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The Crimea Medal awarded to Private W. Ramsey, 93rd Highlanders, one of the ‘Thin Red Line’ at the Battle of Balaklava Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (W. Ramsay. 93rd. Regt.) officially impressed naming, minor scratches and edge bruising, very fine £700-£900 --- William Ramsay served with the 93rd Highlanders in the Crimea, and was present at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 when the 93rd routed the Russian cavalry and won themselves the title of ‘The Thin Red Line’. The Times correspondent William Howard Russell - who, standing on the hills above, could clearly see that nothing stood between the Russian cavalry and the defenceless British base but the ‘thin red streak tipped with a line of steel’ - wrote of the 93rd:
‘With breathless suspense everyone awaits the bursting of the wave [of Russian Cavalry] upon the line of Gaelic rock, but ere they came within 200 yards another deadly volley flashes from the levelled rifle, and carries terror into the Russians. They wheel about, open files right and left, and fly back faster than they came. “Brave Highlanders! Well done!” shout the spectators.’

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, N.E. Frontier 1891 (Lce. Corpl. B. Evatt. Calcutta Vol. Rifle Corps.) good very fine, scarce to unit £140-£180

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Benjn. Kennett, Ord. Pearl.) minor edge nick, good very fine £700-£900 --- Benjamin Kennett was born at Ramsgate, Kent, around 1842, and served as Ordinary Seaman aboard the 21-gun screw corvette H.M.S. Pearl. Despatched from Hong Kong to Calcutta in July 1857 upon receiving news of the rebellion, the crew of the Pearl were first engaged in rescuing the crew of the transport H.M.S. Transit which was wrecked off Bangka Island, Sumatra. Arriving safely in India on 11 September 1857, her 175 officers and men proceeded to form the Pearl Naval Brigade under the command of Pearl’s Captain, Edward Southwell Sotheby. The Brigade engaged in numerous actions against the rebel forces, most notably contributing to the campaign which resulted in the Relief of Lucknow. Deploying mostly rifle companies, the Pearl Naval Brigade fought alongside a similar Brigade formed from the crew of H.M.S. Shannon, which was led by William Peel, son of the Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, and a Victoria Cross recipient himself. For their role in suppressing the Indian uprising, Sotheby and the Pearl Naval Brigade were mentioned in despatches on 13 occasions relating to the operations in Oudh, and received thanks of the Governor-General of India and of both Houses of Parliament; Sotheby was further made Companion of the Order of the Bath, appointed an extra aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, and ended his career as Admiral. Sold with an extensive file of copied research, noting possible service in the 1860s aboard the brig Frederick Huth and later service as Master Mariner and Captain of the S.S. Canto, whilst living at Dartford on the bank of the River Thames.

Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Ali Musjid (2218. Corpl. H. Hodgman, 4th Bn. Rifle Bde.) very fine £160-£200

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (1790 Pte. J. James 3d. Rifle Borderers [sic]) good very fine and rare to unit £100-£140

A fine 'Defence of Ladysmith' Queen's South Africa Medal awarded to Private A. Spray, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who was blown up by a 6-inch shell from a Boer artillery piece commanding high ground to the south of the town, and was later wounded in the knee Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (8601 Pte. A. Spray, K.R.R.C.) small pawnbroker’s mark to obverse, extremely fine £200-£240 --- Arthur Spray was born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, in 1873, the son of lace mender Eliza Spray. He attested for the King's Royal Rifle Corps at Birmingham on 20 June 1894 and was posted from depot to the 4th Battalion at Winchester on 22 October 1894. For reasons unknown, Spray absconded just before Christmas Day in 1895, and spent almost a month on the run from the military authorities. Placed in confinement on 21 January 1896, he was tried by the District Court Martial and found guilty of desertion and loss of equipment resulting in 30 days' imprisonment with hard labour. Remarkably, less than a year later, Spray returned to the cells when given a further 14 days' hard labour on 10 December 1896, but the unexpired portion of his punishment was remitted upon Spray's agreement to transfer to the 2nd Battalion, and he headed to South Africa forthwith.  According to the recipient's Army Service Record, Spray served three terms in South Africa, from 15 December 1896 to 5 April 1899, 18 September 1899 to 26 July 1900, and 11 December 1901 to 9 October 1902. These were separated by five months in India and a brief spell back in England. Most importantly, Spray was present throughout the Siege of Ladysmith in Northern Natal, from 2 November 1899 to 27 February 1900, and returned home to give a rare firsthand account which was published in The Nottinghamshire Guardian on 28 July 1900: 'A Nottingham Soldier's Experience At the invitation of Mr. Godfrey L. Evans, a meeting was held on Tuesday on the lawn of his residence, Hamilton-road, the chief object of the gathering being to hear an address by Private A. Spray, of the 2nd King's Royal Rifles, on "The Siege of Ladysmith..." He said that many of the soldiers looked like scarecrows, having gone seven days without a wash and with no change of underclothing. "Gentleman Joe," the name of a gun, sent his first shot on the morning of November 27th, just after breakfast, and another shell struck the ground a few feet in front of where the speaker was standing, sank six feet, and then exploded, blowing up the rough sun-shelter, and scattering the men right and left, but hurting no-one. The speaker described the various battles in which he had taken part, and the circumstances under which he was wounded in the knee. After the 6th of January, when the Boers were supposed to have lost only a few men, he saw them carting their dead and wounded all day long, under the white flag. The lecturer then described, in vivid fashion, the scene when the relief column came to Ladysmith, and said that the invalids were splendidly treated on board the hospital ship, Lismore Castle, on their way home...'  Spray was particularly fortunate that the 96-pound shell from the French-manufactured creusot gun "Gentleman Joe" had failed to find its mark, for other similar weapons including "Long Tom" and "Puffing Billy" had delivered a particularly intense barrage from 8 to 9 a.m. that morning. Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege points to a most unpleasant incident not far away, and taking place just minutes earlier: 'This morning a Kaffir was working for the Army Service Corps (being at that moment engaged in kneading a pancake), when a small shell hit him full in the mouth, passed clean through his head, and burst on the ground beyond.'  Referring to the events of 6 January 1900, Spray's life was saved once again when large numbers of Boers, encouraged by President Kruger, launched a major attack on Ladysmith designed to overwhelm the garrison and take the town. At Wagon Hill, a confused and fierce fight took place in the dark between the Boers and the men of the King's Royal Rifles, Gordon Highlanders and Imperial Light Horse, supported by a hotchkiss gun. The enemy retreated but the siege prevailed, and by mid-January 1900, the remaining cavalry horses had to be shot for food.

1914-15 Star (250 Pte. H. I. Lock. Ceylon Plr. R.C.) good very fine, scarce to unit £80-£100 --- Herbert Ingram Lock served with the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps before being commissioned into the South Lancashire Regiment (attached Machine Gun Corps) as Lieutenant. Research shows that there was a H. I. Lock working as assistant manager at the Nagahatenne K29 Tea Estate near Elpitiya in 1914, presumably the same man. The Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps was a regiment attached to the Ceylon Defence Force, the predecessor to the Ceylon Army which was formed in 1949. It was a volunteer regiment based in Kandy and made up solely of European tea and rubber planters. The regiment sent a force of eight officers and 229 other ranks to Egypt in September 1914 (Lock’s MIC show he was amongst their number) where they were deployed in defence of the Suez Canal. After which the unit was transferred to the Australia New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) and in 1915 was dispatched to Anzac Cove (‘Z’ Beach) on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The CPRC also performed operational duties as guards to ANZAC headquarters staff. Lock is shown as being entitled to the Silver War Badge.

The historically important Great War Victory Medal awarded to Colonel T. Sinclair, Army Medical Service, who personally conducted the first post-mortem examination of Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen in a hanger of No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, just hours after he was extricated from the wreckage of his red triplane, near Corbie, on 21 April 1918 Having analysed the pathway of a single .303 bullet through the Baron’s torso using a rudimentary piece of wire, it was Sinclair’s report which gave considerable weight to the argument that the fatal shot came from a trailing aircraft, rather than the ground - thus, the Canadian Pilot, Captain A. R. Brown, was officially credited with the ‘kill’ shortly after receiving a Bar to his D.S.C. Victory Medal 1914-19, with copy M.I.D. oak leaves (Col. T. Sinclair.) mounted on contemporary wearing pin, better than very fine £500-£700 --- ‘Copy extracts from A. H. File No. 21/13/506 In the Field 22nd April 1918. We have made a surface examination of Captain Baron von Richthofen and find there are only the entrance and exit wounds of one rifle bullet on the trunk. The entrance wound is on the right side about the level of the ninth-rib, which is fractured, just in front of the posterior axillary line. The bullet appears to have passed obliquely backwards through the chest striking the spinal column, from which it glanced in a forward direction and issued on the left side of the chest, at a level about two inches higher than its entrance on the right and about in the anterior axillary line. There was also a compound fracture of the lower jaw on the left side, apparently not caused by a missile – and also some minor bruises of the head and face. The body was not opened – these facts were ascertained by probing from the surface wounds.’ Thomas Sinclair, Colonel AMS, Consulting Surgeon IV Army, B.E.F. Thomas Sinclair was born in Belfast in 1858. Credited by the Ballymena Weekly Telegraph as ‘one of the most outstanding Ulstermen of his generation’, Sinclair graduated with distinction from the Royal University of Ireland and became Professor of Surgery at Queen’s University in 1886. Appointed surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital and consulting surgeon to the Ulster Hospital for Children, the Forster Green Hospital, and the County Antrim Infirmary, Sinclair spent the next thirty years training a generation of medical students in the art of surgery - indeed, under his tutelage, the Belfast School of Modern Surgery came to be regarded as one of the most advanced in the British Isles. Volunteering for active service at the outbreak of hostilities, Sinclair served as Colonel in Egypt from 15 November 1915, before being transferred to the Western Front as Consulting Surgeon to the Fourth Army, which at that time was commanded by that other distinguished Ulsterman, Lord Rawlinson. Decorated with the C.B., ‘in recognition of work well and faithfully done on various fighting fronts’, Sinclair was further Mentioned in Despatches on 4 January 1917 whilst serving as Consultant. However, quite by accident and pure circumstance, it was from Headquarters on a sunny spring day in 1918 that Sinclair received the order to proceed immediately to a small hangar at Poulainville aerodrome on the Somme; awaiting his inspection lay the body of one of the most dangerous foes of the Great War. Controversy remains to this day as to who exactly fired the fatal shot which killed the Red Baron. During the autopsy it was noted that Sinclair used a piece of wire, rumoured to be fence wire, to track the path of the bullet, rather than a more appropriate smooth and rounded apparatus. Such a crude improvisation laid open the opportunity for error and inaccuracy, but it is widely accepted that this first report remains the most important piece of evidence to this day which addresses the circumstances of death and factual wounds, more-so given that the infamous red Fokker Dr.I. 425/17 triplane was scavenged within hours for souvenirs. Sinclair’s conclusions however, remain contested, especially following recent analysis of the path of the machine gun bullets fired from the trenches by Sergeant Cedric Popkin of the 24th M.G.C., 1st Australian Imperial Force. Elected to the Ulster Senate representing Queen’s in 1921, Sinclair was later honoured as Founder of the Modern Ulster School of Surgery and is remembered via a large and impressive oil portrait by George Harcourt, R.A., which hangs to this day in the Great Hall of Queen’s University, Belfast. His acceptance speech was particularly humbling: ‘What a sustaining and consoling thought it is to me that so many warm friends consider that I have not altogether lived in vain, but have been enabled in some degree to alleviate or assuage the heavy burden of human suffering throughout the years.’ Sinclair died of illness on 5 November 1940.

Regimental Prize Medals (17), Lancashire Fusiliers, 9ct gold; 1st C.V.R.; 1st L.R.V.; 2nd L.R.V.; 3rd L.R.V.; Honourable Artillery Company (2); City of London, 5th (London Rifle Brigade) Battalion, London Regiment; 9th (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment (3); 10th (Hackney Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment (2); Royal Army Medal Corps; Signallers 1902, silver, one with yellow metal mount, some with enamelling, some missing suspension rings, generally very fine (17) £80-£100

Regimental Prize Medals (12), Royal Irish Fusiliers; Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Staffordshire Regiment (2); Cambridgeshire Regiment; Hertfordshire Regiment (2); Royal Irish Rifles (2); Dorsetshire Regiment; Rifle Brigade; Liverpool Scottish, mostly silver, some missing suspension rings, one with soldered pin on reverse, generally very fine (12) £50-£70

Regimental Prize Medals (15), Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (5); Gordon Highlanders (3); Seaforth Highlanders (6), 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, silver, one missing suspension ring, generally very fine (15) £50-£70

Kildare Rifle Militia Other Ranks Glengarry Badge. A good example c.1874-81, blackened crowned title belt `Kildare Rifles’ with entwinned serpents and motto to the centre, with two loops to the rear; together with a Canadian Irish cap badge; and two Merchant Navy lapel badges, good condition (4) £70-£90

Westmeath Rifle Militia Other Ranks Glengarry Badge. A good example c.1874-81, blackened crowned bugle horn with shamrock to the centre with tripart Gaelic scroll below, with three loops to the rear, good condition £100-£140

Kings Royal Rifle Corps Officer’s Pouch Belt Plate. A very good example c.1830-52, silvered crowned Maltese Cross with Peninsula Battle Honours to the arms of the cross, to the centre a strung bugle and ’60’, with title ‘The Kings Royal Rifle Corps’, complete with shaped backing plate and four bolts to the rear with hallmarked silver fasteners, very good condition £220-£260

A Hatsan Galatain cal 177 pre-charged (PCP) air rifle, comes with hard carry case Hatsan sling, four 16 shot magazines, filling adapters etc. Serial No. 0714 20252. WE CANNOT POST FIREARMS TO PRIVATE ADDRESSES. POSTAGE TO REGISTERED FIREARMS DEALERS ONLY.

A Webley Vulcan cal 22 break barrel air rifle, fitted with a Nikko sterling 4 x 32 telescopic sight. Serial No. 789321. WE CANNOT POST FIREARMS TO PRIVATE ADDRESSES. POSTAGE TO REGISTERED FIREARMS DEALERS ONLY.

A Webley Mk III cal 22 underlever air rifle, a late model with spot welded telescopic sight ramp, the stock with plastic Webley lozenge to the rear. Overall length 42 3/4", comes with instruction manual. Serial No. A9360. WE CANNOT POST FIREARMS TO PRIVATE ADDRESSES. POSTAGE TO REGISTERED FIREARMS DEALERS ONLY.

A BSA Airsporter cal 22 underlever air rifle, introduced 1969, produced until 1971. Serial No. (badly stamped GL14141). WE CANNOT POST FIREARMS TO PRIVATE ADDRESSES. POSTAGE TO REGISTERED FIREARMS DEALERS ONLY..

A vintage Eley Wasp pellets box and various other air gun pellets, to include ESA Plyarm, Webley Venom Lazadome, wooden BB shot tub for 20th century daisy air rifle and various cleaners to include Nevarust by Lightwood & Son Birmingham.

Ninety five 30-30 Winchester rifle cartridges, 150 grain. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

One hundred cal 303 British rifle cartridges, 186 grain. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

One hundred cal 303 British rifle cartridges, 186 grain. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

One hundred and seventy five cal 303 British rifle cartridges - Sellier and Bellot, 180 grain. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

Thirty five cal 308 Winchester rifle cartridges, 150 grain to include Hornady Superformance SST. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

Fifty one cal 243 rifle cartridges, to include 40 PPU 100 grain. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

One hundred and twenty nine cal 22 LR rifle cartridges, to include one hundred CCI hollowpoint subsonic. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

Seventy nine Winchester Super X cal 270 rifle cartridges, 130 grain silver tip. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

One hundred and three cal 243 rifle cartridges, to include Norma, Winchester and Lapua. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

One hundred and thirty nine cal 243 rifle cartridges, to include Sako, Gamehead 100 grain, Hornady Superformance, VarmInt 58 grain VMax and Norma 100 grain soft point. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

Two hundred cal 22 LR rifle cartridges, to include 150 Eley Long Rifle Shot and 50 Eley Tracer. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

A BSA Meteor cal 22 break barrel air rifle. Serial No. TG36202. WE CANNOT POST AIR GUNS TO PRIVATE ADDRESSES. POSTAGE TO REGISTERED FIREARMS DEALERS ONLY.

Two hundred Eley 22 LR Subsonic Hollow Extra rifle cartridges. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

Five hundred and twenty cal 22 LR rifle cartridges, various makes. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

Two hundred and fifty Hornady cal 17 Mach II, 17 grain VMax rifle cartridges. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

A BSA Airsporter Mk II cal 177 under lever air rifle, with one piece stock, the barrel stamped BSA Guns Ltd England 177 cal and with three gun trademark, with flip up rear sight, the top of the air chamber marked BSA Airsporter with an arrow and having a later fitted Parker Hale peep sight to the rear, self opening loading port, circa 1965-67, see Air Rifles by Dennis Hiller page 48. Serial No. EF1488. WE CANNOT POST FIREARMS TO PRIVATE ADDRESSES. POSTAGE TO REGISTERED FIREARMS DEALERS ONLY.

An EA Brica de Itajuba Brazil 7.62 mm target rifle, fitted with Parker Hale peep sights. Serial No. 10536. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED.

A reproduction Cogswell & Harrison Certus metal rifle poster, 40 x 30 cm.

A Hatsan Edgar Brothers Striker Edge sniper, cal 22 break barrel air rifle, with black synthetic stock and comes with a rifle slip (AF). Serial No. 0315 05146. WE CANNOT POST AIR GUNS TO PRIVATE ADDRESSES. POSTAGE TO REGISTERED FIREARMS DEALER ONLY.

A Winchester model 94AE cal 30-30 lever action rifle, with original box. Serial No. 5592508. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED.

A Lee Enfield No 4 Mk I * Canadian cal 303 bolt action rifle, fitted with a scope rail but comes with a Mk III ramp sight, detachable magazine etc, the action marked Longbranch 1942. Serial No. 11L8016. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED.

Anschutz Match 54 cal 22 LR target rifle, fitted with Anschutz M18 peep sights, comes with a hard plastic foam lined carry case. Serial No. 133592. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED.

A Lyttelton RSA bolt action target rifle, cal 7.62 fitted with Parker Hale Model T.Z.M68 peep sights and comes with an RWS hard plastic travel case. Serial No. 133592. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED.

Howa Model 1500 cal 308 bolt action rifle, with stainless action, detachable magazine and fitted with a Nikon Fieldmaster 3 x 9 telescopic sight, fitted with a Nielsen Sonic 45 sound moderator, sling and comes with a hard plastic carry case. NOTE: This rifle has had ten rounds through it from new. Sound moderator Serial No. 004094, rifle Serial No. B243534. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED x 2.

Anschutz Model 1415-1416 bolt action cal 22 LR rifle, with detachable five shot magazine, fitted with a Nikko Stirling Special 4 x 32 telescopic sight, sound moderator (AF) and leather sling. Moderator no Serial No. rifle Serial No. 1227686. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED x 2.

A Howa Model 1500 cal 223 Remington bolt action rifle, with black synthetic stock and 17 1/2" screw cut barrel. Serial No. B431027. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED.

William Powell & Son a leather and canvas shotgun motor case, initialled to lid RC, opening to a green baize lined fitted interior with trade label to the lid William Powell & Son Gun and Rifle Manufacturers 13 Carrs Lane High Street Birmingham, by His Royal Majesty's Royal Letter Patent with space for 30" barrels.

A Ruger Ranch Rifle Mini 14 cal 223 rifle, with stainless barrel and black synthetic stock, fitted with a Nikko Stirling Game King 3-9 x 40 telescopic sight, comes with two ten round magazines and a five round magazine and a T8 sound moderator (no serial No.) rifle Serial No. 196-12783. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED x 2.

A Heym cal 270 bolt action rifle, with screw cut barrel. Overall length 43 1/2". Serial No. 37665. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED.

Heym a model SR 20N cal 243 bolt action rifle, the action marked Friedrich Wilh Heym, with screw cut barrel. Overall length 43 1/2" and with a well figured stock. Serial No. 29122. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED.

Seven air gun and Ruger 10/22 rifle stocks

A Webley gun cleaning kit and an air rifle cleaning kit, a pigeon flapper and an air gun target.

Anschutz a model Match 54 cal 22 LR bolt action target rifle, with adjustable stock. Serial No. 163311X. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED.

Four cal 22 LR rifle magazines (AF).

A Helle of Norway fixed blade hunting knife, with 3 1/2" blade, the wooden handle with inset 308 rifle cartridge and with leather sheath. Overall length 20 cm. This bladed product is not for sale to people under the age of 18. By bidding on this item you are declaring that you are 18 years of age or over. Please note that if you require P&P for this lot, this can only be done using an age verified method.

A quantity of vintage air rifle pellets, to include BSA Pylarm No 1, cal 177 and a cardboard box of Milbro Caledonian cal 177. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED. WE CANNOT POST AMMUNITION.

Rifle with scope slip, shotgun slip, ten flock crow shell decoys and a cartridge pouch.

Two telescopic sights, a rifle sling and a Parker Hale air rifle sound moderator.

Daniel Fraser Edinburgh, a leather leg of mutton shotgun case, initialled W.M.G. with space for 26" barrels, the lid opening to a paper trade label Telephonic address Gunmakers Edinburgh Telephone 1012 Daniel Fraser & Co Gun & Rifle Manufacturers, 4 Leith Street Terrace Edinburgh.

An Anschutz Model 1403 Match 64 cal 22 LR bolt action target rifle. Serial No. 464013. FIREARMS CERTIFICATE REQUIRED.

A Nikko Stirling NSLX 2 rifle sight, together with an LXGD green laser.