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Click here to subscribe1914 Star,with Mons bar (7808 Pte A.Royle. 1/R.Sc:Fus.). British War Medal (26463 Pte J.G.Shortland. Ches.R.). Victory Medal, Italian issue. Belgium, Croix de Guerre. Temperance Medal 1897. Peace medal. 1910-1935 Silver Jubilee medallion in box. With two photographs and a menu. Very fine. (Lot)
The Second World War S.O.E., D.S.O. and bar group of three to Major Claude de Baissac, Special Operations Executive, attached General List,Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., dated (1943), with separate second award bar (1946) in box of issue; France, Legion of Honour, Knight's breast badge; France, Croix de Guerre, dated 1939 with palme. Liberation of the Concentration Camps Medal in bronze, engraved (C.V.R. Au Major C. De Baissac Notre Reconnaissance 1944-1969), in box of issue.Together with the medals to his father-in law, The M.V.O. group of six to Brigadier General E.A.Herbert, late 6th Dragoons, The Royal Victoria Order, M.V.O., numbered (225); Queen's South Africa 1899-2902, two bars, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Major.E.A.Herbert. 6/Drgns.); King's South Africa, two bars, S.A.01, S.A.02 (Major E.A.Herbert Innis. Dgns.); British War and Victory Medal with M.I.D. Oakleaf (Brig Gen. E.A.Herbert); Jubilee 1897, silver issue, court mounted as worn with corresponding miniatures which include a C.M.G., and a Serbian Order of the White Eagle. Extremely fine. (Lot)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: *
A mixed box of items including a matched pair of hallmarked silver candle sticks, framed proof coin sets, cigarette case, photographs, a plated box of simulated pearls, a Dinky Toys 660 tank transporter, two miniature portrait photographs, a hallmarked silver ingot on chain, some equestrienne related prints, a bronze medallion inscribed "Prison Walls Cannot Control The Flight of the Soul", London 2012 Paralympic games badges etc.
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A RARE JAPANESE CHRISTIAN PIPE, KISERU EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY The body in paulownia wood with removable gilt mounts, the stem in two halves opening to reveal the hidden depiction of Christ on the cross, together with a tomobako wood box, 15.7cm. (4) Christianity first appeared in Japan in the 16th century with the arrival of Navarrese missionary Francis Xavier (1506-1552). It quickly reached the higher strata of society, with Daimyo families such as the Satsuma clan joining the faith, partly to have access to imported goods (such as guns) Portuguese Jesuits were trading in. Christianity was fully banned from Japan by Tokugawa after the Shimabara rebellion of 1637-38 during which Christian peasants rebelled against the Shogunate. Other factors led to the ban, including the possible involvement of Portuguese Jesuits and suspicions that converts were spies for foreign powers. The edict outlawed the promulgation of and adherence to the religion. It also marked the beginning of a long period of anti-Christian persecutions that lasted for two and a half centuries. Sign boards such as lot 266 where set up all over the country, encouraging people to report Christians to the authorities for various financial rewards (500 pieces of silver for a priest, or 100 for an ordinary convert). Symbols and objects used for Christian worship were destroyed or desecrated. Lot 268 is an example of this iconoclasm, with the inscriptions to the sides of the incense burner erased to hide its original use. Christian practitioners who refused to renege their faith had to go into hiding and worship in secret. Figures of Kannon, the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, and of Amida Buddha (lot 267) were adapted to resemble Christian iconography and become the central point of focus of hidden altars. Crosses and figures of Christ (lot 269) were hidden in ordinary objects such as this fake smoking pipe. After the Meiji restoration and the re-establishment of religious freedom, more than 30,000 secret Christians came out of hiding in the 1870s.
A JAPANESE LACQUER DOCUMENT BOX AND COVER, RYOSHIBAKO EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH CENTURY Of rectangular form, decorated in hiramaki-e, nashiji and gold and silver takamaki-e, the lid with two beauties playing hanetsuki (Japanese battledore) and with pine, bamboo and flowering prunus around them, Mount Fuji and a village of thatched buildings visible in the background, the reverse with two carps in a stream, the sides of the box with a band of key fret and scrolling tendrils, together with an inner tray, kakego, 14cm x 26.5cm x 35cm. (3)
A JAPANESE SILVER AND LACQUER TABLE CABINET, KODANSU MEIJI PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY Of rectangular shape with a lobbed handle to the top, the surface decorated with patterns of chidori (plovers) swimming on a stream, with petals of sakura flowers amongst the scrolling waves, a hinged door to the front revealing a black lacquer interior with three pull-out drawers, marked underneath with a swallow in flight for the factory of Hattori Kintaro (1860-1934), in a tomobako wooden box with a paper label for 'K.Hattori & Co, Ginza Tokyo', 11.8cm x 10.2cm x 13.4cm. (2)
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