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Austria, Empire, Order of the Iron Crown, Knight’s breast badge, by C.F. Rothe, Vienna, 55mm including crown suspension x 29mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with iron insert in crown, maker’s marks and silver marks on riband below crown and on suspension ring, extremely fine £300-400
Hammer Price: £950
A Great War 1917 ‘Ypres’ M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant, later Lieutenant, J. H. Ferguson, 2nd Australian Pioneer Battalion, Australian Imperial Force Military Medal, G.V.R. (795 Sjt: J. H. Ferguson. 2/Aust: Pnr: Bn:); 1914-15 Star (795 Pte. J. H. Ferguson 27/Bn. A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. H. Ferguson. A.I.F.), with a silver prize shield, hallmarks for Birmingham 1908, obverse engraved ‘J. H. F.’, light contact marks overall, therefore very fine or...
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Defence of Lucknow (Danl. Webb, 64th Regt.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine £500-600
Three: Staff Nurse Annie ‘Nancy’ Beel, American Ambulance Hospital, Paris 1914 Star, with copy slide clasp (A. Beel. Amer: Amb: Hosp:); British War and Victory Medals (S. Nurse A. Beel.) together with T.F.N.S. cape badge, two associated brass ‘T’ insignia, and ribbon bar, nearly extremely fine and scarce (3) £300-400
Hammer Price: £900
Zanzibar, Jubilee Medal 1911-1936, Sultan H.H. Sir Khalifa Bin Harub G.C.B., silver, faintly hallmarked on the edge, together with miniature of same but with plain reverse, both mounted for wear, nicely toned, extremely fine (2) £100-140
Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold, Naval Division, Grand Cross set of insignia, comprising sash badge, 130mm including crown and crossed anchors suspension x 68mm, gilt and enamel, French motto; Star, 92mm x 85mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, crossed anchors, French motto, with two additional retaining hooks to reverse, with full sash riband, good very fine, scarce (2) £800-1200
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Toulouse (W. Thurlwell, 2nd. Life Guards) nearly extremely fine £800-1200
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Orthes, Toulouse (Edward Woolard, 14th Light Dragoons.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £700-900
Sutlej 1845-46, for Aliwal 1846, no clasp (Jas. Smalley 16th Lancers) very fine £500-600
A Great War Western Front D.C.M. group of four awarded to Lance Corporal A. Froud, Gloucestershire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (9881 L. Cpl. A. Froud. 1/Glouc. R.) 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (9881 Pte. A. Froud. 1/Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (9881 Pte. A. Froud. Glouc. R.) heavy pitting from Star, polished and worn, therefore fine (4) £700-900
A Great War M.M. and Bar group of four awarded to Sergeant G. Thomson, Machine Gun Corps and West Riding Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (16211 L.Cpl. G. Thomson /13.Coy. M.G.C.) unit partially officially corrected; 1914-15 Star (14004 Pte. G. Thomson. W. Rid. R.); British War and Victory Medals (14004 Sjt. G. Thomson. W. Rid. R.) toned, very fine (4) £600-800
Hungary, Regency, Order of Merit, Civil Division, Grand Officer's set of insignia, comprising neck badge, 53mm, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked; Star, 79mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, unmarked, with neck riband, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine (2) £600-800
A scarce post-war Military Division B.E.M. group of four awarded Sergeant I. L. E. Hunt, Women’s Royal Air Force, for work as a Mosquito airframe mechanic at R.A.F. Sylt, Germany, and who flew at least 100 hours as a Target Towing Operator British Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (2131353 Sen. A.C.W., Ivy L. E. Hunt, W.R.A.F.); War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula (W2131353 Sgt. (W). I. L. Hunt. R.A.F.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue...
China 1857-60, no clasp (Ag. Lieut. T. M. Philbrick. H.M.S. Auckland. I.N.) officially impressed naming, good very fine £400-500
The Strabane Infantry (County Tyrone) Officer’s Gorget c. 1794-1801, an extremely rare copper gilt example depicting the Royal Arms of Great Britain pre-1801 with ‘GR’ above the crown and a scroll at the base ‘Strabane Infantry’, approximately 50% original gilt remains and a small crack on the upper part of the frame just above the ‘R’ otherwise in sound condition £500-700
Russia, Empire, Order of St. Anne, Civil Division, Second Class neck badge, 42mm, gold (56 zolotniki) and enamel, indistinct assay office mark for 1868 (?) and gold mark on suspension ring, with neck riband, traces of varnish to one reverse arm, otherwise good very fine £700-900
A scarce early 1914 Great War casualty group of five awarded to Sergeant H. Martin, 18th Hussars, who was killed in action at Elouges, 24 August 1914 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, Orange Free State (5096 Pte. H. Martin. 18th Hussars) suspension claw crudely re-pinned, and loose; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (5096 Pte. H. Martin 18th Hussars.) suspension slack; 1914 Star, with clasp (5096 Sgt H. R. [sic] Martin. 18/Hrs.); British War and Victory Medals...
Hammer Price: £850
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Order of Alexander Nevsky, 2nd type breast badge, silver, gold, and enamel, reverse officially numbered ´20391´, with screwback suspension, good very fine £400-500
An unusual 1966 ‘services to Nigeria’ M.B.E., Great War group of five awarded to Mrs S. Leith-Ross, British Committee for the French Red Cross, an Anglo-American whose love of France and Nigeria, led to her dedicating her life to benefit of others in those countries across two World Wars. An extraordinary woman, who lived to the age of 95, Leith-Ross established hospitals, founded schools and had 6 books published during the course of her lifetime The Most Excellent Order of the...
A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Amy I. Coward, Territorial Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Sister A. I. Coward. T.F.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister A. I. Coward.); together with a Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses Queen Alexandra’s Committee Medal, silver-gilt (hallmarks for London 1915) and enamel, on...
Sutlej 1845-46, for Sobraon 1846, no clasp (Lieut. Frederick Coventry 29th Regt.) good very fine £500-600
Three: Naval Cadet F. A. Cooper, Royal Navy, killed in action, aged 15 years old, in H.M.S. Monmouth at the Battle of Coronel, 1 November 1914 1914-15 Star (Nl. Cdt. F. A. Cooper, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Nl. Cdt. F. A. Cooper. R.N.) BWM letter ‘l’ mis-struck with ‘1’, extremely fine (3) £500-600
57th (West Middlesex) Regiment Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet c. 1878-81, a rare example, the blue cloth skull complete with all gilt metal fittings, the front peak of rounded pattern, the crowned star pattern plate (original to the helmet) with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black leather (now shrunken) gilt numerals ‘57’, red moroccan sweatband with crimson silk lining (mainly detached) and retailer’s label ‘J.Haslett Woolwich’, together with a japanned...
Pair: Ordinary Seaman A. Stead, Royal Navy Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Alexandria 11th July, Tel-El-Kebir (A. Stead, Ord. H.M.S. Monarch.); Khedive’s Star 1882,unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, a slightly later issue with East and West Africa 1887-1900 style impressed naming, pitting from star, nearly very fine (2) £240-280
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 3 clasps, Delhi, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Gunner. W. McCann, 2nd Tp. 3rd Bde. Bl. H, Art.) suspension re-fixed and does not swivel, otherwise polished, nearly very fine £500-600
Romania, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, 2nd type, Military Division, Grand Officer's Star, by C. F. Zimmermann, Pforzheim, 66mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, with crossed swords, maker’s mark, National Mint mark, silver marks, and workshop number on retaining pin, about extremely fine £300-400
Russia, Empire, Order of St. Stanislas, Civil Division, Second Class neck badge, by Keibel, St. Petersburg, 46mm, gold (56 zolotniki) and enamel, maker’s mark and Court stamp on reverse, gold mark and 1865-96 assay office mark on suspension ring, with neck riband, minor white enamel cracking to central medallion, otherwise good very fine £600-800
Pair: Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant A. S. Tanner, Middlesex (Duke of Cambridge’s Hussars) Imperial Yeomanry, late City of London Imperial Volunteers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (1200 Pte. A. S. Tanner. C.I.V.); Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1746 S.Q.M. Sjt. A. S. Tanner. Middx: (D.O.C. Hrs.) I.Y.) light contact marks, therefore nearly very fine or better (2) £500-600
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E., Knight Commander’s 2nd type set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with fitted pad from case of issue and small length of Military division neck ribbon, nearly extremely fine (2) £600-800
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878 (1840, Pte. J. Owen, 80th Foot.) extremely fine £500-550
Hammer Price: £800
Three: Lieutenant-Colonel N. Webb-Bowen, Commanding Officer, Welsh Guards General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Canal Zone (Capt N Webb-Bowen WG) in named case of issue; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, South Arabia (Major N. Webb-Bowen. WG.); Coronation 1953, the latter two mounted court style as worn, nearly extremely fine (3) £300-400
A good Second War ‘Home Guard’ M.B.E., Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Colonel C. F. Morgan, Royal Field Artillery and 71st Lancashire Home Guard Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse privately engraved ‘Lt. C. F. Morgan, B/157. R.F.A. 3rd. June 1918.’; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. F. Morgan.); Defence Medal;...
France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Commander’s neck badge, 80mm including wreath suspension x 66mm, gilt and enamel, with a circle of ‘diamonds’ around central medallion and additionally embellishing suspension, unmarked, of modern manufacture, possibly produced as a theatrical piece, extremely fine £100-140
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (J. Betts. Coldstream Gds.) officially impressed naming, extremely fine £700-900
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (P. Cody, 63rd Regt.) officially impressed naming, with ornate top silver riband bar, good very fine £600-800
An unusual campaign group of eight awarded to Group Captain J. W. Turton-Jones, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force, who flew as a seaplane observer over the Caspian Sea during the Allied Intervention in South Russia, 1918-19. He later qualified as a pilot, before commanding 19 (Fighter) Squadron, 1936-37, and 250 (Signals) Wing in North Africa during the Second World War British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. W. Turton-Jones. R.A.F.) with official corrections to both; 1939-45...
A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ D.C.M. group of five awarded to Company Sergeant Major T. Lister, 4th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, formerly West Riding Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (34647 C.S. Mjr. T. Lister. 4/S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (28954 Sjt. T. Lister. S. Wales Bord.); Delhi Durbar 1911, contemporary engraved naming ‘6815 Sergt. T. Lister, West Riding Regt.’; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6815 C.S. Mjr. T. Lister. D.C.M., W. Rid....
4th Royal Lancashire Light Infantry Militia Major’s 1855 Pattern Shako, the fine quality black beaver body with sunken patent leather top, back and front peaks and bottom bracing band, the very fine star pattern frontal plate is in silver plate with a gilt circular overlay ‘4th Royal Lancashire Militia’, in the centre on a domed silver plated ground the VR cypher and a bugle horn, a Major’s broad silver lace band around the top, an all red wool ball plume with silver plated holder...
First Royal Cheshire Militia Officer’s 1873 Pattern Shako, the green cloth body complete with all silver plated fittings and silver lace trim, the frontal plate of crowned laurel pattern with central circle ‘First Royal Cheshire Militia’, in the centre on a domed ground a silver strung bugle horn, the plate is original to the shako, buff leather sweatband and crimson silk lining, the round ball plume of dark green wool with plated plume holder this a mixture of 1855 and 1861 patterns,...
Romania, Kingdom, Order of the Star, 1st type, Civil Division, Grand Cross set of insignia, by Joseph Resch, Bucharest, comprising sash badge, 111mm including crown suspension x 72mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with eagle at centre, silver mark on suspension ring; Star, 96mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, with eagle at centre, maker's cartouche on reverse, and silver mark on pin, with full sash riband, in case of issue, blue enamel flaking to two arms of cross on star, otherwise good very...
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