Montpelier Street, London I 24-25 March 2021 London I 24-25 March Montpelier Street, Medals, Banknotes and Coins Banknotes Medals, Medals, Banknotes and Coins I Montpelier Street, London I 24-25 March 2021 26019 Medals, Banknotes and Coins Montpelier Street, London Wednesday 24 March 2021 at 10.30am Lots 1 - 423 Thursday 25 March 2021 at 10.30am Lots 424 - 736 BONHAMS ENQUIRIES BIDS Please see back of catalogue Montpelier Street John Millensted - Bid online/APP for important notice to bidders Knightsbridge + 44 (0) 20 7393 3914 Register to bid online by visiting London SW7 1HH [email protected] www.bonhams.com/26019 To submit a claim for refund of bonhams.com VAT, HMRC require lots to be Bid through the exported from the UK within strict deadlines. 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As of 1 January +44 (0) 1666 502 200 (Telephone to ascertain amount 2021, for EU buyers shipping +44 (0) 1666 505 107 fax due) by: cash, credit or debit card purchased Lots outside the UK, this [email protected] tax will be refunded by Bonhams Payment at time of collection by: on valid proof of export of your Lot SHIPPING Cash, credit or debit card from the UK within 30 days of full For information and estimates payment of your invoice. on domestic and international shipping as well as export licenses please contact Alban Shipping on +44 (0) 1582 493 099 [email protected] Contents Lots Single Campaign Medals 1-131 Single Orders, Single Decorations, Long Service and Miniature Medals 132-165 Cap Badges and Military Insignia, Militaria and Miscellaneous 166-233 World Medals 234-282 Groups with Orders and Decorations 283-293 Campaign Groups and Pairs 294-423 English Banknotes 424-446 Banknotes from the Channel Islands, Ireland and Scotland 447-458 Banknotes from Rhodesia and Zimbabwe 459-479 A Collection of Specimen Banknotes 480-555 Ancient Coins 556-563 English Coins 564-618 The Property of a Gentleman: A Collection of Enamelled Coins 619-677 World Coins 678-728 Commemorative Medallions and Miscellaneous 729-736 2 3 4 SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 1 3 DAVISON’S TRAFALGAR MEDAL 1805, NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL 1793-1840, pewter issue without copper rim. Generally fine but better in places. one bar, Syria (Edwd Butcher.). With contact marks and edge (1) bruising, almost very fine. (1) £500 - 700 £400 - 600 €580 - 810 €470 - 700 US$710 - 990 US$570 - 850 2 Confirmed on roll as a Corporal serving aboard H.M.S. Powerful with NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, the Royal Marines. one bar, Algiers (James Barker.). Some light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine. (1) 4 MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, £1,000 - 1,400 three bars, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Toulouse (Job Mitchell, 40th Foot.). A €1,200 - 1,600 couple of light contact marks, otherwise good very fine. (1) US$1,400 - 2,000 £800 - 1,200 Confirmed on the roll as serving as a Private with the Royal Marines €930 - 1,400 aboard H.M.S.Impregnable. US$1,100 - 1,700 Ex Sotheby’s May 1908 and Ex London Medal Company. Confirmed on the roll, also entitled to a Waterloo medal serving with Captain R.P.Stewart’s Company. For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 4 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 5 6 7 5 7 WATERLOO 1815, ARMY OF INDIA 1803-26, with a steel clip and small ring suspension (Serj. James Giddings. short hyphen reverse, one bar, Bhurtpoor (J.Sayer, 14th Foot.). A 15th or King’s Reg.Hussars.). Small edge bruise at 6 o’clock, with couple of very light edge bruises and with some contact marks, some contact marks, otherwise very fine. (1) otherwise very fine. (1) £1,500 - 2,000 £900 - 1,200 €1,700 - 2,300 €1,000 - 1,400 US$2,100 - 2,800 US$1,300 - 1,700 Sold with typed research showing his appearance in the 15th Confirmed on roll. Hussars Muster Rolls from 1808-1817 (WO12/1201). Noted as being sick in Brussels 24th June 1815, then being sent to General Hospital 8 at Yarmouth then to Depot at Brighton Barracks. CHINA 1842, Ex Armoury of St.James’s. 1988. (Willm McChaff H.M.S. Wellesley.). Evidence of brooch mounting to obverse and with a refitted suspension. (1) 6 £200 - 300 WATERLOO 1815, €230 - 350 fitted with steel clip and a replacement straight bar suspension (Lieut. US$280 - 420 Robert Kerr, Royal Waggon Train.). Some contact marks, otherwise very fine. (1) 9 CHINA 1842, £1,800 - 2,200 (James Stewart. 26th Regiment Foot.). With scratch behind head on €2,100 - 2,600 obverse, otherwise very fine. (1) US$2,500 - 3,100 Confirmed on the roll. £400 - 600 €470 - 700 Lieutenant 60th Rifles 28th Nov 1816. Half Pay 1817. US$570 - 850 For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. MEDALS, BANKNOTES AND COINS | 5 10 15 SUTLEJ 1845-46, INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-95, Ferozeshuhur reverse, one bar, Sobraon (John Withers 29th Regt). one bar, Persia, impressed (C.V.D’Arcy, Midn Falkland, Sloop).