Webb's Gibson Collection

THE GIBSON COLLECTION

26 March 2014

LOT 50

FRONT COVER: LOT 1

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THE GIBSON COLLECTION OF ORDERS, DECORATIONS & MEDALS SALE 9005 WEDNESDAY 9 APRIL 2014, 6:30PM

Viewing Thur 3 April

9: 00am - 5:30pm

Fri 4 April

9: 00am - 5:30pm

Sat 5 April

11: 00am - 3:00pm

Sun 6 April

11: 00am - 3:00pm

Mon 7 April

9: 00am - 5:30pm

Tue 8 April

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Wed 9 April

9: 00am - 12 noon

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THE GIBSON COLLECTION OF ORDERS DECORATIONS AND MEDALS

From the collection of John A L Gibson, QC (1936–2009)

Wednesday 9 April, 6.30pm CONTACT BEN ASHLEY bashley@webbs.co.nz / 09 524 6804 6

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Gallipoli DSO in an important group of 10 to Colonel Bertram Sibbald Finn, CBE, DSO, ED, NZ Medical Corps & NZ Dental Corps. Estimate $15,000-$25,000.

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Webb’s, in association with Mowbray Collectables, is pleased to present a distinguished collection of orders, decorations and medals formed by John A L Gibson, QC (1936–2009).

This will be one of the finest collections ever offered on the New Zealand market and presents a unique opportunity for museums and enthusiasts.

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John Gibson, QC, died on 19 July 2009 in Wellington. Over 40 years, he had formed one of the finest collections of British Orders, Decorations and Medals found in New Zealand which focused on special interests in New Zealand, naval history, the fall of Singapore, the Black Watch and allied regiments, the Royal Household, and bravery and life-saving awards. In the early 2000s, he sold a large portion of this collection in London but retained the items relating to New Zealand. For more than 40 years, he was a member of The Orders and Medals Research Society (UK) and established friendships with leading dealers, collectors and researchers in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and elsewhere. In addition, he formed outstanding collections of commemorative medallions, military badges, helmet plates and plaid brooches, model soldiers and ships, which have been sold already.

Zealand before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941. His father, an officer in the Johore Volunteer Engineers of the Federated States of Malaya Volunteer Forces, returned to Singapore and, after the fall of Singapore in February 1942, became a prisoner of war in Changi and, later, in Siam working on the infamous Burma Railway. He survived and, after a short period back in New Zealand, returned to work for the Colonial Office. He retired to New Zealand in 1952 and worked for the Lands and Survey Department; he died in Hamilton in 1973.

John and I, friends for more than 40 years, enjoyed shared interests and I often undertook research for him.

PHILLIP O’SHEA, CNZM, CVO New Zealand Herald of Arms Extraordinary

His collecting was influenced by his early years; John was born in what was then Malaya where his father worked as a surveyor for the British Colonial Office.

John and his parents returned to New

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CATALOGUE ABBREVIATIONS & NOTES MEDAL CONDITION ABBREVIATIONS CONDITION Unless stated all items are generally good to very fine or better. Items in groups may show the usual contact wear. Many items have been cleaned and lacquered with a diluted clear or colourless nail varnish.

Unless stated all items are with appropriate ribbons and believed to be originals. w/c = with clasp.

SPECIMEN MEDALS Authorised collectors for a number of years were able to purchase specimens of medals from New Zealand Army/NZDF, initially these were unnamed; later with names removed or over-stamped with xxxxx, and incorrectly named medals without or with the word “specimen” added.

Every effort has been made to identify these items. Nonetheless all are original medals.

REFERENCES: Barton: ‘Australians in the Waikato War, 1863-1864’ by Leonard L Barton. Sydney : Library of Australian History, 1979.

BBM: ‘British Battles and Medals’, by E C Joslin, A R Litherland, and B T Simpkin. 6th ed., London : Spink & Son Ltd., 1988.

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Douglas-Morris: ‘The Naval Long Service Medals 1830-1990’ by Kenneth DouglasMorris. London : privately printed, 1991.

Douglas-Morris (NM): ‘Naval Medals 1857-1880’ by Kenneth Douglas Morris.

London : privately printed, 1994.

Longley: ‘The New Zealand Wars 18451866: Medal rolls ...Colonial units’ by H G Longley. Auckland : [1972].

Longley (RN & RM): ‘The New Zealand Wars 1845-1866: Medal rolls ...Royal Navy and Royal Marines etc.’, by [H G Longley].

Auckland : H.G. Longley, 1967.

Seedie: ‘Seedie’s Roll of Naval Honours & Awards 1939-59’, compiled by Captain W Chatterton Dickson, RN, Ripley Registers, Wilts., England 1989.

Stagg: ‘The Long Service Medals awarded in the New Zealand Army 1887-1957’ by Captain G T Stagg. Wellington : [1958].

(Originally published in the ‘New Zealand Numismatic Journal’, vol. 9, nos. 4 & 5, 1958.)

Stowers: ‘The New Zealand Medal to Colonials ... New Zealand Wars 1845-72’

by Richard Stowers, 4th ed. Hamilton : Stowers, 2001.

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Information on the book lots appears in the following sequence: lot number, author, title, edition, publisher, date, size, pagination, illustrations, bibliographic citation, description (binding, condition etc) and estimate.

BOOK CONDITION ABBREVIATIONS F Fine A mint or close to mint copy.

VG Very good An exceptionally good copy, which may not look new or which may have a minor fault.

G Good A good complete copy with some detracting fault/s. May have two or three minor imperfections.

OTHER ABBREVIATIONS AF With all faults DJ Dust jacket HC Hardcover SC Softcover IMPORTANT Descriptions are a guide only. Buyers must satisfy themselves as to the condition of lots.

FA Fair A poor copy with some obvious fault/s. May be badly damaged or missing some part/s.

Where two condition abbreviations are given, the first refers to the book and the second to the dust jacket (e.g. VG/VG).

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Viewing from Thursday 3 April

NEW ZEALAND MEDAL 1846-1866 IN GROUPS, SINGLE MEDALS, & RELATED ITEMS

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1. Group of 8 to Rear Admiral William Arthur, CB, RN, after whom Port Arthur, China, was named. (i) Companion of the military division of the Order of the Bath, breast badge with ribbon buckle, 18ct gold (hallmarked AMRG 1879) and enamel. Appointed 1881. (ii) New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1846 to 1847 (Wm Arthur, Nvl Cadet HMS Calliope) impressed naming. One of 13 officers of this ship to receive this medal, in addition to 39 naval ratings and 11 NCO’s and men of Royal Marines (total 63). Longley (RN & RM) confirms entitlement. (iii) South Africa Medal 1853 (W Arthur, Acting Mate). (iv) Baltic Medal 1854-55, unnamed as issued. (v) Crimea Medal 1854-56 w/c ‘Sebastopol’, unnamed as issued. (vi) China Medal 1857-60 w/2c ‘Taku Forts 1860’ and ‘Canton 1857’, unnamed as issued. (vii) Turkish Crimea Medal 1855 (La Crimea or Sardinian issue), unnamed as issued. (viii) Imperial China Order of Kien-Bah; Gold medal (23mm diameter) personally inscribed in Chinese characters ‘High Commissioner Ho gives to Great English Man of War Commander te Jen Tiao to wear’; with two green silk tassels attached to base. Includes research notes.

BIOGRAPHY Arthur as a Naval Cadet served as a midshipman in HMS Calliope in New Zealand 1845-47; as a midshipman and mate in Styx during the Kaffir War, 1851-52; as Gunner Lieut. In Hannibal at taking of Bemarsund in the Baltic in 1854; also in Hannibal in the Black Sea for the latter part of 1854-1856, was present at the taking of Sebastopol, Kertch, Kinburn and occupation of Anapa; was gazetted for services at the taking of the latter place; commanded Drake gunboat, at taking of Canton at the end of 1857; also commanded Algerine, Nimrod and Coromandel successively during the whole of the operations in China, extending from the capture of Canton in 1857 to Pekin in 1860 during which period amongst other services, he was engaged as follows: In August and September 1858 in

company with Magicienne, Inflexible and Plover in a series of extensive captures of piratical junks and strongholds, during these operations he received a severe contusion of the right leg; was honourably mentioned in despatches, and received the thanks of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty; in June and July 1858, he commanded a successful expedition for recovery of an opium boat taken from Hong Kong and found in the district of Typoong, for which he received complimentary letters from the Admiralty, the Commander in Chief, and the Governor of Hong Kong in Council; was specially mentioned in despatches for services at the taking of Chik-Tsing in January 1859; in 1860 was actively engaged at the capture of Taku Forts and Tien-Tsin, received Gold Medal from the Imperial Government of China; received promotion to Commander and the thanks of the Admiralty for services as Acting Commander of Nimrod in the capture and destruction of piratical fleet of six vessels mounting 40 European guns, in December 1860, in which severe engagement he was wounded; CB 1881; Naval Attache at Washington, 1879-1882; AOC to Queen Victoria; author of ‘The Active List of Admirals and Captains’. ‘In Wars of the Nineties’

by A Hilliard Affridge (1900) it states: ‘It (Port Arthur) was surveyed during the preliminaries of the allied expedition of 1860 by Commander Arthur of the British Navy, now Rear Admiral Arthur on the retired list. On the Admiralty charts it was named after its surveyor, Port Arthur’ Port Arthur, China, is now known as Lushunkou, is in Bohi Gulf of Chihli.] (Based on entry in Spink Numismatic Circular 1977.) He died on 15 November 1886 aged 56. His widow erected a memorial to him which is in St Ann’s Church at the Naval Base, Portsmouth.

PROVENANCE Purchased from The Numismatic Circular, Spink and Son Ltd., London, November 1977 catalogue (lot 12872).

Estimate $7,000-$9,000 CATALOGUE 9005

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2. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1845 to 1846.

(R Parish, Captn F Top, HMS Osprey), with unofficial engraved ornate silver ribbon brooch.

Impressed naming. Longley records 11 recipients (7 naval ratings and 4 NCOs and Royal Marines) of the medal with these dates. Recorded in Douglas-Morris (NM). Medal issued 5 April 1871.

It is understood that there are only three medals known to naval ratings. Men from this ship were lent to the party from HMS North Star who were engaged at Ruapekapeka Pa. With notes.

PROVENANCE Purchased at Glendining’s, London, auction 16 November 1994 (lot 217) as from the collection of David Corbett, Auckland.

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3. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1863 to 1864.

(E Griggs O S HMS Miranda). BBM 91 medals to ship. Ordinary Seaman Edward Griggs, born 1842 or 1843, joined the RN in 1860. He took part in the action at Gate Pa, Tauranga, in 1864. Medal issued in 1870. With Research by late Captain Douglas-Morris, RN. PROVENANCE Purchased from B A Seaby Ltd, London, 1978.

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4. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1845 to 1846 (T Tuzise, Gunrs Mate, HMS North Star), impressed naming. Also entitled to China Medal 1842. The recipient’s surname is spelt ‘Trezise’ in both Longley (RN & RM) and Douglas Morris (NM). It was not unusual for misnaming of medals from the original hand-written muster rolls. Six officers and 27 naval ratings, together with 1 Royal Marine office and 7 NCOs and Medal (Total 41) received this dated medal.

Crew of the ship, including recipient, took part in actions at Okaihau in May 1845 and in the assault on Ruapekapeka Pa in January 1846.

PROVENANCE Aotea Stamps Ltd., Auckland, having previously been sold by Glendining’s, London, 1984.

Estimate $2,000-$3,000

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5. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1845 to 1846.

(John N Tripp, Gr’s Mate, HMS Hazard). Also entitled to China Medal 1842. Recorded in Longley (RN & RM). 9 officers and 22 naval ratings received this medal; BBM 35 medals to the ship. In Douglas-Morris (NM). The ship was present at the fall of Kororareka, Ohaihau and Ohaewai. With brief notes.

Estimate $1,800-$2,500

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6. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1845 to 1847.

(C Lee, Capt A Ft Gd, HMS Racehorse), impressed naming. With ornate silver ribbon brooch.

Longley (RN & RM) notes that 3 officers and 24 naval ratings together with 9 NCOs and men of Royal Marines of this ship received this dated medal (36 to ship). Both Longley and DouglasMorris (NM) record his surname as ‘Leo’ and the naming on the medal appears to be an engravers mistake. A part of men from this ship took part in the action at Ruapekapeka in January 1846.

With research notes.

PROVENANCE Purchased at Glendining’s Auction, London 1994; from the David Corbett collection; ex-Lovell collection sold by Sotheby’s, London, 1977.

Estimate $2,000-$3,000

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7. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1860 to 186.

(Wm Lambell, AB HMS Cordelia), impressed naming. William Lambell was born in Devon on 3 July 1834. Joined RN as a Boy 2nd class in 1851, Ordinary Seaman 1852 and served on several ships before joining the Cordelia in which he served in New Zealand and in involved with various actions and skirmishes in 1861.

His medal was sent to him on 2 March 1871.

BBM 29 medals to ship. With extensive research

by Captain K Douglas-Morris, RN, and copy of original service record.

Estimate $2,500-$3,500

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8. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1860 to 1861.

(G North, Captn F Top, HMS Iris) Longley records that 10 RN officers and 49 ratings, and 1 Royal Marine office and 12 NCO and men. Total of 72, received a medal with these dates. Recorded

by Douglas-Morris (NM). A party from the ship landed and was engaged in action at Pukekakeriki in October 1860. With research notes and copy of sale catalogue entry.

PROVENANCE Purchased Glendining’s sale, 27 May 1992, lot 299, from a collection formed by an unknown man of wealth prior to 1887 which remained in storage until this sale.

Estimate $2,000-$3,000

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9. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1860 to 1861.

(S Jenkins, AB HMS Pelorus), impressed naming.

In Longley (RN & RM) 12 officers and 74 naval ratings (total 86) of the ship received this medal; BBM states 117 medals. Jenkins was a carpenter and Douglas-Morris (NM) records that he was wounded in the head at Waitara Camp 11 September 1860. With research note.

PROVENANCE Purchased from Stanley Gibbons Ltd., London.

Estimate $1,800-$2,500

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10. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1845 to 1846.

(J James AB, HMS Castor), impressed naming.

Longley (RN & RM) confirms 4 officers, 56 naval ratings, 2 officers and 7 other ranks of Royal Marines (69 in all) from Castor received this dated medal. Douglas-Morris (NM), page 281 notes James was wounded at Ruapekapeka 11 January 1846. He was one of 30 wounded. With research notes.

PROVENANCE Purchased from March Medals, England, 1987.

Estimate $2,000-$3,000

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11. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1863 to 1864.

(H Trigger, Drumr HMS Esk), impressed naming.

BBM records that 120 medals with these dates were issued to the ship. Longley (RN & RM) records 121 medals to RN and RM, and records that H Trigger was the only Royal Marine drummer awarded the medal. Crew took part in actions at Te Awamutu and Rangiawhia in February 1864 and at Gate Pa, Tauranga, in April 1864. With brief notes.

PROVENANCE Purchased from Glendining’s, London, 1991.

Estimate $1,800-$2,500

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12. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1863 to 1864.

(T Snudden AB HMS Harrier), impressed naming.

Entitlement of Able Seaman Thomas Snudden confirmed by Longley (RN & RM) who records 10 officers and 60 ratings together with 10 NCOs and men of Royal Marines of Harrier; total of 80 received this medal; BBM 79 medals. Recorded

by Douglas Morris (NM). Parties of Harrier’s crew took part in actions at Paparoa in August 1863, Te Awamutu and Rangiawhia in February 1864 and at Gate Pa, Tauranga, in April 1864.

PROVENANCE Purchased from Liverpool Coin Company, England, 1986.

Estimate $1,800-$2,500

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13. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1863 to 1865.

(Geo. Tucker, Stoker HMS Eclipse), impressed naming. Entitlement confirmed by Longley (RN & RM) and Douglas-Morris (NM). The ship received 13 medals with these dates to officers, 49 to naval ratings and a further 13 to NCOs and men of the Royal Marines (total of 75). With brief notes.

PROVENANCE Purchased from Nimrod Dix and Co., London, 1982.

Estimate $2,500-$3,500

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14. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1864.

(3654 Hy Chranham, 4th Btn Mility Trn) [Military Train]; Impressed naming. A scarce single date.

Approximately 4-16 medals to unit.

PROVENANCE Purchased privately.

Estimate $2,500-$3,000 30

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15. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1864 to 1866.

(1010 John Hoctor, 1st Bn 12th Regt), impressed naming. BBM 158 medals to Regt. 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment was commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Meade Hamilton, CB, who purchased his command of the 1st battalion in 1861 and commanded it in New

Zealand. Regiment served in NZ 1860-66 and was engaged in first Taranaki war, Waikato war and sustained losses at Rangiriri and took part in battle at gate Pa. With brief notes.

PROVENANCE Hayward and Hall, London dealer.

Estimate $1,000-$1,500 CATALOGUE 9005

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16. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1861 to 1866.

(J Arbuckle, 2nd Waikato Regt), impressed naming with original card box of issue.

Entitlement confirmed by Longley but not listed in Stowers. Barton records him as having enrolled at Sydney on 24 September 1863 and occupation as a ‘carter’.

PROVENANCE From the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA(Rtd.) 1913-1971.

Estimate $1,000-$1,500 32

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17. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1861 to 1866.

(J Westbrook) impressed naming. Bullock driver Jacob Westbrook, Imperial Commissariat Corps, was a civilian. Both Longley and Stowers confirm entitlement, the latter noting that 36 medals

named to Corps known to exist. The Corps employed some 239 civilians. With brief notes.

PROVENANCE Purchased from A Abel (dealer) Christchurch.

Estimate $1,000-$1,500 CATALOGUE 9005

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18. New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1861 to 1861.

(Engraved: ‘Specimen’ and name (Corpl. T Hart 3rd Waikato Regiment) xxx over. NZ Army collectors specimen. Longley confirms entitlement of Thomas Hart to medal. Barton also records entitlement and it appears may

have received a medal issued as a member of the Imperial Commissariat transport Corps. With brief notes.

PROVENANCE Purchased from New Zealand Army.

Estimate $350-$450 34

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19. New Zealand Medal, undated reverse (Wi Hoe Hoe, Native Contingent).

Naming in waxed letters suggesting it is a late issue; with original card box with name written over the name of ‘F Wooster, 3rd Waikato Regt.

Not in Longley. In Stowers, as a private in the

Native Contingent serving with Ngati Porou under Ropata. He was involved in actions at Patea and Ngatapa in 1868. BBM 94 medals to unit.

Estimate $800-$1,000 CATALOGUE 9005

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20. New Zealand Medal, undated reverse.

(Edward Clatterbourk, No 9 Coy Taranaki Mil Settlers); impressed in small capitals. Longley and Stowers record medal to ‘Chatterbourk’ and Stowers notes surname also as recorded

as Clutterbourk and Clutterbuck. Medal issued 1887. BBM 203 medals to unit. With brief notes.

PROVENANCE Purchased privately.

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21. New Zealand Medal, undated reverse.

(Pte Wm Keith, Taranaki Mil Settlers). Recorded

by Longley and Stowers, who notes that the medal was issued on 14 May 1888, and the style of naming being correct for this period. BBM 203 medals to unit. William Keith was born in 1837 at Buchan, Aberdeen. He joined the Taranaki Military Settlers in Melbourne on 25 January 1864. He served at Hastings, White Cliffs and

Mokau. In the Earl of Ranfurly’s Roll of Honour (1902) Keith is shown as a veteran from the Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne district. With some research and notes verifying that the naming style is correct.

PROVENANCE Purchased from a family member in Hastings in 1967.

Estimate $1,000-$1,500 CATALOGUE 9005

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22. New Zealand Medal, undated reverse (S D Calvert, Wairoa Rifle Vol.).Named in engraved large capital letters. Longley records 27 NCO and men, including Calvert, of the unit received undated medals. Calvert is mentioned in James Cowan, ‘The New Zealand Wars’, vol. I, reprint 1983, page 260, when he and his father

defended their family homestead. He died of wounds on 24 July 1863 aged 16 years. With research notes.

PROVENANCE From A A Beuth, who was left the medal by S A J Beuth, during 1960s.

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23. New Zealand Medal, undated reverse.

(Corpl J Blake, AC). Longley records a Constable James Blake and a Corporal James George Blake on the AC roll. Both names appear in Stowers, who notes that their medals were issued in 1872 and 1873 respectively and that both were returned unclaimed. BBM 478 medals to unit.

PROVENANCE From the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA(Rtd.) 1913-1971.

Estimate $1,000-$1,500 CATALOGUE 9005

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24. New Zealand Medal, undated reverse.

(J Dinwiddie, Napier Rifle Vol). Named in engraved large capitals. Longley confirms entitlement and 9 NCOs and men of unit received medals. Stowers records that John Dinwiddie was engaged at Omarunni in October 1866. Medal issued 1882.

PROVENANCE New Zealand Coin and Medal Co Ltd, Auckland.

Estimate $1,500-$2,000 40

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25. Group of three to Daniel W Powell, RN. (i) China Medal 1857-60 w/2c ‘Canton 1857’ and ‘Taku Forts 1858’ (unnamed as issued). (ii) New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1860 to 1861 (D W Powell, Bos. Mate. HMS Niger), impressed naming. (iii) Turkish Crimea Medal 1855, ‘La Crimea’ (unnamed as issued).

BIOGRAPHY Entitled to Crimea Medal 1854-56 w/c ‘Sebastopol’ for service while on HMS Rodney.

Powell was born at Gosport, Hants on 1 September 1831. He began his RN service as a Boy 2nd class on HMS Victory. He retired from RN as a Chief Officer in 1888 after 37 years

service. Longley (RN & RM) notes that medal with these dates issued to 13 officers and 37 naval ratings, including Powell, and 16 NCOs and men of Royal Marines (total 66). With extensive research by Capt K Douglas-Morris, who noted in a letter, dated 5 October 1976, to owner: ‘I have never met a better climb up the GC [good conduct] ladder than that seen in the case of Powell, -its super.’

PROVENANCE Purchased from a Hayward and Hall list, July 1969, which did not include the Turkish Crimea Medal.

Estimate $2,500-$3,500 CATALOGUE 9005

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26. Pair to Private Michael Lees, 70th Foot. (i) Indian Mutiny Medal 1857-58, no claps (3303 Pte M Lees, 70th Foot). (ii) New Zealand Medal, undated reverse (3303 Pte M Lees, 70th Foot). Both medals impressed naming. With research notes.

BIOGRAPHY Lees was born at St Eircoat and was engaged in woollen manufacturing. He enlisted on 6 October 1852 and arrived in New Zealand on the ship

Daniel Rankin in 1861. He was discharged at New Plymouth on 9 October 1864 on completion of his engagement. In New Zealand the regiment was under the commander of LieutenantColonels Trevor Chute and Thomas Edmonds Maloch, CB. PROVENANCE Purchased from Charles Lusted, English dealer.

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27. Pair to Thomas Atteridge/Attridge, RN & HM Coast Guard. (i) New Zealand Medal, reverse dated 1863 to 1864 (Thos Atteridge, HMS Curacoa).

Impressed naming. Approximately 189 medals with these dates to the ship. (ii) Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Queen Victoria, 2nd type, narrow suspender (Thos Attridge, Boatman, HM Coastguard).

Engraved naming. Note variation in spelling of surname. With research by late Captain K. Douglas-Morris, RN and copy of papers from British Public Record Office.

PROVENANCE Purchased from Mayfair Coin Co., England, 1978.

Estimate $2,500-$3,500 CATALOGUE 9005

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28. Group of 9 to James Conley, Auckland Naval Artillery, NZ Permanent Militia, and RNZA. (i) New Zealand Medal, undated reverse (Pty Off. J Conley, Auckd Nvl Vrs), engraved in large capital letters. BBM records 12 medals to unit; Longley records 2 officers and 9 NCOs and men; Stowers records 27 medals to unit. (ii) New Zealand Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (Trophy of Arms obverse)(No 157 Corpl James Conley No 1 Service Coy, NZPM 1899). Stagg records 18 medals issued.

Rare. (iii) New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal, Edward VII (Field Marshal uniform) (No 157 Sergt. James Conley, RNZA 1906) Stagg records 6 medals issued. (iv) New Zealand Permanent Militia Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (No 157 1/C Gunner J Conley, NZPM 1895). Roll confirms entitlement and Medal granted 2 December 1899. Approximately 100-105 medals issued between1887-1898. With five (5) New Zealand silver Shooting Medals: (v) Won by No 157 1/C Gunner J Conley No 1 Battery Permanent Artillery ‘Best Shot in Battery Auckland’, 1892 (by Kohn & Co). (vi) Won by No 157 1/C Gunner J Conley No 1 Battery Permanent Artillery ‘Auckland Best

Shot in District’ 1894 (by Kohn & Co). (vii) Won by No 157 1/C Gunner J Conley No 1 Battery Permanent Artillery ‘Auckland Best Shot in District’ 1895 ‘69 points’. (viii) Won by No 157 Corporal J Conley No 1 Service Co NZPM, 87 points, Best Shot in Wellington 1899’. ( ix) Won by No 157 Corporal J Conley RNZA, Best Shot in Wellington District 1902-03 (Stg Silver

by G T White).

BIOGRAPHY Conley was born in Auckland on 13 May 1861. Enlisted as a constable in the Armed Constabulary on 6 September 1881, and prior to that served for three years with the Picton Rifle Volunteers. On 17 September 1886 he transferred from the AC to the NZ Permanent Militia and in 1902 to the Royal New Zealand Artillery. He retired at his own request on 30 September 1917 after 36 years continuous service. With additional research notes.

PROVENANCE From the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA (Rtd.) 1913-1971.

Estimate $4,000-$5,000 CATALOGUE 9005

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29. Royal NZA Veteran bronze [membership] cross.

(Corp G B Purdey), engraved on reverse. Longley records ‘Purdy’ on the roll for NZ Medal for service as a Corporal with Taranaki Military Settlers. Stowers records him as ‘George Burton (Barton) Purdey’. He was born in 1845 at

Camberwell, Surrey; joined the Taranaki Military Settlers, No. 6 company at Ballarat, Australia and arrived in NZ on 21 January 1864. Present at the action at White Cliffs 24 August 1865. With research note.

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30. New Zealand Cross (NZC).

REPLICA commissioned in 1982 by the New Zealand Coin and Medal Co. Ltd., of Auckland and produced by the New Zealand Mint, of Auckland. Only 67 of the projected 200 crosses were produced in sterling silver and 18ct gold.

Reverse engraved ‘Replica’ and number ‘35’;

with case of issue. [Ref: ‘Orders, decorations and medals awarded to New Zealanders: an illustrated guide for collectors’ by Geoffrey P Oldham and Brett Delahunt. 1st ed. Auckland : 1991, page 27.]

Estimate $2,000-$3,000 CATALOGUE 9005

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31. 65th Regiment Shoulder Belt plate, brass with silver embellishments.

The 65th (Yorkshire North Riding Regiment) or ‘The Royal Tigers’ served in New Zealand 1846-

1865; in Wellington and Wanganui (1846-47) and later in Taranaki and Waikato (1860-66).

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32. Gallipoli DSO in important group of 10 to Colonel Bertram Sibbald Finn, CBE, DSO, ED, NZ Medical Corps & NZ Dental Corps. (i) Commander of the military division of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), 2nd type neck badge. (ii) Companion of The Distinguished Service Order (DSO), George V. Ribbon for Queen’s South Africa Medal which has been missing before Captain Stagg acquired group. (iii) King’s South Africa Medal 1901-02, w/2c ‘South Africa 1901’ and ‘South Africa 1902’ (1444 Tpr B S Finn, Vict M R) (iv) 1914-15 Star (12/591 Mjr B S Finn, NZEF). (v) British War Medal 1914-18 (12/591 Mjr B S Finn, NZEF). (vi) Victory Medal 1919 with MID emblem (12/591 Mjr B S Finn, NZEF). (vii) War Medal 1939-45. (viii) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45. (ix) King George VI Coronation Medal 1937. (x) Efficiency Decoration, New Zealand, (ED) GRI cypher (T. Col. B S Finn, NZDC), approved 26

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September 1946. Approximately 501 issued.

Also entitled to, but not included, the New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal, approved 1937. CBE (Additional) New Year Honours 1945, London Gazette Supplement 29 December 1944; NZ Gazette No 7 1 February 1945; DSO London Gazette 29 October 1915, page 10730. Plus a copy of ‘The New Zealand dental services’ by T.V. Anson. Wellington : War History Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1960. 8vo. xi, 422 p., maps, illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear. G. Citation: [Captain, NZ Medical Corps] For conspicuous devotion to duty in the Gallipoli peninsula during operations from 6th to 9th August, 1915, when he worked day and night with unceasing zeal and without rest evacuating the wounded. His work was carried out under continuous fire, on one occasion the dressing station being heavily shelled for an hour, and

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many assistants and wounded being hit.

Owing to Captain Finn’s efforts the wounded lying in the more exposed positions were got into a place of greater safety. [Approximately 21 DSO to New Zealand officers at Gallipoli.]

Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette, 5 November 1915, page 11003. With research notes and record of service.

BIOGRAPHY Finn was born in Invercargill on 18 October 1880.

Attended Wanganui Collegiate School 189496. Qualified as a Dental Surgeon. He served as a trooper with 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles and discharged as a Lieutenant. In this rank he was attested at Auckland in 22 August 1914, promoted by General Godley to Captain, NZ Medical Corps, 20 November 1914. Appointed Administrative Dental Officer to NZEF 31 January 1916. Following establishment of NZ

Dental Corps in February 1916 he was promoted to Major; returned to NZ in 1918 and struck-off strength of NZEF and taken on strength of NZ Dental Corps. In 1934 appointed Director of Dental Services, with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

1939 appointed Director of Dental Services (Navy, Army and Air Force); appointed temporary Colonel in 1940. King’s Honorary Dental Surgeon 1946-1949. He played a significant role in the history of the NZ Dental Corps. See T V Anson, ‘The New Zealand Dental Corps: Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45’, Wellington : 1960. Finn’s portrait is the frontispiece in this book. Past President NZ Dental Association. Died in Auckland 23 August 1952.

PROVENANCE From the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA(Rtd.) 1913-1971.

Estimate $15,000-$25,000 CATALOGUE 9005

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33. Outstanding group of 6 to Warrant Officer I Frederick William James, RNZA. (i) Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902 w/3c ‘Cape Colony’, ‘Transvaal’ and ‘South Africa 1902’ 95297 Tpr F W James, NZMR 8th Cont.). (ii) War Medal 1939-45. (iii) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-4. (iv) Permanent Forces of the Empire Beyond the Seas Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, King George V (Field Marshal) (1134 S/Sgt FTR. F W James, RNZA). Granted 1 May 1924. 166 medals awarded. (v) New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal, King

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George V (Field Marshal) (S/Sgt F W James, RNZA). Granted 1 April 1927. 168 of these medals awarded. (vi) New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (S/Sgt FTR. F W James, RNZA). Granted 9 April 1922. With a detailed record of service and obituary by Captain G T Stagg; also photocopy of a portrait.

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BIOGRAPHY Frederick William James was born on 4 February 1884. He joined No 2 Company NZ Engineers at Dunedin on 4 October 1899. After service in South Africa he joined Royal NZ Engineers in 1906 and transferred to RNZ Artillery in 1907, remaining with the Regiment until 1928 when he transferred to NZ Army Ordnance Corps.

He retired in 1939 after 33 years and 121 days service. On 6 October 1939, however, he was recalled to service in NZAOC, transferring to

NZEME in 1946. Between 1948 and 1951 he was on the strength of the NZ Regiment and was finally discharged on 7 March 1951. He completed 50 years and 88 days service (5 years and 1 day as volunteer service). He died in September 1955 aged 71 years. His service was regarded as the longest in the NZ military forces.

PROVENANCE From the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA (Rtd.) 1913-1971.

Estimate $2,500-$3,500 CATALOGUE 9005

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34. Group of 8 to Warrant Officer John William Dalton, NZEF & NZAOC. (i) 1914-15 Star (9/1255 Farr/Sjt J W Dalton, NZEF). (ii) British War Medal 1914-18 (9/1255 Sjt J W Dalton, NZEF). (iii) Victory Medal 1919 (9/1255 Sjt J W Dalton, NZEF). (iv) War Medal 1939-45 (not mounted with group). (v) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45 (not mounted with group). (vi) Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, King George VI (WO II J W Dalton, NZAOC). 80 issued of this first type. (vii) New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal,

King George VI (WO I J W Dalton, NZAOC).

Granted 11 February 1946. Stagg notes second type of which 30 issued. (viii) New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (S/Sgt J W Dalton, NZAOC). Approved 16 November 1928.

BIOGRAPHY John William Dalton, from Timaru, embarked with the Otago Mounted Rifles, 1NZEF, on 14 August 1915, as a Farrier Corporal.

PROVENANCE From the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA (Rtd.) 1913-1971.

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35. Group of 6 to Allan Ulric Norman Hayes, NZEF, NZGA, RNZAF. (i) British War Medal 1914-18 (2/2637 Bdr A U N Hayes, NZEF). (ii) Victory Medal 1919 ( 2/2637 Bdr A U N Hayes, NZEF). (iii) War Medal 1939-45. (iv) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45. (v) New Zealand Territorial Service Medal, King George V (2/2637 Bomb. A U N Hayes, NZEF (1918). Granted 6 July 1918. (vi) New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (A U N Hayes, late NZEF). Roll confirms a late issue granted 15 March 1943. With record of service.

BIOGRAPHY Hayes was born 7 June 1892; enrolled in Wellington Division NZ Garrison Artillery 9 January 1907; attested for 1NZEF 7 September 1915 and served in France; discharged 7 June 1919. NZ Territorial Force 11 November 1938 - 10 August 1940 when he enlisted in RNZAF (Leading Aircraftman) and served in NZ until discharged on 7 July 1944. He died at Wellington on 23 June 1965.

PROVENANCE Acquired about 1975.

Estimate $900-$1,500 CATALOGUE 9005

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36. Group of 8 to Lieutenant-Colonel Cedric Arthur Herman, ED, NZEF & NZTS. (i) 1914-15 Star (12/2901 Mjr C A Herman). (ii) British War Medal 1914-18 (12/2901 Mjr C A Herman). (iii) Victory Medal 1919 with MID emblem (12/2901 Mjr C A Herman). (iv) War Medal 1939-45. (v) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45. (vi) Efficiency Decoration, New Zealand (ED), GRI cypher (T/Lt.Col C A Herman, NZTS).

Approximately 501 issued. (vii) New Zealand Territorial Service Medal, King George V (Mjr C A Herman, 3rd (Auck R.) CRO (1920) 736 issued. (viii) New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (Lt. Col C A Herman, NZTS), type 3, roll confirms late issue 15 August 1941. With brief notes.

BIOGRAPHY Herman was gazetted a Major 26 May 1919 in the 3rd Auckland Regiment. He was acting Provost Marshall NZEF; Acting Adjutant-General 1942. Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 8 July 1918 (in Sir Douglas Haig’s despatch of 16 March 1919.

PROVENANCE Purchased from Baldwin (Auckland dealer).

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37. Outstanding ‘Battle of the River Plate’ group of 5 to Gunner Eric J Watts, DSC, RN. (i) Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) GRI cypher, hallmarked SG London 1939; reverse engraved (Eric J Watts, Gunner RN, HMS Achilles, 13 December 1939). (ii) 1939-34 Star. (iii) Atlantic Star. (iv) Pacific Star w/c ‘Burma’. (v) War Medal 1939-45. DSC, London Gazette, 23 February 1940. One of four DSC for HMS Achilles, of a total of 17 for the Battle of the River Plate. Gunner Watts was awarded the DSC for the Battle of the River Plate, December 1939, an action which is described in a number of books. Dudley Pope in The Battle of the River Plate (1956), page 155, mentions Gunner Watts. ‘Sitting at [Lieutenant R E] Washbourn’s right was the spotting officer, Sergeant Samuel Trimble. This big, red-faced Ulsterman was better known as ‘Baggy’ Trimble, and his job was spotting the fall of [HMS] Achilles’ shells and reporting them to the Transmitting Station. On Washbourn’s left was the Rate

Officer, Mr Eric Watts. Rotund, placid and very competent, he was the Gunner. He had the difficult job of estimating the [German Pocket Battleship] Graf Spee’s course and speed, and any alterations she might make, and reporting them to the Transmitting Station’. [Washbourn and Trimble were wounded in the action and received DSO and CGM, respectively.] Watts’ is mentioned on page 48 of ‘The official history of New Zealand in the Second World War: The Royal New Zealand Navy’ by S D Waters, Wellington : 1956, and on page 25 of ‘Achilles at the River Plate: New Zealand in the Second World War: Official History’, by S D Waters, Wellington, 1948. Also included in this group is a copy of ‘The Battle of the River Plate’ by Dudley Pope. London : W. Kimber [1956]. 8vo.

259 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket housed in plastic. Cosiderable wear and foxing.

Confirmed by Seedie. With research notes.

PROVENANCE New Zealand Coin and Medal Co Ltd., Auckland.

Estimate $9,000-$16,000 CATALOGUE 9005

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38. Rare Group of 9 to Commodore Leo Patrick Bourke, OBE, DSC & Bar, RD, RAN, RNZNR, (with RN) & RNZN. (i) Officer of the military division of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 2nd type badge. (ii) Distinguished Service Cross, George VI (DSC) GRI cypher, hallmarked SG London 1945 and officially dated ‘1944’ with Bar officially dated ‘1945’. (iii) 1939-34 Star. (iv) Atlantic Star w/c ‘France and Germany’. (v) Pacific Star. (vi) War Medal 1939-45. (vii) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45. (viii) Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal 1953. (ix) Royal Naval Reserve Officers’ Decoration (RD), George VI, GRI cypher, reverse dated ‘1941’. OBE, Military Division, London Gazette, 9 June 1949. Seedie indicates his ship as HMNZS Taupo. DSC Fourth Supplement London Gazette 15 December 1944, page 5086, ‘For gallantry and skill in anti-U-boat operations in HM Ships Balfour and Bayntun and HMCS Camrose’ (Government House, New Zealand citation: ‘Lieutenant-Commander Bourke was Commanding Officer of His Majesty’s Ship ‘Bayntun’ which took part in an attack on an enemy U-boat during the late

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afternoon of 8 January 1944. It is considered that the U-boat was probably destroyed, and the credit for this success is shared equally by the two ships taking part.’). Seedie confirms incident took place in the Western Approaches.

During Second World War 95 DSC, and 8 first Bars were awarded New Zealanders. Bar to DSC Supplement to London Gazette 15 May 1945, page 2524. ‘For courage, skill and determination while serving in HM Ships Portchester Castle, Helmsdale, Braithwaite, Lock Eck, Loch Dunvegan and Bayntun in attacks on enemy submarines.’ (Government House New Zealand citation: ‘On the 3rd , 14th and 17th February, 1945, respectively, His Majesty’s Ship ‘Bayntun’ detected three U-boats. She hit and probably sank one herself, with His Majesty’s Ship ‘Hedgehog’, and played a major part in holding contact with the other two, while the remainder of the Tenth Escort Group attacked them. His Majesty’s Ship ‘Bayntun’s high state of efficiency is largely the result of her Commanding Officer’s zeal. His conduct during the three actions was outstanding.’) Seedie confirms the

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incidents took place in the North Sea. During Second World War 95 DSC, and 8 first Bars were awarded New Zealanders. Additional information on these awards may be found in S D Waters ‘The Royal New Zealand Navy: Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45, Wellington, 1956), page 483. See also Seedie. Sold with the following documents: (a) Warrant of Appointment as an OBE dated 9 June 1949, with facsimile signatures of King George VI and Queen Mary (Grand Master) and letter from Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood. (b) Original typed citations for DSC and Bar to DSC on Government House [New Zealand] notepaper and compliments slip. (c) Copies of entries in London Gazette and associated research.

BIOGRAPHY Bourke was born in Australia on 5 April 1905.

Educated in Australia and attended Royal Australian Naval College 1919-20; Cadet Midshipman RAN College, Jervis Bay 1919-22.

Between1922-26 served with several shipping

lines. He qualified as a master mariner; joined Royal Naval Reserve and Commissioned as a Sub-Lieutenant 1927, Lieutenant 1932. During Second World War served with RN; LieutenantCommander 1940 and Commander 1945. He transferred to RNZN in 1946. Between 1946 and 1950 was with 11th RNZN Frigate Squadron; 1950-51 Navy Office, Wellington with rank of Captain (1950); head of NZ Joint Services Staff, Melbourne 1952-53; Deputy Director of RN War College 1955-56; 1957-59 CO HMS Sheffield and Flag Captain to the Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean. From 1959 until his retirement in 1960 he was Commodore, Auckland. Regional Director of Civil Defence, Auckland 1960-70.

Died at Auckland on 26 April 1992.

PROVENANCE Spink and Son Ltd., London, Auction 1994.

Originally sold Sotheby’s Auction, 15 April 1993, (Lot 321).

Estimate $15,000-$25,000 CATALOGUE 9005

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39. Group of 7 to Sapper Rasmus Neville Green, MM, 5th Field Co, NZ Engineers, 2 NZEF. (i) Military Medal (MM), George VI (40632 Spr R N Green, 2 NZEF, 1944). (ii) 1939-34 Star. (iii) Africa Star. (iv) Italy Star. (v) Defence Medal. (vi) War Medal 1939-45. (vii) New Zealand War Service Medal

1939-45. MM was an immediate award.

Green was a dozer operator during the battles for the Sangro bridgehead, Italy, in November 1943. [Approximately 580 MM to 2NZEF in Mediterranean and Middle East].

With photocopy of original typed Army form recommending MM and citation signed by Col F M Hanson and Lt-Gen B C Freyberg.

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40. Group of 6 to Flight Lieutenant George Maurice Given, DFC, RNZAF. (i) Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), reverse dated 1944; with case. [Approximately 1,014 DFC to New Zealanders]. (ii) 1939-34 Star. (iii) Air Crew Europe Star w/c ‘France and Germany’. (iv) Defence Medal. (v) War Medal 1939-45. (vi) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45.

BIOGRAPHY NZ405789 Flt Lt Given was born on 30 April 1921 at Christchurch. Served with RNZAF from 30 December 1940 to 30 December 1945 as a

Bomb Aimer, 578 Squadron RAF (Halifax). DFC 9 November 1944 ‘Flying Officer Given has completed numerous operations against the enemy, in the course of which he has invariably displayed the utmost fortitude, courage and devotion to duty’. His tour consisted of 40 sorties.

He died on 1 August 1970 at Auckland.

PROVENANCE Purchased at New Zealand Coin & Medal Co Ltd, Auckland, Auction 9 June 1983 (lot 149) as from the collection of late Dan O Atkinson. Sold with RNZAF cap badge, King’s Crown, brass.

Estimate $4,500-$6,500 CATALOGUE 9005

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41. Group of 8 to Chief Petty Officer Cecil Beale, RN and RNZN. (i) 1939-34 Star. (ii) Atlantic Star. (iii) Africa Star w/c ‘North Africa 1942-43’. (iv) Pacific Star. (v) Italy Star. (vi) War Medal 1939-45. (vii) United Nations Service Medal for Korea. (viii) Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Elizabeth II, type 2, (C Beale, NZ 13727 CPO HMNZS Philomel); engraved naming.

Approved 20 February 1961.

BIOGRAPHY Beale was born on 9 February 1921 at Portsmouth, England. He joined the RN on 9 February 1939 from which he joined the RNZN in 1955. On his discharge from RNZN on 9 October 1961 returned to England. He was married with two children.

PROVENANCE Purchased from A H Baldwin & Sons Ltd., London, 1966.

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42. Pair, plus 3 masonic jewels, to Captain John Edward Barltrop, Manchester Rifle Vols. (i) Volunteer Long Service Medal, Victoria (Capt John Edward Barltrop, Manchester Rifle Vols (1903). 120 medals issued. (ii) New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (Lieut John E Barltrop, Manchester Rifle Vols 1896). Granted 17 August 1896. Stagg records medal is 3rd type of which 471 medals issued. (iii) Masonic Lodge jewel or badge, 9ct gold, Awatea Lodge No. 258 (Brother J E Barltrop, 1931). (iv) Masonic Lodge jewel or badge, Rongotea Lodge No 146 (Worshipful Brother J E Barltrop, organist, 17.7.1929). (v) Fob-watch fine woven silver chain with gold medal (cross) attached; obverse engraved with portrait of Druid and reverse engraved: UAOD 2 Arch Druid Barltrop, Token of esteem from Maitai Lodge No 301. With research notes.

BIOGRAPHY John Edward Barltrop was born in Nelson and attended Nelson College 1881-82; practised as a solicitor in Feilding for many years until his death at Palmerston North on 11 June 1953. He joined the volunteers in Nelson and transferred to the Manchester Rifle Volunteers after his move to Feilding and attained the rank of Major.

He served on Fielding Borough Council. He was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, NZ Gazette, page 2137, 13 August 1908 (not with group). He was active for many years in local Masonic Lodges.

PROVENANCE Purchased from recipient’s son Max Barltrop, also a Feilding solicitor, 1980.

Estimate $1,000-$1,500 CATALOGUE 9005

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43. Group of 5 to Captain Peter Arnott Tacon, NZ Army and RNZAF. (i) Defence Medal. (ii) War Medal 1939-45. (iii) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45. (iv) Korea Medal 1950- (21228 Capt P A Tacon), 1st type obverse. (v) United Nations Service Medal for Korea (21228 Capt P A Tacon). The service number

on the two Korea medals should correctly read ‘211228’, which suggests these medals were sold by NZ Army as collectors specimens.

With service details.

PROVENANCE From the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA (Rtd.) 1913-1971.

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44. Group of 3 to Major N J Talbot, 1st Auckland Regiment. (i) War Medal 1939-45. (ii) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45. (iii) Efficeincy Decoration, New Zealand, Elizabeth II cypher (Maj N J Talbot, 1 Auck).

Engraved naming. Mounted as worn.

PROVENANCE Purchased from Wellington Second Hand Shop.

Estimate $400-$500 CATALOGUE 9005

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45. Pair to Sergeant Walter Sinclair, late Otago Division NZGA Volunteers. (i) New Zealand Volunteer Long Service Medal, Edward VII (No 297 Serg Walter Sinclair, No. 1 Co. Otago Div NZGA Vols (1908). Approximately 736 medals awarded. (ii) New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal, G T White die; (No 297 Sergt. Walter

Sinclair, NZGA (1913). Stagg type 2, granted 5 February 1913.

PROVENANCE From the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA (Rtd.) 1913-1971.

Estimate $900-$1,500

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46. Rare and unique group of 4 to George Moore, Auckland Naval Artillery. (i) New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal, with an ornamental bar in place of usual ring suspender, Named: No 7 1st CPO George Moore, Auckland Naval Artillery Vols.’.

Granted 24 April 1890. (ii) Auckland Naval Artillery Volunteers Medal, silver, reverse engraved: ‘Presented by the A.N.A.V. to Seaman Geo. Moore for saving a comrade from drowing Oct. 17th 1879’. Maker’s initials ‘A T’ (Anton Teutenberg, 1840-1933) on reverse. This medal is unique and finely engraved by Teutenberg. (iii) United Fire Brigades Association of New Zealand Medal, silver with six 2 year clasps; reverse; ‘Presented to Branchman George Moore, Auckland Fire Brigade for 5 years service dating from 1880’. Early issue of this medal and clasps, all marked with maker’s initials ‘A T’ (Anton Teutenberg, 1840-1933). (iv) Auckland Life-Boat Medal, 28mm, 9ct gold, on the reverse the names of the crew; ‘ H Cordes, 1/ J Heffernan 2/ J Ballintine 3/ J Lemme 4 / J Ward, Stk., / G Moore Steer Oar.’ Plus a copy of ‘A handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decorations awarded to the Army and Navy; chiefly described from those in the collection of A. A. Payne, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S’. Facsimilie ed. Suffolk : J.B. Hayward & Son, 1981. 8vo. lxix, 811 p., illustrated, ports. Blue cloth boards with gilt.

Light wear.

BIOGRAPHY Mr George Moore, Chief Petty-Officer, Auckland Naval Artillery. This well-known figure in Auckland Volunteer matters has a long and worthy record of service. He is the son of Mr Moore who was farrier of the 58th Regiment, and was born in Auckland in 1857, and educated in Parnell. He joined Auckland Naval Artillery as a seaman in 1875 and six years later was

promoted to the rank of petty-officer for saving a comrade’s life. He was promoted to his present rank in 1890. Mr Moore holds certificates for submarine mining and big gun drill, from 1889 onwards. In all, he has had twenty-seven years’ service as a Volunteer, not to mention his services in the Auckland Fire Brigade. As a whale-boat rower Mr Moore holds a high record.

For many years he has been a member of the Waitemata Rowing Club and has taken part in almost every important whale-boat race held in Auckland during late years. From the fact that he holds over thirty-four medals, and certificates of honour from the United Fire Brigades Association, principally for rowing events, it will be seen that his claim as a representative New Zealand athlete is very well sustained.

Cyclopedia of New Zealand, vol 2, Auckland Province, 1902, page 162. Moore appears in a 1906 group photograph (possibly, in centre or right in the back row) published on page 39 of The Auckland Fire Brigade 1874-1974 compiled

by Divisional Officer N C Glen, Auckland, 1974. These four medals were originally in the outstanding collection formed by Dr A A Payne and recorded (pages 231, 319-320, 498) in his catalogue, A Handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decorations ...chiefly described from those in the collection of A A Payne, LRCP, MRCS, 811 pages, illus., privately published 1911, reprinted by J B Hayward & Son, London, 1981. Sold with original ribbons and a copy of the 1981 reprint of this catalogue.

PROVENANCE Purchased from NZ Coin and Medal Co Ltd., Auckland, Auction 9 June 1993 (lot 100) as from the collection of late D O Atkinson. Originally in the renowned collection of Dr A A Payne and as noted above appears in his published catalogue.

Estimate $2,500-$3,500 CATALOGUE 9005

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47. Group of 3 to Honorary Lieutenant Sydney Spencer George, VD, Dunedin Garrison Band. (i) Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration (VD), Edward VII, hallmarked SG London 1909 (Honorary Lieut Sydney Spencer George, Dunedin Garrison Band 1910). Approximately 107 awarded. NZ Gazette 1 December 1910, page 3956. (ii) Volunteer Long Service Medal, Victoria (210 Bandmaster Sydney S George, Dunedin Gar Band Vols (1899). Granted 12 September 1899.

Approximately 137 awarded. (iii) New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (No 210 Bandmr Sydney S George, Dunedin Garrison Band Vols 1895). Granted 21 September 1895. First type, approximately 281 awarded. With research notes.

Day and Son, London. George first joined the City Guards Band in 1878. When it was merged and became the Dunedin Garrison Band he was appointed bandmaster in 1890, and was gazetted Lieutenant in 1901. George who was a lithographic draughtsman, was a successful teacher of music, and earned a reputation in the colony as a clarinet soloist. George’s two brothers, Sergeant Percy George, and Bandsman Herbert George, were both performers in the Garrison Band and held Imperial Service Medals for 20 years’ service. (From p. 130 ‘Cyclopedia of New Zealand’, vol. 4, Otago and Southland, 1905, with portrait of George wearing the second and third medals.)

BIOGRAPHY Sydney Spencer George was born in Surrey, England and came to NZ with his parents in 1864. His father died in Dunedin in 1889, was noted lithographic draughtsman, and for years was employed in that capacity with Messrs

PROVENANCE Purchased from B A Seaby Ltd., London (c1974); originally from the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA(Rtd.) 19131971.

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48. Pair to Colour-Sergeant Frederick Thomas Bould, Wellington & Johnsonville Rifle Vols. (i) New Zealand Volunteer Service Medal, Edward VII (No 357 Pte Frederick T Bould, Welln Guards Rifle Vols 1906). Granted 22 March 1906. (ii) New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (No 42 Colour-Serg F T Bould,

Johnsonville Rifle Vols 1910). Granted 18 January 1910. On 1 November 1911 Bould was posted to 3rd (Auckland) Regiment, Countess of Ranfurly’s Own. PROVENANCE Purchased from Liverpool Medal Co, UK, 1999.

Estimate $1,200-$1,600 CATALOGUE 9005

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49. Group of 5 to WO I T S Power, RNZ (i) War Medal 1939-45, privately engraved (4954 RSM T S Power, RNZA). (ii) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45, privately engraved (4954 RSM T S Power, RNZA). (iii) Permanent Forces Beyond the Empire and Seas Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, George V (Field Marshal’s uniform) (954 Sgt T S Power, RNZA). 11 August 1923. 166 of this type awarded. (iv) New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal.

George V (crowned robed effigy) (954 WOI T S Power RNZA). Approved 3 June 1941 and issued 28 July 1941. Approximately 168 medals of this type awarded. George V medal as opposed to George VI confirmed by Stagg’s research. The number ‘954’ has been crudely added. (v) New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (Sjt T S Power RNZA). Granted 6 May 1921.”

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50. Group of 6 to Sergeant William James Ramsay, MM, Otago Regiment, 1NZEF. (i) Military Medal (MM), King George V (12-1777 SJT: W J Ramsay, 2/Otago R.). (ii) 1914-15 Star (12/1777 SJT W J Ramsay, NZEF). (iii) British War Medal 1914-18 (12/1777 SJT W J Ramsay, NZEF). (iv) Victory Medal 1919 (12/1777 SJT W J Ramsay, NZEF). (v) War Medal 1939-45. (vi) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45.

MM, Second Supplement to London Gazette, 12 November 1918, as a sergeant, Otago Regiment, for his actions in France on 15 August 1918 (no citation).

BIOGRAPHY Ramsay was born on 4 March 1888 at Thames.

He was a fireman. He served from 14 December 1914 to 21 January 1919, in Egypt, Gallipoli (1915) and Western Europe (1916-18). He was wounded at Gallipoli on 2 August 1915 but recovered and returned to the front. Promoted Lance-Corporal 1 June 1916. Transferred from Auckland Infantry Battalion to Otago Infantry Battalion. Entitled to Gallipoli Medallion. Died 29 June 1965.

PROVENANCE From the collection of Lt-Col T C Wallace, QSM, ED, JP, of Cambridge (1902-1987).

Estimate $2,500-$3,000 CATALOGUE 9005

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51. Group of 7 to Able Seaman George Edward Pearce, RN & RNZN. (i) 1939-45 Star. (ii) Africa Star. (iii) Pacific Star. (iv) War Medal 1939-45. (v) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45. ( vi) King George VI Coronation Medal 1937.

Supplement to NZ Gazette, 28 May 1937, page 1275 (as Able Seaman HMS Leander). (vii) Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, George VI, 1st type non-swivel suspender, (G E Pearce A B NZ1060 HMNZS Philomel), named in engraved capitals. Medal issued 12 May 1937.

BIOGRAPHY Pearce was born on 6 May 1910 at Bridgend, Glamorgan. A gardener, he volunteered to join the Royal Navy on 10 September 1925. He signed on for a second engagement on 6 May 1928 and served with the New Zealand Division of the RN from 2 June 1930-5 May 1940 when he was re-engaged for service during the Second World War. Discharged 21 September 1945. With service record.

PROVENANCE Purchased from Upper Hutt Coin Co.

Estimate $600-$900 74

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52. Unusual group of 5 to Leading Signalman Reginald P V Hayter, BEM, RN, NZ Division RN and RNZN. (i) British Empire Medal, military division, (BEM) (Ldg Sglmn Reginald P V Hayter, NZD 1193). (ii) British War Medal 1914-18 (J92105 R P V Hayter, Boy 2 RN). ( iii) War Medal 1939-45. (iv) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45. (v) Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, George VI (1st type head) (R P V Hayter, L/Stg NZ1193 HMS Philomel). With copy of service and research notes.

BIOGRAPHY Reginald Percy Hayter was born in 1903 and joined the RN in 1921 aged 18. Served with RN until 1930 when he joined the NZ Division of the RN and was discharged on 31 May 1945. BEM, London Gazette, 1 January 1946, page 163 ( NZ list).

PROVENANCE Liverpool Coin Co., England, 1998.

Estimate $1,500-$2,000 CATALOGUE 9005

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53. Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

54. Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

Elizabeth II, type 2 (Rigby, C D, NZ 14451 CRS HMNZS Philomel), named in engraved capital letters. CRS = Chief Radio Supervisor. The service number is incorrect and name may also be incorrect. Sold by NZDF as collectors specimen.

Elizabeth II, type 2 (Hunt, D A J, NZ11498 Chief Painter HMNZS Royalist).

PROVENANCE New Zealand Coin and Medal Co Ltd., Auckland.

PROVENANCE Purchased from NZDF.

Estimate $150-$200 78

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Estimate $250-$350

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55. Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

56. Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

Elizabeth II, type 2 (Harkness, N R NZ11449, CPO CK O, HMNZS Philomel). Norman Ross Harkness joined RNZN on 8 May 1948 as an assistant cook. His engagement expired in on 7 May 1959 but was extended to May 1968. His ‘re-engraved’ medal was issued to him in July 1968 when he was living in Rotorua. With research notes and record of service.

Elizabeth II, type 2 (16207 CPO STD C D Owen, HMNZS Waikato).

PROVENANCE Purchased through A Abel, Christchurch, at New Zealand Coin & Medal Co Ltd., Auckland Auction, 9 June 1983 (lot 106).

PROVENANCE Purchased from Upper Hutt Coin Co.

Estimate $250-$350

Estimate $250-$300 CATALOGUE 9005

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57. Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

58. Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

Elizabeth II, type 2. Unnamed specimen.

George V (1st type, naval uniform) (199002 W G Townsend, PO I CL HMS New Zealand). HMS New Zealand was presented to the RN in 1911 and sold in 1922. This battle cruiser took part in the Battles of Heligoland 1914, Dogger Bank 1915 and Jutland 1916.

PROVENANCE Purchased from Spink and Son Ltd., London.

Estimate $100-$150 80

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Estimate $300-$400

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59. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration (VRD).

60. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

George V, hallmarked SG London 1927, plain green ribbon.

George VI, unnamed specimen.

Estimate $300-$400

Estimate $250-$350 CATALOGUE 9005

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61 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

62 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal

63. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

Elizabeth II, type 2 (Drummond J, NZV11055 CRS T, HMNZS Olphert). Drummond was also entitled to Korea Medal 1950-53 and UN Medal for Korea. With research notes on Drummond.

Elizabeth II, type 2 impressed ‘specimen’.

George VI, unnamed specimen.

PROVENANCE Purchased from Upper Hutt Coin Co.

Estimate $250-$350

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Estimate $250-$300

Estimate $250-$300

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64. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration (VRD).

65. Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (RD).

66 Royal Naval Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

George V, GVR cypher, hallmarked SG London, 1927, with case of issue.

George VI, GRI cypher (post 1941), reverse dated ‘1942’.

George VI, unnamed specimen.

Estimate $300-$350

Estimate $350-$400

Estimate $250-$300

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67 Royal Naval Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

68 Royal Naval Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

69 Royal Naval Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

Elizabeth II, type 1 (Britt Omn), unnamed specimen.

Elizabeth II, type 2, unnamed specimen.

Elizabeth II, type 2, unnamed specimen.

Estimate $250-$300

Estimate $250-$350

Estimate $250-$300

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71 New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal.

72 New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal.

(1887-1931) (No 6 CPO Henry Lee, Bluff Nav Arty Vols. 1897). First type medal, approved 11 April 1897.

(1887-1931) (No 51 Gunner W M Brown, Lyttelton Naval Arty Vols. 1897). Medal granted 27 August 1897.

Purchased Spink and Son Ltd., London.

Estimate $1,000-$1,500

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Estimate $1,000-$1,500

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74 Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration (VD).

73 Volunteer Officers’ Decoration (VD).

VR cypher, hallmarked, London 1892.

Estimate $250-$300

George V, GRI cypher, hallmarked, London 1918 (Major C H Broad, Res of Officers 1921), engraved naming. According to Stagg 309 of this decoration awarded. With case. [Note: Name of H V Searle, of Nelson College, on base of case, whose Decoration was sold in the same sale and it would appear the cases were switched.] With research notes, including photocopy of portrait.

BIOGRAPHY Charles Harrington Broad, BA, was Headmaster of Nelson College 1922-1933 where he had been a pupil for nine years and later a master for 21 years. Enrolled Nelson College Volunteer Cadets 1887; appointed a Captain Otago High School Cadets 1897; Transferred to Nelson College 1902 and promoted Acting Major 1905; posted to retired list 1919.

PROVENANCE Purchased at New Zealand Coin and Medal Co. Ltd, Auckland, Auction 9 June 1983 (lot 76) as from the collection of D O Atkinson.

Estimate $1,200-$1,700 CATALOGUE 9005

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75 Efficiency Medal, New Zealand.

George V (first type, crowned and robed) (Sgt W H Peake Canterbury Rgt. 1935). Impressed naming but dated engraved. Medal approved 1935; According to Stagg 84 medals of this type issued.

Purchased from Baldwin, Auckland dealer.

Estimate $450-$550 88

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76 New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal.

(1887-1931), unnamed specimen.

Estimate $750-$950

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77 New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal.

78 New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal.

(1887-1931), frosted silver, hallmarked, WJD Birmingham 1964, impressed ‘specimen’. Late striking for issue as replacement.

(1887-1931), polished silver, hallmarked, WJD Birmingham 1963, impressed ‘specimen’. Late striking for issue as replacement.

Estimate $700-$900

Estimate $700-$900 CATALOGUE 9005

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79 New Zealand Territorial Service Medal.

80 Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, New Zealand.

George V (1912-1931), frosted silver ‘Wright die’, hallmarked, WJD, Birmingham 1964) unnamed specimen. Late striking for issue as replacement.

Elizabeth II, type 1 (Britt Omn), unnamed specimen.

Estimate $700-$900 90

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Estimate $250-$300

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81 Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, New Zealand.

82 Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, New Zealand.

Elizabeth II, type 2, unnamed specimen.

Elizabeth II, type 2 (36048 SSGT R A R Davies, RNZEME). Possibly incorrect naming & sold by NZ Army as collectors specimen.

Estimate $250-$300

Estimate $250-$300 CATALOGUE 9005

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83 New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal.

George VI, type 3 (no suspension lugs), unnamed specimen.

Estimate $300-$400 92

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84 New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal.

Elizabeth II, type 2, unnamed specimen.

Estimate $300-$400

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85 New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal.

86 Efficiency Decoration, New Zealand.

Elizabeth II, type 2, unnamed specimen.

(ED), GVIR cypher, unnamed specimen.

Estimate $300-$400

Estimate $500-$600 CATALOGUE 9005

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87 Efficiency Decoration, New Zealand.

88 Efficiency Medal, New Zealand.

89 Cadet Forces Medal.

(ED), Elizabeth II, with Bar, unnamed specimen, with case of issue.

Elizabeth II, type 2, unnamed specimen.

Elizabeth II, type 1(Britt Omn) (Maj B A Plaetz).

Estimate $300-$400

Estimate $200-$300

Estimate $500-$600

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90 Cadet Forces Medal.

91 Cadet Forces Medal.

Elizabeth II, type 2, unnamed specimen.

Elizabeth II, type 2, unnamed specimen.

Estimate $200-$250

Estimate $200-$250

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AIRFORCE LONG SERVICE

96

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92 Air Efficiency Award.

93 Air Efficiency Award.

94 RAF Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

Elizabeth II, type 2, reverse engraved ‘specimen’.

Elizabeth II, type 2, unnamed specimen.

Elizabeth II, type 2, unnamed specimen.

Estimate $250-$300

Estimate $250-$300

Estimate $250-$300

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95 RAF Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

96 RAF Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

Elizabeth II, type 2 (name has been XXX’ed over but appears to be 77649 Flt Sgt G P T Hey, RNZAF).NZDF collectors specimen.

Elizabeth II type 2, unnamed specimen.

Estimate $250-$300

Estimate $250-$300

98

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NEW ZEALAND POLICE

References: Wills (1990) J D Wills, ‘The New Zealand Police Medal’, Wellington : 1990. Wills, (1995). J D Wills, ‘To Guard my People: Honours and Awards to the Police in New Zealand 1861-1995’, Wellington : 1995.

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99

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97 Group of 3 to T J Surgenor, Rifleman NZEF & Constable, NZ Police.

98 NZ Police Commissioner’s Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

99 NZ Police Commissioner’s Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

(i) British War Medal 191418 (52894 Rflm T J Surgenor, NZEF). (ii) Victory Medal 1919 (52894 Rflm T J Surgenor, NZEF). (iii) NZ Police Commissioner’s Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, w/3c ‘22 Years’, ‘30 Years’ and ‘38 Years’ (No 2377 Constable T J Surgenor, NZ Police 1935).

(108 1/C Dete Alexr Henderson, NZP), 1st type, ring suspender,

by Kohn. Wills (1990) confirms medal 1887. With record of service.

No clasps (2911 Senior Sergeant B C Attwell, NZ Police 1970). Recorded by Wills (1990) as a type 8 by Mayer and Kean Ltd.

BIOGRAPHY Thomas Joseph Surgenor was born 19 May 1895; motor lorry driver; appointed to NZ Police 1 August 1921 and posted to Wellington 1 August 1921, Westport 15 August 1921, Glenavy 31 January 1937, and retired at Christchurch. Wills (1990).

Estimate $400-$500 100

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BIOGRAPHY Alexander Henderson, born 15 April 1847, a farmer, joined Otago Provincial Police 31 July 1872; sworn into NZ Constabulary 1 May 1872. Served in Dunedin, Christchurch 1895-97 (dismissed but later in year reinstated), Wellington 18981900, Gisborne 1900, Auckland 1901-08 (retired). Detective 2 class 1874 and from 1897, Detective 1 class 1879.

Estimate $400-$500

Estimate $250-$300

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100 NZ Police Commissioner’s Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

101 NZ Police Commissioner’s Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

102 NZ Police Commissioner’s Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

w/3c ‘22 Years’, ‘30 Years’ and ‘38 Years’ (all engraved) (No 644 Serg Edwin Eales, NZP 1907). Clasps awarded 1919, 1923 and 1931. Recorded by Wills (1990) as a type 4 by G T White. With research notes.

w/3c ‘22 Years’ (engraved), ‘30 Years’ and ‘38 Years’ (No 2252 Constable Kelly, A J, NZ Police 1934). No ribbon. With service record.

w/3c ‘21 Years’, ‘28 Years’ and ‘35 years’; unnamed specimen

by Goodwill Agencies. Sold with New Zealand Police Helmet Badge, white metal, King’s Crown and New Zealand Police Helmet Badge, white metal, Queen’s (St Edward’s) Crown.

BIOGRAPHY Edwin Eales was born in 1870 and joined the Police in 1893; promoted sergeant 1915 and rose to Superintendent in 1927; officer-in-charge of Christchurch 1927-1931 when he retired.

Estimate $400-$500

BIOGRAPHY Albert Joseph Kelly was born on 31 July 1897; labourer; sworn as a temporary constable before being appointed in August 1920.

Served in Auckland 1920-30, Rotorua 1930-34; Palmerston (Otago) 1934-, where he retired. Clasps issued 1942, 1950 and 1958. Wills (1990).

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $300-$400

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103 Cook Islands: [NZ Police] Commissioner’s Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, with ‘Cook Islands’ brooch and distinctive ribbon.

Unnamed specimen.

Estimate $150-$200

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104 New Zealand Ministry of Transport Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

1st type (Ministry badge on obverse) with two clasps.

Unnamed specimen.

Estimate $150-$200

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ORDER OF ST JOHN

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105 Serving Brother.

106 Serving Brother.

107 Serving Brother.

Order of St John, black and white enamel badge (white enamel chipped.).

Order of St John, black and white enamel badge.

Order of St John, silver ‘skeleton badge’ issued circa 1939-47.

BIOGRAPHY Attributed to Ian Barclay Campbell, [1916-2004] MBE, KStJ, VRD, Chief Commissioner St John Ambulance Brigade in NZ 1971-81. Appointed SBStJ in 1963 and promoted through OStJ (1967), CStJ (1971) to KStJ (1974). With biographical notes.

PROVENANCE Purchased from a private collection.

Estimate $80-$100

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BIOGRAPHY Attributed to Wing Commander William Neil Alexander McKay, [died 2005] OBE, KStJ, Chief Secretary of the Priory in NZ 1973-86. Appointed a SBStJ 1973 and promoted through OStJ (1976), CStJ (1979) to KStJ (1983).

PROVENANCE Purchased from a private collection.

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $150-$200

WEBB’S

108 Serving Sister.

109 Serving Sister.

110 Officer.

Order of St John, black and white enamel badge on bow.

Order of St John, black and white enamel badge on bow (black enamel chipped).

Purchased from a private collection.

Brother Order of St John, black and white enamel badge (6.3mm thick); reverse enamel chipped.

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $80-$100

BIOGRAPHY Attributed to Cyril Walker Linkman [died 1990].

Appointed OStJ (1954) and subsequently promoted CStJ (1962) and, KStJ (1975).

PROVENANCE Purchased from a private collection.

Estimate $80-$100

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113 Commander.

114 Knight of Grace.

111 Officer.

Sister Order of St John, small white enamel badge on bow.

Neck badge and breast Star, silvered metal and white enamel, with case of issue; circa 1958.

Brother Order of St John, black and white enamel badge. Thin example.

Estimate $100-$150

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Estimate $800-$1,000

Estimate $100-$150

WEBB’S

112 Officer.

Brother Order of St John, early frosted silver badge.

Estimate $150-$200

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ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY OF NZ

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115 Royal Humane Society of New Zealand, bronze medal.

5th type (Mayer and Kean Ltd) with straight fixed suspender, unnamed specimen.

Estimate $150-$200

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CAMPAIGN MEDALS GROUPS, SINGLES AND RELATED ITEMS SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902

110

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116 Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902.

w/4c ‘Cape Colony’, ‘Rhodesia’, Transvaal’, ‘South Africa 1901’. First three clasps joined together and all loose on ribbon. (2483 Trpr C E Crawford, New Zealand M R). Sold with South African War Veterans’ Association of New Zealand bronze and enamel membership lapel badge (fern frond).

BIOGRAPHY Trooper Charles Edward Crawford was a member of B Company, 5th NZ Contingent. A clerk, from the Westland, was attested at Wellington on 28 March 1900 aged 23. Medal and first three clasps issued 20 October 1902 and fourth clasp on 15 December 1906.

PROVENANCE Private purchase.

Estimate $1,200-$1,600

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CAMPAIGN MEDALS GROUPS, SINGLES AND RELATED ITEMS FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-18

112

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117 1914-15 Star.

118 1914-15 Star.

119 1914-15 Star.

(no ribbon): 5/235 Dvr A Hall, NZEF.

(no ribbon): 8/ 2304 S/Sjt G F Pulsford, NZEF.

(no ribbon): 16/528 Pte K Kingi, NZEF.

BIOGRAPHY Arthur Henry Hall; born 16 October 1895 (attested birth date 19 June 1893) at Havelock North; Army Service Corps; invalided and struck off April 1916. Died 16 February 1974 at Auckland and buried in Waikaraka Cemetery, Onehunga, Auckland.

BIOGRAPHY Gilbert Finlay Pulsford, from Wellington, Samoa Advance Party & 4th Reinforcements, Otago Regiment, Awarded Meritorious Service Medal, London Gazette, 17 June 1918 (NZ General Orders 1918/585 p.62) for services during operations at Belle Vue Spur and Becelaere, October 1917-February 1918.

Approximately 318 MSM awarded to New Zealanders.

Died 20 March 1920 at Wellington.

BIOGRAPHY Private Karauria Kingi, from Te Karaka, served with B. Company, NZ Maori Contingent.

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $125-$175

PROVENANCE Purchased as part of a private collection c1972-73.

Estimate $150-$200 CATALOGUE 9005

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120 British War Medal 1914-18.

121 British War Medal 1914-18.

122 Victory Medal 1919.

(no ribbon): 9/817 Pte W Foreman, NZEF.

(no ribbon): 12/1493 Pte H Rielly, NZEF.

(no ribbon): 25/973 Rflm J K Eddington, NZEF.

BIOGRAPHY Private William Foreman, from Wellington, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, killed-in-action, Somme, France, 15 September 1916.

Name on Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, France.

BIOGRAPHY Hugh Rielly, from Taranaki, served with Auckland Infantry Battalion.

BIOGRAPHY James Kirkwood Eddington, from Timaru, served with NZ Rifle Brigade.

Estimate $100-$150

114

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Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $40-$60

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123 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal 1919.

124 British War Medal 191418 and Victory Medal 1919.

125 British War Medal 191418 and Victory Medal 1919.

(no ribbon): Dvr L Abaitua, NZEF.

(no ribbons): 3/2823 Pte M N Salmon, NZEF.

(no ribbons): 7/2152 Dvr C P Smith, NZEF.

BIOGRAPHY 10/1172 Lulu Abaitua, born 12 June 1881 at Liverpool, served with 2nd Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion in Gallipoli, Egypt, France and Belgium. Previously served with 1st Battery South Lancashire Regiment. Died 27 July 1961. See Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph record.

BIOGRAPHY Martin Nathaniel Salmon, from Wellington, served with 22nd Reinforcements, NZ Medical Corps.

BIOGRAPHY Claude Penrose Smith, from Wanganui, served with 9th Reinforcements, Canterbury Mounted Rifles.

Estimate $150-$200

Estimate $125-$175

Estimate $125-$175

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126 British War Medal 191418 and Victory Medal 1919.

127 British War Medal 191418 and Victory Medal 1919.

128 British War Medal 191418 and Victory Medal 1919.

(no ribbons): 24/1743 Pte N Masson, NZEF.

(no ribbons): 69213 Rflm J Fisher, NZEF.

(no ribbons): 69817 Pte H Long, NZEF.

BIOGRAPHY Neil Masson, a farmer from Northern Wairoa, served with NZ Rifle Brigade.

BIOGRAPHY John Fisher, from Wellington, served with 35 Reinforcements.

BIOGRAPHY Henry Long, from Auckland, served with 35th Reinforcements.

Estimate $125-$175

116

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Estimate $125-$175

Estimate $125-$175

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130 1914-15 Star & Victory Medal 1919.

131 British War Medal 1914-18.

(British War Medal missing): 5/1387A Pte J Donaldson, NZEF [blackened].

3/2418 Pte F Shorter, NZEF.

(no ribbons): 23/214 Sjt F Morgan, NZEF. BIOGRAPHY Frank Morgan, from Stratford, served with 1st Battalion NZ Rifle Brigade.

BIOGRAPHY John Donaldson, from New Plymouth, served with Otago Infantry Battalion.

129 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18 and Victory Medal 1919.

Estimate $250-$350

Estimate $125-$175

BIOGRAPHY Frederick Shorter, from Masterton, served with Samoa Expeditionary Force.

Estimate $100-$150

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132 British War Medal 1914-18.

133 British War Medal 1914-18.

134 British War Medal 1914-18.

3/3908 Pte W G Hoff, NZEF.

46449 Rflm A Forestier, NZEF.

52273 Pte G W Pooley, NZEF.

BIOGRAPHY William George Hoff, from Dunedin, served on the NZ Hospital Ship Marama.

BIOGRAPHY Albert Forestier, a seaman from Auckland, served with 25th Reinforcements, NZ Rifle Brigade.

BIOGRAPHY George Welch Pooley, a plumber from Auckland, served with 28th reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment.

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $125-$175

118

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135 British War Medal 1914-18.

136 British War Medal 1914-18.

137 British War Medal 1914-18.

52437 Pte D G McDonald, NZEF.

57868 Gnr P Fox, NZEF.

65763 Pte W Kirkwood, NZEF.

BIOGRAPHY Patrick Fox, a chauffeur from Christchurch, served with 36th Reinforcements, Field Artillery.

BIOGRAPHY William Kirkwood, a labourer from Whanganui, served with 33 Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Regiment.

BIOGRAPHY David Gunn McDonald, a farmer from Kopaki, served with 28th Reinforcements.

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $100-$150

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138 British War Medal 1914-18.

139 British War Medal 1914-18.

140 Victory Medal 1919.

69248 Rflm W J Lester, NZEF.

70419 Pte S V Simmonds, NZEF.

8/2446 L/Cpl P G J Muir, NZEF.

BIOGRAPHY William John Lester, a steward from London, enlisted at Wellington.

Estimate $100-$150

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BIOGRAPHY Stanley Venn Simmonds, from Auckland, served with 36th Reinforcements.

Estimate $100-$150

BIOGRAPHY Percival George James Muir, from Wellington, served with 5th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion.

Estimate $40-$60

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141 British War Medal 191418 & Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18. (w/r): R Berryman.

From recipient’s daughter, Mrs Hutchison.

Estimate $150-$250

142 Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18.

143 Group of 3 to Corporal R R Wilberfoss, NZEF.

(w/r): R J Carter

(i) 1914-15 Star (1/290 Cpl R R Wilberfoss, NZEF). (ii) British War Medal 1914-18 (1/290 Cpl R R Wilberfoss, NZEF). (iii) Victory Medal 1919 (1/290 Cpl R R Wilberfoss, NZEF). With some research notes.

Estimate $100-$150

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144 Memorial Plaque 1914-18.

145 Gallipoli Medallion (ANZAC Commemorative Medallion).

146 Great War ‘Tribute’ Medal.

120mm bronze, holed at 12 o’clock. Named to ‘Mervyn Harold Pedder’.

Instituted by the New Zealand and Australian Governments in 1966 for issue to Gallipoli veterans and next of kin of veterans; 50 x 75 mm; in case of issue. Reverse engraved ‘F N Hardy’. [see No.1967/6 in Catalogue of New Zealand Commemorative Medals 19412007 by Hamish MacMaster, Wellington 2007.]

In 9ct Gold in shape of a shield and engraved ‘The Great War 1914-18. A Token of Honour to 8/17 W C Burdett from Roseberry Residents on his return from four and a half years active service.’ And Medal ‘For King and Country’, sterling silver, 1919.

BIOGRAPHY 45909 Private Mervyn Harold Pedder, 1st Battalion, Wellington Regiment, 1 NZEF; killed in action, France 12 October 1918, aged 40; buried Belle Vue British Cemetery, Briastre, France.

Estimate $150-$200 122

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BIOGRAPHY NOTE: This is a mis-named medallion and sold by NZ Army to approved collectors. Correct name should have been F N Hardey. Francis Norman Hardey served as a corporal, later Lieutenant, Canterbury Regiment. Mentioned in Christopher Pugsley’s ‘Gallipoli: The New Zealand Story’, 1st ed.

1984.

Estimate $50-$70

BIOGRAPHY Private William Clement Burdett, Otago Infantry Battalion, was from Herbert, North Otago. He embarked for overseas on 16 October 1914.

‘Roseberry’ was the name of the farm station of Mr Angus Ross at Herbert. (see ‘The Cyclopedia of New Zealand’, vol. 4: Otago and Southland, 1905, page 463).

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147 Pair to [Mrs] Hilda Gray, Wren, WRNZNS.

148 Collection of twelve (11) original 1939-45 Campaign Stars and Medals.

149 1939-45 Campaign Stars and Medals (a selection, some with ribbons).

(i) War Medal 1939-45. (ii) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45. With 1988 newspaper extract and personal letter to J A L Gibson.

Most in original tissue envelopes: 1939-45 Star (x8 samples). Italy Star (x3 examples).

(i) 1939-34 Star x6. (ii) Air Crew Europe Star x 2 (scarce). (iii) Africa Star w/c ‘8th Army’ (with ribbon). (iv) Burma Star. (v) Burma Star w/c ‘Pacific’ (with ribbon). (vi) Italy Star x 3 (one with ribbon). (vii) France and Germany Star (with ribbon). (viii) Defence Medal x 2. (ix) New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45 x3 (the suspender of one has been fixed in wrong position).

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Estimate $175-$250

Estimate $500-$700

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150 1939-45 Campaign Stars and Medal. Broken group mounted on bar. (i) DSM (ribbon only). (ii) 1939-45 Star. (iii) Africa Star. (iv) Defence Medal 1939-45.

Length of bar suggests other medals were in group.

Estimate $75-$100

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151 New Zealand Memorial Cross.

152 New Zealand Memorial Cross.

153 New Zealand Memorial Cross.

George VI, with neck ribbon (NZ404052 F/Sgt Geo Booth).

With brief notes.

George VI, with neck ribbon, (10895 Pte R Strange).

George VI, No suspension ring or ribbon. (NZ 4215161 F/Sgt F J Cousins). With brief notes.

BIOGRAPHY Flight Sergeant George Booth, 148 (RAF) Squadron, RNZAF, died on Monday, 22 June 1943 aged 30. His name is recorded on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt.

Estimate $350-$400

BIOGRAPHY Private Richard Strange, NZ Infantry, from Nelson, died on Sunday 25 May 1941 aged 21, during the campaign in Greece. His name appears on the Athens Memorial, Greece, Face 14.

Estimate $350-$400

BIOGRAPHY Flight Sergeant Floyd John Cousins, RNZAF, from Auckland, died on Sunday 3 December 1944 aged 23.

His name is recorded on the Bourail Memorial, New Caledonia.

Estimate $350-$400

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154 New Zealand Memorial Cross.

155 New Zealand Memorial Cross.

156 New Zealand Memorial Cross.

George VI, with unofficial silver brooch fitting in place of ribbon (284981 Gnr R P Craw). With brief notes.

George VI, with neck ribbon, unnamed specimen.

George VI, with neck ribbon, unnamed specimen in original case.

BIOGRAPHY Gunner Raymond Percy Craw, NZ Artillery, from Southbridge, Canterbury, died on 1 October 1943 aged 21. He is buried in the Bourail New Zealand War Cemetery, New Caledonia.

Estimate $350-$400

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Estimate $200-$250

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157 New Zealand Memorial Cross.

158 New Zealand Memorial Cross.

159 New Zealand Memorial Cross.

King George VI, with neck ribbon, unnamed specimen in original case.

King George VI, with neck ribbon, unnamed specimen in original case.

Elizabeth II (brooch on reverse), unnamed specimen.

Estimate $200-$250

Estimate $200-$250

Estimate $200-$250

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160 Naval General Service Medal 1915-1962.

161 Naval General Service Medal 1915-1962.

162 General Service Medal (Army & RAF) 1918-1962.

George VI w/c ‘Bomb & Mine Clearance 1945-53’, unnamed specimen.

George VI w/c ‘Bomb & Mine Clearance 1945-51’, unnamed specimen.

George VI w/c ‘Malaya’ (30114 Capt R Lockett, Fiji Inf Regt).

This officer may have been a New Zealander (Capt R B Lockett, NZ Inf) seconded to Fiji Infantry Regt. Medal may be a duplicate. From the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA (Rtd.) 1913-1971.

Estimate $200-$250

Estimate $125-$175

Estimate $150-$200

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163 General Service Medal (Army & RAF) 1918-1962.

164 General Service Medal (Army & RAF) 1918-1962.

165 General Service Medal (Army & RAF) 1918-1962.

Elizabeth II, type 1 (Britt Omn) w/c ‘Malaya’ (36306 Cpl G R J Gill, Fiji Inf Regt). Incorrect regimental number; should read 35306. NZ Army collectors specimen.

Elizabeth II, type 1 (Britt Omn) w/c ‘Malaya’ (30276 Capt G N McBoswell). NZ Army collectors specimen. The naming should read ‘G N McL Boswell’.

Elizabeth II, type 2, w/c ‘Malaya’ (36499 Sgt D Cameron, NZ Regt). With service record.

PROVENANCE From the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA (Rtd.) 19131971.

BIOGRAPHY Captain Boswell was Mentioned in Despatches for services in Malaya.

Commissioned as a Lieutenant 1947 and served with RNZAC (NZ Scottish) and 2 General Hospital RNZAMC. Appointed second in command NZSAS 1955.

Estimate $150-$200

PROVENANCE Purchased from NZ Army as collectors specimen.

Estimate $150-$200

BIOGRAPHY Sergeant Duncan Cameron, 2nd Battalion, NZ Regiment, was born in UK on 27 August 1930. Between 1946 and 1957 he served with the Scots Guards in the United Kingdom, Malaya (1950-51), and BAOR in 1957. From UK he enlisted in the NZ Regular Force in 1957 and served in Malaya 19591961 where he was discharged, returned to Dumfries, Scotland, and re-enlisted in Scots Guards. He received this medal on discharge. [Note: Cameron may have qualified for this medal while with Scots Guards and this NZ Regiment medal may have been a duplicate.]

PROVENANCE From the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA (Rtd.) 19131971.

Estimate $150-$200

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166 General Service Medal (Army & RAF) 1918-1962.

167 General Service Medal (Army & RAF) 1918-1962.

168 General Service Medal 1962-.

w/c ‘Malaya’ and loose on ribbon ‘Cyprus’ and ‘Near East’ Unnamed specimen.

w/c Malaya (204024 L/Cpl B B Fitt). Possibly a NZDF collectors specimen.

Elizabeth II, type 2, w/c ‘Malay Peninsula’ (2099564 Pte N J Milliken, RNZIR). Service number incorrect. It should be 209954. NZDF collectors specimen. With research notes.

Purchased from Baldwin, an Auckland dealer.

Estimate $125-$175

Estimate $150-$200

Estimate $125-$175

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169 Korea Medal 1950-.

170 Korea Medal 1950-.

171 United Nations Medal for Korea.

Elizabeth II type 1(Britt Omm), with Mention in Despatches emblem (206094 Major N L Miller). Service number incorrect. It should be 206084.

NZDF collectors specimen.

Elizabeth II type 2, with MID emblem, unnamed specimen.

(32726 Cpl P W Henriksen).

BIOGRAPHY Temporary Captain Norman L. Miller, 16th Field Regiment, RNZA, was MID and awarded the Military Cross (MC), London Gazette, 5 February 1952. 11 MC and 48 MID to NZ Army in Korea.

PROVENANCE From the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA (Rtd.) 19131971.

Estimate $150-$200

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172 United Nations Medal for Korea.

173 United Nations Medal for Korea.

174 Pair to Captain (Temp.

Major) J R Mills, RNZIR.

(K A Norman, CPO NZ 12645).

Also entitled to the Korea Medal. This medal was originally part of the mounted group of CPO C Beale, RNZN. With some notes on his service.

(621687 Dvr F G Pritchard).

May be a NZDF collectors specimen.

(i) Vietnam Medal (30695 Capt. J R Mills, RNZIR). (ii) Vietnamese Campaign Medal (star) (30695 J R Mills). This pair has been incorrectly engraved. Initials should read ‘J F’. Sold by NZ Army as collectors specimens. With copy of service history of John Francis Mills.

Purchased from NZ Army.

BIOGRAPHY Kenneth Alan Norman was born at Chatham, Kent, England, on 13 September 1919. Served in RN from 1949 to 1951 and in RNZN for five years from 1951 to 1959.

During the Korean War served in HMNZS Hawea. Also entitled to Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (approved 5 July 1954) but forfeited on 1 February 1957 while on HMNZS Black Prince.

Estimate $75-$100

Estimate $200-$300

PROVENANCE Purchased, as part of CPO Cecil Beale, RN & RNZN group, from A H Baldwin & Sons Ltd., London, 1966.

Estimate $80-$120

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175 Vietnam Campaign Medal (star).

Vietnamese issue, with ribbon bar and manufacturer’s original card box.

Estimate $50-$75

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176 The Queen’s Medal for Champion Shots in the New Zealand Naval Forces (1958-).

177 New Zealand Ladies Challenge Cup silver shooting medal.

Elizabeth II, no clasp. Name [appears to be 14037 Warrant Officer C Oamn, RNZN] has been XXX over. NZDF collectors specimen.

Purchased from NZDF.

(Hallmarked), suspended from a brooch engraved ‘32 Coy Cup’; reverse 1920-21 No 18 / 2942 Cadet Galbraith.

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $100-$150

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179 United Fire Brigades’ Association of New Zealand.

180 Nursing and First Aid awards and badges (6).

With miniature Naval officer’s sword in gold and enamel in fitted Gieves Ltd, London, case (Sweetheart brooch).

Silver 5 year medal, by Anton Teutonberg, (Driver Michael Piper, Dunedin City Council, 5 years service, date completed 11/11/06.

Originally from the collection of the late Dan Atkinson.

Estimate $80-$120

Estimate $250-$350

(i) New Zealand Red Cross Society Medal (red enamel cross) for ‘Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid’ Reverse engraved ‘K S Stone-Wigg 1868’ [latter is a registration number]. (ii) New Zealand Junior Red Cross lapel badge. Makers name ‘J R Gaunt, London’ on reverse. Replacement brooch. ( iii) New Zealand Registered Male Nurse Medal, gilt metal and enamel; reverse engraved ‘H B Harris 26/7/47’. (iv) New Zealand Army Nursing Service Brooch, silver and enamel (by Mayer & Kean Ltd, Wellington), with fine safety chain attached. (v) St John Ambulance Association/Brigade silvermetal and enamel Lapel Badge. Lacks reverse pin. (vi) St John Ambulance First Aid Medallion (bronze cross).

Named on reverse: A 108497 William B Johnston.

178 King George V Silver Jubilee Medal 1935, Miniature.

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182 Group of four miscellaneous items.

183 Medal Cabinet

(i) ‘Louvain’ cross; steel. (ii) Italy: Medal for Egypt or North Africa, copper silver-plated.

Reverse design removed and engraved with initials J A S. No ribbon. (iii) Navy League founder’s souvenir medallet or fob, copper with ring suspension. (iv) Canterbury Cross, 30mm diameter, bronze/ brass replica of 8th century Celtic cross of Canterbury, suspended from a narrow dark blue ribbon with bow on brooch fitting. This appears to be similar to the ‘Order of St Augustine of Canterbury’ instituted in 1964 in gold, silver and bronze, and worn from a Canterbury-blue ribbon. [See page 189, The Cross and the Sword, by Peter Bander van Duren, 1987.]

A fine Mahogany cabinet mounted on four cabriole legs with door, 20 draws. Cabinet: Height 96 m x width 56cm x depth 44cm. Draws: width 51cm x depth 36cm x 2cm deep; all with green baize lining.

Commissioned (either in 1930s or 1940s) from a Wellington Cabinet Maker by Mrs W D Ferguson as a gift for her husband, William Du Bois Ferguson (1891-1959), a foundation member NZ (later Royal) Numismatic Society (1933) of which he was a past President. He was an authority on Greek, Roman and early English coinage, FRNSNZ (1951); following his death his outstanding numismatic collection was sold to B A Seaby Ltd., of London.

About 1964 the cabinet was purchased from Mrs Ferguson for John Gibson as a gift from his wife. Suitable for medals, coins, or other small collectables.

Estimate $20-$40

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BOOKS

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NEW ZEALAND WARS

184. Belich, James I shall not die : Titokowaru’s war, New Zealand, 1868-9. Plus three.

1st ed. Wellington : Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, 1989. 8vo. 323 p. Illustrated. Soft cover. Mild wear and fading. G+.

Plus, ‘The New Zealand wars and the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict’ also by the same author. [Auckland] : Auckland University Press, 1986. 8vo.

396 p. Maps. Soft cover with mild creasing. Browning to contents. G. ‘The colonial New Zealand wars’ by Tim Ryan and Bill Parham. Wellington : Grantham House, 1986. 4to. 226 p. Illustrated. Hard cover with illustrated dust jacket. Light wear. VG. ‘Sergeant, sinner, saint, and spy : the Taranaki War diary of Sergeant William Marjouram, R.A’ edited by Laurie Barber, Garry Clayton and John TonkinCovell. Auckland : Random Century, 1990. 4to. viii, 102 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. ‘The New Zealand Medal to Colonials : detailed medal rolls of officers and men in colonial units who recieved the New Zealand Medal for service in the New Zealand Wars 1845-1872’ by Richard Stowers. 4th ed. Stowers : Hamilton, 2001. 4to. Soft cover.

VG. [4].

185. Cowan, James The New Zealand wars : a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period. In two volumes. Plus one.

Reprint ed. Wellington : Government Printer, 1983.

8vo. 2 v., illustrated. Red cloth boards with pictorial dust jackets. Mild shelf wear.

Inscriptions to fly leaf on both volumes. Contents clean.

Reprint of ed. first published 1922-23. VG-. Plus, ‘To face the daring Maoris : soldiers’ impressions of the First Maori War, 1845-47’ by Michael Barthorp. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1979. 8vo. 237 p.

Illustrated. Blue cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket. Maps to lining papers. Light wear. A nice copy VG-. [3].

Estimate $50-$80

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186. A collection of twelve auction catalogues relating to war medals, orders and decorations.

1917-1930. This group includes eleven facsimilie editions of Glendining and Sotheby catalogues, bound in green cloth with titles mounted to spines. Each copy relates to the sale of notable English collections such as S. Tombs, J. Murray, Lord Cheylesmore, M.T. Kennard and A. A. Payne. VG. Plus a smaller volume bound in brown cloth with ‘medal catalogues’ in gilt to front cover.

Inscribed by famous collector D. Hastings Irwin who authored ‘War medals and decorations issued to the British military and naval forces and allies from 1588 to 1901’. Wear and foxing, binding weak. G-. A

Estimate $100-$150

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187. Hibbard, M.G. Boer War tribute medals. Plus one.

188. Joslin, Edward C British battles & medals. Plus five.

Limited ed. Sandton : Constantia Classics Publications, 1982. 4to. xiv, 240, ivii p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Bookplate of J A L Gibson to pastedown.

Limted edition of 1500 copies, this is copy 1172. A handsome copy. VG+. Plus, ‘The New Zealanders in South Africa, 1899-1902’ by D.O.W. Hall. 1st ed. Wellington : Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch, 1949. 98 p. Illustrated.

Red cloth boards, lacking dust jacket. Occasional foxing to margins. Scarce. G+. [2].

London : Spink, 1988. 4to. viii, 299 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Contents clean. VG-. Plus, ‘British orders, decorations and medals’ by Donald Hall. Warmly inscribed by the author. St. Ives : Balfour Publications (Photo Precision Ltd.), 1973. 8vo. 96 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

Occasional spotting to contents.

G+. ‘Records and badges of every regiment and corps in the British army’ by Henry Manners Chichester. Facsimilie edition.

London : Frederick Muller, 1970.

Thick 8vo. Bound in red and navy cloth with gilt titles. Owners neat inscription to front free endpaper. Contents clean. VG. ‘Catalogue of the valuable and interesting collection of British Naval medals formed by Admiral the Marquess of Milford Haven’.

London : Dryden Press, 1919.

Tall 8vo. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge catalogue. Rebound in grey cloth with original spine mounted over top. Mild browning to contents. Scarce. G+. ‘Orders

Estimate $50-$80

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188. Cont.

and decorations’ by Vaclav Mericka. London, :Hamlyn, 1967.

4to. 316 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket housed in plastic wrapper. Inscription to front freee endpaper. Occasional wear and spotting. G+. ‘ The history of The Order of the Bath and its insignia’ by James C. Risk. Limited ed. London : Spink, 1972. Tall 8vo. xvii, 214 p. Plates.

Quarter bound in red cloth with marbled boards. Deluxe edition of 150 copies. VG. [6].

Estimate $80-$100

189. Oldham, Geoffrey P. Orders, decorations and medals awarded to New Zealanders : an illustrated guide for collectors. Plus one.

190. Orders and Medals Research Society. Twenty-five bound volumes of ‘The journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society’.

Auckland : G.P. Oldham, 1991.

8vo. 116 p., illustrated. Soft cover. Mild wear. G+. Plus, ‘The Oxford companion to New Zealand military history’ edited

by Ian McGibbon. Auckland : Oxford University Press, 2000. Large 8vo. Xxvi, 653 p.

Illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Inscription to front free endpaper. Ex libris. Light wear. VG-. [2].

London : Printed by Grillford Limited, 1973-97. 8vo.

Illustrated. Maroon cloth bindings with title to spines.

Contents clean. A superb resource. Includes a separate volume containing index and General Secretary’s Notes. VG. [26].

Estimate $200-$400

Estimate $20-$40

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191. Orders and Medals Research Society. Twenty-nine publications chiefly relating to the Orders and Medals Research Society.

192. Orders and Medals Research Society. The miscellany of honours. Nos 1-10. Bound together in two volumes.

1997-2002. Soft covers, stapled. Includes fifteen issues of ‘The journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society’.

[London : Orders and Medals Research Society], 1979-1996.

Blue cloth boards. Volume one contains issues 1-6, volume two contains 6-10. Ex libris. A handsome set. VG. [2].

Estimate $50-$80

Estimate $50-$80

193. Parkyn, H.G. Shoulderbelt plates and buttons. Plus one.

1st edition. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1956. 341 p. 8vo.

Illustrated. Dust jacket with mild soiling and wear. Red cloth boards. Inscription to front free endpaper. Light wear to contents. G+. Plus, ‘The A.B.C. of war medals and decorations’ by W. Augustus Steward. London : Stanley Paul & Co., 1915. 8vo. xviii, 407 p., illustrated. Brown cloth boards with wear to spine. Binding weak. Foxing to contents.

From the collection of the late Captain G T Stagg, SBStJ, FRNSNZ, RNZA (Rtd.) 19131971. G- to FA. [2].

Estimate $50-$80

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194. Stewart, Capt. J The Royal Highland Regiment : The Black Watch formerly 42nd and 73rd foot. Medal roll 18011911.

1st edition. Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable, 1913. 8vo. viii, 350 p., tables, illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket housed in plastic. Wear and fading to dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt regimental badge centre front. Bookplate of J. A. L. Gibson mounted to pastedown. Occasional spotting and neat annotations to contents. Scarce. G.

Estimate $50-$80

195. Spink & Sons Twentyeight bound volumes of ‘Numismatic Circular’.

196. Tye, J.R. The image maker : the art of James Berry. Plus one.

London : Spink, 1966-93. 4to., illustrated. A complete set of catalogues dating from 1966 to 1993. Each monthly issue bound together as one volume for each year. Blue cloth binding with title to spine. An indespensible resource for any collector. VG. [28].

1st edition. Auckland : Hodder and Stoughton, 1984. 8vo.

192 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Light wear with sunning to spine. Ex libris. Contents clean. A nice copy. VG+. Plus, ‘The art of the medal’ by Mark Jones. London : British Museum Publications, c1979. 8vo. 192 p., illustrated.

Illustrated dust jacket, brown cloth boards. Ex libris. Slight discolouration to margins otherwise a good copy. VG. [2].

Estimate $300-$500

Estimate $30-$50

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197. Wills, John D. The New Zealand Police Medal : the Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medals of New Zealand, her dependencies and mandated territories, 1886-1976. Plus two.

Auckland : J.D. Wills and New Zealand Police, 1990. 4to. 171 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. Slight browning to upper margins. VG. Plus, ‘St John in New Zealand : a history of the Most Venerable Order’ edited on behalf of the Priory in New Zealand by R.E. Wright-St Clair ; with a preface by Sir David Beattie.

Wellington : Millwood Press for The Order of St John The Priory in New Zealand, 1985.

4to. 140 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Light wear. VG. ‘The Order of St. John in New Zealand’ edited by R. E. Wright-St. Clair ; with a preface by Sir Denis Blundell.

1st ed. Wellington : Priory in New Zealand of the Order of St. John, 1977. 8vo. xviii, 152 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Light wear. VG. [3].

Estimate $30-$50

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198. Box lot, Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Twenty three publications including ‘The Massey Collection : a description of items associated with the life and work of the Right Honourable William Ferguson Massey presented to Massey University by his family’ compiled by R. D. Batt.

Palmerston North, N.Z. : Massey University, [1977]. 8vo. viii, 65 p., illustrations. Navy cloth boards. Light wear and foxing. G. Plus twenty four other similar publications, including several pamphlets.

All generally G. [25].

Estimate $50-$80

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NAVAL & MARITIME

199. Agar, Augustus Footprints in the sea. Plus nine.

London : Evans Brothers, 1959.

8vo. 336 p., illustrated, maps, port. Blue cloth boards and dust jacket. Chipping to dust jacket and wear to spine. Ex libris. Owners inscription to front free endpaper. Excision to front free endpaper. Contents clean. G to G+. Plus, ‘Tyrwhitt of the harwich force : the life of admiral of the fleet, Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt’ by A. Temple Patterson. London : The Military Book Society, 1973.

8vo. xiv, 336 p., illustrated, plates. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. Contents clean. VG. ‘The life and letters of David, Earl Beatty’ by W.S. Chalmers. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. 8vo. xxvii, 488 p., illustrated. Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket with fading to spine. Occasional foxing to contents. G to G+. ‘The eyes

of the navy : a biographical study of Admiral Sir Reginald Hall, K.C.M.G, C.B., Ll.D., D.C.L’

by Sir William James. 1st ed. London : Methuen, 1955. xxv, 212 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. Occasional foxing to contents. G to G+. ‘Jellicoe’ by John Winton. London : Joseph, 1981. 8vo. 320 p., illustrated, plates. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG+. ‘Roger Keyes : being the biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover, G.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O.’ by Cecil Aspinall-Oglander. London : Hogarth Press, 1951. 8vo. xv, 478 p., illustrated. Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket with wear, spotting and chipping. Ex libris.

Foxing to contents. G. ‘The reluctant admiral : Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy’ by

Hiroyuki Agawa ; translated by John Bester. Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. through Harper & Row, 1979.

8vo. 397 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. ex libris.

A handsome copy. VG+. ‘A good innings : the private papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham’ edited by Alan Clark. London : John Murray, 1974. 8vo. xii, 360 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. ‘Admiral of the fleet : the life of John Fisher’

by Richard Hough. New York : Macmillan, 1969. 8vo. 392 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. ‘Donitz : the last Fuhrer : portrait of a Nazi war leader’ by Peter Padfield.

London : Gollancz, 1984. 8vo.

523 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG-. [10].

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200. Chatterton, E. Keble Q-ships and their story. Plus four.

London : Sidgwick and Jackson, 1922. 8vo. xi, [1], 276 p., illustrated. Quarter bound in blue cloth with gilt insgnia. Marbled endpapers.

Presentation certificate mounted to pastedown.

Ex libris. Scattered foxing to contents. G+. Plus, ‘My mystery ships’ by Gordon Campbell. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. 8vo.

319 p., illustrated. Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket with wear and chipping. G. ‘The navy of Britain : a historical portrait’ by by Michael Lewis. London : George Allen and Unwin, [1948]. 8vo. 660 p., illustrated.

Blue cloth boards with gilt insignia. Lacks dust jacket.

Ex libris. Browing to contents.

G. ‘A social history of the navy 1793-1815’ also by the same author. London : Allen & Unwin, 1960. 8vo. 467 p., illustrated.

Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket with wear to corners. Ex libris.

Foxing to contents. G. ‘The lifeboat service’ by Oliver Warner.

London : Cassell, 1974. 8vo.

321 p, illustrated, map (folded).

Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. Light wear to covers and contents. VG. [5].

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201. Churchhouse, Jack Glamour ships of the Union Steam Ship Company N.Z. Ltd. Inscribed by the author. Plus six.

Wellington, N.Z. : Millwood Press, 1981. 4to. 103 p., chiefly illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Illustrated lining papers. Ex libris. Inscription by the author to fly leaf.

Occasional foxing to contents.

VG-. Plus, ‘Great sea battles’

by Oliver Warner. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, c1963. 4to. 303 p., chiefly illustrated. Blue cloth boards.

Lacking dust jacket. Mild wear to covers and contents. G+.

‘Liners in art’ by Kenneth Ward.

Southhampton : Kingfisher, 1990. 4to. 220 p., chiefly illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear and sunning. Ex libris. G+. ‘History of the world’s shipping’ by Amiral Barjot and Jean Savant.

Birmingham : Ian Allan, 1965.

4to. 429 p., illustrated. Dust jacket housed in plastic. Blue cloth boards. Illustrated lining papers. Ex libris. G+ to VG-. ‘The Mary Rose : the excavation and raising of Henry VIII’s flagship’ Margaret Rule. London : Book Club Associates, 1982. 4to.

240 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG+. ‘The marine paintings of Chris Mayger’ edited and introduced

by David Larkin. London : Pan Books, 1976. 4to. [93] p., chiefly illustrated. Soft cover. G+. ‘The lost ships of Guadalcanal’ by Robert D. Ballard with Rick Archbold. St Leonards : Allen & Unwin/Madison Press, 1993.

4to. 227 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG+. [7].

Estimate $30-$50

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202. Dawson, Montague The Royal Navy at war 1939-1945 : an exhibition of sea paintings by Montague Dawson. Plus six.

London : Kelly & Kelly, 1970.

8vo. 51 p., illustrated. Soft cover with gilt titles. Exhibition held at Christopher Wade Gallery, London. Includes a typed letter from the gallery director addressed to the owner, tipped in. Scarce. G+.

Plus, ‘A pictorial history of the sea war 1939-1945’ by Paul Kemp. London : Cassell, 1997.

4to. 190 p., chiefly illustrated.

Soft cover. G+. ‘Camera at sea 1939-45’ edited and produced by the staff of Warship. London : Conway Maritime, 1978.

4to. 192 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear and sunning. G+. ‘The Pacific war : as seen by US Navy photographers during World War 2’ by Larry Sowinski.

London : Conway Maritime Press, c1981. 4to. 208 p., illustrated. Blue cloth boards, dust jacket with slight fading.

Illustrated lining papers. Light wear to contents. VG-. ‘The camera at war : a history of war photography from 1848 to the present day’ Jorge Lewinski.

London : W. H. Allen, c1978.

4to. 240 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear to covers and contents.

G+. ‘Images of war : the artist’s vision of World War II’ selected and edited by Ken McCormick and Hamilton Darby Perry.

London : Cassell, 1991. 4to. xvi, 453 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. A handsome copy. NM-. ‘War at sea, 19391945’ by John Hamilton. Poole ; New York : Blandford Press ; New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co., 1986. Folio. 271 p., illustrated.

Large hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. Light wear to covers and contents. VG. [7].

Estimate $50-$80 CATALOGUE 9005

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203. Downer, Martyn Nelson’s purse. Plus seven.

London : Bantam Press, 2004. 8vo. 364 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris.

VG+. Plus, ‘Nelson’ by Arthur Bryant. London : Collins, 1970. 8vo. 173 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Inscription to pastedown. Ex libris. G+. ‘Trafalgar: the Nelson touch’ by David Howarth. London, Collins, 1969. 8vo. 254 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG-.

‘Nelson : the essential hero’ by Ernle Bradford.

London : Macmillan, 1977. 8vo. 368 p., plates, illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG-.

‘Southey’s life of Nelson’ edited and introduced

by Kenneth Fenwick. London : The Folio Society, 1956. 8vo. 304 p., illustrated. Decorative blue

cloth boards. Lacks dust jacket. Foxing. G. ‘England expects’ by Dudley Pope. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [c1959]. 8vo. 368 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. G. ‘Gunfire in Barbary’ by Kenneth Mason.

Inscribed by the author. Hampshire : Kenneth Mason, 1982. 8vo. 200 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. Sunning to contents.

G+. ‘From merciless invaders : the defeat of the Spanish Armada’ by Alexander McKee. 2nd ed.

London : Souvenir, 1987. 8vo. 288p., illustrated.

Marron cloth boards. Mild wear and sunning to dust jacket. Maroon cloth boards. Maps to lining papers. Occasional spotting to contents. G+. [8].

Estimate $30-$50 154

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204. Fremantle, Edmund Robert The navy as I have known it, 1849-1899. Plus eight.

1st ed. London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, limited, 1904. Thick 8vo. xvi, 472 p., frontispiece. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles.

Lacking dust jacket. Mild shelf wear. Contains several clippings, mounted in. Ex libris Foxing to first few pages and margins. A handsome copy. G+. Plus, ‘The Great sea war : the story of naval action in World War II’ edited by E.B. Potter and Chester W. Nimitz. Englwood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall in association with George G. Harrap, 1960. 8vo. ix, 468 p., illustrated. Blue cloth boards with gilt insignia to upper board.

Fading to spine. Lacking dust jacket. Ex libris.

Inscription by the owner to front free endpaper.

Sporadic foxing to contents. G to G+. ‘Main fleet to Singapore’ by Russell Grenfell. 1st ed. London : Faber and Faber, 1951. 8vo. 238 p., illustrated.

Blue cloth boards. Lacks dust jacket. Ex libris.

Scattered foxing to contents. G+. ‘British warship names’ by T.D. Manning and C.F. Walker. London : Putnam, 1959. 8vo. 498 p., illustrated. Blue dust jacket with slight tears. Navy cloth boards.

Ex libris. Contents clean. G to G+. ‘Walker, R.N.’

by Terrance Robertson. 1st ed. London : Evans Brothers, 1956. 8vo. 216 p., illustrated. Blue cloth boards, lacks dust jacket. Rubbing to boards.

Ex libris. Foxing to contents. G. ‘The navy of today’ by Kenneth Edwards. London : Blackie and Son, 1943. 207 p., illustrated, plates. Blue cloth boards with wear to extremities. Lacks dust jacket. Inscription to pastedown. Frontispiece removed. Mild wear to contents. G-. ‘The memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford’ written by himself. In two volumes. London : Methuen, 1914.

8vo. 2 v., illustrated, ports. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles. Fading to spines. Ex libris. foxing to contents. Both generally G. ‘A sailor’s odyssey : the autobiography of Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope’. London : Hutchinson, [1951]. 8vo. 715 p., illustrated, ports, maps. Blue cloth boards with wear to corners and spine. Lacks dust jacket. Ex libris.

Contains a photograph of what is possibly the medals awarded to Viscount Cunningham, laid in. Sporadic foxing to contents. G. [9].

Estimate $100-$150 CATALOGUE 9005

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205. Gordon, Andrew The rules of the game : Jutland and British naval command. Plus three.

1st ed. London : John Murray, 1996. 8vo. xii, 708 p., illustrated. Maroon cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket. Ex libris. Light wear to covers and contents. VG. Plus, ‘Engage the enemy more closely : the Royal Navy in the Second World War’ by Correlli Barnett. London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. 8vo. xviii, 1052 p. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. Occasional fingerprinting to contents. VG. ‘The British assault on Finland, 1854-1855 : a forgotten naval war’ by Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard. London : Conway Maritime, c1988. 8vo. xviii, 366 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. Scarce.

VG+. ‘Sea Combat off the Falklands’ by Antony Preston.

London : Collins, 1982. 8vo. 140 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG+. [4].

Estimate $50-$80

206. Holm, John No place to linger : saga of a wartime Atlantic Kiwi. Plus seven.

Wellington : Holmwork Publishers, 1985. 8vo. xii, 220 p., illustrated, maps. Hard cover with dust jacket. Bookplate of J.A.L. Gibson to pastedown.

Light wear. VG+. Plus, ‘The Royal Naval Museum book of The Battle of the Atlantic : the corvettes and their crews ; an oral history’ by Chris Howard Bailey. Gloucestershire : Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1994.

8vo. Hard cover with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author.

Light wear. VG+. ‘Fighting Admiral : The life of Admiral of the fleet Sir James Somerville, G.C.B, G.B.E., D.S.O.’ by Captain Donald MacIntyre. London : Evans Brothers, 1961. 8vo. 270 p., illustrated, plates. Dust jacket with creasing. Blue cloth boards. Maps to lining papers.

Foxing to contents. G. ‘ The Battle for the Mediterranean’ also by the same author.

London : Batsford, 1964. 8vo.

216 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris.

Mild wear and foxing. G+.

‘Pedestal: the Malta convoy of August, 1942’ by Peter C. Smith. London, Kimber, 1970.

208 p., illustrated. Dust jacket, blue cloth boards. Ex libris.

Inscription by the owner to front free endpaper. Light wear.

VG+. ‘The Bismarck chase : new light on a famous engagement’

by Robert J Winklareth. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1991.

8vo. xvi, 346 p. Hard cover with dust jacket. Maps to lining papers. Ex libris. Browning to upper margins. VG-. ‘The longest battle : the war at sea, 1939-45’ by Richard Hough. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986. xi, 371 p., illustrated, plates. Hard cover, dust jacket. Ex libris. Mild wear.

VG. [8].

Estimate $30-$50 156

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208. Marder, Arthur J. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow : the Royal Navy in the Fisher era, 1904-1919. In five volumes. Plus one by the same author.

207. Johnson, David New Zealand’s maritime heritage. Plus four.

Auckland : Collins in association with David Bateman, 1987. 4to. 196 p., illustrated. Green cloth boards.

Dust jacket with mild fading to spine. Ex libris. A handsome copy. VG+. Plus, ‘Captain James Cook’ by Richard Hough. 1st edition. London : Auckland : Hodder & Stoughton, 1994.

8vo. xviii, 398 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. Slight browning to contents. VG. ‘Captain Cook, the seamen’s seaman : a study of the great discoverer’ by Alan Villiers ; illustrations by Adrian Small.

8vo. [London] : Hodder and Stoughton, c1967. ix, 255 p.,

illustrated, maps. Black cloth boards with dust jacket. Maps to lining papers. Ex libris.

Light wear to covers and contents. VG. ‘Far as a man may go : Captain Cook’s New Zealand’ by Shirley Maddock ; photographs by Don Whyte.

Auckland : Collins, 1969. 8vo. xvi, 284 p., illustrated, maps, facsims., ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. Maps to lining papers. Contains a clipping, tipped in. Areas of browning.

G+. ‘Shackleton’s captain : a biography of Frank Worsley’ by John Thomson. Christchurch : Hazard Press, 1998. 8vo. 208 p., illustrated. Soft cover. Light wear. G+. [5].

London : Oxford University Press, 1966-70. 8vo. 5 v. illustrated. A complete set.

Dust jackets with blue cloth boards. Light creasing to jackets. Ex libris. Contents clean. Nice copies. G to G+.

Plus, ‘Operation Menace : the Dakar expedition and the Dudley North affair’ also by the same author. London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1976. 8vo. xxv, 289 p. illustrated. Navy cloth boards with dust jacket. Ex libris. Light wear to covers and contents. A strong copy. VG-. [5].

Estimate $150-$200

Estimate $30-$50 CATALOGUE 9005

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209. McGibbon, I.C. Bluewater rationale : the naval defence of New Zealand, 19141942. Inscribed by the author.

Plus two.

Wellington : Government Printer, 1981. 8vo. xx, 446 p., illustrated, facsimilies, maps (2 folded). Hard cover with dust jacket. Bookplate of J. A. L. Gibson mounted to pastedown. Inscription by the author, addressed to to ower, to front free endpaper. Contents clean. A strong copy. VG-. Plus, ‘HMNZS Achilles’ by Jack S. Harker. Auckland : Collins, 1980. 8vo. 264 p., illustrated.

Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket.

Ex libris. VG. ‘The Navy in New Zealand : an illustrated history’

by Grant Howard. Warmly inscribed by the author. 1st ed. Wellington : Reed, 1981.

8vo. vi, 170 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris.

Insciption by the author to patedown. Mild browning to contents. G+. [3].

Estimate $30-$50

210. Newcomb, Richard F. Savo : the incredible naval debacle off Guadalcanal. Plus seven.

Sydney : Ure Smith, 1963. 8vo. xv, 237 p., illustrated. Dust jacket, blue cloth boards.

Ex libris. Light wear. VG-.

‘The hunting of Force Z’ by Richard Hough. 2nd edition.

London : Collins, 1963. 8vo.

255 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris.

Scattered foxing to contents.

G+. ‘Below the belt : novelty, subterfuge, and surprise in naval warfare’ John Winton.

London : Conway Maritime, 1981. 8vo. 192 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

VG. ‘The Naval War in the Mediterranean : 1940-1943’ by Jack Greene and Alessandro Massignani. London : Chatham Publishing, 1998. 8vo. 352 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. ‘Battleship : The loss of the ‘Prince of Wales’

and the ‘Repulse’’ by Martin Middlebrook and Patrick Mahoney. London : Allen Lane, 1977. 8vo. x, 366 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

Ex libris. Contents clean. VG+.

‘Men from the dreadnoughts’

by Harry Baynham. 1st ed.

London : Hutchison, 1976. 8vo.

272 p. Hard cover with pictorial dust jacket. Ex libris. VG. ‘Naval policy between the wars’ by Stephen Roskill. Volume two only. London : Collins, 1976.

8vo. 525 p. Hard cover with dust jacket. Sunning to spine.

Ex libris. Contents clean. VG. ‘The arctic convoys, 1941-1945’

by Richard Woodman. London : John Murray, 1994. 8vo. xx, [6], 532 p., illustrated, maps. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear and spotting. VG-. [8].

Estimate $30-$50

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211. Parr, Charles McKew So noble a captain : the life and times of Ferdinand Magellan.

Plus five.

London : Robert Hale, 1955.

8vo. xv, 318 p., illustrated.

Black cloth boards. Dust jacket with wear and rubbing. Maps to lining papers. Bookplate of John Gibson. Wear and occasional foxing to contents.

G. Plus, ‘Drake’ by Ernle Bradford. London [England] : Hodder and Stoughton, 1965.

8vo. 251 p., plates. Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket with fading to spine. Ex libris. G+. ‘Galley slave : the autobiography of Jean Marteilhe. London : Folio Society, 1957. 8vo. xiii, 182 p., illustrated. Quarter bound.

Ex libris. Mild browning to contents. G+. ‘Beaufort of the Admiralty : the life of Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774-1857’

by Alfred Friendly. London : Hutchinson, 1977. 8vo. 362 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. VG. ‘Cochrane : Britannia’s last sea-king’ by Donald Thomas.

New York : Viking, 1978. 8vo. ii, 383 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. VG. ‘Rodney’ by David Spinney.

London : Allen and Unwin, 1969. 8vo. 484 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. G+. [6].

212. Roskill, Stephen The war at sea, 1939-1945. In four volumes.

London : H.M.S.O., 1956-1976.

Thick 8vo., illustrated, maps.

Volume one, two and three (in two parts). Green cloth boards. Mild browning to dust jackets on v. 2 and v. 3. Ex libris.

Contents clean. Volume one is a reprinted edition published in 1976. Soft cover. All generally G+. [4].

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $30-$50 CATALOGUE 9005

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214. Taylor, Gordon Clifford The sea chaplains : a history of the Chaplains of the Royal Navy. Plus three.

213. Roskill, Stephen Churchill and the admirals. Plus seven.

London : Collins, 1977. 8vo. 351 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. Mild wear. VG. Plus,‘The strategy of sea power : its development and application’ also by the same author. London : Collins, 1962. 8vo. 287 p. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris.

VG.‘Statesmen and sea power’

by Herbert Richmond. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1946. 8vo. xi, 369 p. Blue cloth boards. Lacking dust jacket. Ex libris. Mild wear to contents. VG-.‘Former naval person : Churchill and the wars at sea’ by Richard Hough. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, c1985.

8vo. vii, 244 p., illustrated. Hard cover, dust jacket. Ex libris. Light wear. VG.‘Naval battles of World War II’ by Geoffrey Bennett ; with

a foreword by Admiral Arleigh Burke. London : Batsford, 1975.

8vo. 253 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. Light wear to contents. VG-.‘The naval who’s who 1917’. Facsimilie edition.

Suffolk :J. B. Hayward & Son, 1981.

344 p. Blue cloth boards with gilt title. Minor wear. VG.‘British naval aircraft since 1912’ by Owen Thetford. London : Conway Maritime Press Ltd., 1991. 8vo.

512 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG.‘Air power at sea, 1939-45’ by John Winton. London : Sidgwick & Jackson, c1976.

4to. 185 p., illustrated. Blue cloth boards with dust jacket. Maps to lining papers. Mild browning to contents. G+. [8].

Estimate $30-$50 160

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Oxford : Oxford Illustrated Press, 1978. 8vo. xx, 603 p., illustrated, facsims., ports.

Blue cloth boards with gilt insignia. Dust jacket with light wear. Mild browning to upper margins. VG. Plus, ‘Vanguard to Trident : British naval policy since World War II’ by Eric J. Grove. London : Bodley Head, 1987. 8vo. xiii, 487 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. VG. ‘Seapower ashore : 200 years of Royal Navy operations on land’ edited by Captain Peter Hore.

London : Chatham, 2001. 8vo.

288 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG+. ‘Admiral John H. Towers : the struggle for naval air supremacy’, by Clark G. Reynolds. Maryland : United States Naval Institute, 1991. 8vo. 676 p., illustrated.

Dust jacket housed in plastic.

Grey and blue cloth boards.

Light wear. VG. [4].

Estimate $50-$80

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215. Waters, S. D. The Royal New Zealand Navy. Plus one Wellington : War History Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, 1956. Thick 8vo. xvi, 570 p.

Plates, illustrated. Dust jacket with light creasing. Blue cloth boards. Ex libris. Mild foxing. G to G+. Plus, ‘The white ensign in early New Zealand’ by J. O’C. Ross. Wellington : A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1967. 121 p. Plates, illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Spotting to jacket.

Ex libris. Browning to margins.

G. [2].

Estimate $50-$80

216. Wells, John The Royal Navy : an illustrated social history 1870-1982. Plus seven.

Dover : Alan Sutton, 1994.

4to. x, 306 p., illustrated. Dust jacket with blue cloth boards.

Ex libris. Light wear. VG. Plus, ‘Sea life in Nelson’s time’ by John Masefield. London : Book Club Associates, 1984. Tall 8vo. 160 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris.

Light wear. VG. ‘The national maritime museum’ edited by Basil Greenhill. London : Phillip Wilson Publishers, 1982. 4to.

144 p., chiefly illustrated. Soft cover. Mild wear to covers and contents. G+. ‘Royal admirals 1327-1981’ by David A. Thomas.

London : Andre Deutsch, 1982.

8vo. 200p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Fading to spine. Genealogical table to lining papers. Light wear to contents. G+. ‘An outline

of Australian naval history’ published by the Australian Government Publishing Service, 1976. 8vo. 89 p., illustrated. Soft cover with mild wear. Ex libris. Browning to margins. G. ‘The illustrated longitude’ by Dava Sobel and William J. H. Andrews. London : Fourth Estate, 1998. 4to. 216 p., illustrated. Soft cover. Light wear. VG. ‘Pictorial history of ships’ by J H Martin and Geoffrey Bennett. London : Octopus, 1977. 4to. 192 p., chiefly illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Illustrated lining papers. Mild wear. VG-.

‘Farewell to the tramps’ by George Young. Inscribed by the author. Kommetjie : Midgley, 1982. 8vo. 120 p, iluustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket. [8].

Estimate $30-$50 CATALOGUE 9005

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217. Woodward, Sandy One hundred days : the memoirs of the Falklands battle group commander. Plus three.

218. Box Lot, Naval and Maritime Fourteen titles including ‘The sea in modern strategy’ by L. W. Martin.

London : Harper Collins, 1992.

8vo. xix, 360 p., plates. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. Plus, ‘Aim straight: a biography of Admiral Sir Percy Scott’

by Peter Padfield. London : Hodder & Stoughton [1966].

8vo. 317 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. Occasional spotting to contents. G+. Also with, ‘The great naval race : the Anglo-German naval rivalry, 1900-1914’ by the same author. London : Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1974. 8vo. 382 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris.

G+. ‘Dreadnought : Britain, Germany, and the coming of the Great War’ by Robert K. Massie. London : Jonathan Cape, 1992. Thick 8vo. xxxi, 1007 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. [4].

London, Chatto & Windus for the Institute for Strategic Studies [1967]. 8vo. 190 p., map, table. Hard cover with dust jacket. G+. Plus thirteen other similar publications. [14].

Estimate $20-$40

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220. Bossoli, Carlo. The War in Italy : from drawings by Carlo Bossoli ; with a descriptive narrative by the author of ‘The Times’ from the allied camp.

219. Barker, A. J. The march on Delhi. Plus seven.

London : Faber and Faber [1963]. 8vo. 302 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

Spotting. G+. Plus, ‘The vanished army’ by Tim Carew.

London, W. Kimber [1964].

8vo. xiii, 239 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

Wear and foxing. G. ‘The vainglorious war, 1854-56’ by A. J. Barker. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970. 8vo. xix, 348 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG-. ‘The red beret : the story of the Parachute Regiment at war 1940-1945’ by Hilary St. George Saunders ; with a foreword by Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.

London : Michael Joseph, 1951.

8vo. 336 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear and foxing. G. Along with, ‘The green beret : the story of the

Commandos, 1940-1945’ by Hilary St. George Saunders; with a foreword by the Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

London : Michael Joseph, 1954.

8vo. 362 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear and foxing G. ‘The war of the running dogs: how Malaya defeated the communist guerrillas, 1948-60’ by Noel Barber. London, Collins, 1971.

8vo. 284 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear to covers and contents. G-.

‘Dieppe : the dawn of decision’

by Jaques Mordal. London : Souvenir Press, 1962. 8vo. 285 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. G. ‘Destination Dunkirk : the story of Gort’s army’ by Gregory Blaxland.

London, Kimber, 1973. 8vo. xii, 436 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. G+. [8].

1st ed. London : Day & Son, 1859. 4to. Original cloth binding with decorative gilt boards. Binding weak. Tinted lithograph frontispiece and plates. Light spotting to margins. A serviceable copy of this very scarce work. AF/FA.

Estimate $300-$500

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222. Bernard Cyril Freyberg, Baron The New Zealand Division in Egypt and Libya : operations ‘Lightfoot’ and ‘Supercharge’. In two volumes.

[S.l. : New Zealand Division, 1942]. Folio. 2 v., illustrated, maps. Pt. 1. Narrative and lessons. Pt. 2. Maps and diagrams. Mild wear and spotting. A report written

by Lieutenant General B.C. Freyberg. Scarce. G. [2].

221. Bush, Eric Wheeler. Gallipoli. Plus six.

London : Allen & Unwin, 1975.

8vo. 335 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. G+.

‘Gallipoli’ by Alan Moorehead.

London : Hamish Hamilton, 1956. 8vo. 384 p., illustrated, plates. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear and foxing. G. ‘Gallipoli correspondent’ the frontline diary of C.E.W. Bean ; selected and annotated by Kevin Fewster. Sydney : George Allen & Unwin, 1983. 8vo. 217 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Illustrated lining papers. G+. ‘Anzac newsreel : a picture history of Gallipoli’ by Cyril Pearl. Sydney : Ure Smith ; Wellington, : Reed, 1963.

8vo. 49 p., chiefly illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

Contains a clipping, laid in. Mild wear. G. ‘Anzac : a retrospect’ Cecil Malthus.

Christchurch : Whitcombe & Tombs, 1965. 8vo. 159 p., maps. Hard cover with dust jacket. Light wear and foxing.

G. ‘Australia at arms’ edited for the Board of Management of the Australian War Memorial

by Norman Bartlett. Canberra, A.C.T. : Australian War Memorial, 1962. 8vo. 265 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Illustrated lining papers. Occasional foxing. G+.

‘The Suvla Bay landing’ by John Hargrave. London : Macdonald, 1964. 8vo. 266 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

Wear and foxing. G. [7].

Estimate $20-$40 164

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223. Freyberg, Paul. Bernard Freyberg, VC : soldier of two nations. Plus six.

London ; Auckland : Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. 8vo. 627 p., illustrated, maps, table, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. Light wear and scattered foxing. VG-.

Plus, ‘General Lord Freyberg VC : an unofficial biography’

by Peter Singleton-Gates.

London : Michael Joseph ; New Zealand : Whitcombe & Tombs, 1963. 8vo. 328 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

Wear and foxing. G. ‘Freyberg : Churchill’s salamander’ by Laurie Barber, John TonkinCovell. Auckland : Century Hutchinson, 1989. 8vo. vii, 310 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. ‘The forgotten victor : General Sir Richard O’Connor, KT, GCB, DSO, MC’

by John Baynes. London : Brassey’s, 1989. 8vo. xiv, 320 p.,

illustrated, maps. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. Along with ‘Far from a donkey : the life of General Sir Ivor Maxse, KCB, CVO, DSO’ also by the same author. London : Brassey’s, 1995. 8vo. xi, 244 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

VG. ‘Blamey, controversial soldier : a biography of Field Marshall Sir Thomas Blamey, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, ED’ by John Hetherington. Canberra : Australian War Memorial and the Australian Government Publishing Service, 1973.

8vo. xviii, 414 p., plates. Hard cover with dust jacket. G+.

‘Cunningham the commander’

by S.W.C. Pack. London : B. T. Batsford, 1974. 8vo. x, 323 p., illustrated, maps. Hard cover with dust jacket housed in plastic. G+. [7].

Estimate $30-$50 CATALOGUE 9005

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224. Hamilton, Ian B. M. The happy warrior : a life of General Sir Ian Hamilton G.C.B., G.C.M.G., D.S.O. Plus seven.

London : Cassell, 1966. 8vo.

[11], 487 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear. G+. Plus, ‘Marshal Mannerheim and the Finns’

by Oliver Warner. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson [1967]. 8vo. 232 p., frontis., plates. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear to jacket. G. ‘Crusade in Europe’ by Dwight D. Eisenhower. London : Heinemann, 1949. 8vo. xiv, 582 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear to covers and contents. G. ‘Urquhart of Arnhem : the life of Major General RE Urquhart, CB, DSO’.

London : Brassey’s, 1993. 8vo. viii, 272 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. A nice copy. VG. ‘The phantom major :

the story of David Stirling and the S.A.S. Regiment’ by Virginia Cowles. London : Collins, 1958.

8vo. 320 p., maps, port. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG-.

‘Cheshire V.C. : a study of war and peace’ by Russell Braddon.

London : Evans Brothers, 1954. 8vo. 217 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

Mild wear. G+. ‘Douglas Haig : the educated soldier’ by John Terraine. London : Hutchinson, 1963. 8vo. xviii, 508 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear. G. Along with ‘The Western Front 19141918’ also by the same author.

London : Hutchinson, 1964. 8vo.

230 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. G+. [8].

Estimate $30-$50 166

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226. Harris, John. Much sounding of bugles : the siege of Chitral, 1895. Plus four.

225. Harper, Glyn. Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Plus six.

Auckland : Harper Collins Publishers, 2000. 8vo. 208 p., illustrated, plates, maps, ports.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

A handsome copy. VG+. Plus, ‘They called it Passchendaele : the story of the Third Battle of Ypres and of the men who fought in it’ by Lyn Macdonald.

London : Book Club Associates, 1978. 8vo. xv, 253 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Dust jacket with mild wear. Blue cloth boards.

Maps to lining papers. VG. ‘In Flanders fields : the 1917 campaign’ by Leon Wolff. 2nd ed. London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1959. 8vo. xxiv, 310 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Foxing to contents. G. ‘Men of Gallipoli : the Dardanelles and Gallipoli experience, August 1914 to January 1916’ by Peter Liddle.

London : Allen Lane, 1976. 8vo.

320 p., illustrated, maps, ports.

Hard cover with dust jacket. A strong copy. VG. ‘The Gordon Bennett story’ by Frank Legg.

Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1965. 8vo. x, 309 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. Inscription to pastedown. Mild wear and scattered foxing to contents.

G+. ‘Anzacs at war : the story of Australian and New Zealand battles’ by John Laffin. 1st ed.

London : Abelard-Schuman, 1965. 8vo. 223 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

Occasional foxing. G+. ‘August 1914’ by Barbara Tuchman.

London : Constable, 1962. 8vo.

499 p. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear and foxing.

G. [6].

London : Hutchinson, 1975.

8vo. xvi, 248 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

Occasional foxing to contents.

VG-. Plus, ‘The sound of fury : an account of the Indian mutiny’ by Richard Collier.

London : Collins, 1963. 8vo.

383 p., illustrated, plates.

Dust jacket with mild wear.

Grey cloth boards. Maps to lining papers. Foxing. G. ‘The great mutiny, India 1857’ by Christopher Hibbert. London : Allen Lane, 1978. 8vo. 472 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. ‘The Arrow War: an Anglo-Chinese confusion, 1856-1860’ by Douglas Hurd. London : Collins, 1967. 8vo. 254 p., plates, ports.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

VG. ‘Omdurman’ by Philip Ziegler. London : Collins, 1973.

8vo. 240 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. Foxing. VG-. [5].

Estimate $30-$50

Estimate $50-$80 CATALOGUE 9005

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227. Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, Sir The Rommel papers. Plus five.

London : Collins, 1953. 8vo. xxx, 545 p., illustrated, maps.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

Wear and foxing. G. Plus, ‘Rommel’ by Desmond Young ; with a foreword by Sir Claude Auchinleck. London : Collins, 1950. 8vo. 288 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. Considerable wear and foxing. G-. ‘Rommel as military commander’ by Ronald Lewin. London, Batsford; Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand, 1968. 8vo. x, 262 p., illustrated, plans, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket housed in plastic.

Occasional foxing. G+. ‘To lose a battle: France 1940’ by Alistair Horne. London, Macmillan, 1969. 8vo. xxvii, 556 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket housed in plastic. Wear and soiling. G. ‘Ultra goes to war : the secret story’ by Ronald Lewin. London : Hutchinson, 1978. 8vo. 397 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. ‘Knight’s cross : a life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’ by David Fraser.

London : Harper Collins, 1993.

8vo. xiii, 601 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. [6].

Estimate $20-$40

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228. Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, Sir The memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart. In two volumes. Plus seven.

London : Cassell, 1965. 8vo.

2v., illustrated. Hard covers with dust jacket. Mild wear and scattered foxing. G. Plus, ‘History of the Second World War’ also by the same author.

London, Cassell, 1970. 8vo. xvi, 766 p., maps. Hard cover with dust jacket. Sunning to covers and contents. G. ‘The face of battle’ by John Keegan.

London : J. Cape, 1976. 8vo. 352 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. G+. ‘The struggle for Europe’ by Chester Wilmot.

London : Collins, 1952. 8vo. 766 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear and foxing.

G-. ‘Triumph in the West, 19431946 : based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke’ by Arthur Bryant.

London : Collins, 1959. 8vo. 576 p., illustrated. Hard cover with

dust jacket. Wear and foxing.

G. Along with ‘The turn of the tide, 1939-1943 : based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke’ also by the same author. London : Collins, 1957. 8vo. 766 p. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear and foxing. Contains several clippings, laid in. G. ‘Britain and her army, 1509-1970 : a military, political and social survey’ Correlli Barnet. London : Allen Lane, 1970. 8vo. xx, 530 p. Hard cover with dust jacket. G. ‘The British Army in Northern Ireland’ by Michael Dewar. London : Arms and Armour Press ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed in the USA by Sterling Pub. Co., 1985. 8vo.

270 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. G+. [9].

Estimate $30-$50

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229. Longford, Elizabeth. Wellington : pillar of state. Plus eight.

London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, c1972. 8vo. xx, 472 p., illustrated, coat of arms.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

G+. Plus, ‘Wellington : the years of the sword’ also by the same author. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, c1969. 8vo. xxiii, 548 p., illustrated, maps. Hard cover with dust jacket. G to G+.

‘The Battle of Waterloo’, by the editors of Horizon Magazine; author J. Christopher Herold in consultation with Gordon Wright. London, Cassell [1967].

8vo. 4-153 p., illustrated.

Pictorial covers and lining papers. Scattered foxing.

G. ‘The Waterloo roll call’ by Charles Dalton. London : Arms and Armour Press, 1971. 8vo. xv, 296 p. Hard cover with dust jacket. G. ‘A near run thing : the day of Waterloo’ by David Howarth. London, Collins, 1968.

8vo. x, 239 p., illustrated, plans,

ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. Maps to lining papers.

Occasional foxing. G+. ‘The road to Yorktown’ by John Selby.

London : Hamilton, 1976. 8vo. x, 214 p., maps, plans, ports.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

VG-. ‘The reason why’ by Cecil Woodham-Smith. London ; Constable, 1953. 8vo. x, 292 p., illustrated, plates, maps.

Dust jacket with slight tears.

Red cloth boards. Browning to contents. G. ‘Wellington at Waterloo’ by Jac Weller. London : Longmans, 1967. 8vo. xiv, 264 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear. G+.

‘Wellington in the Peninsula, 1808-1814’ by Jac Weller ; illustrated with 58 photos taken by the author and 22 maps. London, N. Vane [1962].

8vo. 395 p., illustrated, maps, port. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG-. [9].

Estimate $20-$40

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230. Mosley, Leonard. Duel for Kilimanjaro : an account of the East African campaign 1914-1918. Plus six.

London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1963. 8vo. 244 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear and foxing.

G. Plus, ‘The fall of Crete’ by Alan Clark. London : Anthony Blond, 1962. 8vo. 206 p., illustrated, maps. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear and foxing. G. ‘The Somme’ by A.H. Farrar-Hockley. London : Batsford, 1964. 8vo. 223 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Light wear and occasional foxing. G. ‘The Siege’ by Russell Braddon.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1969.

8vo. 352 p., illustrated, maps.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

‘The swordbearers : studies

in supreme command in the First World War’. London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. 8vo.

386 p., illustrated, maps. Hard cover with dust jacket. Maps to lining papers. Occasional foxing. G. ‘A biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, GCB, KBE, MC, DFC, DCL’ by Vincent Orange. Inscribed by the author. London : Methuen, 1984. 8vo. 301 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

G+. ‘Templer, tiger of Malaya : the life of Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer’ by John Cloake.

London : Harrap, 1985. 8vo. xi, 508 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Light wear and occasional foxing. G. [7].

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232. Robinson, Charles N. The Transvaal War album : the British Forces in South Africa : an album, wherein the various regiments and other principal units of the forces engaged in the Boer campaign of 1899-1900, are illustrated’.

Plus three.

231. Ransford, Oliver. The Battle of Majuba Hill : the first Boer War. Plus five.

London : Murray, [1967]. 8vo. ix, 154 p., plates, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG-. Plus, ‘Battles of the Boer War’ by W. Baring Pemberton. London : B.T. Batsford, 1964. 8vo. 216 p., illustrated, maps, ports.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

Occasional foxing to contents.

VG-. ‘The Anglo-Boer wars : the British and the Afrikaners, 1815-1902’ by Michael Barthorp. Poole ; New York : Blandford Press, 1987. 8vo.

176 p., illustrated. Soft cover.

Mild wear. G+. ‘Little Hodge’ : being extracts from the diaries and letters of Colonel Edward

Cooper Hodge, written during the Crimean War, 1854-1856’ edited by the Marquess of Anglesey. London : Leo Cooper, 1971. 8vo. xii, 166 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. ‘Battles of the Crimean War’ by W. Baring Pemberton. London : Batsford, 1962. 8vo. 239 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. ‘Cardogna’s Crimea’ illustrated by the Hon. Sir George Cadogan K.C.B., written by Lt. Col. Somerset J. Gough Calthorpe. London : Hamish Hamilton, 1979. 8vo.

288 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. [6].

[London] G. Newnes [1900?].

Folio. 268 p., illustrated. Green cloth boards with gilt titles.

Binding weak, lacks several pages. Wear and spotting to margins. Scarce. AF/FA. Along with a seperate volume, bound in black cloth with ‘N.Z. Govt.’ blind stamped to upper board.

This includes the missing pages from the ‘Transvaal War album’, which have been bound together. G. Plus, ‘Navy and army illustrated’. London : Hudson & Kearns, 1989 and 1901. Folio. 2 v., illustrated.

Quarter bound. Wear to corner and spines on both volumes.

Ex library. Wear to contents.

A magazine descriptive and illustrative of everyday life in the defensive service of the British Empire. AF/FA. [4].

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $20-$40 CATALOGUE 9005

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233. Sandford, Kenneth. Mark of the lion : the story of Capt.

Charles Upham, V.C. and Bar. Inscribed by the author. Plus six.

London : Hutchinson, 1962.

8vo. 287 p., illustrated, ports.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

Inscription by the author to front free endpaper. Mild wear to covers and contents. G. ‘The Victoria Cross & George Cross’ published by the Imperial War Museum, 1970.

8vo. 40 p., chiefly illustrated.

Soft cover. G. ‘In the face of the enemy : the complete history of the Victoria Cross and New Zealand’ by Glyn Harper and Colin Richardson.

Auckland : HarperCollins NZ, 2006. 8vo. 272 p., illustrated.

Soft cover. VG. ‘The happy hunted’ by George Clifton ; with a foreword by LieutenantGeneral the Viscount Freyberg of Wellington. London : Cassell, 1952. 8vo. xi, 392 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear and foxing. G. ‘Soldier country’

by Jim Henderson ; sketches

by Mark Dunstan. Wellington : Millwood, 1978. 8vo. viii, 216

p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Light wear and browning to margins. G to G+.

‘The second step’ by Adrian Hayter. London : Hodder and Stoughton, c1962. 8vo. x, 223 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear and foxing. G. ‘Regular soldier : a life in the New Zealand Army’

by Frank Rennie. Auckland : Endeavour Press, 1986. 8vo.

316 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG-. ‘Warrior nation : New Zealanders at the front, 1900-2000’ by John Thomson. Christchurch : Hazard Press, 2000. 8vo. 344 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Soft cover. VG. ‘Operation East Timor : the New Zealand Defence Force in East Timor, 19992001’ by John Crawford and Glyn Harper ; [with a foreword

by Dame Sylvia Cartwright].

Auckland : Reed, 2001. 8vo.

232 p., illustrated. Soft cover.

VG. [9].

Estimate $30-$50

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235. Spears, Sir Edward.

Liaison 1914 : a narrative of the great retreat. Plus five.

234. Slim, William. Defeat into victory. Plus eight.

London : Cassell, 1962. 8vo.

468 p., maps (folded). Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear and foxing. Contains a clipping, laid in. G. Plus, ‘Slim as military commander’

by Geoffrey Evans. London : Batsford, 1969. 8vo. 239 p., illustrated, maps. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear and scattered foxing. G. Slim : the standardbearer : a biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim’ by Ronald Lewin. London : Cooper, 1976. 8vo. xv, 350 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. Light wear and occasional foxing.

VG-. ‘Fighting general : the public and private campaigns of General Sir Walter Walker’ by Tom Pocock. 280 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. Slight tears to dust jacket. Dark blue cloth boards. Wear to contents. G.

‘Elephant Bill’ by J.H. Williams.

London : Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. 319 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Foxing to covers and contents. G-.

‘Wavell : Supreme Commander, 1941-1943’ by John Connell.

London : Collins, 1969. 8vo. 317 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. VG. ‘The trumpet in the hall, 1930-1958’ by Bernard Fergusson. London : Collins, 1970. 8vo. 286 p. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear and foxing. G. Along with, ‘Wavell : portrait of a soldier’ also by the same author. London : Collins, 1961. 8vo. 96 p. Hard cover, dust jacket. Insect damage to covers. G. ‘Wavell : scholar and soldier, to June 1941’ by John Connell. London : Collins, 1964, 8vo. 573 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear. G. [9].

Estimate $30-$50

London : Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1968. Thick 8vo. xxxiii, 588 p., illustrated, maps.

Dust jacket with tears. Maroon cloth boards. Light wear to contents. G. Plus, ‘No man’s land : the story of 1918’ by John Toland. London : Eyre Methuen, 1980. 8vo. xx, 651p, illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. Light wear to contents. G+. ‘The first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916’ by Martin Middlebrook. London, Allen Lane, 1971. 8vo. xx, 365 p., illustrated, maps, ports. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear and foxing. G+. ‘The big push : a portrait of the battle of the Somme’ by Brian Gardner.

London : Cassell, 1961. 8vo. vii, 176 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear and foxing. G+. ‘The Boilerplate War’ by John Foley. London : Frederick Muller, 1963. 8vo. xi, 195 p., illustrated. Dust jacket with tears and foxing.

Black cloth boards. Foxing to contents. G-. ‘Barren victories : Verailles to Suez (1918-1956)

by Basil Collier. London : Cassell. 8vo. 327 p, illustrated, maps. Hard cover with dust jacket. Foxing to contents. G. [6].

Estimate $20-$40 CATALOGUE 9005

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236. Stewart, David. Sketches of the character, manners, and present state of the Highlanders of Scotland : with details of the military service of the Highland Regiments. In two volumes. Plus one.

3rd ed. Edinburgh : Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1825. 2v. Rebacked. Brown leather with raised bands to spine. Mild wear to corners.

Bookplate of John Stewart, DSO, to pastedown. Foxing to contents. Strong copies of this scarce work. G to G+. Plus, ‘Mutiny : Highland regiments in revolt, 1743-1804’ by John Prebble. London : Secker & Warburg, 1975. 8vo. 542 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Ex libris. VG-. [3].

Estimate $150-$200

237. Waite, Fred. The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Plus three.

2nd ed. Auckland : Whitcombe and Tombs, 1921. 8vo. xix, 330 p., illustrated. Brown cloth boards with mild shelf wear. New endpapers. Ex libris. Occasional foxing to contents. A strong copy. G to G+. ‘The New Zealand Division, 1916-1919 : a popular history based on official records’ by H. Stewart. Auckland : Printed and published under the authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe and Tombs, 1921. 8vo. xv, 634 p., illustrated, maps. Brown cloth boards. Spine discretely reinforced. Scattered foxing. G. ‘The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine’ by C. Guy Powles ; from material compiled by A. Wilkie. Auckland : Whitcombe and Tombs, 1922. 8vo. xv, 284 p., illustrated. Brown

cloth boards. Light wear and occasional foxing. A good copy.

G+. ‘The war effort of New Zealand : a popular history of (a) minor campaigns in which New Zealanders took part : (b) services not fully dealt with in the campaign volumes : (c) the work at the bases’ edited by H.T.B. Drew. Auckland : Printed and published under the authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe and Tombs, 1923. 8vo. xxii, 276 p., illustrated. Bound in black leather with gilt titles.

Fading to spine. Marbled endpapers. Ex libris. Light wear to contents. A better than usual copy. G+. A complete set of the Official History of New Zealand’s effort in the Great War. [4].

Estimate $100-$150

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238. [Wilson-Farquharson, D.L] The chronicle of the Royal Highland Regiment : The Black Watch, 1914. Plus four.

Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable, 1914. Blue cloth boards with gilt insignia centre front. New endpapers.

Light wear to covers and contents. A handsome copy of this very scarce work. G+.

Plus, ‘Highland soldier : a social study of the Highland Regiments, 1820-1920’

by Diana M. Henderson.

Edinburgh : J. Donald, c1989.

8vo. viii, 336 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket.

VG-. ‘The Black Watch : the history of the Royal Highland Regiment’ by Eric and Andro Linklater. London : Barrie & Jenkins, 1977. Tall 8vo. 240 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Mild wear and occasional foxing. G. ‘A history of the Second Battalion New Zealand Scottish’ compiled by the Ex-Members’ Association. [Dunedin, N.Z. : The Association], 1981 (Dunedin : Printing Associates).

8vo. xiv, 62 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Scarce.

G+. ‘Having been a soldier’

by Colin Mitchell. London, Hamilton, 1969. 8vo. viii, 248 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. G+. [5].

239. Young, Peter (editor).

History of the British army.

Plus four.

London, Barker, 1970. 4to. 304 p., illustrated, maps, ports.

Hard cover with dust jacket housed in plastic. Mild wear and occasional foxing. G+.

Plus, ‘A history of warfare’

by Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. London : Collins, 1968.

8vo. [1], 584 p., illustrated.

Hard cover with dust jacket. G. ‘Caesar’s invasion of Britain’ by Peter Berresford Ellis. London : Orbis Books, 1978. 8vo. 144 p., illustrated, maps, port. Hard cover with dust jacket. Foxing.

G+. ‘The march of folly : from Troy to Vietnam’ by Barbara W. Tuchman. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1984. 8vo. xiv, 447 p., illustrated. A nice copy. VG. ‘The Age of Chivalry’ by Arthur Bryant. London : Collins, 1963.

8vo. 576 p., illustrated. Hard cover with dust jacket. Wear and foxing. G-. [5].

240. Box Lot, Military.

Fourteen assorted titles including, ‘The art of leadership’ by S. W. Roskill.

London : Collins, 1964. 8vo. 191 p. Hard cover with dust jacket.

Plus thirteen other similar titles. All generally G. [14].

Estimate $20-$40

Estimate $20-$40

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241. Box Lot, Military. Thirty six assorted paper back titles, chiefly related to military history.

All generally G. [36].

Estimate $20-$40

242. Box Lot, Military & Maritime. Thirty seven assorted titles including, ‘The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea’ edited by Peter Kemp.

London : Oxford University Press, 1976. 8vo. 971 p., illustrated. Hard cover. Foxing.

G. Plus thirty five similar titles, all generally G. [37].

Estimate $20-$40

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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS MEDALS AND BADGES

Reference: MacMaster. Catalogue of New Zealand Commemorative Medals 19412007Õ by Hamish MacMaster, Wellington 2007.

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243 Royal Numismatic Society of NZ Decimal Coinage Medal 1967.

63mm, Bright silver, 200 struck, hallmarked, ICOI, Royal Mint London, design by James Berry, OBE, FRSNZ. MacMaster 1967/3. Together with (ii) Royal Numismatic Society of NZ Decimal Coinage Medal 1967, 63mm, Bright bronze, 500 struck, ICOI, Royal Mint London, design by James Berry OBE, FRNSNZ, MacMaster 1967/3. [2].

244 Royal Numismatic Society of NZ Decimal Coinage Medal 1967.

63mm, Bright bronze, 500 struck, ICOI, Royal Mint London, design by James Berry OBE, FRNSNZ, MacMaster 1967/3. Together with (ii) Royal Numismatic Society of N Z, Cook Bicentenary Medal 1969, 63mm, Bronze, 250 struck, Royal Australian Mint, for RNSNZ, Design by J Berry OBE FRNSNZ. ICOI. MacMaster 1969/1. [2].

Estimate $180-$200

Estimate $180-$200

245 Group Lot of Six Medals.

New Zealand Proclaimed a Dominion, September 26th 1907. Presented to the children attending the Schools of the Dominion [in 1908].

26mm, aluminium. Morel 1907/1-5. Together with (ii) To Commemorate the departure of N Z Troops from Lyttelton [to South African War] February 1900, 23 mm brass/copper; Moller and Young; pierced at 12 o’clock. Morel 1900/2-3-4. (iii) Nelson Celebrations Edward VII, crowned 1902, white metal, heart-shaped with crown pierced for suspension.

Morel 1902/17-18. (iv) Royal Visit of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall & York medal, on HMS Ophir, June 1901, 26 mm, copper, pierced at 12 o’clock.

Presented to New Zealand school children. BHM 3724, Morel 1901/9-14. (v) Royal Visit of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall & York medal, on HMS Ophir, June 1901, 26 mm, copper, pierced at 12 o’clock.

Presented to New Zealand school children. BHM 3724; Morel 1901/9-14. (vi) Visit of USA Naval Fleet to New Zealand 1908, gilt heart shape with ring suspender. Morel 1908/6. [6].

Estimate $140-$180 178

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246 A NZ Centenial Medal 1840-1940.

247 A Group Lot of Seven Medals.

248 A Group of Three Medals.

NZ Numismatic Society (now Royal) Centennial of New Zealand Medal 1940. 38 mm, silver 260 struck by Mayer & Kean Ltd., Morel 1940/1.

Canterbury Centenary Bronze, Otago Centenial 1948 Bronze, Otago Centenial 1948 Gilt (2), Wellington Centenary, Canterbury Centenary (2). [7].

Otago Jubilee Exhibition 1898, 17mm, silver, with ring for suspension. Morel 1898 7. Together with (ii) Otago Jubilee Exhibition 1898, 17mm brass, pierced at 12 o’clock.

Morel 1898 7. (iii) International Exhibition, Christchurch 1882, silver, 22 mm, pierced at 12 o’clock. Morel 1882/5. [3].

Estimate $140-$180

Estimate $140-$180

Estimate $80-$120

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249 Royal Visit, of Queen Elizabeth II to New Zealand 1953-54.

250 A Group of Six Medals British Empire Games NZ 1950.

251 A Cast Bronze Stonehenge (Spirit Passed) Medallion by Ron Dutton.

37mm, copper, presented to NZ school children, holed but lacks usual blue ribbon. [Prov.

Seaby 1981]. MacMaster 1953-54/2. Together with (ii) Commemorating P-3 Orion aircraft into RNZAF September 1966, 38mm bronze.

MacMaster 1966/4. (iii) The Bluff NZAS Smelter opening 30.11.71, 47 mm, Aluminium.

MacMaster 1971/14. (iv) Centenary of Birth of Lord Rutherford, August 1971, 39 mm, bright bronze, the Franklin Mint, USA, for The Royal Society of New Zealand, in card folder. 1500 struck. MacMaster 1971 12. [4].

52mm, bronze, named K. Forsyth NZ. No case.

MacMaster 1950 7. Together with (ii) New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, 41mm, bronze, named on reverse Hop Step and Jump, 1st K. Forsyth, 46’ 10inch 1948. (iii) New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, 30mm, bronze, named on reverse Hop Step and Jump 1953, K H. Forsyth 47’ 2.5inch. (iv) New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, 30mm, bronze, named on reverse 2nd Hop Step Jump, K Forsyth 1947. (v) New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, 30mm, bronze, named on reverse Broad Jump 2nd 1949, K. Forsyth. (vi) New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, 30mm, bronze, named on reverse Hop Step Jump 2nd 1949, K Forsyth. [6].

British Art Medal Society.

Estimate

Estimate $250-$300

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252 A Cast Bronze Nurture/ Growth Medalion by Jim Wheeler.

253 Mixed Military Badges.

254 NZ Police Cap Badges.

D95 mm.

Purchased from Ferner Gallery, 1998.

RNZIR, RNZAOC, NZAEC. Anodised metal, condition varies, some lacking lugs. [7].

White metal, King’s and Queen’s crowns [2].

Estimate $320-$360

Estimate $50-$80

Estimate $50-$80

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255 NZ Military brass shoulder titles.

256 NZ ‘Onward’ hat badges.

257 Assorted NZ Military badges.

HG (2), NZR (4), NZAOC (2), NZMR (4). [12].

NZ ‘Onward’ hat badges (4) and smaller collar badges (4). [8].

NZ Military badges collection.

Includes: Dunedin Highland Rifle Volunteers Regt. (appears to be a good copy); NZ Junior Cadets (King George V); NZ Cadet Forces (King’s Crown); brass RNZAF cap badge; RNZA, King’s and Queen’s Crowns and small lapel badge (4); 3rd Auckland Regt.; 4th Otago Regt.; 4th Waikato Mounted Rifles; 11th Taranaki Rifles Regt. (2); NZ Medical Corps; NZ Military Police; NZ Engineers; 9th Reinforcements; NZ Reinforcements (Bandsman’s Lyre) (2); Queen Alexandria’s 2nd WWCM Regt. Overall condition varies, some show signs of wear. [20].

Estimate $30-$60

Estimate $50-$80

Estimate $100-$150

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258 Assorted Military Buttons.

259 Assorted British regimental badges.

260 Royal Marines helmet plates.

Largely British but a few of New Zealand and foreign origin, plus Army rank pips.

[182 approx].

Plus one AIF cap badge. [40].

Royal Marines Helmet Plate (1); Royal Marines Helmet plate ( Royal Crest with inscribed scroll below) (1); US Marine Corps badges (3) and ‘US’ title badge (1). [6].

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $180-$200

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261 Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders helmet plates.

262 Scottish Regiment Badges.

263 Royal Malta Militia & Kings Own Malta Reg. badges

Three Argyll and Sutherland Helmet Plates and a Byron (Australia) Scottish Helmet Plate. L80mm. [4].

Five badges (noted 92 Regt.

And Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders). [5].

Royal Malta Militia and King’s Own Malta Regiment of Militia cap badges [2].

Estimate $180-$220

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Estimate $160-$180

Estimate $50-$80

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264 British Mine Clearance Service badge A British Silver Metal Mine Clearance Service, large white metal badge. Scarce. L80mm.

[1].

Estimate $120-$140

265 Queen’s Owen Cameron Highlanders and British Army Belt Buckles.

266 Highland Light Infantry Plaid Brooch.

White metal or silver. [1].

Queen’s Owen Cameron Highlanders of Canada brass waist belt buckle (reverse impressed with makers name ‘W Scully, Montreal’); and standard British Army (also used in NZ) other ranks brass buckle (1887-1902), signs of wear [2].

Estimate $30-$50

Estimate $50-$80

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267 Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Silver Plaid Brooch.

An Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Princess Louise’s, fine officer’s silver Plaid Brooch, scarce. L75mm.

Estimate $250-$280

268 Seaforth Highlanders Plaid Brooch.

269 Black Watch Brass Plate.

White metal with stag’s head in centre.

Black Watch Royal Highland Regiment, brass plate impressed with regimental badge and reverse engraved ‘Duty’, sometimes known as a ‘bed plate’; Silver shield engraved ‘BPRA Extended Order Competition won by 42 Highlanders (Black Watch), Meerut [India] 1898, Bandn [Bandsman] A. Bush, stg. Silver, hallmarked, pin back. [2].

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $200-$250

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270 Scots Plaid Brooch.

271 Black Watch Sporran Cantles.

272 Badge/Brooch.

White metal with amber centre.

Two Black Watch Sporran Cantles (top mount) bearing St. Andrew and cross, gilt (regular Battalion) and silver plate. [2].

Estimate $100-$150

Estimate $50-$80

Badge or brooch in gilt metal with reverse pin. Within a belt, inscribed with the motto ‘Probitatem Quam Divitias’ (Probity or honesty rather than riches), the entwined letters ‘RIC’ or ICR’. The motto is recorded as being used by some families of Clayton or Claydon and the initials may refer to these families. ICR, however, may allude to the Innes of Court Regiment. Fine quality and unusual. [1].

Estimate $50-$80

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273 79th Regt. Scottish Plaid Brooch & Belt Plate.

274 Scottish Royal Company of Archers Badge with ribbon.

275 Isle of Wight Rifle Volunteers badges.

79th Regt. Cameron Highlanders Scottish Plaid Brooch, silver or white metal.

Plus, Black Watch, possibly 4th Perthshire Volunteer Battalion, belt plate in white metal badge [2].

A Gilded Brass Scottish Royal Company of Archers Badge on a green/black rosette. White ribbon, Queens bodyguard for Scotland. L65mm.

1860. A pair of delicate medal badges, with labels. [2].

Estimate $150-$180

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Estimate $180-$220

Estimate $50-$80

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276 Military cloth badges and shoulder titles.

277 A pair of letter openers.

278 Miscellaneous collection of badges.

Some embroided in metal wire, noted RN, RNR, NZ Army (NZ Scottish Regt.), Canada and others [19].

Small brass shell-case with military button mounted on end. Belived to have been made by Lt. Col. TC Wallace, QSM, ED, of Cambridge.

Unusual examples. [2].

Nazi(alu) badge (1). Navy League badge (1), HMS Leander lapel badge (1). Brass King’s crown (1), naval crown (1), Union Oil 25 years lapel badge, gold (1), Atlantic Union lapel badge, gold (1). [7].

Estimate $30-$50

Estimate $50-$80

Estimate $50-$80

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GUIDE FOR BUYERS Bethunes at Webb's has set out the following information for those unfamiliar with auction procedures. Please refer to the 'Conditions of sale for buyers' printed in this catalogue and displayed in the saleroom.

FLOOR BIDDERS. Register and obtain a bidder card before bidding on any lot/s.

Be aware that a buyer's premium of 20% plus GST (i.e. 23%) is payable in addition to the bid price.

Make your bids clear, preferably by holding up your bidder card.

If you make a mistake (e.g. the auctioneer takes a bid from you at a higher level than you had intended, or you bid on the wrong lot), call out to the auctioneer immediately so that the bidding can be adjusted. Waiting until the hammer falls is too late.

If your bid is the highest and the lot is knocked down to you, you have entered into a binding obligation to pay for that lot.

BIDDING INCREMENTS ARE AT THE AUCTIONEER'S DISCRETION. Bidding will commence at a bidding increment over the second highest absentee bid received. Where no bids have been received, bidding will commence at half the auctioneer's lot estimate, or at $10, at the auctioneer's sole discretion.

SALES SUBJECT TO VENDOR'S APPROVAL. Where your bid is the highest, but still below the reserve, the auctioneer may declare you to be the buyer 'subject to vendor's approval' ('SVA' or 'subject'). This means that your bid is held as binding and will be communicated to the vendor at the earliest opportunity. If the vendor accepts, there is a contractual obligation for you to pay for the lot. If the vendor does not accept, you are released from any obligation, however you will have first right to negotiate with the vendor through Bethunes at Webb's until an agreement is reached. Bethunes at Webb's will not present other offers to the vendor until your negotiations are ended.

ABSENTEE BIDDERS. Bethunes at Webb's will endeavour to ensure that your bidding instructions are executed, but accepts no responsibility or liability for failure to do so.

Lots will be bought as favourably as is allowed by bidding in the sale room, other competitive absentee bids and any reserve imposed by the vendor. Please note that Bethunes at Webb's cannot guarantee that another bidder will not be successful at your limit if, in the course of competitive bidding, a floor bidder bids your limit first. Absentee bids are accepted by written instruction, which can be sent by fax, email or post to arrive no later than the evening before the sale. Priority will be given to the earliest received absentee bid where identical bids are received. Absentee bids will be executed on the following basis: If your bid limit is equal to or above a reserve, the auctioneer may open the bidding at reserve on your behalf and will bid thereafter only in response to competition for the lot.

If your bid limit is below a reserve, the auctioneer may open the bidding at your limit and if there are no further bids in the room may sell to you subject to vendor's approval.

In the absence of a reserve, the auctioneer may exercise your bid in advance of any opening bid, or may open the bidding on your behalf at a bidding increment over the second highest absentee bid received. If no other absentee bids have been received, bidding will commence at half the auctioneer's lot estimate, or at $10, at the auctioneer's sole discretion.

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PHONE BIDDERS. Phone bids are available on lots with estimates over $100 and where the auctioneer is able to confirm availability of staff to provide this service. The same conditions as above apply to phone bidders. Bethunes at Webb's will call the number you have provided some time before the lot you have requested to bid on comes up for sale.

If your phone is engaged or we are unable to make contact, the auction will proceed without your bidding. When we have made contact, our staff will tell you that your lot is about to come up and will ask you to hold. Bids will be relayed to you and you may enter the bidding at any time by making your call. Please note that the bidding at many auctions can be fast. The auctioneer will not favour a phone bidder over and above floor bidders by giving them more time to bid. You will need to establish your limit and make sure that you bid clearly and promptly.

PRE-SALE ESTIMATES. Estimates printed in the catalogue or given verbally are intended as a guide only and may be subject to revision nearer to the time of a sale. Bethunes at Webb's staff are available during pre-sale viewing times and by appointment to assist prospective bidders with estimates and any aspect of the auction procedure.

CONDITION REPORTS. Bethunes at Webb's staff will provide condition reports over and above the catalogue description for out of town buyers. However, please note that item 6 of the 'Conditions of sale for buyers' will still apply despite the obtaining of a condition report.

PAYMENT. Payment for all items purchased is due on the day of sale, immediately following completion of the sale. If full payment cannot be made on the day of sale, a deposit of 10% of the total sum due must be made on the day of sale and the balance must be paid within five working days. Payment is by cash or eftpos. Cheques will be accepted but must be cleared before removal of goods. Major credit cards are accepted.

Amex attracts an additional surcharge.

WEBB'S ACCOUNT DETAILS. Bank: Westpac, 79 Queen Street, Auckland. Bank/branch number: 030104. Account number: 044818403. Account name: Peter Webb Galleries Limited. Swift code (for international deposits): WPACNZ2W. Please include your surname and the code 'BETH' with all payments.

PACKING AND FREIGHT. Where required, Bethunes at Webb's packs goods for posting nationally or internationally.

All costs associated with packing and postage are payable by the purchaser. All national dispatches will be by courier.

Overseas dispatches will be by international airmail.

Insurance in transit is not covered by Bethunes at Webb's.

VALUATION SERVICES. Bethunes at Webb's provides free market appraisals by appointment. Bethunes at Webb's will visit you to view and appraise larger collections. Webb's provides valuations for insurance, matrimonial division, family division etc. Please enquire at reception for charges.

Charges are refundable on occasion when goods are subsequently offered for sale.

CONDITIONS OF SALE FOR BUYERS 1. BIDDING. The highest bidder shall be the purchaser, subject to the auctioneer having the right to refuse the bid of any person. Should any dispute arise as to the bidding, the lot in dispute will immediately be put up for sale again at the preceding bid, or the auctioneer may declare the purchaser, which declaration shall be conclusive.

No person shall advance less at a bid than the sum nominated by the auctioneer and no bid may be retracted.

2. RESERVES. All lots are sold subject to the right of the vendor or her/his agent to impose a reserve.

3. REGISTRATION. Purchasers shall complete a bidder card before the sale giving their own correct name, address and phone number. It is accepted by bidders that the supply of false information on a bidder card shall be interpreted as deliberate fraud.

4. BUYER'S PREMIUM. The purchaser accepts that, in addition to the hammer price, Bethunes at Webb's will charge a buyer's premium of 20% of the hammer price (unless otherwise stated), plus GST on the premium, effectively totalling 23%.

5. PAYMENT. Payment for all items purchased is due on the day of sale, immediately following completion of the sale.

If full payment cannot be made on the day of sale, a deposit of 10% of the total sum due must be made on the day of sale and the balance must be paid within five working days.

Payment is by cash or eftpos. Cheques will be accepted but must be cleared before removal of goods. Major credit cards are accepted. Amex attracts an additional surcharge.

6. LOTS SOLD AS VIEWED. All lots are sold as viewed and with all errors in description, faults and imperfections, whether visible or not. Neither Bethunes at Webb's nor its vendor are responsible for errors in description, for the genuineness or authenticity of any lot, or for any fault or defect in any lot. No warranty whatsoever is made. Buyers proceed upon their own judgement.

Buyers shall be deemed to have inspected the lots or to have made enquiries to their complete satisfaction prior to sale and, by the act of bidding, shall be deemed to be satisfied with the lots in all respects.

7. BETHUNES AT WEBB'S ACTS AS AGENT. Bethunes at Webb's has full discretion to conduct all aspects of the sale and to withdraw any lot from the sale without giving any reason.

8. COLLECTION. Purchases are to be taken away at the buyer's expense immediately after the sale, except where a cheque remains uncleared. If this is not done, Bethunes at Webb's will not be responsible if the lot is lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed.

Any items not collected within seven days of the auction may be subject to storage and insurance fees.

A receipted invoice must be produced prior to delivery of any lot.

9. LICENSES. Buyers who purchase an item which falls within the provisions of the Antiquities Act 1975 or the Arms Act 1958 cannot take possession of that item until they have shown to Bethunes at Webb's a license under the appropriate Act. 10. ANTIQUITIES ACT 1975. Buyers should note that some items may come under jurisdiction of this Act and permission may have to be sought from the Ministry of Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga for their export.

11. FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENT. If a purchaser fails either to pay for or to take away any lot, Bethunes at Webb's shall, without further notice to the purchaser, at its absolute

discretion and without prejudice to any other rights or remedies it may have, be entitled to exercise one or more of the following rights or remedies: A. To issue proceeding against the purchaser for damages for breach of contract.

B. To rescind the sale of that or any other lot sold to the purchaser at the same or any other auction.

C. To resell the lot by public or private sale. Any deficiency resulting from such resale, after giving credit to the purchaser for any part payment, together with all costs incurred in connection with the lot shall be paid to Bethunes at Webb's by the purchaser. Any surplus over the proceeds of sale shall belong to the vendor and in this condition the expression 'proceeds of sale' shall have the same meaning in relation to a sale by private treaty as it has in relation to a sale by auction.

D. To store the lot, whether at Bethunes at Webb's own premises or elsewhere, at the sole expense of the purchaser and to release the lot only after the purchase price has been paid in full, plus the accrued cost of removal and storage, and all other costs connected to the lot.

E. To charge interest on the purchase price at a rate 2% above Bethunes at Webb's bankers' then current rate for commercial overdraft facilities, to the extent that the price or any part of it remains unpaid for more than seven days from the date of the sale.

F. To retain possession of that or any other lot purchased by the purchaser at that or any other auction and to release the same only after payment of money due.

G. To apply the proceeds of sale of any lot then or subsequently due to the purchaser towards settlement of money due to Bethunes at Webb's or its vendor. Bethunes at Webb's shall be entitled to a possessory lien on any property of the purchaser for any purpose while any monies remain unpaid under this contract.

H. To apply any payment made by the purchaser to Bethunes at Webb's towards any money owing to Bethunes at Webb's in respect of any thing whatsoever irrespective of any directive given in respect of, or restriction placed upon, such payment by the purchaser whether expressed or implied.

I. Title and right of disposal of the goods shall not pass to the purchaser until payment has been made in full by cleared funds. Where any lot purchased is held by Bethunes at Webb's pending (i) clearance of funds by the purchaser or (ii) completion of payment after receipt of a deposit, the lot will be held by Bethunes at Webb's as bailee for the vendor, risk and title passing to the purchaser immediately upon notification of clearance of funds or upon completion of purchase. In the event that a lot is lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed before title is transferred to the purchaser, the purchaser shall be entitled to a refund of all monies paid to Bethunes at Webb's in respect of that lot, but shall not be entitled to any compensation for any consequent losses howsoever arising.

12. BIDDERS DEEMED PRINCIPALS. All bidders shall be held personally and solely liable for all obligations arising from any bid, including both phone and absentee bids. Any person wishing to bid as agent for a third party must obtain written authority to do so from Bethunes at Webb's prior to bidding.

13. SUBJECT BIDS. Where the highest bid is below the reserve and the auctioneer declares a sale to be 'subject to vendor's approval' or words to that effect, the highest bid remains binding upon the bidder until the vendor accepts or rejects it. If the bid is accepted, there is a contractual obligation upon the bidder to pay for the lot.

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ABSENTEE BIDDING FORM Please bid on my behalf at the above sale for the following lots up to prices recorded below. These bids are to be executed as cheaply as is permitted by other bids or reserves if any. *I agree to comply with the Conditions of Sale as printed in the catalogue. I understand that in the case of a successful bid a buyer’s premium of seventeen and a half percent (17.5%) will be added to the hammer price and that GST is charged on the premium. On major lots customers may prefer to bid by telephone. Please enquire regarding this service, which Webb’s carries out at no charge.

Lot No

Catalogue Description

Mr/Mrs/Ms

Bid*

Lot No

Catalogue Description

First Name

Home Phone

Bid*

Surname/Company

Business Phone

Mobile Phone

Facsimile

Postal Address

Contact Name

Email Address

Please debit my VISA, MASTERCARD, BANKCARD (No Amex) Number:

Expiry Date

Mth_________ / Year___________

CONTINUE ON SEPARATE SHEET IF REQUIRED; PLEASE CHECK BIDS BEFORE SENDING; ALL BIDS IN NZ DOLLARS; LIMITLESS/OPEN BIDS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE; PACKING AND POSTAGE IS EXTRA. ARRANGEMENTS FOR PAYMENT: I agree to pay immediately on receipt of notice from Bethunes@Webb’s of my successful bid. Payment will be by cash cheque or bank transfer. I will arrange for collection of my purchases or I agree to pay for packing and freight costs incurred by Bethunes@Webb’s in having any purchases forwarded to me. In order to avoid delay in clearing purchases Buyers who are unknown to us are advised to make arrangements for payment before the sale or for references to be supplied. If such arrangements are not made cheques will be cleared before purchases are delivered. * Bethunes@Webb’s will do its upmost to carry out bidding instructions for absentee bidders. It will not be responsible however if circumstances prevent it doing so.

Signed & Dated

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