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The Great War memorial plaque issued in remembrance of Major J. A. Findlay, D.S.O., Highland Light Infantry, a veteran of the Gallipoli campaign who was killed in action in Palestine in November 1917 Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (John Alexander Findlay), contained in an old fitted, velvet-lined leather case, extremely fine £160-180
Hammer Price: £240
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (George Walford Giles) very fine £40-60
Hammer Price: £50
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Henry Francis Perrett) good very fine £30-50
Hammer Price: £60
A.N.Z.A.C. Commemorative Medallion, bronze, 75 x 50mm., obverse scene depicting Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, 3rd Field Ambulance, A.I.F., with donkey, with the legend ‘1915 ANZAC’, reverse with an outline of Australia and New Zealand, with the ‘Southern Cross’, medal named to ‘T. Casserley’, in its fitted case of issue, extremely fine £100-120
Hammer Price: £170
South African Memorial Plaque, bronze cross, 76 x 76mm., mounted on a wooden plaque, with associated bronze label inscribed, ‘Died on Service - World War 1939 1945 in oorlogsdiens gesterf-wereldoorlog 607932V F./Sgt. H. B. Hobson, S.A.A.F.’, very fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £85
King Edward VI School, Birmingham, Robert Dale Medal, 18ct. gold, by A. Wyon, obverse, bust of Robert Dale with Latin inscription around, reverse, Latin inscription on central plaque and ‘Edwardi Sexti In’ above and ‘Birmingham School’ below, the edge inscribed to ‘M. F. Howard’, 45mm., in its (damaged) fitted case of issue, extremely fine £800-1000
Hammer Price: £950
Greenwich Hospital School Medal for Attainments and Good Conduct, 2 ornate clasps engraved, ‘Semper Paratus’, ‘Spero Meliora’, obverse: bust of Nelson left; reverse: inscribed, ‘Robert T. Pett 1873’, 41mm., silver, claw and straight bar suspension, some edge bruising, good very fine £100-140
Hammer Price: £220
Tyne Training Ship Wellesley, Charles T. N. Mather Prize Medal 1876, medal set within an anchor, obverse: a three-masted ship at sea; reverse: inscribed, ‘Patrick Flaherty 1884’, 60 x 45mm., silver, with ring suspension, with silver top bar inscribed, ‘Steadfast & True’, jeweller’s mark on reverse of anchor suspension bar, nearly extremely fine £200-240
Hammer Price: £180
Tyne Training Ship Commemorative Medal, obverse: the training ship, ‘Souvenir Wellesley Training Ship North Shields England’; reverse ‘William Campbell Chief Monitor 1884-1888’, 43 x 44mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1922, ring suspension, extremely fine £80-120
National Temperance League: Royal Naval Branch, N.T.L.3; Royal Naval Temperance Society (7) R.N.T.S.1, with ‘The Victory Medal’ enamelled brooch bar; R.N.T.S.2, with ‘Committee’ brooch bar; R.N.T.S.3 (2), with ‘Fidelity’ brooch bars; R.N.T.S.4, with ‘Three-Years’ brooch bar; R.N.T.S.5 (2) both with ‘Victory Medal enamelled brooch bars, one with 3 enamelled clasps, ‘Ten Years’, ‘15 Years’, ‘20 Years’; the other with 4 enamelled clasps, ‘10 Years’, ‘15...
Hammer Price: £340
National Temperance League: Military Branch, N.T.L.1; Soldiers’ Total Abstinence Association (7) S.T.A.1 (4), scroll suspension; another, with ‘Fidelity’ top bar; another, with ‘Fidelity’ top bar and ‘Frontier-1897-8’ clasp’; another, a copy (?), thin disk and ring suspension; S.T.A.2, with ‘Excelsior’ top bar; S.T.A.3, ‘Silver Star of St. George’, silver; S.T.A.6, with ‘For Merit’ brooch bar, all unnamed, good very fine and better (8) £70-90
Hammer Price: £200
Army Temperance Association: India (20) A.T.A.I.1 (2) bronze, with bronze brooch bar; another, silvered; A.T.A.I.2 (3) one with silvered brooch bar; another, with ‘Fidelity’ brooch bar; A.T.A.I.3, (3) ‘Beatty Star’, one with ‘Excelsior’ top bar; A.T.A.I.4 (3); A.T.A.I.5, ‘White Star’, silver and enamel; A.T.A.I.6; A.T.A.I.7 ‘Havelock Silver Maltese Cross’; A.T.A.I.8, ‘Assaye Star’, with top bar; A.T.A.I.10a ‘Roberts’ Badge’; A.T.A.I.14; A.T.A.I.15 (3) all...
Hammer Price: £280
Army Temperance Association: Home (10) A.T.A.H.1; A.T.A.H.2 (3), one with ‘Fidelity’ brooch bar; A.T.A.H.3, with ‘Excelsior’ brooch bar; A.T.A.H.5, silver and enamel, with ‘Watch and be Sober’ brooch bar; A.T.A.H.6; A.T.A.H.7; A.T.A.H.9; A.T.A.H.13, all unnamed, good very fine (10) £90-120
Royal Army Temperance Association (14) R.A.T.A.1; R.A.T.A.2; R.A.T.A.4 (3), one with ‘Excelsior’ brooch bar; R.A.T.A.5, silver and enamel; R.A.T.A.6 (2) one with Indian lion hallmark; the other by ‘MM & Co. Ltd’; R.A.T.A.7; R.A.T.A.8 ‘Kitchener Star’; R.A.T.A.9b; R.A.T.A.11; R.A.T.A.17; R.A.T.A.18, all unnamed, good very fine (14) £120-160
Royal Army Temperance Association, R.A.T.A.14 ‘Award of Merit Medal’, silver, reverse impressed, ‘Bombr. R. Thomas, 50th Co. R.G.A. 1906’, extremely fine £50-70
Hammer Price: £130
Church of England Temperance Society (2) 32mm., white metal, with detached ‘Two Years clasp and brooch bar; another, 27mm., white metal; Church of England Men’s Society Cross, bronze; Gospel Blue Ribbon Society (?) (2) enamelled, one with ‘Six-Months T A’ brooch bar (lacking pin); another, with ‘Four Years’ suspension bar, with ornate brooch bar (lacking pin); Gospel Temperance Total Abstinence, with ‘Two Years’ brooch bar and ‘Gibraltar Band of Hope’ ribbon; ‘Total...
County Borough of Warrington, Badges of Office for Ex-Mayor and Mayoress, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1961 and 1965, the reverse of the Ex-Mayor’s badge engraved, ‘Presented to Councillor B. S. Arnold, J.P., Mayor 1965-66’, and the reverse of the Ex-Mayoress’s badge engraved, ‘Presented to Mrs. B. S. Arnold, Mayoress, 1965-66’, with hook/loop suspensions, the latter with safety chain, good very fine (2) £60-80
Hammer Price: £160
Sold by Order of the Family H.M.S. Belfast, Gold Medal Struck to Celebrate the Saving of the Ship for the Nation, 1971, obverse, profile of the cruiser with ‘H.M.S. Belfast’ above and the motto ‘Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus’ below; reverse, the ship’s crest with ‘North Cape Russian Convoys Korea D-Day’ around, 39mm., 22 ct., 47.3g., with related certificate of authenticity (No. 001 of a limited edition of 500 in gold), in the name of ‘Lord Fraser of North Cape’, in its...
Hammer Price: £2,200
Specimen and other awards (7), comprising: Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R., bronze-gilt, no suspension, in fitted Elkington & Co. leather case; British North Borneo Company Medal 1897-1916, 1 clasp, Punitive Expedition, bronze, edge stamped ‘specimen’; another, 1 clasp, Tambunan, bronze, edge stamped, ‘copy’; National Rifle Association Medal, bronze, 47mm., top clasp, ‘Yorke Grand Agge. 1904’ (Won by Sergt. B. E. Renton), swivel-scroll suspension; N.R.A. Rifle Clubs Medal...
Hammer Price: £110
Defence Medal 1939-45, trial piece in copper, remnants of mint red, uncirculated and unusual £60-80
Hammer Price: £150
A group of four campaign medals renamed to Battery Staff Sergeant William A. Hawthorne, Bengal Artillery Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Mooltan, Chilianwala (Gunr. Wm. A. Hawthorne 3rd Troop B.H.A.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia, the clasp privately manufactured (Bombr. Wm. A. Hawthorne 4th Troop B.H.A.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Batty. Staff Sergt. Wm. A. Hawthorne, No. 18. L.F. By.); China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Batty. Staff...
Hammer Price: £550
Great War London Telephone Service Badge, 40mm by 30mm, bronze-gilt and enamel, centre with inter-twined initials ‘L.T.S.’, surrounded by the words ‘Air Raids - Ducit Amor Patriae’, surmounted by a crown, reverse with original pin fitting; Silver War Badge 1914-18, the reverse numbered ‘NZ22194’; On War Service Badge, by Gaunt & Son Ltd., the reverse numbered ‘39740’; War Munition Volunteer’s Badge, by Gaunt & Son Ltd., the reverse numbered ‘13323’; Indian Army Overseas...
‘Captain George Fiott Day, V.C., C.B., R.N., was one of the most decorated officers in the Navy’s history. His photograph shows him wearing three orders and nine medals, spaced across his uniform chest. The sight of this glittering array is supposed to have prompted the Prince of Wales (Edward VII) to suggest in about 1870 that medals should be gathered neatly together on one bar ... Day’s naval career was a particularly strenuous one, but it does show the kind of service demanded of...
Hammer Price: £500
A brass snuff box of Waterloo interest, the hinged lid engraved, ‘This taken from the pocket of a Prussian Grenadier on the Ground of Waterloo after the Battle, June 23rd 1815’, 51 by 28 by 14mm. approx., traces of repair to hinge, otherwise in good condition £100-150
Hammer Price: £1,600
A quantity of original documentation appertaining to Assistant Surgeon George Pearse, Royal Navy, comprising an Indenture witnessing his apprenticeship to James Grindley, a Surgeon and Apothecary of Westminster, London, dated ‘in the forty-fourth year’ of George III’s reign; his letter of appointment as Assistant Surgeon to H.M.S. Scipion, dated 8 May 1812 and a certificate of service granting him ‘conduct money’, also signed aboard H.M.S. Scipion, 20 May 1812; a letter of...
Hammer Price: £120
An original Crimea War letter - author unconfirmed, dated at ‘Kadikoi, July 9th 1855’, ink, four sides on a single folded piece of white paper, addressed to ‘My dearest Mamma’ and discussing such matters as a soldier of the 41st giving water to a wounded Russian, a fellow officer selling his commission and the author’s decision to grow a beard; with related envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. Henry Leslie, Port Ballintrae, Bushmills, Ireland’, endorsed ‘via Marseilles’, with three...
‘The much to be regretted death of His Highness occurred before I had forwarded the recommendation for reward, which he had so well deserved. His sterling qualities as a soldier, his unfailing courtesy and attention to his duties had endeared him to all with whom he came into contact, and his early death is a real loss to the army.’ Lord Roberts reporting on the death of Prince Christian Victor in his despatch dated 16 April 1901. A collection of Boer War period ephemera...
Hammer Price: £140
Bank Book, with leather cover, approx. 155 x 105mm., inscribed in gilt lettering, ‘Vice Admiral The Hon Sir Edward S. Fitzherbert. K.C.B.’, additionally bearing the stamp mark of the London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd., 69 Pall Mall, SW’, the book contains entries for the years 1920-22, good condition £60-80
An interesting archive of original documentation relating to Commander R. A. M. Hennessy, M.V.O., D.S.C., Royal Navy, including ‘Confidential’ Reports of Proceedings aboard H.M.S. Comus, which ship he Commanded during the Korean War a) Midshipman’s Journal, for the period 29 February 1932 to 12 October 1933, containing many watercolours, line drawings and maps, as well as a day to day account of his services aboard H.M.S. Revenge and H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth b) Confidential Reports...
Hammer Price: £650
An original Second World War pilot’s flying log book appertaining to 1606085 Sergeant D. F. Baker, Royal Air Force, comprising R.C.A.F. Pilots’ Flying Log Book (Form R. 95 type), with entries covering the period August 1943 to June 1945, the whole as a pupil pilot in Canada and the U.K., together with inserted group photograph, covers a little worn but generally in good condition £40-60
Hammer Price: £45
Original caricature portrait by Sidney Conrad Strube (British, 1892-1956), depicting Quarter-Master Sergeant John “Slippy” Lansdell, 28th Battalion, The London Regiment (Artists Rifles), pen and ink on board, Lansdell depicted as a waitress, 34 by 42cm., framed and glazed, together with an original menu for the Artists Rifles’ Sergeants’ Mess Christmas Dinner of 1931, the front cover bearing this same caricature portrait, generally in good condition (Lot) £150-200
Original cases of issue (2): for D.S.O. and D.S.C., both Garrard & Co. Ltd., together with a white leather case, Olivers, Villiers Street, London, leather scuffed on the first and last; a modern R.F.C. blazer patch and a quantity of uniform riband bars, some worn (Lot) £100-150
Hammer Price: £100
Medal Ribbon, large rolls (3) of Africa Star and War Medal 1939-45 (2); together with shorter lengths of Order of St. John; Ashanti Medal 1900; Atlantic Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Pacific Star; Burma Star; France and Germany Star; Territorial/Efficiency Decoration, sold as found (lot) £40-60
Barrett, C.R.B., The 7th (Queen’s Own) Hussars, R.U.S.I., 1914, Vol. II (1818-1913) viii, 450pp., plus colour and b/w plates, with useful appendices of officer’s services, three quarter blue calf with gilt titles, front cover with water staining, minor foxing, contents good £20-30
Cooke, J. H. (Compiler), 5,000 Miles with the Cheshire Yeomanry in South Africa, - ‘illustrated by one hundred and sixty plates, photographs and portraits’, Mackie & Co. Ltd., Warrington & Phillipson & Golder, Chester, 1913-14, 1st edition, xxxiii, 434pp., inc. b/w plates, with map in rear pocket, 500 copies of the book stated to have been printed, signed by the compiler, boards and damaged dust jacket; Bastick, Desmond, Trumpet Call, The story of the The Duke of Lancaster’s Own...
Cresswell, Oliver D., Irish Medals, bound type script; Balmer, J. L., Regimental Medals Handbook 1745-1895, paperback; Askew, Gilbert, The Medals of the Northumbrian Bag-Pipes, booklet; [Spink], Military General Service 1793-1814 (Canadian Recipients); Egypt Medal 1882-1889 (Canadian Recipients) North West Canada 1885; [Arms & Armour Press], Army Officers Awards, Napoleonic Period, paperback; Smyth, Sir John, Great Stories of the Victoria Cross; Gordon, Major L. L., British Orders & Awards;...
De la Bere, Brig. Sir Ivan, The Queen’s Orders of Chivalry; Risk, James C., The History of the Order of the Bath; Hood, Frederic, The Chapel of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire; [Anon], Statutes of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire; Bedford, W. K. R. & Holbechie, R., The Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem; King, Sir Edwin, The Knights of St. John in the British Realm, revised by Sir Harry Luke; Abbott, P. E. & Tamplin, J. M. A., British Gallantry...
Hammer Price: £55
Kipling, A. L. & King, H. L., Head-Dress Badges of the British Army, Vol. 1, up to the end of the Great War; Vol. 2, from the end of the Great War to the present day; Edwards, Major T. J., Regimental Badges; Gaylor, John, Military Badge Collecting (2), Revised 2nd and 3rd editions; Wilkinson, F., Badges of the British Army 1820-1960; Ripley, Howard, Buttons of the British Army 1855-1970; Ripley, Howard, Police Buttons; Westlake, Ray, Military Metal Shoulder Titles, Vol. 1 - Infantry;...
Hammer Price: £65
Mericka, Vaclav, Orders and Decorations; Mericka, Vaclav, Book of Orders and Decorations; Dorling, H. Taprell, Ribbons and Medals, 1941 edition; Dorling, H. Taprell, Ribbons and Medals, 1960 edition, in association with L. F. Guille; Dorling, H. Taprell, Ribbons and Medals, 1983 (last) edition, edited by A. A. Purves; Blondel, Jean-Michel, Ordres des Etats de l’Allemagne Imperiale; Neville, D. G., Medal Ribbons & Orders of Imperial Germany & Austria; McDowell, Charles P., Military and...
Medal Society of Ireland Journal, an almost complete run, from Volume 1 (December 1986) to Volume 96 (September 2014), comprising volumes 1 to 6 and 14 to 96 (88 volumes, lacking volumes 7 to 13 only), generally in good condition and housed in eight matching custom binders, each with gilt title ‘Medal Society of Ireland’ and society badge to spine £40-60
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