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MEDALS & MILITARIA followed by COUNTRY PURSUITS Friday 14th June at 11am On View Thursday 13th 10am - 7pm and from 9am sale day Results available online approximately one hour following the sale Buyer’s Premium charged on all lots at 20% plus VAT Image this page: 92 Chartered Surveyors Glenn Pearl 01284 748 625 Land & Estate Agents Tel: [email protected] Auctioneers & Valuers Email: 150 YEARS est. 1869 www.lsk.co.uk C MEDALS & MILITARIA 6 A George III spadroon, having a 74cm curved fullered blade with brass stirrup hilt and ivory grip, housed in a brass Important Notice regarding mounted leather scabbard, 88cm. Third Reich items £100-150 Please note that owing to the large number of 7 reproduction Third Reich and Imperial German A 19th century percussion pistol, having items on the market, we can give no guarantee an 18cm octagonal barrel with engraved as to the authenticity of any such items. lock, hammer and trigger guard, with Prospective purchasers must satisfy themselves chequered walnut butt and steel butt plate, 32cm. in this regard before bidding. We WILL NOT £100-150 accept any returns on these items. 8 1 Lot 2 A WW I Princess Mary Christmas gift tin. A George V Military Cross Widow’s brooch in £20-40 white metal on yellow metal (tests as approx. 14 carat or higher) suspended from a white and 9 Lot 7 purple enamel “ribbon” bar, dated verso A WW II leather clad single drawer telescope by 12.10.16., contained in original Wilson & Gill, 139 Ottway & Co Ltd Ealing London, dated 1944 and Regent Street, London box. numbered 6212, Patt 373B, length 56cm. £50-80 £50-80 4 2 10 A British 1903 pattern bayonet, the 30.5cm A 1796 pattern Light Cavalry sabre, the 71cm A George V Military Cross group of three to curved blade etched with stands of arms and double edged blade stamped to the ricasso with a crowned ER cypher 1903 with ED for Enfield include M.C., unnamed and in original leather foliage, having a steel stirrup hilt with wire bound case, 1914-15 Star, naming 13234 L.CPL. W.G. fish skin grip and steel back strap, housed in a to the opposing side, having a two piece grip stamped to the pommel 6. MX 453, together BUTTERISS. LEIC.R. and Military Medal, 13234. steel scabbard with suspension rings, 83cm. PTE. W.G. BUTTERISS. 8 / LEIC;R. (3) £200-300 with an associated steel mounted leather sheath with webbing belt and frog. £40-60 To be sold with a photocopy of M.C. citation 3 which states “On March 23rd, this Officer led A George V swagger/walking stick, the leather 5 his platoon as my advanced guard commander wrapped ebony shaft with a silver terminal with energy and decision. When my less A WW II R.C.A.F. Flying Log Book, naming LAC embossed with 6th Battalion London Regiment experienced troops were temporarily thrown E.F. Smart, together with Defence and War crest and C-scroll decoration with inscription into confusion on their first experience of medals and a large collection of related service “Presented to the officers of the City of London Artillery and Machine Gun fire, he continued to documents, ephemera and photographs etc. Rifles by Captain M.L. Buller. M.C. (60th Rifles) £280-320 advance his platoon and forced the enemy to 1927.” maker Frank Narborough, Birmingham, quit their position. He then returned to me and 1927, in a silk lined leather sleeve, 96cm. by his own example and leadership gave me the £100-150 greatest help in restoring the situation until it was possible to continue our advance. During the trying conditions of the next week, he and his men were an example to all the troops under my command and in the actions of March 31-April 2nd, the steady defence put up on the advanced flank post for which Lieut. Butteriss was responsible prevented the enemy piercing our exposed flank.” £600-800 Lot 1 Lot 10 All lots plus buyers premium of 24% including VAT 2 LACY SCOTT & KNIGHT 11 A brass and copper bugle with applied U.S. crest. 26 £20-40 An early 20th century Indian hardwood table 12 cigarette box, the hinged lid carved with the crest of the Royal Engineers Bombay Sappers and A Japanese shin gunto katana, having a 70cm Miners. curved blade with unmarked brass habaki, £20-40 pierced iron tsuba and wrapped tsuka with menuki, housed in a leather covered wooden 27 saya, 95cm. £400-600 A WW II German group of three medals to include War Merit cross 2nd class with swords, 13 Eastern Front and West Wall each with envelopes and certificates naming Ernst Huster. A deactivated WW I German stick grenade, (3) 36cm. £120-150 £120-150 28 14 A 19th century copper powder flask of plain A British 1907 pattern bayonet, the 42cm single undecorated form, having a brass graduated edged fullered blade stamped to the ricasso with Lot 21 charger 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 drams, stamped J. Dixon & a broad arrow XOA below, having a two piece Sons, Sheffield, 16cm, together with one other grip, housed in a steel mounted scabbard, 55cm. £30-50 20 copper powder flask with embossed leaf and shell decoration, 19cm. (2) A WW II A.R.P. Home first aid case, with original £20-40 15 contents. £15-25 An Omega military issue nickel cased open face 29 pocket watch, having an enamel dial with Roman A WW I Casualty group to include bronze numerals and subsidiary seconds dial signed 21 memorial plaque, naming Patrick Callaghan, 1914- Omega Swiss made, the movement further A Geo. VI. Regular Army Long Service and Good 15 Star, British War and Victory, 10761 PTE. P. signed and numbered 4400967, the case back Conduct medal, naming 1425285 SJT. W.A. CALLAGHAN R. DUB. FUS., together with a with broad arrow and I below, case diameter SAYER. R.A. £30-50 portrait photograph and badge. (6) 46mm. Private Patrick Callaghan 1Bn Royal Irish £100-150 Fusiliers was killed in action 06/05/15 the 22 second day of the Gallipoli Landings at the age 16 A Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Grand of 25 and is remembered with honour at V An early 20th century leather covered riding Council silver gilt and enamelled Masonic jewel Beach Cemetery. crop, having a brass terminal engraved with inscribed verso “ Presented to Bro. N. Reardon £400-450 pyramids and stamped B.D. Cairo, 76cm. 24th June 1955”, together with four other £30-50 silver/silver gilt and enamelled jewels. (5) £30-50 17 An early 20th century photograph album the 23 contents being mainly Waziristan campaign A WW II Free French Forces enamelled lapel examples showing various camps, marches and badge, together with seven other French manoeuvres, together with one other similar Resistance badges. (8) example. (2) £80-120 £40-60 24 18 A brown leather Sam A German M1935 pattern steel helmet in Browne belt with brass camouflage finish, having a leather liner and chin fittings. strap, stamped to the interior ET58. £20-30 £300-400 25 19 A German Deutsches Kreis An Indo-Persian Kulah Khud helmet, the bowl of of four rivet construction, melon shape with plume holders and sliding nose stamped 1 to the pin, in a guard, with further chainmail neck guard, leather case. (copy) mounted on a later stand. £50-80 £100-150 Lot 29 All lots plus buyers premium of 24% including VAT LACY SCOTT & KNIGHT 3 30 37 Peter Endsleigh Castle, (1918-2008), Lancaster A German soldiers Wehrpak, naming Wilhelm B.1, watercolour, signed lower left, 24 x 18cm, Zeitler and dated 1940, in leather case, together together with a typed note of “suggested with various other related documents and captions”. ephemera to include Arbeitsbuch etc. This image was eventually titled “Between £70-90 Missions” - Avro Lancaster B.1. Winter 1942. and was produced for the Christmas 1990 38 Special Flown Cover F.D.C. several examples of A Geo. V. 1897 pattern Royal Army Ordnance which appear in an album of covers included in Corps Officer’s sword, the 83cm single edged this lot. blade etched with a crowned GRV cypher and £50-80 foliage, having a typical pierced steel hilt with further cypher, chequered backstrap and wire 31 bound fish skin grip, housed in a leather covered A collection of 12 Continental medals to include scabbard, 102cm. German Cross of Honour with swords, Belgian £100-150 Leopold II Commemorative and Bavarian Military Merit Cross etc. (12) 39 £180-220 A WW I Casualty trio to include 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory, naming 21329 PTE. E.A. 32 STEER. HAMPS.R. (3) An Omega military issue nickel cased open face Private Ernest Albert Steer 2nd Bn Hampshire pocket watch, having an enamel dial with Arabic Regiment was killed in action aged 22 01/07/16, numerals and subsidiary seconds dial, the case Lot 34 France and Flanders and is remembered with back stamped G.S.T.P. Y04902. honour Auchonvillers Military Cemetery. £50-80 £300-350 34 33 An India General Service medal (1854-95) with 40 A German Luftwaffe 1st pattern dagger, the Jowaki 1877-8 clasp, naming 2081 PTE. WILLM Spain, Alfonso XII, Academia Internacional De 30.5cm double edged blade marked F.W. Hoster ELLIS. 4 BN RIFLE BDE. Ciencias Industriales, gilt bronze medal by P. Solingen, having a downturned cross guard with £100-150 Tasset, naming G. Hawker, 69mm. central swastika, wire bound blue leather grip and £40-60 swastika pommel, housed in a blue leather clad 35 sheath with plated mounts and chain, 45.5cm.