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18 May 2011
Naval General Service Medal clasp ‘Bomb & Mine Clearance 1945-53’, nearly extremely fine £60-80
£60–£80
Items relating to Sergeant William McNally, V.C., M.M., The Yorkshire Regiment A mounted set of four miniature dress medals attributed to Sergeant W. McNally, V.C. - Victoria Cross; Military Medal, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, mounted for wear; a Great War ‘War Wounded’ lapel badge, pin-backed; British Legion, stick-pin; together with a quantity of papers relating to ‘McNally V.C.’, very fine (lot) £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,900
The mounted group of five miniature dress medals attributed to Admiral Henry Blackett, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20, 7 clasps, Red Sea, North Sea 1914, North Sea 1915, Jutland 31 May 16, North Sea 1916, North Sea 1917, North Sea 1918; Victory Medal 1914-19, M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1911, silver; Russia, Order of St. Vladimir, badge with swords, silver-gilt and enamel, all unnamed, mounted court style as worn, about extremely fine (5) £180-220
Hammer Price: £410
A mounted group of seven miniature dress medals Military Cross, G.VI.R.; British War and Victory Medals; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf, mounted as worn A mounted group of four miniature dress medals India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. 1st issue, mounted as worn A mounted group of three miniature dress medals 1914 Star; British...
Hammer Price: £65
A mounted group of three miniature dress medals attributed to Sergeant J. Whittaker, 1 Parachute Regiment General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Cyprus, Near East; U.N. Medal, UNFICYP ribbon; General Service 1962, 1 clasp, South Arabia, mounted court style, good very fine (3) £20-30
Hammer Price: £60
Presentation Silver Cup, of local Indian manufacture, 95mm. high, 76mm. dia. at lip, with ornate floral design, base inscribed, ‘Presented by Lt. Stevenson, High. Lt. Inf. to R.A. Mess, July 1887, Lucknow’, good condition £80-120
Hammer Price: £300
Silver Cigarette Box, bearing the inscription, ‘Presented to Major J. C. Stevenson, Royal Horse Artillery, by the Commandant and Staff of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, on the occasion of his marriage, 15th March 1957’, 178 x 87 x 44mm., with hallmarks for Birmingham 1956, lid bearing the crest of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, wood interior, very good condition £120-160
Hammer Price: £210
Pewter Tankard, by Mastercraft, Sheffield, 125mm high, 90mm. dia. at lip, , inscribed, ‘To S/Sgt. “Tak” Takavesi D.C.M. from W.Os. & Sgts. H.Q. Sqd. 23 S.A.S. Regt.’, very good condition £300-400
Victoria Cross interest: Distinguished Service Order bestowal document to Captain (Temporary Major) Percy Howard Hansen, V.C., M.C., Lincolnshire Regiment, dated 16 September 1918, in War Office envelope addressed to ‘P. H. Hansen, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., Lincs. Regt., Senior Officer School, Aldershot’; with a copy of the D.S.O. Statutes, document in good condition £200-300
Hammer Price: £320
The original D.S.O. warrant appertaining to Major Roy Farran, the highly decorated S.A.S. officer, in the name of ‘Roy Alexander Farran, Esquire, on whom has been conferred the Decoration of the Military Cross, Captain (Temporary Major) in our Army’, dated 29 March 1945, and signed by the King and the Principal Secretary of State for the War Department, in good condition £300-400
The original D.S.O. warrant appertaining to Acting Wing Commander J. Kosthoryz, Czech Air Force, who served in No. 311 Squadron in addition to Coastal Command, in the name of ‘Jan Kosthoryz, Acting Wing Commander in the Czechoslovak Air Force’, dated 13 April 1945 and signed by the King and Arthur Henderson, in good condition £100-150
Commendation for Brave Conduct Certificate to Sergeant Ryncarz, Polish Army, 15 April 1948, in envelope, good condition £100-150
German Wartime letters (4) from Grenadier Hans Clahsen to his mother Frau Johann Clahsen of 6, Adolf Hitler Strasse, Schermbeck, Rheinland, Germany, the letters dated 12.3.44; 29.3.44; and 29.2.44; addressed from Ludendorff Kaserne (Barracks), Düsseldorf; the letter dated 20 12.44 from Stalag VIF Münster, all with envelopes; together with a letter and a Red Cross card from Hans Clahsen, now as a prisoner-of-war in the ‘English Zone’ at Lens, to his mother at the same address, though...
Hammer Price: £20
Archer, Thomas, The War in Egypt and the Soudan, Blackie & Son, London, 1887, 4 volumes bound in two, illustrated, rebound red half calf, fairly good condition (2) £80-100
Hammer Price: £120
Atkinson, C. T., The Devonshire Regiment 1914-1918, 1st edition, London, 1926, xxv, 742pp., original blue cloth; Anon, Historical Record of the Thirty-Fourth or The Cumberland Regiment of Foot, London, 1844, viii, 100pp., original embossed red boards; Anon, Standing Orders of the 47th (The Lancashire) Regiment of Foot, London, 1876, viii, 59pp.; Johnson, Lieut-Col. R. M., 29th Divisional Artillery War Record and Honours Book 1915-1918, Woolwich 1921, v, 235pp., paper covers,; [H.M.S.O.],...
Creswicke, Louis, South Africa and the Transvaal War, Caxton Publishing, 8 volumes, with many b/w plates, red cloth decorated in gilt, covers faded, worn and damaged; Anon, Deeds that Thrill the Empire, The Standard Art Book Co., 5 volumes, with some coloured and many b/w plates, blue decorated cloth, covers faded, fairly good condition (15) £80-100
Hammer Price: £260
James, Lionel, The Indian Frontier War, being an account of The Mohmund and Tirah Expeditions 1897, Heinemann, London, 1898, 1st edition, xi, 300pp., with b/w plates, original red cloth decorated in gilt, covers a little faded, good condition £40-60
Hammer Price: £70
Mayo, J. H., Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, 2 volumes, London, 1897, lxxxviii, 617pp., plus colour plates, original red cloth with bevelled edges, second volume with gilt ‘Conservative Club’ emblem on front cover; Eaton, Lieut.-Col. H. F., Catalogue of British and Foreign War Medals, Crosses, Badges, Decorations and Miscellaneous Medals, London, 1880, 211pp., faded red boards; Eaton, Colonel Hon. H. F., Naval and Military Medals, London, 1897, 128pp., original red...
Hammer Price: £90
Auction catalogues: The Upfill-Brown Collection, B.D.W., 4 December 1991, hardback with dust cover; The Anglo-Boer War Anniversary 1899-1999, Spink, 20/21 October 1999, hardback; J. Barker Collection, Glendining’s, 5 September 1950; Rev. Hawkes Field Collection, Glendining’s, 3 November 1950; Usher Collection, Glendining’s, 22 July 1975; Sampson Collection of Medals to the Black Watch, Glendining’s, 19 June 1991; Bentley Collection, Sotheby’s, 18 February 1970; Lovell Collection...
Hammer Price: £80
Glendining Medal Auction Catalogues (6) bound in one volume - A. C. Montagu Collection, 18/19 November 1926; Hamilton-Smith, 2nd Portion, 20/21 July 1927; Hamilton-Smith, Third Portion, 21/22 November 1927; Cheylesmore, 16-18 July 1930; Mackenzie, First Portion, 28 June 1934; Mackenzie, Final Portion, 19/20 July 1934, most with b/w plates, bound in green boards; Glendining Medal Auction Catalogue, June 1913, C. A. Watters Collection, 80pp., with b/w plates, bound in green boards; Auction...
Hammer Price: £150
Arabian States, Sultanate of Quaiti, Meritorious Service Medal, obverse: bust of Sultan Salih bin Ghalib, reverse: coat-of-arms of the Sultanate, bronze, with incorrect ribbon, extremely fine, scarce £120-160
Hammer Price: £140
Belgium, Queen Elizabeth Medal, bronze, in case of issue, extremely fine £30-50
Hammer Price: £50
Egypt, Kingdom, Judicial Badge, 118 x 88mm., silver and silver-gilt, pin-backed, good very fine £250-300
Hammer Price: £250
A French pair awarded to Miss Louie Barker France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel damage to reverse centre; Gratitude Medal, 1946 issue, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Miss Louie Barker’, mounted for wear, very fine and better (lot) £140-180
Hammer Price: £100
Italy, Kingdom, Al Valore Militare, bronze, obverse with crowned ‘Z’ and ‘F.G’ below wreath, reverse engraved, ‘Reid William; Casa Matteucci 17-1-1945’, good very fine £350-450
Hammer Price: £580
Netherlands, Red Cross Medal of Merit, silver and enamel, mounted from bow ribbon, extremely fine £60-80
Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, 2nd Class set of insignia, neck badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, slight enamel damage to one arm; Star, 82mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with Arabic stamp mark on reverse, very fine (2) £280-320
Hammer Price: £680
Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidie, 3rd Class neck badge, by Paul Stopin, Palais Royal, 66mm., silver, gold and enamel, short length of ribbon, ‘crescent’ suspension with enamel damage, very fine £200-250
Russia, Order of St. Anne, badge with swords, 39 x 39mm., silver-gilt and enamel, non-Russian manufacture, unmarked, good very fine £300-400
Hammer Price: £520
Russia, Order of St. Anne, 2nd Class case, with internal pad, some wear and tear, fairly good condition £100-140
Hammer Price: £350
Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd Class breast badge with swords, by Eduard, St. Petersburg, 40 x 40mm., gold and enamel, ‘56’ gold mark on eyelet, kokoshnik marks on sword hilts and faint manufacturer’s name on reverse, mounted Russian style with bow ribbon, loss of enamel to obverse wreath, good very fine £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,100
Russia, St. George Medal for Bravery, Nicholas II, 3rd Class, silver, reverse officially inscribed, ‘No.22197’, edge inscribed, 11124 Pte. A. J. West, 1/Midlx. R.) edge bruising and contact marks, good fine £200-300
Russia, Medal of Zeal, silver, contemporary engraved naming, ‘No. 25 P.O. R. H. Ash, British Armoured Cars, Russia, 1915’, n.r., very fine £200-250
Serbia, War Commemorative Medal 1914-18; Medal for the Retreat from Albania 1915; Poland, Concentration Camp Survivor’s Cross, enamelled; Belgium, War Commemorative Medal 1914-18 (2); France, St. Helena Medal; Dunkirk Medal 1940 (2); Germany, South West Africa Medal, bronze, lacking ring suspension; U.S.S.R., 40th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1985, combatant’s issue; Bahrain, Liberation of Kuwait Medal, bronze; Yemen, War of Liberation Medal, silvered base metal;...
£140–£180
Sierra Leone, General Service Medal 1965, bronze; together with a miniature dress medal, in card box; Malaysia, General Service Medal 1960 (Pingat Khidmat Berbakti), silver, in card box, extremely fine (3) £60-80
Federation of South Arabia, Gallantry Medal, 1st Class, gilt, nearly extremely fine and very rare £600-700
Hammer Price: £720
Pair: J. Higgins, Royal Regiment of Artillery Spain, Kingdom, Order of Maria Isabella Louisa, silver cross, reverse inscribed, ‘RRA J. Higgins’; Cross for the Liberators of Bilbao 1836, silver cross, reverse inscribed, ‘RRA J. Higgins’, this with incorrect ribbon, mounted for display, about very fine (2) £400-450
Hammer Price: £6,800
The Field Officer’s Gold Medal awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. Kelly, 66th Regiment, who was wounded while commanding the 2nd Battalion at Talavera and afterwards lent valuable service in the Kandian War as a Major in the 4th Ceylon Regiment Field Officer’s Gold Medal 1808-14, for Talavera (Captn. Richd. Kelly, 66th Regt.), complete with gold riband buckle, suspension with old repair, extremely fine £8000-10000
Hammer Price: £16,000
A fine Victorian K.C.B. group of seven awarded to General Sir Richard Kelly, 34th Foot, who was wounded and taken P.O.W. in the Crimea and again wounded in the Mutiny, during which conflicts he held senior command and was many times mentioned in despatches The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge, gold and enamels, and breast star, by R. & S. Garrard & Co., London, silver, with gold and enamel applique centre, the...
Hammer Price: £5,800
A fine C.B., Boer War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Brigadier-General R. M. B. F. Kelly, Royal Artillery, who was twice wounded and had two horses shot from under him at Faber’s Put in May 1900 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with swivel-ring suspension and riband buckle; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Samana 1891 (Captain R. M. B. F. Kelly,...
Hammer Price: £5,200
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