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A United States Lines Distinguished Service Award and Life Saving Benevolent Association of New York group of four awarded to Boatswain D. Gillan, Mercantile Marine, for gallantry in rescuing the Master and five crew from the Schooner Mabel A. Frye in high seas off Newfoundland, 3 October 1936 British War Medal 1914-20 (David Gillan); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (David Gillan); United States Lines Distinguished Service Award in Gold, gilt and enamel, reverse inscribed ‘Awarded...
Hammer Price: £600
A Greek Navy Medal First Class group of three awarded to Bedroom Steward K. H. Walton, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, late Driver, Royal Army Service Corps, for his services in attempting to rescue the crew of the Greek trawler Iason on 13 March 1955 Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (T/22520985 Dvr. K. Walton. R.A.S.C.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Greece, Kingdom, Navy Medal, First Class, gilt, unnamed as issued, about extremely fine (3) £180-220
Hammer Price: £340
Denmark, Kingdom, Medal for Saving Life from Drowning, F.VIII.R., silver, 47mm (Fritz Kjelland) light contact marks, nearly extremely fine £200-300
Hammer Price: £240
France, Shipwreck and Humane Society, silver medal, the reverse inscribed ‘A Monsr. R. J. W. Dennistoun. Sauvetage de Miss Rich. 13 Aout 1870’, the edge engraved ‘Ville de Boulogne-sur-Mer’, silver mark to edge, small ring suspension, minor edge bruising, very fine £150-200
£150–£200
France, Republic, Gironde Lifesaving Society Medal, silver with crown suspension, the reverse engraved ‘Décernée au Poste de Leytham 1886’ good very fine France, Republic, Municipal Order of the Seine Department, breast Star, silver-gilt and enamel, with broad pin suspension, minor enamel damage, very fine (2) £70-90
Hammer Price: £70
Norway, Kingdom, Medal for Heroic Deeds, 2nd Class, silver, with crown suspension (W. Crouch Feb 19th. 1889) contemporarily engraved naming, edge bruising, very fine £200-300
£200–£300
A Scandinavian life saving pair awarded to Mr. A. Patch, who was awarded the Swedish Medal whilst captain of the trawler Cerberus, for saving the lives of the crew of the Swedish vessel Aimo which was foundering under heavy weather in the North Sea, 27 September 1896, and the Norwegian Medal whilst captain of the trawler Stanley, for saving the lives of the crew of the Norwegian barque Boylesta which suffered a similar fate in the North Sea on 26 March 1898 Sweden, Kingdom, Medal for...
Hammer Price: £400
United States of America, Presidential Gold Lifesaving Medal, gold, the obverse with the head of Liberty facing left, ‘Presented by the President of the United States’ inscribed around; the reverse inscribed, ‘To Henry Brenton Carpenter of the British Steamship “Rhodesia” in recognition of his “Heroic Services” in affecting the rescue of the Captain and Crew of the American Schooner “Carrie A. Lane” Wrecked at Sea Oct. 3. 1899’, with integral ‘E. Plurs. Unum’ brooch...
Hammer Price: £1,900
United States of America, Humane Society of Massachusetts, 5th type, small silver medal, 38mm, the reverse engraved ‘To Joseph McGann for bravery in saving life Woburn Feb. 18. 1938’ with integral silver bar suspension, lacking riband, good very fine £180-220
£180–£220
Alaska Pacific Steamship Company’s Medal for Bravery, gilt, the reverse engraved ‘Presented to J.M. Callfas, Chief Engr. by Alaska Pacific Steamship Co. in testimonial of Bravery on board S.S. Buckman Aug. 21. 1910’, nearly very fine and scarce £300-400
Hammer Price: £1,200
The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals worn by Captain G. P. Stronach, Merchant Navy, who was awarded a G.C. for exceptional courage in rescuing a number of the ship’s crew of H.M.S. Ocean Voyager after she had been subjected to a rocket attack from JU88 torpedo bombers in Tripoli Harbour on 19 March 1943 George Cross; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, with 8th Army clasp [sic]; War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1953; Jubilee 1977, mounted court style as worn; together...
Hammer Price: £1,400
The mounted group of ten miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel G. C. M. Hall, Royal Engineers The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s badge, gold and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak...
The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals attributed to Colonel G. Bridges, Royal Artillery The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamels, with integral top gold riband bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Def. of Mafeking; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves, mounted as worn,...
The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. De Kock, late Fort Commander, Mafeking Town Guard Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Def. of Mafeking; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Union of South Africa Commemoration Medal 1910; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn from two bars, good very fine An unattributed O.B.E. group of five miniature dress medals The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E....
Hammer Price: £260
An unattributed Naval Reserve Officer’s group of three miniature dress medals British War Medal 1914-20; Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, silver and silver-gilt; Denmark, Kingdom, Medal of Liberty 1946, as awarded to foreigners, mounted as worn; together with six additional miniature awards, including the Hungarian Order of Merit; the Chilean Order of Merit, this lacking reverse central medallion; the Greek Order of the Phoenix; the Spanish Order of Charles III; and...
George Cross; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military), Companion’s badge, gilt and and enamel; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil), Companion’s badge, gilt; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type badge, silver-gilt; Distinguished Service Order (2), G.V.R., gold and enamel, with integral top gold riband bar; E.II.R., gilt and enamel, with integral top gilt riband bar; Imperial Service Order, E.II.R., silvered,...
Distinguished Conduct Medal (2), V.R. and G.V.R.; Honourable East India Company Medal for Burma 1824-26, silver, with ribbon buckle; Sutlej 1845-46,for Aliwal 1846; Punjab 1848-49, no clasp; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, scroll suspension; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp; Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp; Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (3), 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Transvaal, Orange Free State; 4...
Hammer Price: £700
British War Medal 1914-20, 9 clasps, Heligoland 28 Aug 14, Belgian Coast Dogger Bank 24 Jan 15, North Sea 1915, Jutland 31 May 16, North Sea 1916, North Sea 1917, North Sea 1918, Eastern Baltic 1918-19, extremely fine £80-100
Hammer Price: £170
Polar Medal 1904, E.II.R., 2nd issue, silver, 1 engraved clasp, Antarctic 1957-58 (loose on ribbon), good very fine £100-140
King’s Home Service Messenger’s Badge, G.VI.R., by Garrard, London, 43mm x 35mm, silver (hallmarks for London 1942) and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘10’ and fitted with pin for wearing, in case of issue, extremely fine and scarce £800-1000
Royal Cork City Militia Merit Medal 1799, 41mm, gold, unmarked, the obverse featuring a central crowned harp with the number of the regiment, ‘27’, at its base, ‘Royal Cork City Militia’ on scroll riband above, and ‘Lieut. Colonel Mountiford Longfield Comding.’ below; the reverse engraved, ‘The Gift of Colonel Lord Longueville to Captain Lieut. John Corker, For Merit, 26 June 1799’, test mark to edge at 8 o’clock, very fine £400-500
Hammer Price: £1,300
Siege of Beaconsfield 1899-1900, obverse, shield, ‘Siege of Beaconsfield, 14 October 1899 - 15 February 1900, reverse, female figure of ‘Peace’, ‘Children’s Medal Presented by the Town Council 1900, Peace 1900’, silver, unnamed with ring suspension, good very fine and rare in silver £1200-1500
Boer War Tribute Medals (3), Ilfracombe Peace Celebration Medal, 2 June 1902, silver (hallmarks for Birmingham 1902), with ring suspension; National Commemorative Medal 1899-1900, silver, by Spink, London, with ring suspension; West Somerset Yeomanry Medal, Taunton Reception Committee, brass, no suspension, generally very fine (3) £80-120
Hammer Price: £100
Memorial Medal, gold (9ct., 15.0g), the obverse featuring Peace standing on the world, with the flags of the Victorious Allies either side, and the dates 1914-1919, the reverse engraved ‘K. Mc.Gregor K.O.S.B. Fell 1918’ within wreath, with small ring suspension, extremely fine £100-140
Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Cross (3), 1st Class, 2nd issue, bronze; another, 2nd Class, 2nd issue, silver (hallmarks for Birmingham 1948); another, 3rd Class, 2nd issue, gilt, all unnamed specimens, by Collins, London, all with integral top riband bars, good very fine (3) £200-300
R.A.F. Halton Barrington Kennett Trophy Medal, 2 clasps, One Mile Team Junior 1937, Two Miles Relay Junior 1937 (A/A. Chevens J. L.) silver, with top silver riband bar, in case of issue; together with a Royal Air Force Athletic and Cross Country Association bronze medallion, the reverse inscribed ‘Attained Athletic Standard’, good very fine (2) £100-140
Hammer Price: £130
Prize Medals Relating to Pipers: An attractive oval Silver Medal, unmarked, surmounted by cast nickel, obverse engraved ‘1st Prize Jig Playing National Halls - Glasgow - 1883. Won By Wm. Sutherland’, 53mm x 72mm, with eyelet and ring suspension; (3) Piping Medals, one in 9ct Gold, one silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1934) and one in bronze, all obverses are the Gordon Highlander’s crest, the reverses a Piper playing, 2nd engraved ‘Novices Fling A/Pr. J. Cotts.’, 3rd engraved...
Shooting Medals (3), Kimberley Regiment Medal, in the form of a silver shield, the reverse engraved ‘Presented to Sgt J. Harper for best Aggregate Score 87’; Southern Rhodesia Volunteers Prize Medal, gold (9ct., hallmarks for Birmingham), the obverse engraved ‘H Squadron Won by Lieut. H. Ashmore Score 98’; Southern Rhodesia Volunteers Prize Medal, silver, the reverse inscribed ‘Presented to Tpr. Ashmore by the “O.C.” S.R.V. for Best Aggregate Score made during Month of Dec....
Hammer Price: £150
Masonic Jewels (2), Grand Lodge of Scotland Jewel, gold (15ct.) and enamel, the obverse engraved ‘Endeavour 474 S.C.’, the reverse engraved ‘Wor. Bro. W. E. Pavey Presented by the Bretheren’, with thistle suspension, Masonic square and compass emblem on riband, and top ‘R.W.M. 1925-26’ riband bar; together with an unattributed Masonic Jewel, gold (9ct.), comprising an open lattice structure with gold suspension bar, top gold riband bar, and riband slide bar, extremely...
Royal and Ancient Order of Buffaloes Presentation Medallion, gold (9ct, hallmarks for Birmingham) and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Presented to Primo Arthur Webb. 1918’, with top gold riband bar engraved ‘Crown Lodge’, and gold suspension bar engraved ‘No. 2352’, with original embroidered riband; together with an unofficial foreign, possibly Yugoslavian, Ephemeral Jewel, in the form of a Maltese cross with a crowned double-headed eagle at the centre, with a crowned double-headed...
Hammer Price: £140
Royal Irish Constabulary Badge of Merit, silver, reverse with four loop fasteners for attaching to leather backing, orb lacking from top of crown, otherwise very fine and rare £200-300
Hammer Price: £3,800
A Large Silver Presentation Cigar Box, 205mm x 150mm x 80mm, silver (hallmarks for London 1897), the lid inscribed with the badge of the Middlesex Regiment, and additionally engraved ‘Presented to R.S.M. W. Knight, M.B.E. by the officers of the 1/7th. Bn. The Middlesex Regt. (D.C.O.) after 20 years loyal service September 1945’, and containing 6 ‘King Edward’ cigars, good condition £200-240
Hammer Price: £160
An Indian Mutiny 1857-58 Brooch comprising a heavy silver cross enamelled with red stripes, representing the riband of the medal, the centre containing a miniature of the Indian Mutiny medal, the reverse of the cross with brooch fitting and inscribed ‘J. Doyle Smithe, 2nd June 1858’, very fine £200-240
£200–£240
Royal Air Force Sweetheart Badges (6), five in the shape of R.A.F. wings, silver, gilt and enamel, one engraved on the reverse ‘Doris, from Harry’; the sixth a circular badge with the R.A.F. logo superimposed upon a mother of pearl backdrop to represent the clouds; together with a tie pin, silver and silver-gilt, in box, generally good very fine (7) £60-80
Hammer Price: £55
Defective Medals (6): Royal Victorian Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, silver, this a cast copy; Royal Victorian Medal, G.V.R., bronze, this a cast copy; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Balaklava (Jeli 4th. Q.O.L. Dragoons) re-engraved naming; Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Red River 1870, suspension broken, naming erased; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Waziristan 1901-02, retaining rod missing and clasps both loose (156 Gunner Sundar Singh (1) No 3 Peshawar...
Defective Medals: Military General Service 1793-1814, disc only, pinned at 12 and 6 o’clock into silver swivel mount with pin brooch for wearing (James McFarlane, 61st Foot.) correctly impressed naming, nearly very fine £200-300
Hammer Price: £420
Defective Medals (2): Military General Service 1793-1814, disc only (Matthew Kidd, 74th Foot.) correctly impressed naming; Military General Service 1793-1814, with suspension, no clasp (R. Smart Corpl. 85th Foot.) contemporarily re-engraved naming, the first with brooch marks to reverse, the second with soldered (fixed) suspension, both with edge bruising and contact marks, good fine (2) £200-300
Hammer Price: £500
Defective Medals (2): Egypt & Sudan 1882-89 (2), no clasp (Cptn G Carter 1st LG); 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (E. Dowell, Sail Crew, H.M.S. Iris) both renamed, pitting from stars, otherwise better than good fine (2) £60-80
Hammer Price: £120
Defective Medals (4): Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Bahr-El-Ghazal 1900-02, unnamed, copy clasp; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1901 (390 Pte. Selemani. 1/K.A.R.), copy clasp; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (A. H. Jenkings. G.R.N. 10399143. R.F.A.), renamed; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (3296. Sgt. J. Bruce. Para. Regt.) unofficially impressed, generally very fine (4) £80-100
Medal Clasps, a selection of 30 full-size medal clasps, including Phoenix 10 Augt. 1805, Salamanca, Poona, Aliwal, Mooltan, Sebastopol, Pekin 1860, Tel-el-Kebir, Witu 1890, Kachin Hills 1892-93, Liwondi, Juba River, Benin River 1894, Mashonaland 1897, Dongola, Khartoum, Kumassi, Relief of Pekin, China 1900, N. Nigeria, East Africa 1913-14, Waziristan 1925, Mohmand 1933, Radfan, and Northern Ireland, the majority tailor’s copies, together with 22 miniature medal clasps, including Brass...
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