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A World War I Military Medal group, awarded to 106244 Corp F B Williams of the Royal Garrison Artillery Also War for Civilisation medal, copy of the London Gazette dated 20th August 1919 with a citation 255th siege battery (Liverpool), silver George V Services Rendered badge no 98287 (3).
A Medieval gold posy ring, 13th/early 14th century, the exterior with Lombardic inscription, weight 1 gram, diameter 19mm. Inscribed "+AMIEENM.ST.MA.VIEBEL EGIE.V". Sold with the H M Coroner report, treasure number 2015 T74, PAS database number YORYM-0A0FD2, the gold has also been electronically tested as 98% pure gold with silver and copper. Posy rings, the name deriving from poesy ('poetry'), are rings with inscriptions that express affection, friendship and love. Rhyming or cryptic inscriptions were fashionable from around 1200-1500, and were written in Latin but more commonly in French, the language of courtly love. Both these languages were spoken and understood fairly widely by the elite in medieval Europe. The repetition of particular inscriptions suggest that goldsmiths had reference books of stock phrases; the more unusual inscriptions perhaps indicate a client's individual request. The circular hoop could be engraved both inside and out; until around 1350 the style of lettering took the form of the rounded capitals, known as Lombardic script, and from that date until after 1500 lettering was in the spiky script known as Gothic. The British Museum has over 700 Posy rings in their collection, although they all date from the 16th century onwards. The Portable Antiquities Scheme list a similar period ring, although with a vacant setting, found in the Sleaford area of Lincolnshire in 2013, find number LIN-A1E7B8. This ring was found on land in North Cave, East Riding of Yorkshire in 2015 that was once part of the Hotham estate. The manor of Hotham was purchased in 1719 by the Burton family and in 1773 they added the neighbouring Metham estate bought from Sir George Montgomery Metham. The Methams of Metham near Howden, were large land owners in the East Riding and had an estate in the area since the Middle Ages. Their lineage can be traced back to Sir John Metham, born about 1208, in the reign of King John, to Thomas Metham c1240-1317 (Henry III), John Metham c1270-1312 (Edward I) and Thomas Metham c1300-1355 (Edward II and III), all of whom would fit into the time line of this ring. In the 16th century, the staunchly Catholic Sir Thomas Metham was knighted during the reign of Queen Mary and imprisoned under Elizabeth I, dying at York Castle in 1573. In the 1600s, his descendant, another Sir Thomas, fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War and was killed at the battle of Marston Moor; during the same campaign, his son, Jordan, lost his life at one of three sieges by the Parliamentarians of Pontefract Castle. By the 18th century, however, the family had fallen on hard times, and in the late 1700s, the last of the line, Sir George Metham, who reputedly led 'a reckless roystering life', sold his heavily indebted estate, dying in poverty at nearby North Cave in 1793.
A Victorian silver presentation beaker, by Charles & George Fox, London 1842, of plain form with a reeded waisted band, height 9.5 cm, weight 6.5 oz. Inscribed to the base "J.W. Geldert, LLD, RPCL, Cambridge, to , the Rev. S.H. Banks, LLD, Vicar of Dullingham, 1842" Between 1830 and 1836 S. H. Banks, vicar from 1828, built a new vicarage on the vicarial allotment at the west end of the village street
A George III/IV silver composite canteen of Old English pattern cutlery, for six place settings, various makers and London dates, comprising; table forks (four crested), dessert forks, eleven dessert spoons, tea spoons, together with pistol grip table knives and dessert knives, (Sheffield 1975), weight of weighable silver 34 oz.
A cranberry glass dish, of circular form loose mounted in a Holmes and Edwards silver plated frame, with chased and pierced border and two ivorine handles, 28cm wide, a Continental large green glass hock goblet gilded with fruiting vines around a view of Coblenz, 23cm high and a blue glass decanter enamelled and gilded with a kingfisher in flight over water, 18cm high (3)
Jonathon Farrar - a 19th century marquetry long case clock, the 30 hour movement (associated) striking on a bell, the 10" brass dial and the silver chapter ring with black Roman numerals signed Jonathon Farrar Fecit, the square topped hood to a bird and floral decorated trunk, 205cm high
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