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First North York Rifle Volunteers, 1 slip-on clasp, ‘V.R.’, obverse: head of Queen Victoria left; reverse: ‘The Fitzwilliam Challenge Cup, Inst. Oct. 1859’, engraved within a wreath of laurel, ‘Private Robert Hicks, 1861’, 36mm., silver, with ribbon, good very fine £80-100
Hammer Price: £80
Percy Artillery Volunteers Medal for Merit, 2 (loose) clasps, ‘For Merit’ (2), engraved on reverse, ‘1871’ and ‘1873’, obverse: diademed head of Queen Victoria left; reverse: a gunner loading a cannon, above, ‘Arty. Percy Volrs.’; in exergue: ‘MDCCCLXIII’, by L. C. Wyon, 36mm., silver, with scroll suspension and complete with ribbon, attractive, good very fine £80-100
Hammer Price: £110
Royal Victoria Rifles (2), by T. K. Pinches, obverse: diademed head of Queen Victoria left, ‘Royal Victoria Rifles, Established 1835’; reverse: crowned skull and cross-bones within a wreath of oak and laurel, with circumscription, ‘Presented annually by Capn. Ellis for the Best Rifle Shot’ (Won by G. T. Lee Esqr. 1848’), 37mm., silver-gilt, indistinct hallmarks on obverse, one-time mounted, slight edge bruising and contact marks, very fine; another similar, reverse: crowned skull...
£120–£160
1st Surrey Artillery Volunteers, obverse: gun and limber with crown above, ‘1st Surrey Artillery Volr. Field Brigade, Lt. Col. Durnford Commanding’; reverse: engraved within oak wreath, ‘Brigade Champion Medal, 1866, Corpl. Emms’, 38mm., silver, swivel straight-bar suspension, nearly extremely fine £40-60
Hammer Price: £90
Pair: Colour Sergeant H. G. E. Saxby, 1st Surrey Rifle Volunteers Volunteer Force Long Service, V.R. (Col-Sergt., First Surrey Rifles 1896), engraved naming; First Surrey Rifle Volunteers Medallion, by J. S. Wyon, obverse: shield displaying a lion sat before a castle, below a scroll, ‘Concordia Victrix’, with the circumscription, ‘First Surrey Rifle Volunteers, Enrolled 24th June 1859’; reverse: laurel wreath, engraved, ‘“Four Stars” Challenge Trophy 1904, won by O. R....
Hammer Price: £220
Surrey Volunteer Rifle Association, by J. S. & A. B. Wyon, obverse: shield displaying a lion sat before a castle, below a scroll, ‘Concordia Victrix’, with circumscription, ‘Surrey Volunteer Rifle Association; reverse: ‘Doggett’s Volley Prize for Company Squads’ and engraved, ‘Won by 2nd Vol. Battn. Royal West Surrey, Capt. J. de Z. Colliers, A Company with 171 Marks, 1890’, 43mm., bronze, unmounted, edge bruise; South Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, obverse: crowned shield with...
Hammer Price: £55
Uxbridge (24th Middlesex) Rifle Volunteer Corps, obverse: three volunteers in uniform, engraved, ‘George Caleb Stockwell winner of the Challenge Cup, 1879’; reverse: finely engraved shield enclosed by a garter bearing the title of the unit, 51mm., silver, unmounted, slight edge bruising, good very fine £70-90
1st Warwickshire Rifles, 1 slip-on clasp, ‘V.R.’, obverse: a volunteer knelt firing a rifle, a volunteer in highland dress by his side, ‘In Defence’; reverse: engraved within a wreath of laurel, ‘1st Warwickshire Rifles, 41st Regiment, Battalion Prize Medal, won by Serjt. W. M. Cooper, 1869’, by J. Moore, 41mm., silver, scroll suspension, with silver buckle on ribbon, good very fine £50-70
Hammer Price: £130
Pair: Gunner A. J. Godfrey, 1st Warwickshire Royal Garrison Artillery Volunteers 1st Warwickshire Royal Garrison Artillery Volunteers, cross-shaped, ‘Winners of Competitive Gun Practice, 2nd Battery, Aber Camp, 1905’, named, silver; another, star-shaped, rev engraved, ‘Gunr. A. J. Godfrey, 1907’, silver 1st Warwickshire Royal Garrison Artillery Volunteers (2), cross-shaped, ‘Winners of Competitive Gun Practice, 4th Battery, Bare Camp, 1902’, ‘Signr. Dowler’, silver;...
1st West Yorkshire Royal Engineers Volunteers, obverse: coat-of-arms; reverse: engraved, ‘Shooting Club, First Class 1897-8, 2nd Aggregate, Six Shoots, Presented by Lt. Col. Bingham J.P.’ (Corpl. Buckley), 31mm., silver, ball and ring mount, with ribbon, good very fine £30-40
Hammer Price: £120
Three: Quarter Master Sergeant A. R. Greenwood, 4th West Yorkshire Volunteer Rifles Volunteer Force Long Service, V.R. (Qr. Mas. Sergt. A. R. Greenwood, From March 1862 to November 1887), engraved naming; Volunteers Medal, 1 slip-on clasp, ‘4th W.Y.V.R.’, obverse: volunteer knelt firing rifle, engraved, ‘Challenge Medal, No. 2 Coy., 1871 Sergt. Greenwood, 1872 won by Col. Sgt. Greenwood’; reverse: engraved with a wreath of laurel, ‘1861 Sergt. Cockerham, 1862 Wm. Brown, 1863...
Hammer Price: £500
Weymouth Rifle Volunteers, town coat-of-arms with crown above; reverse: circumscription, ‘Presented by John Trenchard Trenchard, D.C.L. Deptt. Lievtt.’, engraved within a wreath of oak, ‘Won by Sergeant I. L. Stevens, 1878’, 51mm., silver, unmounted, nearly extremely fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £60
Edinburgh Artillery Volunteers (?), by Alex Kirkwood & Son, Edinburgh, obverse: soldier standing firing musket; reverse: gunners manning a heavy cannon on the city walls, Union flag flying above; in exergue: engraved, ‘Presented by Captain Laing, No. 3 Battery E.A.V.’, 38mm., silver, with scroll suspension, with ribbon, attractive, nearly extremely fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £140
2nd Dumfriesshire Rifle Volunteers, by A. Kirkwood & Son, Edinburgh, obverse: a volunteer knelt firing rifle, two others observing; reverse: a wreath of holly, with circumscription, ‘The “Maxwell” Cup, 2nd Dumfriesshire Rifle Volunteers’, centre engraved, ‘Private Andrew McComie, 30th October 1869’, 48mm., silver, unmounted, edge bruise, good very fine £80-100
Hammer Price: £170
Artillery Volunteers Medal, by W. J. Taylor, London, obverse: gunner standing to attention by a cannon, tents in the background; reverse: engraved within a laurel wreath, ‘Edward Dowling, 1862’, 38mm., silver, fitted with a swivel straight bar suspension incorporating a shield coat-of-arms with the motto ‘Decus et Tutamen’ (An honour and a protection), with ribbon, extremely fine £70-90
Hammer Price: £300
1st Manchester Rifles, by J. S. Wyon, obverse: mediaeval archer drawing bow, in left field ‘A.D. 1400’; reverse: in the centre a volunteer knelt firing a rifle, above, ‘In Defence’, with engraved circumscription, ‘The Winner of the Challenge Cup of No. 8 1st Manchester Rifles, 1862’ (Private William Joseph Birks), 52mm., silver, unmounted, good very fine £80-100
7th Surrey Rifles (2), by W. J. Taylor, London, obverse: a volunteer knelt firing a rifle, engraved above, ‘7th Surrey Rifles’ and below, ‘Tuebor’; reverse: a laurel wreath, engraved above, ‘Lieut. Col. Beresford’s Challenge Cup’, engraved in centre, ‘Won in 1865 by Py. Mstr. Collins’, 42mm., silver, unmounted; another, reverse centre engraved, ‘Won in 1868 by Sergt. F. Andrews, No.3 Compy.’, good very fine (2) £80-100
Rifle Volunteer Medal, by W. J. Taylor, London, obverse: a volunteer knelt firing a rifle; reverse: a wreath of oak and laurel with crown above, centre engraved, ‘Colour Sergt. Bewick, 1869’, 39mm., silver, swivel-ring suspension, edge nick, good very fine £40-60
£40–£60
South Eastern District Challenge Cup Medal, E.VII.R. (Sergt. C. Donovan, 1 V.B. R. Sussex Regt. 1903), 38mm., silver, scroll suspension, with silver brooch bar and ribbon, nearly extremely fine £40-50
Hammer Price: £75
Arctic Medal 1818-55 (William Ellison) engraved naming, edge nicks, good very fine £300-350
Hammer Price: £320
Arctic Medal 1818-55, unnamed as issued, nearly very fine £400-450
Hammer Price: £360
Arctic Medal 1875-76 (H. W. Edwards, A.B. H.M.S. Discovery) good very fine £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £1,100
Loyal United West and East Ham Volunteers Medal 1799, obverse: a volunteer soldier at attention with shouldered arms, ‘The Loyal United West and East Ham Volunteers’, in exergue: ‘Associated May 18, 1897’; reverse: the Henniker coat-of-arms with regimental flags to either side, above, ‘For preservationof internal peace our King and Constitution’; in exergue: ‘Presented by Sr. Iohn Henniker Bt., Stratford House, Essex 1799’, 38mm., silver, fitted with straight bar suspension,...
Hammer Price: £210
A Scottish Naval and Military Academy Prize Medal attributed to Colonel Thomas Cadell, V.C., C.B., 2nd Bengal European Fusiliers Silver Prize Medal, Scottish hallmarks, 42mm, obverse with badge of St Andrew’s cross, and around ‘Scottish Naval and Military Academy’, reverse inscribed ‘General Merit 1st Session, 2nd Prize, Mr Thos. Cadell, 22nd July 1853’, with straight swivelling suspension and ornate ribbon bar, obverse inscribed ‘Junr. Mathematics’, reverse inscribed ‘Mr...
Hammer Price: £230
Dominion of Canada, Rajah of Kolapore’s Prize 1872, gold cross, 36 x 36mm., obverse: soldier knelt firing rifle; reverse: engraved, ‘Presented by the Government of the Dominion of Canada, Gunner James Shand, 1st Brigade, Garrison Artillery’, complete with gold buckle on ribbon, extremely fine, attractive £140-180
Hammer Price: £280
Soldiers’ Total Abstinence Association, silver eight-pointed star, 36 mm, raised central boss with sun-burst radiating arms, reverse plain, fitted with swivel-ring suspension and top suspension brooch inscribed ‘Afghanistan 1879’, good very fine and scarce £60-80
The Boycott Expedition, Lough Mask 1880, ‘In Honour of the Brave & Loyal Ulstermen’, struck silver medal by West & Son, 40 mm, the reverse inscribed ‘John Smith’, small hole drilled at 12 o’clock where sometime fitted with a suspension, otherwise very fine and rare £300-400
Hammer Price: £850
IXth Lancers Presentation Salver, shell pattern border, 325mm, the decorated centre inscribed within ‘Presented to S.Q.M.S. Lockwell by his brother N.C.O., IX Lancers on his leaving the regiment, 24th June 1892’; together with three in memoriam cards, one inscribed ‘Thomas Delahaye Lockwell, late Sergeant Major, 9th Lancers and permanent Instructor Hants. Carabineers, who died at Brighton, May 23rd 1895, aged 38 years’; and his marriage certificate, dated 8 January 1890, which gives...
Hammer Price: £95
Glasgow Police Sports Medal, 45 x 32mm., silver cross, hallmarks for Edinburgh 1895, reverse engraved, ‘Tug of War Open, 3rd Prize, won by Glasgow Police, Wm. MacKintosh (Captain), 13th June 1896’, extremely fine £20-30
Hammer Price: £15
South African War 1899-1902, silver Memorial Medal ‘To the memory of those who gave their lives for King and Country’, by E. Fuchs, 52mm, nearly very fine £70-90
National Fire Brigades Association, 1 clasp, Ten Years, reverse engraved, ‘Desborough U.D.C. Fire Brigade’ (12981 Albert Stratford); Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples’ Home & College Medal, enamelled, with brooch bar, ‘Queen Alexandra League of Children’; Poland, Cross of Valour; U.S.A., medals (3); St. John Re-examination Badges (3), named; Air Crew Europe Star, copy; 19th Middlesex ‘K’ Company Cross, 39 x 39mm., silver and enamel; XIV West Yorkshire Regiment Medal, 32mm., silver;...
Hammer Price: £190
Four: C. R. Norton, Scarborough, Southend and Tunbridge Fire Brigades National Fire Brigades Union, silver award, hallmarks for Birmingham 1908, with upper brooch bar engraved, ‘Scarborough’, and three slide-on riband bars engraved, ‘Dixon’, ‘Junior Steamer’ and ‘National Steamer’, the reverse engraved, ‘N.F.B.U., Fireman C. R. Norton, 1908’; National Fire Brigades Union, a similar type of award in bronze, with upper brooch bar engraved, ‘Tonbridge’, and the...
Hammer Price: £240
Belfast University Officers’ Training Corps Medal, obverse: coat of arms, reverse with inscription (name and date engraved) 0‘for excellent work in Officers Training Corps, W. Bryars, Dec. 1914’, 41 x 36mm., gold and enamel, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine £80-100
H.M.A.S. Sydney - S.M.S. Emden Medal, 9 November 1914, silver Mexican Dollar dated 1895, surmounted with a crown and scrolls inscribed, ‘Nov. 9 1914 H.M.A.S. Sydney. S.M.S. Emden’, reverse stamped, ‘W. Kerr, Sydney’, with ring suspension, a little roughness to the surface of the coin, otherwise good very fine £250-300
Hammer Price: £480
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (2) (Henry Gardiner Milne; Edward Cooper) good very fine (2 £60-80
Hammer Price: £85
Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (102896 Pte. W. Cotton) nearly extremely fine £30-40
Great War Memorial Plaque Receipt Confirmation Cards (5), being the cards returned to the plaque factory to acknowledge receipt of the memorial plaque, including two interesting examples, one signed by Rudyard Kipling, and another with the following derogatory comment inscribed upon it ‘the terrible and awful monstrosity has arrived’, good condition and rare survivals (5) £150-200
Hammer Price: £780
Great War Silver War Badges (5), all officially numbered on reverse; together with Aigburth Volunteer Corps 1914, bronze and enamel badge, very fine (6) £40-60
King’s Medal for Native Chiefs, G.V.R., 1st type, Gambia Colony and Protectorate, a massive silver medal, 103mm, fitted with suspension ring and fluted shaped loop, and plain silver link neck chain, 760mm long, nearly extremely fine and very rare £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £2,700
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