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Medals, Bonds, Banknotes & Coins Bonhams Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax 20809 Medals, Bonds, Banknotes & Coins, Bonds, Medals, 17 July 2013, 2013, 17 July Knightsbridge, London Knightsbridge, Medals, Bonds, Banknotes & Coins Wednesday 17 July 2013 at 10.30am International Auctioneers and Valuers – bonhams.com Knightsbridge Medals, Bonds, Banknotes & Coins Wednesday 17 July 2013 at 10.30am Knightsbridge, London Bonhams Enquiries Customer Services Montpelier Street John Millensted Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm Knightsbridge + 44 (0) 20 7393 3914 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 London SW7 1HH [email protected] www.bonhams.com Sale number: 20809 Cova Escandon Viewing + 44 (0) 20 7393 3917 Catalogue: £12 Monday 15 July 9am to 4.30pm [email protected] Tuesday 16 July 9am to 4pm Bids +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax To bid via the internet please visit www.bonhams.com Please note that bids should be submitted no later than 24 hours prior to the sale. New bidders must also provide proof of identity when submitting bids. Failure to do this may result in your bids not being processed. Bidding by telephone will only be accepted on a lot with the excess of £400 Live online bidding is available for this sale Please email [email protected] with “Live bidding” in the subject line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Chairman, Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Antony Bennett, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Group Managing Director, Matthew Bradbury, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Veronique Scorer, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Matthew Girling CEO UK and Europe, Andrew Currie, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Michael Wynell-Mayow. Montpelier Street, Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, James Knight, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, Robin Hereford, London SW7 1HH Patrick Meade, Caroline Oliphant, Hugh Watchorn. Asaph Hyman, Charles Lanning, Camilla Lombardi, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Fergus Lyons, Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Peter Rees, Julian Roup, Sale Information Central Middlesex Hospital Park Royal Coronation Road W Bonhams, e d s P t Park Royal a e a rn r o A k R v e R e s A4 o 0 a y Park a h l C Royal Western Ave A40 R o 0 Station a 0 d Acton 0 4 Cemetery North A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V West Acton Horn Lane Station Bids Collection and Storage Payment +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 After Sale +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax All charges must be paid by the [email protected] All sold lots will remain at time of collection. www.bonhams.com Bonhams. Payment in advance Payments Please contact the department for Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 shipping quotes. to ascertain amount due by: cash, +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax cheque with banker’s card, credit card, bank draft or traveller’s Valuations, taxation and cheque. heritage +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 Payment at time of collection +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax by cash, cheque with banker’s [email protected] card, credit card, bank draft or traveller’s cheque. Catalogue subscriptions To obtain other catalogues or take out an annual subscription: Subscriptions Department +44 (0) 1666 502200 +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax [email protected] Contents Wednesday 17 July 2013 at 10.30am Lots Single Campaign Medals 1 - 192 Single Orders, Medals for Distinguished Service, Long Service Medals, 193-265 Miniature Medals Foreign Orders, Decorations & Medals 265A - 269 Groups with Orders, Decorations & Awards for Gallantry & 270 - 285 Distinguished Service Campaign Groups & Pairs 286 - 317 Scripophily 318 - 321 Banknotes 322 - 359 Ancient Coins 360 - 392 English Coins 393 - 590 Channel Islands, Irish and Scottish Coins 591 - 600 World Coins 601 - 662 Historical & Commemorative Medals 663 - 701 1 3 4 5 Single Campaign Medals 1 6 Naval General Service 1793-1840, Military General Service Medal 1793-1814, one bar, Trafalgar (Jos Elliot.). Toned, with a couple of small edge bruises, eight bars, Roleia, Vimiera, Talavera, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse otherwise very fine. (1) (Balfour Kermack, 71st Foot.). With silver riband bar for wear. Housed in £4,000 - 5,000 purpose built case for display. Small edge bruise, good very fine. (1) £1,500 - 2,000 Joseph Elliot is confirmed on the roll as serving as a Private in the Royal Marines aboard Britannia, and is a unique name. Confirmed on roll. Ex Glendining’s 1935. 7 Waterloo 1815, 2 fitted with elaborate silver suspension (Ensign John S.Sedley. Royal Staff Naval General Service 1793-1840, Corps.). Good very fine. (1) one bar , Trafalgar, erased. The bar a copy, very fine. (1) £2,000 - 3,000 £200 - 300 Confirmed on roll. 3 Major John Sumner Sedley, joined the Royal Staff Corps on 6th May 1813. Naval General Service 1793-1840, He became first-class Barrack-Master at Mauritius. He retired in august one bar, Navarino (Henry Ceeney.). With heavy contact marks overall, 1860, on a pension of £145 13s. 9d.. He died on 21st August 1867. otherwise good fine. (1) £700 - 1,000 8 Henry Ceeney served aboard H.M.S. Glasgow as an Armourer. A unique Waterloo 1815, name on the roll. fitted with replacement silver clip and straight bar suspension (Corp. William Emmott. Royal Horse Guards.). Generally good fine to very fine with wear overall particularly to naming of Corp. (1) 4 £2,000 - 3,000 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one bar, Syria (John Hayward.) A couple of light marks, otherwise good Captain William Emmott was born in 1790 and came from a Lancashire very fine. (1) family, he enlisted into the Royal Horse Guards in 1810 and served in £500 - 700 the Peninsula and at the Battle of Waterloo (entitled to MGS with bars Vittoria and Toulouse and Waterloo). He became Quartermaster of the John Hayward served as an Ordinary Seaman aboard H.M.S.Bellerophon. Regiment and eventually retired on half-pay. He was appointed Captain There are a total of four John Haywards on the roll. and Adjutant on the formation of the Worcester Yeomanry by Lord Plymouth in 1831 where he served in this Captaincy until in death on the 5 14th April 1865. He was buried at Tardebigge, the funeral was attended Military General Service 1793-1814, by Lord Lyttleton, the Lord Lieutenant, the Bromsgrove and Redditch four bars, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Toulouse (George Eagleton, Companies of Rifle Volunteers, and 450 of the Worcester Yeomanry Royal Arty). Edge bruising, very fine. (1) Cavalry with the Band, under command of Lord Dudley. £1,000 - 1,500 The lot comes with a photocopy of a portrait of him in uniform on Confirmed on roll. horseback, details of the Emmott family and other related research. Ex Baldwin 1942, Seaby 1948, Spink 1984. There is a memorial to him at St.Bartholomew’s, Tardebigge “To the memory of Captain William Emmott formerly of the Royal Horse Guards who died 14.4.1865. This monument is erected by Harriett Baroness Windsor, in grateful token of the zeal and energy envinced by him in the discharge of his duties as Adjutant of the Queens Own Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry under her brother The Earl of Plymouth and her husband The Hon R.H.Clive”. 4 | Bonhams 6 7 8 9 9 18 years 3 months as a Private soldier plus 2 years for Waterloo. Waterloo 1815, He was the ONLY Thomas Jones from this Regiment to serve at Waterloo. fitted with steel clip and repalcement straight bar suspension (Thomas Of the seven Dragoon Guards Regiments, the 1st (King’s) Dragoon Barron, 6th or Inniskilling. Drag.). A couple of light contact marks, Guards (KDG) was the only one at Waterloo. With 583 all ranks it was otherwise very fine. (1) the strongest British Cavalry Regiment at the battle. Unlike the Life £1,500 - 1,800 Guards and Royal Horse Guards to which they were Brigaded (Household Cavalry Brigade), the KDG had seen on active service in the Peninsula, Served with Captain S.Douglas’s Troop. having been kept at home since 1803. It had a tough fight ahead of it on 18 June, but the inexperience of its officers and men were not evident in their performance, except when they became carried away 10 by initial success and were caught up in the gallop to the French guns, Waterloo 1815, thus becoming vulnerable to the subsequent counter attack. The KDG fitted with replacement clip and ring suspension (Thomas Jones , 1st Reg. suffered the second highest losses of any Anglo-Allied Cavalry Regiment Dragoon Guards.). Some scratching and contact marks, possibly feint at Waterloo, the 8th Belgian Hussars suffering the most. Some 279 all brooch markings to obverse, and edge bruising, otherwise very fine. (1) ranks were listed as casualties 45% of the Regiment. £1,800 - 2,000 They included 7 officers killed and wounded, one of the killed was the Commanding Officer Lt Colonel Fuller and 124 missing, mostly men who Private Thomas Jones 1st (King’s) Dragoon Guards a former Labourer disappeared trying to get back from the Grand Battery.Almost certainly it originally from Stanbury, West Yorkshire. Jones attested in May 1799 was Uxbridge who gave the order for the two Heavy Cavalry Brigades to and served over 18 years plus 2 years for Waterloo.
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