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Lot 1515
A particularly fine ‘London Blitz’ George Medal awarded to Stretcher Bearer Sidney Kelsey, Air Raid Precautions Casualty Service, West Ham: having tunnelled to a casualty with his bare hands, he remained on the scene for at least 10 hours - ‘throughout the whole time he had to lie over three dead bodies in a hole largely excavated by himself and under overhanging debris in danger of collapse’ George Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Sidney Kelsey), nearly extremely fine £1200-1500 G.M. London Gazette 6 June 1941: ‘A high explosive bomb damaged a house. After working through the night the Rescue Parties ascertained the position of a trapped woman. Kelsey, lying on his back, worked with bare hands to excavate a tunnel to reach the casualty and he undertook her treatment and support while efforts to rescue her were continued. For ten hours he had to lie in a hole among fallen debris, under heavy overhanging wreckage which was in danger of collapse and at a point near an escape of gas. Kelsey showed great gallantry and endurance in effecting this rescue.’ Further details of Sidney Kelsey’s extraordinary courage in the early morning hours of 20 March 1941, at Hudson Road, West Ham, appeared in the Stratford Express following the announcement of the award of his George Medal: ‘Mr. Sidney Kelsey, before joining the A.R.P. Casualty Service in October last year, was a hairdresser. He is 35 and lives at 1 Milton Street, Plaistow. He is attached to the Prince Regent Lane Depot. he displayed great courage and took a great risk while a party was securing the rescue from under a wrecked house of a woman, who unfortunately died afterwards. it was in March that a bomb shattered several houses, killing some people. A Mrs. Reid, seriously injured, was trapped under one of the houses and, after her position had been ascertained, Mr. Kelsey undertook to give her first aid and food while efforts to rescue her were continued. For about 12 hours, except for short intervals when he was pulled out from under the debris for circulation to be restored to his limbs, he lay in an upside down position, comforting the injured woman and supplying her with milk through a piece of tubing which he had cut from his first aid equipment. Throughout the whole time he had to lie over three dead bodies in a hole largely excavated by himself and under heavy overhanging debris in danger of collapse. An escape of gas from a damaged pipe added to the risk. In his efforts to reach the woman, he tunnelled a way with his bare hands, and after reaching her kept up his long vigil, treating, feeding and comfortiing her until she was brought out.’ On the night in question, which became known as ‘The Wednesday’ by the inhabitants of East London, the Luftwaffe mounted a massive raid with around 480 aircraft, and of the resultant 630 fatalities, some 150 were from the West Ham area; see The Blitz Then and Now, Volume II, pp. 488-491, for further details and photographs. £1200-£1500
Lot 458
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (23052500 Pte. E. Miller, H.L.I.), mounted as worn, good very fine £40-60 E. Miller served his National Service with the Royal Corps of Signals, July 1954-June 1956, and then joined the Regular Army, serving with the Highland Light Infantry as a Piper, June 1955-June 1958. With the Army Reserve, 1958-62; then with the Territorial Army in the Leeds Rifles as a Pipe Major, 1965-66; the 52nd Lowland Volunteers as a Drum Major, 1974-75; the 15th (Scottish) Battalion Parachute Regiment as a Pipe Major, 1982-85, and finally with the Royal Corps of Transport as a Pipe Major, 1985-86. sold with copied Record of Service and other research; also with several photographs. £40-£60
Lot 381
A 19th Century wooden and bone mounted shoe pattern snuff box, 4.75ins overall, two other wooden shoe pattern snuff boxes, 4ins overall, four Victorian rectangular snuff boxes, two in burrwood and two in other timbers, a wooden tinder box, a Meerschaum cheroot holder carved in the form a seated figure, 3.25ins overall, in fitted case, and a Continental Meerschaum pipe bowl
Lot 764
Henry Silk 1883-1947, English, still-life with pipe and book, still-life of apples, and an outdoor scene depicting a hedge and building, (3), each approximately ProvENANCE: From the Derek Sorrell Collection. Purchased through a third party from Hawthorne's wife in the early 1990's. Henry Silk was a painter in oil and watercolour, noted for interiors and still-life. He showed at the Lefevre Gallery with the East London Group started by John Cooper. He had a solo exhibition of watercolours at Walter Bull & Sanders in 1931. h: 3 x w: 4.50 in.
Lot 949
An early 19th Century Silver pair cased Verge Watch, Catchpool of Richmond, the gilt movement with pierced and engraved cock, and regulation scale, to plain fined pillars, to a Roman enamel dial (radial hairline to minute track), with outside minute track, starred quarters and gilt spade hands, in a hinged and polished case and outer, London 1814, Makers Mark possibly LC, with journeyman’s mark of a Churchwardens Pipe, width 2 5/16ths
Lot 127
A 19th century mahogany candlebox, with a sliding cover and heart shape terminals, 12.25in (31cm) l, a small coopered barrel, 7in (18cm) h, a turned lignum vitae spill vase, an olive wood rosewater sprinkler, a carved boars head, and other items of treen, a 19th century papier mache circular box, the cover painted figures playing cards and a meerschaum pipe, carved as a collie.
Lot 1816
Seven carved ivory netsuke, 19th century and later, to include a pair of wrestling figures, signed, 5cm high, a seated man holding a mask with a young boy at his feet, signed, 3.5cm high, an old man sitting on a bundle and smoking a pipe, 4.5cm high, a stained ivory figure of man holding a basket, 4.5cm high, a double gourd with further small double gourds upon it, signed, 4cm long, two other netsuke, and a carved wood figure of the Buddha, (8).
Lot 409
A 19th Century over-painted print, depicting an interesting interior scene of a priest reading and an elderly gentleman smoking a long stemmed pipe, in gilt and ebonised frame; a Bartolozzi oval print depicting cherubs; two miniature silhouette pictures; a religious print and a Regency print on glass, (6)
Lot 155
A Charming 18th Century Cream-ware Jug, Circa 1790, transfer printed in black with rustic scenes; a shepherd sat with his dog under a tree playing a pipe, and a milkmaid & cow by gate, clobbered in yellow, green, blue & puce enamels with inscription; 'Mrs Ireland of Bannity' amidst sprays of pink roses to the front and an undulating trail of flowers along the rim, 6? ins (16 cms) in height (A/F).
Lot 131
A Pair of 19th Century Oils on Panel after Adriaen Brouwer depicting 17th Century Interior Scenes; men gathered around a table reading a letter, and a tavern scene with three pipe smokers, 12 ins x 9½ ins (30 cms x 24 cms) set in moulded gilt frames with corner embellishments, 18 ins x 15 ins (46 cms x 38 cms).
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