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Naval Sextant, a good brass and gun metal naval sextant, constructed by J. Coombes Optician and Instrument Maker, Devonport. The scale further inscribed with the owners name ‘H. Bouverie Deedes R.N.’ Contained in its original mahogany brass bound case, the lid with inset brass plaque inscribed ‘Bouverie Deedes R.N.’, also with ivory makers plaque, complete with accesories. The interior of the lid with origial card certificate of the National Physical Laboratory, this dated December 1909, very...
£500–£600
A cased display of items attributed to Major General B. A. Combe, 14th (The King’s) Hussars, comprising silver-plated novelty thermometer, the top fitted with a compass and the base with Combe family seal; large silvered Scottish Clan badges (2); a pair of elaborate gilt-metal spurs and a button bearing the family arms, all mounted for display in a glazed frame, generally good condition (6)
Hammer Price: £140
Infantry Officers pattern dress sword, basket hilt with G.V.R. cypher, blade by Henry Wilkinson, this etched with initials and regiment ‘H.P.D., Royal Engineers’, with leather scabbard, good condition
Hammer Price: £100
Badges and Insignia of the 17th Lancers, see illustration (21)
Hammer Price: £280
Cap badges, Foot Guards (5), various Line Regiments (32), see illustration (37)
Hammer Price: £210
Cap badges, various Line Regiments, see illustration (39)
Cap badges and other insignia, Tank Corps, Royal Tank Corps etc., see illustration (39)
Hammer Price: £230
Cap badges and other insignia, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps etc., see illustration (49)
£150–£200
Cap badges and other insignia, Machine Gun Corps, see illustration (44)
Hammer Price: £440
Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes I-XXI, together with Supplement Vol. XXII, and Second Supplement Volumes I-III, 25 Volumes in all complete, Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, Smith Elder & Co., London, 1908-12, uniform blue cloth binding, a fine set in good condition and a rare opportunity to acquire an important work of reference, sold not subject to return (25)
Hammer Price: £820
Midshipman’s Journal, an important wartime journal kept by Lieutenant Cameron St Clair Ingham, Royal Navy, for the period August to December 1914, whilst aboard H.M.S. Invincible at the battles of Helgoland and the Falkland Islands; together with a good quantity of original documentation, including portrait photograph, Certificates of Appointment to various ships, Captain’s ‘flimsies’, and three volumes entitled ‘Ashore and Afloat 1900 to 1950’ being his unpublished autobiography, a rare lot...
£1,500–£2,000
Pilot’s Flying Log Book, an original Pilot’s Flying Log Book belonging to Group Captain Douglas Bader, D.S.O., D.F.C., for the period 2 June 1945 to 28 August 1945, containing more than 70 entries; together with a complete and rare fully bound photocopy of his wartime Flying Log Book for the period November 1939 to 8 August 1941, when he was shot down and became a P.O.W., and for the period June 1945 to May 1959, good condition
Hammer Price: £1,800
Pilot’s Flying Log Books, an interesting lot of original documentation relating to First Officer R. W. Ayres, a wartime Ferry Pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary, comprising two R.A.F. Pilot’s Flying Log Books for the period April 1940 to October 1945, Certificate of Service, B.O.A.C.-A.T.A. Contract of Employment, three A.T.A. note books, and an excellent Album compiled by Ayres to portray the career of a Ferry Pilot, illustrating many of the great variety of aircraft flown. The lot is al...
Hammer Price: £300
Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book, belonging to a Naval Photographer by the name of Bullough (no other details shown) who flew with No. 771 Squadron between June 1944 and June 1946, photographing various Allied warships for the Admiralty, these all identified in his log book entries, good condition
Hammer Price: £50
Royal Humane Society, Large Silver Medal, an early framed and glazed award, the reverse inscribed ‘R.H.S. Do. Brodie, Vitam Ob Restitutam Dono Dat 1805’, the silver rim inscribed ‘Go and Do Thou Likewise’, reverse lunette missing, otherwise good very fine and scarce
Hammer Price: £130
A rare life saving group awarded to Joseph Beedon, Boatswain, Royal Navy Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-55, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (J. Beedem, A.B.) the clasp loose on ribbon as issued; Royal Humane Society, large bronze medal (Successful), (Joseph Beeden, A.B., H.M.S. Duke of Wellington 31 Jany. 1857) fitted with ring suspension; Royal Humane Society, large silver medal (Successful), (James Beeden, A.B., H.M.S. Cumberland 9 July 1857) with silver Second Award clasp, 1st type...
Hammer Price: £1,350
The contemporary group of four miniature dress medals worn by Joseph Beedon, Boatswain, Royal Navy, comprising Baltic 1854-55, the ribbon fitted with clasp ‘Balaklava’; Crimea 1854-55, no clasp; Royal Humane Society, Bronze Medal (Successful) named on the rim (Joseph Beeden, A.B. 31st Jany. 1857. H.M.S. Duke of Wellington) fitted with bronze ribbon buckle; Royal Humane Society, Silver Medal (Successful) named on the rim (James Beeden, A.B. 9th July 1857. H.M.S. Cumberland) fitted with silver...
Hammer Price: £360
A mounted group of eight attributed to Wing Commander R. B. Lovemore, R.F.C. and R.A.F., comprising D.S.O., G.V.R., 1914 Star Trio (M.I.D.), 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Defence and War Medals; together with various 20th Century miniatures (23), including M.C., G.V.R.; M.M., G.VI.R.; A.F.M., G.VI.R.; South Africa Korea 1950-53, very fine or better (31)
Contemporary mounted group of five, comprising I.G.S. 1895, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1901-02; 1914-15 Star Trio; I.G.S. 1908, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1921-24, the last clasp loose on ribbon, contained in an old mahogany glazed frame; together with other miniature medals (25), including I.G.S. 1854, 1 clasp, Chin Lushai 1889-90; Q.S.A., 4 clasps, C.C., O.F.S., Jo’burg, D.H.; Q.S.A., 3 clasps, C.C., O.F.S., SA 1902; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., generally good very fine or better (3...
Hammer Price: £110
Miniature Dress Medals (26), mostly 20th Century, including O.B.E. 2nd type, and Jubilee 1897 in silver, generally very fine or better (26)
Hammer Price: £60
Pair: Captain W. A. Dely, 61st Regiment Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Chilianwala (Captn., 61st Foot); Indian Mutiny 1857-58, 1 clasp, Delhi (Captn., 61st Regt.) generally very fine (2)
Hammer Price: £590
Three: Colour Sergeant George Morrison, 61st Regiment Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (Corpl., 61st Foot); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (2009 Corpl., 61st Foot); Indian Mutiny 1857-58, 1 clasp, Delhi (Color-Serjt., 61st Regt.) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better and a rare group (3)
Hammer Price: £520
The Crimean War pair of medals of Ensign Malcolm Drummond, Viscount Forth, who carried the Regimental Colour of the 42nd Royal Highlanders at the battle of the Alma Crimea 1854-55, 2 clasps, Alma, Sebastopol (Ensign Vist. Forth, 42d Foot) contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, Hunt & Roskill pattern, both medals fitted with silver ribbon buckles, nearly extremely fine (2)
Hammer Price: £950
Pair: Sergeant Isaac Larkman, Commissariat Staff Corps, late 77th Foot Crimea 1854-55, 2 clasps, Alma, Inkermann (Serjt., 77 Foot) contemporary engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (316 Serjt., Comt. Staff Corps) the first with contact marks, nearly very fine or better (2)
Hammer Price: £150
The Crimea group of three awarded to Private Isaac Archer, 3rd Company, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, one of the small band of heroes that saved the Regimental Colours in a desperate rear-guard action at the Battle of Inkermann Crimea 1854-55, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (5605 Corpl. I. F. Archer, 3 Batt. Grenadier Gds.) naming engraved in sloping capitals; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, named as before; French Medaille Militaire, enamel mostly lacking from cen...
Hammer Price: £1,450
Three: Corporal W. Halls, 20th Regiment Crimea 1854-55, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (W. Halls, 20th Regt.) officially impressed naming, one rivet broken between the first two clasps; Indian Mutiny 1857-58, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Corpl., 20th Regt.); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, light contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (3)
Hammer Price: £470
Three: James Benson, Chief Ship’s Cook, Royal Navy Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Act. Sh. Cook 1 Cl., H.M.S. Agincourt); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Sh. Cook 1st Cl., H.M.S. Duke of Wellington) impressed naming; Khedive’s Star 1882, light pitting otherwise very fine (3)
Hammer Price: £170
Three: Lieutenant Colonel C. J. Hubbard, Grenadier Guards Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, no clasp, dated reverse (Lt. Col., 2/Gren. Gds.); Khedive’s Star 1882; Turkey, Order of Osmanieh, breast badge in silver-gilt and enamels, ball points bent and enamel chipped on this, otherwise very fine (3)
Hammer Price: £320
The Egypt and Sudan campaign pair awarded to Corporal J. Smith, 24th Company, Royal Engineers, who was promoted to Sergeant for the defence of Ambigole Wells Fort and awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (13482 Corpl. J. Smith, 24th Co. R.E.); Khedive’s Star 1882, pitting from star, therefore nearly very fine (2)
Pair: Canadian Boatman F. Monnette, Ottawa Contingent Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (301 Boat., Ottawa Contgt.); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, light pitting from star, nearly very fine (2)
Hammer Price: £450
Pair: Lance Corporal J. W. Spence, 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 2 clasps, El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85 (1141 L/Corp., 1/Gord. Highrs.); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, suspension on the first a little bent and fitted with replacement rod, good fine (2)
Pair: Sergeant J. Hoyles, Devon Regiment India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (1776 Pte., 2d Bn. Devon Regt.); Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued, contact wear and pitting, therefore good fine and a scarce combination (2)
Hammer Price: £340
Pair: Driver Nur Bakhsh, No. 6 Bombay Mountain Battery India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1889-92, Lushai 1889-92 (530 Driver, No. 6 Bo. Mn. By.); India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (530 K. Driver, No. 6 Bo. Mtn. By.) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2)
£160–£180
Three: Private John Farr, Devon Regiment India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-5 (1970 Pte., 1st Bn. Devon Regt.); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (1970 Pte., 1st Bn. Devon Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (1970 Pte., Devon Regt.) suspension claw re-pinned on the first, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce (3)
Hammer Price: £390
Five: Vice Admiral H. J. O. Millar, Royal Navy East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Witu 1890 (Lieut., R.N. H.M.S. Conquest); 1914-15 Star Trio (Capt., R.N.); Coronation 1911, named (Captain, R.N.) good very fine (5)
Hammer Price: £290
Four: W. Thomas, Chief Yeoman of Signals, Royal Navy East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Witu 1890 (Lg.Sign., H.M.S. Turquoise); British War Medal (121401 C.Y.S. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Yeo. of Sig., H.M.S. Terror) impressed naming; Royal Navy Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (Ch. Yeo. Sigs. “Victory” Services During War) very fine and better (4)
Hammer Price: £370
Five: Chief Petty Officer F. J. Timmins, Royal Navy East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Witu 1890 (A.B., H.M.S. Cossack); 1914-15 Star Trio (125794 P.O./C.P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Boatn. H.M. Coast Guard) impressed naming, light contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (5)
The important campaign group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel William Pinches, Royal Army Medical Corps, Medical Officer to the 21st Lancers who rode in their historic charge at Omdurman India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891 (Surgn., Army Medl. Staff); Queen’s Sudan 1896 (Maj., R.A.M.C.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (Major, R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa, 2 clasps (Maj., R.A.M.C.); Order of the Medjidie, 4th class...
Hammer Price: £4,100
Pair: Private J. Murray, 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders Queen’s Sudan 1896 (5071 Pte., 1/Sea. Hrs.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, Khartoum, The Atbara (5071 Pte., 1st Sea. Highrs.) nearly very fine (2)
Six: Private R. Scott, Highland Light Infantry India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (5267 Pte, 2/Highld. L.I.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (5267 Pte., Highland L.I.); King’s South Africa, 2 clasps (5267 Pte., Highland L.I.); 1914-15 Star Trio (1355 Pte., Highland L.I.) mounted as worn, generally very fine or better (6)
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