Auction Catalogue

15 December 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 419 x

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15 December 2011

Hammer Price:
£310

A collection of items relating to Captain E. H. Bailey, R.N., commanding H.M.S. Aurora in China, including a one-drawer telescope by Voigtländer & Sohn, Braunschweig, 61.5cm when closed, nickel-plated fittings engraved EH Bayley RN, and black leather sleeve; a Full Dress sword-belt for a Captain, with three rowns of gold embroidery and richly gilt KC clasp, together with two other clasps, one QVC, one KC; a boatswain’s nickel-plated whistle; an officer’s embroidered KC cap-badge on black mohair band; a quantity of documentation including contemporary news cuttings and original Field Telegraph flimsies and United States Signal Corps telegrams received by Bailey at Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion; various photographs, mostly of Bailey or of Naval interest; and publications, including Official Crests of the Royal Navy by Gale and Polden, being a folding poster in card covers, showing over 100 coloured crests of warships, training establishments, etc., and “O.H.M.S.” or How 1200 Soldiers went to TABLE BAY, a fully illustrated account of the voyage of S.S. Tintagel Castel from Southampton to Cape Town in March 1900, complete with a nominal roll of every regiment on board (Lot) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine collection of awards for the Boxer Rebellion 1900.

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