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A C.I.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel John Morison, Indian Medical Service, a prominent worker in the early days of bacteriophage research The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamels, complete with shortened neck cravat in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Maj. J. Morison); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Maj. J. Morison. I.M.S.)...
Hammer Price: £1,200
King’s Messenger Home Service Badge, G.VI.R. issue, silver and enamel, hallmarks for London 1942, numbered ‘18’ on reverse, pin-backed, in Garrard, London case of issue, extremely fine £600-700
Hammer Price: £1,150
A Second World War ‘Arakan’ M.M. group of five awarded to Lance-Naik Fazal Hussain, 7/16th Punjab Regiment Military Medal, G.VI.R. (18177 L-Nk., Punjab R.) impressed naming; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War and India Service Medals, these unnamed, some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (5) £1000-1200
Hammer Price: £1,100
Three: Company Quartermaster Serjeant T. Piggott, Royal Dublin Fusiliers; together with an interesting relic from the disbandment of the regiment British War and Victory Medals (8715 C. Sjt., R.D. Fus.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (7075048 C.Q.M. Sjt., R.D. Fus.); together with three bronze prize medals: 38.5mm., obverse inscribed, ‘C.Q.M.S. Piggott T. 2nd R.D.F.’, reverse, ‘Semi-Finalist Hockey 1920 A.B.S.’; another, 38mm., obverse inscribed, ‘2/R.D.F.’, reverse...
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (B. Hulme, 38th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, with silver brooch bar, signs of brooch mounting, suspension refitted, edge bruising, contact marks, fine £500-600
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (M. Farrell, 11th Lt. Dragns.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, minor edge bruising, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1000-1200
Pair: Gunner’s Mate H. Guy, Royal Navy China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857, unnamed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Hy. Guy, Gunrs. Mate, H.M.S. Dasher, 20 Yrs.) engraved naming, first with some contact marks, very fine and better (2) £500-600
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (Joseph Button) nearly extremely fine £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,050
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (J. Greason, 11th Lt. Dragns.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, good very fine £1000-1200
Ghuznee 1839 (Assist. Surgn. F. W. Watkins, 3rd Troop Bombay H.A.) naming engraved around edge, fitted with an ornate silver straight bar suspension, slight edge bruising, good very fine £700-900
Pair: Hospital Serjeant W. Smith, 29th Regiment Sutlej 1845-46, for Ferozeshuhur 1845, no clasp (Hospl. Serjt. Wm. Smith, 29th Regt.); Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (Hospl. Serjt. W. Smith, 29th Foot) minor contact marks, very fine (2) £600-800
Hammer Price: £1,000
The mounted group of ten miniature dress medals worn by Wing Commander P. P. C. “Paddy” Barthropp, D.F.C., A.F.C., one of the most colourful fighter’s aces of the last War Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R.; Air Force Cross, E.II.R.; 1939-45 Star, clasp, Battle of Britain; Air Crew Europe Star, clasp, France & Germany; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R.; Norway, King Haakon VII’s Freedom Medal 1940-45, with cypher...
Cape Town Highlanders Officer’s Dirk. Pattern 1895 - 98, 24.2 cm plain blade with single fuller and facetted back edge, bog oak hand grip with brass studs, pierced gilt metal pommel with proteus leaves, the finial with facetted coloured stone. Similar finials on the companion knife and fork. Scabbard of black leather with gilt mounts, the lower three embellished with thistle sprays and the top chape with applied silver badge of the Cape Town Highlanders, all relevant areas carefully...
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Toulouse (J. McKenzie, Horse Arty.) edge bruising, nearly very fine £700-800
A scarce Great War D.S.M. awarded to Air Mechanic 1st Grade A. A. Smith, Royal Naval Air Service, who completed 200 hours of operational flying out of Bembridge Air Station Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (225269 A. A. Smith, A.M. 1 Gr., R.N.A.S., 1917), edge bruising, otherwise very fine £800-1000
A Second World War ‘Norway Operations 1940’ D.S.M. group of seven awarded to Officers Steward A. W. Reynolds, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (LX.20315 O. Std., H.M.S. Grenade); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (..20315 Std., H.M.S. Trelawney) mounted for wear, cleaned, contact marks, some edge bruising, nearly very fine (7) £700-900
A Second World War ‘Middle East’ M.M. awarded to Private J. T. Russell, Royal Army Medical Corps Military Medal, G.VI.R. (7362430 Pte., R.A.M.C.) nearly extremely fine £700-800
Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (P. Connors, Ord. 1Cl., H.M.S. Niger) impressed naming, scratch to obverse left field, very fine £400-500
Hammer Price: £980
British Military Buttons. A carded display of 45 fine quality and rare examples, Large Gilt Coatees, 98th, 41st (The Welsh), Commissariat Staff, 99th, 72nd Highlanders (replacement shank), 31st Huntingdon, 1st Invernesshire Local Militia, Upper Tivy Local Militia, North Hampshire Militia, Voluntarios De Espana (Spanish Unit fighting for Britain in the Peninsula), Redruth Volunteers, 1st Harts Volunteers, Field Marshal, Andover Volunteers (little gilt remains), 2nd BN 2nd Brigade Royal...
Indian Army Buttons. A carded display of 76 items. Pre-Mutiny examples comprise 2 officers' large gilt coatees to the 3rd Bengal NI and 3 officers' small gilt coatees to the 59th Bengal NI and 24th Bengal NI (2). Other officers' large gilts comprise 36th Madras (mounted), 10th Madras, 12th Bengal, 14th Madras, Bombay Staff Corps, Bengal Staff Corps, The Hyderabad Contingent, Bengal Engineers, 39th Bengal (disbanded 1890), Madras Staff Corps, 26th Sikhs (KC), 119th Infantry, Madras Governor's...
A Royal Naval Shoulder Belt Plate c1780-1790. An extremely rare excavated oval example in heavy gauge die-stamped brass, the raised design shows a fouled anchor within a single raised line, complete with single hook and two stud fasteners, 6.5 x 5.1cm, the hook fastener is fractured but still just intact otherwise in very good excavated condition £500-700
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Gunr. Archd. Buchanan, Arty.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, good very fine £600-800
A Great War I.O.M. group of five awarded to Captain Rahim Ali, 1/125th Napier’s Rifles Indian Order of Merit, Military Division, 2nd type, 2nd Class, Reward of Valor, silver and enamel, the reverse inscribed on two lines ‘2nd Class Order of Merit’ and additionally inscribed ‘Jemadar Rahim Ali 1/125th Napier’s Rifles’, complete with ribbon buckle but this lacking one prong; British War and Victory Medals (Jemdr. Rahim Ali, 1-125 N. Rfls.) the Victory Medal unnamed; Royal...
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (Asst-Surgn. E. O’Connell, Medcl. Staff) minor edge bruise, slight contact marks, very fine £350-400
Hammer Price: £950
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Java (John Kemp) good very fine £900-1100
A Second World War R.R.C. group of seven awarded to Acting Matron Janet Sybil Mary Pollock, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, late Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse dated, ‘1943’, mounted on bow ribbon; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (S-Nurse J. S. M. Pollock, Q.A.M.N.S.I.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star;...
A rare colonial service group of six awarded to Captain W. H. E. “Freezer” Frost, Tientsin British Municipal Emergency Corps, late British Army 1914-15 Star (Sgt. W. H. E. Frost); British War and Victory Medals (Sgt. W. H. E. Frost), these three with impressed naming in small capitals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, in its card box of issue; Tientsin British Municipal Emergency Corps Long Service, with Bars for ‘17 Years’ and ‘21 Years’, the reverse engraved, ‘12 May 1937,...
Hammer Price: £920
A Royal Household group of five awarded to Footman Sidney George Cumper Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these unnamed; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.VI.R., suspension dated ‘1925-1945’ (Cumper, Sidney George); Denmark, Royal Household Medal, Christian X, 2nd Class with crown, silver, unnamed, these mounted court style; Coronation Medal 1953, unnamed, in card box of issue; together with a mounted group of three dress miniature medals corresponding to the above first three...
American Revolutionary War and Later Pewter Buttons. Comprising an officer's large tinned pewter with wooden back to the 2nd Connecticut Regiment c1781 (25mm). The 'double dolphin' type with central '2'. Troiani (Military Buttons of the American Revolution) p109 A2CRa (complete with gut fastening). '?I' an unidentified 19mm example, the obverse shows part of a script capital letter and script capital 'I', complete with integral shank. Royal Provincial c180-1783 16.5mm, large St. Edward's...
An M.B.E., A.R.R.C. group of seven awarded to Matron Eliza May Ball, Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service, late Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type lady’s shoulder badge, silver, mounted ‘bow and tails’, in Royal Mint case of issue; Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, on bow ribbon, in Garrard, London case of issue;...
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (Richd. Kennight) edge bruising, very fine £800-900
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Busaco (R. Harper, 5th Foot) minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £1000-1200
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera (R. Guy, 32nd Foot) slight edge bruising, good very fine £1000-1200
Ghuznee 1839, reverse engraved in running script (Major C. J. Deshon, H.M. Leicestershire Regt.) replacement silver straight bar suspension, nearly extremely fine £800-1000
Family group: Pair: Private D. Paterson, Royal Highlanders Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, El-Teb-Tamaai (1024 Pte., 1/Rl. Highrs.); Khedive’s Star 1884, unnamed Three: Corporal D. Paterson, Scottish Rifles, killed in action, 27 January 1916 1914-15 Star (17840 Cpl., Sco. Rif.) gilded; British War and Victory Medals (17840 Cpl., Sco. Rif.) extremely fine (5) £350-400
A Second World War I.D.S.M. awarded to Naik Basant Singh, Indian Hospital Corps Indian Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (1-A-11568 Naik Basant Singh, I.H.C.) slight contact marks, very fine £400-500
Pair: Nursing Sister M. B. Alexander, Scottish National Red Cross Hospital, Imperial Yeomanry Hospital and Army Nursing Service Reserve Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nurse M. B. Alexander, Scottish Hos.) initials re-impressed; King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. B. Alexander) some contact marks, very fine (2) £550-650
Hammer Price: £900
Russia, sash ribbon: Order of St. George, full sash; Order of St. Vladimir, full sash; Order of St. Anne, sash ribbon, approx. 153cm long, of various quality/age, first with some minor damage, generally good condition (3) £200-250
A Great War M.C. group of three awarded to Lieutenant W. G. Mackie, West Riding Regiment, severely wounded in action Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed, in case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); together with a mounted set of three miniature dress medals, extremely fine (6) £800-1000
A C.M.G. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. O’Gorman, Indian Medical Service The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Samana 1891 (Surgn., I.M.S.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., I.M.S.); British War and Victory Medals, with small M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, mounted for display, nearly extremely fine (6) £600-700
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