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This collection was sold on 24 November 2015.

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Lot 1464, 18 Sep 18

‘Alawi Sharifs, Muhammad III, Dirham, Tetuan 1195h, 2.73g/9h (Eustache 195; A 598; ICV 3045). Good very fine and toned, rare £200-260

Lot 1464, 18 Sep 18

Unsold

Lot 90, 24 Nov 15

Nelson (Horatio, Lord), a fine and passionate autograph letter signed, to Emma Hamilton, dated aboard H.M.S. ‘Victory April 6th 1805’ ‘My Dearest Emma Capt. Conn will give you this line and he will tell you of my present misery at not having yet fallen in with the French fleet, but if I do what happiness it will be to you and to me and we must hope for the best, I am all all yours and only yours I think of you for ever May God bless you...

Lot 90, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £14,000

Lot 91, 24 Nov 15

O’Byrne, William R., A Naval Biographical Dictionary, comprising the life and services of every living officer in Her Majesty’s Navy from the rank of Admiral to that of Lieutenant, 1st edition, John Murray, London, 1849, ix, 1400pp., rebound, blue boards, good condition £80-120

Lot 91, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £95

Lot 92, 24 Nov 15

Long, W. H., Medals of the British Navy and how they were won, Norie & Wilson, Portsmouth, 1895, xiii, 450pp., with coloured plates, rebound, half calf, ribbed spine with gilt title and ornamentation, very good condition £80-120

Lot 92, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £110

Lot 93, 24 Nov 15

Douglas-Morris, Captain Kenneth, Naval Medals 1793-1856, Privately printed, London, 1988, xvi, 542pp.; Naval Medals 1857-1880, Privately printed, London, 1994, xxii, 436pp., both in original blue boards, in slip cases, excellent condition (2) £80-120

Lot 93, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £190

Lot 94, 24 Nov 15

Message, Colin (Compiler), Naval General Service Medals 1793-1840, Alphabetical Roll of Recipients; Douglas-Morris, Kenneth (Compiler), The Naval General Service Medal Roll 1793-1840; Mullen, A. L. T. (Editor), The Military General Service Roll 1793-1814, in slip case; Gould, R. W. & Douglas-Morris, K. J. (Compilers), The Army of India Medal Roll 1799-1826, good condition (4) £70-90

Lot 94, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £130

Lot 95, 24 Nov 15

[Admiralty Office], Navy List, January 1816, 143pp; another, December 1827, 168pp; Haultain, Charles (Compiler), The New Navy List, 1841, 328pp; another, 1843, 330pp; Allen, John (Conductor), The New Navy List 1852, 342pp., some pages loose; [Admiralty], The Navy List 1866, 438pp., all are rebound, generally good condition (6) £100-150

Lot 95, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £180

Lot 96, 24 Nov 15

Warren, C. E. & Lean, Lieut-Col. F., The Royal Navy List, April 1879, 392pp.; Lean, Lieut-Col. F., The Royal Navy List, (3) January 1878, 444pp; another, January 1878, 476pp; another, 1906, 676pp., these four rebound blue cloth, some loose pages; [H.M.SO.], The Navy List (2), January 1957, 1308pp; another, Autumn 1968, 438pp, these two with original paper covers; [J. B. Hayward & Son], The Naval Who’s Who 1917, 344pp, generally good condition (...

Lot 96, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £130

Lot 97, 24 Nov 15

Marshall, John, Royal Navy Biography ..., London 1823-30, 12 Volumes, embossed green cloth, gilt titles, some foxing, some with damage to spines, otherwise good condition and a rare set (12) £200-300

Lot 97, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £600

Lot 98, 24 Nov 15

Gibson, J. Harris, British Military & Naval Medals and Decorations (3), 1880, 140pp; another, 1880, inside cover inscribed, ‘J. Stansfeld 1880’, with annotations and inserts; another, inscribed to ‘Johannes Hericias Willock’, some annotations; Gibson, J. Harris, British War Medals and other Decorations, London, 1866, 86pp., ex-libris John R. Lynch; Harris, Walter H., Collection of Military and Naval Medals and Decorations, 1891, 42pp, cov...

Lot 98, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £550

Lot 99, 24 Nov 15

Vincent, Edgar, Nelson, Love & Fame; Coleman, Terry, Nelson,The Man and the Legend; Sugden, John, Nelson, A Dream of Glory; Hibbert, Christopher, Nelson, A Personal History; White, Colin, Nelson, The Admiral; Morriss, Roger, Nelson, The Life and Letters of a Hero; Hills, Dr A-M. E., Nelson, A Medical Casebook; Callo, Joseph F., Nelson Speaks; Pocock, Tom, The Terror before Trafalgar; Pocock, Tom, Nelson’s Women; Hearn, Miranda, Nelson’s Daugh...

Lot 99, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £30

Lot 100, 24 Nov 15

Clark, John D., The Men of H.M.S.Victory at Trafalgar; Schom, Alan, Trafalgar, Countdown to Battle 1803-1805; Adkins, Roy & Leslie, The War for all the Oceans; Clayton, Tim & Craig, Phil., Trafalgar, the men, the battle, the storm; Maffeo, Steven E., Most Secret and Confidential, Intelligence in the Age of Nelson; Nicholson, Adam, Men of Honour, Trafalgar and the making of the English Hero; Heathcote, T. A., Nelson’s Trafalgar Captains & Their...

Lot 100, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £40

Lot 101, 24 Nov 15

Dorling, H. Taprell, Ribbons and Medals (4) 1919 edition, parts 1 & 2; 1920 War Supplement; another, 1960 edition; another 1974 edition; Gordon, Major L. L., British Battles and Medals, 1947 edition; 1950 edition (2); Joslin, Litherland, Simpkin, British Battles and Medals 1988 edition (2); Hayward, Birch, Bishop, British Battles and Medals, 2006 edition; Mericka, V., Book of Orders & Decorations; Rosignoli, G., Ribbons of Orders, Decorations and...

Lot 101, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £85

Lot 102, 24 Nov 15

Creagh, Sir O’Moore & Humphris, E. M. (Editors), The V.C. and D.S.O., 3 volumes; Ruvigny, Marquis de, The Roll of Honour, Volume II; [J. B. Hayward & Son], Army Honours and Awards; Anon, The Register of the Victoria Cross; Abbott & Tamplin, British Gallantry Awards, 1971 edition; Roe, F. Gordon, The Bronze Cross; Pillinger & Staunton, Victoria Cross Locator; Fevyer & Wilson, The Queen’s South Africa Medal to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines,...

Lot 102, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £85

Lot 103, 24 Nov 15

Glendining’s, ‘Catalogues of Coins and Medals’, bound in seven volumes, in faded red cloth, bearing the dates ‘1902-03-04’; ‘1905-06-07’; ‘1908-09-10’; ‘1911-12-13’; ‘1914-15-16-17-18’; ‘1923-24-25-26’; ‘1927-28-29-30-31’, with printed prices, contents are as found, signs of wear and tear to covers and contents, fair condition (7) £200-300

Lot 103, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £1,600

Lot 104, 24 Nov 15

Glendining’s, Coin and War Medal Catalogues, bound in 24 volumes: ‘W. Harris 1897 & Glendining 1901-1902’; ‘1903’; ‘1904’; ‘1905’ ‘1907’; ‘1908’; ‘1909’; ‘1910-1911’; Gaskell Collection of Medals 1911’; ‘1912-1913’; ‘1914-1915’; ‘1916-1918’; ‘1919-1920’; ‘1921-1925’; ‘1926-1928’; ‘1929-1931’; ‘1931-1932’; ‘1933-1934’; ‘1936-1937’; ‘1938-1939’; ‘1940’; ‘1941-1942...

Lot 104, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £4,800

Lot 105, 24 Nov 15

Debehham, Storr & Sons, War Medal Catalogues, bound in four volumes - ‘1898-9-1900’, black boards; ‘1899-1900’; ‘1901-1908’, blue boards; ‘1905-1906’, green boards; Glendining’s, Coin and War Medal Catalogues 1901, bound in green cloth; Glendining’s War Medal Catalogues, bound in two volumes, of the period 1917-1930, containing the collections of MacDougall, Tombs, Payne, Palmer, Hastings Irwin, Kennard, Philips, Murray, Monta...

Lot 105, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £1,600

Lot 106, 24 Nov 15

Seaby’s, Coin and Medal Bulletin, 34 bound volumes, ‘1944-1945-1946’, then yearly 1947-1979 (1955 duplicated), 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954 and one copy of 1955 bound in red cloth; others loosely bound in ‘Seaby’ card folders; together with loose catalogues (17) for 1980-81, contents are as found, generally good condition (lot) £50-70

Lot 106, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £420

Lot 107, 24 Nov 15

Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society, No.126, May 1964; No. 107, June 1965; No. 109, December 1968-No. 137, December 1973 (31) - green stapled paper issues; Spring 1984-Winter 1991; Spring 1998- June 2015, loose bound in ‘O.M.R.S.’ folders; O.M.R.S., Miscellany of Honours (14), No.1, 1979-No.14, 2001; together with sundry Membership Handbooks, Convention booklets and Indices, contents are as found, generally good condition (lot)...

Lot 107, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £65

Lot 108, 24 Nov 15

Trafalgar Chronicle, Year Book of the 1805 Club (18), 1991; 1996; 1998-2014; booklets (4) -Nelson and Tenerife 1797; Touch and Take; The Miller Papers; The Battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801; Nelson Dispatch, Journal of the Nelson Society, January 1991-Winter 2015, held in eight ‘Nelson Dispatch’ loose bound folders; with sundry indices; booklet: Nelson and Bath, by Louis Hodgkin, contents are as found, generally good condition (lot) £60-80

Lot 108, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £90

Lot 109, 24 Nov 15

Dix Noonan Webb, medal auction catalogues, June 1991-July 2015 (includes ‘Buckland Dix & Wood’ and ‘Dix & Webb’), many with prices realised, contents are as found, generally in good condition (lot) £50-100

Lot 109, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £95

Lot 110, 24 Nov 15

Glendining’s, assorted medal auction catalogues, November 1933; July 1934; April 1935; and February 1939-November 2001, contents are as found, generally in fairly good condition (lot) £200-300

Lot 110, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £550

Lot 111, 24 Nov 15

Christies, assorted medal auction catalogues, November 1982-November 1992 (26) (not complete); Trafalgar Bicentenary Auction, 19 October 2005; Spiro Family Collection, Part 1, English Historical Documents and Letters, 3 December 2003; Christies, South Kensington, Maritime and Naval Battles, 9 November 2000; Bonhams, medal auction catalogues (25), September 1994-April 2015, includes: Nelson & The Royal Navy, 5 July 2005 and The Waterloo Sale, 1 Ap...

Lot 111, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £95

Lot 112, 24 Nov 15

Spink, medal auction catalogues, December 1983-July 2015; Spink Medal Supplement 1987; 1989; 1992; Spink, Medal Quarterly, Nos.2-4; Spink Medal Circular, Nos.1-16, contents are as found, generally good condition (lot) £50-100

Lot 112, 24 Nov 15

Sold for £300

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