Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The well-documented group of five miniature dress medals worn by Sir Frank E. Smith, G.C.B., G.B.E., Director of the National Physical Laboratory

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Civil) Knight Grand Cross badge, silver-gilt; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, G.B.E. (Civil) Knight Grand Cross, 1st type, badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, mounted as worn and housed in a Spink, London, case; together with a Physical Society of London William du Bois Duddell Prize Medal, bronze (Frank Edward Smith, F.R.S. 1927) in fitted case; and a London, Midland, & Scottish Railway Company Herbert Jackson Medal, bronze, unnamed, in fitted case, minor enamel damage to top arm of GCB, otherwise good very fine (5) £300-£500

G.C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1942: Sir Frank Edward Smith, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.Sc., LL.D., Controller of Telecommunications Equipment.
‘For services to the Ministry of Aircraft Production.’

G.B.E. London Gazette 2 January 1939: Sir Frank Edward Smith, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary of the Department of Scientific and industrial Research.
‘Lately Secretary of the Royal Society.’

Sir Frank Edward Smith (1876-1970) was a British physicist who served as Director of the National Physical Laboratory from 1936-37. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918.

Sold together with the recipient’s Grant of Coat of Arms, an illuminated scroll on vellum, containing a depiction and description of the recipient’s coat of arms, dated 18 June 1947, and from which is appended the red wax seals of the Garter Principal and Clarenceux King of Arms, in embossed G.VI.R. red leather case; Bestowal Documents for the O.B.E., dated 1 January 1918; C.B.E., dated 30 December 1922; C.B., dated 5 June 1926; K.C.B., dated 1 January 1931; G.B.E., dated 2 January 1939; G.C.B., dated 1 January 1942; together with various Central Chancery enclosures; Bestowal Certificate for the Jubilee Medal 1935 and Coronation Medal 1937; copy of the Statutes of the Order of the Bath and the Order of the British Empire; copy of the Order of Service for the Installation of Knights of the Order of the Bath, Westminster Abbey, 24 May 1951; copy of the Order of Service for the The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Service of Dedication, St. Paul’s Cathedral, 30 October 1963; copy of the Order of Service for the Coronation of H.M. King George VI, Westminster Abbey, 12 May 1937, together with various Earl Marshal enclosures; a photograph album from the opening of the New Products and Inspection Laboratories of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Research Station, Sunbury-on-Thames, 18 July 1950; various other photographs of the recipient; and other letters and ephemera.