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25 March 2015
Waterloo 1815 (Corporal Thomas Leach, Royal Waggon Train.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £1,100
Waterloo 1815 (William Granger, Royal Staff Corps) fitted with silver clip and ring suspension, letters ‘ff’ and ‘Co’ of unit re-engraved, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine and very rare £1800-2200
£1,800–£2,200
Waterloo 1815 (Hosp. Mate H. George, Medical Staff.) fitted with original steel clip and replacement ring suspension, polished, otherwise nearly very fine £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £1,300
Three: Private Christoph Lindert, 1st Hussars, King’s German Legion Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (Christoph Lindert, 1st Hussars K.G.L.); Waterloo 1815 (Christoph Lindert, 1st Reg. Hussars [K].G.L.) fitted with original steel clip and replacement silver bar suspension, naming a little weak in parts; Hanoverian Medal for the K.G.L. 1841, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn with the last medal taking precedence, contact marks, otherwise...
Hammer Price: £2,600
Pair: Private Frederick Bade, 2nd Light Dragoons, King’s German Legion Waterloo 1815 (Frederick Bade, 2nd Reg. Light Drag. K.G.L.) fitted with replacement silver clip and hinged bar suspender; Hanoverian Medal for the K.G.L. 1841, unnamed as issued, naming weak in parts on the first due to contact wear, therefore good fine or better (2) £700-900
Hammer Price: £750
Waterloo 1815 (Ensign Gustav Hartmann, 2nd Line Batt. K.G.L.) fitted with replacement clip and flat ring suspension, light contact marks, otherwise very fine £2400-2800
£2,400–£2,800
A Guelphic Medal group of four awarded to Sergeant Henry Frehrking, 5th Line Battalion, King’s German Legion, who was captured but escaped from prison at Burgos in 1812 Guelphic Medal for Bravery 1815 (Thorschreiber Heinrich Frehrking) impressed naming, fitted with silver clip and small ring suspension; Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, St Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive (Heinrich Frehrking, Serjt. 5th Line...
Hammer Price: £5,500
A scarce honorary Waterloo medal to the Rt. Honble. Sir Charles Long, Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Loyal Lewisham and Lee Volunteers, Privy Counsellor and Paymaster-General, later Baron Farnborough, P.C., G.C.B. Waterloo 1815 (The Master of the Mint to The Rt. Hon. Cha. Long) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, minor scuffing, otherwise nearly extremely fine £2000-2500
£2,000–£2,500
Brunswick Waterloo 1815 (Ernst. Metge. Leib. Bt.) fitted with original steel clip and small ring suspension, no ribbon, slight edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £600-800
Hammer Price: £850
Brunswick Waterloo 1815 (Heinr. Bormann. Corp. 3 Iage. Bat.) fitted with original steel clip and small ring suspension, no ribbon, nearly extremely fine £300-350
Hammer Price: £480
Brunswick Waterloo 1815 (Heinr. Mueller. Hus. Rgt.) fitted with original steel clip and small ring suspension, modern ribbon, nearly very fine £300-350
Hammer Price: £600
Hannover Waterloo 1815 (Trompeter Joh. Duvenbostel, Hus. Rgt. Herzog. v. Cumberlnad (sic)) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine £700-800
Hannover Waterloo 1815 (Cornet Friedrich Noebling, Hus. Rgt. Prinz Regent) fitted with contemporary silver clip and bar suspension, nearly very fine £800-1000
Hammer Price: £700
Hannover Waterloo 1815 (Lieutenant August Hampe, Landw. Bataillon Hameln) fitted with contemporary silver post and straight bar suspension, edge bruise, otherwise nearly very fine £800-1000
Hammer Price: £800
Hannover Waterloo 1815 (Trainknecht Heinr. Lampe, Landw. Bataillon Hameln) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £500-600
Hannover Waterloo 1815 (Soldat Christoph Jahnecke, Landw. Bt. Lüneburg) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, no ribbon, nearly extremely fine £600-800
Hammer Price: £550
Hannover Waterloo 1815 (Soldat Chr: Warnhbold Landwehr Bataillon Peine) fitted with later silver loop and ring suspension, no ribbon, name possibly re-impressed, edge bruising, therefore good fine £300-400
Hammer Price: £240
Hannover, Waterloo Jubilee Medal 1865, silver, small ring for suspension, no ribbon, very fine £40-50
Hammer Price: £60
Nassau Waterloo 1815, silver, unnamed as issued, nearly very fine £180-220
Hammer Price: £320
Hammer Price: £340
Netherlands Silver Campaign Cross 1813-15, silver, with stamp mark, modern ribbon, nearly very fine £200-250
Hammer Price: £400
Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg War Commemorative Medal 1814-15, reduction for Officers, bronze-gilt, 31mm, no ribbon, good very fine and scarce £300-400
Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg War Commemorative Medal 1814-15, for other ranks, green-washed bronze with gilded centres, legend and ornamentation, modern ribbon, very fine £250-300
42nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot, an historic bandsman’s dirk c1815, semi-relic state, the plain 28 cm blade in quite good condition and with fighting point the remains of the shaped baluster handle carved and with pin decoration, the knop missing, the iron scabbard with only traces of the leather covering bears three decorated brass chapes, at the top ‘42’ over thistle sprays enclosing St Andrew, the middle and lower ones with thistle sprays, the reverse of the middle one finely...
16th or the Queen’s Light Dragoons, an Officer’s 16 Bore Flintlock Pistol by Prosser, Charing Cross with Inscription to Cornet William Beckwith, the tapering sighted russet barrel with signed stepped bolted lock (upper portion of the cock missing), figured walnut full stock, the butt carved with a bold pattern of pineapple chequering, engraved steel trigger guard, steel stirrup ramrod. The stock mounted with brass plaques engraved ‘Cornet W. M. Beckwith 16th Lt Dragoons, Waterloo...
Hammer Price: £2,400
A Cased Pair of 40-Bore Percussion Belt Pistols Belonging to General Sir Charles Napier the Conqueror of Sind. The Pistols by Durs Egg, London, Both Early 19th Century, the pistols converted from flintlock, with rebrowned twist octagonal barrels each signed in gold on the top flat, gold fore-sights, scroll engraved case-hardened breeches each incorporating a back-sight, case-hardened tangs each engraved with a martial trophy, signed engraved case-hardened detented locks each with sliding...
Hammer Price: £8,000
5th Battalion, 60th (Royal American) Regiment Other Ranks Cross Belt Plate, 1797 - 1816, a good excavated oval cast brass example, die stamped with a strung bugle horn enclosing ‘LX’, around the top edge ‘Rifle-Men’ and around the lower edge ‘5th Battn’, complete with single hook and double stud fasteners, very good condition for age £700-900
Hammer Price: £1,700
French Cuirassier’s Waist Belt Clasp stated to have been found at the Battle of Waterloo, a very fine example in cast (originally gilded) brass featuring two roundels with Medusa heads and central fastening of double headed snake format, overall length 16 cms, maximum height 5.7 cms, now mounted on beize within a wooden frame, very good condition £150-250
Relic ‘Brown Bess’ Bayonet With Attached Brass Plaque Engraved ‘Found at the Battle of Waterloo’, rusted overall and now reduced to an overall length of 39 cms £100-150
Hammer Price: £420
Historically Important Despatch Case of Napoleon Bonaparte Captured in 1812, this case was reputedly captured by Captain Crowder of the 7th Royal Fusiliers whilst in transit from Napoleon in Russia to Martial Soult in Spain. Of polished, thick brown leather with a brass plate attached to the flap engraved ‘Depeches De Sa Majeste Napoleon Empereur Et Roi’. The flap is secured by four leather straps. When opened it reveals a stitched identification number ‘37 D’ and an inner flap...
Hammer Price: £7,000
A 1796 Pattern Infantry Officer’s Sword, the fine quality straight 82 cm blade retaining approximately 85% of its blue and gilt decoration this incorporates crowned GR cypher, the Royal Arms, an infantry officer and scrolling foliage. Copper gilt regulation hilt and folding side guard, the urn shaped facetted pommel and quillon chased with acanthus, wooden grip bound with silver wire. The hilt mounts retaining almost all original fire gilding and complete with original red and gold...
Hammer Price: £1,600
Historic Hair Bracelet That Belonged to Frances Lady Shelley, a most rare plaited hair and unmarked gold bracelet, the plaited hair being from the tail of Copenhagen, the Duke’s charger at Waterloo, the oval locket finial is embellished with ‘W’ within laurel sprays and contains a lock of the Duke’s hair. Complete with a card box the lid of which bears Lady Shelley’s handwriting as follows, ‘1815 The Hair of Copenhagen Paris 1815, the Duke’s charger at Waterloo which I rode at...
£4,000–£6,000
Knee Garter Belonging to His Late Royal Highness the Duke of York, the gold lace and blue velvet knee garter complete with distinctive gold coloured metal buckle and retaining elements of hand written details pasted to the inside velvet lining. These were transcribed at a near contemporary date onto a card and probably in the same hand ‘This Garter (which is a part of the Costume of The Knight of the Garter) did belong to His Late Royal Highness, the Duke of York. HRH presented it after...
£3,000–£4,000
Napoleonic Era French Shako Plates comprising three die stamped brass examples, one to the 82nd Regiment of the Line, one with a plain cartouche, the third of diamond pattern showing the crowned eagle on thunderbolts; good overall condition (3) £200-300
Hammer Price: £1,000
Marshal Gebhard Blucher, Prince of Wahlstatt (1742-1819) Autograph Letter, the letter is dated Namur 16th June 1815, 2 pages, 4to, bifolium (light browning, upper right corner cut from integral blank, traces of guards), good condition £1000-2000
Hammer Price: £450
Wellington, Arthur, 1st Duke of (1769 - 1852) Autograph Letter Signed with Initial (’W’), to Lady Caroline (Lamb), Paris, 25 December 1815, 5 1/2 pages, 8vo; leaf removed from second bifolium, endorsed by Lady Caroline ‘from the Duke of Wellington / after the Battle of Waterloo’, very good condition £1,000-1,500
Hammer Price: £900
An Immediate Copy of a Letter from Captain Charles Lake 3rd Foot Guards Dated Bruxcells June 19th 1815, and a Cast Brass Eagle Valise Badge From the Field of Waterloo, Lake writes to his father giving details of his own injuries and a brief resume of the battle, he asks ‘Dearest James’ to get a frank and forward it to his father, he also asks to be remembered to Mr. Witts. This copy was folded and an outside panel inscribed ‘Mr. Witts copy of a letter received from Bruxcelles today’....
Hammer Price: £650
Historic Desk Seal Owned by The Duke of Wellington and a Geranium Leaf From Napoleon’s Tomb at St. Helena, the seal 5 cms in height is in carved mother of pearl in the form of a four legged winged creature supporting a decorated oval, the oval inlaid with a small gold cartouche displaying a Duke’s coronet over ‘W’. The seal matrix in gilt brass and engraved with a simple design of concentric circles. Contained in a small box with handwritten label ‘This Seal once belonged and was...
An Unusual Travelling Writing Case Taking the Form of a Small Leather Bound Book evidently a memorial piece to the Prussian General Blucher, the brass catch engraved with the name ‘Blucher’, the exterior embossed with military figures depicted in old age presumably intended to portray General Blucher, the figures being surrounded by military trophies including French eagles and cavalry helmets, the interior of the case fitted with various pockets for pens, a writing pad, envelopes, and...
£300–£500
Historic Memorabilia of The First Duke of Wellington comprising a pair of white silken hose embroidered with a coronet over W, a conical shape woollen night cap embroidered with a coronet over W over 6, a razor case for two cut-throat razors but now containing only one, the ivory hafts impressed with ‘W’ over ‘1’, a wooden pencil and a small section of scarlet ribbon, together with a letter dated 1913 from a Mr. George Penfold of Pevensey beginning ‘Dear Madam’ and referring to...
£800–£1,200
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