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Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Sergt. Willm. Shepherd, 11th Hussars) engraved naming in upright serif capitals, light contact marks and one or two edge bruises, otherwise very fine £1200-1500
£1,200–£1,500
Brazil, Republic, Naval Forces of the North East Medal1942-45, bronze; Expeditionary Campaign Cross 1944, with ‘F.E.B.’ slip-bar, both with ribbon, good very fine and better, first scarce (2) £90-110
£90–£110
Bulloch, John Malcolm, Territorial Soldiering in the North-East of Scotland during 1759-1814, Aberdeen, New Spalding Club, 1914, copy number 55 of 400 printed, lxviii, 517pp, green cloth with gilt crest on front cover, covers a little worn, good condition, scarce £80-100
£80–£100
Dos Santos, Francisco Marques, Medalhas Militares Brasileiras, Rio de Janeiro, 1937, 47pp., with black and white plates and text figures, covering Brazilian awards dating from the Colonial period until the end of the Empire, original paper covers, these a little ragged, discoloured in places, fairly good condition £50-70
£50–£70
Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, 1st type, silver (Joseph Cowan) faint hallmarks for Birmingham 1929, complete with ‘Gallantry’ brooch bar, good very fine £240-280
£240–£280
A Normandy Landings D.S.M. group of four awarded to Ordinary Seaman Charles Bell, Royal Navy, who served aboard H.M. L.C.I. (L) 183 as part of Force “S” on D-Day Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Ord. Seaman Charles Bell, C/JX355974); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany Star; War Medal, very fine (4) £1000-1200
£1,000–£1,200
Mainwaring, Major A. E., The Royal Dublin Fusiliers Engagement Book, Aldershot, 1910, 191pp, cloth; Standing Orders of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Aldershot, 1910, x, 106pp, interleaved with plain sheets, cloth, good condition, scarce (2) £160-200
£160–£200
Mainwaring, Lieut.-Col., A. (“Centurion”), Ante-Room Ballads - poems on the Dublin Fusiliers and other subjects, London, 1905, viii, 88pp, inside inscribed, ‘From the author, June 5th 1905, The very first copy’, cloth; Mainwaring, Arthur, Fishing and Philandering, London, xv, 254pp, plus plates, cloth, good condition (2) £40-60
£40–£60
[Ministerio de Guerra] Historia de los Premios Militares, Buenos Aires, 1910, Vol. II, 253pp., beautifully illustrated with plus 37 coloured and 23 black and white plates, description and illustration of the medals awarded to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay in the Campaign against Paraguay 1865-70 and in other wars of the period, rebound, red boards, good condition, scarce £100-140
£100–£140
General Orders of 15th January 1870 by the Government of India on Departure of the “Blue Caps” to England, 11pp, leather bound copy from the regimental library, covers scuffed, fairly good condition £40-50
£40–£50
The mounted group of four miniature dress medals attributed to Regimental Sergeant-Major P. Mullane, V.C., Royal Horse Artillery, Victoria Cross; Afghanistan, 1 clasp, Kandahar; Meritorious Service Medal, V.R.; Army L.S.& G.C., V.R., mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £1000-1200
Canada, School Competition Medal 1900, obverse: crowned shield, ‘School Competition 1900, subject, “The Dominion of Canada”’; reverse: ‘Presented by the Canadian Government 1900’, 38mm., bronze, good very fine; Coronation of Edward VIII, white metal unofficial, good fine (2) £20-30
Hammer Price: £15
Bristol Humane Society, Medal for Long Distance Swimming to pupils of Bristol Public Elementary Schools (Regld. Payne, Swam 1/4 Mile, 1914), 45mm., white metal medallion, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine £20-30
Robinson, Commander C.N., R.N. (Editor), Celebrities of the Army (George Newnes Ltd., London, 1900), comprising approximately 70 portraits of senior British officers of the Boer War, with related biographies, original green cloth, gilt title and decoration, corners and spine a little scuffed, otherwise in good condition £20-30
Romer, Major C. F. & Mainwaring, Major A. E., The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War, with a description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland, modern reprint, xiv, 271pp, with dustcover; Hanna, Henry, The Pals at Suvla Bay, being the record of “D” Company of the 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, modern paperback reprint, 244pp, excellent condition (2) £20-30
Leishman Memorial Medal, bust of uniformed officer facing right, ‘The Leishman Memorial Medal’; reverse: wreath of thistles within which is engraved, ‘22525355 Sergeant G. Pigott, R.A.M.C.’, 51mm., bronze, good very fine £20-30
Hammer Price: £20
Monaco, International Academy of Tourism Badge, neck badge, 45 x 45mm., gilt and enamel, complete with neck cord, in Cejalvo, Madrid case of issue; Spain, Medal of Tourism Merit, silver-gilt, complete with brooch bar, together with a small enamelled lapel badge, ‘Academie Internationale du Tourisme’, generally extremely fine (3) £20-30
Malaysian States, Johore, Medal for Merit and Long Service, Sultan Abu Bakar, 2nd type, silver, no ribbon, scratch to obverse, very fine £30-40
Hammer Price: £25
Romania, Kingdom, Civil Officials’ Decoration, 50 x 38mm., silver and enamel, no ribbon; Regimental / Academy (?) Badge, 79 x 48mm., silvered-bronze and enamel, screw-backed, unmarked, nearly extremely fine (2) £30-40
Southern Railway, St. John Ambulance Association Service Medal, for 7 years, ‘Harry Hooper’, 1938’, 35mm., bronze, complete with ribbon and ‘7 Years’ brooch bar, Ref: Tozer p.74/75, nearly extremely fine £30-50
Memorial Scroll, ‘Coy. Qr. Mr. Serjt. Bertram Warner, Wiltshire Regiment’, together with Buckingham Palace accompanying slip, mounted in a glass-fronted framed, 58 x 29cm. (approx.), good condition £20-30
British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. A. Morrison) good very fine £15-20
The Tyneside Scottish, a large buff coloured leather musician’s card case stamped inside’O.N.0821 broad arrow head and ’076’, now mounted with a white metal glengarry badge (two feet on tower pattern), a small cased set of contemporary gilt blazer buttons for the ‘Yorkshire Volunteers’ (six small two large) by the London Badge & Button Co.; a group of five coloured French postcards of a satirical and anti British nature for the Boer War period, one used and dated Brussels 1900,...
Henderson, Major D. V., Heroic Endeavour, a complete register of the Albert, Edward and Empire Gallantry Medals and how they were won, iv, 135pp, cloth; Fevyer, W. H., The George Medal, George Medallists 1940-45, xv, 114pp, paperback; Abbott, P. E. & Tamplin, J. M. A., British Gallantry Awards, London, 1971, 359pp, illustrated, with dustcover; Holme, N & Kirby, Major E. L., Medal Rolls, 23rd Foot-Royal Welch Fusiliers, Napoleonic Period, with biographical notes on officers, N.C.O.s and men,...
Jocelyn, Captain Arthur, Awards of Honour, London, 1956, xviii, 276pp, plus colour plates, blue cloth covers spotted and stained; Martin, J. & Richebé, Armoires et Décorations, Paris, 1901, 548pp, including colour and black and white illustrations of world orders, lacking spine cover; Dooner, M. G., The Last Post, a Roll of all Officers ... who gave their lives ... in the South African War, 1980 reprint, vii, 446pp; Army Honours and Awards, Hayward reprint, 653pp; Coronation Durbar Delhi...
Indian States, Bahawalpur, Great War Star 1914-18, 1st type (367 Sepoy Sahadur Khan, Bahwlpr. Caml. Cps.); Pakistan, Independence Medal 1947 (49170 L/Nk. Curban Ali, R.P.E.); General Service Medal 1948 (2), 1 clasp, Kashmir 1948; another, 1 clasp, Dir Bajaur 1960-62, about very fine (4) £15-25
Hammer Price: £30
Pakistan, Medal of Service (Tamgha-i-Khidmat) (3), neck badge, enamelled, 2nd type, 1st Class, gilt; 1st type, 2nd Class, silver; 2nd type, 3rd Class, bronze, with ribbon, very fine and better (3) £30-50
Russia, Medal for Zeal, Nicholas II, silver, on ‘St. George’ ribbon; Chemulpo Medal 1904, bronze copy; U.S.S.R., Medal for Meritorious Service in Battle (1608187); Latvia, Liberation War Anniversary Medal 1918-28, lacks suspension and edge cut, nearly very fine and better (4) £35-45
St. Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children Plaistow Medal, Mary with the infant Christ; reverse inscribed, ‘W. A. Smith, for Services Rendered, 1924’, oval, 48 x 38mm., silver base metal and enamel, with suspension and brooch bars inscribed, ‘Life Governor’, in Hammett, Plaistow case of issue, good very fine £30-50
U.S.A., Medals (17), including: Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal; Prisoner of War Medal; Coast Guard medals (10) - Coast Guard Medal; Distinguished Service; Commendation; Achievement; Good Conduct (2)- different; Distinguished Public Service; Meritorious Public Service; Expert Rifleman; Expert Pistol Shot, some with riband bars, modern manufacture, extremely fine (17) £40-50
Southern Rhodesia Air Force, a fine and rare pair of officer’s embroidered breast wings WWII period, (Owen 429), on a black cloth ground the padded KC in white and red over white wings and laurels enclosing the shield picked out in red white and green silks, four press stud fasteners to reverse; together with a base metal and enamelled QEC lapel badge for 44 Rhodesia Squadron RAF, and a similar KC lapel badge featuring the eagle laurels and legend scroll in dual language ‘Comrades in...
Irwin, D. Hastings, War Medals and Decorations ... from 1588 to 1889, London, 1890, vi, 185pp, signed, ‘With the Author’s Compliments, March 1890’, embossed cloth; Christie, N. M., Officers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force who died overseas 1914-1919, 116pp., with dustcover; Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Part 65, The Gordon Highlanders, 84pp, paperback; Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1919, 262pp, paperback; List of British Officers taken Prisoner ... 1914-18, 218pp,...
Italy, Volunteers Medal 1935-36, bronze; Eritrean Army Corps Medal, bronze; XI Colonial Brigade Medal, bronze and enamel; LXXVII Colonial Battalion Medal, bronze and enamel; other fascist medals (3), good very fine (7) £30-40
Hammer Price: £35
Pair: Private W. Clipstone, Royal Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (48071 Pte., R. Fus.); together with two Kettering School Board Attendance Medals, by Spink, London, one in bronze dated 1899, the other in silver dated 1900, both named, generally good very fine (4) £30-40
Rhodesia, Legion of Merit, Member’s badge; Police Cross for Conspicuous Gallantry; Prison Service Cross for Conspicuous Gallantry (3) - one stamped ‘Specimen’ on reverse; Bronze Cross of Rhodesia, all enamelled, all lacking ribbon, very fine and better (7) £40-60
Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Union of South Africa (Sgt. E. F. Whitehead, S.A.A.C.) extremely fine £30-40
Italian Army Pre WWII solid gilding metal cap badges to the 4th 5th 9th & 14th Infantry regiments a similar cap badge showing the crown over crossed cannon barrels a grenade and the motto ‘Regis Ultima Ratio’ another cap badge displaying the crown over a circle embellished with laurels crossed cannon barrels and a central knight’s helm gorget and breast plate, a gilded copper badge displaying a Roman style helmet lying upon six thunder bolts all within a buckle shaped border the badge...
Austria, Empire, Red Cross Medal (2), 2nd Class, with war merit wreath, silver and enamel, on bow ribbon, in damaged card case of issue; together with a related miniature dress medal, silver and enamel, on bow ribbon, extremely fine (2) £25-35
Foot, M. R. D., History of the Second World War; S O E in France, an account of the work of the British Special Operations Executive in France 1940-1944, London, 1966, xxvii, 550pp, plus plates, complete with four four maps, boards, with dustcover, good condition £20-30
Tucker, Squadron Leader N. G., In Adversity, Exploits of Gallantry and Awards to The R.A.F. Regiment and its associated forces 1921-1995, xii, 337pp, with dustcover; Austerberry, Bernard, Gazetted Awards to N.C.O.s and Other Ranks of the Aerial Forces 1914-1924, xviii, 458pp, paperback; McInnes, Ian, The Meritorious Service Medal to Aerial Forces, 63pp, paperback; India General Service Medal 1908-1935 to the Royal Air Force, vii, 89pp, ringbound; Hamilton, Angus, In Abor Jungles, being an...
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