 176
GROUP OF FIVE WORLD WAR II SERVICE MEDALS AWARDED TO GEORGE CECIL COATSWORTH all with ribbons, viz 1939/45 star, Africa star (1st Army), Italy star, 1939/45 War Medal with oak leaf and the Defence medal and the GEORGE VI TERRITORIAL EFFICIENCY MEDAL with ribbon and dated to reverse 1950 together with TWO WORLD WAR I MINIATURE SERVICE MEDALS each with ribbon all displayed on brooches (eight medals in total)
Lot 177
FIVE WORLD WAR II SERVICE MEDALS AWARDED TO ANDREW NEWMAN OF THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT who served with No6 Commando, viz 1939/45 Star, France and Germany Star, Africa Star, 1939/45 War Medal with oak leaf and the defence medal all with ribbons together with RELATED EPHEMERA including Mentioned in Despatches certificate and the copy of the Supplement to the London Gazette 6th November 1945 in which the Despatch for Distinguished Service is published, other ephemera including Welcome Home illuminated scroll, medals portal box together with a WORLD WAR I VICTORY MEDAL awarded to 50872 Pte M. Newman Lan. Fus.
Lot 179
TWO WORLD WAR I SERVICE MEDALS awarded to 71765 GNR J. A. HEATON RA, viz 1914/18 war medal and gilt Victory medal with ribbons, An ARGYLE SUTHERLAND HAT BADGE, three other badges, a BOROUGH OF ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE GILT METAL 1911 CORONATION MEDALLION with ribbon, BOXED GEORGE VI IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDAL WITH RIBBON awarded to John Armistead Heaton and two 1914-18 WAR PHOTOGRAPHS showing heavy artillery, on titled card mounts, photographs 6 1/2" (16.5cm) x 9" (22.8cm)
Lot 400
A Charles II carved oak gate top rail, circa 1669-72, from one of the two gates of Sir Christopher Wren’s Temple Bar, London, of serpentine form, one end with a scrolled volute issuing foliage and a profusion of fruit and further flowers, above a moulded edge to one side, the corresponding serpentine lower edge with further mouldings, bearing a brass plaque inscribed ‘TOP OF THE GATES OF ‘TEMPLE BAR’ DESIGNED BY WREN AFTER THE FIRE OF LONDON IN 1666. IT WAS TAKEN DOWN BY JOHN MOWLEM & CO UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF G.B. IN 1877 THE YEAR BEFORE HE WAS SHERIFF OF LONDON 7 MIDDLESEX’, 69cm high, 265cm long, 23cm wide. Temple Bar, the principle western gateway into The City of London from The City of Westminster, is named after the Temple Church near which it stood. Originally a defensive boundary as well as an administrative one, its most important function became ceremonial. It was here on Fleet Street that the coronation processions of British monarchs halted, and where the Lord Mayor confirmed London’s civic loyalty. He would hand over the City’s Sword of State as he threw open the gates and granted the monarch access to The City. Temple Bar was thus an important London landmark. It was the last of the City gates to survive into the 19th century. From about 1840, however, it was increasingly criticised both as a barrier to the ever-growing flux of London traffic, and as an outdated relic in a parish which was being rebuilt and modernised in accordance with prevailing architectural fashions.Thus in 1877 it was resolved that it should be demolished to allow for the widening of Fleet Street and to enable work on the Royal Courts of Justice, the dismantling beginning in January the following year and taking just eleven days. Ultimately the Bar was bought by Lady Meux and removed to Theobald’s Park at Cheshunt, Hetfordshire where it remained until 2004, when it was repurchased by the Temple Bar Trust and re-erected in Paternoster Square near St Paul’s Cathedral. Built between 1669 and 1672 by Joshua Marshall [Master Mason to King Charles II from 1673] and Thomas Knight [Mason to the City] of Portland Stone along English Baroque principles, each of the gate’s facades has four Corinthian pilasters, an entablature and an arched pediment. Four niches house statues of Charles I, Charles II, James I and his queen, Anne of Denmark. Scrolls flank the upper part of the Bar and the pediments were once adorned with carved fruit and flowers. These swags mirror those of the timber gate cresting. Beneath this superstructure, two narrow posterns for foot traffic stood either side of a 21-foot wide central arch to accommodate vehicles. This central arch was hung with a pair of oak gates, and it is one of these that the cresting is from. Little information relating to its rebuilding survive in Wren’s papers. Visual representations of the Bar (mostly 19th century engravings and prints) invariably show it with the timber gates open so that their decoration is not visible. Photographs of the Bar standing at Theobalds Park do show gates of four rows of eight panels with a moulded toprail that is slightly arched or raised. These gates, now restored and re-instated in Paternoster Square are the original gates and of a shape and format that could indeed have supported the ornate carving together with its pair. The unknown fate of the pair to the LASSCO cresting is likely to have determined the removal of both. There are compelling reasons that all but confirm that the cresting is indeed the original piece adorning the gates to Wren’s 1672 gateway. Most importantly, a medal struck from the lead roof of the Bar in 1878 and commissioned to commemorate its demolition, depicts the gates with a scrolling festoon-carved cresting exactly of the design of the oak carving. The fruit-carved crestings echo the stone carvings of fruit and flowers which are known to have adorned the top part of the Bar, and so it is in stylistic keeping with the design of the rest of the structure. The details given by the plaque affixed to the cresting are correct and the man that they name (by initials only) is known to have kept pieces of other buildings that his firm demolished. John Mowlem & Co, a masonry company founded in 1822, was the firm contracted to build the commemorative column which replaced the Bar and which was erected in 1880 George Burt, the ‘GB’ mentioned in the plaque on the gate cresting (nephew to John Mowlem and director of the company at the time of the Bar’s removal), was a collector of relics of old London, often from his firm’s own demolitions, many of which including the porch removed from the Mercers’ Hall, were re-erected in his native Swanage (see Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society, August 2007). This predilection, and the fact that the plaque on the cresting records the date of its removal as 1877, suggests that George Burt removed it at the end of that year, shortly before work began on the Bar’s demolition on January 2nd 1878. As Sheriff of London and Middlesex in the following year, and thus one of London’s leading dignitaries, it is probable that he felt compelled to salvage part of Temple Bar, one of London’s most important civic sites.
Lot 39
Pedigree Sindy 44614 Super Star: blonde doll wears pink bodice with matching skirt, medal on necklace, and ice-skating boots. Appears VG, however hands unfortunately snapped off and loose in box, and a couple of small black marks to legs. Contained in G/F box missing cellophane window, with talc leaflet, stand and a pair of black tights.
Lot 442
A World War I "Mary Box" containing a British War medal, Victory medal and 1914 Star, all inscribed "To L9/2957 P.R Palmer", the Star "ABRNVR Drake Battalion RND", the two other medals "ACT.L.FRNVR", together with five school attendance medals and a folding fork CONDITION REPORTS Tin in tarnished and dented condition. School medals with wear, knocks to edges and tarnish, and one has a soldered repair, two are marked "East Ham Education Authority" (one 1904 and the other 1905), "for perfect attendance". The war medals have no ribbons. A top section/ loop is missing to one and has what appears to be a resoldered replacement loop. All war medals have wear and scuffs and some knocks to edges. The inscriptions to the edges appear to be original, with no obvious signs of alteration to the lettering. A blob of solder to one of the school medals. Two school medals inscribed to Palmer, three of them inscribed to Hart.
Lot 445
A tin of assorted medals to include the British War medal and Victory medal inscribed "25892 Pte.J.R. Dyer.G.GDF", together with a set of three World War I medals comprising the British War medal, Victory medal and the 1914-15 Star, all inscribed "562DVR.A.May.RHA", together with various Continental medals, to include a Special Decoration for Industry and Agriculture, (Mutualite-Onder Ling Bustand Belgium), together with a Dutch medallion inscribed "Nationaal Werk voor Kinderwelzijn 5th September 1919", together with a Flemish Bible CONDITION REPORTS Wear, scuffs and tarnish. Some knocks and dents. Some losses to ribbons.
Lot 446
An eight medal bar comprising the 1939-45 Star, the Burma Star, the Defence medal, the 1939-45 War medal, inscribed "22527513 CPL.J.PILCHER.D.W.R", Korean medal, UN Service medal for Korea, a General Service medal with Cyprus Star, inscribed "22527513 PTE.J.PILCHER.DWR" and a territorial Efficient Service medal, inscribed "4616744 PTE.J.I.PILCHER.W.YORKS" CONDITION REPORTS Some wear and dirt, some knocks to edges, but overall condition appears to be reasonably good. The inscriptions to the sides appear to be original (do not appear to have been altered). Korea medal (silver coloured) inscribed obverse: REGINA F D ELIZABETH II DEI GRA BRITT OMN
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