COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, USA, Canada and the Americas, Louis XV (1710-1715-1774), The French West India Company, Copper Medal, 1733, by J C Roettiers, youthful armoured bust right, with sash, hair tied behind, rev legend in seven lines SOCIETAS INDIARUM GALLICIA, caduceus and cornucopiae below, 59mm (BDM V, 181; Betts -; BCA 49, 1325). Deep scratch by the end of the reverse legend, but a contemporary striking, very fine and rare.
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A rare Meissen figure of a Turkish lady circa 1745-50 holding a pennant, wearing a gilt-edged puce headdress, flower-decorated robes with yellow and green sash, and yellow shoes raised on platforms K.H.C. in purple, 18th century script 'D' in ink 15.1cm., 6in. minor restoration to pennant and left hand The K.H.C. mark, for Kšnigliche Hof Conditorey indicates that this figure was delivered to the Royal Court Pantry in Dresden of Augustus III, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony. Provenance Royal Court Pantry, Dresden
A fine Meissen figure of a girl playing the bassoon circa 1750-55 from the Madchenkapelle, draped with a flower garland and wearing a blue bodice and white skirt decorated with flowers and a lavender sash, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrolls and applied with leaves and flowers crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue 14.2cm., 5.5625in. tiny chip to her right big toe For similar figure, and other from the Madchenkapelle, or series of girl musicians, see Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Bad Pyrmonter Privatbesitz, exhibition catalogue, Museum im Schloss, Bad Pyrmont 2002, pp.170f. Literature George Savage, 18th Century German Porcelain, London 1958, pl.62a (illustrated)
A very rare Naples group of a gentleman and a child from the series 'Le panchine del Real Passegio' Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, circa 1795 modelled by Filippo Tagliolini, the gentleman wearing a black hat, black-striped jacket with gilt buttons, yellow waistcoat and trousers, the child holding a fruit in his outstretched right hand, wearing a turquoise hat and iron-red costume with ruff collar and a blue sash 16cm., 6.25in. some restoration See Angela Car˜la-Perrotti, La Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli., no.430b, for a group of two adults and an identical figure of a child. This model does not appear to be recorded in the literature.
the impressive group of orders and medals awarded to Brigadier-General Sir Douglas Dawson, Royal Household, late Coldstream Guards, comprising: Royal Victorian Order (G.C.V.O.), Knight Grand Cross set of insignia, comprising sash badge and breast star (both officially numbered 351); Order of the Bath (K.C.B.), Civil Division, Knight Commander’s set, hallmarked 1922-3; Order of the Bath (C.B.), Military Division, Companion’s neck badge, all in fitted cases of issue with appropriate ribbons; Order of St. Michael & St. George (C.M.G.), Companion’s breast badge, in gold and enamel, converted for neck wear; Egypt & Soudan, 1882, rev. dated, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (Lieut., 2/Cdm. Gds.); Jubilee, 1887, with bar 1897; Coronations, 1902 & 1911, both silver; France, Legion dHonneur, Grand Officer’s badge, in gold and enamel, with riband rosette; Turkey, Order of the Medjidjie, 5th (?) class badge; Khedive’s bronze star for 1882, these last seven mounted court-style and contained in a Hunt & Roskell case; together with Order of the Garter, Secretary’s badge, by Garrard, in silver-gilt and enamel; the State Chamberlain’s Key, GVR, in silver-gilt, with riband for wearing, both in fitted cases of issue; and a Grant of Arms to the recipient dated 1915, with seal, in GVR tooled leather box of issue, all items extremely fine, the Garter Secretary’s badge extremely rare and the ceremonial key unique (lot) Sold with this lot is a mss. note by Sir Douglas Dawson explaining that he was the first and only State Chamberlain, thereby making his ceremonial key unique: key worn by me in Household dress as State Chamberlain 1920-25. The appt was created in 1920 and abolished when I retired. The Lord Chamberlain being by then a permanent official, the post was no longer necessary. i was thus the first and last State Chamberlain
insignia bestowed upon Lady [Aimee] Evelyn Dawson, G.B.E.: Order of the British Empire (G.B.E.), Civil Division, Dame Grand Cross set of insignia, sash badge and breast star, type 1, but incorporating a type 2 sash, in Garrard’s fitted case of issue; Coronation, 1911 (unnamed), on riband bow, extremely fine (3) Lady Aimee Evelyn Dawson married Sir Douglas Dawson in 1903 and was one of the first female recipients of the G.B.E.
Medals - A Second World War group, comprising War Medal and Defence Medal; a National Independent Order of Oddfellows Past Provincial Grand Master medal, engraved to Bro. Hugh Macleod, Inverness District, 1952; a Rotary International Past President stick pin; a friendly society sash; and and enamelled jewel depicting St. George and the dragon and St. Michael.
louis Charles Hippolyte Buhot french School (1815-1865) a pair of bronze cupids each holding a dove and draped in a sash, gazing downwards, on rocaille cast circular plinth base, struck with maker's stamp in capital letters, copper patination (2) 47cm high, plinths 20cm deep note: Buhot began his career at the end of the neo-Classical period of French sculpture as a student of David d'Angers at the École des Beaux-Arts, first exhibiting at the Salon in 1837 and becoming a regular participant in its exhibitions until 1865. His works in bronze are primarily figurative.
An MBE Civil, in case of issue; an Elizabeth II Coronation Medal; a Defence Medal and War Medal; a National Service Medal; a Civil Defence Long Service Medal-cased; a copy of a Victoria Cross; a miniature group of six medals for the above; a Festival of Britain 1951 crown-cased; an 18 carat gold Sir Winston Churchill commemorative medallion; three fobs; a 2005 five pound coin; an RAF badge; a copy of a German Luftwaffe medal; two masonic aprons, a sash, four Masonic jewels, a teaspoon, a shoe horn in leather case and a box
Medals and Miscellaneous Items Relating to Captain C H Whitby, of the South Staffordshire Regiment, comprising;- France & Germany Star, 1939/45 War Medal, Defence Medal and Army Long Service Good Conduct Medal (George VI) with clasp REGULAR ARMY, awarded to 4907187 S JT. C H WHITBY.S.STAFF.R.; together with photographs, maps and ephemera; a battle dress, dress cap, pith helmet, Sam Browne, red Orderly Officer's sash, and a walking cane with South Staffordshire Regimental badge to the pommel.
*Engineering Drawings. A large folio album of original engineering and architectural drawings by W. Mulholland, R. I. E. College, 1891-94, containing fifty mostly folding pen, ink and some with watercolour wash drawings of engineering subjects, including machine details, spur gearing, machine cock, bridge construction, Chain Survey at Cooper's Hill, Trigonometrical Survey at Cooper's Hill, Railway Project, a 20-hp Turbine, and some architectural studies, including Queen Post Roof, sash window, surburban villa residence, etc., each signed and dated, all bound in contemp. half morocco, heavily rubbed and a little wear, large folio (1)
An unusual late Regency period mahogany four-slope metamorphic library reading table. the hinged rectangular drop leaf top, fitted at each end with brass page stays, on ratchet supports, assisted by a central sash and counter weight action, each corner with brass ferrules possibly intended for candle sconces (not present), the frieze at each end containing a slide above two graduated short drawers,one enclosing stationery fittings and a pair of smaller pull out slopes on ratchet supports, the whole with a rise-and-fall mechanism on a hand-cranked brass winding screw, the turned column carved with stiff acanthus above a gadrooned collar, on a quadrapartite platform base with bun feet and recessed castors 125cm long, 104cm wide extended . Probably of Scottish manufacture and possibly a hitherto unrecorded 'patent' design. Interestingly, the ratchet action allows the flaps to form a table top at their finial point of extension, this together with the presence of slides and a writing compartment suggests a multitude of uses within the library or even Music Room.
George III: a very rare rectangular earthenware plaque possibly by the Portobello factory moulded with a half-length profile looking to dexter within an integral frame, painted in flesh tones with black wig, yellow Garter Star, blue armoured shoulder and pink lustre sash, flowers and foliage in red, olive green and purple lustre to each of the four corners, the frame lined in black and green, circa 1780, 164 x 149mm, restored

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