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Penryn Volunteers Medal 1794, struck bronze medal, Obv. trophy of arms, above, ‘Penryn Volunteers’, in exergue, ‘First inrolled April 3, 1794’; Rev. inverted, displaying the Dunstanville arms, above, Pro Rege et Populo’, in exergue, ‘Lord de Dunstanville Colonel’, mounted within a later glazed gold frame, 30mm. dia., with ring suspension, good very fine £80-100
Hammer Price: £100
Renfrewshire Volunteers, an engraved bronze medal, 37mm. in diameter, Obv. within a struck floral border, a finely engraved portrait bust of Queen Victoria left; Rev. within a similar border, ‘Palmam qui Meruit Ferat’ (2nd Battn. Renfrewshire Volunteers), with loop suspension, good very fine £50-70
Hammer Price: £55
Royal Bristol Volunteers 1814, a struck silver medal, 53 x 37mm., Obv. the arms and crest of Bristol, ‘Royal Bristol Volunteers’ ‘In Danger Ready’; Rev. a 15 line inscription, ‘Imbodied for the maintenance of public order & protection of their fellow citizens on the threat of invasion by France MDCCXCVII. Revived at the renewal of hostilities MDCCCIII. Disbanded when the deliverance of Europe was accomplished by the perseverance and magnanimity of Great Britain and her allies...
Hammer Price: £120
Hammer Price: £70
Royal Edinburgh Volunteers 1804, a struck oval silver-gilt medal by Hancock, 43 x 42mm., Obv. a standing rifleman firing right, ‘Best Shot at Ball Practice’, in exergue, ‘Given by the society for the defence of the country’; Rev. a crowned garter with motto, engraved within, ‘Alexr. Lawson 1st Battn. 2d Regt. R.E.V. 23 March 1804’, fixed ring suspension, minor edge bruising, good very fine £200-260
Hammer Price: £480
Royal Glamorgan Militia, Reward of Merit, engraved silver medal, 41mm. in diameter, hallmarks for London 1827, Obv. crown above a strung bugle, inscribed, Royal Glamorgan Militia’, Rev. inscribed, ‘The Reward of Merit 1827 Presented by Col. The Marquis of Bute’, ring suspension, nearly very fine £180-220
£180–£220
New Mills Boer War Tribute Medal, silver, with gold central shield, hallmarks for Birmingham 1900, the reverse engraved, ‘Presented to Pte. J. Leadbetter on his return from South Africa by the public of New Mills, June 28/02’, very fine and extremely rare £600-800
Hammer Price: £1,800
Perth Tribute Medal 1900-01, 33 x 24mm., 33 mm x 24 mm, badge of the Black Watch in gold, glazed both sides and set within a 9ct. gold band surmounted by the Imperial crown and ring suspension, reverse of the badge engraved, ‘South Africa 1900-1 Corpl. J. Ferguson 8968’, extremely fine £1500-2000
Hammer Price: £1,500
Peking Siege Commemoration Medal 1900, bronze, 57mm, impressed on the edge ‘Jeanne Isabelle Piry. (14 ans)’, contained in its J. Taylor Foot, Medallist, fitted case of issue, the lid embossed in gold letters ‘Peking Siege 1900 J. I. Piry’, small edge bruise, otherwise extremely fine and rare £1500-2000
Hammer Price: £2,200
Marine Society Reward of Merit Medal, 43mm., silver, reverse inscribed to, ‘James Henry Smith, 2nd Novr. 1905’, with silver brooch bar; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (2) £70-90
Hammer Price: £85
Sir Alfred Butt’s Invitation to V.Cs Badge, obv. Victoria Cross set upon a lyre, with theatrical masks of ‘comedy’ and ‘tragedy’ below, and the inscription, ‘Sir Alfred Butt’s Invitation to V.C’s.’; rev. inscription (name, rank and number engraved), ‘This Badge is issued for the Personal Use of 510051 Sgt. C. W. Train, V.C. 2 London Scottish Reg. subject to the conditions signed by him’, 34 x 31mm., silver-gilt, hallmarks for Birmingham 1918, good very fine £600-800
£600–£800
St. John Hospital Southport Medallion, obverse: Cross of the Order, reverse with inscription (name engraved), ‘St. John Hospital Southport, The Grange and The Woodlands, Presented to Emmie Walker for Services during The Great War 1914-1919’, 51mm., bronze, nearly extremely fine £100-140
£100–£140
A group of medals and badges awarded to Catherine J. Hudson, British Red Cross Society Voluntary Medical Service Medal, 2 clasps (Catherine J. Hudson); Beech House Auxiliary Military Hospital Medal, for ‘Services Rendered’, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Catharine (sic) Hudson’, with brooch bar; B.R.C.S. War Commemorative Medal 1914-18, unnamed, with brooch bar; B.R.C.S. Proficiency Cross (2), in Red Cross Nursing, enamelled, reverse inscribed, ‘5953 Catherine Hudson’; another,...
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (John Kay); with framed Memorial Scroll named to ‘Pte. John Kay, 9th Arg. & Suth. Highrs.’, frame damaged, plaque nearly extremely fine £50-60
Hammer Price: £75
Memorial Plaque (William Smallwood) good very fine £ 50-60
Sudan Defence Force, Distinguished Service Medal, unnamed; General Service Medal 1933, unnamed; Native Officers’ Decoration, inscribed in Arabic script; L.S. & G.C. Medal, bronze, naming erased, mounted for wear, some contact marks, very fine (4) £900-1200
£900–£1,200
A Sudan Defence Force D.S.M. group of three awarded to Second Lieutenant Mohammed Talaat Fareed, Eastern Arab Corps Sudan Defence Force, General Service 1933, unnamed; Sudan, Order of Long and Distinguished Service, unnamed; Sudan Defence Force, Distinguished Service Medal, inscribed in Arabic script, mounted in that order as worn, slight contact marks, good very fine (3) £650-750
Hammer Price: £580
Five: attributed to Private Khalid Mohamed Abdurahman, Eastern Arab Corps Sudan Defence Force, General Service Medal 1933; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed, mounted as worn, fragmentary ribbons (Defence detached), very fine (5) £200-240
Hammer Price: £260
Five: attributed to the Sudan Defence Force Sudan Defence Force, General Service 1933, unnamed, suspension post bent; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medal, all unnamed, loosely mounted, contact marks, first with edge bruising, nearly very fine and better (5) £ 120-160
Hammer Price: £160
Sudan Defence Force, General Service Medal 1933, unnamed, slight edge bruise, good very fine £180-200
Hammer Price: £150
Sudan Police and Prison Service Medal for Gallantry 1948, unnamed, mounted as worn, extremely fine £180-220
Sudan Police and Prison Service Medal for Meritorious Service 1948, inscribed in Arabic script, mounted as worn, suspension claw a little slack, good very fine £ 140-180
Sudan Police and Prison Service Medal for Meritorious Service 1948, with Second Award Bar, unnamed, nearly extremely fine £260-300
Hammer Price: £300
Pathfinder’s Badge, hallmarked 9ct. gold, 5.93g., converted for use as a sweetheart brooch, very fine £ 70-90
Hammer Price: £80
The uniform and artefacts: (i) The recipient’s R.A.F. tunic, trousers and side cap, as kept at his mother’s house for when he went home on leave; when he was reported missing his mother was so distressed that a Doctor had to be called, and she was put to bed with this uniform to comfort her. (ii) His leather flying gloves, as worn on the Dams raid, together with a leather flying helmet and flying goggles, as given to his younger brother, Freddie, the former with ink...
Hammer Price: £7,000
Victoria Cross, copy, suspension bar inscribed, ‘Sergeant J. McGuire, 1st Bengal Eurasian Fusiliers’, the centre, ‘14th Sept. 1857’, nearly very fine £100-150
The Most Noble Order of the Garter, modern copy tinsel star; The Most Ancient and Noble Order of the Thistle, uniface bronze-gilt sash badge with green wash, copy; Culloden Medal, gilt cast copy; Army Gold Cross, for Pyrenees, Vittoria, Badajoz, Albuhera, uniface lead copy; Masonic medals (2) - Duke of Connaught Medal 1717-1917; Peace Medal 1919; Shipwrecked Mariners Society Medal (2) 31mm., white metal; Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs Shooting Award, 36mm., bronze, pierced with ring...
Naval Small Gold Medal 1794-1815, a gilt base metal copy, 33 mm., the reverse inscribed, ‘Thomas Masterman Hardy, Esquire, Captain of H.M.S. Victory, on 21 October MDCCCV, the combined Fleets of France and Spain defeated’, with slip gilt-bar on riband, good very fine £60-80
Copy medals (5) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with brooch bar, in damaged D.S.O. case; Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R. copy, in case; Gulf Medal 1991, 1 clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991; King’s Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom, cast, in case; Royal Observer Corps Medal, E.II.R., cast; together with a quantity of metal and cloth uniform insignia and mounting bars, sold as found (lot) £100-150
Defective medals (7): British North Borneo Company Medal 1897-1916, 1 clasp, Rundum, silver, a Spink copy with ‘copy’ erased; Ashanti 1900, 1 clasp, Kumassi (1145 Pte. Babutunde Offa) renamed; Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906, naming erased; General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Kurdistan, Iraq (2055 Rfmn. Dalbahadur Gurung) renamed; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (302676 Sergt. J. Coffey, R.A.F.) renamed; Royal Navy ‘Meritorious Service Medal’, G.V.R., reverse erased and...
Defective medals (6): Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, Wittebergen (.... Corl ...... Scot Rifles) erased naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (........... Scot Rifles) erased naming; British War and Victory Medals (........ Sco. Rif.) erased naming; Victory Medal 1914-19 (3 ...... H.L.I.) erased naming, General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (....... Cameronians) erased...
Mounting Bars (24) of varying length; riband bars (28), pin-backed on varying length; buckram bars (12) various, sold as found (lot) £50-70
Battle of Trafalgar, Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund Certificate, awarded to ‘Mr William Bray, Seaman, His Majesty’s Ship Mars’, voting him ‘the Sum of Ten Pounds, in consideration of the Wound you received in contributing to the signal Victory...’, etching and engraving by E. Scriven after Robert Kerr Porter, dated ‘December 3d, 1805’, completed in manuscript and signed by the Mayor James Shaw, engraved surface 345 x 245mm, in later card mount, margins trimmed, otherwise in excellent...
Hammer Price: £1,100
A group of Commission documents relating to Colonel G. F. Moore, 10th and 83rd Foot, later Staff Officer of Pensioners at Glasgow (5), appointment as Captain in the 83rd Regiment, dated 1 May 1852; letter of promotion by Brevet to the rank of Major, dated 26 October 1858; appointment as Major in the Army, dated 8 June 1862; appointment as Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, dated 9 January 1870; and appointment as Colonel, Land Forces, dated 18 October 1877, this last in its War Office...
An original commission warrant appertaining to Lieutenant-Colonel G. R. Crosfield, C.B.E., D.S.O., T.D., Royal Welch Fusiliers, South Lancashire Regiment, Imperial Yeomanry and Suffolk Regiment, the warrant in the name of ‘G. R. Crosfield, Esq.’ and appointing him a Captain (temporary rank) in the Land Forces and Imperial Yeomanry, dated 17 April 1900, in good condition £60-70
An interesting lot of documents and photographs relating to Vice-Admiral John Knowles Im Thurn, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., R.N., who commanded H.M.S. Hood on the World Cruise 1923-24 (a) a purpose-made booklet containing his annual certificates from 1897 to 1918: these reported on his conduct and professional ability and were signed by his captain; (b) examination results for the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, January 1901; (c) letters from the Admiralty (5) notifying Im Thurn of the...
Hammer Price: £200
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: £440
An original Buckingham Palace memorial scroll in respect of Flying Officer W. K. Burr Thomas, Royal Air Force, a pilot of No. 106 Squadron who was killed on a “Gardening” operation to St. Nazaire in February 1941; together with two related photographs, one of a group of R.A.F. officers, with 14 original signatures, including that of Burr Thomas, the other of him with ‘Pauline’, as captioned on the reverse, tears to top of the memorial scroll, otherwise generally in good condition...
The original grant of the squadron badge for ‘No. XCV Squadron’, hand-illuminated badge and motto, as painted by an artist of the College of Arms, dated July 1943, and signed by the Chester Herald and Inspector of Royal Air Force Badges, J. Heaton-Armstrong, and H.M. King George VI, in excellent condition £100-150 £200-260
‘Nelson’ related: The London Chronicle, 18-20 July 1805; another, 27-30 July 1805; 3-6 August 1805; another, 6-8 August 1805; 8-10 August 1805; another, 17-20 August 1805; another, 29-31 August 1805; another, 31 August-3 September 1805; another, 7-10 September 1805; 5-7 November 1805 - report on the battle of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson; another, 7-9 November; another, 9-12 November 1805; another, 12-14 November 1805; another, 14-16 November 1805; another, 16-19 November 1805;...
Hammer Price: £110
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