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№ 747

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9 May 2018

Hammer Price:
£3,400

English and Welsh Militia Buttons, Volunteer Buttons c. 1794 - 1820, the majority unexcavated include large plated examples to Derby Militia, Bristol Volunteers, 4th Blything Hundred Volunteers, West Kent Yeomanry, DV (?), Liverpool Fuzileers, Worcestershire Militia, Northampton Fencibles, SWV (?), Royal Carmarthen Fusiliers, Cambridgeshire Militia; large gilts include Royal North Lincoln Militia (2), 1st West York Militia (2), South Hampshire Militia (2), Nottingham Militia, Loyal Braintree and Bocking Volunteers, St. George’s Volunteers (2), Western Battalion Mendip Legion, Royal East India Volunteers, Loyal Andover Volunteers, Royal Carmarthen Militia, Newport Loyal Volunteers (Isle of Wight) (2), Stanborough Battalion, East York Militia, York Volunteers, Ouse and Derwent Volunteers, WLV (?), Crown/LLV (?), Loyal Hackney Volunteers (repaired shank), West Halifax Volunteers, 4th Royal Lancashire Militia, 1st Royal Lancashire Militia (6), 1st Harts Volunteers, North Shields and Tynemouth Volunteers (gilt rubbed), Crown over script BV (6), St. Helen’s Volunteers (pewter), Royal Manchester Volunteers; some of the better excavated items include Royal Denbigh Militia, Glamorgan Militia (?), Loyal Leicester Volunteers, Oxfordshire Loyal Volunteers, Cinque Ports Militia, Sussex Volunteers, together with a selection of smaller excavated and unexcavated items. A few excavated Line Cavalry include examples to the 4th Queen’s Own Dragoons, 3rd Dragoon Guards c. 1790, 18th Light Dragoons, good condition apart from the excavated examples (115) £700-1000