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18 September 1998
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France, Legion of Honour (2), Louis Philipe (1830-48) Officer’s breast badge, gold and enamels, with old ribbon and rosette; Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, gold and enamels, with old ribbon, both pieces attractively mounted in an old frame with gilt surround, together with framed photograph of the recipient, M. Caesar Mansuetus Despretz, M.A., B.A., President of the Institute de France, good very fine (2) £200-400
Hammer Price: £420
France, St Helena Medal 1857; Italy Campaign 1859; War of 1870-71, small bronze medal with bar ‘Engagé Volontaire’; Maroc Medal, with bar ‘Bir-Hakeim’; Colonial Medal, with clip type bar ‘Tonkin’, and three slide bars ‘Cochinchine’, ‘Laos et Mékong’, and ‘Extréme Orient’, nearly extremely fine (5) £30-50
Hammer Price: £55
Germany, Baden, Order of the Zahringen Lion, Knight’s breast badge with swords and oak leaves, silver, gilt and enamels, nearly extremely fine £250-300
Hammer Price: £250
Germany, Mecklenberg, Order of the Griffon, breast cross, silver-gilt and enamels, the enamel badly damaged, otherwise nearly very fine; together with Bavaria, Military Merit Cross with swords, bronze; Italy, Naval Long Service, V.E.III, silver, maker’s mark ‘S.J.’; and Belgian Victory Medal 1914-19, nearly very fine or better (4) £80-120
Hammer Price: £110
Germany, 3rd Reich, Navy, U-Boat War badge £80-100
Hammer Price: £85
Germany, 3rd Reich, Navy, Destroyers War badge, reverse top fitted with copper hook £80-100
Hammer Price: £90
Germany, 3rd Reich, Navy Minesweepers badge; together with, Silver wound badge, reverse loop fitting broken; Luftwaffe cloth wings; Nazi party arm band and 2 other badges (6) £70-90
Germany, 3rd Reich, Navy, Coastal Artillery War badge, retaining much of its original gilding £70-90
Hammer Price: £80
Greece, Order of the Redeemer, 5th class breast badge, silver and enamels, in its Hugenin Freres & Co case of issue, together with original Bestowal Document to Corporal R. C. Wigmore, Royal Engineers, and two other related letters confirming the award, repair to suspension on badge, otherwise very fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £95
Ireland, Irish General Service ‘Black and Tan’ Medal 1917-21, with top suspension bar, this lacking reverse pin fitting, good very fine £20-30
Hammer Price: £15
Netherlands War Cross 1813-15, silver, with original ribbon, nearly extremely fine £160-180
Hammer Price: £210
Roumania, Kingdom, Military Academy Badge, 75x50 mm, silver, bronze-gilt and enamels, maker’s mark Bruder Schneider, Wien on reverse pin, in its original case of issue, small chip to central coat of arms, otherwise good very fine and scarce £200-250
Hammer Price: £160
Roumania, Kingdom, Pre-Military Service Badge, 2nd class, 65x35 mm, silver-gilt and enamels, in its original Weiss, Bucuresti case of issue, good very fine £80-100
Hammer Price: £60
Russia, Order of St Nicholas the Miracle Worker, breast badge with swords, gilt and enamel; Badge for Orenburg Cossack Troops, bronze-gilt and enamels, chip to the second, otherwise very fine and better (2) £80-120
Russia, St George Medal for Bravery, 4th class, the reverse numbered ‘925912’; Pacification of Hungary and Transylvania 1848-49, mounted on old original ribbon; together with a white metal medal commemorating the visit of Alexander I to England in 1814, and a small medalet of Alexander II 1894, nearly very fine (4) £80-100
£80–£100
Russia, U.S.S.R., Order of the Patriotic War (2); Order of the Red Star; together with various other Soviet medals (18), generally good very fine or better (21) £50-70
Hammer Price: £40
Serbia, Medal of Bravery, silver with original ribbon, good very fine and scarce £100-120
Hammer Price: £75
Spain, Life Saving Medal, Isabel II, silver, named (Thomas Sandivell) very fine and scarce £100-150
£100–£150
Spain, Order of Military Merit (4), breast star, red enamel; breast star, white enamel with red bars; breast badge, red enamel with white bars; breast badge, white enamel; together with four minor medals from Greece, Italy and Poland, very fine and better (8) £80-120
£80–£120
Thailand, Order of the Crown, Grand Officer’s breast star, silver-gilt and enamels, very fine £80-100
Turkey, Order of the Medjidie, 4th class breast badge in silver, gold and enamel; St Jean D’Acre 1840, bronze; Gallipoli Star 1915, officer’s issue, very fine and better (3) £100-120
Hammer Price: £120
Zanzibar, Order of the Brilliant Star, Grand Cross breast star in silver, the centre in gold with enamelled portrait of Sultan Hamad within white enamelled circlet, reverse centre with the Sultan’s Tughra, the silver pin with maker’s mark of A. D. Marie, and French Boar’s Head stamp mark, damage to white enamel circlet, otherwise good very fine and rare £400-500
Hammer Price: £600
Minor Orders and Medals of the World (approx. 65), including Crown of Italy, breast badge, gold and enamels in case of issue; Prussian Camapign Medals 1813-1814, and 1870-1871 (2); Indian Title Badge, G.V.R. (2) silver-gilt, both named; John Chard Decoration (2); John Chard Medal; Order of the Medjidie, silver, gold and enamel, lacking suspension; Order of Osmanie, breast badge; and many others, generally good condition (Lot) £200-300
A quantity of military reference books, including, With the Flag to Pretoria, two volumes; After Pretoria, The Guerilla War, two volumes; Deeds That Thrill The Empire, two volumes, some pages loose; Burkes Handbook of the Order of the British Empire; The ‘Constitutional Force’, Its History During Twenty Centuries, by Colonel G. Jackson Hay C.B., C.M.G.; spines damaged on most of these volumes; Boer War Tribute Medals, by M. G. Hibbard; Shot at Dawn, by Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes;...
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 useful publication £60-70
Hammer Price: £65
Campaigns and History of the Royal Irish Regiment, two volumes, volume I, by Lieut. Col. G. Le M. Gretton, published 1911, 462pp; volume II, by Brig. Gen. S. Geoghegan, C.B., published 1927, 207pp, the first volume with damage to spine (2) £40-60
The Army List (2), March 1962, original red card cover; Spring 1969, dark red cloth; together with Spring 1969, Part II ‘Officer’s in Receipt of Retired Pay’ with biographical details; The Navy List and Retired Officers July 1952; Foreign Office List (2), 1954; 1964; The India Office and Burma Office List (2), 1945; 1947 (8) £30-50
Hammer Price: £45
Official Annual Army List 1853, with Honorary Distinctions including Gold Crosses and Medals and Foreign Orders, indexed, 649pp, contemporary 1/4 gold embossed leather and green cloth bindings, with John James Hugh Henry, 7th Duke of Atholl bookplate £30-40
Honour The Light Brigade, by W. M. Lummis and K. G. Wynn, 320pp; together with, The Great Deeds of the Black Watch, by L. Cope Cornford and F. W. Walker, 181pp; Medal Roll of Canadian Recipients of the M.G.S., Egypt 1882, North West Canada, good condition (3) £20-30
Hammer Price: £25
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Guadaloupe (R. Belmain, 90th Foot) bruise to obverse rim, otherwise good very fine and with original ribbon £250-300
Hammer Price: £370
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Guadaloupe (Joseph Jenkins, 90th Foot) suspension re-fixed, contact marks and edge bruises, nearly very fine £200-250
Hammer Price: £230
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Martinique, Guadaloupe (William Reed, 90th Foot) edge bruises, otherwise very fine £300-350
Hammer Price: £500
Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (A. Goodbody, 90th Regt.) officially impressed naming, very fine £80-100
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (J. Sergeant, 90th Lt. Infy.) suspension repaired, polished, good fine £100-120
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (R. Brown, 90th Lt. Infy.) suspension a little slack, otherwise very fine £180-200
Hammer Price: £190
South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (1871 Pte. T. Pratt, 90th Foot) very fine £100-120
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (1389 Pte. J. Warner, 90th Foot) very fine £200-250
Hammer Price: £240
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (4414 Corl. H. Frampton, Scot. Rifles) extremely fine £40-50
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (3235 Pte. J. Moores, Scottish Rifles) contact marks, nearly very fine £60-70
Hammer Price: £130
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (19020095 Cpl. J. F. Flynn, Cameronians); General Service 1962, 1 clasp, South Arabia (23863504 Cpl. A. McL. Pender, Cameronians) initial corrected on the second, very fine (2) £30-40
Hammer Price: £50
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