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Royal Humane Society, large silver medal (Presented to Captn. Geo. Price for rescuing Mary Litchfield from a Watery Grave on Good Friday 1808) held in a silver frame and previously enclosed within lunettes, good very fine £400-£500
Hammer Price: £460
Royal Humane Society, large bronze medal (successful) (H. K. Balstona [sic] vit. ob. Serv. D.D. Soc. Reg. Hvm. 16 July 1865) fitted with a ring suspension, minor edge nicks, otherwise good very fine £140-£180
Hammer Price: £150
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (John Martin, Coast Guard, 8 December 1886.) with integral top riband buckle, suspension claw slack, minor edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £100-£140
Hammer Price: £130
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Elijah Cox. 1st May. 1892.) with integral top riband buckle, good very fine £100-£140
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Albert. V. Marriott. 26th Jany. 1909.) with integral top riband buckle, suspension slack, good very fine £100-£140
Hammer Price: £140
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (unsuccessful) (John Foley. 14th Aug. 1911.) with integral top riband buckle, suspension claw tightened, very fine £100-£140
Hammer Price: £120
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Griffith Pugh. 16th Oct. 1917.) with integral top riband buckle, minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £100-£140
Hammer Price: £280
Royal Humane Society, Testimonial on Vellum, inscribed ‘William H. Thomas is justly entitled to the Honorary Testimonial of this society, inscribed on Vellum, which is hereby awarded him for having on the 3rd August 1908 gone to the rescue of T. H. Davies who was in imminent danger of drowning at St. Justinian St. David and whose life he gallantly saved’, with signature of George V as President of the Society, slight water damage, otherwise good condition £80-£100
£80–£100
Royal Humane Society, Testimonial on Vellum, inscribed ‘Lionel M. Sharp is justly entitled to the Honorary Testimonial of this society inscribed on Vellum which is hereby awarded him for having on the 9th July 1914 at great personal risk gallantly attempted to rescue the Reverend D. Walters who was unfortunately drowned at Goodwick, Fishguard’, mounted on card, generally good condition £80-£100
Plym, Tamar, Lynher, and Tavy Humane Society, silver (To James Tos, who risked his own to save another’s life, 1873.) unmounted, edge bruising, very fine £260-£300
Hammer Price: £220
County Borough of Swansea Certificate of Bravery, inscribed to Owen Edwards, 8 Bryn Terrace, Fforestfach, for his courage in saving Raymond Tucker, aged 13, of 9 Berw Raod, Maryhill, from drowning in a pond at Cwmdu, on 2nd July 1927’, illuminated and mounted on card, signed by both the Mayor and Town Clerk of Swansea, dated 21 September 1927, good condition £60-£80
Hammer Price: £40
An attractive and impressively large Fenian-Era Presentation Medal awarded to James Varley, relating to the Struggle for Irish Independence A high-quality, pleasantly toned Presentation Medal, 65mm, silver, the obverse featuring a Strung Hibernian Harp within two shamrock stems, the reverse engraved ‘Presented to James Varley, by the Irishmen of Leeds, as a slight token of their esteem and respect for him as an Englishman who has labored zealously for Irelands Independence July 9,...
Hammer Price: £380
2nd Foot Meritorious Service Cross for 10 Years’ Service, silver, X incised on obverse, reverse engraved (Queens Royals For Ten Years Meritorious Service to Patrick Smith) fitted with replacement ring suspension, nearly very fine £300-£400
Hammer Price: £750
Derby Boer War Tribute Medal, S. Africa 1901-2, silver, six pointed star, 43 x 30mm, Garter inscribed ‘S. Africa 1901-2’ around gilt central medallion bearing a stag encircled by a fence, and the points of the arms decorated with a fleur de lis, the reverse inscribed, ‘Lc. Cpl. .. Malle..’, but partly obscured by brooch fitting affixed to the reverse, lacking usual rings for suspension, nearly very fine and rare £200-£260
Hammer Price: £240
Memorial Plaque (The Hon. Arthur Cameron Corbett) extremely fine £300-£400
A Polar Exploration Medal commemorating the death of Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1936, by P. Richer and E. Lindauer, 68mm, bronze, the obverse featuring a bust of the subject facing right in high relief, the reverse featuring a starboard ship-portrait of the Pourquo-Pas?, good very fine £280-£320
A Portrait Miniature of a Field Officer of the Peninsula War A good quality oval portrait miniature on ivory of an officer in uniform, wearing a Field Officer’s Army Gold Medal, unsigned, contained in glazed gilt frame with plaited hair in reverse inset, slight cracking to reverse of frame, otherwise very fine condition £200-£300
A Silver Cigarette Case attributed to Commander H. Hook D.S.O., Royal Navy A silver cigarette case, hallmarked Birmingham 1918, the front engraved with the names of various ships and submarines, recording the recipient’s service, as follows: ‘R.N.C. Osborne, R.N.C. Dartmouth, H.M.S. Hogue, H.M.S. Orion, H.M.S. Ribble, H.M.S. Temeraire, Trinity Coll. Cambridge, H.M.S. Vesper, H.M.S. Excellent, H.M.S. Vernon, H.M.S. Dryad, H.M.S. Raleigh, H.M.S. Dolphin, H.M. Submarine H.22, H.M....
Hammer Price: £200
An H.M.S. Vindictive brass boiler plate, 230mm x 120mm, inscribed, ‘Vindictive. Makers Maudslay Son & Field. Tested to 450 lbs per square inch. Boilers new July 1897. After thorough repair at Chatham Yard tested to 450 lbs per square inch November 1904. After renewing 16 upper thin tubes in each element & thorough repair at Chatham Yard tested to 450 lbs per square inch February 1910.’, mounted on a wooden base, good condition and a rare relic from one of the most celebrated ships of the...
Hammer Price: £1,000
Colonial Fire Brigade Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, for Gallantry, unnamed specimen, about extremely fine £300-£400
Hammer Price: £2,400
Gulf 1990-91, 1 clasp, 2 Aug 1990, edge stamped ‘Specimen’, extremely fine, rare £300-£400
Hammer Price: £300
Operational Service Medal 2000, for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1 clasp, DROC, edge stamped ‘Specimen’, extremely fine, rare £300-£400
Hammer Price: £650
A Selection of Miscellaneous Clasps, comprising: South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, Mohmand 1933; 1st Army (2); Minesweeping 1945-51, Bomb & Mine Clearance 1945-53; Cyprus, Near East, Brunei (2); Northern Ireland, Dhofar; Kuwait (4), generally very fine (17) £60-£80
Hammer Price: £480
Great War Memorial Plaques card envelopes (4), one inscribed ‘Dad’s Dad’, some wear and scuffing, generally good condition (4) £20-£30
Hammer Price: £50
Defective Medals (5): Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Serjt. Charles Purcell H.M. 39th Regt.) copy; Punniar Star 1843 (Private Thomas Hughes H.M 3rd Regt.) copy with heavy script engraving; China 1857-60, no clasp, naming erased; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902, naming erased, very fine (4) £80-£100
The mounted group of eleven miniature medals worn by Major The Lord Rowallan, K.T., K.B.E., M.C., T.D., Grenadier Guards, late Ayrshire Yeomanry, Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire 1945-59, Governor of Tasmania 1959-63 The Most Excellent Order of The British Empire (Civil) silver-gilt and enamels; Military Cross, G.V.R.; Order of St John of Jerusalem, silver and enamels; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation...
Hammer Price: £500
The rare silver medal presented to Major-General Sir Frederick Adam, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., Colonel-in-Chief 21st Foot, Governor of the Ionian Islands, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary Jubilee Celebrations of his Imperial Highness Archduke Carl Ludwig as a Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa in 1843; this medal was presented to all living holders of Order, of which Adam was made a Knight for his services at Waterloo where the rout of the Old Guard by his Brigade was the...
£1,500–£2,000
Bahrain, Kingdom, Liberation of Kuwait Medal, bronze, good very fine Belgium, Kingdom, War Commemorative Medal 1914-18 (2), bronze, very fine France, Second Empire, St. Helena Medal, bronze; together with two Dunkirk Commemorative Medals, good very fine Germany, Empire, South West Africa Medal 1904-06, bronze, lacking ring suspension, nearly very fine Poland, Republic, Concentration Camp Survivor’s Cross, silvered and enamel; together with the award booklet named to Henryk...
Bhutan, Kingdom, Order of Druk Khorlo, Star, 80mm, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, extremely fine, scarce £400-£500
Hammer Price: £1,500
China, Republic, Order of the Brilliant Jade, Third Class Star, 75mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with red Jade at centre, Chinese inscribed cartouche on reverse, the reverse officially numbered ‘157’, minor red enamel damage to band around central medallion, very fine, scarce £1,000-£1,400
Hammer Price: £1,200
China, Republic, Order of Merit, First Class breast badge, 56mm x 54mm, silver and enamel, with ‘normal’ width script at centre, minor enamel damage to tip of one arm, very fine, scarce £300-£400
Hammer Price: £420
China, Republic, Order of Extreme Bravery, Star, 83mm, bronze-gilt and enamel, with retaining pin and two additional support hooks, gilding ribbed in places, with excess solder deposit to reverse, nearly very fine, scarce £400-£500
Hammer Price: £1,600
Czechoslovakia, Republic, Victory Medal 1914-18, bronze, with oak leaves emblem on riband; Commemorative Medal for 10 Years of the Czech Republic 1918-28, gilt; National Guard Cross 1938, bronze; War Cross 1939, bronze, in case of issue; War Commemorative Medal 1939-45, bronze, with silvered lion (2), 1 bar, Strednivychod, in case of issue; another, 1 bar, SSSR., in case of issue; Cross for Liberated Political Prisoners 1939-45, bronze, good very fine (7) £100-£140
Czechoslovakia, Socialist Republic, Decoration for Loyal Work, silvered; Medal of Merit to the Fatherland (2), silvered; bronze; Medal of Merit for the People’s Militia, silvered; Medal for Outstanding Work Performance, bronze; Medal of Merit in Building the Country, silvered; Medal for Devoted Work for Socialism, bronze; Friendship with Russia Medal silvered; Commemorative Medal for the 25th Anniversary of Communist Government 1945-73, bronze; Commemorative Medal of Freedom 1945-85,...
France, Second Empire, Italy Campaign Medal 1859 (2), by Barre, silver, nearly very fine France, Third Republic, Madagascar Medal 1883-86, silver; Madagascar Medal 1895, silver, with oak and laurel leaf spray clasp 1895, silver; China Medal 1900-01, silver, 1 clasp, 1900 Chine 1901, very fine (5) £140-£180
Hammer Price: £360
France, Second Empire, Mexican Campaign Medal 1863-63, by Barre, silver, with original embroidered riband, nearly extremely fine £80-£120
Hammer Price: £180
France, Third Republic, Tonkin Medal 1883-85 (4), Army issue (2), silver; Navy issue (2), silver’ bronze, small test cut to edge of last, generally very fine or better, scarce in bronze (4) £80-£120
Germany, Anhalt, Friedrich Cross 1914, bronze, good very fine Germany, Brunswick, War Merit Cross 1914, 2nd Class, bronze (2), one with combat service emblem on riband, good very fine Germany, Lippe-Detmold, War Merit Cross, 2nd Class, gilt, on combatant’s riband, good very fine Germany, Lippe-Schaumburg, Loyal Service Cross 1914, gilt, on combatant’s riband, gilding slightly rubbed, good very fine Germany, Oldenburg, Friedrich August Cross, Second Class, blackened iron, very...
Hammer Price: £320
Germany, Baden, Order of the Zahringen Lion, Knight’s 2nd Class breast badge, with crossed swords, 39mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, with green crystal arms, nearly extremely fine £200-£240
Germany, Baden, Order of the Zahringen Lion, Merit Cross, gilt; Civil Merit Medal, Friedrich II (2), silver; zinc; Cross for War Aid Volunteers 1870-71, bronze-gilt; Cross for War Aid Volunteers 1914-16, bronze-gilt, good very fine (5) £80-£120
Hammer Price: £170
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