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18 May 2011
Khartoum Siege Money, a scarce second issue 100 piaster note bearing the hectographed signature of Gordon, and his stamp as Governor-General of the Sudan; the reverse bears the stamp applied in Cairo when the note was redeemed, ‘Tito Figari’, trimmed right margin, good very fine £100-150
Hammer Price: £100
Gordon of Khartoum, a superb five page manuscript letter with two sketches, sent in late March 1877 from Gordon Pasha at Keren, to Col. Nugent at Horse Guards, in which he discusses the situation in Abyssinia: ‘My Dear Nugent, I arrived here from Massawah today. 41⁄2 days more or less misery the first 21⁄2 days were along the desert by sea, the other two days were along mountainous passes. I saw little game beyond guinea fowl and partridges, and a lot of Baboons with manes like tippe...
£1,000–£1,200
Gordon of Khartoum, The Journals of Major-Gen. C. G. Gordon, C.B., at Khartoum, A. Egmont Hake, 1st Edition, Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., London, 1885, 587 pp, spine faded and distressed, inner hinges cracked, contents good £60-70
Hammer Price: £85
Gordon of Khartoum, a good clean autograph of General Gordon, dated 13th April 1870, central crease, otherwise good condition £80-100
Hammer Price: £80
Gordon of Khartoum, a rare white parian bisque porcelain memorial bust of Gordon, approx. 195mm high, the back impressed 'Copyright as Act directs, W. H. GOSS, Stoke-on-Trent, JANUARY 1885’, excellent quality and condition £300-350
Hammer Price: £1,000
Gordon of Khartoum, a rare white parian bisque bust of Gordon produced by R & L (Robson & Ledbetter), approx. 215mm. high, maker’s impressed mark on back, undated but circa 1885, excellent quality and condition £250-300
Hammer Price: £780
Gordon Relief Expedition, an unusual hand-painted glazed saucer, 110mm. diameter, depicting a mounted British soldier of the Camel Corps, inscribed ‘Our Boys in Egypt’, circa 1884, good condition £20-25
Hammer Price: £30
A collection of 8 Books relating to Gordon, including Colonel Gordon in Central Africa 1874-1879, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, Thos. De La Rue & Co., 1881; and Gordon and the Sudan, Bernard M. Allen, Macmillan & Co., 1931, the first lacking one plate, condition generally good but sold as found (8) £50-60
Hammer Price: £65
Mapping Instruments, used by Lord Kitchener and later by Major C. Congreve: an adjustable pair of compasses, 155mm. long, by Fraser, London, brass and steel, in fitted shark-skin case; ruler bearing scale conversions, 151 x 50mm., ivory?, this lightly inscribed, ‘J. Congreve, R.B.’, pierced in two places; together with a note reading: ‘12.5 Dear Johnnie, Now I have found these souvenirs of K’s given to my father after the Boer War. They are from when he was in the R.E. I used the rule when...
Hammer Price: £400
Photograph of Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, full-length portrait photograph of the Field Marshal wearing wearing all his orders and medals and holding baton, 298 x 197mm., signed ‘Kitchener F.M.’, good condition £ 200-300
Hammer Price: £360
Photograph, of Lord Kitchener, The King and Governor-General Wingate walking through Suakin during the 1911 ‘Durbar’ 215 x 168mm., good condition, rare £50-80
Hammer Price: £140
‘Kitchener’ W.W.1 Recruitment Poster, 74.5 x 51.5cm., ‘Lord Kitchener says: ‘Men, Materials & Money are the immediate necessities. Does the Call of Duty find no response in you until reinforced - let us rather say superseded by the Call of Compulsion? Enlist To-Day’, mounted within a modern frame, 81 x 61cm., good condition £200-300
Hammer Price: £200
Sir Herbert Kitchener, white porcelain bust, approx. 19cm. high, base inscribed, ‘Sir H. Kitchener’, manufacturer’s mark, ‘R&L’ (Robson & Ledbetter) stamped on back, good condition £150-200
Hammer Price: £460
Lord Kitchener, white porcelain bust, approx. 20cm. high, base inscribed, ‘Lord Kitchener’, manufacturer’s mark, ‘R&L’ (Robson & Ledbetter) stamped on back, additionally inscribed, ‘By W. C. Lawton sculpr., copywright Feb. 9th-1900’, good condition £100-150
Hammer Price: £170
Earl Kitchener, gilt bust, approx. 13.5cm. high, , base inscribed, ‘Earl Kitchener’, and in small letters, ‘A.M.W.c1915 U.S.A.’; another bust, white porcelain, approx. 12.5cm. high, back inscribed, ‘Kitchener’; Lord Kitchener Memorial Medal 1916, obverse: bust of Field Marshal Kitchener in uniform wearing Order of Merit, reverse: Britannia with sword and shield, with Union flag and the word, ‘Thorough’, 68mm., bronze; Commemorative Medal, obverse bearing small portraits of Queen Victoria and...
Hammer Price: £110
The Great War D.S.O. group of ten awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hutchins, Royal Irish Regiment, who served on the Dilling patrol on secondment to the Egyptian Army, and at Galipolli, before reverting to command the Camel Corps in the Canal Zone and Palestine - for which services he was awarded his D.S.O. Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut., Rl...
Hammer Price: £2,500
The Haynes Medal awarded to 2nd Lieutenant E. M. Sinauer, Royal Engineers, who served on the South Kordofan expedition in 1910 and later won the O.B.E. and M.C. during the Great War School of Military Engineering Haynes Medal 1898, by F. Bowcher, obverse: bust of the officer facing right, ‘Captain A. E. Haynes, R.E., 1861-96’; a bridged chasm in high relief, ‘Field Fortification S.M.E.’ (2nd Lieut. E. M. Sinauer, R.E., 1906), 56mm., bronze, in fitted case of issue, extremely fine £80-100...
The Great War Mesopotamia operations D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Cox, Army Service Corps, who served on the patrol against the Beir and Annuak Tribes in South Eastern Sudan in 1912, and went on to serve in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and Salonika Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2 Lieut....
Hammer Price: £2,300
The Great War O.B.E. group of three awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. B. Winch, Highland Light Infantry, who served on the patrol against the Beir and Annuak Tribes in South Eastern Sudan in 1912 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type Officer’s (O.B.E.) Military Division breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., High’d. L.I.); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22,...
Hammer Price: £1,300
Nine: Engineer Lieutenant-Commander F. W. Wildish, Royal Naval Reserve, onetime attached to Sudan Government Steamers Department as Chief Engineer, and who afterwards served in Uganda 1914-15 Star (Eng. Lt. Cr., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Eng. Lt. Cdr., R.N.R.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals; Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1916; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Zeraf 1913-14, these all unnamed, mounted court styl...
Hammer Price: £2,600
Five: Major Ralf Sumner Gibson, Royal Marines Light Infantry, the only Marine to qualify for the ‘Mandal’ clasp and afterwards a member of the Sudan Government 1914-15 Star (Major, R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Maj., R.M.L.I.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1st issue, 1 clasp, Mandal, unnamed, mounted court style for display, extremely fine (5) £1200-1500
Seven: Major E. D. F. Gee, Royal Garrison Artillery, who commanded Pom Pom guns in the Boer War before serving in the Mandal and Darfur operations: appointed to the command of 263 Siege Battery in the Great War, he was killed in action on 25 April 1918 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Lieut., 17th Coy. W.R. R.G.A.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Major); Delhi Durbar 1911,...
£2,000–£2,500
Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel Alban John Reynolds, an Australian who served on the Miri patrol before going on to command Hodson’s Horse in India where he died suddenly during operations on the North West Frontier India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Lt-Col., Hodson’s Horse); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1st issue, 1 clasp (loose), Miri, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (2) £1000-1200
Four: Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Edward Wylie, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, who onetime commanded the Arab Battalion of the Camel Corps British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, no clasp, unnamed, good very fine and better (4) £1000-1200
Hammer Price: £1,100
Four: Corporal T. Dempster, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, one of a handful of R.F.C. recipients of the Khedive’s Sudan 1910 Medal 1914-15 Star (3185 Cpl., T. Dempster, R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals (3185 Cpl. T. Dempster, R.A.F); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, no clasp (3185 Cpl. T. Dempster, R.F.C.) officially impressed, good very fine and better (4) £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £1,900
Nine: Colonel Stuart McKenzie Saunders, Royal Army Medical Corps, a member of the first British Lions rugby team to tour Australia and New Zealand and a Doctor in the Sudan, who later served with the B.E.F. in 1940 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Capt.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon, minor enamel damage; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1 clasp, Darfur 1916, unnamed, mounted as worn...
Hammer Price: £3,100
Three: Major Owen Mostyn Conran, The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, who settled the Miri uprising with Major Balfour and, being a qualified pilot, was then given leave to join the R.F.C. on the Western Front, where he was killed returning from a night sortie with No. 10 Squadron in July 1917 British War and Victory Medals (Major); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, 2 clasps, Darfur 1916, Fasher (Capt., King’s Own Regt.) engraved naming; together with a Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902...
The Darfur operations M.C. group of four awarded to Captain Robert Starmer Audas, Army Veterinary Corps, also the recipient of an excessively rare 5 clasp Khedive’s Sudan 1910 Medal Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed, in case of issue; British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 5th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 5 clasps, S. Kordofan 1910, Darfur 1916, Lau Nuer, Nyala, Nyima 1917-18, unnamed, good very fine and better (4) £3500-...
Hammer Price: £5,500
Four: Major F. H. S. le Mesurier, Border Regiment, from the Channel Islands, who received a head wound at Gallipoli and two more wounds on the Western Front before being attached to the Egyptian Army 1914-15 Star (Capt., Bord. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1st issue, 1 clasp, Nyima 1817-18 (El Bimbashi Le Mesuurier, 4th Bn. Egyptian Army) impressed naming; together with a silver prize medal, 32mm., dia., inscribed, ‘Regimental Cross...
Pair: Mr. Harry Symes-Prideaux, a Sudan Government dentist who accompanied the Nyima patrol as a member of the field hospital Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Nyima 1917-18 (H. Symes-Prideaux) impressed naming; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat, slight enamel damage, very fine; medal extremely fine (2) £600-800
Hammer Price: £960
Three: Major T. W. Stallybrass, Royal Army Medical Corps, a veteran of the Miri and Atwot operations who who later became Senior Medical Officer, Khartoum British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. T. W. Stallybrass) rank engraved; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon, minor enamel damage; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1st issue, 2 clasps, Miri, Atwot 1918, unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (3) £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £2,900
Photograph Albums (3), containing a rare collection of sepia photographs, mostly annotated, taken by Dr T. W. Stallybrass; the photographs include those taken whilst on the Miri and Atwot Patrols, some photos faded, fairly good condition (3) £400-500
Eight: Major John Going, Army Veterinary Corps, who served throughout the Sudan, becoming Senior Veterinary Officer to the Sudan Defence Force 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Lieut., A.V.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Capt.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Garjak Nuer, unnamed, mounted as worn; Defence and War Medals, unnamed,...
Hammer Price: £2,000
The Great War Italy operations M.C. group of five awarded to Major Stuart Frederick Maxwell Ferguson, Royal Artillery, who was wounded with the B.E.F. in 1914 and again at Delville Wood, and afterwards served in the Aliab Dinka operations Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Lieut., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Major); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Aliab Dinka, unnamed, mounted court style for display, cleaned, contact mark...
The Great War O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel David Alexander Fairbairn, West Riding Regiment, a veteran of the Zeraf operations The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type Officer’s (O.B.E.) Military Division breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1917; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2 Lieut., W. Rid. Rgt.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, East Afr...
Hammer Price: £2,800
The rare D.C.M. awarded to Shawish Abdel Rahman Ahmed, Equatorial Battalion, for his gallantry during the Turkhana patrol in 1918 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (2006 Shawish Abdel Rahman Ahmed, 6/Coy. Equatorial Bn) correction to company number; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Aliab Dinka, unnamed, very fine and better (2) £3000-3500
£3,000–£3,500
The rare Senussi operations M.C. group of seven awarded to Lieuenant John Davies Lawrence, Manchester Regiment, who commanded a Rolls Royce armoured car in actions at Dakhla Oasis in the Western Desert Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘2nd Lieut. J. D. Lawrence, Manchester Regt., Nov. 1915’; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lieut.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, East Africa 1918 (Lieut., Equatorial Bn. E.A.); Egypt, Or...
Hammer Price: £6,100
Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1st issue, no clasp, bronze, unnamed, extremely fine £250-300
Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 2nd issue, no clasp, unnamed, good very fine £200-250
Hammer Price: £410
The unusual O.B.E. awarded to Hugh Fraser of the Sudan Government Lands Department The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Officer’s (O.B.E.) Civil Division breast badge, hallmarks for London 1919, in ‘1st type’ case, extremely fine £120-150
£120–£150
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