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Pair: Gunner Lance Naik Talib Khan, 33rd Pack Battery British War Medal 1914-20 (885 Gnr. Talib Khan, 33 Pack Bty.); India General Service 1908-35, 5 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24, Burma 1930-32, North West Frontier 1935 (736 Gnr. L-Nk. Talab Khan, 33 P. Bty.), note different number and spelling of name, nearly very fine (2) £60-80
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Three: Private A. W. Greig, Royal Army Service Corps British War Medal 1914-20 (M2-082643 Pte. A. W. Grieg, A.S.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (M2-082643 Pte. A. W. Greig, R.A.S.C.), note different spelling of surname; Belgium, Croix de Guerre, ‘A’ cypher, extremely fine (3) £140-180
£140–£180
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (5612 Pte. J. Hutchison, 2/Scots Gds.) reverse with traces of brooch mounting, pitting from star, otherwise good fine £140-160
£140–£160
Hutchinson, Walter (Editor), Hutchinson’s Pictorial History of the War, in 16 volumes, from 3 September 1939 to 4th September 1945, illustrated, original blue and gilt binding; Young, Brig. P., The Almanac of World War II, Hart, B. H. Liddell, History of the Second World War; Keegan, J. & Wheatcroft, A., Who’s Who in Military History, generally in good condition (19) £30-40
£30–£40
Egypt, Republic, Order of Istiklal, breast star, 74mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel, stamp marks on reverse and pin, good very fine £160-200
£160–£200
France, Second Restoration, Legion of Honour, Knight’s breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, most arms re-enamelled, very fine £140-180
Indian States, Bahawalpur, Great War Star (2), 1st type, bronze-gilt (737 Silr. Khuda Bakhsh, Bahwlpr. Transt. Cps.); another, 2nd type, bronze (528 Sepoy Mohammad Din); North West Frontier Medal 1914-19, bronze-gilt (959 Silr. Pahalwan, Bahwlpr. Transt. Cps.); Bikaner, Accession Medal 1943, silver; Sri Lanka, Long Service Medal, silver base metal; Pakistan, Armed Forces Long Service Medal, bronze, first two with ribbon, good very fine (6) £100-140
£100–£140
Indian States, Bahawalpur, Overseas Service Medal 1939-45 (7), bronze; Victory Star 1939-45 (10), bronze, five numbered on reverse; Alliance Medal 1947 (10), cupro-nickel, all with ribbon, good very fine and better (27) £120-160
£120–£160
Iran, Empire, Order of the Taj (2), breast star, 95mm., silver-gilt, silver and enamel, stamp mark on pin; 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon, this with enamel damage, nearly very fine; breast star nearly extremely fine (2) £220-260
£220–£260
Family group: British War and Victory Medal pairs (2) (6017 Pte. W. Mackenzie, L’pool. R.; 79629 Pte. N. Mackenzie, L’pool. R.) Defence and War Medals, nearly extremely fine (4) £90-110
£90–£110
Royal Humane Society, dies for the small ‘successful’ medal, obverse die with bruise / cut at 7 o’clock, otherwise in excellent condition (2) £100-150
£100–£150
Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Busaco, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (C. Atkinson, 7th Foot) refixed suspension and re-furbished overall, with severe edge bruising most probably caused by old brooch-mounts, otherwise generally fine £800-850
£800–£850
A well-documented 1939-45 War pair awarded Captain J. C. S. W. Neilan, for many years Senior Test Pilot with B.E.A. (afterwards British Airways), work that won him the Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Services in the Air: in 1942, while testing a military Hengist glider, he was compelled to take to his parachute at 3000 feet and was duly elected to membership of the Caterpillar Club Defence and War Medals, extremely fine (2) £300-350
£300–£350
Spain, Kingdom, Order of Maria Louisa, shoulder badge, 53 x 32mm., gold and enamel, c.1880, excellent quality, extremely fine £600-650
£600–£650
Pair: Corporal S. J. Gartland, Royal Air Force General Service 1962, 2 clasps, Northern Ireland, Air Operations Iraq (S.A.C. (J8182994) R.A.F.), second clasp loose; Royal Air Force L.S.& G.C., E.II.R. (Cpl., (J8182994) R.A.F.), mounted court style as worn, minor edge bruising, very fine and better (2) £250-300
£250–£300
Sweden, Order of the Sword, Medal of Merit, silver, slight contact marks to reverse, good very fine £80-100
£80–£100
Sweden, Order of the Sword, bestowal document for the grade of ‘Commander 1st Class’ awarded to ‘Kommendören i Sanska Flotten Ch. Fr. Scheller’, dated 3 November 1902, bearing the signatures of ‘Oscar’ (II) and ‘Gustaf Celsing’, good condition £60-80
£60–£80
A rare Order of Merit for the Tibet Campaign awarded to Havildar Sharif, 40th Pathans, for gallantry at Niani in June 1904 Order of Merit, Military Division, 1st type, 3rd Class, Reward of Valor, silver and enamel, the reverse with screw-nut fitting and officially inscribed on three lines ‘3rd Class Order of Merit’, complete with ribbon buckle; Tibet 1903-04, no clasp, silver issue (1352 Havdr. Sharif, 40th Pathans) good fine (2) £4000-5000
£4,000–£5,000
India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Malabar 1921-22 (C. B. Lancaster, A.S.P. Mal. Spl. Force) good very fine and a rare casualty for the Moplah Rebellion £1000-1200
£1,000–£1,200
India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Malabar 1921-22 (20 Bhisty Bob, The Bays) minor edge bruising, otherwise very fine and scarce £200-250
£200–£250
An O.B.E., K.P.M. group of six to P. I. M. Irwin, Director of Security, Atomic Energy Authority, late Assistant Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge; King’s Police Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, for Distinguished Service (Asst. Commr. Peter I. M. Irwin, Hong Kong Police); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953, mounted as worn, last four medals plated, very fine and better (6) ...
£1,400–£1,600
Swedish Patriotic Society Large Gold Medal awarded to Count Gilbert Hamilton Sweden, Patriotic Society, Large Gold Medal, for Knowledge and Work, by Molin and Ericsson, obverse, horse-drawn harvester, ‘Kunskap och Arbete’ in exergue, reverse inscribed, ‘Till Greve Gilbert Hamilton för Gagnande Verksamhet’, 51mm., gold, 104.87g., edge inscribed, ‘Guld 1923’, with neck ribbon, in case of issue in red leather with gold coat-of-arms on lid, extremely fine and rare ...
Thailand, Order of Cula Chom Klao, an exquisite badge, 61 x 33mm., gold and enamel, extremely fine £900-950
£900–£950
The Cavalry Officer’s Sword carried by Lieutenant-Colonel A. H. C. Kearsey, D.S.O., O.B.E., late 10th Hussars, who was uncle of the famous Mitford sisters An 1822 Pattern Triple-bar Light Cavalry Sword, in field service leather scabbard, Wilkinson No. 40399, the blade etched with the badges and unit distinctions of the 10th Royal Hussars, V.R. cypher, etc., blade stained overall £500-600
£500–£600
An important K.P.M. awarded to Inspector W. A. Marshall, Punjab Police, for bravery and initiative during the Amritsar troubles of April 1919 King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Wm. Alex. Marshall, Insp., Punjab Police), good very fine £1200-1500
£1,200–£1,500
Blandford Volunteer Cavalry Troop of Dorsetshire Yeomanry (1831-38), a trooper’s composite helmet based partly on the heavy cavalry pattern of 1822 but with a comb similar to that of the 1812 pattern, in this instance the frontal plate laurel leaf attachments, front and rear peaks are original, the comb possibly period, the skull is of later pattern, the side ornaments, chin scales horse hair plume and sweat band are all replacements, the comb and laurel sprays (part detached) have all...
£400–£600
Royal Horse Artillery, the important Field Service Cap of the late Major John Wainwright Hopkins, the cap in navy blue and scarlet cloth the curtain and crown embellished with gold cord two small KC gilt buttons to the front, the large cap badge of padded format in gold thread crimson velvet blue silk and red cloth shows the KC over the Garter Motto enclosing GVIR below a scroll ‘Royal Horse Artillery’, original internal trade label for ‘Hawkes Co. Ltd., 1 Savile Row London W1’ and...
Berkshire Yeomanry, a scarce Victorian officer’s undress sabretache in black leather, the face with single gilt metal mount being a conjoined five pointed star and crescent (from the arms of Hungerford) complete with bag and ‘D’ rings, the face crazed overall, at a near contemporary date the mount appears to have replaced the similar two part ornament £120-150
£120–£150
Highland Light Infantry Interest, a fine water-colour by Richard Simkin (22.5cm x 25cm), the full dress uniforms c1890 are depicted, two officers (front and rear) and a Piper in the foreground and a further nine figures in the background, including a Sergeant, signed and entitled ‘The Highland Light Infantry’ and with the number ‘113’, enclosed in an attractive double mount and framed and glazed, good condition £1000-1200
5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards, a good quality water-colour depicting a mounted officer in Review Order and a dismounted officer in pill box forage cap and black braided frock coat c1890-1902 (approx. 10 inches by 8 inches) displayed within a new oval card mount but in a period oak and glazed frame, printed signature ‘R.Simkin’, slight foxing in the lower area otherwise good condition £120-150
Tank Corps Interest, an impressive and large model of a WWI tank (Mark IV?), approximately 32cms long by 23cms wide (including the gun ports) and 13cms in height, constructed solely of heavy gauge hall-marked silver sheet (Birmingham 1919 by T&JB), a faithful external replica with realistic non moving tracks, engraved rivets, moving gun turrets and two opening hatches, overall weight 2.6 kilograms, excellent condition £2500-3000
£2,500–£3,000
H.M.S. Natal Medal 1915, Arms of Natal, enclosed by two branches of oak, ‘From the People of Natal’; reverse: the armoured cruiser H.M.S. Natal, ‘Presented to H.M.S. Natal 1915’ (Ernest A. Pipe), 26mm., silver, integral loop and ring suspension, sometime gilded and with edge bruising possibly caused by an old brooch-mount, about very fine £40-60
£40–£60
Chichester Training Ship Medal, by W. J. Taylor, London, figure of Hope standing by rocks on the seashore, mantle flowing behind, one hand raised the other resting on an anchor, a sailing ship in the background, all enclosed by a plain band; reverse: inscription in raised letters, ‘“Chichester” Training Ship, Presented by the Committee to [blank] on his return from Second Voyage with Good Character’, 39mm., silver, swivel ring suspension, nearly extremely fine £40-60
Visit of the Prince of Wales to India 1921-22, by Elkington, 51mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1921, unnamed, ref: Puddester 921.2.1, slight edge bruising and contact marks, very fine, scarce £500-600
Prince Alfred’s Guard, a fine quality other ranks die-stamped white metal helmet plate 1874-1890’s (Owen 40), a bi-metal helmet plate c1897-1939 (Owen 42), a bronze helmet plate with pin fastener 1940-43 (Owen 46); a bi-metal sporran badge or cap badge c1903-1934 (Owen 50); Cape Town Highlanders, a cast white metal and brass helmet/tam o’shanter badge 1902 to date (Owen 220); two variable quality cap badges Regiment President Steyn Bloemfontein, a cast brass depiction of the Royal Arms...
£150–£200
Diamond Fields Horse, a scarce good quality white metal forage cap badge pre 1897 (Owen 186); Natal Mounted Rifles, a fine white metal helmet badge c1922-43 (Owen 474); Natal Carbineers, a fine white metal KC smasher hat badge (Owen 363), near mint state (3) £120-150
Georgian Baggage Warrants, six official warrants issued by the ‘Town or Borough of Stamford In the County of Lincoln’, the earliest 12 January 1808 addressed to Mrs Anne Greenwood via the hand of the Constable of ‘All Saints’ Parish requiring her to furnish ‘One cart’ by ‘Wednesday next by six o’clock in the Morning with a sufficient number of horses to go to Stilton in the County of Huntingdon to carry the Baggage of the Fifeshire Regiment of Militia for His Majesty’s...
Three: Lieutenant J. Edgar, West India Regiment, late King’s Own Scottish Borderers and Scottish Rifles 1914-15 Star (7706 Pte., Sco. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) extremely fine (3) £180-220
£180–£220
Cases (25) mainly for military medallions by Phillips, Aldershot (7); John Pinches, London (2); Spink, London (1); Mappin & Webb, London (1) and others, good condition (25) £10-20
Hammer Price: £10
Medal Auction and Sales Catalogues (137), including: Dix & Webb (2), March, June 1996; Dix Noonan Webb (27), an incomplete run, October 1996-September 2003, including the Douglas-Morris Collection of Naval Medals, parts 1 & 2 and the Baird Jewels and Archive; Spink Medal Auctions (22), an incomplete run, September 1989-December 2001; Spink Numismatic Circular (40), 1990-93 complete; Spink Medal Quarterly (4), 1994-95 complete; Spink Medal Circular (16), 1995-2000 complete; other catalogues...
Hammer Price: £15
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