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The Arab Bureau O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Major Alexander Wise, Connaught Rangers, who was severely wounded at Colenso before joining the Egyptian Army and serving on the Nyima patrol and afterwards with the Arab Bureau: in later life he settled in Egypt until thrown out by Nasser in 1956, along with all the other old hands who had served the country so well The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type Officer’s (O.B.E.) Civil Division, silver-gilt, hallmarks for...
Hammer Price: £1,900
Sudan Durbar Medal 1911, 51mm., silver, unnamed, edge marked ‘Specimen’ in small letters at 6 o’clock, complete with neck chain, nearly extremely fine, rare £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,800
Sudan Durbar Medal 1911, 51mm., silver, unnamed, edge marked ‘Specimen’ in small letters at 3 o’clock, complete with neck chain, nearly extremely fine, rare £800-1000
Five: Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel Eugene Cretin, Indian Medical Staff, who served at the Suakin Field Hospital Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Surgn. E. Cretin, 31st Ben: N:I:); India General Service 1854-94, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Surgn. Eugene Cretin, 1st Bl. Infy.); Queen‘s Sudan 1896-98 (Sur. Maj. E. Cretin, 1/Beng’l Inf.); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Surgn. Major E. Cretin, I.M.S.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (Surgn....
The Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel F. J. Langdon, King's Own Liverpool Regiment, who fought at the battle of Gedid Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major F. J. Langdon); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, Sudan 1899, Gedid (Capt. F. J. Langdon, The King’s (L’pool) Regt.); French Croix de Guerre, with bronze star, good very fine (5) £1600-1800
Emin Relief Expedition Star 1887-89, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1889; together with a good example of Henry Morton Stanley's autograph,’Faithfully Yours, Henry M. Stanley’, extremely fine £600-700
Hammer Price: £1,500
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...
Hammer Price: £1,300
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...
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
Five: Captain Tristan Dannreuther, Royal Navy, who served as a Lieutenant in H.M.S. Melita and as Harbourmaster at Suakin: a navigation expert who later took part in the hunt for the German cruiser Koenigsberg off the coast of East Africa in 1914, he afterwards became Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence 1914-15 Star (Commr. T. Dannreuther, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. T. Dannreuther, R.N.); Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver,...
Four: Mr. J. M. Edwards, 2nd Engineer of the gunboat Melik, who served on the White Nile and Bahr-el-Ghazal rivers during the ‘sudd’ clearances, and was awarded a Royal Humane Society bronze medal for attempting to rescue a soldier from the Nile at Mongalla Order of the Nile, 5th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, gilt and enamels, in its Lattes case of issue; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Sudan 1899, unnamed as issued; Royal Humane Society, bronze medal (unsuccessful), (J....
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
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
Seven: Commander W. B. Drury, an Australian born Royal Navy officer who was attached to the Egyptian Army as a Bimbashi and worked with Captain Peake to clear the ‘sudd’ to open up a route up the White Nile and Bahr-el-Jabal rivers to Uganda 1914-15 Star (Cdr. W. B. Drury, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Cdr. W. B. Drury, R.N.) these three all later issues; Order of Osmanieh, 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1...
Hammer Price: £880
The rare O.B.E. group of six awarded to Bimbashi (Major) Yusef Effendi Dervish, a Medical Officer for his services in Equatoria The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type Officer’s (O.B.E.) Civil Division breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Yuzb. Yusef Eff. Dervish, Med. Corps S.F.); British War and Victory Medals (Yuzbashi, Med. Corps E.A.); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 5th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Ottoman Empire,...
Hammer Price: £860
Egypt, Order of the Nile, 1st Class set of insignia by Lattes, Cairo, sash badge, 63mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, 95mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with sash ribbon, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine (2) £350-400
Hammer Price: £840
History of the Railways during the War in South Africa, 1899–1902, by Lt. Col. Sir E. P. C. Girouard, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., R.E., Director of Railways, South Africa Field Force, London 1903, 149pp with several plates and maps all present, half leather binding, gold embossed stamp of the Royal Engineers Library on front cover, one of the rarest books on military railways published, spine worn and corners bruised, otherwise contents good £400-500
Hammer Price: £820
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
Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidie, a superb 3rd Class neck badge by Godet, Berlin, 63mm., silver, gold and enamel, manufacturer’s plate on reverse, with neck cravat, extremely fine £280-320
Hammer Price: £760
Sudan Defence Forces Native Officers’ Decoration, silver, edge named in Arabic script to ‘Kaimakan (Lieutenant-Colonel) Najib Bek Youssef Younis, Sudan Medical Service’, incorrect ribbon, nearly extremely fine £650-700
Hammer Price: £700
Egypt, Order of the Nile, 1st Class set of insignia, sash badge, 64mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, 96mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, with full sash ribbon, nearly extremely fine (2) £300-350
Hammer Price: £620
Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, 1st Class breast star, 90mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with Arabic stamp mark and Arabic embossed backplate, slight enamel damage, good very fine £300-400
Hammer Price: £520
Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, 2nd Class breast star, 80mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with Arabic stamp mark and Arabic embossed backplate, nearly extremely fine £300-400
Hammer Price: £500
Foreign Ribbon: includes Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania; Order of Medjidie; Egypt, Order of the Nile; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22; S.D.F. General Service 1933; Distinguished Service Medal; Native Officers’ Decoration; L.S. & G.C.; Sudan Police and Prison Service Gallantry Medal and Meritorious Service Medal, several rolls and part rolls, much original silk, various lengths and widths, first two with some sash ribbon, sold as found (lot) £50-70
Pair: Colonel Benjamin William Marlow, C.S.I., C.I.E., Gloucester Regiment and Madras Staff Corps, who served on the staff of Brigadier Egerton at Suakin, later becoming Military Accountant General of the Indian Army India General Service 1854-94, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Lieut. B. W. Marlow 12th Madras Infy.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (Capt. B. W. Marlow. Staff, Suakin Field Force) good very fine (2) £500-600
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
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
Black and White War Albums - Snapshots by René Bull, Special Correspondent to “Black & White”, Black & White Printing & Publishing Co, London, 1899, an original set of the rare 4 volume work; Vol. 1: Omdurman, 32pp; Vol. 2: Atbara, 32pp; Vol. 3: The Tirah Campaign, 32pp; Vol. 4: The Naval Number, 32pp, bound as one in contemporary red cloth; together with Vol. 1: Omdurman, 32pp, full blue leather binding with gold embossed crossed flags of Britain and Turkey, with title ‘Kartoum’...
Hammer Price: £440
Khartoum Siege Money, a rare first issue 100 piaster note bearing Gordon’s personal signature and his stamp as Governor-General of the Sudan, linen backed, about extremely fine £200-250
Hammer Price: £430
Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 2nd issue, no clasp, unnamed, good very fine £200-250
Hammer Price: £410
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...
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
Khedive’s Sudan 1910-22, 1st issue, no clasp, bronze, unnamed, extremely fine £250-300
Sudan Police and Prison Service Gallantry Medal, with Second Award Bar, silver, unnamed, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine, rare £350-400
Hammer Price: £350
Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, 4th Class breast badge, 57mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with a length of ribbon, in case of issue, some enamel damage, very fine £180-220
Sudan Police and Prison Service Meritorious Service Medal, with Second Award Bar, silver, unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine, scarce £250-300
Hammer Price: £340
Sir Hector MacDonald, a scarce Boer war period parian-ware bust of General MacDonald, approx. 20cm, marked in the mould ‘By W. C. Lawton Sculpt. Copyright March 1900’, good condition £200-250
Hammer Price: £310
The M.B.E. group of three attributed to John Edwin Harris, Inspector of Surveys, Sudan Government The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Member’s (M.B.E.) Civil Division breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1926; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 5th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Defence Medal, all unnamed, mounted as worn; together with a mounted pair of miniature dress medals (no Defence Medal), extremely fine (5) £150-200
Hammer Price: £290
Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, 3rd Class neck badge, 57mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with a length of ribbon, some enamel damage, very fine £160-200
Hammer Price: £280
Sudan Defence Force Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, bronze, edge named in Arabic script to ‘46 Shaweesh (Sergeant) Ahmed Ali Mohammed, Equat? Battalion’, with ribbon, extremely fine £200-250
Hammer Price: £260
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