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Dix Noonan Webb

16 Bolton St, Piccadilly, London, W1J 8BQ

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Press Coverage


Listed below are a selection of press articles which have featured Dix Noonan Webb. The articles are from a variety of publishers varying from small, local publications through to both UK and foreign national papers.

Date Article Headline & Publisher
4 May 13

Bravery of an Air Ace
Yorkshire Post

28 Feb 13

Bransome Burbridge's World War II medals sold to pay for care
BBC News

13 Dec 12

SAS sale: RSM Bob Lilley's medals sell for £78,000
BBC News

5 Dec 12

How World War II SAS hero single-handedly fought his way out of German base in middle of desert
Daily Mail

5 Dec 12

SAS soldier's daring Second World War escape from German camp
Daily Telegraph

11 Sep 12

Medal collection of master mariner Joseph Stenhouse to go on sale
Metro

31 Aug 12

Zulu Was Hero James Hamer’s Medal Goes on Sale for £15,000
Daily Express

29 Aug 12

SAS Falklands veteran shocked at TV valuation of medals
Wales Online

30 Jun 12

War medals fetch £95,000
ThisIsStaffordshire.co.uk

25 Jun 12

War veteran sells bravery medal he won for eluding Nazis in Italy to help pay grandson's university fees
Daily Mail

16 Jun 12

Medals of the ace who never knew he was beaten
Daily Telegraph

16 Jun 12

Medals of Wartime Flying Legend 'to Fetch £50K'
Daily Express

15 Jun 12

Memories of true heroism: Medals and flying helmet of WWII flying ace who downed 22 Nazi fighters expected to fetch £50,000 at auction
Daily Mail

12 Jun 12

War hero Andrew Radford to sell bravery medals
ThisIsStaffordshire.co.uk

23 May 12

Bidding for pieces of Olympic history
Croydon Guardian

23 Apr 12

Unique Falklands CGM sets record at £95,000
Antiques Trade Gazette

4 Apr 12

Hero’s Gong Record
Daily Star

3 Apr 12

Medal posthumously awarded to Falklands bomb disposal expert for bravery fetches world record of £118,000 at auction
Daily Mail

31 Mar 12

Hero’s medals sell for £24,500
Lancashire Evening Post

30 Mar 12

The forged papers used by Colditz escapee to make 'home run' across Europe and back to Britain sold for more than £60,000
Daily Mail

27 Mar 12

Colditz escape: Tale of first British 'home run' revealed
BBC News

26 Mar 12

Hero Pilot Medals up for £20,000
Daily Express

13 Mar 12

SAS medals to go up for sale
Lancashire Evening Post

7 Mar 12

Revealed: The forged papers used by Colditz escapee to make 'home run' across Europe and back to Britain
Daily Mail

16 Feb 12

Medals of First World War hero and Royal Household legend emerge for sale for first time
Daily Mail

24 Nov 11

Falklands War hero selling top medal
British Forces News (Includes video)

23 Nov 11

Falklands bomb blast hero to sell '£100,000' war medal
Metro

28 Oct 11

Soldier’s historic medals bought by collector
Yorkshire Post

4 Oct 11

Medal collectors charge for items
Thorne and District Gazette

30 Sep 11

Incredibly rare one million pound bank note sold for just £69,000 (but it's not legal tender
Daily Mail

30 Sep 11

Feel like a million-pound note? It's yours for £69,000
The Independent

28 Sep 11

World record £110,000 paid for Falklands medal awarded to canteen manager who manned machine gun on doomed ship
Daily Mail

28 Sep 11

World record £110,000 paid for Falklands medal awarded to canteen manager who manned machine gun on doomed shipeakes-service-medals-sold-record-price.html#ixzz1ZQmtIsDX
Daily Mail

24 Sep 11

Rare NZ war medal fetches $228,000
TVNZ (ONE News)

23 Sep 11

Doncaster man's Victorian war medals make £11,000
BBC News

22 Sep 11

Rare New Zealand Medal set for Overseas Sale
TVNZ (ONE News) (From New Zeland Television. Article starts 25 seconds into video.)

31 Aug 11

Bravery medal of canteen manager who manned machine gun in Falklands War to defend his stricken ship set to sell for thousands
Daily Mail

31 Aug 11

Rare and storied NZ Cross on the block
Stuff.co.nz

30 Aug 11

Interview with DNW’s Director of Client Services, Christopher Hill, regarding the upcoming sale of a New Zealand Cross
Newstalk ZB (MP3 Audio File)

18 Jul 11

Superb Triple Unite to Be Auctioned
NumisMaster.com

9 Jul 11

Merseyside Blitz hero’s George Cross sold for world record amount
Liverpool Echo

7 Jul 11

Record price for Fiji hero's medal
The Fiji Times

6 Jul 11

Irish corporal's George Cross sells for €80,000
Independent.ie

3 Jul 11

George Cross awarded to Irish hero of the Blitz could raise £50,000 at auction
Independent.ie

27 Jun 11

Sniper puts Military Cross up for sale to mark end of ten year career
Metro

13 Jun 11

Heroism’s high price
Yorkshire Post

14 May 11

For Sale ... Medals of Spy Hero Who Tricked The Nazis
Daily Express

4 May 11

Auction for medals of Colditz hero who kept escaping from WWII prison camps
Daily Mail

4 May 11

Up for Sale, Medals of Hero Who Fled in Nude at Colditz
Daily Express

3 Mar 11

Interview with Chris Webb of Dix Noonan Webb
Coin Update

22 Sep 10

Shropshire SAS hero’s medals sell for £72,000
Shropshire Star

16 Sep 10

Gordon Highlander medals to be sold
The Press and Journal

16 Sep 10

Limitless bravery: Medals for an exceptional WWII pilot and SAS Sergeant to auction
PaulFraserCollectibles.com

15 Sep 10

Antique Market Yields Top Rarity
NumisMaster.com

14 Sep 10

Jack the Invincible: SAS medals hero was shot, bayoneted and hit by shrapnel... and still broke out of a PoW camp to carry on fighting
Daily Mail

9 Sep 10

Medals of those who defeated Napoleon go under the hammer
PaulFraserCollectibles.com

7 Sep 10

£50,000 for SAS founder member Jack Byrne's WWII medal group
PaulFraserCollectibles.com

18 Aug 10

The Story of... the Purple Heart medal
PaulFraserCollectibles.com

12 Jul 10

Medals of gunner from WW2’s first major naval battle lead UK auction
PaulFraserCollectibles.com

6 Jul 10

War medals from Afghanistan go under the hammer at Dix Noonan Webb
PaulFraserCollectibles.com

13 Jun 10

Gallantry medal of soldier who saved Winston Churchill to be sold at auction
Telegraph

12 Apr 10

Rare tenner under the hammer
Reading Post

9 Apr 10

Boxer medals punch above their weight
PaulFraserCollectibles.com

8 Apr 10

Rare antique £5 notes to fetch thousands at auction
The Press and Journal

6 Apr 10

'Devil's Own' War Medal charges to £9,000
PaulFraserCollectibles.com

25 Mar 10

WWI Distinguished Service Medal and Bar comes to auction
PaulFraserCollectibles.com

19 Mar 10

Charge of the Light Brigade hero medal goes up for auction
Mirror.co.uk

29 Jan 10

'Generations of collectors have been worthy guardians of these Honours & Awards'
PaulFraserCollectibles.com

1 Dec 09

Soldier sells medal to fund care
BBC News (Includes video)

5 Oct 09

Online bidder wins unique medal group at £88,000
Antiques Trade Gazette

24 Sep 09

Medals of Yorkshire's Antarctic hero fetch double pre-sale auction estimate
Yorkshire Evening Post

18 Sep 09

Royal Marine to sell Conspicuous Gallantry Cross won in Iraq
The Telegraph

11 Jul 09

20p coins worth a mint? Now it's the £700 2p coin
ThisIsMoney.co.uk

2 Jul 09

Yarmouth pilot's medals spark bidding frenzy
The Advertiser 24

1 Dec 08

Daughter's memories of a war hero
Yorkshire Evening Post

27 Nov 08

Medals of wartime air ace who led Venice attack up for sale
The Guardian

10 Nov 08

DNW Sells Blake's Irish Bank Notes
NumisMaster.com

3 Oct 08

Oz museum to house war hero’s medals
Express and Star

26 Sep 08

Soldier sells war medals
BBC News (Includes video)

25 Sep 08

Army hero sells medals
This is London

17 Sep 08

Victorian vicars’ lifeboat medals to be auctioned
Wales Online

9 Sep 08

War diary receives massive interest
South Yorkshire Times

4 Jul 08

£46,000 for war medals
Sheffield Telegraph

26 Jun 08

High price for war hero’s medals
BBC News

10 May 08

Trade in Olympic memorabilia is gathering pace
The Economist

1 Apr 08

War hero's lost medals are found - 90 years after they went AWOL
Daily Mail

30 Mar 08

War hero's George Cross fetches record €63,000
Times of Malta

8 Sep 07

Jump jet war hero is selling off his medals
Peterborough Today

13 Apr 07

One of Britain's greatest WW2 flying aces dies after one last flight with his wife
Daily Mail

8 Mar 07

Soldier's diary recalls horror of the Somme
The Guardian

22 Feb 07

Forgotten diary captures horror of the Somme
Telegraph

25 Sep 06

Brutal memory worth thousands
Watford Observer

8 Dec 05

Fighter ace sells medals to spare wife long wait for hip replacement
Telegraph

16 Jul 05

How you can be an Olympic winner
The Guardian

18 Sep 04

Victoria Cross fetches £172,500 at auction
The Times

27 Nov 03

Suffragette award to militant fighter for rights goes on sale
The Guardian

3 Nov 03

Still trading after a thousand years of finance
Telegraph

19 Sep 03

Scot's sword nets £175k
BBC News

3 Apr 03

£138,000 for medals of Spitfire ace Deere
Telegraph

13 Mar 02

Field of dreams for treasure hunters
BBC News