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Lot 18558
Italy - States - Papal States : 1868 40c yellow (Sassone 29a, €35,000++, not the common lemon-yellow shade), a rare vertical block of six, two without stop after figures, fine mint with the lower four being unmounted mint, with Raybaudi 1983 and Chiavarello 1994 certificates. A major rarity ex. The famous Burrus collection. (image available)
Lot 2142
British Post Offices in Siam : (SG 20c) 1882-85 BANGKOK Double overprint 'B' 8c. Orange wmk Crown CA, Perf 14, 1882 Straits ovptd 'B' Type 1, variety overprint double, part Bangkok CDS used example, one of the rarest of the double overprints. An exceptionally difficult stamp to locate in cds condition, due to delicate colour, this being a particularly fine example, described on the BPA colour photo-certificate (2019) as bearing manuscript line at foot, creases (absolutely minimal), soiled (barely) and a little rubbed (hardly), is genuine - most of which, apart from the authenticity, is irrelevant because a better example hardly exists. Crucially, clearly defined double 'B' overprint. Exceptionally rare. Cat £4250 (image available) [US4]
Lot 2348
Burma : 1942 OHMS cover from 'Dy Commr, Chin Hills, Camp Tiddim' (sender's name at lower left) to E.S.Hyde, Addl. Superintendent, Aijal franked at 2a by 1938-40 6p bright blue and 1½a turquoise green with provisional type-written 'OHMS' overprint, tied on arrival by 'AIJAL/LUSHAI HILLS' c.d.s. 2 OCT 42, further strikes of same on reverse. A wonderful Chin Hills provisional cover carried by the emergency runner post, which evidently entered the system away from a normal post office. Very rare. Ex Gerald Davis and with Stanley Gibbons sales card (image available) [US1]
Lot 4527
France : (SG 370-377) 1917-19 War Orphans' Fund set of eight, complete unmounted mint never hinged, 2c + 3c through 5f + 5f blue and black, the two highest values signed. Fabulous fresh original gum hardly ever seen these days. Note the set / high value offered on eBay has no images of the reverse. Stated Yvert 148/155 Euros 9,150= (not corroborated) - BUT an incredibly rare set in this condition as supplied by a major London auction house a few years ago. Please see images of front and back, the two high values design clear of perfs, plus superb colours throughout. Exceptional Cat £2750 (image available) [US4]
Lot 6543
Great Britain - QV (line engraved) : (SG 2var PL8) 1840 1d Black Plate 8. Imprimatur (from the 1st sheet printed). MAJOR RARITY: Very fine and fresh unused (as prepared) imperforate four even margin, right hand marginal imprimatur example lettered SL. Exceptionally rare, unusually with sheet margin attached (only two right hand marginal examples being possible). This being one of only 23 possible imprimatur examples, many of which are in institutional collections. Accompanied by 2001 Brandon photo-certificate. Previously sold for full catalogue value. If you are seeking an imprimatur, you will not find better EXHIBITION Quality Cat £42000 (image available) [US3]
Lot 6602
Great Britain - QV (line engraved) : (SG 7) 1841 1d red-brown, from 'black' plate 9, block of 4, SJ-TK, clear to good margins all around, neat black MC cancels, fine used. RARE, only 2 or 3 used blocks known. Ex. H.O Fraser CORP. RPS Cert. (1984). This item realised £2900 (incl. premium) at David Feldman Auction, Switzerland, in December 2019 (Lot 50074). (image available)
Lot 6708
Great Britain - QV (line engraved) : (SG C10) 1857-63 1d red Stars on white paper, a splendid PLATED study collection written up in an album, with lots of varieties etc, with Plates 27 (31), 34 (25, incl. a block of six), 36 (22, incl. srip of four and five pairs), 37 (7, incl. strip of four), 39 (4), 41 (3, incl. a pair), 42 (23, incl. three pairs), 43 (5, incl. a pair), 44, 46 (8, incl. a pair), 47 (31, incl. a pair), 48 (22, incl. a rare block of nine), 49 (24, incl strips of four and three), 52 (19, incl. two pairs), 55 (27), 56 (8, incl. three pairs), 57 (26, incl. threepairs), 58 (32 , incl. strip of four and a pair), 59 (23, incl. scarce blocks of six used and unused), 60 (28, incl. scarce block of four and six pairs), 61 (10, incl. three pairs), 62 (10, incl. a pair), 63 (7, incl. two pairs), the RARE PLATE 64, 66 (25, incl. two scarce blocks of four and a pair), 67 (4), 68 (5_ and Reserve Plate 17 (18). Generally very good to fine condition, with many scarce and interesting pieces, cat as cheapest versions in excess of £8700, not allowing for any of the scarce multiples etc. (449 stamps). HEAVY/OVERSIZE LOT - OVERSEAS SHIPPING SURCHARGE APPLIES. Cat £8737 [US3]
Lot 7030
Great Britain - QV (surface printed) : (SG 127 PL2) 1874 Wmk Maltese Cross 5s. Pale rose letters A-I, fine mint original gum example, small hinge remnant, vertical crease barely affects appearance. Full perfs, fresh fine colour, centred NE. Plate 2 is rare mint, one could easily pay double our starting price for an inferior adhesive. Cat £15000 (image available) [US4]
![Great Britain - QV (surface printed) : (SG 182) 1883-84 10s cobalt, FA, fine used. RARE. Cat £8250 (image available) [US3]](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/99030573-1f1b-40da-bcee-ac8500a111ed/25a93bec-9be4-456d-adee-ac8500a3e150/468x382.jpg)
Lot 7186
Great Britain - QV (surface printed) : (SG 186a) 1888 £1 brown-lilac wmk 'orbs' letters T-A, rare frame broken variety, very fine used exceptional even deep colour, importantly lightly cancelled clear of corner letters and frame break variety, perfectly centred too, design clear of perfs upon all four sides, premium catalogue value example, light boxed plus 'SHEFFIELD' MY 20 (18)89 large part CDS. Charming example of the rare 'orbs' watermark frame broken rarity Cat £13500 (image available) [US4]
Lot 7187
Great Britain - QV (surface printed) : (SG 208var) 1888 1888 6d. 'Jubilee' colour trial. Described by Stanley Gibbons as very fine when originally supplied at £7,000, in our opinion bordering superb condition colour trial printed in green upon rose-red gummed crown wmk paper. Very rare. EXHIBITION Quality Cat £7000 (image available) [US3]
Lot 7919
Great Britain - KGV : (SG 456a) 1935 Silver Jubilee 2½d, the famous Prussian blue, superb mint small hinge trace full fresh original gum example (light historical pencil annotation), fabulous fresh colour, perfs and centering. Unusually we've been fortunate to handle probably more than our fair share(!) of this rare colour error stamp within the past five years. Barely an example encountered is in top condition, most come with minor imperfection / blemish. This is the second time that we have handled this example, the first time realising precisely £10,000=. No faults example, accompanied by clear 1956 BPA Expert Committee photo-certificate signed by philatelic 'glitterati' Robson Lowe amongst others. As fresh today, 64 years later. Accompanied by superb colour 'normal' for comparison. Magnificent and RARE Cat £12000 (image available) [US2]
Lot 8185
Great Britain - QEII (pre-decimal) : (SG 717/20var) 1967 British Wild Flowers (Ordinary) 4d. Very fine unmounted mint original gum se-tenant block of four left hand marginal IMPERFORATE Imprimatur, endorsed 'NPM IMRIMATUR' handstamps on reverse. RARE. Supplied by Stanley Gibbons for £9,000= Cat £9000 (image available) [US3]
Lot 361
A RARE STAFFORDSHIRE BLEU CELESTE AND GILT BONE CHINA EWER,POSSIBLEY BROWN-WESTHEAD, MOORE & CO OR MOORE BROTHERS, C1870, OF FLARED TRIANGULAR SHAPE,MOULDED WITH PANELS OF STRAPWORK AND ACANTHUS LEAVES CENTRED BY BURNISHED GILT RAM'S HEADS, ON LEAFY SCALLOPED FOOT, 37CM H, SHAPE F 6951 Old restoration to socle
Lot 367
A RARE SEVRES COFFEE CAN AND SAUCER, GOBELET LITRON ET SOUCOUPE, 1779 OF THE FOURTH SIZE, THE FOND BRUN GROUND WITH CHINOIS OR JAPAN GILT  AND SILVER DECORATION OF A HOUND FLUSHING A DUCK BETWEEN FLOWERS OR SQUIRREL FLANKED BY A CHERRY TREE OR ANOTHER, A MOTH ABOVE WITHIN GILT DENTIL RIM, THE  HANDLE GILT, SAUCER 11CM DIAM, PAINTED CROSSED CROWN (FOR HARD PASTE)  LS, L L AND PAINTER'S MARK L FOR LOUIS-FRANCOIS L'ÉCOT OR GROUND LAYER'S MARK OF FOUR UNDERGLAZE BLUE DOTS  THE SEVRES FIRING RECORDS FOR 1779 CONTAIN AN ENTRY FOR THE (GOLD FIRING) KILN LOADING OF 8 DECEMBER WHICH INCLUDED "7 GOBELETS LITRON "OF THE SMALL, 4TH SIZE DECORATED BY L ÉCOT WITH "FOND BRUN CHINOIS EN OR ET ARGENT" Coffee can good condition, stand - slight wear and faint horizontal crack within the foot ring running from approx 4 o'clock to 10 o'clock (when viewed from the front. Not otherwise cracked or chipped, no restoration
Lot 230
A rare Caughley inkwell, lacking linercirca 1777-88of waisted cylindrical form, the rim pierced with four circular quill holes, fitted with a detachable well, transfer-printed in underglaze blue with the 'Bell Toy' pattern, the reverse with a subsidiary print of three vases and a pagoda, the rim and top section with scattered flower sprigs, unglazed base with painted C mark, 5.5cm high(chipped, cracked)
Lot 193
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteFamily Group: A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. pair awarded to Second Lieutenant J. C. Lott, East Lancashire Regiment, late 18th (1st Public Schools) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action on 13 April 1918 - together with a rare Memorial Volume commemorating the recipient Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (1758 Pte. J. C. Lott. R. Fus:); Memorial Plaque (John Cyprian Lott) very fine Pair: Lieutenant R. C. Lott, 12th (Service) Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, later attached General Staff, who was Mentioned in Despatches for his services in Salonika during the Great War British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. C. Lott.) nearly extremely fine (5) £700-£900 --- M.C. London Gazette 17 September 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in leading his company to their objective with great dash and ability. During consolidation he set a splendid example of coolness and disregard of danger, moving about on the top and encouraging his men. On several occasions he has shown exceptional gallantry, within three days personally leading three bombing attacks against a strongly-wired enemy position.’ John Cyprian Lott was born on 28 February 1895 at De Aar, Cape Colony, South Africa the son of the Reverend Reginald Charles Lott and Alice Margaret Lott. He was educated at Sherborne School and Trinity College, Oxford and enlisted as a Private in the University and Public Schools Brigade, 18th Battalion Royal Fusiliers on 2 September 1914, proceeding to France with them on 14 November 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Special Reserve of Officers, 3rd Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment on 5 September 1916 and was attached to the 11th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment on 29 September 1916. Second Lieutenant Lott was wounded on 10 March 1917 and 27 March 1918 and was killed in action on 13 April 1918: ‘He was killed in the Trench Line between the village of Merris and Vieux Berquin, when he was hit by a bullet in the left temple and killed instantaneously. His body was buried in the garden at a farm house...During this last fighting under very adverse circumstances, he, in conjunction with orders, by their fine example, largely contributed to maintaining the line under very critical conditions’ (extract from a letter of condolence written in the field, 15 April 1918, from Colonel A. Rickman, 11th East Lancashire Regiment, to Mrs Lott). He is buried in Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul, France. Sold together with a personal memorial volume dedicated to the recipient, not recorded in Tom Donovan’s Bibliography of Personal Memorial Volumes of the Great War 1914-18 and presumably one of a very limited number produced for family members and close friends or possibly unique. Bound in brown leather with gilt borders and lettering, the volume, in very good condition, contains a fine pencil portrait, biographical/career details and very neat handwritten ink transcriptions of tributes and letters of condolence from Lott’s former Commanding Officer, fellow officers and Chaplain. Also sold with an original photograph of the recipient’s wooden cross grave in France. Ralph Charles Lott, older brother of the above, was born in 1892 in Bournmouth, Hampshire. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in 1911 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant from the Officer Training Corps on 19 September 1914. Promoted Temporary Lieutenant in the 12th (Service) Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers on 26 November 1914, he served with his battalion in Salonika from 22 December 1915 and was admitted to the 28th General Hospital on 6 September 1916, suffering from from malaria. Lott was attached to the General Staff, War Office in Salonika in 1916 and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 6 December 1916). He was transferred to the General List on 26 November 1918 and relinquished his commission on 31 July 1919, retaining the rank of Lieutenant. For his services during the war, he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class by His Majesty the King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (London Gazette 15 October 1920). Lott’s Medal Index Card shows he applied for his Great War medals, including 1914-15 Star, in 1927, at which time he was Schoolmaster at The School, Malvern Link, Worcestershire.
Lot 205
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteSold by Order of the Family. ‘Our receiving station told us that the message was full of errors in transmission, and that the sending operator had omitted his security check message. Now the operator was a certain Sergeant of Signals, K. A. J. Scott, who had the reputation of being one of the best operators our school had turned out. It was unthinkable that these errors could be accidental. We were forced to conclude that he had been captured and was operating under duress...playing back a set in enemy hands is a skilled operation involving double and sometimes triple bluff...So long as they were convinced that they were fooling us, Scott would be safe...We kept up this elaborate game for three months’ (Baker Street Irregular by Bickham Sweet-Escott refers) The exceptional and important Second War S.O.E. ‘Force 133’ Balkan Operations D.C.M. group of eight awarded to Sergeant K. A. J. B. Scott, Royal Signals and Special Operations Executive, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was ‘dropped’ into Eastern Serbia in April 1944, linking up with Major Frank Thompson’s ill-fated Operation Claridges in support of Bulgarian Communist Partisans. As anti-partisan reprisal operations closed in, Thompson took the fateful decision to lead his private army ‘T. E. Lawrence Style’ into Bulgaria, where, with Scott continuing to serve as wireless operator, they were repeatedly ambushed and fought running battles with the Bulgarian Army and Gendarmerie before being ultimately broken up. Starving and exhausted, Scott and Thompson were encircled and captured before being subjected to brutal beatings and threats under Gestapo interrogation. Learning of Thompson’s execution, Scott was then compelled to extract intelligence from S.O.E. Cairo via his wireless set but, cleverly ensuring that Cairo were not deceived, at great danger to himself he disclosed nothing, surviving fourteen nerve-wracking weeks under Gestapo orders until finally, with the Red Army closing on Sofia, he was released, finding his way to London via Istanbul and Cairo as the only British survivor of the mission. To be sold together with an important associated archive of material, elements of which include the recipient’s unpublished autobiography of his war years; private correspondence regarding the Claridges Mission between the recipient and both the author Stowers Johnson and the eminent historian E. P. Thompson, and a rare surviving S.O.E. original typescript of the recipient’s D.C.M. recommendation Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.VI.R. (6897910 Sjt. K. A. J. Scott. R. Signals) with named card box of issue; 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (6897910. Sjt. K. A. J. B. Scott. D.C.M. R. Sigs.); Bulgaria, People’s Republic, Order of People’s Liberty, breast star, gilt and enamel; Honoured Medal of Georgi Dimitrov 1923-1944, gilt and enamel; together with the recipient’s riband bar, cloth S.O.E. parachute qualification wings and King’s Royal Rifle Corps cap badge, nearly extremely fine (8) £60,000-£80,000 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 9 August 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the field.’ The rare, surviving S.O.E. recommendation, not previously publicly available or held by the National Archives - an original typescript of which is with the lot - submitted by S.O.E. Cairo staff officer and author of the renowned S.O.E. memoir ‘Baker Street Irregular’, Major Bickham Sweet-Escott, states: ‘Sergeant Scott was dropped to join a mission in East Serbia on 7 April 1944. The mission crossed into Bulgaria in early May and on 11 May [sic - actually 18 May], was ambushed by a large party of Bulgarian troops. In the fighting the mission and the Partisans to whom they attached were split up, and Sergeant Scott, together with an officer, were the only British survivors. The wireless transmitting apparatus of the mission which had been dropped into a river during the fighting was rescued by Sergeant Scott at a great personal risk of being captured by the enemy. Several days of flight ensued during which the officer was ill and Sergeant Scott was left alone to face heavy responsibilities. By tact and perseverance he managed to keep the depleted Partisan band together. On 31 May, a second ambush was encountered and Sergeant Scott together with the officer were captured. Questioned under threats and beating by the Gestapo and Bulgar Secret Police, Sergeant Scott consistently refused to give away any vital military or technical information to the enemy. He was kept imprisoned until 9 September, at Bulgar anti-Partisan Headquarters in Sofia, and during the whole of this time made every effort to gain what information he could about the enemy’s activities. He was then compelled to work his wireless transmitting set to Cairo, but by great ingenuity succeeded in indicating that he was operating under duress, with the result that the messages thus sent by the enemy completely failed to deceive us. By this behaviour he put himself in considerable personal danger, since had he been discovered, he would certainly have been shot. Throughout the whole period, 7 April to 9 September, Sergeant Scott has shown considerable initiative, fortitude and steadfastness to duty and has thus contributed positively to the work of the Force in Bulgaria.’ Kenneth Alec John Baliol Scott was born on 1 March 1920 in Lewisham, London and was educated at Dulwich College. On leaving school he joined the The Rangers, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps - Territorial Army and was mobilised in August 1939, being quickly promoted to Signal Sergeant. Volunteering for Special Duties at the first opportunity, he was transferred to the Royal Corps of Signals in August 1943 and, before long, identified as suitable for Special Operations: ‘Eventually Kenneth Scott found himself at one of the most important finishing schools of the war: S.O.E. Middle East Training School for Wireless Operators. Men here had been selected (after volunteering) from every type of unit, and anticipated being sent to work behind the enemy lines with partisans in the Balkans, or on small Allied craft in enemy waters - anywhere, in fact, where danger was greatest and communication most vital. It mattered not what their previous military experience had been, for it was this that really united them - the consciousness that they had left unit and regiment behind, and all belonged to the same firm; and this indeed was the cognomen for their outfit: the ‘Firm’, Force 133 of S.O.E.’ (Agents Extraordinary by Stowers Johnson refers) Completing specialist training - including a five jump parachute course at Ramat David, near Haifa, in late 1943 - he was driven to a privileged district of Cairo serving as the home of S.O.E. Middle East H.Q., where he was to spend a lazy three months relaxing in S.O.E. surroundings, enjoying not just comfortable furnishings but Arab waiters, cooks and houseboys, pending further orders. Then, suddenly at midday on 5 April 1944, orders arrived for him to ...
Lot 32
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteA rare Second War C.G.M. group of five awarded to Able Seaman G. H. Wright, Royal Navy, who was decorated for exceptional gallantry as Director Trainer in H.M.S. Hastings off Rosyth in March 1941: dangerously wounded in the stomach during an enemy aircraft attack, he remained at his post up until the cease fire was ordered, when ‘he could hold out no longer’ and collapsed - an act of bravery which closely mirrored the deeds enacted by V.C. winner Leading Seaman Jack Mantle off Portland in July 1940 Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, G.VI.R. (J. 111032 G. H. Wright, A.B. H.M.S. Hastings.) officially impressed naming; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (J. 111032 G. H. Wright. A.B.. R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J. 111032 G. H. Wright. A.B. H.M.S. Hastings.) generally good very fine (5) £8,000-£10,000 --- C.G.M. London Gazette 8 April 1941: ‘For great gallantry and devotion to duty. When H.M.S. Hastings was attacked by enemy aircraft with machine-gun fire, Able Seaman Wright, the Director Trainer, was dangerously wounded. Though in great pain he kept his courage and carried on with his duties until the cease-fire, when he could hold out no longer. Even then his cheerfulness did not fail.’ The original recommendation states: ‘When H.M.S. Hastings was attacked by enemy aircraft with machine-gun fire on 1 March [1941], Able Seaman Wright, the Director Trainer, was dangerously wounded in the stomach. Although in great pain, this rating showed great courage and devotion to duty in immediately resuming and carrying out his duty until the cease fire was ordered, when he collapsed. This action and his subsequent unfailing cheerfulness set a very high example. Able Seaman Wright is at present in the R.N. Hospital Port Edgar, where his condition is serious.’ George Henry Wright was born at Birkenhead, Cheshire, on 2 February 1908, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 24 July 1924, a butcher’s assistant by trade. After initial training in Impregnable and at the depot ship Columbine I, he went to sea in the battleships Thunderer, December 1925 to January 1926, and Resolution, January to December 1926. Whilst in the latter ship he signed on for 12 years’ Continuous Service and was advanced to Ordinary Seaman from 2 February. Following further time on shore at Vivid I, he went to Egmont II, depot ship at Malta, for brief service in the destroyer Wakeful and then Viceroy, in which ship he remained until November 1929, being advanced to Able Seaman in February of that year. In the ensuing years before the outbreak of war he saw service in the battleship Renown, the cruiser Dunedin, the sloop Laburnum, and the cruiser Delhi. During this period he also qualified as a Diver 1st Class. He was next employed in the sloop Hastings in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea prior to returning to home waters in 1937. On the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939, Hastings was assigned to Rosyth for convoy defence work in the North Sea and in waters off the East Coast, in which capacity, in late November of that year, she picked up 37 survivors from the S.S. Ionian which had been mined off the Newarp Lighthouse. Of events off Rosyth on 1 March 1941, Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Alison stated in his official report that the attacks comprised ‘three machine-gun attacks from about 50 feet and one low-level bombing attack’, in response to which Hastings fired ‘18 rounds of 4-inch controlled fire, a short burst from the 0.5 machine-gun until it would not bear, and the port Lewis gun from the signal bridge’. Of the enemy’s fire, three machine-gun bullets found their mark, one of them seriously wounding Wright, while one of Hastings’ 4-inch patterns was seen to burst close to the aircraft and additional fire from her Lewis gun at 600 yards probably caused damage, as well as rounds from the 0.5 gun before it ceased to bear at 1000 yards range. After recovering from his wounds, Wright was transferred to H.M.S. Drake, the main naval barracks at Devonport, on 18 July 1941. He had received his L.S. & G.C. medal earlier that January and, although he remained in the navy, did not go to sea again. He was invalided out of the Navy from R.N. Hospital Devonport on 1 April 1947. Sold with copied record of service and other copied research.
Lot 320
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteA rare and extremely well documented Great War group of seven awarded to Sister Adelaide R. Poole, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, later United States Army Nursing Service, who served with both British and American Forces during the Great War, before post-War service in Serbia and Montenegro with the American Red Cross; her entire service is chronicled in her detailed, most comprehensive, and often poignant hand-written diaries covering the years 1908-21 1914-15 Star (Nurse A. R. Poole); British War and Victory Medals (Sister A. R. Poole); Serbia, Kingdom, Order of St. Sava, Fifth Class badge, silver and enamel, Bishop with green robes; Red Cross Medal of Merit, silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; United States of America, Victory Medal, bronze, 1 clasp, France; New York State Service Medal 1917-19, bronze; together with the recipient’s Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve cape badge, silver; and United States of America Red Cross Service Medal, gilt and enamel, with top ‘Foreign Service’ riband bar, traces of verdigis particularly to the British Victory Medal, otherwise generally very fine (9) £800-£1,200 --- Adelaide Rebecca Poole was born in Kilburn, London on 30 July 1876, ands was educated at Westbourne Park High School. Moving to the United States of America, she trained as a nurse at New York City Hospital, before working as a private nurse whilst living in Rochester, New York State, where she was also actively engaged in work to combat the spread of tuberculosis. Returning to the United Kingdom, she enlisted in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve on 24 October 1910, whilst working at View Mount Nursing Home, Inverness. Mobilised for War service, Miss Poole served during the Great War in the Hospital Ship Dieppe from 15 May 1915, before resigning her position in an emotive letter dated 25 February 1916, citing her need to avoid ‘a complete breakdown in health’, whilst serving at No. 1 Stationary Hospital, Rouen. Released on 15 April 1916, she returned to the United States of America. After recovering her health Miss Poole subsequently enlisted in the United States Army Nursing Service, taking her oath of office on 25 March 1918, and was posted to Base Hospital 19 in Vichy-Allier on 19 June 1918, before further service at a number of hospitals in France. Honourably discharged on 20 August 1919, she subsequently saw foreign service with the American Red Cross in Serbia and Montenegro until January 1921, before returning to the United States of America. On 2 December 1927, the Adjutant General’s Office of the War Department, Washington, informed her that she had been awarded the Order of St. Sava, Fifth Class, for her service in Serbia and Montenegro. (Original notification enclosed). Later retiring to Sussex, United Kingdom, Miss Poole died on 10 November 1961, aged 85. Sold together with an astonishing archive of original material including her original service records; an original Chartwell headed letter from Grace Hamblin, personal secretary to Sir Winston and Lady Churchill; Various press cuttings relating to her nursing work in the United States of America and the award of the Order of St. Sava; Original Carte de Viste photos from when she was a child and young lady; an archive of photos from her time nursing in Serbia and Montenegro; newspaper cutting from Rochester, USA. dated 1921 including an interview ‘Nurse, last to return of those who went out with Base Hospital No. 19’; together with her detailed, most comprehensive and often poignant hand-written diaries covering the years 1908-21, this a rare archive, worthy of publication.
Lot 323
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteFive: Police Constable H. G. Lyon, East Sussex Constabulary, late Sergeant Military Mounted Police 1914-15 Star (P.1799. L-Cpl. H. G. Lyon. M.M.P.); British War and Victory Medals (P-1799 Cpl. H. G. Lyon. M.M.P.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Netherlands, Kingdom, Gold Medal of the Order of the House of Orange, in 24 carat gold, with replacement silver ring suspension, mounted for display, generally nearly extremely fine, rare (5) £1,200-£1,600 --- Henry G. Lyon served during the Great War with the Military Mounted Police in the French theatre of war from 18 December 1915. After the war he joined the East Sussex Constabulary, and was serving as a Police Constable at the time of the Queen of Netherlands private visit to the United Kingdom in 1935. As a result of this visit the Queen authorised 8 awards to the police, including 4 Gold Medals - 2 to police officers stationed at Crieff, 1 at St. Fillans, and to Lyon, who was stationed at Balcombe. The Gold Medal of the Order of the House of Orange was only made in gold between 1930-38. Sold with the Netherland Legation transmittal letter for Gold Medal addressed to ‘Henry Lyon, Esq, Police Constable, East Sussex Constabulary, Balcombe’, dated 30 January 1936; and copied research.
Lot 385
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websitePair: Nursing Sister A. Douglas British War and Victory Medals (Nurs. Sis. A. Douglas.) in named card box of issue; together with a rare ‘Hartlepool’s Hospitals, for services rendered December 16 1914’ lapel badge, gilt and enamel, nearly extremely fine (3) £70-£90 --- The Hartlepool Hospitals badge was presented to those who served in response to the German bombardment of Hartlepool on 16 December 1914; the first time civilians were attacked on home territory by the enemy.
Lot 400
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteSix: Group Captain D. W. Bayne, Royal Air Force India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, North West Frontier 1930-31, Mohmand 1933, North West Frontier 1935 (F/O D. W. Bayne. R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star, 1 clasp, Battle of Britain; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, good very fine, the three clasp IGS rare to a RAF Officer (6) £3,000-£4,000 --- David Walter Bayne was born in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia, on 17 April 1908, and emigrating to England was educated at Haileybury College. He joined the Royal Air Force as a Flight Cadet at R.A.F. Cranwell in 1926 and was commissioned Pilot Officer on 15 December 1928. Posted to 12 Squadron at Andover, he served overseas with 5 (Army Co-operation) Squadron at Quetta, India, from 21 January 1930, flying Bristol Fighters, moving to 20 (Army Co-operation) Squadron at Peshawar on 1 September 1933. Back in England and serving with 3 Squadron at Duxford he was seriously injured when landing at night in fog in a Bristol Bulldog. One leg was amputated resulting in him being taken off flying duties for just over two years while he attended various R.A.F. hospitals and rehabilitation units. Equipped with a wooden leg he returned to flying in mid-1937, and became a great friend of Douglas Bader, who had lost both legs in a Bulldog crash in 1931. On 1 July 1937 Bayne was appointed to the staff at Uxbridge and moved on to the HQ staff at Kenley on 8 August 1938. He was advanced Squadron Leader in the Administration Branch on 1 January 1939 and served during the initial stages of the Second World War as Sector Controller at Kenley. Charged with the re-formation of 257 Squadron, initially with Spitfires at R.A.F. Hendon, before re-converting to Hurricanes, it was with this squadron between 1 and 22 July 1940 that he flew about twenty sorties during the early stages of the Battle of Britain. At the end of July 1940, and now 32 years old, Bayne was, against his will, promoted to Wing Commander and posted to Fighter Command HQ at Bentley Priory, the official reason given for his transfer off operational duties being ‘it was impractical to have an operational commander with a wooden leg’ (although of course his great friend Bader, who was given Squadron Command, had two wooden legs!). Nevertheless, he served with great distinction at R.A.F. Bentley Priory, and remained in service post-War, serving as Military and Air Attaché in Rio de Janeiro. He retired with the rank of Group Captain on 29 August 1955, and died in Dorset on 11 June 1986. Sold together with the recipient’s identity tags; a 3 Fighter Squadron silver and enamel lapel brooch; and the recipient’s Club de Aeronautica Pass, with a photograph of the recipient.
Lot 483
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteA post-War ‘S.A.S. Operations’ General Service Medal pair awarded to Corporal A. E. Evans, 22 Special Air Service Regiment, later Royal Anglian Regiment, who served with ‘D’ Squadron for much of his military career; an expert mountain guide and climber, he undertook arduous mountain patrols and ambushes in Radfan, Top Secret ‘Claret Operations’ during the Borneo Campaign, and was awarded a Commendation Certificate for saving many lives during the rescue of survivors from the passenger liner M.V. Dara, destroyed by sabotage in the Persian Gulf General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (23200134 Tpr. A. Evans, S.A.S.); General Service 1962-2007, 3 clasps, Borneo, Radfan, Northern Ireland (23200134 L./Cpl. A. E. Evans, S.A.S.) mounted court-style as worn; together with the recipient’s rare official German ‘Expert High Mountain Leader’ cloth badge, nearly extremely fine (3) £3,000-£4,000 --- Alfred Ernest ‘Yanto’ Evans appears to have been born in 1934 (there are handwritten corrections entered into the printed official Register of Births) and to have begun his National Service obligation in the South Wales Borderers. He next appears in an official group photograph of HQ Squadron 22 SAS taken in January 1954 in Penang, Malaya, with the SAS cap badge on his maroon beret (which was worn by the SAS until 1958 - a copy of the photograph is included in the lot). At the beginning of the rebirth of the SAS (after its disbandment at the end of World War II), necessity forced it to recruit from many sources, including National Service conscripts. Major John Woodhouse took charge of transforming 22 SAS into a unit of highly motivated, well-trained, experienced, relatively stable volunteer soldiers and Evans was directly involved in this process. He chose to voluntarily enlist into the Regular Army, becoming a soldier in the Parachute Regiment in April 1954. After earning his Para wings, Evans applied for SAS Selection, knowing that if he was accepted into the Regiment, it automatically meant an active service posting to fight in the Malaya Campaign. Evans passed Woodhouse’s famously ferocious Selection Course and was permanently attached to the Special Air Service in July 1955. The rest of his first regular army engagement period was spent in Malaya and came to an end in April 1957. Evans chose not to extend or renew it. His Military Conduct was assessed as Very Good. After two years Evans re-joined the Colours in February 1959, returning to 22 SAS, which strongly suggests that the Regiment approved of what he had been doing during his ‘break’. In May 1961 he received a Commendation Certificate: “The Commander-in-Chief Middle East has awarded his commendation to Trooper A. Evans, ‘D’ Squadron, 22 S.A.S. Regiment, for distinguished conduct on 7 and 8 April 1961 whilst a passenger on board L.S.T. ‘Empire Guillemot’, which took part in the rescue operations when M.V. ‘Dara’ caught fire in the Persian Gulf. Trooper Evans attended to approximately 200 casualties whose complaints ranged from 1st degree burns to compound fractures. Some casualties had gaping wounds. Although only trained in First Aid Trooper Evans put in about 40 stitches, set broken limbs and treated serious burns. He remained on duty for 16 hours and his fine First Aid work and his unceasing attention to the injured undoubtedly prevented many deaths among the survivors. His conduct throughout the rescue operations reflects great credit on himself, his training and his unit.” The Dara was a British owned, Dubai-based cargo and passenger liner, mostly carrying expatriate families from the Indian sub-continent who worked in or traded with the various countries around the Persian Gulf. Dara was crippled by fire, which had been initiated by an explosion, at 4.40 a.m. at night, about 12 hours after her expected time of departure from Dubai. The explosive device contained some 20 pounds of TNT and was placed just inside the engine room by an unknown anti-British saboteur. About 240 out of 820 people on board lost their lives. ‘D’ Squadron was not deployed in the Middle East at that time, but its Mountain Troop may have been present on exercise. At the inquiry into the sinking, the Captain of the Landing Craft Tank on which Evans was embarked testified that he had to keep about half a mile away from Dara as “We could not go any closer because we had certain inflammable and explosive cargo on board Empire Guillemot.” (Last Hours on Dara by P. J. Abraham refers). Evans had been appointed Lance Corporal by the start of the Borneo Campaign in 1962. He served during three deployments which covered all the main phases of the conflict, notably the early long-range cross-border patrols with the renowned Captain André Dennison and the secret 1965 Claret offensive strikes deep inside Indonesia. Lance Corporal Evans is mentioned in the book, SAS The Jungle Frontier: 22 SAS Regiment in The Borneo Campaign 1963-1966. In April 1964 Evans was flown out from Britain to Aden to participate in the British Army’s first-ever major offensive in Southern Arabia. It was intended to subdue local tribesmen in the harsh, arid mountains of Radfan close to the border with Yemen. The Qutaibi tribes had been causing great trouble for travellers on the main route between Aden and Sana’a, attacking caravans, convoys and demanding ‘protection money’. They received modern weapons and much encouragement from the Egyptian forces who had moved into Yemen in 1962-63 and were trying to start a full-blown insurgency throughout Aden. The 22 SAS contingent was led by ‘A’ Squadron. Evans’s presence does not necessarily mean that he had transferred to ‘A’ Squadron (though he may have done so), as he had built up a considerable recognition in the Regiment for his mountain warfare skills. Radfan was all about fighting in the mountains, so he may have been ‘drafted in’ to the operation due to his specialist skills. British offensives in tribal areas had mostly only been successful when they included a locally-raised force of indigenous troops to provide expert knowledge of both the ground and tribal tactics, such as the legendary Frontier Scouts of India, the Surrendered Enemy Personnel and Senoi Praaq of Malaya or (later on) the firqats of Dhofar. The British had persuaded the multitude of emirs, sheikhs and rulers in Aden’s hinterlands to support the creation and training of the British-led Federal Regular Army, but it was far from being generally considered an effective fighting force and was included in the offensive for political rather than operational reasons. The SAS had been bought in to act as pathfinders for the Radfan offensive, but they had scant opportunity to acclimatise, understand the terrain and the operating environment before being committed to battle. The offensive was carefully planned to showcase the prowess of the new, all-volunteer and professional British Armed Forces; units from all the British elite forces were utilised as its spearhead. Evans arrived in Aden on 23 A...
Lot 49
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteA post-War B.E.M. group of four awarded to Miss Mary E. Danby, Chief Inspector, West Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Miss Mary E. Danby) edge prepared prior to naming, with minor official correction to surname; Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Ch. Inspr. Mary E. Danby) good very fine and rare to a female recipient for this period in this rank (4) £200-£240 --- B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1952: Miss Mary Ethel Danby, Chief Inspector, West Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary (Wakefield). Sold with named Home Office letter informing the recipient of the award of the B.E.M.; and copied medal roll extract for the Coronation Medal.
Lot 6
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteA rare inter-War M.B.E., Great War D.S.M. and ‘Russia 1919’ operations Second Award Bar group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Commander J. P. Canty, Royal Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, the reverse hallmarked London 1930; Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, the reverse officially impressed, ‘Baltic. July 15. 1919.’ (342015. J. P. Canty, Sh. Std., “Godetia” Minesweeping. 1917.); 1914-15 Star (342015 J. P. Canty, Sh. Std. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (342015 J. P. Canty. V.C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (J. 342015. J. P. Canty, Sh. Stewd., H.M.S. Hollyhock.) minor contact marks, otherwise generally very fine or better (6) £4,000-£5,000 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1932. D.S.M. London Gazette 17 April 1918: ‘In recognition of their services in minesweeping operations between 1 April and 31 December 1917.’ Bar to D.S.M. London Gazette 14 May 1920: ‘For services in Russia, 1919.’ The original recommendation states: ‘H.M.S. Lupin. Mining and sinking of H.M.S. Gentian and H.M.S. Myrtle. Baltic July 15, 1919. ‘I cannot only endorse the remarks of the Medical Officer of H.M.S. Lupin concerning this Chief Petty Officer, but can from personal observation that he volunteered for the dinghy’s crew earlier in the day and performed the unaccustomed task of pulling an oar two and a half miles in a rough sea. He was also always to be found on the spot when boats were coming alongside and was among the first to man a painter or a fall.’ John Patrick Canty was born in Portsmouth in December 1882, the son of an Able Seaman then serving as a rigger aboard the royal yacht Victoria & Albert, and entered the Royal Navy as a Ship’s Steward (Boy) in March 1898. In the previous year, while a pupil at Greenwich School, he won the Royal Humane Society’s Medal in bronze for saving a Royal Marine from drowning in the sea at Sandgate (R.H.S. Case No. 29,272 refers). A Ship’s Steward aboard the gunboat H.M.S. Skipjack on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he remained similarly employed until removing to the sloop Hollyhock in June 1915. His C.O. in the Skipjack was Commander L. G. P. Preston, R.N., affectionately known as “L.G.P.” to his subordinates, who rose to become Admiral Sir Lionel Preston, K.C.B. And so commenced an uninterrupted wartime career in minesweeping, the details of which may be traced though his seagoing commissions in Taffrail’s Swept Channels. Thus the author’s detailed description of the occasion when Skipjack and some trawlers ran into a large minefield laid by the Kolberg off Scarborough in mid-December 1914: ‘The Skipjack was quite close to the trawlers when the stillness of the morning was rudely shattered by the thudding boom of a heavy explosion. A column of white water mingled with greyish smoke leapt out of the calm sea. It was as high as a church spire, and seemed to hang for a moment in mid-air before curling over to fall sizzling and hissing back to the surface in the midst of a blackened area dotted with silver bodies of dead fish. The detonations continued, one after the other. Within five minutes eighteen mines were swept up, or had exploded in the trawlers’ sweeps. The Kolberg’s cargo had been very thickly sown. Never afterwards throughout the whole period of the war were mines discovered in such profusion, or so close together. But the situation was alarming. The ‘safety period’ had passed. The tide was falling fast, and every minute brought the mines nearer the ships’ bottoms. The scene was extraordinary. Trawlers, most of them with their sweeps parted, were intermingled with mines torn from their moorings and floating ominously on the surface. The mines were being fired upon. Two trawlers had been blown up. One, the Orianda, unable to stop her engines, steamed on, sinking as she went, until nothing remained but the tip of her masthead travelling along the surface like the periscope of a submarine. Then this last trace of her disappeared. A second trawler, Lieutenant Parsons’ Passing, was down by the bows, badly on fire, and blowing off dense clouds of steam from the severed steam-pipe. Her sweeping consort promptly went alongside to render what help was possible. A third little ship, commanded by Lieutenant Crossley, R.N.R., was in immediate danger of sinking owing to leaks caused by the heavy explosions close alongside her. Crossley himself was below in the cramped space near the screw shaft trying to stop the inflow of water by divesting himself of his clothing and stuffing it into the stern gland. He plugged it sufficiently to allow the pumps to keen down the inrush of water, and so saved the ship. It was a hideous melee of trawlers and unexploded mines drifting with the tide. The rattle of rifles and heavier guns rent air. Now and then a mine hit by gunfire detonated with a mighty roar, or was punctured and sank bubbling to the bottom. Low water was rapidly approaching. The extent of the minefield was unknown. Commander Preston was the senior officer on the spot at the moment. In the midst of this hideous danger he did not hesitate, but gave the order to anchor as the only possible method of avoiding further heavy loss. Many men, confronted with the same problem, would have trusted to luck and beat a hasty retreat. But Preston argued to himself that the ships would be comparatively safe at anchor until the tide turned. And when it did turn, the risk of striking mines as the ships swung was infinitesimal compared with the danger of trying to extricate the whole flotilla then and there. At high water all vessels could be withdrawn in safety. So the anchors rattled down to the bottom, and for a time there was peace ... ’ In June 1915, Canty accompanied “L.G.P.” to his next command, the sloop Hollyhock, and again, in June 1916, to his final seagoing command, the Lupin, evidence indeed of how much he was valued by the future Director of Minesweeping Operations at the Admiralty. But it was during his next seagoing appointment, in the sloop Godetia, that he won his D.S.M. for minesweeping duties in 1917. A glimpse of the deeds behind that distinction being found in a recommendation for promotion for Canty, written by the C.-in-C. Fleet Minesweepers in January 1918: ‘He has been present at the clearing of all the minefields dealt with by the Fleet Minesweepers since the commencement of hostilities and has carried out his duties under the arduous conditions of minesweeping in Northern Waters in a cheerful and able manner.’ In May 1919, Canty removed to his old ship the Lupin, off Russia, a posting that would result in the award of his second D.S.M. for the above cited deeds on 15 July, when the Myrtle and Gentian were mined with heavy loss of life and casualties. The Surgeon who was lent to Lupin to treat the wounded also wrote in glowing terms of Canty’s deeds: ‘Final...
Lot 64
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteSix: Armourer Quarter-Master Sergeant A. W. Stong, Army Ordnance Corps East and Central Africa 1897-99, no clasp (731 Armr. Serjt. A. W. Stong. A.O.C.); Ashanti 1900, no clasp (Armr:-Serjt: A. W. Strong. A.O.C.) high relief bust; 1914-15 Star (A-1357 Armr. Q.M. Sjt. A. W. Stong. A.O.C.); British War and Victory Medals (A-1357 W.O.Cl.1. A. W. Stong A.O.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (731 Ar. Q.M.Sjt: A. W. Stong. A.O.C.) light contact marks to the first two, otherwise nearly extremely fine and a rare combination (6) £1,600-£2,000 --- Provenance: Upfill-Brown Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 1991; David Langham Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 1999. Although the East and Central Africa medal was normally issued with one or more clasps, at least three British recipients are confirmed as receiving no clasp medals. Alfred William Stong was born in Dublin, and attested for the Corps of Armourers in January 1891, after serving an apprenticeship in London as a Gunsmith. He served for several years in India before he was posted for service with the Uganda Rifles, taking part in operations in Uganda and Somaliland in 1898-99 (Medal). He was briefly posted for duty with the 2nd Dragoon Guards in July 1900 before being posted for duty with the Ashanti Field Force two months later, for a period of four months during the operations of the Ashanti Expedition in West Africa (Medal). He next spent a year in Hong Kong followed by another five years in India, before returning home in December 1907. In 1909 he received his L.S. & G.C. medal, and in January 1912 he was discharged having completed 21 years service. On the outbreak of war in 1914, he rejoined on the 14th September and served in France from March 1915 to January 1916, with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force for two months, and in France again from February 1916 to March 1919. He was finally discharged on 4 April 1919. Sold with full service details and copied discharge papers.
Lot 647
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteHong Kong Royal Naval Dockyard Police Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (I.P.C. 92 Ghazni Khan) extremely fine, rare £600-£800 --- Provenance: Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, February 1997. Approximately 280 medals were issued between 1922 and 1973. Indian Police Constable Ghazni Khan has not been found on the medal rolls which are incomplete; possibly only 33 awarded during the period 1947-52 when the G.VI.R. 2nd type medals were issued.
Lot 664
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteThe Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday Medal of Valour awarded to Gunner W. Hall, Royal Artillery, for his gallantry in saving the lives of a man and his three children from a house filled with potassium cyanide fumes in Clerkenwell, London, on 28 December 1898, an act of valour for which he also received the Royal Humane Society’s Stanhope Gold Medal for the outstanding rescue act of the year Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday Medal of Valour, 36mm, silver, the reverse inscribed ‘William Hall. Clerkenwell. December 28th. 1898.’, with straight bar suspension and top Spink, London, silver riband bar, good very fine, rare £300-£400 --- William Hall, a Gunner in the Royal Artillery, was born in St. Pancras, London, in 1875 and attested for the Royal Artillery on 15 February 1893. He was awarded the Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday Medal of Valour ‘for his conspicuous gallantry, while on furlough, in saving the lives of 4 persons from certain death in Clerkenwell on Wednesday, December 28th, 1898.’ For his gallantry that day Hall was also awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Silver Medal (case no. 29,865), the citation stating: ‘At 3.40 p.m. on the 28th December, 1898, a man named Carrington Franklin was at work in an electro-plating establishment in an upstairs room at 42, Clerkenwell Close, Clerkenwell, London, when he was visited by his wife and three children aged respectively ten, four, and two years. On the floor were various vessels containing chemicals used in the business, and it is supposed that the children in their play upset two basins containing cyanide of potassium and vitriol. Fumes of prussic acid were at once generated and filled the room, rendering Franklin and the children unconscious. Mrs Franklin managed to escape, and called for help. Gunner Hall, who was on furlough, happened to be passing, and on being told what had occurred he, without hesitation, stuffed his handkerchief into his mouth, and rushing in found the eldest boy near the bottom of the stairs and carried him out. He then made three journeys up the stairs and into the room where the others lay, bringing out first the children and last of all the father. From inhaling the fumes he was now so exhausted that he fell with Franklin at the foot of the stairs, and was assisted out by his brother, who had come on the scene. When outside he became unconscious, but soon recovered. Extreme risk was incurred, and without doubt all four persons would have lost their lives but for his prompt action and presence of mind.’ Hall was further awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Stanhope Gold Medal for 1899, his act of bravery having been adjudged the outstanding life-saving feat of the previous year.
Lot 665
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteA rare King Edward VII ‘Royal Souvenir’ attributed to Casiniro Gatto, Warrant Officer of the Royal Bodyguard of King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy, as a memento of his visit to London in November 1903 Oval gold pendant badge with cut-out EVIIR cypher within Garter with motto enamelled in blue, surmounted by crown and small ring for suspension, 40mm x 20mm excluding ring, the reverse set with hinged swivel-mounted gold frame containing reversible hard stones of carnelian and bloodstone, unmarked, in its R. & S. Garrard & Co. fitted red velvet covered presentation case, velvet worn, otherwise in excellent condition and extremely rare £2,200-£2,600 --- Casiniro Gatto, head of the Squadron Carabinieri Guards of King Vittorio Emanuele III, was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal in silver by Kind Edward VII on 30 April 1903, on the occasion of King Edward’s visit to Rome. It is believed that the above ‘Royal Souvenir’ was presented to Gatto by Edward VII on the occasion of the visit to Britain of King Vittorio Emanuele III on 17-21 November 1903. Sold with two group photographic images including Gatto and copied certificate from Ministry of Foreign Affairs allowing Gatto to be awarded the R.V.M.
Lot 783
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics, Medal for the Defence of Leningrad, bronze, with Bestowal Document awarded to Woman Senior Lieutenant of the Medical Service Maria Alexandrovna Komarova, dated 15 June 1943; together with a commemorative medallion to the Lost Defenders of Leningrad, nearly very fine; the Bestowal Document folded with slight damage along the folds, therefore reasonable condition, rare to a female recipient £70-£90 --- Sold with four photographic images of the Defence of Leningrad.
Lot 9
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteA Second War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Major A. I. Fleuret, Falkland Islands Defence Force The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Falkland Islands, reverse inscribed, ‘Major A. I. Fleuret, M.B.E., J.P.’; together with a Bisley Shooting Medallion 1937, 47mm, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1936, the obverse featuring an archer and a rifleman, the reverse with the inscription (name and colony engraved), ‘To Commemorate the Coronation of H.M. King George VI Bisley 1937 won by A. I. Fleuret, Falkland Islands’, good very fine and better, the Efficiency Decoration rare (5) £700-£900 --- Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2009. M.B.E. London Gazette 11 July 1940: ‘Captain and Adjutant, Falkland Islands Defence Force.’ Arthur Isadore Fleuret was born in 1899. He came from the Falkland Islands and spent his working life there. In civilian life, he started as a Messenger in the Colonial Secretary’s Officer in December 1912. After work in the Government Printing Office, he was appointed Second Clerk to the Treasury in October 1919. In January 1924 Fleuret was appointed Second Clerk in the Colonial Secretary’s Office, and four years later he became the Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary’s Office and Clerk of Councils. He was appointed Private Secretary to the Governor, November 1928-January 1929 and was Officer-in-Charge of the Secretariat, October 1928-January 1929 and again during February-June 1931. During the visits in 1929 of H.M. Ships Durban and Caradoc, he acted as Honorary Secretary to the Committee set up to arrange entertainment. Fleuret was appointed a Constable for the Falkland Islands for the special purpose of enforcing the legal arrest of the S.S. Fleurus in August 1931. He was the acting Colonial Postmaster for the Islands, July 1935-February 1936 and again, March-August 1939. On 1 January 1937 Fleuret was appointed Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils and was appointed a Magistrate, 20 May 1938 and J.P., 26 September 1940. On 19 December 1941 and again on 17 April 1942 he was appointed Magistrate in South Georgia; he was also Administrative Officer there. Fleuret attested for the Falkland Islands Defence Force on 29 January 1923, and was granted a commission as Second Lieutenant on 28 January 1931 and advanced to Lieutenant on 13 March 1934. He was appointed Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor with effect from 11 February 1935. Lieutenant Fleuret was appointed to act as Officer Commanding, May-October 1935, and as Adjutant, May-December 1935. He was appointed Adjutant on 26 September 1936; promoted to Captain on 4 May 1935 and to Major on 6 August 1942. For his services in the Falkland Islands Defence Force he was awarded the M.B.E. in the Birthday Honours List of 1940, this notified in the London Gazette (above) and the Falkland Islands Gazette of 1 August 1940. Major Fleuret was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (Falkland Islands) on 21 March 1947. He was ‘honourably discharged from the Force on 4 September 1952 after having faithfully and efficiently served therein for a period of 29 years and 220 days, and was placed on the Retired List’. After his retirement he was asked to represent the Falkland Islands at the Coronation of 1953, for which, in that capacity, he was awarded the Coronation Medal. In about 1953 Major Fleuret moved to the U.K., living firstly at Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, and latterly at Wonerish near Guildford. He died on 9 February 1987. In The Efficiency Decoration, by J. M. A. Tamplin, just seven Efficiency Decorations (Falkland Islands) (including that for Fleuret) are listed for the period, 1935-1978 Sold with Official Letter of Congratulations on the award of the M.B.E., from and signed by the Governor, ‘H. Henniker-Heaton’; Retired List Certificate and accompanying letter, 1953; original photograph of the Falkland Islands Rifle Team (including Fleuret), Winners of the Junior Kolapore Cup, Bisley 1930; with additional modern photographs; together with copied research including many extracts from the Falkland Islands Gazette and Falkland Islands Magazine and Church Paper.
Lot 93
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteEight: Major D. McCreadie, Rangoon Battalion, Burma Auxiliary Force, late Indian Army British War Medal 1914-20 (2-Lieut. D. Mc. Creadie); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lieut. D. Mc. Creadie, 2 Q.V.O. S & M.) rank and name unofficially corrected; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937 (Capt. D. McCreadie, Rangoon Batt. B.A.F.) contemporarily engraved naming; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Burma, reverse inscribed, ‘Capt. David McCreadie, Rangoon Battn. Burma A.F.’, with integral top riband bar, lacquered, nearly very fine, rare (8) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, April 2001 (the Efficiency Decoration then noted as ‘lacking top bar’); John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2009. David McCreadie was employed immediately prior to the Great War as an Assistant with Rowe & Co., General Importers, Rangoon, and remained in service with them until the early 1940’s when he was employed as an Assistant with Stuart, Smith & Allen, Chartered and Registered Agents, Rangoon. His ability to speak both Burmese and Hindustani would have been an advantage to both companies. He also served in the Military Forces, being appointed to the Indian Army Reserve of Officers on 24 June 1918 as a Second Lieutenant, and was advanced to Lieutenant on 24 June 1919. He served in the Great War and in the Third Afghan War with the 2nd Battalion Queen Victoria’s Own Sappers & Miners. Continuing his service after the war, McCreadie joined the Auxiliary Forces (India), and was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Rangoon Battalion, A.F.(I) on 10 August 1928. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 10 August 1931 and Captain on 25 September 1935. The Rangoon Battalion subsequently became part of the Burma Auxiliary Force. At the time of the Coronation in 1937, Captain McCreadie formed part of the Burma Coronation Contingent, joining the contingent in the U.K. He was promoted to Major on 18 January 1939, and was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (Burma) in 1939, this notified in the Burma Gazette of 26 August 1939. Sold with copied research. Note: In The Efficiency Decoration, by J. M. A. Tamplin, McCreadie is listed as one of just 16 recipients of the Efficiency Decoration, Burma, whose names were gleaned from the Burma Gazette.
Lot 96
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteSix: Able Seaman N. Wiseman, Royal Navy, the recipient of an extremely rare Efficiency Medal and later a Police Constable in Lancashire 1939-45 Star; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; Defence and War Medals; Police Long Service Medal, E.II.R. (Const. Norman Wiseman) with its card box of issue with typed label inscribed, ‘69. Lancashire. Const. Norman Wiseman’; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (C/JX. 696128 A.B. N. Wiseman, Royal Navy) good very fine (6) £500-£700 --- E.M. London Gazette 23 February 1954. One of very few awards to Naval personnel, Tamplin’s Efficiency Medal listing just 26 ratings (1949-84) and 11 officers (1949-57), the latter largely being R.N.V.R. or R.I.N.V.R recipients.
Lot 444
2 very rare Alfred Bowyer Clayton (1795-1855) 1830s pen & ink "Scenes from Tananarive, Madagascar", each drawing inscribed with the place, all unframed,Average size is approx 13 x 23 cm,ALFRED BOWYER CLAYTON (1795-1855) - Born London, studied under William Etty, he exhibited at the RA between 1814-1837 and in 1931 produced a series of lithographic prints depicting the Liverpool-Manchester railway. He worked as a professional lithographer during the early 1830s before becoming an architect in Liverpool where he died on 10th May 1855
Lot 525
2 rare Alfred Bowyer Clayton (1795-1855) 1830s pen & ink "The mosque at Pergamo, Turkey", each drawing inscribed with the place, both unframed,Average size is approx 17 x 11 cm,ALFRED BOWYER CLAYTON (1795-1855) - Born London, studied under William Etty, he exhibited at the RA between 1814-1837 and in 1931 produced a series of lithographic prints depicting the Liverpool-Manchester railway. He worked as a professional lithographer during the early 1830s before becoming an architect in Liverpool where he died on 10th May 1855
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