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‘Today’ Gallantry Fund Medal, silver, 38 mm, the reverse inscribed (James Rowley, Decr. 15. 1894) in fitted case of issue, good very fine and very rare £200-£300
Hammer Price: £280
London County Council Fire Brigade Certificate, inscribed ‘This is to certify that James Samuel Cregeen has been commended in orders for saving life at a fire which occurred on 9th August 1917 at the Carlton Hotel, Pall Mall. S.W. See Brigade Order of 20th August 1911.’ border damaged by previous mounting, otherwise fair condition, £20-£30
Hammer Price: £20
Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757), Captire of Porto Bello, pinchbeck medal, 1739, three-quarters figure three-quarters to left, THE BRITISH GLORY..., no line below legend, rev an aerial view of the harbour, 37mm, (MI plate CLV, 14; Betts (?) 199), good fine £60-£80
Hammer Price: £50
Earl Howe, battle of the Glorious First of June 1794, copper medal by C. H. Küchler, 48mm, uniformed bust of Earl Howe right, rev Howe’s flag-ship Queen Charlotte sinks a French ship; together with a commemorative token ‘Earl Howe & the Glorious First of June’ with uniformed bust of Howe left, rev ‘King and Constitution’, this fine, the first nearly extremely fine (2) £200-£300
Hammer Price: £170
Glorious First of June 1794, engraved coin, a William III Halfcrown, rev engraved with three-masted ship sailing left, ‘The Glorious Firft of June’ above, ‘1794’ below, obv engraved ‘H. Gibb. Queen’ in two lines divided by a potted plant, a salmon above, plain edge, 33mm, 12.55g (Comfort -) fine and very rare £300-£400
Hammer Price: £460
Admiral Viscount Duncan, battle of Camperdown 1797, copper medal by Wyon, bust of Duncan in uniform three-quarters right, rev Britannia seated by lion, with rudder and standard, 38mm (BHM 428; MH 461) nearly extremely fine £40-£60
Hammer Price: £65
Nelson Testimonial Medal 1844, by E. Avern, obv. bust of Nelson facing left, enclosed by a garter, ‘England Expects Every Man Will do His Duty’; rev View of the Column in Trafalgar Square, with the National Gallery and the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in the background, ‘To Commemorate the Opening of the Nelson Testimonial in Trafalgar Squ.’; exergue, ‘21 October 1844’, 60mm., pewter, pierced for ring suspension (Hardy 97; MH 531) nearly extremely fine and very rare thus ...
Hammer Price: £650
Matthew Boulton’s Medal for Trafalgar 1805, a specially struck reduced-size medallion, issued for the centenary celebrations in 1905, 31mm (2), one in bronze-gilt, the other in white metal, identical in all respects to the full-size medallion, but ‘Centenary of The Battle of Trafalgar 1905’ additionally struck on reverse, the edge inscribed ‘bronze’ on first, and both struck without presentation inscription to edge, first nearly extremely, second nearly good very fine (2) £120-£160
The 88th Foot Order of Merit awarded to Private Francis Connolly who was severely wounded in the left thigh at Salamanca, in the left leg at Busaco, in the head at Ciudad Rodrigo, and in both hands when quelling a riot at Montmartre in France in 1815 88th Foot Order of Merit 1818, 1st Class Cross for 12 General Actions, 44mm, the reverse inscribed ‘Francis Connolly’, fitted with straight bar suspension inscribed ‘Peninsula’, good very fine £2,400-£2,800
Hammer Price: £4,800
Hanbury Rifle Volunteers Marksmans Prize Medal 1870, 41mm, silver, the obverse featuring two Rifleman, one kneeling and taking aim, the other standing at ease, ‘In Defence’ around, the reverse engraved ‘The Hanbury Medal Marksmans Prize 1870’ within laurel wreath, the edge engraved ‘3rd Mon of Hanbury Rifle Volunteers Captn. Commandant A. Hair’, with silver scroll suspension, edge bruising, suspension claw loose, otherwise very fine and rare £80-£120
Hammer Price: £300
Army Inter-Regimental Rifle Matches Prize Medal, 48mm, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1884, a skeletal prize medal, the obverse featuring the Royal coat of arms, with outer laurel wreath and crossed rifles below, these engraved ‘1884’, the reverse engraved ‘Won by Corporal Brimer, 13th. Hussars’, good very fine £80-£120
Hammer Price: £110
Norwich Tribute Medal 1899-1901, 32mm x 26mm, silver, the obverse featuring a shield bearing the city arms, ‘Presented by Mayor and Citizens of Norwich’, within laurel wreath around, the reverse inscribed ‘Pro Patria Norfolk Volunteers South Africa 1899-1901’, and contemporarily engraved ‘Pte. E. Ingate 5606’, lacking ring suspension, nearly extremely fine, rare £200-£240
Hammer Price: £400
The Poignant, Historically Important Manuscript Journal, Peking Siege Commemoration Medal and Archive of Doctor Wordsworth Poole, who was Mentioned in Despatches for his devoted and gallant services as Physician to the British Legation during the Siege at Peking, having previously served as Principal Medical Officer in Central Africa and Southern Nigeria. Poole’s Journal, lavishly illustrated by sketches, diagrams, and tables, is a fascinating account of the rising tension between the...
Hammer Price: £26,000
The Memorial Plaque and Messina Earthquake Medal to Leading Stoker F. C. Rowe, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Good Hope was sunk at the Battle of Coronel, 1 November 1914 Memorial Plaque (Frank Charles Rowe) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Italy, Kingdom, Messina Earthquake Medal 1908, silver, unnamed as issued, edge bruise to last, generally very fine (2) £140-£180
Hammer Price: £360
Memorial Plaque (Thomas Arthur Watterson) mounted for display in a circular wooden frame, good very fine £100-£140
Hammer Price: £220
Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (709392 Sgt. E. H. Luck.) good very fine £60-£80
Hammer Price: £150
Victoria Cross, an official Hancocks & Co, London, replica, the reverse engraved ‘Hancocks 270’, in fitted leather case of issue, extremely fine £300-£400
Hammer Price: £550
Baronet’s Badge of Nova Scotia, a fine and rare Georgian silk neck cravat, 80mm (3.25in) wide, 850mm (34in) overall length, complete with gold split ring for attaching badge and full-width 2-part gold ribbon fastening clasp, extremely good condition for age £200-£300
Hammer Price: £1,700
Princess Mary Christmas 1914 Gift Tin, complete with original packets of tobacco and 19 monogrammed cigarettes; and Princess Mary Christmas Card, the inner lining of the tobacco split, otherwise good condition £80-£120
Hammer Price: £140
A glazed copper framed portrait photograph of an unidentified member of the Royal Flying Corps in uniform with Royal Flying Corps cap badge affixed to the bottom of the frame, 28cm x 37cm, good condition £20-£40
Royal Air Force officers mess presentation items comprising three silver tankards, a pewter tankard and a double handled silver cup presented in memory of five highly decorated officers from the elite No. 8 (Pathfinder Force) Group, all of whom were killed on active service during the Second World War Double handled silver cup, hallmarks for London 1944, engraved ‘Presented to the Pathfinders in memory of “Pluto” W/Cmdr. Alan Cousens. D.S.O., D.F.C. No. 635 Squadron. By his mother...
Hammer Price: £600
A German Second War Luftwaffe Battle of Britain Pilot’s Grouping. A very nice small grouping of paperwork and award to Feldwebel Karl Heinz Wilhelm, who served with Jagdgeschwader 77 (Ace of Hearts Fighter Wing) during the Battle of Britain, and was shot down and captured at Waldron, Sussex, on 20 October 1940. The documents comprise his A4 size once folded award certificate for his Pilots Badge dated 1 April 1940, A4 size once folded promotion document from Feldwebel...
Hammer Price: £900
A German Second War Infantry Assault Badge Document Grouping. A nice grouping to a wounded German soldier Obergefreiter Zentes, a member of the 8th Company Grenadier Regiment 436. A5 size citation for the Wound Badge in black dated 7 October 1944. A very interesting document being a pass for a seriously disabled veteran dated 8 January 1946 allowing the holder Zentes to get preferential treatment within society. A letter to Zentes father which includes the citation for the...
Hammer Price: £130
A German Second War Metz 1944 Cuff and War Winners Document Group. A soldbuch in excellent condition with the cover punch holed for filing belonging to Leutnant Wizard Muller, born October 1922, served in a heavy artillery unit, initially in Germany and then Mons in Belgium and finally Boulogne Northern France from 1942 until 1944. January 1944 he transferred to Artillery Regiment 195 where he was wounded and withdrawn and served in various hospitals until July 1944, then serving in...
£500–£700
Grant of Arms Elizabeth II Period. To Eve Maida Platel, widow of Francis Vittery Platel, Esq., G.M., late Major, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, of Shrewsbury, granted 15 April 1954 by Garter King of Arms and Clarenceux King of Arms, full illuminated parchment scroll complete with attached brass cased seals in its original presentation box bearing EIIR cypher, very good condition £80-£120
Copy Medals: Naval Small Gold Medal 1794-1815, a gilt base metal copy, 33 mm., the reverse inscribed, ‘Thomas Masterman Hardy, Esquire, Captain of H.M.S. Victory, on 21 October MDCCCV, the combined Fleets of France and Spain defeated’, with gilt slip-bar on ribbon; together with Boulton’s Trafalgar medal, gold plated replica edition struck for the Royal Naval Museum in association with the Royal Mint to commemorate the bicentenary of Trafalgar, with certificate in box of issue, good...
Hammer Price: £260
Defective and Renamed Medals (4): Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1559. Pte. G. Knowles. 2/8th Regt.) renamed; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp, erased; Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, this a cast copy; Air Crew Europe Star, this a copy; the first crudely re-pinned at claw with steel pin, generally good fine and better (4) £60-£80
Hammer Price: £160
Defective Medals (2): Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp Lucknow (2), (R. Burns. 1/20 Regt.; T. Burns. 1/20 Regt.) both re-engraved in similar upright capitals, the first with replacement suspension rod, generally polished, good fine or better (2) £120-£160
Hammer Price: £340
An Attractive Wooden Medal Cabinet. A small dark-stained serial numbered wooden medal cabinet, by H. Fine & Son, overall 400mm high x 300mm wide x 280mm deep, with 10 slide out drawers lined with green felt, drawer external size 26mm wide, 28mm deep 30mm high, the depth of each drawer sufficient to hold the Badges and Stars of most Orders of Knighthood, with metal drawer handles and label holders, brass folding handles to each side and lockable front cover which is removable or can slide...
The group of seven miniature dress medals worn by Warrant Officer Class 2 S. G. Jardine, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, later The Highlanders, 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, E.II.R.; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland; Iraq 2003-11; Operational Service Medal 2000, for Afghanistan, 1 clasp, Afghanistan; Jubilee 2012; Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 2011; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army, mounted...
Hammer Price: £850
The group of four miniature dress medals attributed to General J. M. de C. Meade, Royal Marines Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Balaklava, Sebastopol; China 1857-60, 3 clasps, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Fifth Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, mounted as worn, very fine or better (4) £100-£140
Hammer Price: £440
An unattributed C.B. group of four miniature dress medals The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s badge, silver-gilt; China 1900, no clasp; British War Medal 1914-20; Russia, Empire, Order of St. Anne, Military Division, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted as worn, the C.B. at some point re-ribanded, very fine (4) £80-£120
Naval Medals 1793-1856, by Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris, privately printed, London, 1988, xvi, 542pp, original blue boards in slip case, good condition The Naval General Service Medal Roll 1793-1840, compiled by Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris, standard edition, bound in cloth covers, good condition Naval General Service Medals 1793-1840, Alphabetical Roll of Recipients, complied by Colin Message, privately published, 1996, bound in cloth covers, good condition (3) £60-£100
Hammer Price: £180
Medals of the British Navy and how they were won, by W. H. Long, London, 1895, xiv + 450pp, 20 fine colour plates, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, some wear at extremities and some minor browning in places, otherwise a fine copy £60-£100
Hammer Price: £120
Navy Lists from the 1850s. A Selection of 10 Navy Lists, comprising January 1851; July 1853; January, July, and October 1854; January 1855; April 1856; April 1857; April 1858; and January 1859, the three for 1854 contemporarily bound in a single volume with brown calf spine and marbled board covers, the others all rebound post-War in blue cloth covers, a number with ex libris stamps, generally good condition commensurate with age (8) £80-£120
Navy Lists from the 1860s. A Selection of 19 Navy Lists, comprising April 1860; January 1861; January, April, July, and October 1862; July and October 1863; April and October 1864; April and October 1865; April and July 1866; April and October 1867; January 1868; and April and October 1869, those for the same years all bound in single volumes, all with a variety of bindings, both contemporary and post-War, a number with ex libris stamps, generally good condition commensurate with age (10) ...
Hammer Price: £60
Navy Lists from the 1870s. A Selection of 14 Navy Lists, comprising July 1870; July and October 1871; January and April 1872; January and April 1873; July 1874; April 1875; April 1876; January and April 1877; January 1878; and January 1879, those for the same years all bound in single volumes, all with a variety of bindings, both contemporary and post-War, a number with ex libris stamps, generally good condition commensurate with age (10) £80-£120
Navy Lists from the 1880s. A Selection of 14 Navy Lists, comprising July 1880; July 1881; January 1882; January 1883; January and April 1884; July 1885; January and April 1886; January 1887; January and April 1889; and July and October 1889, those for the same years all bound in single volumes apart from those for 1889 when bound in two volumes, all with a variety of bindings, both contemporary and post-War, a number with ex libris stamps, generally good condition commensurate with age...
Navy Lists from the 1890s. A Selection of 15 Navy Lists, comprising July and October 1890; January, February, and March 1891; January, February, and March 1892; October 1893; July 1894; January 1895; January 1896; October 1897; October 1898; and January 1899, those for the same years all bound in single volumes, all with a variety of bindings, both contemporary and post-War, a number with ex libris stamps, generally good condition commensurate with age (10) £80-£120
Hammer Price: £40
Navy Lists from the 1900s. A Selection of 12 Navy Lists, comprising April, May, and June 1900; July 1901; July 1902; July 1903; December 1904; January 1905; January 1906; January 1907; October 1908; and April 1909, the three for 1900 bound in a single volume, all with a variety of bindings, both contemporary and post-War, a number with ex libris stamps, generally good condition commensurate with age (10) £80-£120
Hammer Price: £45
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