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War Medal 1939-45 (25), unnamed, all with ribbon, nearly very fine and better (25) £70-90
£70–£90
5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards, a rare and very early embroidered officer’s flap pouch c1804-1815, the velvet frontal flap embroidered with the Princess’es coronet over Old English capitals ‘PCW’, edging lace with inner Greek Key designs, ther blue moroccan box still fitted with the wooden five shot rack and bearing the majority of original trade label ‘Hawkes Moseley & Co 22 Piccadilly London’, the frontal velvet heavily worn and discoloured, side fitments...
£500–£600
Humane Society of Massachusetts, by B. Wyon, London, obverse, ‘Humane Society Massachusetts’, shield bearing the arms of the Society, above, a house with a scroll below bearing the word, ‘Refuge’, below the shield on a scroll the date ‘1791’; reverse engraved, ‘To John T. Quinn for rescuing two children from a burning house, East Boston, April 8 1891’, enclosed below by branches of laurel and above with inscription in raised lettering, ‘Honor Virtutis Præmium’, 57mm.,...
£300–£400
7th Madras Native Infantry, an extremely fine and scarce 1868 pattern Colonel’s scarlet tunic, white facings low round collar and pointed cuff both fitted with correct gold lace rank decoration, gold lace shoulder cords (post 1880) with correct rank insignia, full gilt buttons by Stillwell & Son London display a crowned strap with AVA honour and ‘VII’ within, laurel wreath surrounds, excellent colour, minor stitching faults to the cuff lace and very slight wear to the inner linings ...
£200–£300
The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) a good quality Lieutenant’s full dress scarlet tunic c1902-1914 gold lace yellow facings and silver plated collar badges gilt buttons, small moth holes and considerable surface mothing, minor tears to internal silk lining good external colour £100-150
£100–£150
Dragoons, Dragoon Guards, a scarce Captain’s blue frock coat as per 1900 Dress Regulations, profusely embellished with black braiding olivets tassels etc (Paragraph 314) extant medal ribbons indicate DSO, 1897 Jubilee, 1902 Coronation, QSA, KSA, numerous minor moth holes, internal lining sound £150-200
£150–£200
Officers Mess Jackets & Waistcoats, an assortment including a scarce jacket to the Army Medical Department, a black serge jacket 7th Ghurkas, three others unidentified and two scarlet waistcoats, variable condition etc sold as viewed not subject to return (7) £100-150
The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s Chapel Stall Plate, gilded brass with engraved and painted coat of arms, inscribed ‘Sir John Malcolm, Colonel in the Service of the East India Company & Member of the Royal Persian Order of the Lion & Sun, nominated a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, 7th April 1815,’ 225x185mm, the reverse with maker’s stamp G. Harris, No. 31 Shoe Lane, London, nearly extremely fine and...
£2,500–£3,000
Perth Highland Rifle Volunteers/5th Volunteer Battalion, The Black Watch, a very fine and rare officer’s hall marked silver (Birm 1884) plaid brooch, within a quoit of thistles a circle inscribed ‘Dia Agus Ar Duthaich’, within the circle a lion rampant upon a torse, of solid construction, stout pin to reverse, excellent condition £400-500
£400–£500
Lanarkshire Constabulary Sports Medal, obverse: coat-of-arms and dated ‘1899’; reverse engraved, ‘Presented to the best all round athlete in the Lanarkshire Constabulary, won by Inspector James D. Gracie, Hammer, Weight Ball & 100 yards race’, ovoid, 39 x 25mm., 9ct. gold, hallmarks for Birmingham, good very fine £70-90
City of London Police Inspector Childs’ Retirement Medal, bust of Inspector Child left within legend, reverse: arms of the City of London, ‘In remembrance on my retirement after 32 years service, Retired 25 March 1891’ (F. Downes, Detective Inspector) 70mm., bronze-gilt, good very fine £100-150
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Color Serjt. Alexr. McLellan, Coldstm. Gds.) officially impressed naming, minor hairlines, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1000-1200
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Turkish Medal for Silistria 1855, silver issue, pierced for ring suspension, very fine £100-140
£100–£140
Scots Guards, officer’s silver cap badge, hallmarked Edinburgh 1990, brass centre, reverse lugs removed and fitted with pin and catch £40-60
£40–£60
Cape Hill Fire Briagade Medal, Presented by Mitchells & Butlers Ltd., reverse engraved, ‘Frm. Wm. Bullingham’ otherwise plain, 39mm., silver, with ribbon, nearly extremely fine £140-180
£140–£180
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Col. G. Hutchison, 80th Regt.) nearly extremely fine £300-350
£300–£350
Imperial Germany, a good other ranks Oldenburg pickelhaube plate; a good brass and plated pickelhaube plate being the Prussian eagle with rounded upswept wings (no motto) in brass and crowned cypher mounted on the breast in silver plate; an other ranks WWI period brass belt buckle (distorted); Austrian Empire, a die-stamped white metal headdress badge showing the triple crowned double headed eagle the talons grasping the Imperial insignia, shown ‘in flight’, one fastener missing on the...
£140–£160
Three: Fireman R. Fender, Glasgow Fire Brigade Visit to Scotland 1903, Scottish Police (Fireman R. Fender), complete with brooch bar; Glasgow Fire Brigade L.S. Medal, 1 clasp, 20 Years (Ralph Fender), 38mm., silver; Glasgow Fire Brigade Prize Medal, reverse inscription in raised letters, ‘Glasgow Rate & Salvage Assocn. Challenge Cup for Annual Competition in Fire Drill, Presented by the Corporation of the City of Glasgow to the winners’ and engraved, ‘Maryhill Division, Ralph...
Leys Private Fire Brigade Medal, obverse struck, inscribed, ‘Valour at Duty’s Call’, with helmet and crossed axes and an early motorised fire-engine, reverse engraved, ‘ Leys P.F.B. All England Championship 1939, G. W. Ferguson’, 38mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1938, with ribbon, extremely fine £70-90
Three: Private E. Ducker, Pioneer Corps 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, mounted as worn, very fine and better (3) £60-80
£60–£80
Five: Staff Sergeant W. M. McGuire, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, all unnamed; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R. 1st issue, Canada, with second award clasp (Sgt., R.C.A.S.C.); Canadian Decoration, E.II.R. (S/ Sgt.), with riband bar, generally nearly extremely fine (5) £120-160
£120–£160
Historical Record of Medals and Honorary Distinctions ..., by George Tancred, 1891, xvi, 483pp., with colour plates, original red half morocco, covers worn, spine slightly damaged, fairly good condition £80-100
£80–£100
Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, by John Horsley Mayo, 1897, in 2 volumes, lxxxviii, 617pp., with colour plates, original red cloth, covers stained and a little worn, good condition (2) £70-90
Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1813, 2nd Class, 1835-39 issue, 43 x 43mm., ref. Nimmergut 2521, good very fine, scarce £350-450
£350–£450
Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1813, 2nd Class, 1835-39 type reduction, 32.5 x 32.5mm., crack to centre plate, very fine £150-200
Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1870, 1st Class, 42 x 42mm., pin-backed with two support prongs, reverse stamped ‘Godet’, crack to obverse centre plate, very fine £800-1000
£800–£1,000
The Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 1830-1848, by I. McInnes and J. B. Gregson, xvi, 291 pp., 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, excellent condition £50-60
£50–£60
Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the British Army 1660-1960, 2 volumes, London, 1968, Vol. I, by A. Peterkin & W. Johnson, vi, 638pp.; Vol. II, by Lieut-Gen. Sir Robert Drew, xxx, 452pp., Vol. I covers slightly stained, good condition (2) £30-40
£30–£40
Les Ordres Français et les Récompenses Nationales, by L. Bourdier, 1927, copy number 416 of 500, an excellent work illustrating early French royal awards, Legion of Honour types etc, black boards, very good condition £80-100
Staffordshire Fire Brigade Medallion, obverse: shield bearing county arms; reverse inscribed, ‘Winner Hyd. & Ladder Drill 1955, Fm. Mitchelmore CE.1’, 38mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1954, nearly extremely fine £30-40
Surrey Fire Brigades Association Star, 4 clasps, Five Years Service (loose), with ‘Ten Years Service’ brooch bar, engraved on reverse, ‘Edward C. Surridge, Sutton, Surrey’, five-pointed star, 45 x 45mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1896, good very fine £80-100
Germany, Prussia, Ölberg Cross 1910, 37 x 37mm., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with ornate suspension, good very fine £250-300
£250–£300
Germany, Prussia, General Medal of Honour, 2nd Class, ‘F.W.III’ cypher, 2nd type crown, 39mm., silver; War Merit Medal, 39mm., silver; Hohenzollern Campaign Medal 1848-49 (2), combatant’s, bronze; Alsen Cross 1864, bronze, with non-combatant’s ribbon; Hanover Regiment Jubilee Medal, ‘19 Dezember 1803-19 Dezember 1903, bronze; Officer’s Long Service Cross, for 25 years, bronze-gilt, generally good very fine (7) £100-150
Borough of Wisbech Fire Brigade L.S. Medal, 1 clasp, 1935 (loose), obverse: coat-of-arms (Frm. S. Gaunt), 38mm., silver, with ribbon, good very fine £140-180
British Fire Services Association L.S. & Efficiency Medal, with suspension bar, ‘B.F.S.A. Twenty Years’ (J. P. Kane), silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1963, with ribbon; British Fire Services Association Medal, reverse engraved, ‘Frm. T. Delayn’, 39mm., silver, with base silver brooch bar bearing the numeral ‘20’, extremely fine (2) £60-80
Indian States, Bahawalpur, War Medal 1914-19, 1st type, bronze-gilt (880 Silr. Pathana, Bahwlpr. Transt. Cps.); North West Frontier Medal 1914-19, bronze-gilt (1150 Silr. Lehna, Bahwlpr. Transt. Cps.); Jan-i-Nisari (Volunteer) Corps Medal, bronze, complete with brooch bar; Silver Jubilee Medal 1931, cupro-nickel, complete with brooch bar; Golden Jubilee Medal 1955, white metal, all except second with ribbon, generally nearly extremely fine (5) £100-140
Indian States, Bahawalpur, War Medal 1914-19, 2nd type, bronze; Overseas Service Medal 1939-45, bronze; Victory Star 1939-45, bronze; Silver Jubilee Medal 1931, cupro-nickel (574), complete with brooch bar; Golden Jubilee Medal 1955, bronze, all except last with ribbon, good very fine and better (5) £100-140
Indian States, Bahawalpur, North West Frontier Medal 1914-19, bronze-gilt (1002 Silr. Hanoon, Bahwlpr. Transt. Cps.); Jan-i-Nisari (Volunteer) Corps Medal, bronze, complete with brooch bar; Golden Jubilee Medal 1955 (2), white metal; another bronze (883); Independence Medal 1947, bronze; Bahawalpur-Pakistan Alliance Medal 1947, bronze, all except first and fourth with ribbon, good very fine and better (6) £120-160
A campaign service group of six awarded to Sergeant S. C. “Sid” Clark, a founder member of 21 Special Air Service Regiment, late Royal Artillery and Royal West Kent Regiment 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., 1 clasp, Malaya (22290729 Tpr. S. C. Clark, S.A.S.), mounted as worn, the last extensively corrected, generally good very fine (6) £200-300
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