Pair: Captain P. S. Carter, Derbyshire Yeomanry, who served during the Second World War as Aide-de-Camp to Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy and Governor-General of India Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Capt. P. G. Carter, 29 Eaton Place, London, SW1’, extremely fine The Victory Medal awarded to Sapper F. W. Priest, 175th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 9 February 1916 Victory Medal 1914-19 (96829 Spr. F. W. Priest. R.E.); together with an erased Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue, good very fine (4) £60-£80 --- Peter George Carter was born in India on 21 October 1912, the son of a tea broker, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Derbyshire Yeomanry on 12 August 1939. Presumably because of his experience in India, and other family connections, he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, and sailed for Bombay on the S.S. Madura in January 1941; also on that voyage was another of Linlithgow’s Aides-de-Camp, the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, the nephew of Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) and the first cousin of Princess Elizabeth (H.M. Queen Elizabeth II). Carter was promoted Lieutenant on 12 February 1941, and served on Linlithgow’s staff until the Viceroy returned to England in 1943. Subsequently transferring to the Unemployed List, he later returned to India as a tea broker, and died in Dublin in 1980. Frederick William Priest was born in Glascote, Tamworth, Warwickshire, in 1870. A coal miner by occupation, he enlisted in the Miner’s Section of the Royal Engineers on 26 May 1915, and served with 175th Tunnelling Company during the Great War on the Western Front form 1 June 1915. He was killed in action on 9 February 1916; he has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.
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Four: Private E. S. Miles, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who was taken Prisoner of War at the Fall of Singapore, 15 February 1942 General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (3855416 Pte. E. S. Miles. Loyal. R.) minor official correction to unit; 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star, this a copy; War Medal 1939-45, nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140 --- Edward Stephen Miles, a native of Liverpool, attested for the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in November 1934 and was taken a prisoner of war at the Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942. The Japanese had landed on Singapore Island on 8 February. Some counter-attacks were attempted, including at Bukit Timah on 11 February by the re-equipped 18th Recce, but in general the invaders were allowed to retain the initiative as the garrison fell back towards the suburbs of Singapore city. The 2nd Battalion, Miles included, defended positions on Reformatory Road before starting a series of withdrawals which took them to Gillman Barracks, their former peacetime base. Their final withdrawal to Mount Washington left the surviving Loyals were ordered to lay down their arms on 15 February.

Miles was interned at Changi Camp from February 1942-July 1943, being held at Osaka Camp for the remainder of the war. He was transferred to the reserve in June 1946 Sold with copied research, including two photographic images showing the 2nd Battalion while in captivity in Changi.
Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1847’ on edge (Color Serjt. George Longland, 45th Regt. 1847) edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine, rare £1,000-£1,200 --- The Army M.S.M., V.R. issue, dated ‘1847’ on the edge, was the earliest version of the M.S.M. issued. Approximately 110 medals of this type were issued, of which approximately 50 are known to be extant. The medal to Longland was the only ‘1847’ M.S.M issue to be awarded to the regiment. George Longland was born in Cambridge in about 1803. A Carpenter by trade, he attested for the 59th Regiment at Lincoln on 5 April 1822, aged 19 years and was paid a bounty of £3. Promoted to a Corporal in August 1826, he volunteered for the 45th Regiment in December 1828. He was promoted to Corporal in April 1829, to Serjeant in February 1831, and to Color Serjeant in November 1832. He served nearly 16 years in the East Indies and nearly 5 years in the Cape of Good Hope Province. He was awarded the M.S.M. with an annuity of £15 in 1847, and was discharged on 11 December 1848, being considered unfit for further service, suffering from pulmonary disease and rheumatism. He was awarded the Army of India Medal for Bhurtpoor for his service as a Private in the 59th Regiment. He died on 3 August 1881. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Thos. Sheldon. Corpl. Arty. Gd. “Feerooz”) note spelling of ship, nearly very fine and scarce £300-£400 --- Provenance: Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. 190 clasps issued to Europeans and 85 clasps issued to native crewmen of the Indian Marine Ship Ferooz. All the Indian Marine ships of the squadron employed on service in Burma, were supplied with detachments of Bombay European Artillerymen, who did duty as Marines. A total of 57 such Artillerymen are shown on the medal rolls, 15 aboard the Ferooz, of whom Corporal Sheldon was the second most senior.
Pair: Colour Sergeant E. J. L. Wallis, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6133 Corpl: E. Wallis. Oxford: Lt Infy:); British War Medal 1914-20 (6133 C. Sjt. E. J. L. Wallis. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) minor edge bruising, good very fine (2) £100-£140 --- Edward J. L. Wallis attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry on 28 October 1899 and, after service attached to the Indian Volunteers in 1912, retired as a sergeant-major with 21 years service. He joined the Corps of Corps of Commissionaires, with whom he was employed at the time of his death in Waltham Green, London, on 8 July 1939. Sold together with a copied photographic image.
Four: Trooper D. E. R. Silcock, 13th/18th Royal Hussars, late Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (22539714 Tpr. D. E. Silcock. 13/18 H.) good very fine, and believed to be the only member of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars to have been awarded the Atlantic Star (4) £200-£240 --- Dennis Ernest Reginals Silcock was born in New Denham, Buckinghamshire, on 19 September 1925 and joined the Royal Navy as a Ordinary Seaman on 29 March 1943, serving during the Second World War borne exclusively on the books of carious shore based establishments, including H.M.S. Copra, the Combined Operations Pay Records and Accounts shore base. He was shore released on 6 September 1946, and was discharged on 1 October 1950. He attested for the 13th/18th Hussars at Acton the following day and served with ‘C’ Squadron in Malaya from 14 February 1951 to 21 January 1954. He transferred to the Reserve on 2 October 1955, and was discharged on 1 October 1962, after 12 years’ service. Sold with the recipient’s original Parchment Certificate of Service in the Royal Navy; Gunnery History Sheet; and Regular Army Certificate of Service Red Book.
Royal Naval Temperance Society Medals. Royal Naval Temperance Society, Membership Medal, silver (4) (RNTS.1), three with ‘The Victory Medal’ top riband bar, one contemporarily named ‘G. W. Hall. AB. H.M.S. Hercules’; Boys’ Membership Medal, silver (RNTS unclassified), unnamed as issued except where stated, generally very fine (5) £60-£80
Pair: Sergeant J. Smith, 52nd (Oxfordshire) Light Infantry Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Delhi (Serjt. J, Smith, 52nd L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1147. Serjt. J. Smith. 52nd Regt.) good very fine (2) £300-£400 --- James Smith is recorded in the British Army Worldwide Index for 1841, as a Private serving in the Depot, 52nd Regiment at Athlone, and in 1851 he is a Corporal, and is based at Limerick. He appears on the 52nd Regiment medal roll for the Indian Mutiny Medal, with clasp for Delhi.
Pair: Private G. A. Parmiter, Oxford Light Infantry, later Canadian Army Service Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Orange Free State (5426 Corl. G. A. Parmiter, Oxford Lt. Inft.); British War Medal 1914-20 (2590842 Pte. G. A. Parmiter. C.A.S.C.) very fine (2) £120-£160 --- George Alfred Parmiter was born on 23 October 1878, at Lambeth, Surrey. He served for six years with the Oxford Light Infantry, enlisting at London on 28 April 1897, declaring prior service with the Medical Staff Corps (Militia). He was promoted Lance Corporal on 20 July 1898; Corporal on 4 October 1899; and Sergeant on 1 June 1901. He served in South Africa during the Boer War and was wounded at Klip Drift on 16 February 1900. He was discharged medically unfit on 12 September 1901. Parmiter later migrated to Canada and enlisted for service in the Great War at Toronto on 6 September 1917. He proceeded to England on 4 March 1918, and did not land in France until 17 November 1918, hence the British War Medal is his sole medal entitlement for his Great War Service. He was demobilised on 30 March 1919, at Toronto.
The ‘West Indies’ M.G.S. medal awarded to Captain William Wood, late Paymaster of the 15th Foot, he emigrated to Tasmania with his aristocratic French wife in 1829, where they became the basis for the leading figures in G. B. Lancaster’s colourful novel, Pageant, about early Tasmania Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Martinique, Guadaloupe (W. Wood, Paymr. 15th Foot) minor edge nicks, otherwise nearly extremely fine and rare £3,000-£4,000 --- Provenance: Naval & Military Club Collection, Artemis Auctions, July 2009; Noble Numismatics Sale 99, April 2012. Only 4 M.G.S. medals to officers in the 15th Foot, one each with single clasps for Martinique and Guadaloupe, and two with both clasps. William Wood was born in England on 14 June 1778, at Hastings, East Sussex. He was appointed Paymaster in the 15th Foot on 20 February 1806, and held this appointment until at least 1821 and was placed on the half-pay as Paymaster to the 44th Foot in 1824, before retiring from the Army by ‘the sale of his unattached commission’ on 16 January 1829. Shortly after the capture of Guadaloupe in February 1810, a French ship bound from Cayenne to France, sailed into the harbour for a stopover, unaware of the British presence, and was captured without a shot being fired. Among the passengers was seventeen year old Marie Hyacinthe Genevieve de Gouges accompanied by a duenna and in the charge of Louis de Mabille-Audibert, Inspector-General des Forets. Marie was the only child of General Pierre Aubrey de Gouges, late Governor of French Guiana, who had recently died at Cayenne. Marie was admired for her beauty, goodness and graceful manners. Her aunt, the General's sister, was a maid of honour to Marie Antoinette and is buried with the other victims of the guillotine at the Chapelle Expiatoire behind the Madeleine in Paris. During a ball given by the Governor of Guadeloupe Captain Wood met the young Marie and fell madly in love with her. He swept her off her feet with his wild, passionate wooing and within about ten days they married, with one of the witnesses being Colonel Barry of ‘the Corps’. After retiring from the Army by the sale of his commission in 1829, William Wood and his wife and five children emigrated to Van Diemen's Land under an inducement of the offer of land to retired military men. The family arrived at Hobart Town on 25 October 1829 aboard the brig Mary Anne. Captain Wood took up a grant of 2,000 acres at Snakes Bank [now Powranna] and named his property ‘Hawkridge’ after the family manor near Tiverton in Devon. He applied for a further grant of 2,000 acres and in time he increased the size of his holding to 5,400 acres and built the family home which he called ‘Woodleigh’. Old family letters relate the captain's energetic and sometimes indiscreet opposition to the convict system which brought him into conflict with several Governors and he fought at least one duel. A Launceston newspaper report at the time stated that ‘shots were exchanged without injury to either party, whereon both felt their honour satisfied.’ The captain and his wife had two children born in Tasmania but both died in their infancy. One of his children, Louis de Gouges Wood, was a teacher and in the 1860s an active landscape artist of some renown. His water-colour, ‘Brambletye near Avoca’, is in the collection of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania. In an article in The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday, July 16, 1934 it states that certain information had been discovered that revealed the true life characters who were in fact leading figures of 'Pageant', G. B. Lancaster’s colourful novel of early Tasmania. The ‘Captain Comyn’ of the novel was Captain William Wood and his wife Marie is credited with being the basis for the French lady. Captain Wood died at the family home, Woodleigh, in 1864 at the age of 86. He and his wife, who also died in 1864, are interred in a vault in the English Cemetery at Perth, Tasmania. Sold with research including photographs of original oil paintings of both Captain Wood and his wife, together with a photograph of their vault.
A Great War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Chief Boatswain E. H. Wilder, Royal Navy, Assistant to the King’s Harbour Master at Gibraltar throughout the war The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, hallmarked London 1918; British War Medal 1914-20 (Bosn. E. H. Wilder. R.N.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (E. H. Wilder P.O.1. H.M.S. Scout) engraved naming; Italy, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Cavalier’s breast badge, gold and enamels, obverse centre chipped; together with Boy Scout Association silver and enamelled badge, reverse engraved (Presented by Staff for work at Jamboree 1920), and B.S.A. medal for Merit, bronze and enamels, reverse engraved (Presented to E. H. Wilder M.B.E. Jamboree 1920 by Baden Powell C.S. of the W), generally good very fine (4) £400-£500 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 4 June 1918: ‘Chief Boatswain Edward H. Wilder, R.N., Assistant to the King’s Harbour Master, Gibraltar.’ Crown of Italy London Gazette 25 April 1922: ‘Commissioned Boatswain Edward Hunter Wilder, Royal Navy, in recognition of services during the war.’ Edward Hunter Wilder was born at Portsea, Hampshire, on 1 May 1871, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in H.M.S. St Vincent on 26 May 1886. He joined H.M.S. Scout as an Able Seaman on 1 October 1895, and served aboard her until 19 December 1898, being advanced to Leading Seaman in October 1896, to P.O.2 in April 1897, and to Petty Officer 1st Class in November 1897. He was promoted to Acting Boatswain on 1 February 1902, confirmed in that rank one year later, and was promoted to Chief Boatswain on 1 February 1917. He served as Assistant to the King’s Harbour Master at Gibraltar throughout the war and, according to an accompanying letter from his daughter, he ‘took hundreds of prisoners by firing over the bows of ships out in the Straits, to bring them into Harbour and he transported the prisoners to South Barracks... As another point of interest his Sea Scouts caught three German spies at Tarifa during the war.’ He retired with the rank of Lieutenant R.N. on 12 August 1922, and died at Haslar Hospital on 2 September 1930.
General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24373503 Fus. K. J. Henry RWF.) nearly extremely fine £60-£80 --- Ken Henry served in ‘D’ Company, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Sold with copied research, including transcripts from the internet’s Royal Welch Forum, which states that at the end of May 2005 (presumably after having sold his medal) the recipient and his partner won over £12.8 million on the National Lottery - one of the first items on his shopping list after his lottery win was an executive box at Anfield in order to watch the European Champions.
Six: Colour Sergeant C. Lucas, Royal Fusiliers 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (14442909 Sjt. C. Lucas. R.F.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Arabian Peninsula (14442909 S. Sgt. C. Lucas. R.F.) mounted for wear, generally very fine (6) £200-£240 --- Sold with the following original documents and items: named Letter of Appreciation from the Army Board of the Defence Council in recognition of service in the Army, with enclosure; 2 Army Certificates of Education; named card box of issue for G.S.M.; six large group photographs (5 with names) of various Mess and Courses - these featuring the recipient, and number of official photographs;
Victory Medal 1914-19 (Asst. Constr. A. G. W. Stantan. R.C.N.C.) good very fine, scarce to unit £60-£80 --- Arthur George Wilkinson Stantan was born on 29 December 1887 and served during the Great War as an Assistant Constructor with the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors. Based initially at the Drawing Office at the Devonport Yard, he accompanied four ‘C’ Class Submarines to Russia in 1916 (an arduous and adventurous task that involved sailing the submarines to Archangel, and then towing them on wooden barges along the Dwina and Suchana Rivers to the Gulf of Finland), and from 1917 was involved in aircraft construction at the Malta Yard. During the inter-War years he had further spells at the Devonport Yard, where he was involved in the conversion of H.M.S. Glorious to an aircraft carrier; and at the Admiralty, where he served as Secretary of Supply Committee III and with the Sloop Section, designing H.M.S. Egret and H.M.S. Black Swan. In 1938 Stantan became Warship Production Superintendent for the Scottish Area, and was promoted Senior Constructor the same year being recalled to the Admiralty and placed in charge of the design of the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Unicorn. Advancement to Chief Constructor rapidly followed, and he served during the Second World War in Canada with the Admiralty Technical Mission as Constructor Captain at the Ottawa HQ. In his long career, Stantan spent nearly 20 years in uniform which, it is believed, is a record for the Royal Corps. He died on 13 January 1961; surprisingly, given the long service he rendered to the Admiralty over many years, he was not given any honour or award. Sold with a copy of ‘The Journal of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors Association’, January 1949, which includes a biography of the recipient, and a portrait photograph of him.
A rare Great War A.R.R.C. and M.M. group of five awarded to Acting Sister A. G. Boyd, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; Military Medal, G.V.R. (A. Sister A. G. Boyd. A.R.R.C. Q.A.I.M.N.S.(R).); 1914-15 Star (S. Nurse. A. G. Boyd. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals (A. Sister A. G. Boyd.) mounted court-style for display, together with Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. silver cape badge and Overseas Nursing Association silver recruiting badge with ‘1919’ bar brooch, nearly extremely fine (7) £4,000-£5,000 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 2 May 1916. M.M. London Gazette 4 March 1918: ‘For bravery, coolness and conspicuous devotion displayed in the performance of their duties on occasions when the Casualty Clearing Station has been under hostile shell fire and bombed by enemy aircraft.’ Her Military Medal was awarded for bravery at No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station at Noeux-les-Mines, near Béthune, the original recommendation held by the Imperial War Museum giving a more detailed account: ‘For conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in that during the night of September 12/13th 1917, during very heavy enemy shelling, when pieces of shell were striking the hospital, and one of the personnel was wounded she carried out her duties with the greatest courage and coolness. Her bravery, cheerfulness, and devotion to duty during this horrible night were of the greatest advantage, when the darkness and helplessness of the wounded made many of them seriously alarmed. Her presence of mind and absence of fear gave a much needed confidence to the patients. This is only one of the many dangerous occasions when Miss Boyd has acted up to the highest traditions of the Nursing Service.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 5 May 1916 (Despatch of Sir Ian Hamilton dated 11 December 1915) and 21 June 1916 (Despatch of General Sir John Maxwell, commanding the Forces in Egypt, dated 16 March 1916) this second mention being specifically for her service in hospital ships. Anna Georgina Boyd was born on 23 May 1888 at Newtownhamilton, County Armagh, the daughter of a farmer, and was educated at the Model School, Newry. She trained at the Royal Victoria Hospital from August 1909 to November 1912, and left in October 1913 after a period as a Staff Nurse and Sister in the Rotunda. From then until her enlistment she was engaged in private nursing and midwifery. She was accepted into Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve on 9 July 1915, and disembarked at Alexandria for service at No. 19 General Hospital on 26 November 1915. She later served in hospital ships before transferring to France. She arrived at No. 4 General Hospital, Camiers, on 29 February 1916, and later served in the Hospital Ship Aquitania followed by a month at the Lord Derby Hospital, Warrington, before returning to France and No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station at Noeux-les-Mines. She was promoted acting Sister on 1 August 1917. After a period at No. 46 Stationary Hospital, Etaples, she arrived at No. 38 Casualty Clearing Station where she remained for a year. Her final posting saw a return to No. 4 General Hospital in December 1918, prior to her demobilisation on 14 March 1919. After the war Miss Boyd took her Central Midwives Board certificate at the Lying-In Hopsital and applied to the Overseas Nursing Association, being posted to the Malay States in 1920 (Honours and Awards to Women - The Military Medal by Norman G. Gooding refers). She died in London on 29 January 1957. Sold with original letter of congratulations from the Matron in Chief, B.E.F. upon award of the M.M., and War Office letter advising that all ladies who attend an Investiture at Buckingham Palace to receive the decoration of the Royal Red Cross should afterwards proceed to Marlborough House to see her Majesty. Together with copied research.
A good Second War 1943 D.F.M. group of six awarded to Sterling rear gunner Sergeant, later Master Gunner, D. Collins, 149 (East India) Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, for his gallantry during an attack by a night-fighter whilst on a raid to Berlin, 1 September 1943 Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (1581322. F/Sgt. D. Collins. R.A,F.); 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (M. Gnr. D. Collins. (1581322). R.A.F.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (W/O. D. Collins. (1581322). R.A.F.) mounted as worn, light contact marks, very fine, the rank of Master Gunner on the GSM rare (6) £1,400-£1,800 --- D.F.M. London Gazette 11 February 1944 (jointly recommended for the D.F.M. with Sergeant D. J. D. King): ‘Flight Sergeant Collins as rear gunner and Sergeant King as mid-upper gunner have together completed many operational sorties against some of the most heavily defended enemy targets such as Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, the Ruhr and others in the Rhine Valley. On one occasion, these two gunners volunteered to fly with a strange and uncertain crew in order to maintain maximum squadron effort. The target was Berlin. During the bombing run, an enemy night fighter, identified as a Ju. 88, attacked inflicting damage to their aircraft but with cool co-operation, the mid-upper gunner directed the defensive action whilst the rear gunner opened fire. The attack was successfully defeated and the enemy aircraft was claimed as damaged. As a team, these two gunners are unimpeachable, their keenness for battle and determined devotion to duty being of a quality demanded only by the highest standard of Bomber Command. Their reluctance to be withdrawn from operations is most evident. I recommend most strongly that they be awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal, a recognition they assuredly deserve.’ Dennis Collins served during the Second War as a Flight Sergeant, and rear gunner, with 149 (East India) Squadron (Sterlings), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He flew in numerous operations with King, and with Sergeant C. Saunders as their regular pilot. On the above trip to Berlin, 1 September 1943, their pilot for the raid was Pilot Officer R. Gill. Their Sterling suffered damage whilst taking evasive action from the enemy night-fighter.
German Second World War Insignia. Comprising an SA Sports Badge, maker marked on the reverse side, marked Berg & Nolte; Army Drivers Badge in bronze, which has lost its finish, on its field grey backing; and a DRA Sports Badge, hook broken, pre Third Reich period; accompanied by a January 1944 dated miniature L18 marked Iron Crosses First and Second Class and Winter War Medal, generally good condition (lot) £40-£60
Royal Army Temperance Association Medals. Royal Army Temperance Association Award of Merit Medal, silver (RATA.14), the reverse contemporarily impressed ‘Bom. W. Harrison. 46 Co. R.G.A. 1911.’, with top riband bar; Prince of Wales’s Medal, silver and enamel (RATA.15); King Edward VII Coronation Medal 1902, silver (RATA.16); King George V Coronation Medal 1911, silver (RATA.17); King Edward VII Memorial Medal, silver (RAHA.18), one with hallmarks for Birmingham 1914, unnamed as issued except where stated, generally very fine (6) £60-£80
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Transvaal (5010 Pte. C. Parr. 18th. Hussars) very fine £80-£100 --- Charles Harry Parr was born in Ascot, Berkshire, in 1881 and attested for the 18th Hussars in London on 14 December 1899. He served with the Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War from 5 March 1901 to 31 October 1902 (also entitled to both date clasps), and was discharged on 31 October 1903, after 3 years ands 323 days’ service. Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extract.
A scarce and poignant Second War A.F.C. and Second Award Bar group of five awarded to Wing Commander S. R. Hinks, Royal Air Force, who initially flew Hudsons with Coastal Command, prior to being employed as an Instructor in Canada. Hinks served with 24 Squadron (King’s Flight), and flew a number of VIP’s during the war, including Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, and the Royal Family. After the war Hinks was employed as a civil pilot in Argentina, and flew Eva Peron for the entirety of her tour of Europe in 1947. He was subsequently employed by El-Al Airlines operating out of Israel - and flying a Lockheed 049 Constellation from London to Tel Aviv, via Vienna and Istanbul, strayed into Bulgarian airspace at the height of the Cold War. The passenger aircraft, with a crew of 7 and a passenger list of 51 (including Hinks’ fiancée), was intercepted and shot down by two Bulgarian MiG fighters, 27 July 1955. All of the crew and passengers lost their lives, in what became a major international incident Air Force Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1943’, with Second Award Bar, reverse officially dated ‘1945’; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as originally worn together with an Eva Peron Medal, gold (18ct) and enamel medal, naming embossed in raised letters ‘A L Cap. Stanley R. Hinks’, generally very fine or better, last rare (6) £2,400-£2,800 --- Provenance: Christie’s, November 1982. A.F.C. London Gazette 16 April 1943. The original recommendation states: ‘This officer, an excellent Flying Instructor, has set a very good example to both staff pilots and pupils and has maintained a high standard of flying in his flight. The success of this unit depends to a large extent on successful Hudson conversion training. Flight Lieutenant Hinks, by his outstanding zeal and energy in the performance of his duties, has, to a large degree, been responsible for the high standard of training obtained. In a period of nineteen months this officer has completed 860 flying instructional hours on Hudson conversion training.’ A.F.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 3 April 1945. The original recommendation states: ‘Since joining this Squadron [24 Squadron] as a Flight Commander in July 1944 this officer has completed 191 hrs. flying which includes thirteen overseas flights. He is a most reliable and dependable Flight Commander. In the performance of his duties he has not only proved himself to be most efficient, but also a very capable leader. His interest in, and knowledge of administration has been invaluable to the Squadron. Total flying time in R.A.F.: 2,882,00 hrs. Total last 6 months: 191.15 hrs.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 11 August 1940. Stanley Reginald Hinks was born in North Devon in February 1920, and educated at King Edward VII School, King’s Lynn. He was commissioned in to the Royal Air Force in 1938, and served in Hudsons with Coastal Command, 1939-1941 (M.I.D.). Hinks was posted as an instructor to the first flying training school in Canada, and was based at No. 31 O.T.U., Nova Scotia until 1943. He was subsequently posted to 24 Squadron (King’s Flight), and flew VIP’s in Dakotas: ‘With the King and Princess Elizabeth standing chatting beside him, Squadron Leader Reginald Hinks, of 18, Temple Drive, Nuthall, yesterday [17 July 1945] piloted the Royal plane - a silver Dakota - escorted by two squadrons of Mustangs, to Long Kesh, R.A.F. Station near Belfast, where the King and Queen began their tour of Northern Ireland. Pilot for many V.I.P.s during the war, including Mr Churchill, Mr Attlee, and Field Marshal Sir Alan BrookE - Squadron Leader Hinks took off from Northolt yesterday afternoon at 4.30 with the King and Queen and Princess Elizabeth aboard. The journey took two hours and one minute. It was the second occasion within a month that he has piloted the King and Queen - he flew them home from the Channel Islands in June. “We had a lovely flight,” the Queen told the Duke of Abercorn, Governor of Northern Ireland, who greeted the Royal trio on the airfield. Squadron Leader Hinks actually made history, for it was the first time that a sovereign has travelled to Northern Ireland by air. He was also piloting Princess Elizabeth on her first flight.’ (Newspaper cutting included with lot refers). After the war Hinks was employed as a civil pilot for F.A.M.A., the Argentine airline. As a civil pilot, Hinks flew Eva Peron round Europe on her tour in 1947, and when they reached Buenos Aires on returning, she gave him a present of £150, and presented him to President Peron. Hinks was next employed as a pilot by El-Al Airlines. On 27 July 1955 an El Al Airlines Lockheed 049 Constellation (4X-AKC, flight 426, flying from London to Tel Aviv, via Vienna and Istanbul, strayed into Bulgarian airspace, likely due to strong winds in very bad weather. The crew of the aircraft was Hinks as pilot, First Officer Pini Ben-Porat, Flight Engineer Sidney Chalmers and Radio Operator Raphael Goldman. The aircraft was intercepted in the early morning darkness at 17,500 feet by Bulgarian MiG-15 Fagot fighters, and was shot down near Petrich, Bulgaria. The aircraft crashed near the Strumitza River, close to the Yugoslav and Greek borders in south-western Bulgaria. All fifty-one passengers and seven crew were killed. It caused an international incident at the height of the Cold War, and whilst lost in diplomacy lead to a number of conspiracy theories even to this day. The victims’ remains were transported back to Israel, and buried in a communal grave. A memorial to them was built at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery, Tel Aviv. Sold with the following original documents: M.I.D. Certificate, dated 11 August 1940; photograph of recipient in uniform with Winston Churchill; a newspaper cutting and copied research. Note: Although it is not known exactly how many ‘Peron Medals’ were issued, the fact that the recipient’s name is embossed in raised letters, rather than engraved, would have necessitated a separate die for each medal, and consequently it can be assumed that the medal was sparingly presented.
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal R. H. English, 14th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force Military Medal, G.V.R. (8885 Pte. R. H. English. 14/F.A. Aust: A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (8885 Cpl. R. H. English. 14 Fld. Amb. A.I.F.) very fine (3) £1,000-£1,200 --- M.M. London Gazette 21 September 1916. The original Recommendation, dated 23 July 1916, states: ‘For devotion to duty in the most arduous circumstances, being ever the most willing to go forward and bring in wounded, often under fire, and though hardly able to continue from exhaustion, still his fine spirit and sympathy for the wounded enabled him to carry on.’ Robert Hutchinson English attested for the Australian Imperial Force on 27 September 1915, and served with the 14th Australian Field Ambulance during the Great War on the Western Front, being awarded the Military Medal. He returned to Australia on 12 June 1919.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Transvaal, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between clasps and mounted in this order (5065 Pte. W. Dunford. 18th Hussars.) edge bruise, very fine £100-£140 --- Sold with copied medal roll extracts, that imply that the Orange Free State and South Africa 1902 clasps were granted for service with the 3rd Hussars.
Waterloo 1815 (Corporal James Cook, 1st or Royal Dragoons.) fitted with fitted with replacement steel clip and later ring suspension, dark toned, fine or better £3,000-£3,600 --- Provenance: Dixon’s Gazette, Autumn 2008. James Cook was born in the Parish of Winterbourne, Berkshire, and attested for the 1st Dragoons at Marlborough, Wiltshire, on 16 February 1818, aged 18, a labourer by trade. He served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, being promoted to Corporal shortly afterwards on 25 June 1815. He was discharged from the 1st Dragoons on 15 February 1818, but re-enlisted into te 3rd Light Dragoons on 8 October 1818, serving in this regiment until his final discharge on 31 March 1831, ‘at his own request with a modified Pension of ten pence per diem which he wishes to receive at Bath.’ His discharge papers state that he served ‘Five years in Spain & Portugal in the 1st Royal Dragoons during the War, and at Waterloo. Afterwards one year in France in the 3rd Lt. Dragoons with the Army of Occupation.’ James Cook is entitled to the M.G.S. medal for Fuentes D’Onor, Vittoria and Toulouse, 1st Dragoons Order of Merit (Balmer R31), and William IV L.S. & G.C. medal awarded in 1832 when he was serving in the 3rd Light Dragoons. Balmer incorrectly attributes another 1st Dragoons regimental medal to this man, awarded by Colonel Clifton to ‘Sergt Cook at Cork 17th Novr. 1827’. This cannot be the same man because James Cook left the 1st Dragoons for the 3rd Light Dragoons in 1818, never rose above the rank of Corporal in his former regiment, and served as a Private throughout his later service in the 3rd L.D. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Frederick William Wareham, 18th. March 1888) lacking integral bronze riband buckle, edge nicks, good very fine £100-£140 --- R.H.S. Case no. 23,903. ‘The bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society has been awarded to Frederick William Wareham of Bournemouth, who on Sunday, the 18th March, without stopping to undress, and not withstanding the weather was bitterly cold, plunged into the sea and succeeded in saving the life of a gentleman who had fallen off the landing stage into the water, and was in imminent danger of being drowned. A subscription is being arranged to present Wareham with a gold watch and chain in further recognition of his heroic conduct.’ (The Christchurch Times, 28 April 1888 refers). Frederick William Wareham was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire, in 1864. A butcher by profession, he was awarded the R.H.S. Medal for jumping off the pier at Bournemouth and rescuing a gentleman named ‘Thatcher’ - a holidaymaker to the town - from drowning (The Western Daily Press, refers). His award was publicly presented by the Chairman of the Commissioners, whilst a gold watch was offered by Captain Haggard. Sold with copied newspaper cutting extracts regarding both the award of the Royal Humane Society, and the recipient’s later misadventures, culminating in his suicide in 1906.
Four: Corporal of Horse K. J. Thompson, Life Guards U.N. Medal, on UNPROFOR ribbon; N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, 1 clasp, Former Yugoslavia, with second tour emblem; Iraq 2003-11, no clasp (25005144 LCPL K J Thompson LG); Jubilee 2002, with named card box of issue, the group mounted court-style, very fine or better (4) £800-£1,000 --- Sold together with two named NATO award certificates for service in Former Yugoslavia in the periods August 1996-February 1997 and June-December 1969; Mounted Dutyman’s Course certificate; MOD Drivers Permit; a presentation pocket watch inscribed ‘WOs & NCOs Mess HCR 2003 LCPL Thompson 44’; two metal identity discs, various LG badges and several photographs, including two large glazed and framed photographs, the first showing the recipient taking part in the Funeral Procession of H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, The Tilt Yard, Whitehall, 5 April 2002; and the second a group photograph of the entire Household Cavalry Regiment on the occasion of the visit of H.M. the Colonel-in-Chief, Windsor, 12 May 1997, with the recipient identified in both.
A Great War ‘Battle of the Aisne’ M.M. and ‘2nd Battle of the Somme’ Second Award Bar group of four awarded to Sergeant T. P. Nicholson, Durham Light Infantry Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (300168 L. Cpl. T. Nicholson. 1/8 Durh: L.I.); 1914-15 Star 2076 Pte. T. Nicholson. Durh: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2076 Sjt. T. Nicholson. Durh. L.I.) some light contact pitting, otherwise very fine and better (4) £800-£1,000 --- M.M. London Gazette 21 October 1918. One of seven awards to the 1/8th Battalion in the March Offensive at the Battle of the Aisne, 27 May-6 June 1918. M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 20 August 1919. Awarded for service with the 15th Battalion D.L.I. during the 2nd Battle of the Somme, 23 August 1918. Thomas Pringle Nicholson was born at Haswell, county Durham, on 14 July 1894. A coal miner by trade, he attested for the Durham Light Infantry on 1 April 1913, aged 18 years 9 months. He served initially with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 April 1915, and later transferred to the 15th Battalion, being awarded the Military Medal with the first unit, and the Second Award Bar with the latter Battalion. He was discharged in the rank of Sergeant on 11 January 1919, with gun shot wound in neck and right thigh and shell gas poisoning, and died at Durham during the first quarter of 1971. Sold with copied research.
Four: Corporal A. W. Bumford, 2nd/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was taken Prisoner of War in March 1918 British War and Victory Medals (6702 Cpl. A. W. Bumford. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (6702 Cpl. A. W. Bumford. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (202810 Cpl. A. W. Bumford. 4 - Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) very fine and better (4) £240-£280 --- Albert W. Bumford was born on 1 September 1893, and resided at Barry, South Wales. He attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 2nd/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was taken Prisoner of War on 22 March 1918.
A Great War 1915 ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant C. Brownlow, 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (8380 L. Cpl. C. Brownlow. 1/E. York: Regt); 1914 Star, with copy clasp, loose (8380 Pte C. Brownlow. 1/E. York. R.); British War and Victory Medals (8380 Sjt. C. Brownlow. E. York. R.) edge bruising, nearly very fine (4) £800-£1,000 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 23 June 1915: ‘For conspicuous courage and ability displayed while employed on patrolling and scouting duties, and also in erecting barbed wire.’ Charles Brownlow was born in 1889, the son of Mr and Mrs T. Brownlow of Armley, Leeds. He attested for the East Yorkshire Regiment at Beverley in August 1906, and served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment in the French theatre of war from 8 September 1914. After the war he worked as a porter for the North Western Railway Company at Leeds Railway Station. Brownlow died in May 1928, and at the time was being treated as an ‘ex-service’ day patient at the High Royds Lunatic Asylum. The cause of death was given as ‘dementia paralytica’ - a mental disorder almost certainly brought on by his war service.
Three: Able Seaman John Duffill, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (John Duffell.); Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (John Duffell. Carps. Crew. “Alligator”) short hyphen reverse, officially engraved naming; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., Anchor obverse (John Duffill A.B. H.M.S. Excellent 27 Years) pierced with rings for suspension, generally good very fine, a very rare group, possibly unique (3) £6,000-£8,000 --- Provenance: Sotheby, January 1898 and April 1993. John Duffill/Duffell is confirmed on the rolls as Carpenter’s Crew aboard H.M.S. Minden at Algiers, in the same rate aboard H.M.S. Alligator at Ava, and was approved for his L.S. & G.C. medal on 26 June 1847, when serving as an Able Seaman in H.M.S. Excellent. He was at that time allotting part of his pay to his wife Jane, who he had married at Kingston, Portsmouth, on 24 November 1832, and was then residing at Hayling Island, Hampshire.
BLETCHLEY PARK INTEREST - a collection of World War II ephemera including WRN's cloth hat with Victorian silver threepenny bit, dated 1872 and Wartime Prayer from the WRNS in the name of Pamela M Vandermin and Defence medal, War medal 1939-45, 1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, various cap badges, buttons and cloth badges, together with Armed Forces Veteran's badge, Bletchley Park Outstation Veteran's badge and Government Code and Cypher School Bletchley Park and its Outstations 1939-45 We Also Served badge, all awarded to Miss Pam M Vandermin and a small collection of fuel ration booklets and a pedometer detailing yards, miles etc in chromed plated case, together with a collection of five various holiday diaries, each inscribed with dates "1947/63", "1964/70", "1974/77", "1978/81" and "1991/97", each containing itineraries and diary notes, typed, with areas visited, postcards and photographs (Provenance: Miss Pam M Vandermin)
Coin & Medal auction catalogues. A volume containing 16 auction catalogues for sales of coins & medals, 1786-1791, comprising: 1. A catalogue of the genuine and valuable collection of Greek, Roman, British, Saxon, English, and other, coins and medals ... of the Late Mark Cephas Tutet ..., will be sold by auction, by Mr.Gerard, at his house in Litchfield Street, St. Anne's, Soho, on Wednesday, the 18th of January, 1786, and the three following days, 2. A catalogue of the valuable collection of coins, medals, antiquities, bronzes, Royal and other ancient seals, books, manuscripts, printed, &c. of Benjamin Bartlett ..., will be sold by auction, by Mr.Gerard ... on Wednesday, April 25, 1787, and the five following days, Sunday excepted, 3. A catalogue of the ... collection of coins and medals ... of the late Ralph Grey ... will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard ... on Thursday, the 14th February, 1788, 4. A catalogue of the genuine collection of ancient and modern coins and medals, & c. ... of the late Reverend Dr. John Pearkes ..., will be sold by auction, by Mr.Gerard ... on Thursday the 21st, and Friday the 22nd of February, 1788, 5. A catalogue of the genuine library of printed books, a collection of Natural curiosities, antiquities, and other miscellaneous articles, of the late Reverend Dr. John Pearkes ..., will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard ... on Monday the 7th, and Tuesday the 8th of April, 1788, 6. A catalogue of the entire collection of Greek, Roman, British, Saxon, English, and other, coins and medals ... the property of the late Mr. John White, of Newgate Street, Part I. ..., will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard ... on Wednesday the 27th, and Thursday the 28th, of February, 1788, 7. A catalogue of the entire collection of Greek, Roman, British, Saxon, English, and other, coins and medals ... the property of the late Mr. John White, of Newgate Street, Part II. ..., will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard ... on Monday the 3rd, and Tuesday the 4th, of March, 1788, 8. A catalogue of the collection of Greek, Roman, British, Saxon, English, and other, coins and medals ... of a late well-known collector, deceased ..., will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard ... on Wednesday, April 30, 1788, and the two following days, 9. A catalogue of a valuable collection of Greek and Roman coins..., which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard ... on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th, of April, 1789, 10. A catalogue ... of ancient and modern coins and medals ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard ... on Wednesday, May 5, 1790, and the two following days, 11. A catalogue of the genuine and select collection of Roman, Saxon, and English coins and medals ... of Mr. Keyser Mole, deceased, which will be sold by auction, by Mess. Spurrier & Phipps, on the premises, opposite the Hoxton-Town Coffee-House, Hoxton, Middlesex. On Thursday, the 29th of April 1790, 12. A catalogue of the genuine collection of Greek, Roman, Saxon, English, and other coins and medals ... of the late Gustavus Brander ..., which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard ... on Wednesday, the 3rd, and Thursday, the 4th, of February, 1790, 13. A catalogue of the genuine and valuable collection of ancient and modern coins and medals ... collected by the late Charles Chauncy ... and his brother, Nathaniel Chauncy ..., will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard ... on Wednesday, May the 19th, 1790, 14. A catalogue of the entire and valuable museum of that well-known collector, the late Joseph Browne, Esq. of Shepton-Mallet, Somerset ... Part I. ... will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard ... on Wednesday, March 16, 1791, 15. A catalogue of the entire and valuable museum of that well known collector, the late Joseph Browne, Esq. of Shepton-Mallet, Somerset ... Part V. ... will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard ... on Thursday, the 2d of June, 1791, 16. A catalogue of the collection of ancient and modern coins and medals ... of the late Rev. Michael Lort ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Gerard ... on Thursday the 14th and Friday the 15th of July, 1791, each catalogue with detailed manuscript entries of hammer prices achieved and purchaser's names, occasional dust-soiling and minor marks, ownership of J.C.Lindsay, 80 Main St., Cockermouth to pastedowns, contemporary half calf, upper joint cracked and lower joint worn, chipped at head & foot of spine, 8voQty: (1)
Second World War medal group to include: 1939-45 war medal, Defence medal, Queen Elizabeth II Meritorious service medal, Queen Elizabeth II campaign service medal with clasp for Borneo and Queen Elizabeth long service and good conduct regular Army medal. Together with ribbons. (B.P. 21% + VAT) Meritorius medal - 1628995 Sgt (ICL) William L.R. Thomas R.A. Defence medal - unmarked. Standard WW2 Medal - unmarked.Borneo campaign medal and long service medal -1628995 Bdr. W. L. R. Thomas B. E. M. RA
JOSÉ BLANCO CORIS (Málaga, 1862 - 1946).Untitled.Oil on canvas glued to board.Signed in the lower right corner.Measurements: 79 x 58 cm; 92 x 72 cm (frame).Painter, writer and professor at the School of Arts and Crafts of Madrid, José Blanco Coris always showed a deep interest in Japanese and East Asian art, and in fact wrote an important "Manual of Decorative Art" (Madrid, 1916-21) in which he dedicated chapters to the arts of China and Japan. Blanco Coris was trained in his native Malaga, in the School of Fine Arts of the city, where he had Bernando Ferrándiz as his main teacher. He began his career making great history paintings in the nineteenth-century style, such as the "Presentation of Cardinal Cisneros to Isabella the Catholic" of 1881. Also around this time he delved into the themes of gentle realism, reaping a special success with "Children in a Boat" (1883), which won him the gold medal at the International Exhibition in Boston. Already at the beginning of the new century, Blanco Coris will evolve towards a less sweetened costumbrismo, at the same time that he begins to cultivate the still life. In the twenties he presented works of these genres at the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts and the Salones de Otoño. Although he was permeable to the advances of impressionism, in the twentieth century he was especially critical of the avant-garde, always remaining outside them. At the same time he developed a notable teaching career, which he began after failing to obtain a post as a pensioner in Rome in 1888. He entered the School of Fine Arts in Malaga as an assistant in 1891, to later become a temporary professor (1893). He finally obtained the position of full professor at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid in 1902, developing since then his career in the Spanish capital. Today José Blanco Coris is represented in the Museum of Malaga and in various private collections.
GONZALO BILBAO MARTÍNEZ (Seville, 1860 - Madrid, 1938).Untitled.Mixed media on paper.Attached certificate issued by Don Gerardo Pérez Calero.It has slight damage to the frame.Signed in the lower right corner.Measurements: 31 x 60 cm; 50 x 80 cm (frame).Gonzalo Bilbao begins in the drawing since he was a child and in 1880 he begins his pictorial career. During these years he made a trip to Italy and France with Jiménez de Aranda. In Rome he worked with the painter José Villegas Cordero, and traveled through the different Italian capitals, painting urban and rural views until his return to Spain in 1884. In the following years he visited Rome again, traveled through Spain and also went to Morocco, Paris and Munich. In Spain he worked as a professor of painting, at first as a private individual and, from 1903, as successor to Jiménez de Aranda at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville. In 1904 he married and took up residence in Madrid, where he continued his teaching work at the San Fernando Academy. During his career he participated in numerous exhibitions of fine arts, both national and foreign, being awarded a third medal at the Universal Exhibition of Paris (1889) and the International Exhibition of Barcelona (1891), a single medal at the Universal Exhibition of Chicago (1893), and a gold medal at the International Exhibitions of Berlin (1899), Munich (1905), Buenos Aires (1910), Santiago de Chile (1910), San Francisco (1915) and Panama (1916). He also participated in the National Fine Arts, obtaining second medal in 1887 and 1892, first in 1899 and 1901 and honor in 1915. A traditional painter, representative of Spanish costumbrismo, he expressed in his paintings colorful pictures of Andalusian life and its most popular characters, and also practiced the landscape, the figure and the portrait, painting prominent figures of the time as King Alfonso XIII and the actress Carmen Diaz. The light and vitality of his compositions bring his language closer to impressionist aesthetics, focusing on the essential representation of environments and landscapes. Gonzalo Bilbao is represented in the Museum of Fine Arts in Seville, where he has a room entirely dedicated to his work, the Prado Museum, the Jaume Morera Museum in Lleida and the Museum of Fine Arts in Cordoba, among others, as well as in private collections both in Spain and abroad.
EUGÈNE BOUDIN (France, 1824 - 1898)."Dordrecht, La Meuse; Study of an Estuary," 1875.Watercolor and graphite on laid paper.Attached photo certificate of authenticity issued by Manuel Schmit in 2016. Registration number in the Manuel Schmit Fine art archive: B-A.7562.The work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of Eugène Boudin's works on paper.Signed, dated and located in the lower area.Provenance: Andre Seligmann, New York.Measurements: 22 x 33.5 cm; 39.5 x 50.5 cm (frame).In this work, which is conceived as a sketch, the author captures a view of the city of Dordrech, located in the Low Countries. Boudin captures in the foreground the presence of the canal and in the distance a city that stands out for the presence of windmills, a recurring theme in Impressionist painting, of which Boudin was an admired master. It is worth noting that Boudin made several visits to the city of Dordrech, in which he immortalized urban scenes and seascapes, which were always of his predilection. The 1884 visit was especially prolific, as he made numerous views of the city. The work has a photo certificate of authenticity issued by Manuel Schmit, a scholar who made a catalog raisonné of the artist.Eugène Boudin was one of the first landscape painters of the French school to paint directly in the open air, a plein air, before the Impressionists popularized this practice. He specialized in marine and harbor and coastal views, although on occasion he was also interested in green inland landscapes with animals, such as the cows grazing serenely in this beautiful panorama. He worked both in oil and pastel. His pastel sketches, synthetic and expressive, were widely praised by Baudelaire, and earned him the nickname "king of the skies" from Corot. The son of a dock worker, he began working on steamships as a child, always near the sea, something that would mark his work. However, in 1835 he moved with his family to Le Havre, where his father opened a frame store in which works by Constant Troyon and Jean-François Millet were exhibited. Knowledge of these painters, and also of Isabey and Couture, encouraged the young Boudin in his pictorial vocation. At the age of twenty-two he abandoned his work in commerce to devote himself fully to painting, and the following year he began a journey that would take him to Paris and Flanders. In 1850 he obtained a scholarship that allowed him to settle in the French capital, a city from which he would travel frequently to Normandy and Brittany in search of new coastal landscapes. In Boudin's work, from these early years of his career, a profound influence of the masters of Dutch Baroque landscape painting can be seen. In 1859 he made his debut at the Paris Salon, and in those years he met a very young Monet, whom he influenced to leave caricature and devote himself to landscape painting. From then on, both artists would be united by a great friendship, and in fact they would exhibit together in the first Impressionist exhibition (1874). Already fully established as an artist, in the 1870s Boudin made numerous trips, first to Belgium, the Netherlands and the south of France, and already in the 1890s he would travel regularly to Venice. He continued to exhibit his work at the Parisian Salons, and was awarded a third medal in 1881. He was also awarded a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889, and in 1892 he was made a knight of the French Legion of Honor. Towards the end of his life Boudin returned to the south of France, finally dying in 1898 in his native Deauville. His works are now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Metropolitan in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery in London, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, etc.
JOSÉ NAVARRO LLORENS (Valencia, 1867 - 1923)."Valencian group", 1908.Oil on parchment.Signed and dated.Measurements: 21 cm ø; 41,5 x 41,5 cm (frame).José Navarro Llorens was directed very early to painting, and he studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos, in his hometown. After his student period we lose track of him, and we will not find him again until 1895 when, according to Pantorba, he participated for the first and only time in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, obtaining an honorary mention. That same year was the year of the consecration of Joaquín Sorolla, who unanimously won the first medal in that contest. Although they were lifelong friends, it is possible that Navarro, given his bohemian and humble character, did not aspire, like Sorolla, to make a brilliant career of official laurels and courtly prestige. It seems that he never intended to project his work beyond a limited local scope, as can be deduced from the fact that, in his early years, he devoted himself to painting costumbrista and gallant scenes for fans. Nevertheless, his early works show a certain influence of the style of Mariano Fortuny, whom Navarro admired, and from whose example he may have been inspired to travel to Morocco in a second stage. This trip must have taken place shortly after finishing his studies, and he devoted himself to painting local, North African and Orientalist themes. At the beginning of the 20th century he was hired to decorate a palace in Buenos Aires, although Navarro never arrived in Argentina. He embarked with such a destination, but during a stopover in Rio de Janeiro the painter decided to stay there indefinitely. In the Brazilian city he continued to work and held an exhibition that was widely celebrated. However, nostalgia for his homeland, the absolute protagonist of his pictorial language, led him to return to Valencia, settling in Godella permanently. There he lived the rest of his life in a simple and humble way, giving painting classes at the town's Academy and painting tirelessly. His style draws from various influences, such as Fortuny, Domingo Marqués or Levantine luminism, but always manifested itself deeply personal, linked to Navarro's own way of understanding the world. His painting refers to Mediterranean clarity through beautiful transparencies, a corporeal luminosity and nervous and vibrant brushstrokes. His is an energetic, robust and vital realism, which turns light into a plastic and even tactile value, rather than a chromatic one. José Navarro is represented in the Fine Arts Museums of Valencia and Asturias, the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga and in the Gerstenmaier collection, among other public and private collections.
ALEJANDRO FERRANT Y FISCHERMANS (Madrid, 1843 - 1917)."Young man with parrot", 1854.Oil on canvas.Presents period frame.Signed and dated in the upper right corner.Measurements: 34 x 23 cm; 54 x 46.5 cm (frame).Scene of interior that stands out for its sobriety in the architectural conception, contrasted with the luminosity of the figures that conform the scene. The painting itself has been conceived by the artist as a game of opposites, not only for what has been mentioned, but also for the protagonists themselves; a woman dressed in regionalist clothes that allude to the deepest traditions of the land, and right next to her a parrot, representing a great exoticism. It should be noted that both harmonize in color, the bird thanks to its plumage and the woman due to the skirt, which is somewhat reminiscent of the clothing of the painting "La Ciocciara", painted by Alejandro Ferrant in 1881 and currently belongs to the collection of the Prado Museum.Alejandro Ferrant y Fischermans studied with his uncle, the artist and academic Luis Ferrant y Llausas, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. He was a protégé and pensioner of the Infante Don Sebastián. In 1874 he traveled to Rome to reinforce his studies when he was pensioned by the government of Spain in the first promotion of painters of the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, together with Francisco Pradilla, Casto Plasencia, Manuel Castellano, Eduardo Sánchez Solá and Jaime Morera. He was director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Madrid, which became part of the Museo del Prado in 1971. His son Ángel Ferrant was an outstanding sculptor of the Spanish avant-garde. As a decorator it is worth mentioning his ornamental work in the Linares Palace in Madrid and the Miramar Oratory in San Sebastian, among others. His best known work as a decorator was the church of San Francisco el Grande in Madrid, where he worked with Manuel Domínguez and Francisco Pradilla. He excelled in drawing, but also in different painting techniques such as watercolor, oil and fresco. He captured a sober and elegant coloring, which in the case of portraits is linked to the baroque tradition by the use of a varied artistic theme in history, genre, religious and landscapes, as well as in portraits and decorative painting. He presented works and obtained several medals in national and international exhibitions. Among his works are Sibyls and Prophets in the dome of San Francisco el Grande, Madrid, The Last Communion of San Fernando, The Burial of San Sebastian and Cisneros, founder of the hospital of Illescas, the latter painting with which he won the first medal at the National Exhibition of 1892.
JULES WORMS (France, 1832 - 1914)."Harlequin."Gouache and watercolor on paper.Presents frame circa 1900.Signed in the lower right corner.Measurements: 55.5 x 39 cm; 73 x 56 cm (frame).During the 19th century a type of gallant painting was developed, in which luxurious interiors were represented, profusely decorated, with characters in theatrical attitudes. This work in particular follows the precepts of this trend, although it is true that the main character is a harlequin, however, it is necessary to pay attention to the unplaced cap of the protagonist, the woman's shoe, which he holds in his hand and especially in the female clothes arranged on the chest of drawers and the armchair. Elements that indicate that the harlequin has been an accomplice of a scene that is no longer visible to the spectator and that remains at the mercy of his own imagination.Born in Paris, Jules Worms was the son of a family of Parisian shopkeepers at the time of the July Monarchy, a period in the history of France characterized by the impulse of the comic tradition within the plastic arts. Thus, Worms began his artistic career as an illustrator of satirical newspapers, after having been trained in the field of lithography. However, his great aptitudes allowed him to enter the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1849, when he was seventeen years old. There he was encouraged by Jean-Baptiste-Adolf Lafosse, a history painter who introduced him to this genre, to which Worms brought a certain comic nuance. In fact, the first work he presented at the Paris Salon, in 1859, was entitled "A dragon making love to a maiden on a bench in the Place Royale", and it was a comic vision of the romances of the time. In the early 1860s he made the first of his trips to Spain, becoming fascinated by its traditions, people and culture, like many romantic painters of his time. Like many of his colleagues, Worms must have spent many hours studying the work of the Spanish painters exhibited in the Galerie Espagnole, created in the Louvre in 1838. This collection of works by El Greco, Goya, Murillo, Ribera, Valdés Leal, Velázquez and Zurbarán, among others, had a profound and immediate influence on the French painters of the time, who learned to appreciate the dramatic light, the expressive brushwork and the themes of everyday life. His trips to Spain became very popular, and Worms himself worked as the graphic correspondent of "L'Illustration" in our country. He also took part in the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1864 and 1866, obtaining a first class medal on both occasions. He returned to France and exhibited his works at the Salon, winning medals in 1867, 1868 and 1869. But Worms would often return to Spain, and even lived for six weeks in 1871 in Granada with the painter Mariano Fortuny, whom he had met in Paris. On his return to his native city he continued to collaborate with various publications and illustrate books, while continuing to paint pictures on Spanish themes. His fame and clientele continued to grow, and in 1876 he was named Knight of the Legion of Honor. In 1883 he was appointed Secretary of the French Arts, and continued to exhibit annually at the Salon until the mid-1890s. He was also awarded prizes at the Universal Exhibitions of 1878 (third class medal) and 1889 (medal). Worms is currently represented in the Museums of Fine Arts in Rennes, the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Willismtown (Massachusetts) and in numerous private collections, such as the Bellver in Seville.
EUGENIO HERMOSO MARTÍNEZ (Fregenal de la Sierra, Badajoz, 1883 - Madrid, 1963)."Young man with flowers".Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower left corner.Measurements: 75 x 48 cm; 91 x 63 cm (frame).Eugenio Hermoso began his studies at the School of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville, with a scholarship from the City Council and the Provincial Council of Badajoz. In 1901 he moved to Madrid to continue his training at the School of San Fernando, and there he also dedicated himself to making copies of the great masters in the Prado Museum. During these years he frequented the Ateneo and the Círculo de Bellas Artes, being praised by intellectuals such as Pío Baroja, Díaz Canedo and Juan Ramón Jiménez. He then began a study trip that took him to France and Belgium, as well as the most important Italian cities: Genoa, Pisa, Rome, Naples, Florence, Venice and Milan. On this trip Eugenio Hermoso came into contact with the European avant-garde, meeting the Impressionists and admiring the portraits of Egyptian sarcophagi from the Roman period. In 1912 he embarked for England, exhibiting his work in London that same year. In 1918 he settled in Madrid forcibly and definitively. From then on he frequented the nightly gatherings of the Nuevo Levante café, attended by the brothers Ricardo and Pío Baroja, Ignacio Zuloaga, José Gutiérrez Solana and Rafael de Penagos, among others; and the Maisón Doré café, together with Jacinto Benavente, Manuel and Antonio Machado and Francisco Villaespesa. In 1922 he held his first major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, with public and sales success. Professor at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, he was appointed academician in 1941. Seven years later he was awarded the medal of honor at the National. Under the pseudonym of Francisco Teodoro de Nertóbriga he published his "Autobiography" in 1955, and signed his satirical paintings. He is mainly represented in the Fine Arts Museums of Badajoz and Seville, as well as in other public and private collections.
White, Elwyn Brooks ( "E.B. White") (1899-1985). Charlotte 's Web. Garth Williams, illustrator. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original publisher 's cloth stamped in blue and black, decorated blue endsheets (some light rubbing); original publisher 's dust jacket (some light chipping, overall browning). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "I-B" on the copyright page in FIRST STATE DUST JACKET with $2.50 price on front flap and four blurbs for Stuart Little on the rear panel. White's children 's literary classic won the John Newbery Medal in 1953, the Horn Book Fanfare in 1952, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970, and the Massachusetts Children 's Book Award in 1984. Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com
MANN, James ( "James") (1759-1832). Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812, 13, 14. To which are added, Surgical Cases; Observations on Military Hospitals; and Flying Hospitals Attached to a Moving Army. Denham: H. Mann and Co., 1816. 8vo (237 x 145 mm). (Browning and offsetting, a few tears with minor losses to blank leaves.) Original publisher 's gray printed boards, lettering-piece printed in blue on paper, uncut and unopened (some chipping or staining). FIRST EDITION of "the primary record of medicine during the War of 1812," (Garrison-Morton 2161.1). It contains a "Dissertation on Dysentery" which won the Boylstonian Prize Medal in 1806, as well as an observation on the Winter Epidemic of 1815-16, denominated Peripneumonia Notha, as it appears at Sharon and Rochester, State of Massachusetts. Mann served as an Army Hospital Surgeon and as a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He served three years in the American Revolution and another three years in the War of 1812. His "chapter on surgery (pages 206-33) is especially invaluable for its first-hand descriptions of the treatment of wounds" (Rutkow, The History of Surgery in the United States, GS4). Howes M-258; Garrison-Morton 2161.1. Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat BotanicumFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com
White, Elwyn Brooks ( "E.B. White") (1899-1985). Stuart Little. Garth Williams, illustrator. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1945. 8vo. Illustrated frontispiece, printer 's device on title-page, numerous illustrations. (Very light occasional toning.) Original publisher 's pictorial tan buckram stamped in green and pink, mint decorated endsheets (some light fading); original dust jacket (overall toning, minor chipping, short tear to front panel affecting "s" in "Williams"). FIRST EDITION, later issue, with code-numbers "10-5" and letters "I-U" on verso of title. In FIRST STATE DUST JACKET with flap priced $2.00. White 's first children 's book, which received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970. [With:] WHITE. The Trumpet of the Swan. Edward Frascino, illustrator. New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, 1970. 8vo. Illustrated. Publisher 's blue cloth stamped in silver and gold, (some light fading to extremities); original pictorial dust jacket (corners of front flap clipped, rust-stain from paperclip on lower panel, a few wrinkles to top edges, some minor chipping). FIRST EDITION. Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com
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[VAN ALLSBURG, Chris (b. 1949)] "“ A group of 11 works in 11 volumes illustrated and most written by VAN ALLSBURG, comprising: The Polar Express. 1985. FIRST EDITION, later issue with Caldecott medal on cover. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. "“The Z Was Zapped: A Play in Twenty-Six Acts. 1987. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. "“Two Bad Ants. 1988. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG laid in. "“The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. 1979. "“Just a Dream. 1990. "“The Wretched Stone. 1991 "“The Widow 's Broom. 1992. "A Special Preview of The Widow 's Broom" Laid in. --Probuditi! 2006. [With:] A group of 3 works in 3 volumes written by Mark HELPRIN (b. 1947), illustrated by VAN ALLSBURG, and published in [New York] by Ariel-Viking, comprising: Swan Lake. 1989. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. "“A City in Winter. [1996]. "“The Veil of Snows. [1997]. Together, 11 works in 11 volumes, all published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin Company (except where noted), 4to and 8vo, illustrated, all in Publisher 's cloth stamped in silver, gold, black, bronze and/or blind-stamped, all except one volume in ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine. Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com
THURBER, James Grover (1894-1961). Many Moons. Louis Slobodkin, Illustrator. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. 4to. Numerous color illustrations by Slobodkin. Original publisher 's red cloth, black-lettered on front cover (very minor rubbing to spine ends and corners); in original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of the 1944 Caldecott Medal winner, the first picture book written by Thurber, and Slobodkin 's fourth illustrated children 's books. The story was later adapted into an opera by Celius Dougherty, a play by Charlotte Chorpenning, part of the animated film Alice of Wonderland in Paris (1966), and an audio version read by Peter Ustinov accompanied by music by Edgar Summerlin. Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence BlitchFor condition inquiries please contact lesliewinter@hindmanauctions.com
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