Fine medals at C&T
The Fine Militaria sale at C&T Auctions was online only with bidding via the C&T website, or live using the-saleroom.com, though that added another 5.94% to the Buyer’s Premium of 26.4%. The prices quoted here include the BP only. Let’s start then with some medals and a Victorian China 1842 War Medal for the Royal Marines, with impressed naming ‘CHARLES POTTER ROYAL MARINES’. It sold for £985.82. Also related to conflict in China was a Victorian 2nd China War of 1857-60 Medal to an Acting Lieutenant serving on HM Steam Frigate Ferooz of the Indian Navy. A fine example with single clasp for ‘Taku Forts 1860’, impressed naming ‘AG LIEUT C P. WILSON HM STR FEROOZ IN’. It smashed the upper estimate of £600 to sell for £2,401.60.
An interesting grouping from the turn of the 20th century now, including one from the Boxer Rebellion. The group included an East West Africa medal with single clasp ‘Benin 1897’, impressed with ‘G. H. SAUNDERS, P.O.1 CL, HMS THESEUS’; a China 1900 medal without clasp, impressed with ‘G. H. SAUNDERS, P.O. 1 CL, H.M.S MARATHON’; a 1914-15 Star with ‘119084 G. H. SAUNDERS. P.O. R.N’ and British War and Victory medals with ‘119084 G. H. SAUNDERS W.O.2 R.N’. The medals were mounted for wear. George Hook Saunders enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1882. He was present on HMS Theseus at the time of the Benin Expedition in 1897 and was serving on HMS Marathon during the
Boxer Rebellion on 1900 in China. The group sold for £960.64.
A fairly impressive haul in the next lot, consisting of six medals with plenty of clasps on show.
The group consists of a George V Distinguished Service Order; Queens South Africa medal with clasps for ‘Cape Colony’, ‘Tugela Heights’, ‘Orange Free State’, ‘Relief of Ladysmith’, ‘Transvaal’ and
‘Laing’s Nek’, impressed with ‘Capt. A. O. B. WROUGHTON. R.A.M.C.’; a Kings South Africa medal with clasps for ‘South Africa 1901’ and ‘South Africa 1902’; a 1914 Star with bar; British War and Victory medals with MiD oakleaf. The lot sold for £2,338.40.
Finally, a 1914-15 Star that was awarded to Sir Oswald Mosley of the BT Derbyshire Yeomanry who served in Egypt. The interesting part is that his son was the 6th Baronet, also named Sir Oswald Mosley, who was the leader of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s. It sold for £632.