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Marshman, J. C., Memoirs of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B., 2nd edition, London, Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1861, full purple calf prize binding, spine richly gilt, near fine; Smith, R. Bosworth, Life of Lord Lawrence, 2 vols., 3rd edition, London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1883; Forbes, A., Havelock, London, MacMillan & Co., 1903, last three contemporary red morocco, some minor wear (4) £40-60
Hammer Price: £75
Mayo, J.H., Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, 2 vols, London, 1897, lxxxviii + 618pp, 55 plates, other illustrations in text [2]. Original red cloth with bevelled edges, t.e.g.; some wear at extremities and backs faded, internally very fine and clean £90-120
£90–£120
Mayo, J.H., Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, 2 vols, London, 1897, lxxxviii + 618pp, 55 plates, other illustrations in text [2]. Original red cloth with bevelled edges, t.e.g.; some wear at extremities, backs faded and stained, internally very fine and clean £70-90
£70–£90
Mayo, J.H., Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, 2 vols, London, 1897, lxxxviii + 618pp, 55 plates, other illustrations in text, original red cloth with bevelled edges, t.e.g.; some wear at extremities and backs faded, internally very fine and clean (2) £90-120
McCormick, Richard C., A Visit to the Camp before Sebastopol, New York, Appleton & Co., 1855, 8 tinted lithos including folding frontis., recent half calf, very good £40-50
Hammer Price: £55
M’Ghee, The Rev. R. J. L., How we got to Pekin, a Narrative of the Campaign in China of 1860, London, Richard Bentley, 1862, recent half calf, very good £50-70
Napier, Vice-Admiral Sir C., The History of the Baltic Campaign of 1854, London, Richard Bentley, 1857, xlvi, 622pp., original blind stamped blue cloth, gilt, minor damp to front board, otherwise very good £40-50
Napier, Lieut-Col. The Hon. H. D., Field-Marshal Lord Napier of Magdala, London, Edward Arnold, 1927; Wood, Evelyn, From Midshipman to Field Marshal, 2 vols., Methuen & Co.; Verner, Colonel W., The Military Life of H.R.H. George, Duke of Cambridge, London, John Murray, 1905, all in original cloth, very good, the first fine in dust wrapper £60-80
Hammer Price: £65
Napier, Major-General W. F. P., The Conquest of Scinde, 2 vols., London, Boone, 1845, 531pp., original red cloth, minor wear, otherwise good condition (2) £100-120
Hammer Price: £100
Orme, A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, Second edition, 17775/78, numerous folding maps and plans, full contemporary tree calf, spines richly gilt, vol. 1 very well re-backed, and very good thus (3) £200-250
Hammer Price: £330
Pack, Colonel Reynell, Sebastopol Trenches and Five Months in Them, London, Kerby & Endean, 1878, original red pictorial cloth, worn at head and tail of spine; Stirling, Lieut-Col. A., The Story of the Highland Brigade in the Crimea, London, John MacQueen, 1897, original blue cloth gilt, minor wear (2) £40-60
Reade, Winwood, The Story of the Ashantee Campaign, London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1874, contemporary green cloth, gilt, very good £40-50
Hammer Price: £40
Russell, W. H., The British Expedition to the Crimea, London, Routledge, 1858; Russell, W. H., The War, Landing at Gallipoli to the Death of Lord Raglan, G. Routledge, 1855; Russell, W. H., The War, from the Death of Lord Raglan to the Evacuation of the Crimea, London, G. Routledge, 1856; Forbes, A., The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80, London, Seeley & Co., 1892; Younghusband, Captain G. J., The Relief of Chitral, London, MacMillan & Co., 1895, all in original cloth, some wear overall (5) ...
Hammer Price: £110
Sale, Lady, A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan 1841-2, London, John Murray, 1843, contemporary plum cloth, gilt, very good £40-50
Scarpa, C., and Sezanne, P., Le Decorazioni al Valore dei Regni di Sardegna e d’Italia (1793-1946), Rome, 1976, x + 420pp, 32 plates, dj; Scarpa, C., and Sezanne, P., Le Decorazioni al Valore della Repubblica Italiana (Medaglie al valore e croce al valore militare), Rome, 1981, [viii] + 120pp, 8 plates, dj; Scarpa, C., and Sezanne, P., Le Decorazioni del Regno di Sardegna e del Regno Italia, Le Decorazioni Commemorative, 2 vols, Rome, 1982-5, [x] + 294pp, 17 plates, xiv + 360pp, 53 plates,...
Hammer Price: £85
Spada, A., Onori e Glorie, Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta, Spagna, Gran Bretagna, Portogallo, Brasile, Milan, 1977, [xiv] + 284pp, fine colour illustrations throughout, copy no. 639 of 1050 signed by the author. Full crimson morocco, ribbed and gilt spine, t.e.g., marbled board slipcase; almost as new, an impressive work £120-150
Hammer Price: £120
Spada, A., Onori e Glorie, Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta, Spagna, Gran Bretagna, Portogallo, Brasile, Milan, 1977, [xiv] + 284pp, fine colour illustrations throughout, copy no. 545 of 1050 signed by the author. Full crimson morocco, ribbed and gilt spine, t.e.g., marbled board slipcase; a very fine copy, slipcase partly torn £60-80
Hammer Price: £70
[Spink & Son], The War Medal Record…to which is added a complete index to Tancred’s Historical Record of Medals, Vol. 1 [of 2], London, 1896, x + 254pp, many plates and illustrations. Neatly bound in later maroon cloth, gilt spine erroneously lettered TANCRED VOL I, t.e.g;, a few pencil checkmarks, otherwise a very fine copy £50-70
Hammer Price: £30
Tancred, G., Historical Record of Medals and Honorary Distinctions conferred on the British Navy, Army and Auxiliary Forces, from the earliest periods, London, 1891, xvi + 483pp, 23 plates, some in colour. Publishers’ original crimson half-roan, gilt, t.e.g.; minor wear at extremities, otherwise a very fine copy £90-120
Tancred, G., Historical Record of Medals and Honorary Distinctions conferred on the British Navy, Army and Auxiliary Forces, from the earliest periods, London, 1891, xvi + 483pp, 23 plates, some in colour. Neatly bound in later maroon cloth, gilt spine erroneously lettered VOLUME II, all edges gilt, a very fine copy £80-100
£80–£100
Vandamme, P., La Toison d’Or, Bruges, 1962, 352pp, illustrations in text; Ercoli, E., Le Medaglie al valore al merito e commemorative, Militare e Civili…1793-1976, Milan, 1976, xviii + 270pp, 24 plates, dj; Stair Sainty, G., The Orders of Saint John, New York, 1991, 180pp, illustrations in text, dj [3]. Publishers’ bindings; first and last very fine copies £30-40
Williams, Captain Godfrey Trevelyan, The Historical Records of the Eleventh Hussars Prince Albert’s Own, George Newnes, London, 1908, 1st edition, xii, 417pp., t.e.g., with colour and black and white plates, maps, original red cloth cover with gilt titles and ornamentation, good condition £60-80
Wilson, Robert Thomas, History of the British Expedition to Egypt, to which is subjoined a sketch of the present state of that country and its means of defence, London, Egerton, 1802, First edition, 4to., engraved frontis., 2 tables, contemporary speckled calf gilt, an attractive copy £100-150
Hammer Price: £170
6th Bengal Light Infantry. An extremely scarce Field Officer’s 1880 pattern forage cap, the body of rifle green cloth, this with broad black oak-leaf pattern band, gold bullion badge being a strung bugle horn over ‘6’, thin gold orris cord around the top edge, drooping leather peak with inlaid gold lace; the crown with black cloth knop and lace decoration, original leather sweat band and crimson silk quilted lining, 1880-c1897, one small stain to the crown, otherwise in very good...
Hammer Price: £460
19th Hyderabad Regiment. A rare WW2 period khaki felt slouch hat, the pagri of white linen with a green linen top edge and bearing a diamond shaped green cloth badge with yellow embroidered ‘XIX’; complete with chin strap and leather sweatband, this stamped with supplier’s details, ‘J. Wear & Co. 1942’, some surface mothing otherwise good condition; together with Khaki Service Tunic and Cap, for an officer of the 19th Hyderabad Regiment, silver cap badge and collar badges, Kings...
Hammer Price: £140
Indian Engineers. A 1930’s period Lieut-Colonel’s khaki Service Dress tunic and trousers bearing correct pattern ‘India’ bronze collar badges and brass buttons with star and ‘Indian Engineers’, medal ribbons for the MC WW1 trio (MID) etc., vendor’s research indicates the uniform to be that of C. A. G. Rundle; Indian Police, a senior officer’s blue cloth peaked forage cap with KC plated cap badge and similar chin strap buttons. Indian Marine, a small size printed linen red...
Dress cap and khaki field service cap, shoulder belt and pouch, for an officer of the Sirmoor Rifles, the shoulder belt lacking its badge but retaining its boss and whistle, worn by Major G. MacDonald; together with a bound run of The Kukri, c.1964 and three journals of the Sirmoor Journals, c. 1975, generally good condition (lot) £40-50
Imperial German Prussian Officer’s Pickelhaube. A good example, the black leather skull with standard eagle plate, all metal fittings present, the roundel at the base of the spike with age fracture, period cockades and chin scales, the leather sweatband part perished and shrinkage to the peak linings, some nuts incorrectly replaced, good condition £250-350
Hammer Price: £680
Bengal Engineers Sword. A good scarce 1856 pattern the curved fullered blade 82cm long (tip missing) and etched with scrolling foliage crowned ‘VR’ cypher, thunderbolts and ‘Bengal Engineers’, the hilt in gilt and of pierced scroll pattern, the grip with fish-skin and wire covering, complete with brass scabbard, fish-skin grip part perished and scabbard dented £150-250
Hammer Price: £580
A Martini Henry breech loading rifle, the 52cm barrel with ramp and ladder rear sight, the action stamped NA&A Co. Ltd. 1878, the reverse of the action stamped ‘Martini patent proprieters’, various inspection marks, full stock with two barrel bands and regulation steel mounts complete with steel cleaning rod, some service wear overall £250-300
Hammer Price: £250
A pair of Indian Axes, 19th Century, of all steel construction, small heavy socketed-heads with large re-curved back-blades double edged at the point, central spikes, set on tubular steel hafts the whole decorated overall with foliate patterns in silver koftghari, 76cm overall, some patination otherwise good condition (2) £250-350
Hammer Price: £220
A Third Pattern Fairbairn-Sykes Commando knife, ribbed grip the cross-guard stamped with broad arrow and B2 complete with its leather scabbard with brass chape, together with a second pattern F-S knife, chequered grip, the cross-guard stamped with broad arrow and B2, the pommel stamped FR693, complete with leather scabbard with steel chape, the back of the scabbard marked FR271, together with two modern F-S knives, one by Henry Wilkinson, Chromium plated, and a modern eastern knife, good...
British Army Cap Badges Cavalry & Yeomanry. Forty-five good quality post 1902 to present day issues including 23rd Hussars, 8th King’s, Royal Irish Hussars, 4th Hussars (with scroll), Household Cavalry (GVIR), a fine officer’s silver plated Westminster Dragoons, and a scarce Glamorgan Yeomanry with regimentally erased ‘Ich Dien’ scrolls; together with seventy-five reproduction items, good condition (120) £200-260
British Military Cap Badges, Infantry. A collection of good quality examples mainly KC to present day but including a helmet plate centre to the Oxfordshire LI (all lugs present), HAC (grenade), Royal Irish (KC repaired), 12th and 23rd London Rifle Brigade (small 1898-1903), Leinsters, Manchesters (1st pattern), Royal Munster Fusiliers, 17th London, Tower Hamlets (repaired), Grenadier Guards Sgts and Staff Sgts (GVR); together with a few collars and shoulder titles, good general condition...
Hammer Price: £310
British Military Corps & Department Cap Badges. A collection of good quality examples mainly KC to present day including RFC (osd bronze), Glider Pilot Regiment (cast silver plate by Firmin), Royal Army Chaplains Dept (KC), WAAC (bronze), AOC (shield), Sandhurst Instructor (GVR), MGC Territorial Artillery, etc., good overall condition (38) £90-120
British Military Cap Badges. A large selection of good quality issues KC to present day and including a few trade arm badges, a few with fasteners missing or repaired, sold as viewed not subject to return (265+) £400-600
British Army WW2 Bakelite Economy Cap Badges. Home Guard Hants (2), Army Air Corps, DLI, ATS (2), RAF (2), Essex (no blades), RAC (fist), ACC (2), RE, Pioneer Corps, RASC, General List, Royal Marines (pair of collars); OSD Bronze Cap Badges. Good bladed examples York & Lancs (2), RA (KC & QEC), Dorsetshire (2), Machine Gun Corps, Northumberland Fusiliers (1st pattern), Warwicks (2), Notts & Derby (KC), Queens (2nd pattern), Hampshire (lugs), Glosters, South Lancs, North Staffs, DLI, RE...
Hammer Price: £520
New Forest Coast Engineers 1915 Officers Bronze Cap Badge. A very fine die-cast example and featuring a crowned strung bugle horn, a stag trippant and 1915 within the strings, ‘New Forest’ on the body of the horn and dependent scrolls from the crown, ‘Coast Volunteers’; complete with JR Gaunt tablet and both original blade fasteners, excellent condition £100-150
British Military Cap Badges. A good quality selection including Bournemouth St. John’s School, Leatherhead Bloxham School, Imperial Services College, London University, Marlborough College, Wellington College, Perse School, Monkton Combe School and City of London School OTCs, Malta Artillery (KC large bi/metal), KOSB (large QVC hpc), Royal Welsh Fusiliers (w/m), Hampshire Regiment officer’s KC silver gilt and enamels, 23rd Hussars, 8th KRI Hussars (KC), Ardwick Bn., The Manchester...
Hammer Price: £800
Royal Army Pay Corps & Royal Army Chaplains Department, two small framed collections of cap and collar badges, two plated plaid brooches varying size set with coloured glass centres, various other commemorative badges; a metal ‘Souvenir Ticket’ made from one of the crashed gliders used at Arnhem, inscribed, and Pegasus badge on the reverse (ex Glendinning sale 1988), a WW1 embroidered and gold blocked Christmas card for the RNAS; Home Guard WW2, an interesting group of ephemera relating...
Hammer Price: £200
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