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Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Salamanca (Edward Costello, 30th Foot) with jeweller’s mark on edge, slight contact marks and edge bruising, good very fine £1000-1200
Hammer Price: £1,600
Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Corunna, Nivelle, Nive (J. Bell, Serjt. 1st Foot Gds.) good very fine £800-1000
An Immediate Great War D.S.O. awarded to Major D. O. Riddel, M.B., Royal Army Medical Corps, attached 11th West Yorkshire Regiment Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., in case of issue, obverse centre a little depressed and slack; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Montenegro, Military Bravery Medal, silver, unnamed, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine, the last very scarce (5) £1800-2200
A Great War Italy operations M.C. group of six awarded to 2nd Lieutenant J. T. Harrison, South Staffordshire Regiment Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (8764 Pte. J. T. Harrison, S. Staff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. J. T. Harrison); Italy, War Cross; Italy, Armati Altipiani Medal 1918, very fine and better (6) £1000-1200
The Most Ancient and Noble Order of the Thistle, K.T., Knight’s breast star, silver, gold and enamels, 106 x 76mm, unmarked but probably manufactured by C. F. Rothe, Vienna, 20th century, good very fine £500-600
The Royal Victorian Order, G.C.V.O., Knight Grand Cross set of insignia, comprising sash badge, silver-gilt and enamel, and breast star, silver, silver-gilt, gold and enamel, the reverses of both pieces officially numbered ‘842’, with length of sash, good very fine (2) £1200-1500
A Great War M.M. and Bar group of four awarded to Corporal B. J. Greaney, Royal Irish Regiment, late Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was wounded on four separate occasions Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (52312 Pte. B. J. Greaney, 15/R. Ir. Rif.); 1914-15 Star (2417 Pte. B. J. Greaney, R. War. R.); British War and Victory Medals (305077 Cpl. B. J. Greaney, R. War. R.), remnants of old brooch-pin fitting to the reverse of the M.M’s Bar, good very fine (4) £800-1000
A Great War ‘North Russia’ M.M. group of seven awarded to Serjeant A. Berridge, King’s Royal Rifle Corps Military Medal, G.V.R. (11420 Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.); 1914 Star, with clasp (11420 Pte., 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (11420 Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Army L.s. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (6837808 Sjt., M.M., K.R.R.C.) mounted as worn, early medals worn through polishing, poor; others better (7) £500-600
The Second Afghan War Medal awarded to Private Isaac James, 66th Foot, killed in action at the battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (B/275 Pte. I. James, 66th Foot) partial official correction to surname, very fine £1400-1800
A poignant Boer War group of three awarded to Pipe-Major David Laing, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, who became the best known Piper in the country when his picture showing him saying good-bye to his son on the square at Chelsea Barracks was published Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (6745 Pipe-Major D. Laing, Scots Gds.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902...
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Mafeking (260 Tpr. C. I. Evans, Protect. Regt. F.F.), edge bruise, good very fine £1200-1400
Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Salamanca, Vittoria, Toulouse (A. McMullen, 5th Dragoon Guards) edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine £1000-1200
Hammer Price: £1,500
Hannover Waterloo 1815 (Husar Heinrich Meyer, Hus. Rgt. Prinz Rgt.), fitted with old silver loop and steel ring suspension, good very fine £800-1000
A Great War battle of Cambrai M.C. group of three awarded to Captain J. E. Davis, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘2nd Lieut. James Ernest Davis, 9th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Cambrai, 21/24 Novr. 1917’, in its case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. J. E. Davis), together with the recipient’s silver identity bracelet, ‘J. E. Davis, Methodist, R. Innis. Fus.’, rank officially corrected on the last two,...
A scarce Great War M.C. group of four awarded to the Rev. A. O’Connor, Army Chaplains Department Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘Rev. A. O’Connor, Sep. 3rd 1916’; 1914-15 Star (Rev. A. O’Connor, A.C.D.); British War and Victory Medals (Rev. A. O’Connor), generally good very fine (4) £1200-1500
A Great War D.C.M. group of five awarded to Lieutenant J. Maxwell, 2nd Canadian Infantry Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (81576 L. Cpl., 2/Can. Inf. Bn.); 1914-15 Star (81576 Pte., 2/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. (on B.W.M.) (Lieut.); France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1915, palm on ribbon, good very fine (5) £1000-1200
An impressive R.V.M. group of twelve awarded to Gethyn Jones, a long-served Stove and Flute Attendant at Buckingham Palace Royal Victorian Medal, E.II.R., silver, privately engraved, ‘Gethyn Jones’, with small correction to surname; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, E.II.R., the suspension bar officially dated ‘1937-1957’ and with ‘Thirty Years’ Bar (Gethyn Jones); Luxembourg (Grand...
Five: Private J. Gurnett, Royal Marines Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (John Gumett); China 1842, (John Gurnett, Royal Marines) replacement straight bar suspension, signs of brooch mounting to obverse; Crimea 1854-56, no clasp (John Gurnett, R.M.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted with a straight bar suspension; St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, unnamed, pierced with ring suspension, note variation in surname, mounted for...
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (1771 Actg. Condr. J. O’Neill, 2/4th Foot), very fine £340-380
Mexico, Empire, Order of the Mexican Eagle, neck badge by C. F. Rothe, Vienna, silver-gilt and enamel, stamp marks of suspension ring, a later production, with neck cravat, in unrelated Lemaitre, Paris case, good very fine £200-300
Six: Gunner T. Ormesher, ‘C’ Troop, 170 Independent Mortar Battery, Royal Artillery, who was taken P.O.W. at Imjin River on 25 April 1951 - and subsequently among those awarded the U.S. Presidential Citation 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (889081 Gnr. T. Ormesher, R.A.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, together with U.S. Presidential Citation Riband Bar, good very fine (7) £1200-1500
Three: Lieutenant G. O. de P. Chance, 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, killed in action, Flanders, 19 October 1914 1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut., R.W. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) good very fine (3) £550-650
Three: Colour Sergeant R. McAleese, Royal Marines General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Radfan, Northern Ireland (RM.23057 Mne., R.M.); South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (CSgt PO23067Q RM); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Sgt PO23057Q RM) mounted as worn, some contact marks, very fine and better (3) £800-900
Hammer Price: £1,400
China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (4562 Corpl: T. J. Hanmer. 2nd Rl: Welsh Fus:) minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £380-420
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...
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Maida (P. Holland, Serjt., 27th Foot) manufacturing flaw to lower face of clasp, good very fine £1000-1200
Waterloo 1815 (Oliver McKernon, Royal Artillery Driver) original steel clip and replacement ring suspension, contact marks, nearly very fine £1200-1400
Waterloo 1815 (Corporal Thomas Greasly, Royal Artillery Drivers) with steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising, some contact marks, very fine £1200-1400
Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (J. Cameron, 2nd Dragns.) officially impressed naming, Sebastopol clasp loose as issued, fitted with T. B. Bailey silver ribbon brooch, minor edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1200-1400
Six: Chief Petty Officer G. E. Over, Royal Navy - a ‘double issue’ L.S. & G.C. group East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (178015 A-B, H.M.S. Blonde); 1914-15 Star (178015 C.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (178015 C.P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (178015 C.P.O., H.M.S. Indomitable); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (178015 C.P.O., H.M.S. Indomitable) mounted for wear, some with contact marks, nearly very...
Fitments: gold ribbon buckles (4) different designs, 48 x 13mm; 42 x 16mm.; 42 x 13mm; 28 x 7mm.; gold 2-part ribbon fitment, 50 x 14mm., two with pin fittings, unmarked, circa 30g., all dimensions/weights approximate, good condition (5) £600-700
Hammer Price: £1,300
Fitments: a large quantity of silver and other metal ribbon buckles, clasps, brooch, slip and top bars, riband bars, some inscribed and /or ornate, includes a bronze buckle inscribed, ‘Gibraltar Septr 13th 1782’; a silver buckle ‘Samuel Travers Esqr. 1724’, reverse inscribed, ‘Wm. Hy. Millington 1874’; a top bar inscribed, ‘W. G. Booker Pte H.M.S. St. George’, approx. 100 items, varied state, sold as found (lot) £500-600
A Great War ‘Joncourt breakthrough’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private J. Sunderland, 9th Tank Corps Military Medal, G.V.R. (78582 Pte., 9/Tank C.); British War and Victory Medals (78582 Pte., Tank Corps) minor edge bruising, good very fine (3) £550-650
A fine Second World War North Africa operations M.M. group of five awarded to Guardsman R. Dean, Coldstream Guards, who ‘remained totally indifferent to any personal danger’ as he went about his work as a stretcher-bearer in the battle for “Long Stop Hill” on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1942: he was born in Kensington, Philadelphia, U.S.A. Military Medal, G.VI.R. (2660024 Gdsmn. R. Dean, C. Gds.); 1939-45 Star, the reverse privately engraved, ‘2660024 Gdsmn. Richard Dean,...
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 Member’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, 89mm x 52mm, 14 carat, 92.53g., in its fitted presentation case, named on the lid, extremely fine and very rare £1000-1200
Hammer Price: £1,200
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Corunna (G. Gibb, Serjt., 71st Foot) edge bruising, slight contact marks, very fine £700-800
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Fuentes D’Onor (John Priest, 92nd Foot) good very fine £1200-1500
Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Pyrenees, Nive, Toulouse (John Gadsby, 39th Foot) edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine £800-1000
Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Talavera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria (Abraham Hazelock, 14th Light Dragoons.) suspension re-fixed, cut to 3rd clasp, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £1000-1200
A rare Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. Bovill, Royal Garrison Artillery, a pioneer “Balloonatic” who was attached to the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force for the duration of the War: having originally seen action as an artillery observer in aircraft of No. 6 Squadron in 1914-15, he rose to the command of No. 1 Kite Balloon Squadron on the Somme in 1916 and of 6th Balloon Wing in the Middle East in 1918: a fine record that also won him four mentions...
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