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18 July 2018

Hammer Price:
£280

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Wiltshire Regiment Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet 1902 - 14, the cloth skull complete with all gilt metal fittings, the frontal plate of crowned star pattern with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black velvet AN ALL GILT cross pattee bearing the coronet and cypher of the Duke, at the bottom a silver scroll ‘The Wiltshire Regiment’ in full, buff leather sweat band and retailer’s stamp for ‘William Stone, 20 Old Compton St., London’, the plate not original to the helmet, all fittings devoid of gilt otherwise sound overall £240-300