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Germany, Third Reich, Luftwaffe Flak Badge, zinc, reverse stamped ‘GWL’, with pin-backed suspension, good very fine £100-£140
Hammer Price: £150
Germany, Third Reich, Squadron Clasp for Bomber Pilots, Bronze Badge, bronze with silvered central winged bomb, unmarked, with pin-backed suspension, good very fine £80-£120
Germany, Third Reich, Demjansk Shield, silvered grey metal, on ‘Luftwaffe’ grey felt with original paper backing, nearly extremely fine £100-£140
Hammer Price: £220
Hungary, Republic, Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic, Officer’s breast badge, 52mm, gilt and enamel, with pin-backed suspension, reverse dated ‘1946-1991’, with lapel rosette and riband bar with emblem, in case of issue, extremely fine £60-£80
Hammer Price: £85
Italy, Kingdom, Al Valore Militaire, bronze, reverse engraved ‘Eusepi Bernardini, Lero Sett. Nov. 43’, nearly very fine £80-£120
Hammer Price: £130
Italy, Kingdom, Al Valore Militare, bronze-gilt, unnamed as issued; War Merit Cross 1915-18, bronze; Volunteers War Medal 1915-18, bronze, with 1915 riband bar; War Medal 1940-43, bronze, generally very fine (4) £40-£50
Hammer Price: £90
Italy, Kingdom, Messina Earthquake Medal 1908, silver, unnamed as issued, edge bruising, nearly very fine £50-£70
Hammer Price: £75
Italy, Republic, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2), Commander’s neck badge, 73mm including tower suspension x 53mm, silver-gilt and enamel, silver mark to base, with neck riband, in case of issue; Knight’s breast badge, 60mm including tower suspension x 44mm, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, with miniature award and lapel rosette, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine (2) £120-£160
Hammer Price: £120
Kuwait, Emirate, Medal for the Liberation of Kuwait 1991, 3rd Grade, gilt and enamel, with riband bar, in case of issue, good very fine Philippines, Medal for the Defense of the Philippines, bronze and enamel; Medal for the Liberation of the Philippines, bronze and enamel; Philippine Independence Medal, bronze, extremely fine Rhodesia, General Service Medal (111979 Rfn N. Nicoladis) good very fine Saudi Arabia, Kingdom, Medal for the Liberation of Kuwait 1991, silvered and enamel,...
Hammer Price: £80
Ottoman Empire, Gallipoli Star 1915, silver and enamel, reverse stamped ‘B.B.&Co.’, minor enamel damage to tip of lower right arm, some discolouration to enamel of top arm, otherwise very fine £70-£90
Poland, Republic, Order of Virtuti Militari, Fifth Class breast badge, silvered and enamel; Monte Cassino Cross 1944, bronze, reverse officially numbered ‘25796’, the first a later manufactured example, good very fine Poland, People’s Republic, Order of Polonia Restituta, Fifth Class breast badge, gilt and enamel; Medal for Warsaw 1939-45, bronze; Medal for Odra, Nysa, Baltic 1945, bronze; Medal for Victory and Freedom 1945, bronze, good very fine (6) £80-£120
Hammer Price: £140
Romania, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, 2nd type, Grand Officer’s neck badge, 60mm, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, minor enamel damage to obverse central medallion and to tip of one reverse arm, the crown at the centre of the obverse slightly corroded, therefore nearly very fine £70-£90
Hammer Price: £110
Russia, Empire, Nicholas I Commemorative Medal as Colonel of the 6th Prussian Cuirassiers Regiment 1842, silver, the obverse bearing the crowned cipher of Nicholas I, the reverse dated 1817-1842 within wreath, minor edge nicks, good very fine, scarce £140-£180
Hammer Price: £260
Spain, Civil War 1936-39 and Second World War Anti-Tank Arm Shield Badge, die stamped silvered and black lacquered zinc, initially used by Franco’s troops in the Civil War, and subsequently by the Spanish Volunteers in the Blue Division on the Russian Front during the Second World War, with four hole attachments, good condition £100-£140
Hammer Price: £180
Spain, Civil War 1936-39 Pilot’s Wings for the Nationalist Air Force, silvered-bronze, gilt, and enamel, with correct locking mechanism to reverse, good condition £100-£140
Spain, Civil War 1936-39 Pilot’s Wings for the Republican Air Force, pressed metal, silvered and enamel; together with the related collar insignia, good condition, scarce (3) £140-£180
Hammer Price: £170
Tunisia, Kingdom, Order of Nichan Iftikah, 2nd type, Knight’s breast badge, 64mm including bow suspension x 43mm, silver and enamel, monogram of Muhammad V an-Nasir (1906-22) to centre, unmarked, minor green enamel damage to central medallion, otherwise very fine £50-£70
Hammer Price: £40
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Order of the Red Banner, 3rd type (2), silver-gilt and enamel, reverses officially numbered ‘179064’ and ‘246383’, both with Monetny Dvor mint mark and riband suspension, minor enamel damage to red banner on second; Order of the Patriotic War, Second Class (3), 2nd type, silver and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘95093’, with Monetny Dvor mint mark and screwback suspension, enamel damage to one arm of star; 3rd ‘1985 issue’ type (2),...
Hammer Price: £340
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Ushakov Medal, silver, reverse officially numbered, ‘4987’, complete with silver chain on five-sided mounting bar, in presentation case of issue along with the award booklet named to ‘Albert Edward Harland’ and dated 10 March 2014, extremely fine £300-£400
Hammer Price: £1,800
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Order for Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, Second Class, silver, gilt, and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘1217’, with Monetny Dvor mint mark and screwback suspension, extremely fine £240-£280
Hammer Price: £550
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Medal for Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45, bronze; Medal for Victory over Japan 1945, bronze; Medal for Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45, bronze; Jubilee Medal for the 40th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War 1985, bronze; Chernobyl Liquidators’ Medal, gilt and enamel; together with an unofficial striking of the Russian Cross of St. George, silvered, edge bruising to first, generally very fine (6) £50-£70
Hammer Price: £70
United States of America, Legion of Merit, Legionnaire’s badge, gilt and enamel; Silver Star, gilt with silver star at centre; Bronze Star, bronze; Distinguished Service Cross, bronze; Distinguished Service Medal, gilt and enamel; Purple Heart, gilt and enamel, with riband bar and lapel riband bar, in case of issue; Soldier’s Medal, bronze; Airman’s Medal, bronze; Army Commendation Medal, bronze, reverse engraved ‘Gregory G. A’, with lapel riband bar; Joint Service Commendation...
Hammer Price: £280
United States of America, Civil War Medal 1861-65, bronze, this a later copy; Indian Wars Medal, bronze; China Relief Expedition Medal 1900-01, bronze; Occupation of Germany Medal, 1918-23, bronze; American Defense Medal, bronze; American Campaign Medal 1941-45, bronze; European, African, Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, bronze; Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, bronze; Southwest Asia Service Medal, bronze; Army of Occupation Medal 1945, bronze; National Defense Medal, bronze; Second World War...
Hammer Price: £300
Allied Victory Medals (10), for Belgium; Cuba, this a copy; Czechoslovakia; France; Greece, this a copy; Italy, Japan, with original riband with hock and eye suspension, in wooden box of issue; Portugal; Romania; United States of America, 3 clasps, Defensive Sector, Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, bronze, generally very fine and better (10) £140-£180
Hammer Price: £380
The Duke of Wellington’s Orders of Knighthood, Dickinson., London., 1852, landscape folio, 35 coloured plates, with dedication by ‘one who had the honour of serving under His Grace for so many years as his Aide-de-Camp and Asst.-Military Secretary’ [Sir Ulysses Bagenal Burgh]; each plate is a coloured representation, with highlights in gold and silver, with obverse/reverse where applicable and a detailed text opposite with an interleaf to protect the plate: viz The Arms & Supporters of...
£300–£400
The Waterloo Banquet Archive for 1852, comprising 36 hand written replies to the invitation to the 1852 Waterloo Banquet from senior surviving Waterloo and Peninsula veterans addressed to Wellington’s Private Secretary, Greville. The whole mounted on paper and presumably retained by Secretary Greville and indeed this was a significant year being the last one of the great Duke’s dinners. Now contained in a fine quality scarlet and blue folder, very good condition £500-£1,000
Hammer Price: £460
Church of Rome Prayer Book 1799, with accompanying letter stating that it ‘was found on the person of an officer of Nap’s Imperial Guard at the Battle of Waterloo’, the letter undated but written on ‘G Wilmot 1834’ watermarked paper, good condition for age £40-£60
Hammer Price: £200
History of the Russian War, 2 Volumes, by Dr. E. H. Nolan, published by James S. Virtue, London, 1857, 1584pp, illustrated with various maps and several engravings, leather binding with marbled boards, Royal octavo, scuffing to covers, the first 15 chapters missing from Volume I, fair condition (2) £20-30
Hammer Price: £20
The Siege of Kimberley 1899-1900, Special Illustrated Number of the “Diamond Fields Advertiser,” Kimberley, first edition, ‘Cecil Rhodes’ in frontispiece, 164pp., with b./w. illustrations, full red morocco leather, front with gilt title and a picture of the cannon, “Long Cecil”, raised bands on spine, front cover now detached and wear to edges, corners, and spine, contents excellent £300-£400
Second Contingent, Military District No. 10, Canada, 1915 Commemorative Book, being a nominal roll of the 27th and 28th Battalion Canadian Infantry, with individual portrait photographs of the principle officers, and group photographs of all the various platoons, with each individual, both officers and other ranks, identified, bound in paper covers, the covers a little tatty, but overall good condition and a superb reference work for these two Battalions £60-£80
Hammer Price: £100
A Second World War Photograph Reconnaissance Album. A selection of very interesting photographs by Photo Reconnaissance Squadrons of the RAF and the United States 7th Photo Group taken over enemy occupied territory. A large photograph album with 52 photographs, many very large of towns, factories, railways yards, the battleship Tirpitz, D-Day landings and after, also V1 and V2 sites. Each photograph has a full description of the target, date, pilot and observer named, a height of 50 feet to...
Hammer Price: £600
The Royal House of Hanover Sotheby’s Sale Catalogues at Schloss Marienburg 5th - 15th October, 2005, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 complete with c.d’s, contained in original presentation box, very fine condition £60-£120
Hammer Price: £30
12th (Prince of Wales’s) Lancers Other Ranks Full Dress Lance Cap c. 1860 - 1901, a good quality example, the black leather skull with similar trencher top sewn red side panels yellow and blue cloth waist band, similar wool rosette plume holder, the frontal plate in gilding metal complete with honours to ‘Central India’, falling red horse hair plume with holder, yellow cord cap lines. Black leather sweat band and black linen lining, the front peak crazed and other small areas of...
18th Hussars Officer’s Forage Cap c. 1860 - 1900, the blue cloth body with gold lace trim and similar decoration to the crown, retailed by Hawkes & Co., Piccadilly, London, moth nips to the blue cloth and the blue cloth crown faded otherwise sound condition £60-£100
2nd County of London Imperial Yeomanry (The Westminster Dragoons) Other Ranks Full Dress Helmet c. 1902 - 14, the white metal skull complete with all brass fittings and metal trim, the frontal plate being a brass elongated star overlaid with a white metal crowned Garter enclosing a brass ‘2’, a scroll below ‘2nd County of London’ and a brass ‘IY’ below, original leather sweat band/liner, brass chin chain of incorrect pattern, purple horse hair plume, the plume slightly faded,...
Hammer Price: £700
Yorkshire Militia Artillery an Officer’s Blue Cloth 1878 Pattern Helmet, the blue cloth body complete with all gilt metal fittings, the front plate of the Royal Arms pattern with laurel top scroll and ‘Yorkshire Artillery’ bottom scroll, buff leather sweat band and pink silk lining, no chin chain; together with period japanned metal carrying tin, the body with three small moth nips, severely dented top, silk lining part detached, carrying tin dented otherwise sound condition (2) ...
Royal Marines Officer’s Dress Cap and Companion Side Hat c. 1937 - 52, retailed by ‘Alkit Ltd., Cambridge Circus, London’, both items complete with gilt and silver plated badges, correct side buttons etc., the side hat with small moth nips to the top red piping otherwise good overall condition (2) £60-£100
A Kieffer Commando Beret, a good quality example by Kangol Wear Ltd., dated 1945, an attached embroidered triangular cloth badge featuring a red commando knife on navy, the cloth also mounted with a gilt metal double cross of Lorraine, a pinned through bronze cap badge for the ‘1 ct Bllon F.M. Commando), very good condition £600-£800
United States Army General Officer’s Chapeau Bras, bicorne shape in black beaver ornamented with gold fringes at both ends, a broad gold band of lace upon a black cockade bearing the gilt metal eagle and button of the US Army and an inserted black egret feather plume, stated to have been eliminated in the 1851 Dress Regulations but re-authorised in 1859, severely worn around the bottom edge, therefore fair condition £200-£300
2nd Life Guards Officer’s Cuirass, a very fine set, both back and breast plates complete with all brass studs and edging, lined with red moroccan and pleated blue velvet, the brass scaled fastening straps with distinctive brass finials, gold lace waist belt lined with red moroccan, sold together with illustrations showing the differences in the cuirass for the three regiments of Household Cavalry, very good condition £400-£600
Hammer Price: £1,200
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