World Orders and Decorations 816


Belgium, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Officer’s breast badge, gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; Order of Leopold II, Knight’s breast badge, silver and enamel; Order of Leopold II, Silver Medal of the Order, silvered; Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, with bronze palm on riband; Yser Medal, bronze; War Medal, bronze; Frontline Fire Service Cross, bronze; together with various other Belgian and European medals, good very fine (lot)


£80-£120


817


Bulgaria, People’s Republic, Order of 9 September 1944, Civil Division (3), First Class breast badge, 61mm, gilt and white enamel, double sided; another, Second Class breast badge, 53mm, gilt and white enamel, uniface; another, Third Class breast badge, 53mm, gilt and red enamel, uniface; Order of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria (3), First Class breast badge, 44mm, gilt with silvered and enamel centre; another, Second Class breast badge, 44mm, silvered with gilt and enamel centre; another, Third Class breast badge, 40mm, silvered with gilt and enamel centre; Order of Labour Glory (3), First Class breast badge, 41mm, gilt and enamel; another, Second Class breast badge, 41mm, silvered, gilt, and enamel; another, Third Class breast badge, 41mm, bronze, gilt, and enamel; Order of Military Merit (2), First Class breast badge, 46mm, gilt and enamel; another, Second Class breast badge, 46mm, silvered, gilt, and enamel, all unmarked and unnumbered, enamel chip to one obverse arm of first, central medallion detached but present from another, otherwise generally good very fine (11)


£60-£80


818


France, Third Republic, Medaille Militaire, silvered, gilt, and enamel, with trophy of arms suspension; Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, with bronze star emblem on riband; War Medal 1914-18, bronze; Victory Medal, bronze; Croix du Combattant, bronze, generally very fine and better (5)


£60-£80


819


Germany, Heligoland, Order for Arts and Science, breast badge in gilt and enamels with original ribbon and in its Jauner of Vienna damaged case of issue, very fine and very rare


£700-£900


Believed to have been instituted by Sir Fitzharding Maxse, K.C.M.G., who was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the island of Heligoland 1868-81. The medals awarded to Maxse, including a Grand Cross set of this order, were sold in these rooms 12 May 1993, and an example of the breast badge was sold in these rooms on 1 December 1993. This is the first example seen since then.


820


A Great War German Iron Cross group of five


German, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, First Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, unmarked, with pin-back suspension; Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre; Empire, Cross of Honour 1914-18, combatant’s issue with swords, bronze, reverse marked ‘W. D. L.’; Prussia, Reserve Long Service Medal, Second Class, bronze; ‘Kyffäuser’ War Veterans Medal 1914-18, bronze, the last four mounted German-style style as worn, good very fine (5) £160-£200


Sold with various postcard photographs. Attributed to the family of the wife of Master F. H. Ponting, Mercantile Marine. For Ponting’s Great War Medals, see Lot 309.


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