11th Dec, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
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An Interesting First/Second World War Immediate O.B.E. Group of Four Medals, awarded to 337796 Chief Engineer Charles Dobson, Merchant Navy, comprising The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, Officer's (O.B.E.) Breast Badge, British War Medal, Mercantile Marine War Medal and 1939-45 Star, swing mounted as worn, together with printed research material and typed biography.
Footnote: - Charles Dobson was interned during the fall of Norway and again after the failure of the second Gothenburg Convoy having volunteered to serve with it despite being in his sixties. He was held at Camp Milag, Bremen, and was liberated by British Forces in April 1945. His O.B.E. was one of six Immediate O.B.E. Awards for the Gothenburg Convoy.
Sold for £320
Estimated at £150 - £200
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 11th Dec, 2024
The sale will include a large selection of Victorian, First and Second World War and Post-War medals and Civil awards, and a variety of cap and other badges, cloth insignia and helmet plates.
A good private collection offers Victorian and Edwardian military headgear and a number of scarlet tunics to local regiments including the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, the Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) and the Northumberland Fusiliers.
Edged weapons include a private collection of British Cavalry swords, alongside bayonets and fighting knives; and from a further private vendor is a good collection of antique firearms, pistols and revolvers.
The ethnographic section of the sale will see notable tribal weapons from Fiji and Australia.
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