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Indian Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 1st issue for European Soldiers, H.E.I.C. arms on obverse (C. Farrell, 1st Foot) extremely fine and scarce £280-320
Hammer Price: £430
Four: Leading Stoker W. J. Weeks, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (237447 L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (237447 L.S., R.N.); Italy, Messina Earthquake Medal, 1908, the edge inscribed ‘W. Weeks, 237447 H. M. S. Exmouth’, in fitted case of issue; together with memorial plaque (Walter James Weeks); Great War illuminated memorial scroll and named bestowal document for Messina Medal, this torn in three, generally good very fine (5) £120-150
Three: Chief Master Mechanic G. Jappe, Royal Flying Corps British War and Victory Medals (1374 T.S.M., R.F.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (1374 Fl. Sjt., R.F.C.) good very fine and scarce (3) £400-500
Nine: Flight Sergeant F. W. Waldock, Royal Air Force, late Royal Warwickshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (30338 Pte., R. War. R.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Southern Desert, Iraq (407711 Sgt., R.A.F.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (407711 Sgt., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, with oak leaf M.I.D. emblem; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (407711 F/Sgt., R.A.F.) mounted as worn, nearly very fine or...
3rd Bengal Native Infantry, pair of full dress wing epaulettes of an Officer of the Grenadier Company of the 3rd Bengal N.I., 1830-48 pattern, circa 1840, with old typed description label and small 3rd B.N.I. button, linings defective, otherwise good condition £150-200
Seven: Sergeant D. A. Robertson, Royal Air Force General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Southern Desert, Iraq (363029 A.C.1., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, with North Africa 1942-43 bar; Defence and War Medal; R.A.F. Long Service and Good Conduct, G.VI.R. (363029 Sgt., R.A.F.); Iraq, Active Service Medal, with bar for Southern Kurdistan; together with original packet of issue for G.S.M., transmission slip and 2 card boxes of issue for Second War Medals, addressed to ‘Officer Commanding,...
The History of the Sudan Campaign, by Colonel H. E. Colville, C.B., Coldstream Guards, compiled by the Intelligence Division of the War Office, HMSO 1889, two volumes and a separate slip case of maps: Volume I 277pp, Volume II 327pp, illustrated throughout with battle plans, sketches and fortification diagrams. Volume III 10 large folded plans including the action at Abu Klea, the position at Gubat and the defences at Suakin; the 63 appendices include despatches covering each of the major...
Four: Colour-Sergeant (Acting Sergeant-Major) John Falconer, Royal Highlanders Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (2628 Cpl., 1/R. H...); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (5217 C/Sgt., R. H’drs.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (C. Sjt., Black Watch); Khedive’s Star 1882, naming weak in parts from pitting on the first, therefore worn, otherwise good very fine (4) £300-350
Hammer Price: £410
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Toulouse (Thomas Gibson, Corporal, 2nd Life Guards) light contact marks, otherwise very fine £400-450
Coorg Rebellion 1837, silver, fitted with loop for suspension, a slightly later striking with die flaw to obverse, good very fine £400-500
Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (49177 Pte.-L.Cpl. E. Felton, 253/Coy. M.G.C.) contact marks and polishing, otherwise nearly very fine £300-350
A Pair of Georgian Tabard’s, richly embroidered with Royal Arms, 18” by 18”, distressed in places, condition commensurate with age £200-300
Hammer Price: £400
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (2721 Pte. H. Wallace, 1st Suffolk Regt.), nearly extremely fine £180-220
Distinguished Service Cross, E.II.R., the reverse officially dated 1952, and marked ‘R’ for a replacement issue, in its Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine £250-300
Officers of the Bengal Army 1758-1834, by Major V. C. P. Hodson, recent reprint of this otherwise rare work, four volumes, a total of 2,588 pp, containing a fully alphabetical liisting with comprehensive biographical detail of Officers serving with the Bengal Army between 1758 and 1834, very good condition (4) £100-150
Waterloo 1815 (Joseph Cooke, 2nd Batt. 3rd Reg. Guards) pierced at 12 o’clock and fitted with small ring for suspension, considerable edge bruising and contact marks, therefore fine £300-400
Hammer Price: £390
Waterloo 1815 (John Kendrick, 2nd Batt. 35th Reg. Foot) fitted with original steel clip and replacement bar suspension, scratched across obverse, otherwise nearly very fine £400-500
Hammer Price: £380
County Borough of Southend-on-Sea Pier Department Life Saving Award, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1926, reverse inscribed ‘W. Webster, 28. 7. 1926’, good very fine £100-150
South Africa 1877-79, clasp, 1877-8-9 (420 Corpl. C. Delaney, 90th Foot) edge bruising and nicks, nearly very fine £250-300
Pair: Private M. J. Stokes, Army Air Corps Rhodesia Medal 1980 (24468380 Pte, A.A.C.); Zimbabwe Independence Medal 1980, the rim numbered ‘13337’, both medals in their named card boxes of issue, extremely fine and very scarce (2) £350-400
A K.P.M. pair awarded to Robert Hannah, Deputy Chief Constable of the Warwickshire Constabulary King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Deputy Ch. Const., Warwick. Constab.); Coronation 1911, County & Borough Police issue (Deputy Ch. Const., Warwick. Constab.) mounted as worn and contained in a fitted case together with companion miniature medals, two portrait photographs and a contemporary news cutting, good very fine (4) £300-350
Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., in case of issue, good very fine £350-400
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Vittoria (J. Goulding, Royal H. Arty.) light contact marks, otherwise better than very fine £340-380
Hammer Price: £360
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Nivelle, Nive (R. Grimshaw, R. H. Arty.) a few surface marks, otherwise good very fine £300-350
Six: Sergeant A. C. F. Williamson, Royal Artillery General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24102665 Bdr., R.A.); Rhodesia Medal 1980 (24102665 Sgt., R.A.); U.N. Cyprus; Oman General Service Medal, clasp, Dhofar, unnamed as issued; Oman Accession Medal 1970, unnamed as issued; Zimbabwe Independence Medal 1980, officially numbered ‘13395’ on the rim, this with named and numbered card box of issue, extremely fine and a rare combination (6) £450-550
Decorations of Japan, published by the Kinokuniya Bookstore Co., 1965, 113pp, including 21 colour plates, 17” by 12’, original bindings and card slip case, good condition and rare £150-200
La Legion d’Honneur, by Jules Renault, published, Paris 1925, numbered ‘964’ of a limited edition of 1010, 337pp, 65 plates, some coloured, modern half leather bindings, some plates inverted, good condition £100-150
Three: Private William Dewar, 42nd Royal Highlanders Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol, unnamed; Indian Mutiny 1857-58, 1 clasp, Lucknow (42nd Rl. Highlanders); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted with replacement scroll suspension, the first nearly extremely fine, otherwise very fine and better (3) £350-400
Hammer Price: £350
Caterpillar Club Badge, gold Caterpillar with ‘Ruby’ eyes, the reverse inscribed ‘Sgt. P. W. Walker’, together with news cuttings and a Swiss Commemorative cover issued by the R.A.F. Escaping Society in 1974 which cites Sergeant Walker’s escape as an example, good very fine £400-500
General Officer’s Mameluke, 1831 pattern, by Holbeck and Sons, London, with the scarcer early type leather scabbard, with gilded brass fittings, the etched blade with 95% original polish, some very light staining, overall condition very good and retaining traces of original gilding to mounts £400-500
Central Africa 1891-98, clasp, Central Africa 1894-98 (24 Sejt. Panda, B.C.A. Rifles) impressed naming, light contact marks, therefore nearly very fine £250-300
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Belfast (4019 Pte. A. Hardy, 5/Lcrs.), nearly extremely fine £250-300
Pair: Corporal K. Smith, Army Air Corps General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24386881 Airtpr, A.A.C.); South Atlantic 1982, with combat rosette (24386881 Cpl, A.A.C.) mounted as worn, good very fine and scarce (2) £350-400
A Second World War ‘ammunition train explosion’ B.E.M. group of five awarded to Fusilier A. McMichael, Royal Scots Fusiliers, later killed in action British Empire Medal (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (3135282 Fus. Andrew McMichael); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, good very fine (5) £350-400
Waterloo 1815 (William Benning, Gunner, Royal Horse Artillery) fitted with steel clip, naming worn in places from considerable edge bruising and contact wear, fine £200-300
Hammer Price: £340
Three: Corporal D. Fletcher, Scots Guards General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24021210 L./Cpl., S. G.); South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (24021210 Cpl., S. G.); Army L. S. & G. C., E.II.R., Regular Army (24021210 Cpl., S. G.); together with an attractive bronze statue of a Guardsman, height 10”, the mahogany plinth with brass plaque inscribed ‘Presented to L. Sgt. D. Fletcher by Household Division Funds May 1988’, nearly extremely fine (3) £300-350
A Great War D.C.M., M.M. pair awarded to Sergeant W. Mallin, 2nd South Lancashire Regiment, subsequently killed in action Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (17628 L.Cpl., 2/S. Lanc. R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (17628 Cpl., 2/S. Lanc. R.) a little polished, therefore nearly very fine (2) £400-500
New South Wales Departure to the Soudan Medal 1885, ‘Presented by the Citizens of Sydney, T. Playfair, Mayor, 1885’ (147 Corp. E. Heaton, N.S.W. Arty.) a little polished, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce £350-400
Hammer Price: £330
Russia, Order of St Anne, 3rd class neck badge by Edouard, gold and enamels, very fine £300-350
A collection of bronze trial strikings for various British Medals, comprising, Naval General Service 1793-1840; Military General Service 1793-1814; Ghuznee 1839, the obverse an unissued variety; Candahar 1842; Cabul 1842; Ghuznee Cabul 1842, last four pieces marked ‘specimen’; China 1842; Abyssinia 1867-68; R. N. L. I., V.R.; together with other trial pieces in bronze (4); white metal (3), generally extremely fine and an interesting lot (16) £150-250
Hammer Price: £320
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