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A Triumph Class A cornet, cased

XTC (Né en 1978) MC CAVIAR. Grand cornet de Mc Caviar en résine et OR 24K et sa cuillère en nacre. Pièce unique, numéroté EA 1/4 Signé par l’artiste sur le socle. Hauteur : 30 cm. Poids brut : 3Kg. Dimensions boîte plexiglas : 33 x 20 cm. Conçu et réalisé en résine moulée, parée de feuille d'or 24 carats, peint en noir profond. Protégé sous un vernis résistant. Probablement l'œuvre d'XTC la plus emblématique à ce jour. Certificat (COA) fourni.

XTC (Né en 1978) et HERSK (Né en 1979) MC CAVIAR en collaboration avec HERSK. Grand cornet de Mc Caviar en résine et OR 24K et sa cuillère en nacre. Pièce unique, numéroté 1/1. Signé par les deux artistes sur le socle. Hauteur : 30 cm. Poids brut : 3Kg. Dimensions socle plexiglas : 33 x 20 cm. Conçu et réalisé en résine moulée, parée de feuille d'or 24 carats, peint en rouge profond. Protégé sous un vernis résistant. Probablement l'œuvre d'XTC la plus emblématique à ce jour, en collaboration avec l’artiste HERSK. Certificat (COA) fourni.

Victorian hallmarked silver mounted horse hoof inkwell, engraved '"Cornet" my first horse 1876-1897', Birmingham 1897, maker Thomas Hayes, length 15cm, together with a Victorian hallmarked silver butter knife

Cornet in case, inscribed 'Maker to H.M. Forces A. Hall Gisborne'Valves sticky but functioning, general wear, bell is crushed in places, elsewhere minor dents etc, mute and case are in poor condition

Britains Collectors Club Centenary Series - Queen Victoria presenting the Scots Guards with the State Colour, 15th September 1899, comprising: 3 figure Band Sets - 2 x 00291- Bassoon, Tenor Drum, Cymbals, 00292 - Circular Bass, Tenor Sax, Euphonium, 5992 - Bass Drum, Side Drum, Oboe, 40106 - Tuba, Alto Sax, Piccolo, 40201 - Sgt. Trombone, Sgt. Clarinet, Sgt. Cornet & 3 x 40202 - Side Drum, Clarinet & French Horn. Mint overall, contained in near Mint Britains pictorial set boxes. [9]

Roger Brielle, French 1899-1960 -  Untitled (Red abstract); oil on canvas, signed lower right 'Brielle', 73 x 60 cm (ARR)  Provenance:  Roger Passeron collection (according to the previous cataloguing of the work);  Bernard collection (Landes le Gaulois) (according to the previous cataloguing of the work);  SVV Pousse-Cornet SARL, Blois, 1st July 2024, lot 93;  private collection, purchased from the above  Note:  Passeron was a noted publisher on printing, creating catalogues raisonnés of the engraved work of Michel Ciry, Mario Avari and Antoni Clavé, as well as works on the lithographs of Picasso and Chagall. 

'Gear for Music' Cornet, Mutes x2 and book. Together in hard shell case.

Small framed watercolour, view of Castle Cornet, Guernsey, 1838, together with another, Dutch bark and Swedish schooner near Cowes, 1844, by the same hand, together with a small watercolour, marine scene, signed Howard

A vintage Olds Ambassador silver plated cornet in fitted case. [W]

Cased 1st Class Cornet Exibition Prize Medal Awarded London 1862 & Dublin 1865 To L Higham Maker 34598 Presented to Bandmaster W Sutton by the Bottesford Band January 18th 1886.

A cased cornet

Africa DRC - Lega mask in carved wood and raffia. tribal patina Provenance :  Collected before 1955 by Andre Simoens, a great Belgian collector from Saint-Idesbald who spent his entire professional career in Congo (Kinshasa and Kwilu Ngongo). In the late 1960s, he maintained good relations with Brother Cornet, then director of the INMZ, in Kinshasa. Brother Joseph Cornet wrote the exhibition catalogue of the Bronson Collection in 1978 (Enquete sur l'art zairois : la Collection Bronson). - Weight: 120 g - Shipping available - Region: Afrique RDC - Sizes: H 180MM X L 130MM

Afrique RDC - Lega spoon carved in bone with tribal patina Provenance:  Collected before 1955 by Andre Simoens, a great Belgian collector from Saint-Idesbald who spent his entire professional career in Congo (Kinshasa and Kwilu Ngongo). In the late 1960s, he maintained good relations with Brother Cornet, then director of the INMZ, in Kinshasa. Brother Joseph Cornet wrote the exhibition catalogue of the Bronson Collection in 1978 (Enquete sur l'art zairois : la Collection Bronson). - Weight: 14 g - Shipping available - Region: Afrique RDC - Sizes: H 200MM X L 50MM

Africa DRC - Lega, bone spoon. tribal patina Provenance :  Collected before 1955 by Andre Simoens, a great Belgian collector from Saint-Idesbald who spent his entire professional career in Congo (Kinshasa and Kwilu Ngongo). In the late 1960s, he maintained good relations with Brother Cornet, then director of the INMZ, in Kinshasa. Brother Joseph Cornet wrote the exhibition catalogue of the Bronson Collection in 1978 (Enquete sur l'art zairois : la Collection Bronson). - Weight: 15 g - Shipping available - Region: Afrique RDC - Sizes: H 180MM X 46MM

A vintage cornet in wooden box AF.

A Boosey and Co cornet (missing mouth piece) with diffuser a/f

Schreibtisch aus dem Umkreis Abraham RoentgensKirschfurnier, verschiedene Obst- und Edelhölzer, teilweise gefärbt, teilweise brandschattiert und graviert, auf Kirsche und Weichholz, Leder, bedruckte Tapete. Geschweifte Zarge, vorne herausziehbare Schreibplatte, ein seitlicher Schub mit Fächern. Dreiseitig geschweifte Platte mit dunklen Konturen, marketiert mit Blumen und Schmetterlingen. Geschweifte verjüngte Vierkantbeine mit dunklen Konturen, abschraubbar. Auf dem Boden Brandstempel "H. INV. 2518" und zwei Klebeetiketten (nicht lesbar). Restaurierte Schwundrisse auf Platte und Zarge. H 77, B 76, T 50 cm.Neuwied, um 1770.ProvenienzFischer-Böhler, München.Die Sammlung L.LiteraturZur Marketerie vgl. Cornet/Willscheid (Hg), Möbel à la Roentgen. Inspirationen aus der Neuwieder Manufaktur, Neuwied 2023, Kat. Nr. 3.S.a. Lempertz Köln Auktion Fit for a King. Abraham & David Roentgen, 13. November 2020, Lot 406.

Georgian style emerald green paste Riviere necklace. Yellow metal set in 14ct gold, tested, with 17 graduating green open back stones set in a cornet crown setting flanked by 15 rose cut diamonds, with concealed clasp length 41.5cm, weight 42.4 grams.

A Crimean War ‘Heavy Brigade’ pair awarded to Captain A. M. Robertson, 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Capt. A. M. Robertson, 4th [Dn.] Gds.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, pierce with ring suspension, both with Bailey, Coventry, top riband fitments for wearing, first with signs of having sometime been held in a circular mount, with restoration overall and partial loss of regimental details due to bruising, contact marks and heavily polished, thus fine (2) £1,000-£1,400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2008. Arthur Masterton Robertson was commissioned Cornet, by purchase, in the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards on 18 May 1846, and was promoted Lieutenant by purchase on 8 October 1847, and Captain by purchase on 25 June 1852. He served with the Regiment in the Crimea, and took part in the famous charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava on 25 October 1854. Subsequently tried by Court-martial for conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman in Dublin in March 1862, Robertson was found guilty of the charges against him and was sentenced to be cashiered from the Army; however, on the recommendation of the Judge Advocate-General the Queen did not confirm the sentence of the Court, and instead Robertson retired by sale of his commission in 1864.

Pair: Major T. Jones, 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Major. T. Jones. 4th. D.G.) Depot impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Major T. Jones. 4th. D.G.) Depot impressed naming, fitted with a non-swivel ring suspension, minor edge bruising and light contact marks, very fine (2) £240-£280 --- Thomas Jones was commissioned Cornet, by purchase, in the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards on 23 July 1841, and was promoted Lieutenant by purchase on 19 May 1843, and Captain by purchase on 30 June 1848. He served in the Crimea in 1855, and was present at the battle of the Tchernaya, and at the siege of Sebastopol.

Cased Boosey & Hawkes '78' Malta cornet with accessories

A cased cornet.

Militaria Interest: a Victorian silver-gilt military drum shaped presentation desk ink stand, the cover engraved with The Royal Arms above banner DIEU ET MON DROIT and the arms of Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, a panel in the drum opens to reveal recess for ink bottle (missing), the inside cover engraved with two crests above initials W.D.L 11th Hussars (William Drury-Lowe), the body engraved: EGYPT within frame and sphinx above with SALAMANCA PENINSULA WATERLOO BHURTPORE below, the drum with twist cord mouldings, hallmarked by probably Henry Wilkinson & Co, Sheffield, 1851, the entire on brass bound black marble cross shaped mount with four cast brass Sphinxes to each corner, approx. 20cm long. Provenance: once the property of William Drury-Lowe (1828-1906), more formally known as William Drury Nathaniel Drury-Lowe thence by descent Born the eldest son of William Drury Holden (assumed the name Lowe in 1849) and the Hon. Caroline Esther, daughter of Nathaniel 2nd Lord Scarsdale. He received a commission as a Cornet (the modern equivalent being a 2nd Lieutenant) in the 11th Hussars in 1849, rising to Lieutenant in 1851. The inkwell show only the pre-Crimean War era battle honours, which is correct for the date the inkwell was made. The 11th Hussars went on to serve with distinction at Balaklava, Inkerman, and Sevastopol during the Crimean War. In 1877, William went on to succeed to the Denby and Locko estates in Derbyshire.

Elkhart USA Blessing Scholastic Cornet. in fitted case.

Burnley 2021 - 2022 Match Worn Football Shirt: Home short sleeve shirt with Carabao Cup badge to arm. Cornet number 20 to rear. Worn v Tottenham on 27 October 2021

A 20th century Boosey & Hawkes 'Regent' cornet - silver plated with a matte finish, the bell interior polished, with sheet music holder, presented in a hard case, together with a bowler hat.

A cased cornet

A gold tone cornet, no name or serial number, with accessories and case. Location:If there is no condition report, please request.

Boosey and Hawkes silver plated satin finish cornet, in original carry case in reasonable condition. needs a clean up

A brass cornet

Abyssinia 1867 (Cornet Lord C. Hamilton 11th Hussars Aide de Camp) old repair to suspension post, otherwise toned, good very fine £1,000-£1,400 --- Three officers and 9 enlisted men of the 11th Hussars received the Abyssinia medal. Charles George Douglas-Hamilton was born on 18 May 1847, the second son of William Alexander Archibald, 11th Duke of Hamilton & 8th Duke of Brandon, and his wife H.H. Princess Marie of Baden, youngest daughter of Karl Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (which made him a cousin of Emperor Naploeon III. He was commissioned as Cornet by purchase in the 11th Hussars on 9 March 1866, and served during the Abyssinia campaign as Aide-de-Camp to Lord Napier. He was present during the capture of Magdala, and was also mentioned in despatches. He resigned his commission in 1869 (which appears to have been connected to financial issues). In 1885 he succeeded a distant cousin to become the 7th Earl of Selkirk, but sadly died on 2nd May the following year from Tuberculosis, in Biarritz, just before his 39th birthday.

[ Charge of the Light Brigade ] After Lowes Cato Dickinson (1819 – 1908) "Sir George Orby Wombwell, Baronet", aquatint published by Robert Sunter of York, 1861, framed and mounted under glass, 83 cm x 61 cm overall. [Wombwell joined the 17th Lancers in 1852 as a cornet and later served as an aide-de-camp to Lord Cardigan during the Crimean War. Present at the Charge of the Light Brigade. Upon reaching the Russian guns, his horse was killed under him and he was taken prisoner, however, he effected an escape, caught a loose horse and rode back to the British lines pursued by Russian troops]

A Victorian 1822 pattern Light Cavalry officer’s dress sword for the 10th Hussars by HENRY WILKINSON PALL MALL LONDON No.18619 (=1873CE) blade 83cms etched with crowned VR cypher, Xth within garter inscribed PRINCE OF WALES’S OWN, above HUSSARS above battle honours to Sevastopol, with owner’s initials RDL, all with scrolling foliage, regulation triple bar steel guard, chequered steel grip, silver wire bound fish skin covered grip, in polished steel scabbard.The sword of R. Drury Lowe, 10th Hussars, cornet 1869, Lieut. 1871. Sold with copy of the Wilkinson Sword ledger entry and some limited research material. Please note that all lots in this auction have been imported from outside the United Kingdom and are subject to 5% import duty on the hammer price. Items being exported outside of the UK are exempt from this charge upon proof of export. Any international bidder having items sent to a UK address will be subject to this fee.

Trumpet Sovereign Model By Boosey & Hawkes bell stamped with globe logo, no.667421, in manufacturers hard caseAll valves and slides move freely as do valve top caps & bottom caps; Bell logo reads 'Manufactured by Boosey And Hawkes London England. Sovereign'; trigger connecting bar missing; mouthpiece (cornet) stamped 'JK Exclusive 5C'; dents to 1st & 2nd slide bows and bell back bow

Cornet By Bach (USA) Model CR310, no.853731, cased with mouthpiece

Mint stamp sheets and partial sheets to include GUERNSEY half pence Castle Cornet sheets of 30 stamps x50 (approx), GREAT BRITAIN GB 5d Philympia 1970, 3d Forth Road Bridge 1964, 9d Cutty Sark, 1s British Ships etc. ISLE OF MAN 3d purple, 4d blue, 4d black, etc.

BESSON & CO 'PROTOTYPE' CORNET, in original fitted case and with accessories the case 36cm wide

Brunswick Medal for Waterloo awarded to Cornet Theodore Berkhan UHL Esquire (Theod. Berkhan. Cornet. UHL. Esq.), clip and ring suspension, edge bumps, fine (1)

LOWE HUDSON: (1769-1844) Anglo-Irish soldier and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Saint Helena 1816-21 where he was the 'gaoler' of Emperor Napoleon. A.L.S., with his initials HL, two pages, 4to, n.p. (Saint Helena), n.d. (´Friday´), to Sir Thomas Reade. Lowe commences his letter stating ´Ask the commanders and as many of the passengers as you may think right to dine here either today or tomorrow as may be found most convenient´ and also requests that Reade invites ´the two Captains Campbell´ as well as any ladies, such as Mrs. Munro, further remarking ´Lady Lowe wishes also to see Cornet De Lancey. She does not precisely know who he is, but says he must be a relation´. Lowe also forwards a pass as requested by Reade and two letters for the Admiral and concludes by adding that he has enquired as to ´whether Bonaparte made any remarks´ regarding a book, and observing ´This questioning I fear he will not like´. Accompanied by the original envelope wrapper hand addressed by Lowe. Some light, minimal age wear and a few minor stains, VGSir Thomas Reade (1782-1849) British Colonel during the Napoleonic Wars, one of the principal guards of the defeated Napoleon during his exile to Saint Helena.

Cased J R Lafleur & Son Cornet

Vintage advertising object cornet with icecream in fibreglass, 1950sVintage reclameobject cornet met ijscreem in fiberglas, jaren '50H 135 cm

British rule in Ireland Collection of letters, 18th century all on single bifolium of laid paper (one folio, the rest 4to), most presumed to be addressed to Charles Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend as lord lieutenant of Ireland (in post 1767-72), and comprising:Charles Fitzroy, later 1st Baron Southampton (1737-1797), 4 autograph letters signed as regimental colonel of the 14th Light Dragoons, London, 1768-9, all to ‘My Lord’ regarding a request for preferment, etc., William Kerr, Earl of Ancram, later 4th Marquess of Lothian, (c.1710-1775), 3 autograph letters signed, Dublin and London, 1762-8, all to ‘My Lord’, on regimental matters, ‘I received a letter yesterday from Lord Shelburne to inform me that His Majesty had granted me leave of absence through your Lordship’s most obliging application', etc., all signed ‘Ancram’ (though the style technically incorrect following Ancram's succession to the marquessate in 1767);George Purdon, Limerick, 1772, 2 autograph letters signed evidently to Lord Townshend (referring to ‘your Lordship’s son my Lord Ferrars'), requesting preferment for his son, a cornet in the 4th Regiment of Horse);Thomas Vereker, autograph letter signed, Limerick, 1768, to ‘your Excellency’, a letter of recommendation for his brother, ‘lieutenant of dragoons on this establishment’;Amos Vereker, Athlone, 1772, ‘Sir, I Hope his Excellency will not censure me, for the freedom I take, in requesting, through you, the vacant place of barrack master for Youghall’;Edward Smith (identified in pencilled notes as lieutenant-colonel of the 4th Regiment of Horse); 2 similar letters;and manuscript memorandum concerning a skirmish at Elphin, 11 May 1795 ('a Party of the 10th Dragoons surprised them - killed upwards of Twenty - wounded many and drove sixteen into a river near the place where they were drowned …'), 2 pp., 4to(a folder)

A Quantity of Militaria, comprising a collection of die cast metal models of Crimean soldiers and other figures, two Crimean battlefield relic bullets, a Crimea War commemorative pottery mug and plate, a large black and white print of Cornet George Orby Wombwell, Aide de Campe to Lord Cardigan at the Battle of Balaklava; a large colour print "Alma - Forward the 42nd"; Ten Military Books: - The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army, 1844 and Addenda to the Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army, 1854; The History of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), 1993; The Records of the Third Battalion Prince of Wales' Own, West Yorkshire Regiment (Second West York Light Infantry Militia), 1882; The First Regiment of Militia, (Third West York Light Infantry), 1876; Records of the Third Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment. 1910; North York Militia, 1907; The History of the 1/4th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (W.R.) Regiment, 1914 – 1919. published 1920; The West Riding Territorials in the Great War.1920; and History of the Volunteer Infantry, (Huddersfield and its vicinity). 1903 (two boxes)

A Barratts of Manchester brass cornet. 605.

A Westminster by Besson cornet in carry case.

An early 20th century chrome plated cornet, the bell stamped Ball Beavon & Co., Paris Et Londres, housed in a fitted painted pine case.

A Blessing XL-CR brass cornet, serial no. A10804, in fitted leather case, together with a Vincent Bach muffler. (2)

Henry Wimbush (British, 1859-1910) 'Cornet Street, Guernsey', signed lower left, watercolour, 31cm x 25cm

THE KINGS SURVEY OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 1680 - Report on the state of Guernsey & Jersey by Col. G. Legge - The Fortress Edition limited edition number 8/50, covered in a brown marbled paper, comes complete with 4 half-size prints of Thomas Phillips? illustrations of Fort Elizabeth and Castle Cornet and their ground plans, held in an archival pocket within the book cover, the one of Castle Cornet has been professionally framed and glazed, the book measures approximately 53cm. high x 38cm. wide and 5«cm. thick, and holds many fold-out reproduction watercolours etc, housed in original box, together with four reproduction limited edition 12/125 prints from 'THE KINGS SURVEY', one of Castle Cornet / St. Peter Port, being framed and glazed, overall 68«cm. x 87.4cm.

The M.G.S. and Waterloo pair awarded to Lieutenant William Crawley Yonge, 52nd Foot, related by marriage to Sir John Colborne (later 1st Baron Seaton) and father of Charlotte Mary Yonge, the noted Victorian novelist Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (W. C. Yonge, Lieut. 52nd Foot); Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. W. Crawley Yonge, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot.) third letter of Crawley corrected from ‘o’, fitted with replacement silver bar suspension, both medals fitted with silver ribbon buckles, light contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (2) £5,000-£7,000 --- Provenance: Sotheby’s, June 1971, with other family medals. William Crawley Yonge was born on 26 June 1795, the eighth of nine children of the Reverend Duke Yonge and Catherine (née Crawley) of Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire. He grew up in Cornwood, Devon, on the edge of Dartmoor, where his father was the rector from 1793 to 1823, and was educated at Ottery St Mary, where the head was George Coleridge, of the poet's family, and then on to Eton College. He was gazetted by purchase as an ensign in the 52nd Regiment in May 1812 and joined the regiment outside San Sebastian in September the following year, having been promoted to Lieutenant the previous April. He was present at the crossing of the Bidassoa and at the battles of Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Tarbes, Toulouse and Waterloo. William was placed on half pay for an Ensign following the reduction of the regiment after its return from France early in 1818. Although he rejoined the 52nd on full pay in the following November, it was marriage that led him to resign his active commission in February 1823, having served for a time with the 17th Regiment in Ireland. William married Fanny Bargus on 25 October 1822, at Otterbourne Old Church, Hampshire. Fanny was a stepsister of Sir John Colborne, and William was the brother of Sir John’s brother-in-law the Reverend Duke Yonge. John Colborne and Sophia Leeke, sister of Ensign Leeke of the 52nd, were witnesses. William was father to Charlotte Mary Yonge, born in August 1823 and destined to become a famous and successful novelist who dedicated her talents as a writer to the service of the church. In her autobiography she makes many mentions of her father and several interesting comments on his military service: ‘He joined in the midst of the siege of St Sebastian and his first experience of war was crossing a bridge on which the enemy’s guns were firing. He hesitated to bend his head below the shelter of the parapet and old soldiers had to advise him not to expose himself to danger unnecessarily. He kept a journal [since lost] dutifully at that time but in dreadful schoolboy writing and with wonderfully little in it, though the sight of it served in after life to assist his recollections.’ Charlotte also recounts what happened to William in the hours and days following the battle of Waterloo: ‘That night of victory was spent in the open field, in the clothes the officers and men had fought in, all the officer’s luggage was plundered by the Belgium’s during the battle. The only thing ever recovered was William Yonge’s box empty of all save his bible and prayer book, which was found in a loft in Brussels. His friend Mr Griffith’s found a pony tied to a post, with a saddle bag containing two coarse women’s shifts and this was the only change of linen anyone had as they marched straight on for Paris. In preparation for entering the City they halted at St Cloud and there all the officers got into one pond and passed the single razor in their possession from chin to chin.’ In his account of Lord Seaton and the 52nd, William Leeke, a junior ensign and nephew of Mr Bargus, gives the following account: ‘Our servants made a bed of straw on the wet ploughed field and all four of us. Yonge and I lay down, and being covered in our boat cloaks tried to go to sleep. It was very hot and there was heavy rain I think it was a little after four, we were ordered to fall in again. We piled arms and remained for the night... My friend Yonge shared my boat cloak and straw with me and we consequently both of us got very wet.’ Many commentators at the time and subsequently have written about the retreat of the French Guard and what caused it, but it is instructive to see what one junior officer who was there felt. In his privately published Memoir of the Services of Field Marshal Lord Seaton, William Yonge wrote: ‘Then too, was invented the story of “Up Guards and at them.” It was a piece of gossip picked up in the Camp by Sir Walter Scott, on his visit to Paris, first appearing in his “Paul’s Letters to his Kinsfolk” and from then adopted by Alison as a historical fact, in truth they never came in contact at all with the Imperial Guards, and were in no way instrumental in their repulse.’ Leeke quotes from a letter written by William Yonge to Colonel Bentham in November 1853: ‘He [Colborne, later 1st Baron Seaton] kept watching the heavy column advancing saw no attempt at preparation to meet it. He said there is nothing else to do but to endeavour to stop them by a flank attack and that if something of sort not done our line would be penetrated. How is it possible that this fanfaronade of Guards charging the head of this column can have the smallest foundation in truth. As to Lord Seaton I think there was never a man so ill used.’ William's daughter Charlotte also wrote of this issue in her autobiography: ‘He [Colborne] thought the final exchange would have been fully explained and the honour awarded to the 52nd... Gossip has picked up and invented “up Guards and at them”… But the crisis of Waterloo has become a vexed question.’ Of this injustice William wrote many letters to the Secretary of War. In one letter he wrote: ‘While the ensigns of the Guards were made lieutenants on the pretence of the 1st Guards having repulsed the Imperial Guard, the lieutenants of the regiment that actually did the work were made ensigns.’ This, of course, had a financial consequence for William, for an ensign’s pay was lower than that of a lieutenant’s. Retiring to the Hampshire village of Otterborne, he was a J.P. for many years and a Cornet in the North Hants Yeomanry from 1836 to 1840. On the death of the Duke of Wellington in 1852, William was among an elite group of old Waterloo veterans who were in the funeral procession, as was also his son Julian, who was in the Rifles. He clearly remained vexed by Waterloo and the injustice to the 52nd and to Lord Seaton himself. William Crawley Yonge died at Otterborne on 26 February 1854; among those attending his funeral was Lord Seaton. His daughter Charlotte was also clearly influenced by her father’s interest in matters military. In March 1896, 81 years after Waterloo and 41 years after her father died, she wrote to an American admirer: ‘My father fought at Waterloo and I grew up with many army traditions from him and his colonel Lord Seaton.’ In her novel Clever Woman of the Family, published in 1865, perhaps reflecting her father’s attitude to life, she wrote: ‘It is the discipline and Constant Duty that make the soldier and are far more valuable than exceptional doings.’ From the beginning to the end of her life, Waterloo remained a topic of key importance for Charlotte. It figured in her very first book published in 1839, Le Chateau de Melville. Several other of her books also had a military theme. With acknowledgement to Ian Yonge and his excellent biographical work available online...

Besson Cornet, in fitted box.

An ornate cornet

A Boosey & Hawkes Imperial cornet, boxed.

A cased brass cornet

A collection of Olympus cameras, lenses & accessories together with leather Olympus bag, Cornet bellows camera & set of west German Stener Bayreuth 8x30 binoculars

A silver plated cornet, a pair of maracas, a tambourine, a part of a flute (one ivory piece has been removed) and other musical instruments (box)

A Silbron silver plated Cornet in a leather case

A brass cornet, by Boosey & Co, London, No 88983, in a hardwood case

A silver plated cornet, no apparent maker's mark, 34 cm (l). [W]