Arms, Armour and Militaria

3rd (Prince of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards, an officer’s fine quality 1871 pattern helmet gilt brass skull, with similar spike chin chain and rose side ornaments, the plate being a silver hob-nail cut elongated star mounted with a gilt pierced Garter Proper in gilt, this with a ground of blue enamel, centrally the Prince of Wales’s crest and motto on a red enamel ground, internally the period quilted silk sweat band and other lining present, front peak lined with green, skiver missing on the rear peak, a hair plume present black over red (the black nearly back to red), finial rose of incorrect size, no lining to the chin chain, a large chip to the lower part of the red enamel and a small section of the blue enamel missing, no retaining nut for the plume, some gilt loss to the spike’s quadrant £1000-1200