The Collection of British Orders, Decorations and Medals formed by the late Fred Rockwood

Baronet’s Badge, of the United Kingdom, gold and enamel, hallmarks for London 1929, the reverse officially engraved ‘Stern of Chertsey, 1922’, good very fine £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of British Orders, Decorations and Medals formed by the late Fred Rockwood.

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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward Stern, Bt. (1854-1933), a scion of the merchant banking family. Onetime a member of the Berkshire Imperial Yeomanry, he became High Sheriff for Surrey in 1904, the same year in which he was knighted, and also served as President of the League of Mercy. He lived in splendour at 4 Carlton House Terrace in London and at Fan Court, Surrey, and ‘was the last prominent City man to go daily to the office in a horse drawn carriage’ (his Times obituary refers). Having been created a Baronet in 1922, Sir Edward died in April 1933, leaving most of his estate to London University - his pictures and other collections were gifted to the National Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum.