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Original ribbon: Victory Medal 1914-19, a roll, approximately 19 metres in length, good condition £120-150
Hammer Price: £380
A mounted group of fifteen miniature dress medals attributed to General Sir Ivo Lucius Beresford Vesey, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., D.S.O., The Queen’s Regiment. The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, silver-gilt and enamel, replacement ring suspension; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, silver-gilt and enamel, ring suspension, enamel damage;...
Hammer Price: £850
The mounted group of eleven miniature dress medals worn by Brigadier Lord Porritt, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B.E., K. St. J., athlete, soldier, surgeon and Governor-General of New Zealand Order of St. Michael and St. George, silver-gilt and enamel; Royal Victorian Order, silver-gilt and enamel; Order of the British Empire, silver-gilt and enamel; Order of St. John, silvered-metal and enamel; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation...
Hammer Price: £460
A mounted group of nine miniature dress medals attributed to Vice-Admiral Hon. Arthur Stopford, Royal Navy The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, gold and enamel, ring suspension; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony; 1914 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Jubilee 1897(?), silver; Coronation 1911, silver; France, Legion of Honour, 4th Class, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon; Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, with swords, silver-gilt and...
Hammer Price: £260
The mounted British miniature dress medals worn by Major N. C. “Nick” Knilans, D.S.O., D.F.C., United States Army Air Force, later Royal Canadian Air Force, attached Royal Air Force Distinguished Service Order, E.II.R., gilt and enamel; Distinguished Flying Cross, E.II.R.; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn The mounted American miniature dress medals worn by...
Hammer Price: £240
The mounted group of five miniature dress medals worn by Commander S. E. Holder, Royal Navy China 1900, 1 clasp, Rel. of Pekin; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Russia, Order of St. Anne, with swords, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted as worn, generally good very fine (5) £140-180
Hammer Price: £280
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Bhootan, with silver brooch bar with gold pin; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, raised dates reverse, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, last with heavy contact marks and edge bruising, poor; first very fine (2) £60-80
Hammer Price: £130
Army Distinguished Service Cross (2); Navy Cross; Air Force Cross; Defense Distinguished Service Medal; Silver Star (2); Defense Superior Service Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Airman’s Medal; Purple Heart; Air Medal; Commendation Medal (2)- Navy and Air Force; Philippine Campaign Medal; Mexican Border Service Medal; Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal; Pennsylvania, Meritorious Service Medal; Pennsylvania, War Medal 1917-18; Pennsylvania, National Guard Service Medal; U.S. Navy Expert...
Hammer Price: £85
Eight: Silver Star; Distinguished Flying Cross; Bronze Star; Meritorious Service Medal; Air Medal; Air Force Commendation Medal; Purple Heart; Combat Readiness Medal, mounted as worn Twelve: Soldier’s Medal; New York National Guard Faithful Service Medal; State of New York, Service in Aid of Civil Authorities; Army Commendation Medal; European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, 1 star on ribbon; U.N. Korea Medal; Armed Forces Reserve Medal - National Guard; Victory Medal 1945; Korea...
Hammer Price: £95
Shipwright Lieutenant-Commander F. E. “Fred” Dailey, D.S.C., Royal Navy, who served as Ship’s Carpenter on Scott’s First Antarctic Expedition 1902-04: he was afterwards decorated for his gallantry at Dogger Bank A Sterling silver bon-bon dish, oval form, four ball feet, 8” x 7” x 1.5”, approx. 6.5 ounces. Maker’s mark polished, not identified. Hall marks for Sheffield 1897. Engraved within, centrally, ‘Presented to Mr F E Dailey, DSC, RN, by the WOs of HMS Lion on the...
Hammer Price: £1,000
Surgeon Commander George Murray-Levick, Royal Navy, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. A Sterling silver cigar box, 7" x 3.5" x 2.5". Maker's mark SC&Co, hall marks for London 1909. Ornately engraved upon the lid (heavily polished but entirely legible), ‘Presented to Surgeon G Murray-Levick RN by the Royal Naval Rugby Union in recognition of his zealous work as the Hon Secretary, Dec 18 1907 - May 27 1910’ £300-500
Hammer Price: £1,600
Colonel Sir William Serjeant, K.C.B., K. St. J. A steel multi-use pocket knife, with two blades, button hook, ferulled spike, etc, all showing an agreeable amount of active service use. The blades stamped "ART" and George Butler & Company (Sheffield). One side of the outer casing ornately engraved. ‘Lieutenant Colonel Serjeant, 5th Rifle Brigade’ £60-80
Hammer Price: £180
Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Cleaver, C.B.E., D.S.O., Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps A Sterling silver cigar box, 8" x 5.25" x 2.75". Maker's mark for Asprey & Co, hall marks for London 1917. Unblemished condition. Engraved upon the lid, centrally within a cartouche ‘Lt Col F H Cleaver, DSO, RAF, from his officers of 3rd Balloon Wing, B.E.F, France’ Then, above the cartouche, is the finely engraved image of an observation balloon which is in flames. Beyond that is the enemy...
Hammer Price: £1,800
Major J. T. Carpenter-Garnier, M.C., The Scots Guards A Sterling silver ornately decorated teapot, baluster shape, 7" in height, 9" in width overall, approx. 22 ounces. Maker's mark for James Howden & Son, hall marks for Edinburgh 1855 (all clearly stamped under the base). Excellent condition. Finely engraved on one side with the Scots Guards regimental device and on the other side, within a cartouche, ‘Presented to Sergeant Major Superintending Clerk D Kinlay. On his...
Hammer Price: £350
Colonel K. R. Marshall, C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D. A Canadian silver salver, 10.5" diameter, beaded rim, approx. 12 ounces. Stamped on the base: "Sterling" with mark "925", lion passant, gothic upper case "R", all this correct for Canadian silver of that period. Engraved centrally (light polishing but no loss of detail), ‘Presented to Lieutenant K R Marshall by his brother officers on the Occasion of his Marriage, Oct 20th 1909’ Above this inscription is the regimental device of...
Hammer Price: £160
Captain J. S. Hobbs, The Gloucestershire Regiment A Sterling silver inkwell set, in two elements: a rebated ovoid base, 10.0" x 5.5", approx. 7 ounces, surmounted by a moulded glass (crystal?) inkwell fitted with a hinged lid gilded internally and finely engraved with the regimental device, ‘4th Battn Gloster Regiment’. Maker's mark for J Dudley, Southsea (encountered rarely), hall marks for London 1899. The base engraved, ‘Presented to the Officers, 4th Battn Gloucester Regt by...
Hammer Price: £170
Beamish, N. Ludlow, Geschichte der Königlich Deutschen Legion, 1st Volume, 1st Edition, Verlag der Hahn’schen Hofbuchhandlung, Hannover, 1832, xlviii, 407pp., with 9 hand-coloured plates illustrating 18 K.G.L. Regimental uniforms, 4 battle plans and 2 folded tables, rebound calf, with ribbed spine, foxing throughout, staining, fair condition; Beamish, N. Ludlow, Geschichte der Königlich Deutschen Legion, 2nd Volume, 2nd Edition, Verlag von Barsdorf, Berlin, 1906, xl, 580, 210pp., with...
Carlisle, Nicholas, A Concise Account of the Several Foreign Orders of Knighthood and other honourable distinctions ...., 1st edition, John Hearne, Strand, 1839, xxix, 582pp, ex-libris Charles Longuet Higgins, M.A., Turvey Abbey, A.D. 1874, original cloth, some foxing to edges; another copy, Naval and Military press edition, 1992, boards, with dustcover; Burke, Sir Bernard, The Book of Orders of Knighthood and Decorations of Honour of all Nations, Hurst and Blackett, London, 1858, vii, 411,...
Hammer Price: £100
Hibbard, M.G., Boer War Tribute Medals, Constantia Classics, Sandton, South Africa, 1982, i-xiv, 240, xv-lviii, colour and black and white plates throughout, copy number ‘246’, with dust jacket; Poulsom, Neville, The White Ribbon, a Medallic Record of British Polar Exploration, Seaby, London, 1968, 216pp., with dust jacket; Carter, Thomas & Long, W. H., War Medals of the British Army 1650-1891, Arms and Armour Press edition, 1972, xv., 656pp., with dust jacket; Anon, Army Honours and...
Hammer Price: £45
Liddell, Colonel R. S., The Memoirs of the Tenth Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’ Own) Historical and Social, 1st edition, Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1891, xvi, 484pp., with frontispiece but lacking most other plates, nicely rebound, three-quarters green calf, good condition £40-60
Hammer Price: £40
McClenaghan, Tony, Indian Princely Medals; Andolenko, Serge & Werlich, Robert (Editor), Badges of Imperial Russia, Military, Civil, Religious; Tozer, Charles W., The Insignia and Medals of the Grand Priory of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem; Jõrgensen, Captain P. J., Danish Orders and Medals; Neville, D. G., Medal Ribbons & Orders of Imperial Germany & Austria; Dimacopoulos, George D., Greek Orders and Medals, Volume 1; Thornit, Per, The Royal Commemorative...
Hammer Price: £110
Mullen, A. L. T. (Editor), The Military General Service Roll 1793-1814; [Naval & Military Press], The Waterloo Medal Roll; Vigors, D. D. & Macfarlane, A. M., The Three Great Retrospective Medals 1793-1840 awarded to Artillerymen; Wilson, Barbara M. (Compiler), Military General Service 1793-1814 (Canadian Recipients); Egypt Medal 1882-1889 (Canadian Recipients); North West Canada Medal 1885; Everson, G. R., The South Africa 1853 Medal; Cook, F. & A. (Compilers); Hayward, J. B. (Editor),...
Hammer Price: £190
Payne, A. A., A Handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decorations, awarded to the Army and Navy, J. B. Hayward & Son, 1981; Douglas-Morris, Kenneth, The Naval Long Service Medals; Sainsbury, Major J. D., For Gallantry in the Performance of Military Duty; McInnes, Ian, The Meritorious Service Medal, The Immediate Awards 1916-1928; McInnes, Ian, The Meritorious Service Medal to Naval Forces; McInnes, Ian, The Meritorious Service Medal to Aerial Forces; Poulsom, Neville, The...
Hammer Price: £55
Schwertfeger, Bernhard, Geschichte der Königlich Deutschen Legion 1803-1816, Hahn sche Buchhandlung, Hannover, 1907, in 2 Volumes, Vol. I, xvi, 718pp., with 5 folding and 3 loose maps; Vol. II, xiii, 492pp., with 18 full colour plates of Regimental Uniforms, with 4 photographic plates of Standards/Flags, rebound, three-quarters calf and marbled boards, a.e.g., ribbed spine with gilt titles, first volume inscribed and dated 1938; second volume bearing a signature, good condition; together...
Tancred, George, Historical Record of Medals and Honorary Distinctions, conferred on the British Navy, Army & Auxiliary Forces, from the earliest period, Spink, London, 1891, xvi, 483pp, with plates, a.e.g., rebound, three quarters red calf; [Spink & Son], War Medal Record, to which is added A Complete Index to Tancred’s “Historical Record of Medals”, 2 volumes, 1896/98, Vol. 1, x, 254, xii pp, with colour & b/w plates; Vol. 2, xi, 226pp, rebound, three quarters red calf on black...
Hammer Price: £80
Royal Artillery interest: An Officer in the First World War, by Colonel R. MacLeod, D.S.O., M.C., being a typescript of his unpublished memoirs, 240pp., with maps and illustrations + appendices, card covers; together with a Falkland War Diary of 97 Battery, Royal Artillery, including Routine Orders by Brigadier M. J. A. Wilson, O.B.E., M.C., list of personnel, etc., typescript, photocopied text and one or two hand written entries, plastic file binder, contents good throughout (Lot) £40-60
Hammer Price: £65
[O.M.R.S.], Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society, a complete run from Summer 1981, Vol. 20, No. 2 (171) to December 2009, Vol. 48, No. 4 (285); together with a set of The Miscellany of Honours, Nos. 1-14, 1979-2001, and Handbook, good condition (lot) £30-50
[Dixon], Dixon’s Gazette, a complete set, Nos. 1-80, September 1982-Christmas 2014, generally in good condition (lot) £30-50
Hammer Price: £300
Connecticut Volunteers’ Service Medal 1861-65, bronze, unnamed, reverse numbered, ‘571’, complete with ‘Connecticut Minutemen April 1861’ brooch bar and ribbon, very fine £260-300
£260–£300
Massachusetts Volunteers’ Service Medal 1861-65, bronze (Frank Sanborn, Prvt. F. 6th. Reg.) impressed naming, complete with ‘Massachusetts Minute Men 1861’ brooch bar, nearly extremely fine £300-400
£300–£400
New Jersey, Civil War Veterans’ Medal 1861-65, by William Meyers Co., bronze, unnamed, complete with ornate ‘1861-65’ brooch bar, reverse impressed, ‘3337’, good very fine £260-300
West Virginia, Civil War Service Medal 1861-65, bronze (John W. Bonafield, Co. B 4th Reg Cav Vols.) impressed naming, complete with ‘Honorably Discharged’ brooch bar with ribbon, slight repair to pin-fitting, good very fine £300-400
Medals and ephemera attributed to Corporal J. W. Merrell, 22nd Regiment Connecticut Volunteers Lapel Badge, 27 x 24mm., silver, shield-shaped, engraved, ‘Corpl. J. W. Merrell, Co. I 22d Regt. Conn. Vols.’, lacking pin-fitting; 22nd Regiment Connecticut Volunteers Annual Reunion Ribbons (7) 27th, for 1889; 29th; 1901; 1904; 1905, and 1915; another for 1906, supporting a badge bearing the image of ‘Serg’t. Waters, Miners Hill, Va. 1863’; Farragut Day Ribbon, for 1897; Unknown...
Hammer Price: £75
Manila Bay (Dewey) Medal (2), reverse inscribed, ‘U.S.S. Olympia’, edge very crudely engraved, ‘J. Fraser’, with brooch bar, reproduction; together with a miniature dress medal, 23mm. dia., fine and better (2) £100-140
West Indies Naval Campaign Medal 1898 (Sampson Medal) (William Sands, Stg. Ck.) impressed naming, complete with brooch bar, ‘U.S.S. New York’, nearly extremely fine £260-300
Hammer Price: £220
Civil War Campaign Medal 1861-65, Army issue, ‘M.No. 4556’, 2nd type ribbon, remounted on full wrap brooch, nearly extremely fine £100-140
Hammer Price: £120
Spanish Campaign Medal 1898, Army issue (No. 6284) with full wrap brooch on worn 2nd type ribbon, small ring neatly replaced; another, Army issue (No. 3744), 2nd type ribbon and unattached split brooch; another, Army issue (M.No. 5774) with full wrap brooch on 2nd type ribbon, very fine and better (3) £140-180
Spanish War Service Medal 1898-99, Army issue (16625) with full wrap brooch, ribbon a little frayed, good very fine £50-70
Hammer Price: £70
Army of Cuban Occupation Medal 1898-1902 (3) (M.No. 827) with full wrap brooch, edge bruise; another (9037) with full wrap brooch; another, unnumbered, with crimp brooch, very fine and better (3) £100-140
Philippine Campaign Medal 1899-1913 (3), Army issue (No. 5863) with full wrap brooch on a very frayed ribbon; another, Army issue (M.No. 8483) with full wrap brooch nearly detached from a very frayed ribbon; another, Army issue, unnumbered, with crimp brooch, good very fine (3) £120-160
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