Lot Archive

Lot

№ 695

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£140

8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars: Two albums, 18th Century to 1952, includes facsimile watercolours after Hamilton Smith and Dighton; an oval photograph of a mounted officer in full dress, 1869, the white of the busby plume and throat plume heightened with white paint; two officer group photographs, in various orders of dress, Ireland, c.1870; another photograph of the trumpet-major in stable dress, mounted drill order, 1872; a group of three N.C.O.’s in full dress with pillbox caps, 1886; various postcards; two photographs of the kettle-drummer, c.1900, etc. (2) £180-220