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Lot 484
1893 Delamain, Vintage, Grande Champagne Cognac 1x70cl Label badly soiled and damaged, capsule corroded. This lot forms part of a private collection amassed mainly in the 1970s and 1980s by a discerning and knowledgeable wine enthusiast who began collecting in his student days. The wines were meticulously stored in a traditional cellar and have lain undisturbed for decades. This offering presents a unique opportunity to acquire rare and historical bottles from a bygone era.
Lot 79
Drink.- Cognac.- Delamain (Robert) Histoire du Cognac, signed presentation copy to H.H. Gordon Clark, half-title, full-page map of the region and a facsimile of an 18th century printed document, portrait of Alfred de Vigny and illustrations within text, original printed wrappers bound in, little marked, 20th century blue buckram, rubbed and marked, 8vo, Paris, Librairie Stock, 1935. *** An excellent association copy. H.H. Clark was one of several generations of the Clarks / Gordon Clarks to have worked for the family firm of Matthew Clark and Sons, City of London wine & spirit importers, founded in 1810. They represented the great brandy house of J. & F. Martell of Cognac from 1814. The presentation inscription reads 'To H H Gordon Clark Esq. who has been for so many years one of the best friends of the Cognac district and of its fine product'. Includes the viticulture, production and economics of the region through the ages.
Lot 141
The rare Great War C.S.I. group of seven awarded to Admiral Arthur Hayes-Sadler, Royal Navy, Senior Naval Officer during the Persian Gulf operations 1914-15 The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, C.S.I., Companion’s, neck badge, gold and enamel, with central onyx cameo of a youthful Queen Victoria, the motto of the order set in rose diamonds, suspended from a five-pointed silver star and silver-gilt ring suspension, with neck cravat; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (A. H. Sadler. Midn. R.N. H.M.S. “Sultan”); 1914-15 Star (R. Adml. A. Hayes-Sadler,); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (R. Adml. A. Hayes-Sadler.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882; France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Commander’s neck badge, gold and enamels, 58mm, with neck cravat, the five campaign medals mounted as worn, the Egypt medal with light pitting, otherwise nearly extremely fine (7) £5,000-£7,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- C.S.I. London Gazette 4 May 1916. One of only three operational awards of the Star of India given to Naval officers during the entire Great War. M.I.D. London Gazette 5 April 1916. Arthur Hayes-Sadler was born on 9 October 1865, at Spa, Belgium, son of Sir James Hayes-Sadler, K.C.M.G. He entered the Royal Navy via H.M.S. Britannia on 15 January 1877, and served in various ships until appointed Midshipman on 21 June 1879. In H.M.S. Sultan, he witnessed the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882 and served ashore with the Naval Brigade shortly afterwards. He was thereafter promoted Sub-Lieutenant on 21 June 1883; Lieutenant on 30 June 1886; Commander on 1 January 1890; Captain on 30 June 1904; Rear-Admiral on 19 July 1915; Vice-Admiral on 3 November 1919; and Admiral (Retired) on 1 August 1924. In October 1914, Hayes-Sadler was ordered to the Persian Gulf in the battleship Ocean to conduct operations against the Turks. The key to the Gulf then, as now, was Basra, the great emporium of Mesopotamian trade, situated 70 miles up the Shatt-al-Arab. On 19 October, Ocean made a rendezvous with Dufferin and elements of the Gulf Expeditionary Force under Brigadier-General W. S. Delamain, and reached Bahrain four days later. On the 31st, the Admiralty sent authority to begin hostilities against Turkey. By 3 November, the convoy was off the outer bar of the Shatt-al-Arab, which Ocean could not cross. Next day, Hayes-Sadler armed various tugs and launches, and prepared to force a passage past the Turkish fort at Fao which guarded the entrance to the river. The following morning he set forth in the sloop Odin with an armed tug, and having silenced Fao’s guns, landed a party of Ocean’s Marines and some 600 troops who threw the enemy’s ordnance into the river. By 10 November, the whole of General Delamain’s force was ashore at Saniyeh awaiting reinforcements under Lieutenant-General A. A. Barrett. Under German influence, a Jihad had been declared, and therefore prompt action was everything. On the 17th, the land forces advanced, supported by Hayes-Sadler’s sloops, Odin and Espiegle, and two armed launches, providing fire from the river. Having put the enemy to flight, an entrenched camp was established at Sahil, and the wounded evacuated, preparatory to a strike on Basra. It was then learned that the Turks had attempted to block the Shatt-al-Arab with the sunken Hamburg-Amerika liner and two smaller vessels. Accordingly, the next day Hayes-Sadler went upstream to see what could be made of the obstacle. As he approached, he was fired on by a 500-ton gunboat, the Marmariss, by an armed launch and by a battery of 15-pounder Krupp guns. Espiegle replied with such effect that the launch was sunk, the battery silenced and the Marmariss put to flight, without the sloop suffering a single hit. Having ascertained that the obstruction could be cleared to afford a passage, Hayes-Sadler returned to the scene the following day. However, the clearance work had hardly begun when a launch appeared with a deputation from Basra, confirming the rumour that the garrison, evidently in awe of the Espeigle’s performance, had fled and pleading the British to come up and save the city from looting Arabs. To secure Basra, and capitalise on this success, it was proposed to proceed a further 45 miles to Kurnah on the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates. During the early days of December, Hayes-Sadler spent much of his time in advance of the main force, conveying troops of the Kurnah detachment, finding suitable landing places, negotiating the uncharted shallows of the river and giving supporting fire. Finally on 8 December, two battalions of the 110th Light Infantry and 104th Rifles, and a Mountain battery, under Colonel Frazer, crossed the Tigris and made a concerted attack on Kurnah. However, it was felt that it was too late in the day to engage in street fighting and the attack was halted. The river flotilla continued firing until sunset and held their positions in readiness for the attack next day. Kurnah, though, had had enough, and early in the middle watch a steamer flying a flag of truce approached. Hayes-Sadler, being unable to communicate with the Generals, then took the surrender of the Turks. Thus, within a matter of weeks from the declaration of war on Turkey, Britain had a firm hold on the water-gate of Mesopotamia. On 13 December he sailed in Ocean for Suez, where he was to become Senior Naval Officer until further orders. In early 1915, Hayes-Sadler took part in the unsuccessful attempt to neutralise the forts that dominated the straits of the Dardanelles. On 4 March, Ocean was shelling Sedd-el-Bahr in support of survey and beach parties. At noon, Major Palmer, R.M.L.I., responded to a signal from the battleship to report on progress ashore, and communicated that he could not advance without a further 200 men, which Hayes-Sadler at once made ready. However, this request was denied by General Totman viewing operations from Irresistable, with the end result that the troops were forced to retire to the destroyers from which they had started. On the 18th of the same month, a second attempt was made under a revised plan which gave Hayes-Sadler command of the Second Division, comprising the 3rd, 4th, and 5th sub-Divisions. At 1.45, Admiral de Roebeck ordered the Second Division to relieve the French line which until then had been engaged in hazardous close work. As Hayes-Sadler’s ships took up their positions, the French ship Bouvet was hit with the loss of some 600 men. Closing to a range of 10,600 yards from the shore positions, the ships of the Second Division engaged their respective forts and used their secondary armament against the guns firing on the boats which were rescuing survivors of the Bouvet. By 5.10, the Irresistable was sinking and Hayes-Sadler was standing by to tow her out of action, but the former’s list, combined with the considerable cross-fire made it quite impossible. And so under a heavy fire from Dardanos and Saundere, the Ocean began to withdraw. At about five past six, a sudden heavy explosion announced that she had struck a mine, and almost simultaneously a shell found its mark, causing Ocean to take a list of 15°. Fortunately, Hayes-Sadler was able to signal three passing destroyers, the Colne, Jed and Chelmer, and evacuate the crew, albeit still under fire. However, after dark it was found that four men had accidentally been left aboard and Hayes-Sadler returned in Jed to take them off, leaving the abandoned Ocean to her fate. From August 1916, Rear-Admiral Hayes-Sadler commanded the British detachment in the Aegean, with his flag in Exmouth and then in Impla...
Lot 619
The important Victory Medal awarded to Lieutenant-General Sir W. S. Delamain, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., Indian Army, late Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was at the forefront of the fight against Ottoman forces in Mesopotamia from 1914-16, and personally signed the surrender document at the fall of Kut, in the absence of General Townshend who was beset with sickness Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Maj.Genl W. S. Delamain) nearly very fine and rare to rank £300-£400 --- K.C.B. London Gazette 3 June 1922. C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1914. K.C.M.G. London Gazette 23 August 1918. D.S.O. London Gazette 14 April 1905: ‘In recognition of service during the operations in connection with the protection of the Aden Boundary Commission, 1903-04.’ Sir Walter Sinclair Delamain was born in Saint Helier, Jersey, on 18 February 1862, the son of Charles Henry Delamain and a direct descendent of Sir Nicholas Delamain who was appointed to a Knighthood by King Charles I. Admitted to the Royal Military College Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) on 22 October 1881 and seconded for service with the Indian Staff Corps on 13 January 1885. Raised Lieutenant in the Bombay Staff Corps 1 February 1885, he served in Burma from 1885 to 1888; with the Zaila Field Force in 1890; and was placed in command of the Native Military Base Depot during the Boxer Rebellion with the temporary rank of Major. For this work, Delamain was Mentioned in Despatches in the London Gazette of 14 May 1901. Joining the Waziristan Expedition of 1901, Delamain later served on the Aden Frontier in 1905, his valuable work being recognised with the award of the D.S.O. and a Mention in Despatches, the latter being published in the London Gazette of 17 February 1905: ‘Major W. S. Delamain, 123rd Rifles, commanded the escort of the Boundary Commission for about eight months, during which time the Commission marched from Kotaba to the coast, a distance of at least 160 miles. He has been highly spoken of by Colonel Wahab in his letter to the Government of India, dated 10 June, 1904.’ Returned to India as Brevet Colonel, Delamain is recorded in the London Evening Standard of 1 January 1914 as Assistant Adjutant-General, Indian Army Headquarters. For this work he was appointed C.B. in the 1914 New Year’s Honours list. The Mesopotamian Campaign The outbreak of the Great War saw Delamain placed in command of the convoy containing Indian Expeditionary Force “D”. Departing Bombay on 16 October 1914, it steamed straight to the head of the Gulf, Delamain’s objectives being to secure for the British the oil terminal and refineries at Bahrein and the strategic Basrah oil terminal. Upon making landfall at the former, two Battalions - 104th Wellesley’s Rifles and 117th Mahrattas - embarked immediately for Iraq, entering Basrah in the early evening of 21 November 1914. Events relating to this time soon caught the attention of the Daily Mirror on 17 November 1914: ‘On the 15th [November], hearing that a strong force of the enemy, with mountain artillery, were occupying a pass about four miles distant, sent General Delamain with three battalions and two mountain batteries to evict them. After a sharp action, in which H.M.S. Espiegle and Odin co-operated, that was successfully accomplished. The enemy’s entrenched camp was captured and his losses were very heavy, several prisoners, including a Turkish Major, were taken, and two of the enemy’s machine guns were destroyed.’ It was these deployments that succeeded in the British securing oil production in the Middle East. Commanding the 16th (Poona) and 17th (Ahmednagar) Brigades at the Battle of Es Sin on 28 September 1915, Delamain was once again Mentioned in Despatches by General Fry, but his luck was soon to run out; despite the best efforts of Aubrey Herbert and T. E. Lawrence to negotiate a secret deal with Ottoman forces at Kut, the besieged British garrison of 8,000 men was eventually forced to accept a ceasefire on 26 April 1916 and full surrender of the town three days later. Taken Prisoner of War alongside General Townshend and Major-General Sir. C. J. Melliss, V.C., it fell to Delamain’s hand to sign the official surrender document and facilitate the exchange of sick and wounded prisoners; large numbers of men were subsequently barged down the River Tigris to hospitals under British control, whilst the uninjured were marched in scorching heat to Aleppo where many died. Released from captivity at the cessation of hostilities, Delamain remained in the service of the Indian Army. Raised Lieutenant-General on 1 April 1920, he served as Adjutant-General in India from 10 November 1920 to 28 March 1923, when he took his retirement to Brockenhurst in Hampshire. One of the highest-ranking Prisoners of War of the Great War, Delamain died on 6 March 1932.
Lot 158
A selection of wines and spirits to include Fortnum & Mason Douro, 2012 (1), Fortnum & Mason Crusted Port, 2012 (1), Fortnum & Mason Dry White Port, The Society's Port (1),Fortnum & Mason Fino (1), Graham's Late Bottled Vintage Port, 1991 (1), Drambuie whisky Liqueur, 1970s bottling, 1 Litre (1), Delamain Cognac Grande Champagne, 40% vol., 700ml (1 boxed), Ferreira Dona Antonia Reserva Port (1 in tube), Jameson Irish Whisky, recent bottling, 40% vol., 700ml (1 boxed) and Haig Dimple Old Blended Scotch Whisky, 1970s bottling, 1 Litre (1 boxed), 12 bottles in totalCondition ReportPlease note we cannot guarantee condition of contents or quality of storage. No returns will be accepted due to defective contents and purchasers must satisfy themselves with respect to ullage.
Lot 473
Denis-Mounie, Grand Reserve Edouard VII Fine Champagne Cognac (1 bt); also Delamain, Tres Belle Grande Champagne Cognac (1 bt) (2) (Please note condition is not noted. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Lot 492
Delamain Grande Champagne Cognac 1999 Bottled July 2019 by Bristol Spirits Ltd1 dozen bottlesThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΔΔ VAT at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium. Items may be kept under bond if required.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 1152
Assorted French Brandy, to include: Delamain, Grande Champagne Old Cognac, Cellar Masters Collection, 1991, bottled for Coutts, 179/450, 40% vol, 70cl, one bottle in Coutts presentation case; Chateau du Tariquet, VSOP Bas Armagnac, 40% vol, 700ml, one bottle; Chateau de Laubade, Bas Armagnac, 1988, 40% vol, 70cl, one bottle in presentation case, three bottles in total
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