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Boy Scout Association ‘Badge of Thanks’, gold fylfot cross upon which is superimposed the Boy Scout badge, 20 x 20mm., with a gold pin fitting, extremely fine £100-150
£100–£150
The original Great War pilot’s flying log book, journal and photographic archive appertaining to 2nd Lieutenant H. B. Hewat, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, who flew operationally in No. 41 Squadron until shot down by German ace Josef Jacobs of Jasta 7 in September 1918, comprising Pilot’s Flying Log Book (Army 425 Type, white covers), with entries covering the period December 1917 until September 1918; Army Book 136 journal, with extensive entries describing his final combat...
Hammer Price: £2,100
A group of four Polish medals and British Pilot’s Log Book to Warrant Officer Antoni Seredyn, a ‘Battle of Britain’ Pilot Poland, Cross of Valour, W.W.2, unmarked; Cross of Merit, 2nd Class, silver base metal and enamel, modern production; Cross for Polish Forces in the West; War Commemorative Medal 1939, all unnamed, generally extremely fine (lot) £400-450
Hammer Price: £620
Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, Commander (C.B.E.) bestowal document, awarded to ‘Gilbert Joseph Stephen Little, Esq., G.M.’, dated 1 January 1954, very good condition £20-30
Hammer Price: £80
German Wartime Letters (4) and Postcards (2), addressed to Fräulein Elise Ewart, of Hamburg, letters dated between October 1942-August 1943; postcards, September-December 1941, with stamps and postmarks, the cards pierced, generally good condition (6) £30-40
£30–£40
Copy medal: Distinguished Flying Cross, reverse dated ‘1944’, additionally stamped, ‘Copy’, with brooch bar, good very fine £40-60
Hammer Price: £50
Menu Card Holder, utilising an East and West Africa Medal, no clasp, erased naming, silver ‘leg’ of holder inscribed, ‘Presented by Col. W. T. McCowen, I.M.S. 1935’, medal good fine £40-60
Hammer Price: £95
Display case, a table-top display case, 62 x 41 x 4cm. (approx.), wooden framed, glass-topped, suitable for medals etc., hinged, with inner support bar and outer security clip, interior with green velvet pad, very good condition £20-30
Hammer Price: £30
A mounted group of five miniature dress medals: Order of the Bath, Military Division, straight bar suspension, gold and enamel, gold buckle on ribbon; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-8; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Def. of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (5) £200-240
Hammer Price: £260
A mounted group of eight miniature dress medals: Order of the Bath, Military Division, ring suspension, 18ct. gold and enamel; Order of St. Michael & St. George, straight bar suspension, 18 ct. gold and enamel, with gold buckle on ribbon; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Rel. of Ladysmith, Transvaal; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; France, Legion of Honour, 4th...
Hammer Price: £200
A mounted pair of miniature dress medals: Order of the Bath, Civil Division, straight bar suspension, gold, with gold buckle on ribbon; Coronation 1902, silver, mounted as worn Distinguished Service Order, E.II.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with top bar; Military Cross, G.VI.R., 1st issue, silver; British War and Victory Medals; Netherlands, Order of Orange Nassau, with swords, silver and enamel, very fine and better (7) £130-150
Hammer Price: £180
A mounted group of five miniature dress medals attributed to Brigadier-General The Hon. Charles Lambton, Northumberland Fusiliers Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamel; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State, Transvaal; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, mounted as worn, in Spink, London leather case, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (5) ...
Hammer Price: £520
A mounted group of five miniature dress medals: Military Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War and Africa Service Medals, in case; a mounted group of three miniature dress medals: British War and Victory Medals; Italy, War Commemorative Medal 1915-18; other miniature dress medals (36), mainly W.W.I & II, generally very fine (44) £40-60
Hammer Price: £150
Turkey, Order of Medjidie, silver, gold and enamel, with silver buckle on incorrect ribbon; Turkish Crimea Medal 1855, Sardinian issue, silver, with silver buckle on ribbon, good very fine and better (2) £40-60
Hammer Price: £85
[Anon], Décorations Officielles Françaises, Paris, 1956, 292pp, colour plates and illustrations in text; together with Additif, Paris, 1967, 27pp incorporating colour plates [2]. First in original heavily decorated cream cloth, second in stiff cover; very fine copies of this superbly produced work £60-80
Hammer Price: £60
Ball, Charles, The History of the Indian Mutiny, 2 vols., London, nd, numerous plates throughout, contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt, neatly re-backed, very good thus (2) £100-120
Hammer Price: £210
Beatson, Lieut-Col., A View of the Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultaun, comprising a narrative of the operations of the Army under the command of Lieutenant-General George Harris, and of the Siege of Seringapatam, London, Bulmer & Co., 1800, xxiii, 265, clxxii, portrait frontis., four views and plans, folding map, contemporary full calf, re-backed with new spine and label, some foxing throughout £150-200
Hammer Price: £270
Bernard, W. D., Narrative of the Voyages and Services of The Nemesis from 1840 to 1843 and of the combined Naval and Military Operations in China, 2 vols., London, Henry Colburn, 1844, xvi, 450 & x, 522pp., contemporary half calf, sympathetic new spines, raised bands, gilt, very good thus (2) £150-200
Cooke, George Wingrove, China, being “The Times” Special Correspondence from China in the years 1857-58, London, G. Routeledge, 1859, contemporary half calf, very good £40-60
Hammer Price: £40
Cunynghame, Captain Arthur, An Aide-de-Camps Recollections of Service in China, 2 vols., London, Saunders and Otley, 1844, xi, 311 & viii, 332pp., modern half calf, very good (2) £120-150
£120–£150
Doddridge, P., Some Remarkable Passages in The Life of the Hon. Colonel Jas. Gardiner who was slain at The Battle of Prestonpans, September 21. 1745, with an Appendix, London, 1808, viii, 249pp., pocket size, half calf with marbled boards, good condition £40-60
Hammer Price: £25
Eardley-Wilmot, Captain S., Life of Vice-Admiral Edmund, Lord Lyons, London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1898; Seymour, Admiral of the Fleet The Rt. Hon. Sir Edward H., My Naval Career and Travels, London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1911; Fitzgerald, Rear-Admiral C. C. Penrose, Life of Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon, K.C.B., London, William Blackwood, 1897; Napier, Major-General E., The Life and Correspondence of Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B., 2 vols., London, Hurst & Blackett, 1862, all in...
Eyre, Lieut. Vincent, The Military Operations at Cabul, London, John Murray, 1853, attractive recent quarter calf, very good £40-50
Hammer Price: £110
Fullarton, William, A View of the English Interests in India, 2nd edition, London, Cadell, 1788, xviii, 323pp., plus two folding plans, contemporary full calf, lacking spine label, otherwise very good £100-120
Hammer Price: £100
Gibson, J.H., British War Medals and Other Decorations, Military and Naval, London, 1866, 86pp, title page signed by the author to Sir Edward Cust, manuscript index in pencil on final endpapers; Eaton, Col. Hon. H.F., Naval and Military Medals, London, 1897, 128pp [2]. Original gilt-decorated red cloth, latter with all edges gilt but inner joints cracked, clean copies, an attractive pair £60-80
Gibson, J.H., British War Medals and Other Decorations, Military and Naval, London, 1866, 86pp, title page signed by the author to James O’Byrne, some manuscript amends by O’Byrne in margins; Whalley, J.L., Gold War Medals Awarded to British Military & Naval Forces from Elizabeth to Victoria, Lancaster, nd [1888], [x] + 36pp, signed by the author on front cover and dated 27/1/93; Risk, J.C., British Orders and Decorations, New York, 1945, ANS NNM 106, 124pp, 76 plates; Kerr, W.J.W.,...
[Government of India], The Indian Army List, April 1933, ex-libris Army and Navy Club, rebound in red half calf with marbled boards, spine and edges worn; The Kukri, The Journal of the Brigade of Gurkhas, No.7, April 1955-No.9, April 1957, bound in one volume, green boards; Jackson, Major Donovan, India’s Army, 1993 reprint, green boards; 6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles Regimental Association, Booklets (17), No.54, Autumn 1974-No.60, Spring 1979 & No.65, Spring 1985-No.74, 1994;...
Hamley, Lieut-Col. E., The Story of the Campaign of Sebastopol, Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1855, 9 tinted litho plates and map, ownership inscription of ‘Colonel George Bingham, 60th Rifles’ (4th Earl of Lucan), recent half red morocco, very good £40-50
Hammer Price: £55
Hart, H. G., The New Annual Army List (2), 1855 and 1865; plus three volumes relating to the life of General Gordon, generally in good condition (5) £50-60
Hazleton, A.W., The Russian Imperial Orders, New York, 1932, ANS NNM 51, 102pp, 20 plates; Andolenko, S., Badges of Imperial Russia, Military, Civil, Religious, 1st edn, Washington, 1972, 212pp, illustrations in text; Werlich, R., Russian Orders, Decorations and Medals including those of Imperial Russia, the Provisional Government, the Civil War and the Soviet Union, 2nd edn, Washington, 1981, viii + 160pp, illustrations in text [3]. Publishers’ bindings; first almost as new, second very...
[H.M.S.O.], Standing Orders .... for the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Horse Guards, 1864, 217pp, plus 56 plates, rebound, recent red cloth; [Langridge Military Publications], Dress Distinctions of the 3rd Carabiniers; another, 15th/19th The King’s Royal Hussars, good condition (3) £20-25
Hammer Price: £20
Hodgson, Lady, The Siege of Kumassie, New York, Longmans, 1901, original red cloth, gilt; Baden-Powell, Major-General R. S. S., The Matabele Campaign, being a narrative of the campaign in suppressing the native rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland 1896, London, Methuen & Co., 1901, original green cloth, gilt, minor wear, otherwise very good (2) £60-80
Irwin, D.H., War Medals and Decorations issued to the British Military and Naval Forces and Allies from 1588 to 1910, 4th edn, London, 1910, [x] + 536pp, 18 plates. Original decorated cloth; some minor wear and a few pages slightly spotted, otherwise a fine copy of the best edition £60-80
£60–£80
Jocelyn, Colonel Julian R. J., The History of the Royal and Indian Artillery in the Mutiny of 1857, London, John Murrey, 1915, xxv, 520 pp., original cloth, gilt, near fine £40-50
Hammer Price: £120
Kaye, John William, History of the War in Afghanistan, 2 vols., London, Richard Bentley, 1851, viii, 656 & vi, 690pp., contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt, minor wear and rubbing (2) £100-120
Hammer Price: £220
Laurie, William F. B., The Second Burmese War, a narrative of the Operations at Rangoon in 1852, London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1853, xxi, 280pp., original red cloth, gilt, neatly re-backed £100-120
Long, W.H., Medals of the British Navy and how they were won, London, 1895, xiv + 450pp, 20 fine colour plates. Original decorated blue cloth, t.e.g.; minor wear at extremities and some minor browning in places, otherwise a fine copy £60-80
Long, W. H., Medals of the British Navy and how they were Won, London, Norie & Wilson, 1895, with numerous coloured plates and woodcuts, recent blue morocco, frontis. foxed, otherwise very good £60-80
Luard, J., A History of the Dress of the British Soldier, London [1852], the 1971 reprint, xxiv + 171pp, 50 engraved plates, copy no.385; Johnson, S.C., The Medal Collector, London, 1921, 320pp, 24 plates; Gillingham, H.E., Spanish Orders of Chivalry and Decorations of Honour, New York, 1926, ANS NNM 31, 165pp including 39 plates; Gillingham, H.E., South American Decorations and War Medals, New York, 1932, ANS NNM 56, 178pp including plates; Gillingham, H.E., Ephemeral Decorations, New York,...
£40–£50
Markham, Clements R., A History of The Abyssinian Expedition, London, Macmillan & Co., 1869. xii, 484, contemporary red morocco, gilt, minor rubbing, otherwise very good £150-200
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