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Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (John Stanley Guy) nearly extremely fine £40-60
£40–£60
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Alexander Scott Hill) the plaque mounted within an ornate base metal cross - this slightly dented, very fine £50-70
Hammer Price: £75
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Raymond Victor Kann) good very fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £95
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Hussey Burgh George Macartney) nearly extremely fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £110
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Ralph Mackintosh) in card envelope, nearly extremely fine £40-60
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Thomas Martin Phillips) very fine £100-150
Hammer Price: £120
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (William White) in card envelope, extremely fine £30-50
Hammer Price: £50
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Anthony Theodore Clephane Wickham) nearly extremely fine £80-100
Hammer Price: £160
Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (3234334 Spr. C. J. Smith) good very fine £50-70
Hammer Price: £150
Ceylon Volunteer Service Medal 1914-19 (G. S. S. Perera) bronze, very fine £70-90
Hammer Price: £130
A Great War returning P.O.W. tribute medal from the City of Newport, in 9ct. gold, Birmingham hallmarks, obverse, Britannia greets a returning prisoner outside the city hall with the dates ‘1914’ and ‘1918’ above and below, reverse, city arms with surround inscription, ‘Prisoner of War / Newport is Proud of You’, 33mm. diam., integral loop and double-ring suspension, very fine £200-250
Hammer Price: £210
An emotive prize medal awarded to Siegfried Sassoon, the renowned war poet and author, by The Beacon School, Sevenoaks, silver, obverse, central date ‘1901’ with school title and wreath around, reverse, ‘S. L. Sassoon, Hockey’, 25mm., good very fine £250-300
Hammer Price: £880
Glasgow Franchise Demonstration Badge 1884, ornate oval, 100 x 50mm., silver base metal, bearing the Arms of Glasgow and the cypher ‘GLA’ (Glasgow Liberal Association) pin-backed, good very fine, scarce and interesting £150-200
£150–£200
For Empire, 1910, a large relief plaque, signed A., half-length facing portrait of Joseph Chamberlain, British lion at right, lighthouse, ships and aeroplanes below, ‘I do not believe in the setting of the British Star’ in banner above, 38.5 x 29cm. Set onto a wooden plinth, 48 x 35cm, and with hook for hanging, decorative £60-80
Hammer Price: £55
Military Cross, G.V.R., old copy, in an original (damaged) case; National Fire Brigades Union L.S. Medal, bronze (3377) unnamed, suspension slack; ‘Patriotic’ Club Medal, obverse: Britannia seated, the Union flag in the background, ‘For Service to Club & Cause’, reverse inscribed, ‘J. P. Dewhurst Esq. 1953’, silver-gilt and enamel neck award, with neck cravat in case of issue; France, ‘Medal of Honour’, reverse embossed and engraved, ‘La Societe Industrielle de l’Est a M....
Hammer Price: £85
Original ‘Battle of Britain’ clasp, extremely fine, scarce £600-800
Hammer Price: £1,700
Clasps (14) ‘N.E. Frontier 1891’; ‘Relief of Mafeking’; ‘Relief of Ladysmith’; ‘Relief of Kimberley’; ‘Wepener’; Belmont’; Paardeberg’; ‘Driefontein’; ‘Johannesburg’; G.S.M. -’Malaya’; ‘Brunei’ (2); ‘Malay Peninsula’; N.G.S. - ‘Near East’; Bars (11) Efficiency Decoration ‘E.II.R.’ (2); Efficiency Medal (9) - one ‘King’s’ and eight ‘Queen’s’ crowns; Top Bar, ‘Territorial’, pin-backed, very fine and better (26) £300-350
Hammer Price: £410
A quantity of original Great War medal ribbon, comprising 1914 Star/1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, about 4 yard length rolls of each, excellent condition (Lot) £40-60
Hammer Price: £720
A poignant series of original documentation and artefacts appertaining to Commander J. W. “Tubby” Linton, V.C., D.S.O., D.S.C., Royal Navy, arguably the most famous British submariner of the War, who sank 100,000 tons of enemy shipping prior to his loss in H.M. Submarine Turbulent in March 1943 Midshipman’s Journal, S. 519 type ‘For Use of Junior Officers Afloat’, with ‘J. W. Linton’ in ink to front cover label, and additionally inscribed frontispiece, ‘Mr. J. W. Linton,...
Hammer Price: £3,300
An important and evocative wartime signature board from the officers’ mess at R.A.F. Tangmere, 56cm. by 45cm., the central illuminated R.A.F. crest and motto encircled by the signatures of approximately 140 airmen (see examples below), the majority applied directly to the board but others on pasted-down sections of paper, old gilt-plastered wooden frame, varnish / nicotine staining overall and with signs of (beer?) spillage, and quite a few signatures now illegible as a consequence of...
Hammer Price: £2,700
Assorted original documentation appertaining to decorated aircrew of the 1939-45 War, comprising: Flight Lieutenant L. R. Cook, D.F.M., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve: five wartime photographs, including two fine studio portraits, his National Health and Pensions Insurance Card, invitations to a dance at R.A.F. Waddington, dated 14 June 1946, and to an Aircrew Association (London Branch) dinner, dated 19 November 1981, and a wartime envelope addressed to him at R.A.F. Bottesford, in...
A quantity of original 1939-45 War documentation of R.A.F. and R.C.A.F. interest, comprising Royal Canadian Air Force Sight Log Books (2), with named front covers to ‘R. Hall’ and ‘W. G. Conley’, the former with entries the period August-September 1944, and the latter for the period September-October 1944, and both with flights in Ansons; together with Royal Air Force Service and Release Books (3), appertaining to Flying Officer P. A. Litchfield, L.A.C. J. Tapner and L.A.C. A. H....
Hammer Price: £40
An original R.A.F. pilot’s flying log book appertaining to Captain J. G. East, D.F.C., Royal Artillery (A.O.P.), who completed in excess of 320 operational sorties in Austers of No. 651 Squadron in Italy 1944-45, comprising standard Form 414-type book, the front cover inscribed, ‘Capt. J. G. East, D.F.C., R.A. (A.O.P.)’ and with ‘II’ to denote his second flying log book, though with a tally of operational hours and sorties from this previous book on opening pages, and covering the...
A first edition print entitled “Spitfire” by Robert Taylor, depicting Douglas Bader and Johnnie Johnson in their Spitfires over the coast, published by Universal Promotions Ltd. (Military & Marine), Bath, England, 1979, 41cm. by 53cm., signed by Bader and Johnson in pencil on titled border, mounted on board, generally in excellent condition £180-220
£180–£220
Bestowal Document of the Distinguished Service Order to Lieutenant George Fletcher MacMunn, Royal Artillery, dated 1 November 1892; together with a ’Buckingham Palace’ letter to ‘Lieutenant-General Sir George MacMunn , K.C.B., K.C.S.I., Sackville Cottage, East Grinstead’, dated 1st December 1932, letter in 263 x 211mm., frame, documents in good condition (2) £80-120
Hammer Price: £250
The original D.S.O. warrant to Captain K. T. Tilden, South Africa Engineers, who was decorated for gallantry in Italy in July 1944, in the name of ‘Kenyon Tildon Gilson, Esquire, Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) in the Military Forces of the Union of South Africa’, dated 8 February 1945, with the King’s signature to top right, in good overall condition £60-80
Passport, issued by The Honorable Sir Patrick Stuart, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Lieutnt. General of Her Majesty’s Forces, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Island of Malta and its Dependencies ..., to ‘I. G. Gaitskell Esq. a British subject going to Sicily, Naples and Marseilles’, dated 13 August 1844 and signed by the Acting Chief Secretary to the Governor, with many stamp marks and endorsements, in leather cover...
Photograph Albums (3) relating to W.W.2 period Malaya - Royal Navy ships, personnel, buildings - a few identified, good condition (3) £20-30
Bronze Statue of a British Infantryman of the Great War in the act of throwing a grenade, height approx. 150mm., on base inscribed, ‘Lest We Forget 1914-1919’, this set upon a 77mm. high, 74mm. diameter green marble plinth, slight chips to marble base, very good condition £150-250
Hammer Price: £320
A Pair of Royal Artillery Cufflinks, gold and enamel, the reverse of each stamped, ‘9ct.’, total weight 10.17g., in fitted Garrard, London red leather case, extremely fine (2) £140-180
Photographic Glass Plate Negatives (15) 125 x 100mm., mostly of Great War period aircraft, one of the R.A.F. School at Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey, some plates damaged; ‘St. Julien Trench Map; Map of the Ghent Region of Belgium; R.A.F./R.F.C. cloth insignia (10); miniature dress Distinguished Flying Cross, all attributed to Captain F. W. Weatherill, R.F.C. and R.A.F.; together with a copied portrait photograph of the officer, generally good condition (lot) £30-50
Hammer Price: £80
Collector’s Cabinet, a mahogany cabinet, max. dimensions, 445 x 362 x 380mm., containing six drawers, internal dimensions of the top five - 348 x 266 x 50mm.; lowest - 348 x 266 x 30mm., all drawers lined with green velvet and with no subdivisions, with twin panelled doors, with damaged lock and key, some minor signs of wear, good condition £150-200
Hammer Price: £310
A superb volume of The Form and Order of the Service that is to be Performed and the Ceremonies that are to be Observed in The Coronation of Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary in the Abbey Church of S. Peter, Westminster on Thursday, the 22nd day of June, 1911, with the Music to be Sung, edited by Sir Frederick Bridge, M.V.O., M.A., Mus. D. Oxon., Organist of Westminster Abbey, and Director of Music at the Coronation, published by Novello and Company, Ltd, 1911, vii, 143pp., Volume...
Hammer Price: £400
Douglas-Morris, Kenneth, Naval Medals 1857-1880, London, 1994, xxii, 536pp., blue boards, in slip case, excellent condition £60-80
Knolly, Lieut-Col., The Victoria Cross, in the Crimea, in New Zealand, Andaman Islands, Abyssinia, Ashantee, Bhootan etc.; in India, Deeds of Daring Library, Dean & Son, 160A Fleet Street, London, vi, 127; 84; and vii, 142pp, plus black and white plates, bound in one volume, full calf, a Stubbington House Prize for Mathematics, 1892, good condition, scarce £60-80
£60–£80
Maton, Michael, Honour the Officers, Honours and Awards to British, Dominion and Colonial Officers during the First World War, Token Publishing, viii, 828pp., with dustcover; Rodger, A., Battle Honours of the British Empire and Commonwealth Land Forces 1662-1991, The Crowood Press, 491pp., with dustcover; Williamson, H. J., The Roll of Honour Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force for the Great War 1914-18, Naval & Military Press reprint, 270pp., with dustcover; Anon, Honours and Awards...
Hammer Price: £65
Mayo, John Horsley, Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, Archibald Constable & Co., 1897, Vol. 1 only, lxxxviii, 278pp., plus colour and b/w plates, rebound red quarter morocco; Gordon, Major L. L., British Battles and Medals, Spink, 1979, 5th edition revised by E. C. Joslin; Everson, G. R., The South Africa 1853 Medal; Farrington, Anthony, Indian General Service Medal 1895 Casualty Roll, softback; Hibbard, M. G. (editor) South Africa Field Force Casualty List 1899-1902; The...
Hammer Price: £30
Perrot, A.M., Collection Historique des Ordres de Chevallerie Civils et Militaires, Paris, 1820, xxix + 294pp, 39 hand-coloured plates. Contemporary half-calf; binding worn and back defective, but contents unusually clean and fresh, ‘Vice Consular Office Calais’ stamp on half title £150-200
Hammer Price: £140
Tancred, George, Historical Record of Medals, Spink, London, 1891, xvi, 483pp., with plates, a.e.g., red half calf, cover scuffed and worn; Irwin, D. Hastings, War Medals and Decorations, 4th Edition enlarged and corrected, 1910, 536pp., plus plates, original covers; Hawkins (Compiler) Franks & Grueber (Editors) Medallic Illustrations of British History, Spink reprint 1978, 2 volumes, xxiii, 724 & 866pp.; Johnson, Stanley C., The Medal Collector, Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1921, 320pp.,...
£50–£70
Trendell, A. J. R., The Colonial Year Book 1892; Mercer, Harding & Gent, The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List 1931; [H.M.S.O.], The Colonial Office List 1960; Hertslet, G. E. P. (Editor) The Foreign Office List (4) 1938; 1944; 1947; 1950; Walford, E., The County Families of The United Kingdom 1873; Kelly’s Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes (3) 1904; 1964; 1969; Debrett’s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (2) 1893; 1906, Who’s Who 1946; some volumes damaged,...
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