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Visit of the Prince of Wales to Patna 1921, cast silver medal, obverse, Edward, Prince of Wales right, reverse, plain uninscribed centre with ‘Visit of His Royal Highness, Patna, 22nd Dec. 1921’, about very fine £80-100
£80–£100
‘Loyal Devoir’, obv. dragon, rev. ‘King’s Cup’, engraved, ‘1925-1926, H. Roxburgh’, 24mm., 9ct. gold; Prize medals (3), 25mm., gold, obv. soldier firing weapon, engraved, ‘1918-19’, rev. engraved, ‘A. G. Lowe, A.G.S.C.’; another, silver, 26mm., engraved, ‘A.G.S. D Coy. Senior, R.S. Maj. A. G. Lowe, 1919’; another, 32 x 32mm., silver cross, inscribed, ‘Lambert Handicap Cup, 10.11.12 Coventry St.’ and ‘1902 D Compy. XXIX Middx. Rifles won by Pte. F. W....
Hammer Price: £70
Order of the League of Mercy (2), breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with long service bar, mounted as worn; another, without bar, mounted on bow ribbon; Jubilee 1935 (2), unnamed; Imperial Service Medal (2), G.V.R., 2nd issue (John Charles Knight), in case of issue; another, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Albert John Worth), generally nearly extremely fine (6) £70-90
Hammer Price: £120
Jewish Lads’ Brigade, Goldsmid Memorial Medal, 29mm., bronze (Cpl. W. Smith, 1930), complete with brooch bar; Lewis Emanuel Medal, 29mm., bronze, unnamed, complete with brooch bar; Jewish Lads’ Brigade Medal, ‘They go from strength to strength’, 32mm., bronze, unnamed, no ribbon; Church Lads’ Brigade, Royal Review Medal 1927, obv. head of the Prince of Wales (future King Edward VIII), 32mm., bronze, unnamed, good very fine (4) £80-100
Masonic: ‘Lodge Afghan’ Jewel, a very attractive star-shaped badge by Imrie & Lawrence of Simla & Lahore, 52 x 52mm., silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1932, with silver-gilt emblem on ribbon and ‘Founder’ brooch bar, in case of issue, extremely fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £100
Defence of the British Legations, Addis Ababa 1936, large silver medal, 53mm., ‘Presented to the British Legation Guard by the British Communities at Addis Ababa to commemorate services rendered 2nd to 6th May 1936’; reverse with struck arabic inscription and additionally engraved, ‘11980 Sep. Jogindar Singh’, ring suspension, minor edge bruising, good very fine £450-550
Hammer Price: £980
A rare Shanghai emergency pair awarded to Able Seaman D. C. Morton, Royal Navy Shanghai Soochow Creek Medal 1937, bronze, the reverse engraved, ‘D. C. Morton, A.B.’, complete with original tricolour riband and upper suspension brooch-bar; Royal Naval Barracks Chatham, General Efficiency Medal for New Entries, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1933, the obverse cartouche engraved, ‘D. C. Morton’, good very fine (2) £350-400
Hammer Price: £480
Shanghai Municipal Council 1937 Emergency Medal, the reverse privately engraved, ‘G. J. Manning’, in its C. Ismer & Co., Shanghai fitted case of issue, rare thus, nearly extremely fine £100-120
Hammer Price: £90
Shanghai Municipal Council Emergency Medal 1937, bronze, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, good very fine £40-60
Hammer Price: £40
Pair: T. McFadden, Glasgow Fire Brigade Defence, unnamed; Glasgow Fire Brigade Long Service Medal, 2 clasps, 20 Years, 5 Years (Thomas McFadden), clasps loose, this last in case of issue, good very fine and better (2) £80-100
Badge of the Certificate of Honour, for Kenya, E.II.R., large oval bronze neck badge, contact marks, nearly very fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £50
The original C.S.I. warrant and related documentation appertaining to W. J. Money, Bengal Civil Service, who was Private Secretary to Sir James Outram in the Indian Mutiny 1857-58, when he accompanied the General in the Field, the warrant in the name of ‘William James Money, Esquire’, dated at ‘Balmoral Castle’ 2 June 1869 and signed by Queen Victoria, together with related forwarding letter from the Secretary of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, dated 22 September 1869,...
Hammer Price: £170
Commission Documents (8), awarded to Arthur Brett, Gentleman, appointing him Instructor of Musketry, Cavalry Depot, Canterbury, 8 June 1862; Instructor of Musketry, 2nd Dragoon Guards, 13 June 1863; Lieutenant, 2nd Dragoon Guards, 19 September 1864; Lieutenant, 22nd Regiment of Foot, 26 July 1870; Instructor of Musketry, 22nd Regiment of Foot, 16 March 1872; Adjutant, 22nd Regiment of Foot, 30 May 1872; Captain on Half Pay, Land Forces, 4 December 1877; Paymaster, Army Pay Department, 2...
Hammer Price: £140
Commissions and Certificates awarded to the Reverend A. G. Yates, M.A., Certificate appointing ‘Arthur George Yates, B.A., of Keble College, Oxford’, Deacon, at the Parish Church of Kenwyn, in the Diocese of Truro, Cornwall, bearing the signature and seal of George Howard, Bishop of Truro, dated 21 December 1884; Certificate appointing ‘Arthur George Yates, B.A., of Keble College, Oxford’ Priest, in the Parish Church of St. George in Truro, bearing the signature and seal as above,...
Hammer Price: £55
An original Great War pilot’s flying log book (Army Book 425 type) and other documentation and photographs appertaining to Lieutenant R. S. Twigg, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, the former (his second) with entries covering the period January to November 1918, including numerous flights as a delivery pilot, among them over 30 cross-Channel trips, and an impressive list of numerous aircraft types flown at end; his R.F.C. Training Transfer Card, dated 5 September 1916, with list...
Hammer Price: £160
An original Great War pilot’s flying log book (Army Book 425 type) appertaining to 2nd Lieutenant C. S. Gilson, Royal Flying Corps, covering the period April to July 1917, all the entries relating to training flights in 16 and 24 Reserve Squadrons, his instructors including Lieutenant W. L. Wells, M.C., a fighter ace who was mortally wounded in March 1918, good condition £50-80
Hammer Price: £85
An original, complete and interesting set of R.A.F. flying log books (4) appertaining to Air Vice-Marshal W. D. Disbrey, C.B., C.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force, the first of them covering the period September 1931 to February 1934, the second February 1934 to June 1939, the third July 1939 to October 1953 and the fourth February 1953 (commencing with carried over entries from the third) to October 1961, the month of September 1942 particularly noteworthy for a succession of high altitude...
Hammer Price: £340
An original and complete set of R.A.F. flying log books (6) appertaining to Flight Lieutenant N. J. Galpin, Royal Air Force, the first of them covering the period April 1952 to December 1955, with a number of pasted-down photographs from the period of his pilot training in the U.S.A. 1952-53, the second the period January 1955 to September 1958, with several inserted photographs of aircraft flown, and an endorsement from Air Vice-Marshal S. R. Ubee, A.O.C., No. 2 Group, dated 24 August 1956...
Hammer Price: £180
An original set of R.A.F. flying log books (3) and other documentation appertaining to Wing Commander E. L. Brackenbury, Royal Air Force, the first of them with ink inscription to front cover ‘No. 3’ and ‘Reserve Flying’ and covering the period May 1937 to November 1939, with an endorsement for having passed a flight instructor’s course [his first two flying log books appear to have been lost in transit], the second marked ‘No. 4’ and covering the period November 1939 to...
A rare and interesting series of combat reports, official signals and messages contemporary to the fall of France and Battle of Britain Period, comprising completed “Form F” combat reports (6), on green paper (and one on blue), the whole relating to engagements fought over Kent by the following pilots of No. 151 Squadron on 24 August 1940: Wing Commander F. V. Beamish, Squadron Leader E. B. King (killed in action six days later), Flying Officer K. H. Blair, Flight Lieutenant R. L. Smith,...
Hammer Price: £260
A rare surviving copy of a limited edition War Relief Fund publication, containing essays entitled The Battle of Britain, by Sir Arthur Bryant, and The Few, by Edward Shanks, ‘Reprinted from the Daily Sketch of September 25, 27 and 28, 1944’, with ‘All Proceeds to the Daily Sketch War Relief Fund to Benefit All the Fighting Services’, No. 40 of a limited edition of 300, 32pp., the title pages signed by both Bryant and Shanks, and a mass of Battle of Britain and other R.A.F. pilots...
Hammer Price: £430
Menu Cards (2), ‘Victory Day 8th June 1946, a Dinner given to the holders of the Victoria Cross by the Directors of the News of the World at the Dorchester Hotel, London, W1’, 228 x 152mm., inside bearing the signatures and entries of a number of V.C. recipients in pencil and ink: ‘R. F. J. Hayward, Lt. Col., V.C., M.C.’; 1st King’s Own R.L. Regt. A. Halton, V.C.’; ‘J. Halliwell, V.C., Lanc. Fusr.’; ‘J. Moyney, V.C., Irish Guards’; ‘Leonard Cheshire, R.A.F.’; ‘Sgt....
£250–£350
A small series of 1939-45 War period Soldiers’ Service and Pay Books (5) and other original related documentation, appertaining to 4686614 W. Palfreyman, K.O.Y.L.I. and K.R.R.C.; W/215781 M. S. Crawford, A.T.S.; B. 18071 J. M. Haines, Royal Canadian Artillery, together with his discharge certificate, dated 9 January 1946; 7365696 C. R. E. Humphreys, R.A.M.C., together with his Soldiers’ Release Book, dated 2 April 1946 and his wallet, containing several photographs and one or two 3rd...
Hammer Price: £25
A small but interesting series of original documents and photographs relating to the nuremburg trials 1945-46, comprising a printed pamphlet entitled International Military Tribunal, Nurnberg, Germany, 1945-46, ‘prepared by Public Relations, H.Q., C.M.D., I.M.T.’, 13pp., with indictment, court plan, list of defendants and their individual responsibilities for assorted crimes as per the proceedings against the main Nazi leaders (Goering, Hess, von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Doenitz, Speer,...
Hammer Price: £280
Papers re. Private F. J. Ferriday, Norfolk Regiment, K.I.A. in Korea, including named Korea Medal condolence slip; Infantry Record Office letter to Mrs D. J. Ferriday, 63 Bracebridge Street, Aston, Birmingham, dated 14 November 1951, confirming an earlier telegram reporting the death; a letter from his commanding officer, Captain I. A. Haycroft, dated 13 December [1951]; Inventory of Soldier’s Effects; Divorce related papers (5); War Office letter to Mr H. Ferriday, 44 Valognes Avenue,...
Hammer Price: £30
Renamed, erased and defective medals (9), Military Medal, G.VI.R. (1010122 Pte. J. B. Moran, 4-6 Bn. Can. Inf.), renamed; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (29587 Pte. W. Pickford, Rand Rifles), correctly named but disk only; 1914-15 Star (2), erased naming; British War Medal 1914-20, erased naming; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48, crudely renamed (......R.M. Police); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue, erased naming; Pair: Private A. Cox, Grenadier Guards,...
Hammer Price: £400
Defective medals: Waterloo 1815 (George Shuttleworth, Royal Artill. Drivers) steel claw and straight bar suspension, medal fitted as a Menu-Card Holder, with silver fitments bearing hallmarks for Birmingham 1899, indentations to edge, contact marks, worn £200-300
Hammer Price: £860
Defective medals (3): Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (J. Making, Gr. Rl. Arty.), officially impressed naming; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (2640 Pte. W. Longslow, 2/Berks. R.), all three medals fitted as Menu-Card Holders, with silver fitments bearing hallmarks for Birmingham 1898, contact marks, edge bruising, good fine and better (3) £140-180
Hammer Price: £320
Defective medals (3): India General Service 1854-95 (2), 1 clasp, Perak (1369 Sergt. F. Cole, 80th Foot); 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (2528 Pte. J. Standring, 1st Bn. [?]york. L.I.) small erasure; Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (32 B/106 Pte. T. Reilly, 1/12th Regt.), all three medals fitted as Menu-Card Holders, with silver fitments bearing hallmarks for Birmingham 1901 (first) and 1898 (others), second with some edge bruising, generally very fine (3) £140-180
Hammer Price: £520
Defective medals (8): China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857, unnamed, signs of brooch mounting to obv., suspension refixed; Afghanistan 1878-80 (2) (4363 Driv. J. Luke, A/4th Bde. R.A.), lacking suspension, signs of brooch mounting to obv.; another, lacking suspension and fitted as a Menu-Card Holder, with silver fitments bearing hallmarks for Birmingham 1899, condition of naming unknown; East and West Africa 1887-1900, lacking suspension, naming erased and replaced by a blue enamel band,...
Hammer Price: £250
Specimen medals (3) Kelat-i-Ghilzie 1842; Candahar Ghuznee Cabul 1842; Meeanee-Hyderabad 1843, silver-gilt specimens, unnamed, unmounted, contained in fitted case for four medals, nearly extremely fine (3) £300-400
Hammer Price: £300
Clasps and bars (41), including, ‘Sebastopol’; ‘Relief of Lucknow’, ‘Delhi’, ‘Central India’, ‘Burma 1887-89’, ‘Chin-Lushai 1889-90’; ‘Kabul’, ‘Kandahar’, ‘The Nile 1884-85’, ‘Kirbekan’, ‘Suakin 1885’, various Boer War (11), ‘Nandi 1905-06’, ‘East Africa 1905’, ‘Somaliland 1908-10’, ‘Kenya’, ‘Gyantse’, ‘S. Persia’, these with backstrap and carriage, some damaged; Special Constabulary (4) - ‘The Great War 1914-18’,...
Hammer Price: £460
A mounted group of four miniature dress medals, Order of the Star of India, silver-gilt and enamel with cameo centre, cameo and some surrounding enamel damaged; Order of the Indian Empire, silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, nearly very fine and better (4) £100-140
Hammer Price: £150
A mounted group of six miniature dress medals, Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Rel. of Ladysmith, Transvaal; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps; Turkey, Order of Medjidie, 4th Class, silver, gold and enamel, rosette on incorrect ribbon; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Nyima; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 1st issue, no clasp, silver, mounted as worn,...
Mounted groups of miniature dress medals (4): Four: Air Force Cross; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1953, mounted court style; Pair: Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Member’s (M.B.E.), Civil Division; Coronation 1953, both mounted ‘bow & tails’; Pair: Jubilee 1897 (sic), with clasp, 1897; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902, mounted as worn; Pair: Egypt 1882-89, dated rev., no clasp; Khedive’s Star 1882, mounted as...
Hammer Price: £240
A group of four miniature dress medals attributed to Rear-Admiral E. J. Pollard, Royal Navy, Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol; China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1860; Royal Humane Society Medal, silver; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, all unnamed, all unmounted but with silver buckles, good very fine and better (4) £100-140
A mounted group of three miniature dress medals, Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol; Baltic 1854-55; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, mounted as worn; Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol, with silver buckle on ribbon, very fine (4) £80-100
The mounted group of four miniature dress medals worn by Commander R. A. Cathie R.N., comprising Jubliee 1897, silver; Egypt & Sudan 1882-89, 3 clasps, El-Teb-Tamaai, Suakin 1885, Tofrek, the reverse date neatly erased from the exergue; India General Service 1854-94, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, very fine £100-120
Order of the Indian Empire, 18ct. gold and enamel, with brooch bar attached to the crown orb, minor enamel damage, good very fine £140-180
Hammer Price: £190
Military Cross, G.V.R., an exquisite miniature in 18ct. gold, with silvered obverse, 25 x 25mm., suspended from a riband bar, finely enamelled in proper colours, reverse of bar with pin fitting, extremely fine £120-160
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