Presentation Russian Pocket Watch, by Pavel Buhre, gold cased pocket watch, 48mm. diameter, with gold hands, with separate minute dial, inside case inscribed, ‘Presented by H.I.M. The Emperor of Russia to H. Wellard, August 1911’, the outer case embellished with an enamelled Imperial Russian eagle, in damaged leather case by H. White & Co., Cheapside, watch in extremely good condition £1000-1500

The R.V.M. group of eleven attributed to Harry Wellard, Footman to Queen Alexandra, was sold in these rooms on 28 March 2012. The group comprised:

Royal Victorian Medal, G.V.R., silver; Coronation 1911, silver; Jubilee 1935; Austria, Empire, Cross of Merit, with crown, silver and enamel; Prussia, Order of the Crown, Medal of the Order, gilt; Sweden, Order of the Vasa, Medal of the Order, silver; Russia, Medal for Zeal, Nicholas II. small, silver, on ‘St. Stanislas’ ribbon; Denmark, Medal of Recompense, Frederick VIII, silver; Norway, King’s Commemoration Medal, without crown, Haakon, VII, silver, with contact marks; Spain, Order of Isabella the Catholic, Medal of the Order, bronze; Portugal, Coronation Medal 1889, bronze. It was accompanied by bestowal documents for the R.V.M.; Jubilee Medal 1935; Austrian Cross of Merit (1907); Spanish Medal of Isabella the Catholic (1907); Russian Medal for Zeal (1908); Swedish Medal of the Order of the Vasa (1908); and Portugal medal (1909), with envelope.

As a Footman to Queen Alexandra, Wellard was awarded the R.V.M. in Silver on 25 December 1925, following the Queen’s death.

Presentation inscription reads ‘The Empress’ not ‘The Emperor