The catalogue for that sale is online as a PDF at http://www.mortonandeden.com/pdfcats/38web.pdf and expect it to take a while to load.
This lot is #1342 (page 65).
The Lenin is #7384. But the extensive notes say the order book shows it as #7381? Apparently, when they passed these out they mixed them up.
They split his miniatures out into a separate lot (1343)! :thumbsdown
His are the last two lots in the sale, so if that is all you want to see, just "zip" to the end.
Tons of Tsarist Tstuff. But some nice Soviet material too.
This lot is #1342 (page 65).
The Lenin is #7384. But the extensive notes say the order book shows it as #7381? Apparently, when they passed these out they mixed them up.
Quote:The original awards, as presented by the Soviet ambassador Ivan Mayski at a
London reception in March 1942, were ‘screwback’ type badges which the men
wore alongside their British medal ribbons (as can be seen in Colin Colahan’s 1942
portrait of Ramsbottom-Isherwood in the Australian War Memorial Collection, and
also in a photograph of Miller and Haw included in John Clarke’s Gallantry Medals &
Decorations of the World, 2001, p. 192). After the introduction of the ‘suspended’
type Lenin badges in 1943, Ramsbottom-Isherwood’s and Haw’s pieces were
exchanged for the new type (and so, very probably, were the other two as well),
with specially-engraved serial numbers to match the originals. During the
exchange process it appears that some muddling of the actual badges occurred,
with the result that Ramsbottom-Isherwood’s Order Book no. 7381 is now
accompanied by badge no. 7384. In his Soviet Roll of Awards to British Recipients
1941-1945 John Clarke states that Miller’s badge was no. 7381 and Haw’s no.
7284, but the opportunity can now be taken to correct this record in that the latter
badge has recently been checked and found to be numbered 7382 (it is also, by
way of confirmation, a suspended type piece, and it is suggested that Haw’s Order
Book might previously have been misread as no. 7284 instead of 7384).
They split his miniatures out into a separate lot (1343)! :thumbsdown
His are the last two lots in the sale, so if that is all you want to see, just "zip" to the end.
Tons of Tsarist Tstuff. But some nice Soviet material too.
