Auction Report

17 January 2024

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria (17 January 2024)

Gross Total: £589,135 (£730,527 including buyers' premium)
Number of lots: 898
Sell-through rate: 97.5%
Exchange rate of the GB pound: US $1.26 and €1.16

Principal Lots
Lot no.
1-240. The Norman Gooding Collection, £147,105 (£182,410)
304. The MM and BEM group of nine to Acting Sgt Ronald Morris, RAMC, £120,000 (£148,800)
733-810. A Fine Collection of German Second World War Combat Awards, £35,510 (£44,032)
482. The Naval GS medal with 3 clasps, 28 August 1809, 28 June Boat Service 1810 and Lissa, to Capt Thomas Moore, RM, ex Goddard, £15,000 (£18,600)
481. The Naval GS medal with 2 clasps, Nile and Shannon with Chesapeake, to Pte Griffiths Morris, RM, ex Turl, £14,000 (£17,360)
240. The Suffragette WSPU medal awarded to Evelyn Hambling, 1914, £11,000 (£13,640)
75. The MM group of five to Driver Mary O’Connell-Bianconi, FANY, £7,500 (£9,300)
20. The Punjab Frontier RRC pair to Senior Nursing Sister Mary Barker, IANS, £6,500 (£8,060)
242. The CSI, CIE and CBE group of seven to Deputy Inspector General Douglas Donald, Indian Police, £6,500 (£8,060)
18. The Zulu War RRC pair to Jane Deeble, Superintendent of Nurses, £6,000 (£7,440)

Saleroom Notices
The following were amendments to the printed catalogue descriptions:
73. The recipient served with the Hertfordshire Police (and before that the Dorset and Cambridgeshire Constabularies), not the Metropolitan Police
349.
The recipient’s Kandahar clasp is confirmed on the official medal roll, WO100/52, page 141.

Withdrawn Lots
The following lot was withdrawn before the auction:
359, 846

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