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№ 181

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16 September 2010

Hammer Price:
£1,100

10th (The Prince of Wales’s Own Royal Regiment) Hussars Officer’s Full Dress Sabretache c. 1880 - 1901, a fine quality example showing the VR cipher over ‘X’ and five battle honour scrolls “Peninsula’, “Waterloo”, “Sevastapol”, “Ali Masjid” and “Afghanistan 1878.79”, above the cipher the Prince of Wales’s crest and motto overlaid with a Light Cavalry crown, complete with bag of red Moroccan; together with two officer’s harness badges, one circular with title and central Prince of Wales’s crest and motto, the other showing a crowned strap “Prince of Wales’s Own Hussars” with central crest and motto, on the sabretache the crest and crown section are ‘laid down’ being taken from an earlier pattern, moth damage to the battle honour scrolls and Ich Dien scrolls, the bag retaining strap missing, the lace dull overall (3) £800-1200