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Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2513 Pte. P. Murphy, Durham L.I.) very fine £40-60
Hammer Price: £55
Midland Bank Fire Brigade Medal, 39mm., silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1961, unnamed, unmounted, good very fine £40-60
Medal Auction Catalogues: Sotheby’s (55+), January 1971- December 1990, bound in seventeen volumes, (1989 duplicated), most annotated / priced, some with prices realised; others unbound (56), May 1968 - November 1978 and December 1990 - May 2001, these incomplete runs, some duplicated; other catalogues (8), generally in good condition (lot) £20-30
Letter written by an Officer in the Abyssinian Campaign, blue paper, 270 x 420mm., folded in two, handwritten in black ink on three of the four sides, dated, ‘Camp near the Bashilo, 7th April 1868’, torn but professionally restored in several places, fairly good condition £30-50
War and Africa Service Medal pairs (4) (31073 O. B. Botha; 582686 R. H. Vice; 317746 R. J. Webb; 137279 S. Whittal), naming on A.S.M. to ‘Webb’ corrected, good very fine (8) £50-70
War Medal 1939-45 (4) (312575 L. R. Holloway; N43303 P. Lekitla; N5994 M. Malumo; N25967 J. Ntlama) first medal suspension slack; General Service 1918-62 (2), 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (DN.15977 Pte. Naliti Mandoza, K.A.R.) officially renamed; another, G.VI.R., lacking suspension and clasp (18114128 Pte. M. Donald Samson, K.A.R.), this last with edge bruising; Three: attributed to Private H. S. Knight, 1st South African Infantry, France, Somme Commemorative Medal, bronze, unnamed; Silver War...
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (KX. 78670 V. A. Waldeck, S.P.O., H.M.S. Berwick) nearly extremely fine £60-80
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J. 105377 R. C. Manning, A.B., H.M.S. Orion) extremely fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £50
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (JX. 125868 S. R. Gardiner, A.P.O., H.M.S. Tyrian) extremely fine £60-80
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (L. 15031 R. W. J. Hayler, L. Std., H.M.S. Witherington) good very fine £60-80
Army L.S.& G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (5250076 Sgt. A. T. Oliver, A.C.C.) officially corrected, with slight edge bruising, good very fine £30-40
Loyal London Volunteers Medal, First Regiment, 1803, silver, 34mm, struck with name engraved in space on reverse, obv. oval garter surmounted by royal crown, inscribed ‘First Regiment’, ‘LLV’ within the garter with rays above and below, the whole surrounded by a trophy of arms; rev. ‘To perpetuate the memory of Samuel Tomkins as a voluntary defender of his country. 1803’; together with another struck shooting medal, silver, 46mm, obv. kneeling rifleman wearing bell top shako...
Society for the Defence of the Country Medal (1804), silver, 53mm, obv. Volunteer firing right, undulating ground behind, six tents in the righ middle distance, a thistle and rose in the foreground, legend above ‘Best shot at ball practice’; rev. crowned garter with usual motto, engraved around ‘Prize Medal - Third Best Shot’, and within the garter ‘Shot for by the HC & SV Rifle Company’, rim pierced at top for suspension but this lacking, very fine £80-120
37th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers Medal 1862, silver, 38mm, obv. within a struck wreath of oak and laurel, and below a struck crown, engraved ‘37’ within a bugle over drum and sticks; rev. engraved around and within struck wreath ‘Presented by the 37th Middx. R.V. Drum & Fife Band. June 5th 1862. To Drum Major W. Cann as a mark of their esteem’, fitted with scroll suspension, very fine £60-80
‘The Frank Henderson Medal’, obv. Royal Naval badge, rev. inscribed, ‘the Frank Henderson Medal, May 1920’, 20mm., 9ct. gold, hallmarks for Birmingham 1919, extremely fine £60-80
The group of nine miniature dress medals attributed to Paymaster Commander W. J. G. Prophit, Royal Navy, Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Officer’s (O.B.E.), Miltary Division; British War and Victory Medals; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1937, mounted Court style as worn, good very fine and better (9) £20-30
Medal Auction Catalogues: Christie’s (27), February 1982 - November 1990, bound in nine volumes, annotated, some with prices realised; others unbound (46), (some duplicated), some bearing the address label of ‘Donald Hall’; other catalogues, (30+), generally in good condition (lot) £20-30
Naval Interest, Trafalgar Centenary Plaque, a rococo shield in oak embellished with mounted copper panel depicting HMS Victory and the legend, ‘England Expects TEMWD Duty. Death of Nelson Oct. 21st 1805. Centenary Memento Oct 21st 1905. Containing copper from HMS Victory from Lords of the Admiralty to British & Foreign Sailors Society E.R VII’, a split in the oak shield above the copper panel otherwise good condition £40-50
The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver; Special Constabulary Medal, G.V.R., with Great War clasp (Albert E. Chamberlain); Voluntary Medical Services Medal (Dr. W. T. G. Davidson) very fine or better (3) £60-80
Buttons, British Police Forces, KC & QEC Periods, over 1500 items representing most forces of the periods, large small black horn white metal and chrome, good overall condition, sold as viewed (1500+) £70-90
Buttons, Worldwide Civilian, a very large selection including transport, police, fire, ambulance, and many other civilian organisations, good condition (1500+) £60-80
Buttons, Worldwide Civilian Services, a large selection of large and small, representing a large variety of utilities but including a large number of British Royal Arms types (KC), good condition (1500+) £60-80
Buttons, Worldwide Civilian Departments, a very large selection representing various utilities plus some military and police, good condition (1500+) £50-70
Three: Stoker W. Walsh, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (3) £50-70
Hammer Price: £45
22nd Foot Order of Merit 1820, silver for 14 years good conduct, unnamed as issued with hinged bar suspension (Balmer R246b), edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £40
Carmarthen Volunteer Rifle Association 1864, obv. inscription engraved within a wreath of laurel and palm leaves; rev, engraved, ‘Amalgamated Prizes, First Prize, High Sheriffs, won by Capt. R. E. Jones, 2nd C.R.V., August 16, 1864’; edge inscribed, ‘Open to the Battalion, ranges 200, 400 & 500 yds.’, silver, 44mm., unmounted, edge bruising, good very fine £30-40
Associated Newspapers Womens’ Award for Courage, by Gilbert Ledward, 1959, obv. a mother protects her child from various dangers, rev. blank, 51mm., bronze, unnamed, minor edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine, rare £60-80
Signature of Mashal of France, Duke of Dalmatia, Nicolas Soult (1768-1851), a letter 317 x 201mm., dated Boulogne, 1st Fructidor, year 13, written to the Marshal from ‘Campredon’ - General Commanding Officer of Engineers, Central Corps; in the margin the Marshal has written his reply and signed his name, ‘Soult’, good condition £20-30
Peterkin, A. & Johnston, W. / Drew, Lieut-Gen. Sir Robert, Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the British Army, 1660-1960, 2 volumes; Hart, Lieut-Gen. H. G., Army List (2), 1895; 1906, both reprints; Payne, A. A., A Handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decorations, reprint; B.D.&W., The Upfill-Brown Collection, 4 December 1991, hardbound; D.N.W., The Douglas-Morris Collection of Naval Medals, Parts 1 & 2, 1 October 1996 & 2 February 1997, hardbound, very good...
Four: Able Seaman M. Sanders, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, all engraved (617023 A.B. J. Sanders), mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £50-70
Robinson, Cmdr. C. N. (Editor), Celebrities of the Army, London, 1900, 144pp., but missing the title and index pages; [The Illustrated London News], The Transvaal War 1899-1900, 84pp., original (repaired) card covers; [Sotheby’s], Catalogue of War Medals and Decorations, 10/14 May 1926 - the ‘Murray Collection’, hard bound; The Rev. G. Hawkes Field Collection, hand-written listing; The Hurley Collection (2nd Foot), hard bound photocopies; Wadey Collection, photocopies in three...
Family group: Four: Mr L. Holme, British Forces 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed as issued Pair: Serjeant S. Holme, Royal Corps of Signals Defence and War Medals, extremely fine (6) £60-80
Lord Keith: Death of Abercromby 1801, by J. G. Hancock, obv. bust of Lord Keith left, rev. Scottish soldier contemplates an urn which bears a medallion of Abercromby, 49mm., white metal, E.931; Egypt Delivered 1801, by Webb/Dupré, obv. bust of Major-General Lord Hutchinson left, rev. Hutchinson and the Bey of Egypt exchanging a treaty, 41mm., bronze, E.934; General Gordon Memorial 1885, by W. O. Lewis, Birmingham, obv. bust of General Gordon almost facing, ‘... The latest Christian...
General Service 1918-62 (2), 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46, unnamed; U.N. Medal (4), one with clasp, Congo, two lacking suspension rings, very fine and better (6) £50-70
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (JX. 142624 S. B. New, A.B., H.M.S. Crusader) edge nicks, very fine £30-50
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J. 104388 G. R. Hill, A.B., H.M.S. Enterprise) contact marks and one or two edge bruises, otherwise very fine £30-50
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J. 103472 H. E. Little, A.B., H.M.S. Kent) extremely fine £30-50
Returns Document of H.M’s Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, commanded by His Royal Highness the Duke of York, 28 February 1795, document 47 x 58cm., showing the 1st Battalion and Light Infantry Company of the 2nd Battalion on foreign service, the remainder of the 2nd Battalion at Knightbridge Barracks, fold marks, torn and repaired; Certificate of Servants’ Rations, drawn by officers of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, February - March 1827 - a list of officers and their signatures;...
Hammer Price: £35
Signatures (16), ‘Geo. Back’, on a note; ‘D. J. Carruthers, Engineer Captain, R.N.’, on a letter to the Royal Society of Arts, dated 31 December 1917; ‘S. E. Saunders’, letter to the Royal Society of Arts, dated 17 November 1919, on a ‘S. E. Saunders Ltd, Isle of Wight’ headed paper; ‘R. C. Temple’ (3) on three letters to the Royal Society of Arts; ‘Henry Bentinck’, on a letter to the Royal Society of Arts, dated 26 November 1918; ‘Beresford’, signature on a slip...
Four: Corporal A. P. Pulleyn-Holden, Derbyshire Yeomanry and Royal Armoured Corps 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £40-60
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