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Lot 20
The Naval General Service medal awarded to Rev. Thomas Hardwicke, Chaplain of the Dreadnought at the battle of Trafalgar, one of only three Chaplains to receive the medal for this action Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (Thomas Hardwicke, Chaplain.) good very fine £10,000-£14,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Baldwin’s, July 1955; Fergus Gowans Collection. Confirmed on the roll as Chaplain aboard H.M.S. Dreadnought at Trafalgar. 28 N.G.S. medals were issued to Chaplains, including 3 for Trafalgar. Thomas Hardwicke was the son of Samuel Hardwicke, of St Peters, Worcester, and was educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He matriculated on 23 June 1789, and gained his B.A. in 1802, and M.A. in 1805. Made Fellow from 1822 to 1837, he was then Provost from 1831, and B. and D.D. in 1836. Hardwick was appointed to be a Chaplain in the Royal Navy aboard H.M.S. Illustrious in May 1804, and to the Dreadnought on 16 May 1805, in which ship he was present at the battle of Trafalgar. Returning to his studies at Oxford University, he was later rector of Neen Sollers cum Milson, Shropshire. He died on 20 February 1855.
Lot 230
‘Admiral Gaunt – the ‘nautical Sherlock Holmes’, the Americans called him – had a distinguished record in intelligence work as his triumphs in counter-espionage … bear testimony. He was a gallant, bluff, uncompromising man in the Roger Keyes tradition and he did not suffer fools or fainthearts gladly. In consequence, he had many enemies, not only in the Admiralty, but in the Foreign Office where his probings and promptings into the efficiency of their own intelligence systems caused many heart-burnings even as late as World War Two.’ The Mystery of Lord Kitchener’s Death, by Donald McCormick, refers. The important Great War Naval intelligence K.C.M.G., C.B. group of five awarded to Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt, Royal Navy The multi-talented Gaunt excelled in his wartime role as Naval Attaché in Washington D.C., his counter-espionage work costing the Germans dearly, not least his role in the notorious ‘Zimmermann Telegram’ affair He had earlier won rapid promotion to Commander for his gallant exploits in Samoa at the turn of the century, when amidst civil unrest he defended the British Consulate and raised ‘Gaunt’s Brigade’ of irregulars: it’s a remarkable story, immaculately recounted of in the pages of his autobiography, The Yield of the Years The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, K.C.M.G. Knight Commander’s neck badge and breast star, silver-gilt and enamels, some minor enamel chips; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarked London 1915; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. G. R. A. Gaunt. R.N.); United States of America, Navy Distinguished Service Medal, gilt and enamel, the last four mounted as worn, generally good very fine (6) £2,400-£2,800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- K.C.M.G. London Gazette 20 September 1918: ‘To be an Ordinary Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, of the said Most Distinguished Order: Captain Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt, R.N., C.B., C.M.G., late Naval Attaché to His Majesty’s Embassy at Washington.’ C.B. London Gazette 3 June 1918: ‘To be Additional Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order: Captain Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt, C.M.G., R.N.’ U.S.A. Distinguished Service Medal (Navy) London Gazette 29 April 1919. Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt was born at Ballarat West, Victoria, Australia on 25 May 1869, and was educated at Melbourne Grammar School. It was intended he studied for the Law, but he pleaded with his father for a career at sea and was duly enrolled at H.M.S. Worcester, the training ship for officers of the merchant service. Having then served in clippers and obtained his Second Mate’s ticket, in addition to gaining an appointment as a Midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve, he transferred, with the assistance of his brother, to the Royal Navy as a Lieutenant in October 1895. Gaunt’s Brigade Gaunt joined the three-masted sloop Swift in the Philippines in 1897, where he witnessed shocking scenes and executions, before removing to the Porpoise, also bound for the South Seas. And it was in this capacity that he came to play a memorable role in ongoing strife in Samoa, where local rebels, with German backing, were a threat to American and British interests. Apart from attending the British Consulate at Apia during a rebel attack, he raised and commanded ‘Gaunt’s Brigade’ of irregulars in subsequent operations. His autobiography describes in detail not a few encounters of the close kind, one such case being an attack on a rebel chief’s village at Malea: ‘I was last out of the village, with an enormous great Chief right on top of me, luckily as it turned out, for he masked the fire of the men who were potting at us. Just as he was towering above me ready to kill, I slewed around. He fired from his hip and missed me clean. I fired low, determined not to miss him, and being a rotten shot killed him stone dead on the spot. In a fraction of a second I was in the undergrowth, and without the slightest desire to win any medals legged it for the beach … ’ In due course, with a lull in operations, ‘Gaunt’s Brigade’ was disbanded, but he was presented with a sword by loyal Samoans who credited him with having saved the life of their King. Their Lordships of the Admiralty were equally impressed, for he was mentioned in despatches and promoted to Commander for ‘special services’ in June 1901. Naval Intelligence: spooks, sleuths and that telegram A posting on the China Sation at the time of the Russo-Japanese War ensued, as did his promotion to Captain in June 1907, but it was a summons to the Admiralty in the summer of 1914 that changed his life forever. He was invited by the First Sea Lord to take up the post of Naval Attaché in Washington D.C., and so, in May 1914, he departed for the United States. It was, Gaunt later explained, ‘work which was to bring me some of the most astounding adventures that ever befell any man in the Great War.’ As it happened, one of his first ports of call on arrival was the German Embassy, where he was introduced to the ambassador, Count von Bernstorff, and his two attachés, Captain Franz von Papen and Captain Karl Boy-Ed. All three would shortly be at odds with Gaunt, for the war was but weeks way. When the storm broke, one of his first missions was to try and prevent the departure of German liners from New York for use as raiders. That effort led to an early encounter with Franklin Roosevelt and represents the opening chapter of his genuinely fascinating wartime career, a clandestine sojourn described grippingly in the pages of The Yield of Your Years: from German agents and ‘sleuths’ trailing his every move to all the machinations one might expect of counter-espionage operations. Caught up in the Lusitania story – his men are believed to have apprehended German agents who boarded the liner before her departure from New York on her final voyage in 1915 – and likewise in the loss of the Hampshire and Kitchener in 1916 – when he received intelligence of an Irish nationalist plot – Gaunt was rarely out of the picture. He was created C.M.G in the latter year. One of his most important tasks was to counteract the effects of German propaganda in North America, and, in that respect, he gained prominence for his many successes. That prominence – particularly in Intelligence circles – was further enhanced by his subsequent appointment as a Commodore 1st Class and Liaison Officer to the United States of America. Moving about the highest echelons of power Gaunt played a pivotal role in the ‘Zimmermann Telegram’ affair. Working closely with his London boss ‘Blinker’ Hall in Room 40 at the Admiralty, he helped persuade the President and his advisors that the intercepted telegram was genuine. The telegram, sent in January 1917 from Arthur Zimmermann, the German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to his Mexican counterpart, was indeed genuine and its contents devastating for Germany: because, in the event of the Americans entering the war, it contained an offer of military support for Mexico to invade the southern states of the U.S.A. The British interception and decryption of the telegram was an intelligence triumph, and, in April 1917, the Americans finally entered the war.
Lot 106
H.M.S. Worcester Training Ship, gold presentation medal 45mm, the obverse with bust of young head Victoria facing left, the reverse with inscription ‘Presented by her Majesty the Queen’ and engraved in the centre (To Charles George Budge H.M.S. Worcester Training Ship 1886) fitted with a decorative straight bar and uniface double-dolphin suspension in silver-gilt, total weight 63.65g, minor marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine and rare £1,400-£1,800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Charles George Budge was commissioned from H.M.S. Worcester Training Ship as Midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve on 2 August 1886.
Lot 85
The outstanding group of five awarded to The Reverend Edward A. Williams, Chaplain of the Pearl in the Indian Mutiny, being frequently mentioned in despatches; he was author of ‘The Cruise of the Pearl round the World, with an account of the operations of the Naval Brigade in India’, published in 1859 Baltic 1854, unnamed as issued; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Rev. Edwd. A. Williams, Chaplain. Pearl.); Jubilee 1887 with bar 1897; Coronation 1902; Coronation 1911, light contact marks to the first two, otherwise good very fine and better (5) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. Edward Adams Williams was born on 26 March 1826, the second son of Henry Williams of Glasthule, Co Dublin, whose ancestor settled at Rath Kool when William III carried on a successful campaign in Ireland. His mother, née Esther McClure, was a descendant of two Huguenot families, de la Cherois and Crommeline, who were invited by William III to settle in County Antrim and improve the damask manufactures. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1848, obtaining the Divinity Testimonial. Ordained by the Bishop of Worcester and subsequently, in 1849, given the curacy of Lye, Worcestershire. He joined the Royal Navy when appointed as the Chaplain of H.M.S. St George on 3 March 1854, seeing service in the Baltic campaign of 1854. He received the additional rank of Naval Instructor on 25 April 1855, and a month later was re-appointed to H.M.S Hawke as her "Chaplain & Naval Instructor", and was present at the attack on the forts in the Gulf of Riga during 1855, earning the Baltic Medal. He was appointed as the ship's Chaplain to H.M.S. Pearl on 3 May l856, and served the whole time ashore with Pearl’s Naval Brigade prior to being ‘paid off’ on 15 January 1859. From 27 November 1857 Pearl’s Naval Brigade became the only wholly European manned part of the Sarun Field Force. The Reverend Williams was Mentioned in Despatches on the following occasions: by Captain E. S. Sotheby, R.N., in letters dated 28 December 1857, 1st March, 9th March and 29th April 1858, and also by Colonel F. Rowcroft, Commanding Sarun Field Force, on 22nd February and 6th March 1858. He subsequently served aboard H.M. Ships Royal Adelaide, Reserve Depot Ship, Devonport (1860-62), and Impregnable, Training Ship, Devonport (1862-64). His final sea appointment was aboard H.M.S. Cadmus on the North America and West Indies Station commencing 28 February 1865. His last naval appointment was to H.M.S. Excellent, Gunnery Training Ship at Portsmouth, on 4 April 1868. In 1872 he was appointed Secretary of the Church Missionary Society for the Metropolitan District. From 6 March 1875 he became the Chaplain serving with the Royal Marine Artillery, Portsmouth, until 19 May 1880, when he was transferred to Sheerness Dockyard as the Chaplain for 18 months prior to serving in a similar capacity in Portsmouth Dockyard until retired in 1886 as the senior Chaplain, but not chosen to be the Chaplain of the Fleet. He received the appointment as Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria in 1898, retaining this similar honour to Edward VII and George V until he died at 5 Queen's Gate, Southsea on 13 April 1913 aged 87 years. He was buried at Highland Road Cemetery, Southsea on 16 April, but due to the inclement weather, with agreement of his relatives, the event was to a large extent shorn of the ceremonial element. The coffin of polished oak, covered with a Union Jack, upon which was placed his stole, war medals and coronation honours and his badge as Honorary Chaplain to the King, was borne to the cemetery on a naval field-gun carriage drawn by bluejackets. It was preceded by a Naval firing party, who fired three volleys above his grave witnessed by mourners, who included a few veterans from the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny. The ceremony ended with a Naval bugler sounding the ‘Last Post’. Williams was author of The Cruise of the Pearl round the World, with an account of the operations of the Naval Brigade in India, published in 1859. Concerning the landing of the Naval Brigade, Williams claimed: ‘This is, I believe, the only example of the Royal Navy leaving their ships, and taking their guns seven or eight hundred miles into the interior of a great continent, to serve as soldiers, marching and counter-marching for fifteen months through extensive districts, and taking an active part in upwards of twenty actions.’ Of the thirteen chapters of the book, eleven relate to the activities of the Naval Brigade. Prior to the ship’s arrival at Calcutta on 12 August 1857, she had spent over a year after leaving England on a voyage which included the passage of the Strait of Magellan, the punishment of Peruvian revolutionaries who had plundered a British ship, and visits to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and Hong Kong, where the Pearl stayed only a month before being ordered to Calcutta. Thereafter Williams faithfully chronicled the movement up country of the Naval Brigade and the actions which it fought under Captain Sotheby’s immediate command and in support of Indian Army units, but he had little to say concerning his own duties as chaplain: ‘After parade came daily prayers, for the men of the Naval Brigade, which lasted about ten minutes. This custom not being unusual on board a “man-of-war” was continued throughout the campaign.’ He spoke of the war as “brutalising, in which quarter was neither given nor received. No European that fell into their hands could expect anything but a most cruel death... and therefore prisoners were not taken.” Williams was formerly Hon Editor of the Anchor Watch, and the last survivor of the founders of the Royal Naval Scripture Reader's Society, of which he had been the first Honorary Secretary when it was inaugurated at Devonport in 1860.
Lot 362
A Royal Worcester figure, Old Country Ways, The Shepherdess, sculptured by Maureen Halson, printed mark, limited edition 662/9500; another, Lullaby, 2483/9500; a Royal Worcester figure, The Last Waltz, from Romance of the Victorian Era, sculptured by N Stevens, printed mark, limited edition of 12,500; another, The Crinoline, 3516/9500; three Leonardo Collection figures; etc
Lot 361
A Royal Crown Derby milk jug, in the manner of W.E.J. Dean, decorated with a continuous scene of sailing boats, 9.5cm high, printed mark, date code for 1896; a pair of Royal Worcester circular oyster plates, with seven receptacles, on a basketwork ground, 21.5cm diam, crown and circle mark in puce, date code for 1898, shape no.1170; A Newhall pedestal helmet shaped cream jug, painted with a basket of flowers, wavy dotted band, 9.5cm high, c.1790 (3)
Lot 471
A Duchess Indian Tree pattern tea service, for six, comprising teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl and teacups, and saucers, printed marks; a Royal Stafford Fantasia pattern part coffee service; a Royal Worcester plate, gilt border on azure ground, printed mark, c.1910; a set of six Edelstahl stainless steel stacking pans; two wirework wall hanging baskets; a novelty two-light side light, with monkey climbing a palm tree; etc
Lot 440
A COLLECTION OF NAMED CERAMICS, comprising a large Phrenology bust, transfer print 'Phrenology by L. N. Fowler', height 30cm, an Art Deco Hillstonia wall pocket, a Coalport 'Bonnie Lass', height 12cm, a limited edition 'Transfiguration' figure (missing hands), two 'Bunny' jugs, a Nao figure of a young woman, three miniature blue and white Oriental vases, height 10cm, a Mason's Paysley pattern ginger jar, a Wedgwood blue Jasperware trinket box, a black Jasperware trinket dish, three unmarked novelty storage jars Beetroot and two Onions crazed and onion lid cracked), a Royal Worcester trinket dish, a miniature Sylvac squirrel jug 1993, a Wade squirrel trinket dish (broken tail) and a collection of eight Wade Whimsy animals, etc. (Qty) (Condition Report: very dusty, most obvious damage is mentioned in description, print on phrenology bust is a little fade and worn in parts)
Lot 467
A GROUP OF ASSORTED GLASSWARE AND CERAMIC KITCHENWARE to include four Stuart Crystal wine glasses and a pair of brandy glasses, decorative plates from named manufacturers to include a Blue Titmouse plate by Spode, a Minton Haddon Hall plate, a Royal Worcester Summer Flowers plate, a Royal Albert Winter plate, two Royal Doulton Spring and Summer plates, assorted crystal gut glasses, a partial Duchess dinner and tea service comprising five tea cups, ten saucers, a sugar bowl, seven dinner plates, six tea plates, one side plate, seven bowls (qty) (Condition Report: one bowl with a visible chip to the rim, varying level of wear to gilt edges of the Duchess set, s.d)
Lot 500
THREE BOXES AND LOOSE CERAMICS AND GLASS, to include a Cley Pottery vase, height 11cm, an enamel on copper cup decorated with a bird, a brown jug moulded with hunting scenes, two gemstone trees, a Royal Worcester Mayfield cake plate, three printed and tinted tea plates by A Lanternier, Limoges, a Doulton Burslem shell shaped dish painted with flowers, several nineteenth century cups, including one personalised and painted with flowers, another bearing a motto, two Royal Worcester Wrendale donkey mugs and saucers, a Spode 'Flemish Green' dinner service, etc (3 boxes + loose) (sd)
Lot 459
TWO BOXES OF MIXED CERAMIC KITCHENWARE AND ORNAMENTS to include a box of Midwinter Spanish Garden kitchen and tea ware comprising a coffee pot, approximately twelve coffee cups, approximately twelve saucers, six dinner plates, six side plates, a cake plate, a boxed Royal Worcester sugar bowl and cream jug, a Shelley cream jug and sugar bowl set, a Royal Worcester Morning walk figurine, two Regal porcelain figurines to include Suzy and Marie, a pair of lustre KSP pheasants, a hand painted Japanese tea cup and saucer, a Copeland tea cup and saucer, a quantity of animal ornaments (2 boxes) (s.d)
Lot 542
FOUR BOXES AND LOOSE CERAMIC KITCHENWARE AND ORNAMENTS to include a Royal Worcester Evesham Gold teapot with original box, a large Poole fruit bowl, an Aynsley Cottage Garden vase and trinket pot, a Royal Horticultural Society Sunflower butter dish, a hand painted Chinese vase with manufacturers mark to the base, a Chinese vase with transfer print, a Paragon Comtessa coffee set comprising a coffee pot, six coffee cups, six saucers a sugar bowl and a milk jug, a group of Alfred Meakin dinnerware comprising a lidded tureen, and an additional lid, six dinner plates, six tea plates, and six side plates, a box of blue and white porcelain from named manufacturers to include Copeland Spode, Churchill, a Ridgeway Meadowsweet coffee pot, a George Jones and Sons Abbey teapot, a Copeland Spode's Italian square bowl, a large quantity of tea cups and saucers from other named manufacturers, etc (4 boxes and loose) (Condition Report: all Alfred Meakin pieces ring dull when tapped, a significant chip to the underside of the Copeland bowl, visible repair to some blue and white plates, s.d)
Lot 572
A LARGE GROUP OF CERAMICS FROM NAMED MANUFACTURERS to include an Aynsley Orchard Fruits pink teacup, saucer and side plate, a quantity of trinket dishes from named manufacturers comprising two Wedgwood Jasperware, two Coalport Revelry dishes, a Royal Doulton Dickensware Bill Sykes dish, a Wedgwood Angela dish and a Meadow-Sweet dish, two Aynsley Little Sweetheart table vases, a Radford no 1059 vase, a Wedgwood Jasperware London Guildhall commemorative plate, a group of Limoges Castel decorative dishes, ash trays and a pot, a collection of souvenir ceramic thimbles on a wooden stand in the shame of Great Britain, a Mason's Manchu double handled cake plate, a Wade novelty tea caddy, a Rington's Limited Edition (4019/7500) novelty teapot, a quantity of collectable display plates from named manufacturers to include Royal Doulton, Danbury Mint, Bradford Exchange, Royal Worcester etc, featuring British wildlife, birds, pastoral scenes, flowers, etc (qty) (Condition Report: some items would benefit from a clean, novelty teapot has some loose parts)
Lot 411
A GROUP OF CERAMICS, comprising a Wedgwood Jasperware blue on white teapot (hairlines, chipped spout and inner rim), a Hammersley 'Strawberry Ripe' strawberry set with an apostle spoon, two x Sadler Romeo and Juliet teapots (one has crazing), a Sadler A Midsummer Night's Dream teapot (glazed over chip on rim, chip on inner rim), two x Wedgwood William Shakespeare mugs, a Minton's 'Lady Clare' teacup (sounds dull when tapped, some gilding wear) and 'Lady Hamilton' saucer, with a Royal Worcester trinket dish (9) (Condition Report: most pieces appear ok, obvious specific damage as stated, would benefit from a clean)
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