Auction Catalogue

28 & 29 March 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 809

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29 March 2012

Hammer Price:
£880

The mounted group of five miniature dress medals worn by Chief Inspector R. C. Aiers, Director of the Criminal Intelligence Department, Shanghai Municipal Police

China, Order of the Golden Grain, 7th Class badge, silver and enamel; Medal of the Navy, Army and Air Force, silver-gilt and enamel, stamp marks on reverse; National Famine Relief Commission Medal of Merit, silver-gilt and enamel, stamp mark on reverse; Shanghai Municipal Council Emergency Medal 1937, bronze; Shanghai Municipal Police L.S. Medal, 3 clasps, 1921-1925, 1926-1930, 1931-1935, mounted as worn, together with his Masonic War Memorial Medal 1914-18 (W. Bro. R. C. Aiers, No. 4575) and a Masonic St. George’s Lodge Shanghai Founders Medal, by Fenwick, Birmingham, silver-gilt and enamel, unnamed, complete with top bar, good very fine and rare (5) £500-600

See Lot 973 for his full-size awards and Lot 784 for items relating to his son.