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2nd Royal Jersey Light Infantry Militia, Officer’s Green Cloth Helmet. Standard pattern with gilt metal fittings and an all gilt helmet plate, being a crowned star with laurel overlays a title circle ‘Royal Jersey Light Infantry’ enclosing a bugle horn bearing a floreated ‘2’ within the strings. Complete with gilt chin chain and spike (loose), buff leather sweat band and crimson silk lining, gilt dull overall the plate not original to the helmet otherwise good overall condition ...
£400–£600
2nd Royal Jersey Militia, Officer’s 1861 - 1868 Pattern Shako. A standard blue cloth quilted example complete with silver lace to the rank of a major, plated chin chain and side ornaments and similar multi-part shako plate, this being a crowned star with overlays of oak sprays the arms of the Island the motto ‘Pro Rege Et Patria’ and lower title scroll ‘Second Royal Jersey’, plated plume holder (other ranks) with black wool tuft. Buff leather sweat band and crimson silk lining. ...
£500–£700
2nd Royal Jersey Militia Officer’s 1869 - 78 Pattern Shako. A standard blue cloth pattern with silver lace as for a junior officer complete with plated chin chain and side ornaments and similar shako plate being a crowned star with oak spray overlay enclosing the arms of the Island and the motto ‘Pro Rege Et Patria’ and bottom scroll ‘Second Royal Jersey’, buff leather sweat band and quilted crimson silk lining, plated plume holder (other ranks) and red wool tuft, the plate not...
Royal Sussex Regiment Volunteer Battalions Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp. An all silver plate example but mounted in the centre with a silver and triple enamelled Garter star mounted upon the Rousillon plume, matching bench marks, very fine condition £200-270
£200–£270
The Peninsula War medal awarded to Lieutenant Charles Walker, 5th Dragoon Guards, who was severely wounded in the regiment’s famous charge at Llerena in April 1812, when the French cavalry was thrown into confusion and swiftly broken Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Vittoria, Toulouse (C. Walker, Lieut. 5th Dgn. Gds.) extremely fine £3000-3500
£3,000–£3,500
Family group: Pair: 2nd Lieutenant B. W. A. James, 18th Battalion (London Irish Rifles), London Regiment, who was killed in action in France in October 1917 British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. B. W. A. James), together with a regimental button, extremely fine Pair: Lance-Corporal G. T. James, Middlesex Regiment, who was killed in action in Mesopotamia in March 1918 British War and Victory Medals (265544 Pte. G. T. James, Middx. R.), in an old leather display frame with...
£300–£350
Punniar Star 1843 (Lieutt. A. H. Robson, H.M. 3rd Regt.) fitted with a replacement gilt straight bar suspension, nearly extremely fine £500-600
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Pair: Stoker 1st Class P. B. Jones, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (K.43761 Sto. 1, R.N.) good very fine (2) £40-50
£40–£50
Pair: Lieutenant J. B. Shearlaw, Machine Gun Corps, onetime attached Royal Flying Corps British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. B. Shearlaw), good very fine (2) £240-280
£240–£280
India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Naga 1879-80, N.E. Frontier 1891 (Hunji Behari Tuvari Hawaldar Regiment 3 Pattam 1 Madras 1669) copy suspension and clasps, apparently unofficial engraved naming, slight contact marks, nearly very fine £280-320
£280–£320
Five: Wing Commander W. A. W. Lankshear, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed; together with Worshipful Company of Turners Medal, reverse inscribed, ‘W. A. W. Lankshear, Freedom 1965, Livery 1965’, 32mm., silver, hallmarks for London 1959, complete with brooch bar; City & Guilds M.C.C. Medal, 42mm., bronze and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘Littlehampton Trial 1930 W. A. Lankshear’, in Fattorini, Birmingham...
£100–£140
Five: attributed to Gunner E. H. Smart, Royal Artillery, late Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed, good very fine (5) £40-60
£40–£60
Six: Pilot Officer H. R. Johns, Royal Air Force, late Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Arabian Peninsula (Wg. Cdr. H. R. Johns, R.A.F.); Coronation 1953, mounted as worn, very fine and better (6) £250-300
£250–£300
Five: attributed to Lieutenant F. W. Barrett, British Army 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed as issued, extremely fine Pair: Corporal C. W. Gell, British Army Defence and War Medals, unnamed as issued; together with an Urban District of Bebington Jubilee Medal 1935, bronze, unnamed; Royal Life Saving Society Medal, bronze (C. W. Gell, Oct. 1934), this in case of issue, first two of this group with contact marks, very fine; others better (9 £70-90
£70–£90
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (1889 Pte. C. Cook, 2/3rd Foot) reconstituted with copy suspension and carriage, good very fine £250-300
Pair: Squadron Leader P. D. Greenall, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, a senior signals and W./T. research officer in the 1939-45 War Defence and War Medals 1939-45, together with the recipient’s identity discs (2), and uniform rank insignia, extremely fine (4) £100-150
£100–£150
Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Ali Musjid, Kabul, Kandahar (2168 Pte. H. Keith, 92nd Highrs.) edge additionally stamped with French import mark, good very fine £400-450
£400–£450
Corps of Royal Engineers Insignia. Comprising an officer’s post 1902 gilt helmet plate, an officer’s Victorian period sabretache badge, a post 1902 officer’s pouch badge, an EVIIR officer’s gilt cap badge (pin back missing), two Victorian period officer’s harness badges (no fasteners), a Victorian o/r waist belt plate and similar KC issue, an EVIIR officer’s waist belt plate, two osd GVR cap badges, most items require cleaning but good overall facial condition (11) £200-300
£200–£300
Pair: Sergeant D. T. J. Affleck, Royal Army Medical Corps, late East Yorkshire Regiment General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (22767135 Pte. D. T. J. Affleck, W. Yorks); Efficiency Medal, E.II.R., T. & A.V.R., with Second Award Bar (22767135 Sgt. D. T. J. Affleck, R.A.M.C.), good very fine (2) £180-220
£180–£220
New Zealand Police L.S. & G.C., 2nd issue by G. T. White (Lieut. Thomas Welch, Wellington Mounted Rifles 1906) ring suspension, good very fine £120-160
An outstanding El-Teb D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private Frank Hayes, 10th Hussars, a noted pugilist who, being surrounded and unable to wield his sword effectively on horseback, dismounted and dispersed his assailants with his fists, a feat which inspired a remarkable poem published shortly afterwards in Punch magazine Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (1588 P... Hayes, 10th Hussars. 29th Feby. 1884); Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1588 Pte. F. Hayes, 10th Rl. Hussars); Egypt &...
£7,000–£8,000
British North Borneo Company Medal 1897-1916, silver, 1 clasp, Punitive Expeditions (R. M. Little, Esq.) engraved naming, with original watered silk ribbon and contained in its original Spink & Son, London card box of issue, the lid inscribed in ink ‘Punitive Expeditions Silver’, the bottom also with contemporary inscription in ink ‘R. M. Little Dep. Governor’ and repeated in later ball-point, some careful restoration to box, otherwise extremely fine and of the highest rarity being...
£5,000–£6,000
An O.B.E. group of five awarded to Alderman C. N. Ribbeck, late Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Mayor of the City of Chester, 1972-73 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, all unnamed, mounted as worn; together with another O.B.E. in case of issue; a mounted set of five miniature dress medals; City of Chester Past-Mayor’s Badge...
£340–£380
Coulson family medals: Five: William Thomas Coulson, Mercantile Marine - a Carpenter aboard the S.S. Brussels when she was captured by the Germans in June 1916 - her captain Charles Fryatt was subsequently executed as a franc-tireur British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (William T. Coulson); Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (William T. Coulson, 12 August, 1870); Belgium, Civic Medal, bronze, on ‘distinguished service’ ribbon; ‘Freedom of Antwerp’...
£1,200–£1,500
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Lieut. W. Otto, Thorney: M.I.) very fine £1200-1500
Nine: G. Clarke, St. John’s Ambulance Association Order of St. John, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silvered metal and enamel, unnamed; St. John Ambulance Association Medal (7) silver and gilt, reverse inscribed, ‘George Clarke winner of Molloy Ambulance Challenge Cup, North Western Division, Bolton, 30th July 1900’; another; reverse inscribed, ‘N.E.L.C.C. Manchester 1901’; another, reverse inscribed, ‘’N.E.L.C.C. Todmorden 1904’; another, unnamed; another, silver,...
Six: to a British Naval recipient 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Pacific Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Sierra Leone Independence Medal 1961, all unnamed, mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of six miniature dress medals, good very fine and better (12) £140-180
£140–£180
Sudan Defence Force L.S. & G.C., bronze, unnamed, no ribbon, edge bruising, some contact marks, very fine £150-200
£150–£200
The prestigious Royal Geographical Society’s Victoria Medal awarded to Professor Charles Alfred Fisher, who, as a Captain in the Royal Engineers, was taken prisoner by the Japanese and served on the infamous Burma-Siam railway Royal Geographical Society, Victoria Medal, by W. Wyon, obverse: young head of Queen Victoria, reverse: the draped figure of Athena standing holding a wreath and map, at her feet a globe and sextant (Charles Alfred Fisher 1974) 55mm., 97g., 9ct. gold, hallmarks...
£1,000–£1,200
Presentation Illuminated Address of Appreciation, dated 24 May 1917, reading, ‘Presented to Eban Morgan Esq. M.E. On the occasion of his departure from Wattstown to take up appointment at The Great Western Collieries, Pontypridd. Dear Sir, We the Workmen, Officials and Residents at Wattstown in general, combine in this effort to demonstrate our good feelings towards you and yours and request your acceptance of the Address, Gold Watch and Chain, together with the accompanying Silver Tea...
£800–£1,000
A particularly fine Second World War D.F.C., D.F.M. group of nine awarded to Flight Lieutenant Leonard Fish, Royal Air Force, who won his D.F.C. with No. 138 (Special Duties) Squadron, flying missions in support of the Special Operations Executive in Europe - among the famous agents parachuted from his aircraft would appear to be S.O.E’s “Swallow” saboteurs, later to enact the famous raid on the heavy water plant in Telemark with their comrades from “Gunnerside” Distinguished...
£6,000–£7,000
A rare Second World War “Operation Pedestal” D.S.M. group of six awarded to Carpenter R. Stewart, Merchant Navy, who was decorated for his gallant deeds in the Port Chalmers Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Cptr. R. Stewart); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, the first with its original investiture brooch bar and the remainder mounted as worn, good very fine or better (6) £1600-1800
Bulgaria, Order of Merit, 2nd Class badge, Ferdinand I, ‘bearded head’, 40 x 32mm., silver, no ribbon, good very fine £100-140
Thailand, Order of the Crown, 2nd type, 1st Class breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Order of the White Elephant, 2nd type, 1st Class breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, both modern productions, extremely fine (2) £160-200
£160–£200
Framed Military Prints. 2 x 3 frames reproduction of Harry Payne postcards, an o/r glengarry now bearing a KC badge of the Black Watch, together with miscellaneous military cap badges (mostly reproduction) and sundry buttons, sold as viewed (parcel) £30-50
Hammer Price: £20
Three: attributed to Corporal T. L. Shovelier, Royal Engineers 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (3) £20-30
Hammer Price: £25
Pair: attributed to Squadron Leader R. Seagrave, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (2) £30-40
Four: attributed to D. Hochfelden, South African Forces 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War and African Service Medals, all officially named (74876 D. Hochfelden) nearly extremely fine (4) £30-40
Hammer Price: £30
Japan, Order of the Rising Sun, 8th Class breast badge, silver, in hinged lacquer case of issue; Norway, Royal Norwegian Air Force ‘Sweetheart’ Badge, 30 x 12mm., silver and enamel, nearly extremely fine (2) £20-30
Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, bronze, unnamed specimen, with cuts to edge at 3 and 9 o’clock, edge bruising, otherwise very fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £35
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