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Click here to subscribeA 19th Century 22ct gold Indian/Sri Lankan incense burner section or bezoar stone holders, the rounded vessel with open aperture at the upper rim and base, cast and pierced with a series eight-point stars before scrolling foliate and bird designs, height 6cm, diameter 7.5cm, tested as 22ct gold, 134.6g.
A GEORGE III NAVETTE SHAPED PAPIER MACHE SNUFF BOX, C1790, 75MM L, AN EARLY 19TH C ROUND PAPIER MACHE SNUFF BOX, THE COVER PAINTED WITH THE HEAD OF A MAN, A CARVED STONE MODEL OF A BIRD AND A CONTINENTAL MINIATURE PORCELAIN SCENT BOTTLE, WITH RAISED GILT FLORAL DECORATION, C1880 (4) Navette snuff box - split at one end. Round snuff box worn and chipped. Bird - beak chipped and a chip under the base. Scent bottle undamaged, stopper affixed and socket glue in situ
A CAST IRON PUB TABLE, MASON'S PRIZE BAR FITTINGS, 20TH C, A WHITE PAINTED TUBULAR METAL GARDEN TABLE WITH RECONSTITUTED STONE TOP, DAMAGED AND AN ORNATE CAST METAL CONSERVATORY PLANT STAND IN VICTORIAN STYLE, 105CM H; 110CM W All three items showing some minor surface rust, signs of use, etc
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteA post-War ‘Aden’ B.E.M. for Gallantry pair awarded to Private A. D. Kent, 1st Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment, who on two separate occasions gave essential initial first aid and care to comrades who had been grievously wounded in terrorist explosions, keeping them alive during the crucial ‘golden hour’ until they could receive skilled medical care British Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (23921727 Pte. Anthony D. Kent, R. Anglian); General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Radfan, South Arabia (23921727 Pte. A. D. Kent, B.E.M., 1. E. Anglian) nearly extremely fine (2) £600-£800 --- B.E.M. London Gazette 14 September 1965: ‘On 12 March 1965, Private Kent was with his platoon carrying out duties in aid of the civil power based on Sheikh Othman Police Station. Although trained as a stretcher bearer, he was a normal member of a rifle section. At about 2030 hours a terrorist rocket exploded in Platoon Headquarters wounding the Platoon Sergeant and the radio operator. The Platoon Sergeant, Sergeant Smith, received extremely severe facial injuries, the front of his face above the lower jaw being blown free and attached only by a skin flap. Private Kent immediately gave first aid to Sergeant Smith, who was bleeding profusely and for the next twenty-five minutes prevented him from either choking or bleeding to death. It is the opinion of Wing Commander E. R. Griffiths, the consultant in Orthopaedic Surgery at the RAF Hospital Steamer Point, who saw Smith on Admission, that the first aid treatment given by Private Kent was a major contribution towards Smith’s survival. On 31 December 1964 Private Kent had also been present immediately after a mine exploded in the Wadi Taym, killing Private Fraser, gravely wounding Corporal Andrews and seriously injuring Private Barrell. On that occasion also, Private Kent administered first aid and treatment to both the living casualties until skilled medical assistance arrived. Private Kent was eighteen in July 1964. On both these occasions the skill of this young soldier exercised under difficult and dangerous conditions undoubtedly helped save the lives of his comrades.’ Antony David ‘Tony’ Kent was born in Norwich in 1946. After leaving school he enlisted in the army and was able to join his local county regiment, which at that time was 1 East Anglian Regiment (being renamed 1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment from 1 July 1964). In January 1964 it departed from Felixstowe for a two-year residential tour in Aden as a garrison battalion. It was based at the modern Waterloo Barracks on the isthmus joining the mainland to Aden city, which was built in and around an extinct volcano (mostly surrounded by the sea). Kent was a member of 7th Platoon, ‘B’ Company, and was also trained for stretcher bearer duties during conventional war, which suggests that he was taught basic first aid skills and also became a member of the regimental band (which traditionally provided first-aid parties in battle). The first manifestation of the serious trouble that was to ensue occurred, not in Aden itself, but in its hinterland, in the mountainous area known as the Radfan, through which the road from Aden passed on its way to the Emirate of Dhala, 80 miles to the north, where there was a British garrison. The Dhala area was close to the Yemen frontier and had always been turbulent. Sending convoys from Aden to Dhala required a two-day operation with an escort of armoured cars and infantry, who secured the hills overlooking the route by placing picquets. Service in the Aden hinterland resembled the years of skirmish and ambush on the North-West Frontier of India; the burning sun and lack of water, the craggy, scrub-covered hills, the wild tribesmen, each with his rifle, the wheeling hawks, the stone villages with every house built like a miniature fortress. The 1st East Anglian Regiment became involved in the operations amid the towering peaks and fertile wadis of the Radfan mountains in early May 1964. Throughout the month and into June the force steadily drove the hostile tribesmen from the area, until only the final objective of the Force Commander remained to be captured, the Jebel Huriyah, which at 5,500 feet was the highest peak in the Radfan. On the night of 10-11 June 1st East Anglian scaled the heights of the great Jebel, their route up the jagged slopes lit by flares dropped by Shackleton bombers. By 04.50 hours they were on the summit, looking down at the lights of Aden city 40 miles to the south. The Regiment held the mountain-top for a week, until it returned to Aden on 18 June. September 1964 and the months that followed found the 1st Battalion Royal Anglians, as they had become, carrying out internal security tasks in Aden city, with its Companies rotating on detachment at Dhala and at another frontier outpost to the east, Mukeiras. The Battalion spent two more periods in the Radfan before the end of the year. During the second, 7 Platoon was tasked to patrol the well-populated, fertile Wadi Taym, and suffered three casualties from a land mine on the last day of 1964. Private Fraser was killed and Corporal Andrews and Private Barrell severely wounded. The 18 year-old Kent distinguished himself by giving first aid and caring for the two wounded men until qualified medical personnel arrived. As the Egyptian-backed anti-British terrorist campaign began to build up in 1965, the Battalion had the following responsibilities for the first three months: manning joint military/police headquarters, providing foot patrols, four pairs of mobile patrols, a platoon at immediate notice, and cordons and searches of highly insalubrious areas in Crater and Sheikh Othman, a totally Arab town on the mainland through which the road to Dhala passed. One of the terrorists’ main aims was to eliminate the local Special Branch and undermine the police force through murder, intimidation and infiltration. This effort was effective, and it caused the flow of information and intelligence to dry up. On the evening of 12 March, a Belgian-made Blindicide improved bazooka was used to fire a HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) rocket-propelled grenade capable of punching through a metre of concrete and then releasing a shower of molten copper fragments. The target was Sheikh Othman police station, now a lone fortified outpost in a totally hostile area. Most of the local police had either been killed, had resigned or been forced to flee, so the station was in effect an army base. Whoever fired the Blindicide knew the internal layout of the police station, because they targeted the Operations Room. The personnel on duty in the Operations Room at the time were all from 7 Platoon headquarters of 'B' Company. The explosion seriously wounded the Platoon Sergeant, Sergeant Smith, and destroyed the wireless and the landline telephones. Private Elba-Porter, the platoon signaller, was wounded in the face and shoulder. Though temporarily blinded in one eye, he fetched another radio set and continued to pass orders so that effective counter-measures could be taken. 120 locals were rounded up for search and questioning. Private Kent, who was close to but not inside the Operations Room at the time ...
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteAn Order of St. John, Edward Medal of the Second Class group of four awarded to Mr. C. W. Hudson, for the gallant ten-hour rescue of an entombed miner at the Ireland Colliery, Staveley, Derbyshire, on 28 February 1916 The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background; Edward Medal (Mines), G.V.R., 1st issue, bronze (Charles William Hudson); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue, 1 clasp, Long Service 1939 (Charles Hudson.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, with Three Additional Award Bars (5836 C/Offr. C. W. Hudson. Staveley Ireland Col. Div. No. 5 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1927.) contact marks, nearly very fine and better (4) £1,000-£1,400 --- E.M. London Gazette 27 June 1916: Charles William Hudson, Contractor, employed at the Ireland Colliery, Staveley, Derbyshire (in a joint citation with Harold Gregory, Under Manager; Charles Benjamin Franklin, Day Deputy; Edward Nurse, Stallman; and Thomas Smith, Stallman, all similarly employed) ‘On the 28th February 1916, at 7:00 a.m., a fall of roof occurred at the Ireland Colliery, by which a filler named John William Fieldsend was imprisoned. Gregory, Franklin, Hudson, Nurse, and Smith at once set to work to open a passage through the fallen roof in order to rescue their fellow workman. The roof was everywhere very uneasy and a further fall was liable to occur at any moment. Owing to the narrowness of the place, only one man could work at the head of the passage (the most dangerous place), while the remaining four, one behind the other, passed out the material removed, the men taking by turns the post of danger. After about three hours’ work, at 10:00 a.m. a further fall occurred, closing the passage which had been made for three yards. Fortunately the workers escaped without injury. Work was at once resumed, and Fieldsend was reached. As soon, however, as an attempt was made to remove him from under a piece of timber, by which he was pinned down, a third fall occurred, blocking up the passage for about four yards, and displacing much of the timber which had been used to prop up the roof and walls of the passage as it was made. Finally, at 5:00 p.m., after 10 hours’ continuous work, Fieldsend was reached and taken out of the pit. He was not much injured. All five men ran continuous risk, during the whole 10 hours, of serious injury or death from falls of roof.’ Charles William Hudson’s own statement reads: ‘I was at the top of Inkersall jinney when a messenger came from the undermanager to say that a man was buried in 105s stall. I went to the place at once and found a heavy fall of roof had occurred. Ted Nurse and Tom Smith were the only two men there, the deputy Franklin came very soon after. Kelly and some others were working at the fall from 106s side. We set to and got some stone cleared away and some props set and some sprags between the coal and the fall to hold it, and then proceeded with getting the dirt away to make a way through. The loose stones of the fall were pushing all the time towards the face and were in very large pieces. The place was very uneasy and weighting all the time more or less.’ Harold Gregory’s own statement reads: ‘I am Under Manager at the Colliery. I heard of the fall at about 8:00 a.m. and I went to the place following Hudson, a contractor, and got there at about 8:30 a.m., where I found the place on left side broken down for about 15 yards along the face to the buttock end, and for about 7 yards back towards the goaf from the face. Charles Franklin, the deputy of the District, and Tom Smith and Ted Nurse (Stallmen in 105 stall adjoining) were working at the fall in 105 stall, and John Kelly and John Davis were working at it at the other end of the fall in 106 stall, but they were later withdrawn, as gas was coming off strong and there was a danger of a further fall occurring here. Work was therefore confined to the 105 stall end. Fieldsend replied to a shout. We set to timber sprags from the coal to hold back the fallen material. We had set about 5 split bars and 2 long props and got close to Fieldsend at bout 10:00 a.m. when a further fall of about 10 tons occurred and closed the place again for 3 yards back. Hudson, Franklin, Nurse, Smith, and myself were engaged in Indian file fashion removing the dirt as there was only room for one man at a time at the place. The place was on weight all the time. We removed the second fall and got to Fieldsend again and could see he was fastened down by a gob prop across his back and neck and there was little dirt on him also. We could not get at him because of a piece of bind at the end of the tub barring progress. As soon as we broke this bind a further fall occurred about 1:30 p.m. This time about 30 tons fell and closed the place again for about 4 yards back; it also pushed 3 or 4 props out about 12 inches at the foot. Work was proceeded with and we got this third face cleared sufficiently by 5:00 p.m. to enable us to get at Fieldsend and pull him out. He was not much injured but was bruised and was taken out of the pit and examined by Dr. Court and then taken home.’ Charles Benjamin Franklin’s own statement adds the following: ‘I am the Day Deputy of the District. I had just got to the jinney top about 200 yards from the stall when I was informed that a fall had occurred in 105s and that a man was buried. I at once went to the place and found a heavy fall had occurred right up to the face and about 15 to 20 yards long and had closed up the gob. I examined both sides of it. No one was working at it then, it was about 7:00 a.m. I started men working at both ends... At about 5:00 p.m. got through to Fieldsend and dragged him out. Charles Hudson, a stoneman, Ted Nurse and Tom Smith assisted me. We had to work in single file and hand the dirt back to each other as there was only room for one at a time at the front and we took it in turn to work there. The fall had a very steep side and stones kept sliding down from a big cavity in the roof on the right side.’ For their gallantry the five rescuers were invested with their Edward Medals by H.M. the King at Buckingham Palace on 11 July 1916; they were also each awarded £20, and a framed certificate, from the Carnegie Hero Fund Trust. Sold with copied research.
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteMilitary General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, Toulouse (A. Henderson, R. Arty.) carriage a little bent between first two clasps, small edge bruise, otherwise dark toned, very fine and better £1,200-£1,500 --- Alexander Henderson was born in Perthshire and attested for the Royal Artillery on 25 September 1803. He served his entire service as a gunner and was discharged on 31 May 1819. Muster rolls for Henderson’s service for the Peninsula war between January 1811 and December 1814 show that he joined the Royal Artillery on 25 September 1803, and that he served in Captain Stone’s Company of 9th Battalion. This Company was taken over by Captain Michell on 23 January 1813, but for much of this time, under both Captains Stone and Michell, it was commanded by the second in command, Second Captain Parker. The Company arrived in the Peninsula on 14 March 1812, and Henderson was with the Company throughout, except July to December 1813, where he is noted as being paid at Headquarters, and January until April 1814 when ‘On Command’. The original medal roll shows that claims for Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz were disallowed. Sold with discharge papers and muster details copied to CD.
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteChina, Empire, Order of the Double Dragon, 2nd type, Second Class, Third Grade neck badge, 48mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, with engraved red coral centre stone and smooth red coral upper stone, lacking suspension loop, nearly very fine £600-£800
A diamond set spray brooch, of tied scrolling form, set with brilliant and baguette cut diamonds, in white metal, approx 2.6cts, 13.5g. NB. Please note we have specific instructions from the vendor to sell WITHOUT RESERVE. On initial inspection the brooch is in good general condition. All stones are soundly set and are facing up. The back pin is slightly bent. Although hard to date we do not expect this piece to be of significant age. This would perhaps have been made within the last 40-60 years. The item is not hallmarked or bears any form of indication as to the metal or grade. We would expect it to be 18ct white gold but cannot confirm. No apparent evidence of modification or repair. All diamonds appear without any obvious chips, cracks or abrasions. Overall the stones are well colour matched E-F, clarity SI1/2. The largest round brilliant cut stone to the right of the centre is 2.8mm x 2.2mm, approx 0.11cts.
EIGHTEEN CARAT, NINE CARAT GOLD & OTHER JEWELLERY & WATCHES to include an eighteen carat gold diamond set ring (central stone missing), 2.2grms, size J, nine carat gold spinel set ring (one stone missing), 1.3grms, size K, nine carat gold heart shaped pendant on an unmarked fine link necklace, 0.8grms pendant only, single strand Ciro simulated pearl necklace with nine carat gold clasp, abalone white metal mounted pendant and necklace, Roamer Popular seventeen jewel gold plated watch on a leather strap, bi-colour Citizen Eco-drive stainless steel lady's watch along with a stainless steel lady's watch by M&S with leather strap
18, 9CT & GILT METAL JEWELLERY, six items including an 18ct gold diamond Solitaire ring, size mid O - P, 9ct gold cross on flat link necklace, 9ct heart shape locket on an 18ct gold necklace chain, unmarked yellow metal tie pin with black stone inset and two unmarked yellow metal necklace pendants, 18ct weighable, 5.5grms, 9ct weighable 4.5grms
18ct gold synthetic white stone half eternity ring, one other similar style ring and yellow metal chainCondition report: 18ct gold ring is hallmarked and weighs 3 grams. The other similar ring marked possibly “9ct Apex” but the number is rubbed off and weighs 2.2 grams. Chain is stamped 9ct on hoop next to the clasp and weighs 6.9g
Old Chinese gilt metal kingfisher feather hair pin with foliate decoartion, the flower set with alternating green hard stone panels and red cabochon to centre, 9.5cm long, and one other Chinese gilt metal kingfisher feather hair pin with butterfly decoration set with green hard stones and coral, 12cm long
18ct gold diamond five stone ring, with five old cut diamonds in platinum setting. Ring size L½Condition report: Weight 2.7gNot hallmarked- stamped “? & PLAT” which we believe to be 18ct.Estimated total diamond weight approximately 0.90- 1ctThe ring would benefit from a clean. The diamonds all have eye visible inclusions, fissures and some have chips. Claw setting and shank are in good condition commensurate with age. Circa 1920
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