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Arms, Armour and Militaria (28 November 2007)

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Lot 1

Royal Navy, a very fine and rare selection c1810-1900, including patterns for Captains and Commanders c1812-30, Pursers, Navigation, Surgeons at Sea, Hospital Staff for the same period; Engineer Branch 1841-56, Half-Pay (unmounted pattern); Mufti (mounted); Warrant Officers and Midshipmen; Royal Naval Reserve (first pattern, no anchor); RNAV; Greenwich Seaman’s Hospital; Training Ships etc., (no early Flag Rank), very good condition (93) £800...

Sold for £2,200

Lot 2

Royal Navy Fighting For Queen Donna Maria II of Portugal, two very fine and historically important officer’s buttons, worn by Royal Naval officers who made up the Royalist fleet which won the decisive battle of Cape St. Vincent in July 1833. The buttons (one large, one small) are convex, closed back, with the mark “Jennens & Co. London”, the finely raised design shows a central Portuguese crown over script “DM” over “II” ,this on a...

Sold for £170

Lot 3

Coastguards & Customs, a fine and rare selection including Georgian period examples to both services. The Customs section continues with examples from WIVR to GVR; rare Colonial examples include Calcutta Customs, East Africa Protectorates Customs, Rangoon Customs, HM Customs & Salt Sind, Bombay Coast Guard, Signal Station Customs (India), Lighthouse Customs (India), Port Commissioners Calcutta; together with a wide variety of patterns for Trinit...

Sold for £780

Lot 4

Shipping, a very large and fine collection c1850-1914; large gilts include MOSS Co (beam engine centre), Niagara Navigation Co.,Tedcastle Line, La Platense Bank Line, BLSS Co Ld.,Vapores Correos Del Marques de Campo, NYK, Societe Cockerill ,Bullard King & Co., BSN Co., RES Co., WASN Co., Antrim Iron Ore Co Ld., The Plymouth Belle Co., British & Burmese Navig. Co., WASN Co. (Swan centre), DP & LC SGT LL & WCSS Co., Dundee Clipper Line, LCC & A Ltd...

Sold for £820

Lot 5

Shipping Foreign Naval & Colonial Postal, two cards of interesting examples; large gilt shipping include Donaldson Line, Straits Steam Ship Co. Ltd,. MSSC, Royal Steam Packet Company (QVC arms), Thomson Line, Aberdeen Line, Tyser Line, Coryphene, Lonsdale (both with anchor centres); Aberdeen Harbour Commissioners, Belfast Harbour, Medway Conservancy, Mersey Pilot Boat Service, Liverpool SHS (anchor centre), Sailors Home (anchor centre), Marine Bo...

Sold for £350

Lot 6

Foreign Naval & Military, a very fine and rare selection including fifteen very rare, small examples gilt and silver plate to various Spanish and Portuguese corps fighting with the British Forces in the Peninsula War; together with a large variety of European, South American and North American examples c1830-1900; plus a few USA Fire Department items, very good condition, some uncleaned (157) £400-500

Sold for £400

Lot 7

Shipping, a very fine and rare selection c1850-1900 including the following large gilts - Cunard anchor centre and beam engine centre, White Star Line, Warren Line, Columba Line, King Line, Dominion Line, Glen Line, Hawthorn Line, Ayr SS Co., A.US.N Co., WHS N Co., W&J Co., BSO Co., SD&F Co., TSN Co., A&WIL, TSSC, BB& Co., SS Buccaneer, Alexander & Mair; a silver plate Yeoward Brothers; a gilt and enamel Niagara Navigation Company; plus many oth...

Sold for £460

Lot 8

Colonial, Court and Miscellaneous, an interesting selection including a very large postilion’s button for the Prince of Wales’s Household (1901-14 only); a selection of unidentified Victorian Scottish Court items; gilt and silver plate items to the King’s Theatre; large gilt examples to the Mauritius Municipality (QVC), Municipality of Georgetown Penang (P of Wales’s crest centre), East Africa Protectorate (VRI), Uganda Protectorate (VRI)...

Sold for £400

Lot 9

Charities, Asylums, Schools, a selection of very rare mid to late C19th examples, large and small gilts to St. Margarets Parish Poor Leicester; two large and one small gilts to West Ham Union Workhouse; a large gilt Hampstead Asylum; a large silver plate Suffolk County Asylum Melton; small gilt North Wales Asylum (with attached pattern card dated 1895); a small gilt Salop And Montgomery Counties Asylum and similar Cornwall County Lunatic Asylum;...

Sold for £780

Lot 10

Banks, Insurance Companies, Hotels & Commerce, a card of excellent quality items representing some famous British institutions of the C19th including very large gilt issues to the Colchester & Leicester Corporations; similar gilt types bearing the arms of Norwich, Glasgow, Salford, Carlisle, Ipswich, Lincoln and Oswestry, Rochester; similar silver plate examples bearing the arms of Lichfield, Hull and Cork; a rare large gilt for Chorley Improveme...

Sold for £580

Lot 11

Sports & Social Clubs, two cards of very fine and rare examples, the vast majority mid to late C19th (many unidentified) including boating, yacht, archery, golf, curling, cricket, athletic and driving clubs; social clubs include Masonic, Penang Turf Club, the Raleigh Club, Junior Tattersalls, Marlborough, Carlton, Whitehall, Grafton, Arthur’s Club, St. James’s Street, Junior Atheneum, United Empire (KC), The Wanderers, Hull Club, Oxford & Ca...

Unsold

Lot 12

Railways & Transport, an interesting selection including a large brass example for the Cavan Leitrim & Roscommon Railway (dented) 1887-95; a small white metal for the Manx Northern Railway (1879-1904); a large silver plate L.&.N.W.R (dining car), a similar example Midland Railway (dining car); two small white metal North London Railway; a large gilt Caledonian Steam Packet Company; a superb large gilt for the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, a sim...

Sold for £860

Lot 13

Fire Police & Prisons, two cards of very interesting items including a very rare large gilt to an Earl’s private fire brigade (‘N’ below his coronet); a large silver plate issue for the William Eddleston & Co. Works Fire Brigade Sowerby Bridge; a large brass issue for the Southampton Fire Brigade plus various volunteer fire brigades; two superb (large and small) gilt examples for the Constabulary of Ireland (c1840); fine and rare large fla...

Sold for £720

Lot 14

Buttons Worn at Court, two cards containing a large, variable selection of gilt, silver plate gilt and silver mounted examples dating from the reign of WIVR to GVR, including issues to Her and His Majesties Chapels Royal, Royal Academicians, a fine selection of different patterns for Prince Albert’s Household, similar types for Prince Leopold’s Staff, Viceroy of Ireland (QVC & KC), The King’s Band (EVIIR & GVR); a small gilt King’s Waterm...

Sold for £420

Lot 15

Lord Fitzwilliam’s Hunt Wentworth Pack 1919-20, a very fine and rare Subscription Member’s lapel badge, in very fine gilt metal, central date and full title in surround, excellent condition £150-250

Sold for £130

Lot 16

Fox Hunts, a card of very scarce and fine quality examples c1820-1914 large gilts include New Forest, IHH (Old English lettering), TSH (OE), SH (OE), CH (OE), ‘Gone Away/fox/ HC (script), The Wynnstay (mounted foxes), Earl Percy’s, a Marquess’es coronet over a fox’s mask, The Quorn Huntsmen’s pattern (and small), large mounted MIH. Small gilts:- Fox over SH (script), EFH (OE), small gilt mounted Innoshannon Hunt, Fox’s mask over scrip...

Sold for £980

Lot 17

Fox Hunts, a very large selection c1825-1914 totalling 146 items, gilt examples to the Calcutta, Dartmoor Forest, North Staffs, SSH ,West Meath, the Meath, Quorn Huntsmen (carded), Berkeley, Dartmoor, Lord Londesborough, Old Berkeley Leconfield (mounted) Oakley; silver mount on gilt QVC over Garter Proper with ‘RLHC’ in the centre The Vine (mounted); silver plates include, Scroopes (small only carded), Fitzwilliam, ‘KH’ under a baron’s...

Sold for £2,000

Lot 18

Fox Hunts, a very fine and rare selection c1870-1914 nineteen large and thirty small including small gilts to the Earl of Kintore’s, New Forest ,Zetland, Running fox over G-A, Essex & Suffolk, South Dorset, Beaufort, Warwickshire, Dartmoor, Surrey Union, Monmouthshire (silver plate) plus many other scarce and unidentified items, very good condition (49) £300-400

Sold for £520

Lot 19

Fox Hunts, a very fine and rare selection c1830-1914, large gilts include Earl Londesborough’s, ‘Tally -Ho’ over running fox (with back mark Norton Pickett St Temple Bar), HHH (script), GTH (script), North Staffs, DH (Old English lettering), ‘P’ in wreath (OE), Blackmoor Vale, ‘G’ (Garth or Miss Guest’s?) HH (script), Buccleugh & Queensberry, MEH (script) over lightning flashes, BH (OE), Zetland, Quorn (mounted), Caernarvon, plus...

Sold for £820

Lot 20

Other Hunts, a card of very scarce and rare examples for Otter, Stag, Boar, and Hare, including small types to:- a hare over LH, a hare over HPH, a hare over JWH , a hare over OH, a hare over PHC, a hare over RBH, a hare over NF, a hare over TRA (carded to the Clydesdale), a medium gilt to the Edenduff Carrick Harriers, a small bronze to Ale Water Otter Hunt, a small gilt an otter over ‘H’ (script), a small silver plate ‘Hark Forrards’ ov...

Sold for £1,100

Lot 21

Livery, three original pattern book sheets containing 256 large size (25mm) silver plate and gilt examples, all identified though the details are faint in somes cases, a few British peers and foreign nobility, very good uncleaned condition (256) £750-850

Sold for £780

Lot 22

Livery, three original pattern book sheets containing 278 large silver plated and gilt examples and one small silver plate example; including some to the British peerage, foreign nobility and ladies, very good uncleaned condition (279) £850-950

Sold for £780

Lot 23

Livery, three original pattern cards containing 235 large and 19 small silver plated and gilt examples, the vast majority to commoners and many unidentified, very good condition, a few require cleaning (254) £500-600

Sold for £450

Lot 24

Livery, three original pattern cards containing 278 large and 4 small gilt and silver plate examples; including a good selection of British peerage and coats of arms, many identified, very good uncleaned condition (282) £1100-1200

Sold for £1,000

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