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Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 6th type, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘A. Ainsworth, 3rd July 1986’, unmounted; together with the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, Award Certificate, awarded to ‘Alan Ainsworth in testimony of distinguished conduct while engaged in the rescue of life from Fire on the 3rd day of July 1986 at Flat E 20 Barcombe Avenue, Streatham, London, SW2’. medal extremely fine, scarce £250-300
£250–£300
Three: Sergeant R. P. Behanna, Royal Air Force, a Wireless Operator who flew operationally in Lancasters of No. 227 Squadron at the War’s end 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, extremely fine (3) £200-250
£200–£250
Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (S. Drew, Coldstream Gds.), officially impressed naming, edge nicks, better than very fine £600-700
£600–£700
Three: Acting Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class G. Burgess, Royal Navy, killed in action on H.M.S. Warrior at the battle of Jutland, 30 May 1916 British War and Victory Medals (269107 Act. C.E.R.A.2, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (269107 George Burgess, E.R.A. 1Cl., H.M.S. Leander) extremely fine (3) £200-240
£200–£240
Hundred of Salford Humane Society, 1st type, silver (William Olive, August 1878) edge bruise, good very fine, scarce £180-220
£180–£220
Hundred of Salford Humane Society, 2nd type, 15ct. gold, 23.3g. (James Hoy, September 1900) nearly extremely fine, rare £600-800
£600–£800
Windsor and Eton Humane Society, bronze, obverse: laurel wreath, centre impressed ‘No. XIII’, reverse: within wreath of laurel and oak leaves, engraved ‘For Saving Three Lives in the Thames’, 38mm, clip and ring for suspension and small blue riband, good very fine and patinated, very rare £150-200
£150–£200
City of Dundee Corporation Bravery Medal (William Phinn), silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1937, with ‘Gallantry’ brooch bar, nearly extremely fine, rare £500-600
£500–£600
Shipping Federation Medal for Meritorious Service, silver, unnamed, in fitted Elkington, case of issue, extremely fine £80-120
£80–£120
India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, North West Frontier 1930-31, Mohmand 1933 (Asst-Sugn. E. B. I. Wynae, I.M.D.) edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine £100-140
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A ‘Golden Penny’ Medal for Bravery awarded to Thomas Bellamy ‘Golden Penny’ Medal for Bravery, 36mm., silver (Thomas Bellamy, 1903) unmounted, some edge bruising, very fine £400-500
£400–£500
A rare Navy League Gallantry Cross awarded to Michael Robert Thompson Navy League Gallantry Cross, silver, reverse inscribed, ‘Cadet O/S Michael Robert Thompson, 10th May 1959’, in fitted Spink, London case of issue, extremely fine £700-800
£700–£800
Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (G. Sheppard, E.R. Artfr., H.M.S. Victor Eml. 73-74) signs of brooch mounting to obverse, suspension refitted, edge bruising, overall nearly very fine £100-140
£100–£140
Carnegie Hero Fund Presentation Pocket Watch, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1922, with inner cover engraved, ‘Presented by the Trustees of the Carnegie Hero Fund to George Boorman, London, for Heroism in Saving Life, 15th August 1923’, reverse outer case ornately engraved with ‘CHFT’ (Carnegie Hero Fund Trust) cypher, condition of movement unknown, good condition £450-550
£450–£550
British War Medal 1914-20 (10) (5 4420 Pte. L. Mayes, North’d. Fus.; 17652 Pte. J. Pearson, North’d. Fus.; 41982 Pte. H. Elsom, E. York. R.; 45741 Pte. R. Jones, S. Wales Bord.; 36060 Pte. W. Knox, Sco. Rif.; 32427 Pte. H. Robinson, Y. & L.R.; S-25748 Pte. D. Crighton, A. & S.H.; M2-148904 Pte. T. B. Lumley, A.S.C.; 356909 Pte. T. J. Ley, Labour Corps; 515 A-Sjt. W. A. McIlwraith, 13 M.G. Coy. A.I.F.) very fine and better (10) £200-250
A posthumous Carnegie Hero Fund Medallion awarded to Charleas Thompson who lost his life while attempting to save that of a boy who drowning in a clay pit in Trafford Park, Manchester Carnegie Hero Fund Medallion, bronze, 90mm. (Charles Thompson, Pendleton, 5th August 1912) edge bruising, very fine £800-900
£800–£900
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Mark Perry, 1st Bn. 13th Lt. Infy.) very fine £180-220
R.S.P.C.A. Margaret Wheatley Cross, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Specimen’, complete with brooch bar, extremely fine, rare £160-200
£160–£200
Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (John N. Leach) very fine £400-500
Royal Naval College Dartmouth, The King’s Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, by Humphrey Paget (M. E. Coleman) reverse inscribed, ‘1950’, 44mm., 9ct. gold, hallmarks for London 1950, 57.35g., ref. B.H.M. 4368, small test mark, otherwise, extremely fine £800-1000
£800–£1,000
Royal Medico-Psychological Association Proficieny Cross (E. F. Bunnell) bronze; British Red Cross Society 3 Year Service Medal, enamelled, with brooch bar; B.R.C.S. Proficiency brooch bars (3) for Red Cross First Air; Red Cross Nursing and Anti-Gas Training; Blood Donor Lapel Badges (5) enamelled; Australian Red Cross Society, lapel badge, enamelled; Masonic Jubilee Medal 1887, enamelled; ‘The Regiment’ Award of Merit Medallion, 45mm., bronze-gilt; ‘The Regiment Weekly’ 1d Token,...
£40–£60
The New York Athletic Club, Honorary Member’s gold plaque presented to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, U.S. Navy New York Athletic Club, Honorary Mmeber’s gold plaque, by Robert Stoll, New York, obv. inscription in four lines ‘New York Athletic Club, June 30th 1930, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd Honorary Member’, rev. list of Officers and Governors, 89x52mm, 14 carat, 92.53g., in its fitted presentation case, named on the lid, extremely fine £1500-1800
£1,500–£1,800
The New York City Public Schools’ Athletic League gold medal presented to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, U.S. Navy New York City Public Schools’ Athletic League, gold medal, by Dieges and Clust, New York, obv. Winged Goddess of Samothrace in a panel dividing the date 1930, rev. engraved in six lines ‘Achievement through Fitness, Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Inaugural Award by the Public Schools Athletic League’, 68mm, 18 carat, 109.7g., in its fitted presentation case, extremely...
£2,200–£2,600
A rare Russia 1919 operations D.S.M. awarded to Able Seaman W. J. Thompson, Royal Navy, who was decorated for gallantry under fire in an Observation Post on the North Dvina Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (SS 5974 W. J. Thompson, A.B., “Fox”, Archangel. Aug.-Sept. 1919), slack suspension, edge bruising, polished and plated, good fine £800-1000
An interesting collection of documentation appertaining to Major-General G. P. B. “Pip” Roberts, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., C.O. of 11th Armoured Division 1943-45, including an annotated typescript proof copy of his book From the Desert to the Baltic, including related correspondence, maps and picture research notes, the whole contained in a William Kimber Ltd. file; the General’s British and Spanish driving licences, 1968 and 1971 respectively; assorted letters from the period 1971-84,...
£200–£300
General Service 1918-62 (2), 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (21073545 Sgt C E McColl, RAOC.); another, 1 clasp, Cyprus (23422900 Sigmn. D. Goodsir, R. Sigs.) second with slight edge bruise, very fine and better (2) £80-100
£80–£100
Mericka, Vaclav, Orders and Decorations, edited by Dermot Morrah, published by Paul Hamlyn, 1967, 315pp, including 195 colour and black and white plates, with damaged dust cover, good condition £30-40
£30–£40
Tancred, George, Historical Record of Medals, Spink, London, 1891, xvi, 483pp., with plates, a.e.g., red half calf, cover scuffed and worn; Irwin, D. Hastings, War Medals and Decorations, 4th Edition enlarged and corrected, 1910, 536pp., plus plates, original covers; Hawkins (Compiler) Franks & Grueber (Editors) Medallic Illustrations of British History, Spink reprint 1978, 2 volumes, xxiii, 724 & 866pp.; Johnson, Stanley C., The Medal Collector, Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1921, 320pp., generally...
A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. Hesketh, 12th Cavalry, Indian Army, late Gordon Highlanders, serving with whom he was severely wounded during the relief of Chitral in 1895 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (2nd Lieut. W. Hesketh, 1st Bn. Gord: Highrs.) second clasp loose as issued; 1914-15 Star (Maj. W. Hesketh,...
£2,000–£2,500
A rare Waziristan 1937-38 D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Brigadier Donald Powell, Indian Army Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., 1st issue, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse of the suspension bar officially dated ‘1939’; 1914-15 Star (2/Lt. D. Powell, 1/30/Punjabis); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. D. Pawell) note spelling of surname; India General Service 1936-39, 2 claspa, North West Frontier 1936-37, North West Frontier 1937-39, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt-Col. D....
£2,500–£3,000
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (J. McGlynn, Pte., R.M., H.M.S. “Inconstant”) nearly extremely fine £140-180
£140–£180
Bahrein, Liberation of Kuwait Medal; Kuwait, Liberation of Kuwait (3) 2nd Grade, in plastic case of issue; another, 3rd Grade, in plastic case of issue, with named card sleeve, ‘Capt. R. K. Black RAOC’; 4th Grade, in plastic case of issue; U.A.E., Liberation of Kuwait Medal, extremely fine (5) £50-70
£50–£70
An extremely rare Great War land operations D.S.M. and post-war mine clearance Bar group of eight awarded to Chief Yeoman of the Signals S. W. Muirhead, Royal Navy: one of just three recipients of a 1914 Star for services to British Military Mission with the Belgian Army Headquarters, he was decorated for his gallant work with the Naval Siege Guns in 1915-16 - to which distinction he added a Bar for mine clearance operations in 1919 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award...
A fine Great War anti-U-boat operations D.S.M. group of four awarded to Deck Hand S. Beck, Royal Naval Reserve, who remained at the gun of his armed trawler after being seriously wounded during a duel with an enemy submarine in June 1918 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (SD. 2496 S. Beck, Dk. Hd., R.N.R., “Aisne”, Atlantic, 20 June 1918); 1914-15 Star (S.D. 2496 S. Beck, D.H., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (2496 S.D. S. Beck, D.H., R.N.R.), generally good very fine (4) ...
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