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Germany, Iron Cross 1914, 2nd Class; together with; 3rd Reich, Iron Cross, 2nd Class; Army Long Service Cross, 18 years; War Merit Cross, 2nd Class, with swords (2); War Merit Cross, 2nd Class, without swords; War Merit Medal (2); West Wall Medal (2); Russian Front Medal; W.H.W. plastic badges (2) £50-70
Hammer Price: £55
Japan, Order of the Rising Sun, 5th class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Russo-Japanese War Medal 1904-05; Manchurian Incident Medal 1931, generally good very fine (3) £200-250
Hammer Price: £200
Netherlands, Battle of Dogger Bank 1781, silver, nearly very fine and very scarce £200-300
Hammer Price: £300
Norway, King’s Merit medal, Haakon VII, silver, named on the reverse ‘H. Christensen 1932’; King’s Commemoration Medal for Court servants, silver with crown; Coronation of King Haakon VII, in case of issue with miniature, and an unofficial Great War commemorative medal, very fine or better (5) £100-120
Hammer Price: £140
Persia, Order of the Lion and Sun, breast badge, silver and enamels, very fine £60-70
Hammer Price: £70
Portugal, Campaign Medal 1826-34 (2), bronze, for one campaign and for three campaigns, both with ribbon bars; Spain, Order of the War Cross, breast badge with crossed palms; Medal for Melilla 1909, with three ribbon bars, ‘Atlaten’, ‘Taxdirt Hidum Zocoel Had’, ‘Nador Celuan-Zoco El Jemis’; Medal for Morocco, with four ribbon bars, ‘Quebdana’, ‘Beni Bu Gafar’, ‘Nador’, ‘Tetuan’; Peace in Morocco 1926, with original embroidered ribbon; Victory in the Civil War...
Hammer Price: £160
Roumania, Danube Cross 1877-78, with original ribbon, good very fine £80-100
£80–£100
Russia, War of 1812, silver; Capture of Paris 1814, silver; Pacification of Transylvania 1849, silver, mounted as worn on a very old ribbon, the medal polished and worn; Defence of Sevastopol 1854-55, silver; Russo-Japanese War 1904-05, light bronze; Cross for the Steppes Campaign 1918 (Civil War), silver, together with later copies of the Kulm Cross and St George Cross for the Czech Legion, generally very fine or better (8) £400-500
Hammer Price: £410
Russia, Order of St Stanislaus, 3rd class neck badge, bronze-gilt and enamel, enamel chipped and cracked on two arms; together with Bulgaria, Order of Civil Merit, 4th class breast badge, bronze-gilt and enamels, nearly very fine (2) £80-120
Sweden, Life Saving Medal, Oscar II, silver (Alex W. C. Proctor, Novbr. 11th 1891) lacking suspension, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce £80-100
Thailand, Rama V, Jubilee Medal 1894, silver; King’s Visit to Europe 1897, silver; Medal Commemorating 40 Years on the Throne 1908, silver; Equestrian Statue Medal 1908, silver, together with an enamelled portrait of the King on copper, this cracked and damaged, otherwise generally very fine (5) £300-400
£300–£400
Turkey, St Jean D’Acre 1840 (2), silver and bronze, both with original rings for suspension; Danube Campaign Medal 1855, silver; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, very fine or better (4) £200-250
Hammer Price: £240
Medals and Decorations of the World (36), including Austria/Hungary (4), Belgium (2), Czechoslovakia (6), Denmark, Ethiopia, France (12), Germany (4), Greece, Italy (4), and Poland, generally very fine and better (36) £100-150
Hammer Price: £190
An unusual official issue booklet ‘Wanted Men in Cyprus’, November 1956, containing 50 photographs of Cypriot men wanted by the British Army in Cyprus. The photographs all named and many annotated as either subsequently killed or captured, the corners curling, otherwise good condition £20-30
Hammer Price: £65
The Royal Scots 1914-19, two volumes, by Major John Ewing, M.C., 1925, good condition £40-60
£40–£60
History of The Fifteenth H.L.I., Thomas Chalmers, 1934; together with, Officers of The Black Watch 1725-1952; Roll of Honour Burgh & Parish of Selkirk 1914-1918, good condition (3) £30-40
£30–£40
Leicestershire Vagrancy Committee, an interesting ledger, circa 1920, detailing particulars of discharged sailors and soldiers applying for admission to casual wards, each page bearing the details of an individual sailor or soldier, with full name, regiment, regimental number, reason for discharge etc. A sad record of some of the demobilized sailors and soldiers who at the end of the Great War found that they had no homes or jobs to go back to, good condition £80-100
Hammer Price: £110
An Account of The Royal Portugese Military Order of The Tower and Sword, containing much information regarding the creation and history of the Order as well as a list of those entitled to wear the insignia, two plates, published London for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1813, gilt tooled leather binding, with book plate for Robert Page Knt., Commander of the Royal Portugese Order of the Tower and Sword, the book has been neatly annotated by Page with further detail regarding the Order...
Hammer Price: £230
Early War Medal Catalogues, issued by the collector for private circulation (3), comprising, J. Lawson Whalley 1877; Lieut. Col. H. F. Eaton 1880; Captain John Stansfield 1905, all signed by their respective author; together with important single owner auction catalogues (4), comprising, Joseph Taylor Esq., Sotheby Wilkinson Hodge 1895; C. A. Watters, Glendining’s 1913; Major S. John Tombs, Glendining’s 1918; Sir Henry Wellcome, Harrods 1938, all with hard cover bindings, generally good...
Hammer Price: £360
South African Field Force Casualty Roll, hard back edition, good condition £10-20
Hammer Price: £25
The Annuity Meritorious Service Medal 1847-1953, by I. McInnes, 450 pages, hard covers in slip case, one of a limited edition of 400 copies, containing the names with biographical detail of nearly 6,000 men who were awarded the M.S.M. with annuity between 1847 and 1953,very good condition and a very useful publication £60-70
Hammer Price: £90
The Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 1830-1848, by I. McInnes and J. B. Gregson, 291 pages, full leather binding in slip case, one of a limited edition of 300 copies, containing the names with biographical detail of 2,900 men awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. Medal, type 1, very good condition £50-60
Hammer Price: £50
Sudden Death, Sudden Glory, The 59th Regiment 1793-1830, by D. Ingham, 185 pages, hard covers, one of a limited edition of 400 copies, containing much biographical detail on the Regiments officers and other ranks, very good condition £30-35
Hammer Price: £30
An important pair awarded to Sergeant Edward Cluff, 52nd Foot, twice wounded and a ‘Stormer of Badajoz’ Military General Service 1793-1814, 11 clasps, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (E. Clough, Serjt. 52nd Foot); Waterloo 1815 (Edwd. Cluff, Sergt. 52nd Regt. L.I.) naming re-engraved in a contemporary style, fitted with an attractive silver bar suspension inscribed ‘Peninsula’, the first nearly...
Hammer Price: £2,300
Three: Colour Sergeant Alexander Smith, 32nd Foot, late 31st Foot Cabul 1842 (No. 928 Alexander Smith, Pt. H.M’s 31st Regt.) fitted with original steel clip and bar suspension; Sutlej 1845-46, for Moodkee 1845, 3 clasps, Ferozeshuhur, Aliwal, Sobraon (Serjt. Alexander Smith, 31st Regt.); Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Mooltan, Goojerat (Color Serjt. A. Smith, 32nd Foot) contact marks and edge nicks, otherwise very fine or better and a scarce group (3) £600-800
Hammer Price: £900
Four: Sergeant James Sims, 61st Foot, later sergeant Major of the 1st Somerset Rifle Volunteer Corps Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (61st Foot); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (61st Regt.); Indian Mutiny 1857-58, 1 clasp, Delhi (Serjt., 61st Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R. (1435 Serjt., 61st Foot) the last fitted with unofficial Indian Mutiny style clasp inscribed ‘Long Service’, the Punjab and Mutiny medals with much contact wear, good fine,...
Hammer Price: £700
Five: Quarter-Master Sergeant John Ferguson, Royal Engineers Baltic 1854-55 (2nd Crpl. J. Ferguson, Rl. Sprs. & Mnrs.) officially impressed naming; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (R.S. & Miners) contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea, French issue, unnamed; Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (2491 Q.M. Sergt. J. Ferguson, Late Rl. Engrs.); Great Exhibition 1851, bronze medal ‘For Services’ (John Ferguson, R.S. & M.) impressed naming, fitted with silver ring for suspension,...
Hammer Price: £880
Pair: W. Church, Royal Navy Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (H.M. Ship Royal Albert), contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea, British Issue (H.M.S. Royal Albert), engraved naming, both contained in a contemporary fitted case, contact marks generally very fine £100-120
Hammer Price: £130
Pair: Corporal F. Fletcher, 1st Royal Dragoons, later Military Train Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (1st Rl. Dragns.), edge bruising; Indian Mutiny 1857-58, no clasp (Corpl., 2nd Bn. Mily. Train), rim plugged at 6 o’clock obscuring one letter of surname and suspension a little loose, generally nearly very fine or better (2) £100-130
Hammer Price: £170
Four: Private Edward Slaven, 33rd Regiment, late 44th Regiment Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (3205 E. Slaven, 44 Rgt.) rather crude but contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, named as before; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860 (44th Regt.) impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (900 Edwd. Slaven, 33rd Foot) contact marks and edge bruises, otherwise nearly very fine and better (4) £400-500
A Heavy Brigade pair awarded to Corporal George Nugent, 6th Dragoons Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Pve. Geo. Nugent, 6th Dns.) contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue (Corpl., 6th Dns.) contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £300-350
Hammer Price: £430
Three: Corporal Joseph Vick, 4th Light Dragoons Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Corpl. J. Vick, 4th Lt. Dragns.) officially impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., large letter reverse (725 Corpl. Joseph Vick, 4th Lt. Dragns. 1856); Turkish Crimea, British issue, unnamed, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (3) £3000-3500
Hammer Price: £5,400
Three: Corporal Richard Law, 8th Hussars Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Pte. Richd. Law, 8th Hussars) contemporary engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Corpl. Rd. Law, 8th Hussars); Turkish Crimea, British issue (Pte. Richard Law, 8th Hussars) very light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (3) £2000-2500
Hammer Price: £1,700
Single: Private David Andrews, 11th Hussars Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Balaklava, Sebastopol (D. Andrews, 11th Hussars) officially impressed naming, clasps mounted in order listed, rivet to top clasp broken, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise very fine £3000-3500
Hammer Price: £3,500
The important family group to the Goad brothers, Captain Thomas Howard Goad, 13th Light Dragoons, killed in the charge, and Cornet George Maxwell Goad, 13th Light Dragoons, severely injured early in the day at Balaklava Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (Capt. T. H. Goad, 13th Lt. Dns.) contemporary engraved naming Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (Capt. George Maxwell Goad, 13th Lt. Drags.) contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea,...
Hammer Price: £4,800
Three: Private John Fenton, 13th Light Dragoons Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (John Fenton, 13th Light Dragoons) regimentally impressed naming; Turkish Crimea, British issue, unnamed; French Medaille Militaire, silver, gilt and enamel, suspension re-fixed on the first, contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £2000-2500
Three: Private Stephen Kennedy, 17th Lancers Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Pte. Stepn. Kennedy, 17th Lan) contemporary engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., large letter reverse (No...ivate Stepn. Kennedy, 17th Lancers June 10th 1857); Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, unnamed, contact marks causing naming to be weak in places, the first lacking one rivet, good fine and better (3) £3000-3500
Hammer Price: £2,500
Pair: Private W. Bishop, 78th Highlanders, 1st Relief Force, killed in action at Lucknow India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (78th Highlanders); Indian Mutiny 1857-58, 1 clasp, Defence of Lucknow (78th Highlanders) the first with edge bruising, nearly very fine and better (2) £750-850
Hammer Price: £800
Pair: Sergeant F. C. Tonge, Royal Engineers India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1889-92, Chin Hills 1892-93 (18139 Sergt., R.E. “Q.O.” Sappers & Miners); Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, V.R., small letter reverse (18139 Serjt., R.E.) contact marks, therefore nearly very fine and rare (2) £350-400
Hammer Price: £440
Pair: Private Richard Dobson, 33rd Regiment, late 44th Regiment China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860 (44th Regt.) impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (840 Richd. Dobson, 33rd Foot) contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £180-220
Hammer Price: £150
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