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Documents. A selection of miscellaneous documents, including Commission Document appointing Frank Manning Macdonald a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, dated 28 June 1916; Bestowal Certificates for the 1937 Coronation Medal (2), named to ‘Lieutenant (O.E.O. 3rd Class) William Joseph Norris’ and ‘T. M. Roberts Esq.’; a Certificate of Disembodiment on Demobilisation named to Private J. Bowman, Royal Highlanders, and dated 17 January 1919; a Victorian annotated...
Hammer Price: £110
A particularly attractive contemporary watercolour by artist Irwin Bevan of Great War Motor Launches at speed, titled to reverse in pencil ‘Zeebrugge, 23 April 1918’, signed Irwin Bevan to lower-left corner, mounted in period oak frame behind glass, approx. 58cm x 31cm, small historical crack to frame, otherwise in good condition £120-£160
Hammer Price: £220
Miscellaneous Clasps and Bars A 5th. Aug. - 22nd. Nov. 1914 clasp to the 1914 Star; an Efficiency Medal Second Award Bar; a Colonial Auxiliary Force Officer’s Decoration top riband bar; a suspension bar for the Military Cross; a gilt top riband bar; a 4-medal miniature riband buckle, silver-gilt, by A. Kent & Sons; and six foreign rosettes, one full size and five miniature size, very good condition (lot) £80-£100
Hammer Price: £85
Riband bar attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel William John Woodcroft Sorby, Gurkha Rifles Riband bar, pin-backed, bearing the ribbons: 1914-15 Star; War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-18; Coronation 1911; ‘Blue ribbon’; 1939-45 Star; ‘Khaki ribbon’, with M.I.D. oak leaf, good condition (lot) £30-£40
Hammer Price: £15
Riband: Complete or virtually complete rolls of riband for the Distinguished Service Cross; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (Flying); George Medal; King’s Police Medal, for Gallantry; Colonial Police Medal, for Gallantry; Imperial Service Medal; Jubilee 1977; Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 1994; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C.; Ulster Defence Regiment L.S. & G.C.; Efficiency Decoration T. & A.V.R. (3 rolls); Efficiency Medal T. & A.V.R. (2 rolls); Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941); Air...
Hammer Price: £140
A Selection of Silver Riband Buckles. Three Victorian silver riband buckles, all two-pronged of standard width and all complete with reverse pins; together with four top silver decorative riband bars, these all without reverse pins, generally good condition (7) £80-£100
Hammer Price: £300
Cases: 10 fitted cases, by, amongst others, Royal Mint; Spink & Son, London; Mappin & Webb, London; A & N.C.S. Ltd., Westminster; Toye, Kenning & Spencer, London; and IG. Mint, Calcutta, generally good condition (10) £60-£80
Hammer Price: £65
Broken Medals: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E., Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1917, cross only - the crown suspension broken and no longer present; Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1914, suspension broken and no longer present; Military Medal, G.V.R., planchet only, and naming erased; Royal Victorian Medal, E.VII.R., silver, unnamed as issued, crown present but suspension broken and no longer present;...
Hammer Price: £550
Erased Medal: George Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, naming erased, nearly extremely fine £200-£240
Hammer Price: £750
Defective Medal: Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 copy clasp, 1 June 1794, lacking retaining rod and clasp therefore loose on riband (John Webb.) traces of having been held in a circular mount, with the edge plugged at 6 o’clock, good fine £200-£240
Hammer Price: £440
Erased Medal: Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria, naming erased; together with St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silvered-bronze, plugged and fitted with a straight bar suspension, this last good fine; the NGS good very fine (2) £240-£280
Defective Medal: Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Busaco, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Toulouse (... st. Foot) naming details virtually all erased, fitter with a brooch pin to the reverse of clasp carriage, edge bruising, nearly very fine £200-£240
Hammer Price: £400
Renamed Medal: Waterloo 1815 (William Newburn. Volunteer 28th Regt.) re-engraved naming, fitted with a cotemporary silver loop and medium ring suspension, edge bruising, polished, nearly very fine, the reverse better £300-£400
Renamed and Defective Medals (3): Baltic 1854-55 (M. Ballard Carp Mate H.M.S. Rinaldo) later engraved naming in plain capitals; South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (1188 Pte. J. Stewart 88th Foot) re-engraved naming; Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (1643 Private Jas: Clarke 2/60 Foot) this a poor-quality cast copy; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (J. H. Baker, C.P.O. H.M.S. Vernon.) naming officially re-impressed, generally nearly very fine (4) £200-£240
Hammer Price: £950
Erased Medals (7): India General Service 1854-95, 1 copy clasp, Pegu; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (2); Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp; India General Service 1895-1902, no clasp, V.R.; China 1900, no clasp; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, naming erased on all; some edge bruising, generally very fine (7) £160-£200
Defective and Renamed Medals (3): India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Sikkim 1888 (No. 47066. Bombr. William Harris. No. 3. Mountain Battery R.A.) renamed; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89 (2), dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (31642. Gr. J. Morgan N/2 Bde. R.A.) renamed; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (46846. Dr W. R. Brownring. R.H.A.) renamed; the IGS nearly very fine; the Egypt medals both fair (3) £60-£80
Erased Medals (3): Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, South Africa 1902, Cape Colony, all erased; together with the planchet only of a New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (741 Pte. ... 68/Foot.) name erased; contact marks, the QS and QSA both polished and worn, therefore good fine, the others better (4) £100-£140
Hammer Price: £240
Renamed and Defective Medals: Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, Cape Colony, unofficial rivets between fourth and fifth clasps (9154 ... W. C. S. Khan, ...) rank and unit erased; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (9154 ... W. C. S. Khan, ...) rank and unit erased; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902, clasp block loose...
Hammer Price: £190
Damaged and Defective Medals (4): Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension, naming erased, and suspension re-affixed; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (2443 Cr. Sergt. A. Bullous, 2-14th. Foot) heavy traces of brooch mounting to reverse, with copy suspension; Delhi Durbar 1911 (9228. L/C. R. Brown. E. Coy. 1st. Durham L.I.) this a poor-quality cast copy, with privately engraved naming; Jubilee 2012, Caribbean Realms, unnamed as issued,...
Hammer Price: £75
An unattributed C.B., C.S.I., C.M.G. group of twelve miniature dress medals The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s badge, gold and enamel; The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, C.S.I., Companion’s badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with a central onyx cameo of a youthful Queen Victoria, with integral silver-gilt riband bar, gilding somewhat rubbed; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s badge, gold ands enamel;...
A group of nine miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. Rose, Wellington Battalion, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, late Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, who served as a soldier for nearly 40 years Military Cross, G.V.R.; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 modern clasp, The Nile 1884-85; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882; France,...
Hammer Price: £170
Miniature Medals: South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879, mounted for wear; British War and Victory Medals, this pair mounted as worn; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army; Netherlands, Kingdom, Order of Orange-Nassau, with lapel bow, in van Wielik, The Hague, card box, generally good very fine and better (6) £80-£100
Hammer Price: £70
Pair: G. J. A. Cordwell, Australian Forces Australian Defence Medal (122867 G J A Cordwell); Anniversary of National Service Medal 1951-72 (122867 G J A Cordwell) mounted court-style as worn, extremely fine Four: J. D. E. Niles, Australian Prison Service Australian Defence Medal (169091 J. D. E. Niles); National Medal, with Second Award Bar (Joseph Darryl Niles); Queensland Police Long and Meritorious Service Medal, 2 clasps, 1978, 1988 (Joseph Darryl Niles); Queensland Corrective Serve...
Hammer Price: £280
Canada, Police Exemplary Service Medal (K. C. Britton); Corrections Exemplary Service Medal, with Second Award Clasp (G. Desormiers) in case and card box of issue; Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal (C. L. V. Roy) extremely fine (3) £120-£160
Hammer Price: £150
Denmark, Kingdom, Red Cross Medal for Relief Work 1939-45, silver and enamel, in Michelsen, Copenhagen, card box of issue, good very fine £80-£100
Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Third Class neck badge, by Lattes, Cairo, 88mm including crown suspension x 63mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, maker’s name to reverse, with neck riband, gilding slightly rubbed, good very fine £160-£200
Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Fourth Class breast badge, 73mm including crown suspension x 52mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, unmarked, in Lattes, Cairo, embossed case of issue, good very fine £140-£180
Hammer Price: £200
France, Second Empire, Saint Helena Medal, bronze; Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, the reverse dated 1914-18; Combatant’s Cross; 1914-18 Commemorative War Medal, very fine and better (4) £60-£80
A French Great War Medaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre pair awarded to Gunner and Driver M. B. J. Turpin, 84th Regiment of Heavy Artillery, for his gallantry during the bombardment of 17 June 1916 France, Third Republic, Medaille Militaire, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel with trophy of arms suspension; Croix de Guerre, reverse dated 1914-1916, bronze, with bronze star on riband, mounted on the recipient’s Citation, and all housed in an old glazed display frame, some damage to the...
£80–£100
The group of eight mounted medals attributed to Major-General N. A. Aferi, Ghanian Forces, late Royal West Africa Frontier Force Ghana, Republic, Every Ready Medal, silver; Ghana United Nations Medal, with Congo bar; Ghana Independece Medal 1960; Long and Efficient Service Star; Great Britain, Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953; U.N. Medal, 1 clasp, Congo, all unnamed as issued, mounted court-style as worn, good very fine (8) £200-£240
Saudi Arabia, Kingdom, Order of King Abdul Aziz, Commander’s neck badge, 91mm including suspension x 56mm, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, green enamel damage to central medallion, very fine £240-£280
£240–£280
South Africa, Republic, Woltemade Decoration for Bravery, silver, an unnamed specimen, nearly extremely fine £200-£240
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Order of the Red Star, 2nd type breast badge, silver and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘3668509’, with Monetny Dvor mint mark and screw-back suspension; Order of the Badge of Honour, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘556286’, with Monetny Dvor mint mark and riband suspension; Order of the Patriotic War, Second Class breast badge, 3rd 1985 type, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, the reverse officially...
Hammer Price: £320
The United States Bronze Star attributed to Major W. F. Murley, United States Army United States of America, Bronze Star, unnamed as issued, with riband bar, in case of issue, good very fine The United States Bronze Star attributed to Private First Class Herbert C. Jones, United States Army United States of America, Bronze Star, unnamed as issued, good very fine (2) £60-£80
Hammer Price: £120
Five: Flight Sergeant A. F. Nyowani, Zimbabwe Air Force Zimbabwe, Independence Medal 1980 (420313); Air Force Long and Exemplary Service Medal (70858 FS Nyowani A F.); Ten Year Service Medal (70858 Sgt Nyowani A. F.); Medal in Defence of Zimbabwe Economic Life Line - Mozambique 1984-85 (70858 Nyowani A. F.); Zimbabwe Democratic Republic of Congo Campaign Medal 1998-2002 (70858 Sgt Nyowani A. F.) mounted as worn, good very fine, the last two scarce (5) £300-£400
£300–£400
Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Books pertaining to Wing Commander J. G. Calvert, D.F.C., 640 Squadron, Royal Air Force, a Halifax pilot who completed a tour of 33 night and daylight sorties against some of the most heavily-defended enemy targets in the Ruhr valley; post-War, he subsequently flew another 163 sorties during the Berlin Airlift 1948-49 Five Log Books, the first a Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Log Book covering the period from 5 September 1942 to 7 June 1948, well...
Hammer Price: £850
Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Books pertaining to Flight Sergeant H. J. Sishton, 12 Squadron, Royal Air Force, who was shot down and taken Prisoner of War during a raid on Stuttgart on the night of 15-16 March 1944. Two Log Books, the first covering the period 29 December 1942 to 15 March 1944, well annotated with details of all operational sorties undertaken; the second the recipient’s post-War Flying Log Book covering the period 12 October 1947 to 25 April...
Hammer Price: £260
Blues and Royals Officers 1871 Pattern Helmet and Breast Plates. A post-1953 example, the silvered skull complete with gilt metal overlays, the frontal Plate crowned rococo pattern silver beaded cut star with pierced Garter motto in gilt metal ground of blue and red enamel, with St George’s Cross, regulation pattern rose side ornaments and velvet lined chin chain. Standard pattern plume base and holder with red horse hair plume complete large rose finial and quilted lining; together with...
Hammer Price: £1,700
West Yorkshire Regiment 1st Volunteer Battalion Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet 1881-1902. A fine example, the skull complete with silvered mounts, the frontal plate of crowned with laurel and Garter overlays, to the centre white horse with ‘Nec Aspera Terrent’ on red velvet ground, below title ‘The West Yorkshire Regiment’, with drop scroll ‘1st Volunteer Battalion’, complete with velvet backed chin chain, inner leather sweatband with crimson silk lining, very good condition ...
Hammer Price: £600
Suffolk Regiment Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet 1902-12. A good example, the skull complete with gilt mounts, the frontal plate of crowned with laurel and Garter overlays, to the Castle and key with ‘Gibraltar’ and ‘Montis Insignia Calpe’ on black velvet ground, below title ‘The Suffolk Regiment’, complete with velvet backed chin chain, inner leather sweatband with crimson silk lining, good condition £300-£400
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