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Click here to subscribeDinky 942 Foden (2nd type) 14-ton "Regent" Tanker - finished in white, blue, red including Supertoy hubs with black treaded Tyres, silver trim, tow hook. Appears Good to Good+ with some very minor marks on edges in a generally Good blue and white striped lift off lid box (slightly grubby with pencil on lid). See photos.
A post-War M.V.O. group of seven awarded to Lance-Corporal E. V. Schopman, Royal Army Service Corps, attached British Army Newspaper Unit, later Royal Household Account Executive, Harrison & Sons, Printers The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 5th Class breast badge, silver nad enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘1487’; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1977, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style as worn, with Defence Council enclosure and named card box of issue for the Second War awards, addressed to ‘Mr. E. V. Schopman, M.V.O., Horizons, 1b Anthony Close Poughill, Bude, N-Cornwall, EX23 9HD’, the Second War awards all later issues, extremely fine (7) £400-£500 --- M.V.O. London Gazette 3 June 1978. Edward Victor Schopman was born on 17 August 1918, and at the age of 14 was apprenticed to a firm of printers. He attested for the Royal Army Service Corps on 16 July 1939, and served during the Second World War with the British Army Newspaper Unit, latterly stationed in Venice. Post-War, he was employed by Messrs Harrison & Sons, Printers (a firm that held three Royal Warrants as Printers for the Royal Household and various Government Departments), and was latterly the firm’s Royal Household Account Executive. For his services he was created a Member of the Royal Victorian Order shortly before his retirement to Cornwall. Sold with a copy of the Statutes of the Royal Victorian Order; three Central Chancery letters regarding the M.V.O.; Bestowal Certificate for the Silver Jubilee Medal; and a large quantity of copied research, including copies of the recipient’s Army record of service.
Five: Private T. L. Fearn, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, attached 1st Docks Operating Group, Royal Engineers, who was killed in action when the S.S. Yoma was torpedoed and sunk off the Libyan coast on 17 June 1943 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. H. Fearn, 10 Birley Rise Road, Birley Carr, Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield 6.’, mounted for display in a glazed display frame, extremely fine (5) £100-£140 --- Thomas Leslie Fearn was born in Ecclesfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, on 22 January 1919. He attested for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps at Aldershot on 16 October 1939, and served with them during the Second World War in North Africa. He was killed in action, presumed drowned at sea, when his transport ship the S.S. Yoma was torpedoed and sunk off the port of Derna, Libya, on the morning of 17 June 1943, with the loss of 484 lives. He is commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey. Sold with a silver cigarette case inscribed ‘T. L. Fearn, 21st Birthday, Jan: 22nd 1940’; the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; the recipient’s bed plate stamped ‘No. 8134 T. Fearn’; official notification of death; a postcard photograph of the recipient; various other postcards written to the recipient; and and a small framed photograph of the recipient.
A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ O.B.E. group of three awarded to Major W. C. Reid, 32nd Lancers, Indian Army, who was also Mentioned in Despatches; he later served as Commandant of the Myitkyina Battalion, Burma Military Police The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt. W. C. Reid, 32/Lncrs.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Maj. W. C. Reid.) mounted court-style together with the riband for the Victory Medal with M.I.D. oak leaves; together with the recipient’s related group of four miniature dress medals and riband bar, all housed in a Spink, London, fitted case, gilding somewhat rubbed on OBE, generally very fine (3) £400-£500 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Mesopotamia.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919 (Mesopotamia). Walter Clarke Reid was born in London, Ontario, on 12 April 1881, and was educated at Huron College School and the Royal Military College. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant on the Unattached List on 27 August 1902, and was appointed to the Indian Army on 28 January 1904. Posted to the 32nd Lancers, he was promoted Lieutenant on 27 November 1904, and Captain on 27 August 1911. He was appointed Assistant Commandant, Burma Military Police Battalion at Taunggyi on 10 April 1912, before reverting to Regimental duty in 1914, and served with the 32nd Lancers during the Great War on the Western Front from 26 August 1914 to 15 June 1917. Promoted Major on 27 August 1917, he saw further service in Mesopotamia from 14 August 1918, and for his services there was Mentioned in Lieutenant-General Sir W. R. Marshall’s Despatch of 7 February 1919, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Post-War, Reid was appointed Squadron Commander of the 32nd Lancers on 1 January 1919, and then Commandant of the Myitkyina Battalion, Burma Military Police, on 24 May 1923. He retired on 23 October 1928, and died in Canada on 4 June 1934. Sold with the following related items: i) The recipient’s Mess Jacket, waistcoat, and sash, these severely moth damaged ii) A hallmarked silver cigar box, the lid engraved with the bade of the 32nd Lancers; together with a small vesta box iii) The recipient’s Journal for the Summer of 1907, spent on a Bear-hunting trip with a friend called Hogg to Chamba in the foothills of the Himalayas, type-written with a good selection of photographs, including various photographs of the various Bears that the recipient bagged, the first few pages water damaged, and the spine and front cover board missing iv) Four original studio portrait photographs of the recipient; together with a photograph of the recipient mounted on a horse v) 32nd Lancers unit insignia; and copied research.
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1916, unnamed as issued; together with a circular silver Snuff Box, the lid engraved ‘Capt. E. J. Minster from W. E. J. Sept. 1901’, good very fine £100-£140 --- Edward James Minister was born at Cardigan, South Wales, in 1870. He qualified for the Merchant Marine on 28 August 1890 and appears on the Navy List that and every subsequent year until 1939. He joined the Royal Naval Reserve as a Sub-Lieutenant on 5 April 1897 and was promoted Lieutenant on 20 December 1898 and Lieutenant-Commander on 20 December 1906. He was awarded the Royal Naval Reserve Decoration in 1915. He travelled very widely during his career, particularly to the West Indies. He died in autumn 1939. Sold with a group photograph of the officers S.M.S. Nürnberg, annotated as being taken at Zanzibar, and thus dated to March 1910 when the ship was on its way from Germany to join the German East Asia Fleet. The Nürnberg was sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914, all but seven of her crew of 322 being lost.
Family Group: Three: Private W. C. Hopkins, 2nd (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), London Regiment 1914-15 Star (4617 Pte. W. C. Hopkins. 2-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (4617 Pte. W. C. Hopkins. 2-Lond. R.) mounted for wear; together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘294721’, extremely fine Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. C. Hopkins. V. Div.) in named card box of issue; together with the related miniature award, extremely fine (4) £100-£140 --- William Charles Hopkins attested for the 2nd Battalion, London Regiment, on 2 June 1915, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 October 1915. Transferring to the Labour Corps, he was discharged due to sickness on 3 December 1917, and was awarded a Silver War Badge no. 294721. Sold with the recipient’s riband bar.
SNUFF BOX, SPIRIT FLASK, WALLET & POCKET WATCH, the 19th C. burrwood snuffbox with tortoiseshell lining 9.5cms (w), spirit flask with plated mounts, 13.5cms (h), wallet with silver corners hallmarked for 1902, 13.5cms (h), keywind silver watch with hallmarks for 1867, lever movement signed 'Geo Stromich, Glasgow', 10958, 5cms (diam) (4)Provenance: private collection CardiffComment: lid of snuff loose and old nibbles, wallet leather exterior worn and dinted silver corners, flask generally good, watch not running, dial cracked, seconds hand broken, glass replaced with perspex.
TIFFANY & CO SILVER 1837 BANGLE, stamped with signature, '925' and '1997', 31.3gmsProvenance: private collection Caerphilly County BoroughComments: wear, tarnishing, no box or certificate, sold as seen Condition Report:The internal diameter is 60mmThe outside diameter is 65cmsThe inside circumference is approximately 170mm5mm wide
THE ROYAL MINT 19TH C. GREAT SEALS OF THE REALM, limited edition (497/1000) boxed collection containing five oversized 63mm silver medals, Queen Victoria 1838--1860, George III 1801-1815, George III 1815-1821, George IV 1821-1831, William IV 1831-1838, each min. 5oz silverProvenance: private collection West WalesComments: presented in original wooden fitted box, COA and paperwork
ASSORTED JEWELLERY & COLLECTABLES comprising Tego & Co silver chunky 'O' bracelet, believed Mikimoto pearls in J & M Perkin box, pair of 9ct gold set black pearl earrings, black bead cross pendant on bead chain in Butler and Wilson box, magnifying loop, crocodile skin handbagProvenance: private collection GwyneddComments: wear overall, viewing recommended
An Indian lead alloy bidri wear box, 19th centuryOf rectangular form with chamfered top, inlaid with silver stylised flowers and foliage.10cm wideProvenance:Acquired by Lt-Col Thomas Moore Kirkwood (1865-1933) while serving with the Indian Army in Tibet from 1903-04, thence by descent to the vendor.
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