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A good Great War C.B.E. group of eleven awarded to Brigadier C. A. Bolton, Royal Tank Corps, late Manchester Regiment, a veteran of the Gallipoli, Salonika and Palestine operations who afterwards commanded a component of ‘the mother of all armoured divisions’, namely ‘the first mechanized formation to be born into the world’ (Liddell Hart refers) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in its...
Hammer Price: £2,600
A Great War D.S.O., M.C. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Stirling, Scots Guards, Laird of Kippendavie Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with top bar, obverse centre slightly depressed, minor enamel damage to wreath; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (Capt., S. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lt. Col.) these two with attempted erasure of naming details; France, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge,...
Five: Major Hubert Francis Fitzwilliam Brabazon Foljambe, 2nd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was killed in action leading his men at the Battle of the Aisne on 14 September 1914 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Natal, Transvaal (Capt., K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Cpt., K.R.R.C.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Major, K. R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (Major) all medals lacquered, first two with contact wear, therefore nearly very fine,...
A Boer War D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Quartermaster & Lieutenant J. Newnham, Royal Engineers Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (22123 Trp. Q.M. Sjt., R.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (22123 T.Q.M.S., R.E.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (22123 T. Serjt-Maj., R.E.); 1914-15 Star (42341 C.S. Mjr., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Q.M. & Lieut.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R....
A Crimean War ‘Medaille Militaire’ group of four awarded to Colour Sergeant John Coughlan, 57th Regiment Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (No. 1569 Colr. Serjt. John Coughlan 57th Regt.) regimentally impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (1569. Cr. Serjt. John Coughlan, 57th Foot); Medaille Militaire, silver, gilt and enamel, badly chipped; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue (1569 Colr. Segr. John Coughlan, 57th Regiment) nearly very...
Three: Sergeant M. R. Atkins, Royal Anglian Regiment, formerly Gordon Highlanders, who was mentioned in despatches for gallant services in Northern Ireland when he arrested four suspected terrorists at a Border Crossing Point in June 1991 General Service 1962, 2 clasps, Northern Ireland, Air Operations Iraq, with M.I.D. oak leaf (24428535 Pte., Gordons); Jubilee 2002; Accumulated Campaign Service Medal (24428535 Sgt., R. Anglian) mounted court style as worn, nearly extremely fine (3) ...
Hammer Price: £2,500
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Java (William T. Pinhey, Lieut. R.M.) sold with a small length of original ribbon, nearly extremely fine £2500-3000
The scion of an ancient family in the Austrian Tyrol, where the Arcos were first registered as nobility in 1361, Johann Maximilian was born in April 1806. The owner of vast estates and art treasures, he served as a Royal Chamberlain and Privy Counsellor of Bavaria, gaining appointment as a Grand Commander of the Order of St. George in April 1850 and as High Chancellor of the Order in 1866, which latter office he occupied until his death in Venice in December 1875. And he was awarded his...
Hammer Price: £2,400
Waterloo 1815 (Cornet John Fenn, Royal Waggon Train) original steel clip and replacement split ring suspension, edge bruising and some contact marks, good very fine £2000-2400
British North Borneo Company Medal 1897-1916, 1 clasp, Punitive Expeditions, 5mm. thick silver issue (G. Ormsby) engraved naming, extremely fine, scarce to a European £1400-1800
Germany, Bavaria, Military House Order of St. George, miniature dress badge, 24 x 16mm., together with five miniature collar chain links, by Eduard Quellhorst, Munich, gold and enamel, fitments stamped ‘EQ’ and ‘18’, good very fine £1000-1200
Hammer Price: £2,300
Indian Army Shoulder Titles. All with fasteners unless stated. Pairs - 58th Rifles, SM/Madras, 103rd Mahratta L.I. (officers’ gilt), 81st Pioneers, 5th Bombay, 117th Mahrattas (officers’ gilt), 98th Infantry, Great India Peninsula Railway Volunteers, Poona Light Horse (hand, swords and title pattern), 2nd Punjab, 19th Hyderabad, 19th Lancers (white metal), bugle horn/Outrams (blackened bronze), 2 pairs 36th Jacob’s Horse (one lug missing), 1st Punjab, 101 Grenadiers, 69th Punjabis,...
A rare Great War C.B.E. group of eleven awarded to Captain G. H. Finnis, Royal Indian Marine and South African Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt; M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Lieut. G. H. Finnis, R.I.M.S. Mayo); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Lieut. G. H. Finnis, R.I.M.S....
Hammer Price: £2,200
Matthew Boulton’s Medal for Trafalgar 1805, white metal, the reverse field inscribed ‘Thomas Johnson, Achille’, the medal set in copper-gilt glazed frame with loop for wearing, very fine and scarce in such good condition £1800-2200
The M.G.S. awarded to Josiah Partington, 48th Foot, wounded at Albuhera and Nivelle Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Albuhera, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (J. Partington, 48th Foot) heavy edge bruising to reverse, scratches to obverse and reverse, nearly very fine £2500-3000
A fine Second World War M.B.E., Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea pair awarded to Chief Officer B. Beavis, Merchant Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, in its Royal Mint case of issue; Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea (Chief Officer Bernard Beavis, M.V. “Anglo Canadian”, 6th April 1942), in its fitted case of issue, extremely fine (2) £1600-1800
Emmerich Joseph Heribert, afterwards the Duke of Dalberg, was born in Mainz in May 1773, the son of Baron Wolfgang Heribert. Entering the service of Baden in 1803, as a second class Privy Counsellor and Minister to Paris, he became a full Privy Counsellor in November 1806, shortly after his father’s death, and was awarded the House Order of Fidelity on the same occasion. After the Treaty of Schonbrunn in 1809, he entered the service of Napoleon, who created him Duke and a Councillor in...
Hammer Price: £2,100
Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Corunna, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Geo. S[au]nderson, 32nd Foot) repair to carriage between first and second clasps, naming partially erased, very fine £1200-1500
Five: Paymaster-in-Chief W. Trew, Royal Navy, who was mentioned in despatches for all of his campaigns South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (W. Trew, Asst. Payr., R.N., H.M.S. Active): Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (W. Trew, Paymr., R.N., H.M.S. Agincourt); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (W. Trew, Flt. Paymr., R.N., H.M.S. St. George); Turkey, Order of Osmania, 4th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel; Khedive’s Star 1882, generally good very...
Pair: Private William Burns, 31st Regiment Cabul 1842 (No.1120 William Burns, Pt. H.Ms. 31st Regt.) engraved naming, original steel clip and replacement silver straight bar suspension; Sutlej 1845-46, for Moodkee 1845, 3 clasps, Ferozeshuhur, Aliwal, Sobraon (William Burns, 31st Regt.) good very fine (2) £1000-1400
Hammer Price: £2,000
Four: Warrant Officer Class 2 J. T. Greengrass, Royal Artillery, a survivor of ‘L’ Battery, R.H.A’s legendary stand at Nery in 1914 1914 Star, with clasp (43552 A. Bmbr., R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (43552 W.O. Cl. 2, R.A.); Coronation 1937, unnamed, very fine or better (4) £600-800
A rare Second World War evacuation of Burma C.I.E. group of eleven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel E. T. N. Taylor, Indian Medical Service, late Royal Engineers The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamels, in its Garrard, London case of issue; 1914-15 Star (10684 Cpl., R.E.), initials ‘E. T.’; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Capt.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45;...
Hammer Price: £1,900
A Great War M.M. group of six awarded to Serjeant J. Donnellan, 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers Military Medal, G.V.R. (8064 L. Sjt. J. Donnelon, 6/Conn. Rang.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (8064 Cpl. J. Donnelan, 1/Conn. Rang.); British War and Victory Medals (8064 Sjt. J. Donnellan, Conn. Rang.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (7143090 Sjt. J. Donnelan, Conn. Rang.) note spelling of surname on first medal, some contact marks, very fine and better...
A rare Burma Police Medal group of three awarded to Sergeant J. E. Phillips, Burma Police, late Duke of Wellington’s Regiment Burma Police Medal, G.VI.R. (Sgt. John E. Phillips, European Sgt. of Police); British War Medal 1914-20 (8976 A. Sjt. J. Phillips, W. Rid. R.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (8976 Sergt. J. Phillips, 1/Duke of Wellington’s Regt.), contact marks and somewhat polished, nearly very fine or better (3) £1600-1800
A scarce Great War D.S.M. group of three awarded to Leading Seaman A. Phillips, Mercantile Marine (Australia) Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (A. Phillips, Ord. Sea. (M.M.) Arctic Ocean, 1 June 1917); British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (A. Phillips, Australia 242), generally very fine or better (3) £700-900
The M.G.S. awarded to Private Nanty Barrett, 66th Foot, captured at the battle of Albuhera, 16 May 1811 Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Albuhera (Nanty Barrett, 66th Foot) edge bruising, otherwise very fine £1800-2000
Brazil, Empire, Imperial Order of the Southern Cross, 1st type Officer’s breast badge, 57 x 35mm., gold and enamel, rosette on ribbon, enamel damage to wreath below crown, slight damage elsewhere, good very fine, scarce £700-900
Hammer Price: £1,800
A fine Great War D.S.C. group of three awarded to Second Officer J. Mc D. Dunbar, Mercantile Marine, who was taken prisoner at sea Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (James Mc D. Dunbar), generally good very fine (3) £1200-1500
Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Sebastopol, Azoff (Lieut. H. Campion. H.M.S. Vesuvius) contemporary engraved naming, fitted with silver ribbon brooch, very fine £400-450
Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (S. Webb. 4th Dragn. Gds.) officially impressed naming, good very fine £1400-1800
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 3 clasps, Delhi, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Gunner J. Ryan, 2nd Tp. 3rd Bde. Bl. H. Art.) nearly extremely fine £600-700
Five: Lieutenant F. G. Shaw, Royal Navy Baltic 1854-55 (F. G. Shaw, Mate R.N.) engraved naming; Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Sebastopol, Azoff (F. G. Shaw, Mate R.N.) engraved naming, second clasp loose as issued; Abyssinia 1867 (Lieut F. G. Shaw H.M.S. Octavia); Order of the Medjidie, 5th class, silver, gold and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘F. G. Shaw Actg. Mate R.N.’; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue (F. G. Shaw, Mate R.N.) engraved naming, contact marks, therefore nearly very fine...
The M.G.S. awarded to Serjeant James Croal, 24th Foot, severely wounded at Burgos, 4 October 1812 Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca (J. Croal, Serjeant, 24th Foot) edge bruising, good very fine £1500-2000
Hammer Price: £1,750
A Boer War C.B. group of four awarded to Brigadier-General William Francis Howard Stafford, Royal Engineers The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, complete with silver-gilt buckle on ribbon; Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Lieut. W. F. H. Stafford, R.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lt. Col. W. F. H. Stafford, C.B., R.E.) ‘C.B., R.E.’ re-engraved; King’s...
Hammer Price: £1,700
A fine Great War ‘Palestine’ M.C. group of three awarded to Captain Haddo Reginald Drummond Fraser, 5th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, attached 1st Battalion, Herefordshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 1 August 1918 Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse neatly inscribed ‘H. R. Drummond-Fraser, M.C., Captain, 5th Cheshire Regiment, killed 1 August 1918’, with original case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) nearly extremely fine (3) £1200-1500
Brigade of Gurkhas Badges. Comprising a rare heavy die-cast silver plate horse harness badge to the Third Goorkhas showing a Guelphic crown over title strap with central strung bugle horn two blank bolt fasteners, a similar die-cast silver plated horse harness badge to The Goorkha Rifles featuring a KC over a rococo title strap with central mount of crossed kukris and a similar item in die-cast white metal, 5th Gurkha Rifles a scarce white metal piper’s plaid brooch featuring a white metal...
A military C.B. group of five awarded to Colonel C. E. Haynes, Royal Engineers The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge converted from a breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, obverse centre ‘crown, rose and thistle’ device missing; South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Lieut., R.E.); 1914-15 Star (Col., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Col.) good very fine except where stated (5) £1000-1400
Hammer Price: £1,600
A C.M.G. pair awarded to Captain Matthew Townsend Sale, Royal Engineers The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge, gold and enamel, with swivel ring and straight bar suspension, complete with gold buckle on ribbon; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Bhootan (Lieut., Royal Engrs.); together with a miniature dress medal of the latter, good very fine and better (3) £1800-2200
A Boer War D.C.M. pair awarded to Sergeant J. Lowe, 4th Royal Lancaster Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (3926 Serjt: J. Lowe. 4th Rl: Lanc: Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (2936 Sgt. J. Lowe, Rl: Lanc: Regt.) note differing numbers, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £1600-1800
Three: Lieutenant William Keay Falconer, 7th Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who was killed in action leading his men in a charge against the enemy at Ypres on 25 April 1915 1914-15 Star (Lieut., A. & S. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); together with memorial plaque (William Keay Falconer), all mounted on a contemporary oak display board with carved regimental badge to top, generally good very fine (4) £600-800
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