11th Dec, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
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A Second World War Casualty Trio, comprising 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star and War Medal, with posthumous medal award slip to Harry Brunton, in cardboard postal box addressed to his mother Mrs E Brunton, with copy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry stating that Steward Harry Brunton of S.S. San Florentino (London) Merchant Navy, died 2nd October 1941 aged 20, after his ship was hit by a U-boat torpedo, he is remembered with honour at the Tower Hill Memorial; Items Relating to Captain George C. Blundell C.B.E., Royal Navy, including three Royal Naval Association, Royal Leamington Spa medallions dated 1972-3, 1974-5, and 1976-7 in a fitted case, his pair of rank epaulettes, medal ribbon bars, uniform buttons and two portrait photographs; a Good Copy of an Air Force Cross, in a Royal Mint fitted case (qty)
Sold for £100
Estimated at £100 - £150
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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Tuesday 10th December 10am-5pm, and the morning of the sale from 8am
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