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A rare Great War A.F.M. awarded to Sergeant Mechanic Observer E. L. Brown, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, an ex-Armoured Cars’ rating who saw extended service in seaplane units 1915-18, latterly with No. 234 Squadron at Tresco in the Scillies Air Force Medal, G.V.R. (201137 Sergt. Mech. Obs. Brown, E. L., R.A.F.) lacquered, very fine £1600-1800
Hammer Price: £2,500
Three: George Smith, Ship’s Cook, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Geo. Smith); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., Anchor obverse (George Smith, Ships Cook, H.M.S. Excellent. 26 Years); St Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, this with traces of having been sometime silvered, very fine (3) £1400-1600
Hammer Price: £2,400
A fine Great War Gallipoli operations D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel E. C. P. Bridges, South Staffordshire Regiment, who was severely wounded while leading his battalion into action at Lala Baba in August 1915 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; 1914-15 Star (Major, S. Staff. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.), obverse centre of the first recessed and with traces of glue repair, otherwise good very fine (4) ...
South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (Lt Cdr J R B Bullock RN 826 Sqdn.) good very fine and rare £2000-2500
Hammer Price: £2,300
General Turner’s gold-mounted Desk and Fob Seals, the desk seal with bloodstone intaglio of Turner’s heraldic crest with motto ‘the reward of valour’, ornately mounted in gold with agate handle, 80mm overall; the fob seal with bloodstone intaglio of Turner’s coat of arms as a Knight Grand Cross of Hannover, with chain, badge and motto of the Royal Guelphic Order and pendant badges of the Orders of the Crescent and St Anne, mounted in ornate gold fob, 45mm overall, both pieces in...
An unusual Arctic exploration pair awarded to the Rev. George Fisher, late Royal Navy, a Chaplain and Astronomer in the 1818 and 1821-23 Expeditions, and afterwards the Principal of Greenwich Hospital School: the only Chaplain and one of two Astronomers entitled to the Arctic 1818-55 Medal, his important scientific observations later filled 300 pages of Parry’s published journal Arctic Medal 1818-55, unnamed as issued; Westminster Fire Office Medal, silver, the reverse with old engraved...
Hammer Price: £2,200
Four: Fleet Paymaster J. S. Place, one of four officers from H.M.S. Barham to be killed in action at the Battle of Jutland Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Ast. Payr., R.N., H.M.S. Monarch) engraved naming; 1914-15 Star (Ft. Payr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Ft. Payr., R.N.), together with 2nd Cruiser Squadron (South Africa and South America) 1908 Medal, 8 clasps, Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, Simonstown, Capetown, St. Helena, Rio de Janeiro, Monte Video,...
Indian States, Patiala, Maharaja’s Turban Badge, by the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, Ltd., 78 x 73mm., silver-gilt badge formed of a star of radiating Indian weaponry linked by a wreath; in the centre, surmounted by a crown, a fine enamelled portrait of Maharaja Bhupinder Singh; reverse with supporting hook, to each side, five silver chains connected to hallmarked silver-gilt hook fittings, the badge reverse bearing the manufacturer’s initials and hallmarks for Birmingham 1946,...
Four: Sergeant K. A. Spencer, The Parachute Regiment, who served with 2 Para at Goose Green in 1982 General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24128865 Pte. K. A. Spencer, Para); U.N. Cyprus; South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (24128865 Sgt K A Spencer Para); Regular Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (24128865 Sgt K A Spencer Para) mounted as worn, very fine or better (4) £1200-1500
Four: Havildar Labh Singh, 22nd Punjabis Central Africa 1891-98, no clasp (3561 Sepoy Labh Singh, 22d Bl. Infy.); India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Malakand 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (3561 Sepoy Labh Singh, 22d Pjb. Infy.) official correction to regimental number; Tibet 1903-04, no clasp, silver issue (3561 Lce. Havr. Labh Singh, 22d Punjabis) official correction to unit; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (3561 Hvdr. Labh Singh,...
A fine Second World War Malta convoy D.S.M., post-war B.E.M. group of eight awarded to Chief Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic W. Hill, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his services on the occasion of the loss of H.M.S. Fearless during “Operation Substance” in July 1941 - although seriously burnt, he continued to take charge of repair parties Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (D./KX. 78473 W. Hill, S.P.O., H.M.S. Fearless); British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 2nd issue (C.P.O....
A fine ‘Napoleonic Wars’ group of six awarded to Paul Lambert Van den Maesen France, First Empire, Legion of Honour, 3rd type, Chevalier’s breast badge, 56 x 36mm., silver, gold and enamel, lacks reverse centre, severe enamel damage, points bruised; Reign of Louis Philippe, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, 65 x 44mm., silver, gold and enamel, enamel damage; St. Helena Medal, bronze; ‘Veterans Cross’, 41 x 41mm., silver-gilt cross surmounted by crossed sabres,...
Hammer Price: £2,100
A Great War D.C.M. pair awarded to Private J. Folan, Connaught Rangers Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (3-5582 Pte., 3/Conn. Rang.); British War Medal 1914-20 (5582 Pte., Conn. Rang.) slight edge bruising, good very fine (2) £700-900
An exceptional B.E.M. and Long Service group of nine awarded to Staff Sergeant P. H. Croucher, Grenadier Guards British Empire Medal (Military) E.II.R. (2608037 A/Col.Sgt., Gren. Gds.); 1939-45 Star, France & Germany Star; Defence & War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (2608037 C/Sjt., Gren. Gds.); Coronation 1953; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army, with Long Service Bar (2608037 Sjt., G. Gds.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue...
Hammer Price: £2,000
Three: Captain J. M. Middlemist, Deputy Inspector-General of the Gold Coast Constabulary, late Seaforth Highlanders, who, having assumed military command at Kumassi, died of injuries sustained in the famous defence of that place in 1900 Ashanti Star 1896; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1897-98 (Capt. & Insptr., Seaforth Hdrs.); Jubilee 1897, together with related miniature dress medals (3), comprising Ashanti Star 1896, East and West Africa 1887-1900, clasp, ‘1897-98’ and...
Waterloo 1815 (Joseph Bilson, 1st or Royal Dragoons) original steel clip and replacement ring suspension, edge bruising, scratches to obverse and edge, good fine £1000-1400
Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Lieut. F. Whittuck, Bo. N.I.) good very fine £350-400
China, Republic, Order of the Striped Tiger, neck badge, 74mm., silver-gilt and enamel, two stars above centre, Chinese stamp mark on reverse, no ribbon, enamel damage to centre and one ray, very fine £600-800
A rare Great War East Africa operations C.M.G. group of nine awarded to Colonel C. U. Price, Indian Army, C.O. of Jacob’s Rifles and a successful Column Commander whose forces captured Dar-es-Salaam in September 1916 The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (Lieut., 3/Baluch L.I.); China 1900, no clasp (Captain, 30/Baluch L.I.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col.,...
Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd Class breast badge, 42 x 42mm., gold and enamel, ‘56’ zolotnik mark and kokoshnik mark for 1896-1908 on eyelet, unclear manufacturer’s marks on the reverse, centres slack, minor enamel damage, good very fine £700-900
A Second World War ‘North Africa’ M.M. awarded to Lance-Serjeant Edward Maher, Irish Guards, who was killed in action in Italy on 26 October 1943 Military Medal, G.VI.R. (2721745 L. Sjt., Ir. Gds.) good very fine £2500-3000
Three: Private E. V. S. Pedley, 11th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, who died of wounds in Gallipoli in August 1915 1914-15 Star (1816 Pte., 11/Bn. A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (1816 Pte., 11-Bn. A.I.F.), together with related Memorial Plaque (Ernest Victor Starkey Pedley), good very fine (4) £250-300
Hammer Price: £1,900
Waterloo 1815 (Maurice Rabbitt, 2nd Batt. 59th Reg. Foot.) original steel clip and ring suspension, minor edge bruising, good very fine £1000-1400
Five: Sapper J. Scott, Royal Australian Engineers, died as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese, 19 January 1945 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence; War and Australia Service Medals, all officially named (WX8224 J. Scott) mounted for wear, nearly very fine (5) £150-200
Pair: Rear-Admiral Robert O. Leach, Royal Navy Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 to 1861 (R. O. Leach, Lieut. H.M.S. Cordelia) officially impressed naming, mounted on a twin buckle brooch bar, extremely fine (2) £600-800
A good Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. V. Bellamy, Royal Engineers, late Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers and Southern Nigeria Volunteers, a long served Field Engineer attached to A.N.Z.A.C. in Gallipoli and France 1915-18 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; 1914-15 Star (Major, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Decoration, G.V.R., silver, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London...
Hammer Price: £1,800
Vatican, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, Knight Commander with Star set of insignia, neck badge, 78 x 45mm., gold and enamel; breast star, 77 x 77mm., silver, gold and enamel, the reverse bearing the cartouche of ‘Lemaitre, 27 Rue Nve. des Bons Enfans, Paris’, excellent quality, extremely fine (2) £600-800
Cape Copper Company Medal for the Defence of Ookiep, bronze issue (E. Tappe) extremely fine and scarce thus £1000-1200
Three: Able Seaman Albert Howard Mayne, Royal Navy East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (A.B., H.M.S. Fox); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 8 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, Relief of Kimberley (1571.. A.B., H.M.S. Mon....) officially engraved naming, unofficial rivets between first and second clasps; Life Saving Medal, silver straight-armed paty cross surmounted by an eagle, obverse inscribed,...
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, St. Domingo (Peter Johnson) traces of brooch marks to obverse and to rim at 3 and 6 o’clock, suspension re-fixed, contact marks, therefore good fine £600-800
Hammer Price: £1,700
Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive (C. O’Neil Prendergast, Capt. 3rd Ft. Gds.) minor edge bruising, otherwise very fine £1600-1800
A rare Victoria Royal Marine M.S.M. dated ‘1848’ on obverse awarded to Serjeant J. Ford, R.M. Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1848’ below bust (J. Ford, Serjt., R.M. Plymouth Divn. 32 Years) officially engraved naming, contact marks and some edge bruising, nearly very fine £1400-1600
An interesting Second World War and Korean War pilot’s group of eight awarded to Captain P. Maxwell, South African Air Force South African Korea 1950-53 (Lt. P. Maxwell) officially impressed; 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; War Medal; Africa Service Medal, these four all officially impressed (206941 P. Maxwell); U.S.A. Air Medal (Pieter Maxwell); U.N. Korea (Lt. P. Maxwell) officially impressed; South Korean Campaign Medal, unnamed as issued, good very fine (8) £1600-2000
Poland, Republic, Wolyn Cross of Valour 1920, with swords, 40 x 40mm., gilt metal and enamel, left reverse arm stamped, ‘88’, n.r., good very fine £150-200
A Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Major V. A. Jackson, York and Lancaster Regiment Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with brooch bar, in Garrard, London case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Capt., York & Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major); Belgium, Croix de Guerre, ‘A’ cypher; together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals, nearly extremely fine (lot) £1000-1200
The Army Distinguished Service Medal and Silver Star group of five awarded to Major-General Philip Bradley Peyton, 61st Infantry Regiment, 5th Division Army Distinguished Service Medal, edge officially numbered ‘397’, bronze and enamel; Silver Star, edge officially numbered ‘4055’, reverse inscribed ‘Philip B. Peyton’; Victory Medal 1918, 3 clasps, Defensive Sector, Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, official type 2 medal; France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast...
Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Talavera, Albuhera, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive (W. Bailey, 3rd Foot) suspension a little slack and clasps slightly distorted, otherwise very fine £1500-1700
Hammer Price: £1,600
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (282980 Sto. A. W. Pariser, H.M.S. Powerful) engraved naming, nearly very fine; together with an Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., 3rd issue (Arthur Mitchel Pariser), in case of issue, good very fine (2) £380-420
Three: Surgeon-Lieutenant Commander W. H. King, Royal Navy, who served with the Armoured Car Unit in Russia British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Lt. Cr., R.N.), mounted as worn; Royal Naval Hospital Haslar Prize Medal, a naval crown with crossed trident and anchor upon a background of oak leaves, ‘Haslar Hospital’; rev. a torch entwined by a serpent, with legend (Surgeon William Herbert King. Admiralty Medal. Highest Award. September 1910), 49mm., gold, 71.64g., in leather case of...
The Second World War St. Nazaire raid V.C. group of eleven attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. Newman, Essex Regiment, attached No. 2 Commando Victoria Cross; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., with 2 Bars; French Legion of Honour, silver, gilt and enamel; French Croix de Guerre, with palm,...
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