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Royal Horse Guards a Pair of Undress Epaulettes c. 1800-20, the plain lace straps with applied Garter stars these in silver lace on red cloth, the bullion fringes of very distinctive pattern and are probably unique to the Royal Horse Guards, one has the original maker’s label for ‘Pitter & Fox, Lacemen, Belford Street, Covent Garden’, one retains fastening tape, no finial buttons, the Garter stars worn one with poorly repaired centre, the lace dull otherwise in good condition for their...
Hammer Price: £800
Army Medical Department/Staff Officer’s Helmet Plate c. 1878-98, a very fine and rare example, the gilt back plate of crowned star pattern with gilt laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre a pierced silver disc the pierced section forming a cross in red vitreous enamel, three loop fasteners, one central mount wire missing, a minor buckling to one star point otherwise in excellent condition £400-500
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (313. Pte. P. Murray. 88th Foot.) nearly very fine £500-550
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878 (229. Pte. W. Street. 80th Foot.) nearly very fine £500-600
Hammer Price: £750
Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, nearly extremely fine £600-800
Pair: Corporal W. Eddie, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, wounded in action at Modder River, 28 November 1899 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Modder River (3121 Pte. W. Eddie, A. & S. Highrs:); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3121 L. Cpl. W. Eddie. A. & S. Hdrs.) contact marks, nearly very fine, scarce (2) £180-220
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (2232 Pte. H. F. Raybould. 99th Foot.) good very fine £440-500
Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 2 clasps, Transkei, Basutoland (Tpr. T. Quinn. Transvaal Horse) very fine £360-400
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (G. Murphy. A.B. H.M.S. Carysfort) very fine £140-160
Yemen, Republic, Order of Seventy, Second Class breast Star, 49mm, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, maker’s mark and hallmarks for Birmingham 1982 on reverse, with gold retaining pin, minor test mark to retaining pin, otherwise extremely fine, rare £300-400
Yemen, Republic, Order of Marib, First Class small breast Star, 44mm, silver, gold, and enamel, gold eagle superimposed upon a silver star, maker’s mark on reverse, with gold retaining pin, extremely fine, rare £300-400
A Great War ‘Salonika’ R.R.C. group of three awarded to Matron Elsie E. Harlow, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, with Garrard, London, case of issue; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (A/Matron. E. E. Harlow) mounted for display, good very fine (3) £600-800
Three: Second Lieutenant E. R. Kelly, Border Regiment attached 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, who as a “boy soldier” was killed in action at Pilkem Ridge, 7-8 July 1915, aged 17 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. E. R. Kelly. Bord. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. E. R. Kelly.); Memorial Plaque (Edward Rowley Kelly) this housed in a solid oak frame; Memorial Scroll (2nd. Lt. Edward Rowley Kelly The Border Regiment), extremely fine (5) £300-400
88th Foot Order of Merit, Second Class for seven actions, 38mm, silver, the obverse featuring Hibernia, seated with harp, holding forth a wreath of laurel, the reverse featuring a wreath of laurel with ‘88’ at the apex enclosing the engraved actions, ‘Orthes, Vittoria, Toulouse, Fuentes d’Onor, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive’ (Sergt. Thomas Moore) with replacement rings for suspension, very fine £500-600
China 1842 (Matthew Robertson. 26th Regiment) original suspension, nearly very fine £360-400
Sutlej 1845-46, for Moodkee 1845, 1 clasp, Ferozeshuhur (Cornet W: F: Stephens 5th Regt. L:C:) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £600-800
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1865 to 1866 (Capt. R W Stone, 4th Battn. Mility. Train) officially impressed naming, repair to suspension, contact wear and edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine
South Africa 1834-53 (Lieut. S. W. Hall. 73rd Regt.) fitted with silver ribbon brooch, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise better than very fine £600-700
Hungary, Second Republic, Order of Merit, Civil Division, Grand Officer's set of insignia, comprising neck badge, 54mm, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse dated ‘1946’; Star, 79mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, unmarked, with neck riband, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine, scarce (2) £500-700
A Second War B.E.M. group of four awarded to Flight Sergeant R. Clacher, Royal Air Force British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (568716 A/Flt. Sgt. Robert Clacher R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, extremely fine (4) £300-400
A ‘1975’ Military Division B.E.M. group of nine awarded to Chief Radio Supervisor J. Gregory, Royal Navy British Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (C.R.S. John Gregory. J146433Y.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, with Second Award Bar (JX. 146433 J. Gregory. C.P.O. Tel. H.M.S. President.); Norway, King Haakon’s 70th Birthday Medal; U.S.S.R.,...
Netherlands, Kingdom, Royal Family Order of the House of Orange, 2nd type, Commander’s neck badge, 67mm x 55mm, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, with lapel rosette, in case of issue, minor red enamel damage to top arm of cross, suspension loop repaired, good very fine £240-280
French Republic Officer’s Shako 1st Light Infantry, of bell top shape, the body being of black cloth on buckram is 23.5 cm in height, the base being 17.5 cm and the crown 26 cm, the crown of slightly sunken black leather, the top of the shako with a 4 cm band of black velvet (faded), the base of the body with a 2.8 cm black leather bracing band, the front peak of leather with silver plate trimming, the shako plate comprises a large coiled bugle horn in silver plate with a metal figure...
The Lancashire Fusiliers Officer’s Fur Cap c. 1881-1914 Together With Correct Pattern Carrying Tin, a fine quality example complete with original wicker frame, black leather sweatband and graduated chin chain, frontal badge being a gilt fused grenade with silver overlays these being laurel sprays enclosing the Sphinx/Egypt, the chin chain lining partially detached otherwise very good condition; the carrying tin with a now near illegible luggage label and original brass name plaque missing...
Pair: Private James Moncrieff, 93rd Highlanders Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Jas. Moncrieff, 93rd Highlanders) test mark to rim; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Umbeyla (3543 J Moncrieff 93rd Highlanders) very fine (2) £600-700
Pair: Private J. Morris, Gordon Highlanders Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 4 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb_Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85 (2130. Pte. J. Morris. 1/Gord: Highrs:); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, light pitting, good very fine (2) £360-400
Romania, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, 1st type, Civil Division, Grand Cross set of insignia, by Joseph Resch, Bucharest,comprising sash badge, 70mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with maker’s mark and silver mark to ring suspension; Star, 91mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, with maker’s cartouche to reverse and silver mark to retaining pin, with evening dress section of sash riband, in slightly damaged case of issue, gilding slightly worn, therefore good very fine (2) £700-900
East Essex Rifles Militia Officer’s Helmet Plate c. 1878-1881, a fine and rare example in blackened metal of crowned star pattern with laurel overlays, these enclose a large strung bugle horn, within the strings on a ground of black velvet the County shield, a scroll on the base of the laurels ‘Essex Rifles’, three loop fasteners, very good condition £340-440
Russia, Empire, Alexander Imperial Lycée of Tzarskoe-Selo Jubilee Jetton, silver-gilt and enamel, featuring a red enamelled badge surrounded by a crowned laurel and oak leaves wreath, with combined monograms of Alexander I and Nicholas II in centre, with a lyre and dates 1811 and 1911 at base, multi-piece construction, maker’s name to obverse, with pinback suspension, extremely fine £300-400
Hammer Price: £700
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (1614 Pte. H. Bellamy, 90th Foot) very fine £550-650
Three: Private B. Nightingale, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4630 Pte. B. Nightingale, 1st L.N. Lanc: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4630 Pte. B. Nightingale. L.N. Lanc: Regt.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, complete with brooch bar, minor edge bruising, very fine (3) £400-440
Indian Order of Merit, Military Division, 1st type (1837-1912), 2nd Class, Reward of Valor, silver, gold and enamel, official replacement central button in silver not gold, reverse with central nut fitting and engraved in three lines, ‘2nd / Class / Order of Merit’, unnamed, minor chips to enamel, otherwise good very fine and scarce £600-800
Serbia, Kingdom, Order of St Sava, 3rd type, Grand Cross set of insignia, comprising sash badge, 86mm including crown suspension x 52mm, silver-gilt and enamel, Bishop with green robes, unmarked; Star, 90mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, Bishop with green robes, unmarked, with full sash riband, minor enamel damage to motto around central medallion on badge, otherwise good very fine (2) £400-500
Spain, Kingdom, Order of Military Merit, Grand Cross set of insignia, non-combatant type, by Jose Ferencz Mayor, Madrid, comprising sash badge, 59mm including crown suspension x 38mm, gold and enamel, unmarked; Star, 91mm, silver-gilt, silver, gold, and enamel, with maker’s cartouche to reverse and two additional support hooks, with full sash riband, gold test marks to base of cross on both badge and star, minor enamel cracking to reverse of sash badge, generally nearly extremely fine (2) ...
A rare Indian Postal Services C.I.E. and triple ‘M.I.D.’ group of four awarded to Major A. J. Hughes, Indian Postal Services and Royal Engineers, who was Mentioned in Despatches for services with the Egyptian and Mesopotamian Expeditionary Forces The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 2nd type breast badge, gold and enamel; 1914-15 Star (A. J. Hughes, Dy. Dir. Postal Deptt.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major A. J. Hughes.)...
A ‘1955’ Civil Division C.B.E., Second War Military Division O.B.E. group of five awarded to W. H. Eastwood, M.P., late Wing Commander, Southern Rhodesia Air Force, employed as Minister of Transport, 1958-62, in Sir Roy Welensky’s Federal Government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in Garrard & Co. Ltd. case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire,...
A Great War M.B.E., Order of St. John group of four awarded to Mrs. Mia Lucas, St. John Ambulance Brigade The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type badge, silver (hallmarks for London 1919), with M.I.D. oak leaves on riband [sic]; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s badge, silver and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Mia Lucas. London May 3rd. 1918’; Coronation 1937; St. John Service Medal, with Four Additional Award Bars (6069...
A Second War ‘D- Day and North West Europe’ M.B.E. group of eight awarded to Major C. D. H. Todd, Royal Berkshire Regiment The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, M.I.D. Oak Leaf; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Major. C. D. H. Todd. M.B.E. T.D. R. Berks.); Coronation 1937; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, reverse dated...
Candahar Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (John Stratton, 41st Regt.) fitted with original steel clip and bar suspension, extremely fine £500-600
Sutlej 1845-46, for Moodkee 1845, 1 clasp, Ferozeshuhur (Capt. H: Garbett 3rd. Brigade H: Ay.) suspension claw tightened, edge bruise, nearly very fine £400-500
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