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Click here to subscribe2 officer’s peaked caps: KC R Corps of Signals, PL peak and chinstrap with buttons, gilt and silver plated badge, and Geo VI RASC field officer, embroidered peak, enamelled badges; 3 OR’s caps: scarlet R Gloucester Hussars IY (replacement badge), blue and pale blue Northumberland H, plated KC badge and buttons and rifle green Green Jackets Brigade; 8 others. Average GC (few worn). (13)
A post-1902 RN Lieutenant’s cocked hat, bullion loop with button and tassels fore and aft; companion gilt lace epaulettes with silver embroidered fouled anchor, bullion tassels; in their velvet lined tin case with nameplate “E M Groves RN”. GC (minor wear, tin rusted, lid loose)
An RN Lieutenant’s (8 year service) cocked hat, c 1905, bullion loop and KC button, tassels fore and aft (some wear to brim); companion gilt lace epaulettes with silver embroidered star and fouled anchor, bullion tassels, Vic buttons; full dress waistbelt and slings with two embroidered stripes, good gilt WBC , and similar plain leather belt and slings for undress; pair white kid gloves; contained in their velvet lined tin case. Near VGC (tin some wear and vest)
An attractive 24 bore Coorg matchlock matchlock gun, 62” overall, octagonal barrel 48” secured by 2 broad engraved silver sleeves and 40 individual narrow silver bands, the steel sideplates overlaid with filigree decorated silver ‘saddle’, the butt decorated with 3 silver bands adorned with rosettes, hide covered ball terminal to butt, original silver tipped wooden ramrod. GC (some age wear and damage). Received too late for illustration
A good quality American silver coloured ring, the centre with insignia beneath domed glass, surrounded by “US Army National Guard”, the sides with US eagle and “Leyte Dragons”, the inside stamped “R Johns Ltd, 10KT” and engraved “Anthony Pennell”, GC; also a printed certificate of thanks for service in the armed forces, to Kenneth Harold Laister, with US seal at the top and facsimile signature of Truman. GC
A pair of cannon barrelled percussion boxlock pocket pistols, converted from flintlock, originally c 1775, by Turvy, London, 8” overall, turn off barrels 2½”, London and “Foreigners” proofs, engraved frames with maker’s name in scrolls, rounded walnut butts with silver wire scroll inlay and silver grotesque mask butt caps. GC (one action AF, one hammer nose detached but present, some wear) Plate 12
A 20 bore Turkish silver mounted flintlock holster pistol, 18” overall, plain round barrel 12¼”, flat lock with coarse engraved decoration, plain walnut fullstock; fully silver mounted, including sheet silver barrel bands and side plate, trigger guard with simple engraved and wriggle work decoration, and long spurred butt cap, all mounts bearing Turkish silver marks. GWO & C (cleaned overall, the ramrod replaced) Plate 11 Sale 477 Lot 1396
An untouched pair of 20 bore flintlock holster pistols, by Thomas, c 1775, 13½”, barrels 8” engraved with tear drop panels, early style rounded locks with swan neck cocks and unbridled frizzens, plain walnut fullstocks with plain silver wire inlaid panel around barrel tangs; brass mounts including oval escutcheons, open work sideplates and simple domed buttcaps, horn tipped ramrods. GWO&C, the locks retaining traces of original bright steel finish (barrels and locks lightly pitted overall, one ramrod slightly damaged and lacking worm). Plate 7
A suite of Persian 19th century Qjar armour khula khud, dhal and bazu band, chiselled overall with flowers and foliage in low relief, within damascened shaped cartouches, borders chiselled with cartouches and roundels of Islamic caligraphy silver damascened. Khula Khud with adjustable nasal bar, twin plume sockets, mail with decorative brass rings. Dhal diameter 18¾” with brass bound border and 4 central bosses. GC Plate 4
A Victorian cut brass cased toilet set, inlaid rosewood quatrefoils, the cover with a sunken brass handle, to a mirror and pocket, the leather lined partitioned interior with later glass jars having plated or silver covers, the top edge with buttons releasing a side and front drawer, 7.5in (19cm) h, 12in (30.5cm)
A mahogany chiming longcase clock, the three chain movement striking on tubes, the arched brass dish with a silver chapter ring with subsiding seconds dial and pierced fretwork, to chime/ silent and Westminster/ Whittington/St. Michael dials, in a carved and moulded case, 7ft (213.4cm) h
The Order of the Star of India, mantle type badge in metal, 6” diam, silver star upon blue enamelled Garter with “Heavens Light Our Guide”, upon copper sun in splendour. Rev with circular brass box, 6 brass wire loops GC, ( a little damage to enamel); 90 assorted medals, commemorative pieces etc, sports, safe driving awards etc, few HM silver, and 50 assorted issues of the Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin 1962-1980. QGC
A large silver plated shooting prize shield, with scrollwork, foliage, a kneeling soldier with rifle and tin helmet in the centre, and a scroll, supported by 2 female figures, engraved “Presented by Lt Col W McGee Armstrong to the Best Shooting Company of the 3rd (FS) Gn Bn Bedford Regt, Meiktila, April 1918”, on a shaped wooden board. Basically GC (some wear, and minor damage)
A fine and well documented Sultan of Oman Gallantry medal group, awarded posthumously to Major P.S. Wright, Royal Engineers, on secondment to the SAS and in command of the Jebel Regiment at the time of the award, 25th October 1973. Comprising Gallantry medal, miniature and ribbon bar, each with ribbon clasp, in silver and enamels, in fitted Asprey case of issue. His Oman campaign medals, as issued, unnamed, with ribbon and bar clasp, miniatures, ribbon bar, in Spink and Son case of issue. Also: Framed Buckingham Palace bestowal document, 25th October 1973, to Major P.S. Wright; An official notification and lengthy description of his outstanding gallantry action for the award from the Commander, Sultans Armed Forces, 23rd May 1973; His copy entry page in the book of remembrance, Sultan Armed Forces Association, Sandhurst; Official invitation to next of kin for the Memorial Service, and sundry Memorial Service literature, 8th September 1977; Two fine framed photographs of him in centre front of seated comrades; A series of original photographs of operations in Oman, some showing him, some from the RAF Field Squadron with "restricted" status; Two official dispatches, one from the MOD, 29th April 1971, the other from the Oman Artillery, 22nd May 1972, concerning operations in Oman, and a Daily Telegraph map of the Middle East; Four wall plaques, one named to him and one from the SAS Regiment.
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