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18 September 1998
Lot No 463
Women’s Social and Political Union Medal for Valour, silver, 22 mm, the obverse inscribed ‘Hunger Strike’, the reverse inscribed ‘Isabel Kelley’, the suspension bar inscribed with the date ‘July 30th 1909’, the top suspension brooch bar inscribed ‘For Valour’, with original ribbon, good very fine...
Lot No 414
A superb Great War and Anglo-Irish War D.C.M. group of five awarded to Brigadier-General George Adamson, Irish Free State Army, late Private in the Machine Gun Corps and Leinster Regiment, murdered in Athlone in April 1922 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (48507 Pte.-A.L. Cpl. G. Adamson, 10/M.G.C.); 1914-15...
Lot No 411
An important Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Brigadier-General H. R. Cumming, late Durham Light Infantry, killed in a Sinn Fein ambush during the Anglo-Irish War whilst Commanding the Kerry Brigade Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of...
Lot No 415
A rare M.G.S. ‘Egypt’ pair awarded to Captain Frederick Hill, 18th Foot, one of only three officers to receive the M.G.S. Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Egypt (Fredk. Hill, Capt. 18th Foot); Sultan’s Gold Medal for Egypt 1801, 36 mm, fitted with original hook and chain but old repair to...
Lot No 470
A rare 18th Century silk embroidered Guidon of the Limerick Fencible Light Dragoons, similar design to both sides, approximately 870x540 mm, silk backing shot in parts, particularly to the centre of one side, otherwise good condition for age £1000-1500
Lot No 412
An Easter Rising M.B.E. group of four awarded to Major R. H. St C. C. Robinson, 5th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers The Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) 1st type; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lt., Rl. Dub. Fus.); British War and Victory...
Lot No 429
The important C.B. group of four awarded to Sir William Thomson, Honorary Surgeon to the King in Ireland, President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Chief Surgeon in charge of Lord Iveagh’s Irish Hospital in South Africa The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Civil) breast badge in 18...
Lot No 465
Women’s Suffrage Badges, a collection of 15 various badges, mostly enamelled, including a rare W.S.P.U. badge in silver depicting Joan of Arc carrying the Union’s banner, this hallmarked Birmingham 1912; together with a W.S.P.U. silk rosette and an enamelled badge of the National League for Opposing Woman...
Lot No 460
A Boy Scouts Silver Gallantry Cross group of six awarded to Lance Bombardier L. G. H. Ryden, Royal Artillery, Airborne Division, who was killed in action at the Arnhem Landings 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Boy Scout’s Association, Silver Gallantry Cross (L. Ryden 5-12-34)...
Lot No 480
The Boycott Expedition, Lough Mask 1880, ‘In Honour of the Brave & Loyal Ulstermen’, struck silver medal by West & Son, 40 mm, the reverse inscribed ‘William Smyth’, nearly extremely fine and very rare £300-400
Lot No 410
An Easter Rising C.B.E. group of three awarded to Colonel R. L. Owens, Royal Irish Regiment The Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) 1st type neck badge, inscribed on the reverse ‘Col. R. L. Owens, Royal Irish Regiment, June 1919’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange...
Lot No 413
A Great War ‘Palestine’ M.C. group of ten awarded to Air Commodore J. D. Leahy, Medical Branch, Royal Air Force, late Royal Irish Fusiliers Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘Capt. J. D. Leahy, 2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers, Kefr-Harris, Palestine 20th Sept. 1918’; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R. Ir....
Lot No 471
Royal Dublin Volunteers 1796, 2nd Regt., a fine Georgian silver oval shoulder belt plate, 115x76 mm, the reverse with maker’s mark ‘I.I’ and with original fittings comprising two hooks and two studs, good very fine and rare £400-500
Lot No 459
Order of Industrial Heroism, Awarded by the Daily Herald (To Ronald Wilson, 2nd January 1959) in fitted presentation case together with original named award certificate, extremely fine and rare £300-400
Lot No 467
Autographed Photograph, signed by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, this famous photograph was taken by the Daily Mirror on October 13th 1908, of the two leading Suffragettes awaiting arrest on the roof of the head office of the W.S.P.U. for issuing handbills inciting a “rush” on the House of Commons during...
Lot No 473
18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot Shoulder Belt Plate, a fine Georgian officer’s shoulder belt plate as worn 1800-1818, 80x65 mm, the oval matted copper-gilt plate with applied badge of the regiment on a blue enamelled ground, the reverse with original fittings comprising a single hook and two studs, some...
Lot No 425
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Mr. D. P. Barry, “Christchurch Weekly Press”) nearly extremely fine and a rare War Correspondent £600-800
Lot No 421
A rare group to the Tormey family including medals to Commandant James Tormey and his brother Joseph, both of whom were killed during the Anglo-Irish War in 1921 Irish General Service ‘Black & Tan’ Medal 1917-21, with Comrac bar and top suspension bar, reverse named ‘James Tormey No. 1002’ Irish...
Lot No 472
Meath Horse, First Troop, a Georgian silver oval shoulder belt plate, 65 x 48 mm, the reverse with maker’s mark ‘BD’ and with original fittings comprising single hook and two studs, very fine and rare £250-350
Lot No 430
The Zulu War and Boer War pair awarded to Colonel F. W. Nixon, Senior Military Member of the Irish Hospital, late Royal Engineers South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8 (Capt., R.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Colonel, Irish Hosp.) nearly extremely...
Lot No 488
Irish Republican and Unionist Medals and Badges, an interesting collection of medals, cap and lapel badges (approx. 70 pieces) including Dublin Regiment N.V., Waterford Regiment I.N.V. etc., and a gold Sword of Light badge dated 1916-1966, good overall condition (Lot) £50-100
Lot No 417
A group of three awarded to Lieutenant H. Kibler, 5th Lancers, serving as Riding Master of the 6th Reserve Regiment of Cavalry during the Easter Rising 1916 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, S.A. 1901, S.A. 1902 (4609 Corpl., 5th Lancers); British War Medal...
Lot No 426
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Ladysmith (692 Pte. H. S. Macgregor, Thorneycroft’s M.I.) nearly extremely fine and rare £350-400
Lot No 442
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, silver medal, G.IV.R. (Margaret Llewellyn, Voted 29 Apr. 1847) nearly very fine and very rare £350-450
Lot No 452
The Golden Penny Award for Bravery, silver, 36 mm, the reverse inscribed (Owen Holman 1903) extremely fine and very rare £200-300
Lot No 489
8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars Regimental Ceramic Coffee Pot, by Spode, decorated with a red and blue floral design with gilt highlights, each side with a painted regimental crest, overall height 210 mm, circa 1860-70, handle professionally repaired, otherwise good condition £100-150
Lot No 485
Lincolnshire Regiment Medal for Gallant Conduct in Ireland 1920, regimental medal in silver, 35 mm, the reverse inscribed ‘Pte. E. E. Bowes, for Gallant Conduct in Ireland. 20th December 1920’, with ring suspension, good very fine and very rare £200-250
Lot No 466
W.S.P.U. Illuminated Testimonial signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, ‘To Grace Williams, on behalf of all women who will win freedom by the bondage which you have endured for their sake, and dignity by the humiliation which you have gladly suffered for the uplifting of our sex, We, the Members of the Women’s Social...
Lot No 433
A scarce Boer War pair awarded to Nursing Sister H. J. Henderson, Irish Hospital Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nurs. Sis., Irish Hospital); King’s South Africa, no clasp (Nursing Sister) good very fine (2) £250-300
Lot No 461
Grand Priory of The Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England, Illuminated Certificate of Honour awarded to ‘Clarisse Maude Crawfurth-Smith, in recognition of gallant conduct in tending the wounded at great personal risk during the Sinn Fein riots in Ireland in April and May, 1916’, 300x210 mm,...
Lot No 474
Irish Rifle Volunteers, an early Victorian officer’s silver shako plate, 92x70 mm, hallmarked Birmingham 1860, reverse with original fittings comprising two lugs, extremely fine and very rare £300-400
Lot No 454
The Gallantry Fund Award, silver, 38 mm, the reverse inscribed (James Rowley, Decr. 15. 1894) in fitted case of issue, good very fine and very rare £200-300
Lot No 448
Carnegie Hero Fund Medal, bronze, 90 mm, ‘For Heroic Endeavour to Save Human Life’ (James Ferns, Glasgow, 13th November 1934) in its fitted presentation case, good very fine £300-350
Lot No 468
Contemporary Suffragette Postcards, a collection of thirty-one different postcards, including one addressed to Miss A. B. Lewis at Holloway Prison, the message written in the Welsh language; together with four items of related ephemera and a calling card of Sylvia Pankhurst, generally good condition for age and a...
Lot No 431
The group of five awarded to Major D. S. B. Thomson, Royal Army Medical Corps and Sudan Political Service, who previously served under his father Sir William Thomson, with the Irish Hospital in South Africa Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (Drsr., Irish...
Lot No 445
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Marine Medal, Silver, 1st type, 54 mm, frosted finish, framed and glazed, the silver rim inscribed (Presented to Mr. Jas. Tweedie, Master of the Gilbert Henderson, for Jumping overboard & saving a Child from Drowning in the Southern Ocean, April, 1840) the silver rim bruised...
Lot No 447
Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, silver (2), 1st type (John Gibson) complete with ‘Gallantry’ top suspension bar; 2nd type (Hugh Kennedy) with silver ribbon bar but lacking top suspension, the first with some bad edge nicks, generally very fine (2) £150-200
Lot No 477
Limerick Militia Medal for Coloony, ‘Corporation and Citizens of Limerick’, ‘To the Heroes of Coloony 5th Sepr. 1798’, struck silver medal, 38 mm, with small ring for suspension, nearly very fine £100-150
Lot No 416
A Fenian Raid pair awarded to Sergeant Samuel Johns, Rifle Brigade and Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry Canada General Service 1866-70, 2 clasps, Fenian Raid 1866, Fenian Raid 1870 (902 Sgt., 1/R.B.) engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (1025 O.R.C., D of Corn. L.I.) toned, nearly...
Lot No 427
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Mr. A. Pearce, A.S.R.) toned, nearly extremely fine and very rare £200-300
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