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The Royal Scots Fusiliers, a very fine quality officer’s shoulder belt plate 1901-52 (the quality indicates manufacture prior to 1914), burnished gilt rectangular back plate with silver mounts, the KC over a circle ‘Nemo Me Impune Lacesset’, in the centre on a raised gilt ground a thistle spray, at the bottom a scroll ‘Royal Scots Fusiliers’ and the date ‘1678’, usual hook and stud fasteners, mint state £400-500
Hammer Price: £300
Livery, various original pattern cards containing 143 large and 142 small silver plate and gilt examples, a few to the peerage but the majority commoners including initial and monogram types, none identified, a few in poor condition and most require cleaning (285) £350-400
Livery, a selection of original pattern cards containing 165 + large and 150+ small silver plate and gilt examples, the vast majority to commoners and including initial only types, very few identified, a few in poor condition and all require cleaning (315+) £350-400
Livery, ten original pattern cards containing 146 large and 163 small silver plate and gilt examples, a few peers but mainly commoners, many in poor condition and all require cleaning (309) £350-400
A Continental small-sword circa1750, the hilt of russet iron pierced and engraved with intricate floral decoration knucklebow and double shell-guard decorated en-suite, oval pierced pommel again en-suite, grip bound with copper-gilt wire with turk's heads, the earlier 79cm rapier blade of flattened diamond section signed in the central groove ‘Johannes Tesche’, good condition overall £300-350
A Third Reich naval officer’s dagger, the 25cm blade by Eickhorn, Solingen, etched with anchor etc., regulation gilt hilt composition grip bound with copper wire, complete with gold bullion knot, contained in its regulation scabbard, some servive wear overall £150-200
Hammer Price: £290
Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons), a scarce officer’s full dress fur cap plume holder, the fused grenade mounted with the KC Royal Arms, at the bottom St. Andrew and his Cross set amongst Union emblems, at the base a scroll ‘Waterloo’ (the mount rubbed wired on original fixings missing), the very large gilt thistle spray in die-stamped gilt brass, as described in Dress Regulations for wear on the front of the fur cap though in fact not worn, three lug fasteners; two small correct...
The Royal Scots Fusiliers Volunteer Battalions, a rare and very fine officer’s shoulder belt plate c1887-1908, a silver plated rectangular back plate with seeded ground, a large silver fused grenade mount, with a thistle spray upon the ball, below a scroll ‘Nemo Me Impune Lacesset’, four hook fasteners (Bloomer Bk 2 21/22), very good condition £300-400
20th ‘Halton Battalion’ Lorne Rifles Regiment of Canadian Militia, a fine selection of badges covering the period c1890-1914 comprising three glengarry badges, one officer’s and two other ranks of ovate thistle spray form with strap ‘Lorne Rifles’ and ‘20’ in the centre, all die-stamped - the officer’s in blackened brass with silver plated ‘20’, the other ranks in blackened brass with gilt wash ‘20’; a KC blackened brass helmet plate, eight pointed star with central...
A Prussian enlisted man’s infantry pickelhaube, black leather skull, brass plate and fittings, black leather pull-tie lining, chinstraps replaced otherwise good condition £150-200
Hammer Price: £280
The Highland Light Infantry Militia Battalions, a fine and rare officer’s shoulder belt plate c1881-1901, seeded ground rectangular gilt back plate overlaid with a large Thistle pattern star, a silver coiled bugle horn with ‘HLI’ gilt monogram in the coil, a gilt Imperial QVC above, and below gilt Elephant and blank scroll, usual hook and stud fateners, very good condition £300-400
93rd Sutherland Highlanders, a fine and rare officer’s glengarry/bonnet badge c1836-55 in heavy die-cast copper gilt, a crowned circular strap ‘Sutherland Highlanders’ enclosing the numerals ‘93’, these mounted on a blackened disc, thistle sprays around the strap and a short furled scroll at the base ‘Cape of Good Hope’, copper loop fasteners missing otherwise very good condition £300-400
A Prussian enlisted man’s pickelhaube, black patent-leather skull, grey metal plate and fittings, national and state cockades, retaining original fragile pull-tie leather lining, indistinct issue marks, replacement chinstrap otherwise very good condition £200-250
Hammer Price: £270
A Wurttemberg NCO’s infantry pickelhaube, black leather skull, brass plate and fittings, original pull-tie leather lining, peak with issue marks ‘ JR 21 1909’, chin straps and cockades lacking otherwise good condition £100-120
1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, a good officer’s 1878 pattern blue cloth helmet, complete with all plated fittings and bearing the QVC Royal Arms pattern plate ‘First’ on the top scroll, and ‘Lancashire Artillery Volunteers’ on the bottom, lining and sweat band all intact, some slight surface mothing, plate not original to the helmet bottom retaining nut on the metal spine missing, otherwise good condition £300-350
Livery, eight plus two small sections of original pattern cards containing 130 large and 142 small gilt and silver plate examples; plus a few plain types, mainly commoners, none identified, some in poor condition and all require cleaning (272+) £300-350
Royal Flying Corps, a Pilot’s cloth and embroidered brevet, a similar one for an Observer; a good pair of OR’s clth s/titles ‘Royal Flying Corps’ white on black; one large size solid brass curved s/title ‘RFC’; 5 large & 4 small officers’ tunic buttons; 1 OR cap button; a plated (worn) match box cover mounted with a bronze NCO Pilot’s brevet; an enamelled tin match box cover showing brevet cap badge and s/title designs; two osd cap badges (3 of 4 blades missing); 5 osd collar...
A Caucasian kindjal, the 35cm double edged blade with multiple grooves, polished dark horn grip plaques, silver niello mounts, wood scabbard covered with black leather with two large silver and niello mounts chased with floral patterns, the top mount with makers name and date in arabic, worn condition overall £80-100
An unusual 1796 pattern infantry sword possibly for a sergeant, plain brass double shell-guard and knucklebow facetted urn shaped pommel, wood grip bound with copper wire, the straight 67cm blade by J J Runkel engraved with crowned GR cypher stand of arms etc., complete with its brown leather scabbard with matching locket and chape, quillon bent otherwise good condition overall £250-300
Hammer Price: £260
A Wurttemberg NCO’s pickelhaube, brass plate and mounts, black patent-leather skull, square cut peak, pearls to spike support, original leather pull-tie lining, paper label with original owners name within skull, lacking state cockade and parts of chinscales £200-250
A Wurttemberg NCO’s infantry pickelhaube, black leather skull, brass plate and fittings, black leather pull-tie lining, the inside of the skull ink stamped ‘ BA XIII 1914’ & ‘ JR 120 ‘, lacking chin straps and cockades, plate damaged, leather crazed £100-120
Royal Naval Interest, a good pair of Captain’s full dress epaulettes c1910-37, the straps with bullion and velvet KC and silver bullion star, between these silver ‘GVR’ cyphers indicating the officer to be an Equerry to the King, retailed by Silver & Co. and contained in the velvet lined carrying tin, lace and general condition good but a few bullions part detached (3) £150-200
The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Militia Battalions, a fine quality officer’s shoulder belt plate 1901-08, pattern as for Line battalions but with metals reversed, silver plated engine turned back plate with gilt Thistle star scrolls and St. Andrew silver plated KC over thistle sprays and Thistle motto and Sphinx, usual hooks and stud fasteners; together with the companion rectangular waist belt plate, both retailed by Anderson & Sons Edinburgh, some gilt loss on the first item,...
72nd Highlanders (Duke of Albany’s Own), a rare Senior NCO’s shoulder belt plate c1840-81, in fine quality die-stamped gilt brass, central QVC over ‘72’ within thistle sprays, a floreate scroll above ‘Duke of Albany’s’, and in free standing Roman capitals below ‘Own’ ‘Highlanders’, hook and stud fasteners, hook fasteners replaced otherwise very good condition £250-350
Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteers, a very fine and scarce officer’s plaid brooch in silver plate and copper gilt, the plated quoit with a simple narrow floral circle, the centre with a mounted silver circle of thistle sprays, upon this a copper gilt Elephant with castle shaped howdah and a scroll above ‘Fortitudo Et Fidelitas’ (arms of Dumbarton), original stout pin to reverse, one mount screw lacking the nut otherwise very good condition £300-400
A Victorian officer's presentation sword of the 1st. Surrey Rifles, 1822 pattern infantry officers sword the slightly curved blade by Pillin, Gerrard Street, Soho, London, etched with crowned VR cypher, strung bugle and 1st. Surrey Rifles owners initials TFW within a cartouche, a presentation inscription appears within a zig-zagging ribbon 'Presented to T. F. Were, by his comrades in No. 4 Company upon receiving his commission May 1875', regulation brass gothic hilt incorporating VR cypher...
Hammer Price: £250
A Wurttemberg NCO’s pickelhaube, brass plate and fittings, black leather skull, national and state cockades, chinscales with replacement leather backing, retaining remains of leather pull-tie lining, rear peak with issue mark ‘29R 1916’, the cockades repainted and the lion supporter on the plate holed in two places, the skull sound £150-200
A Prussian enlisted man’s ersatz pressed felt pickelhaube, grey metal plate and fittings, national and state cockades, brown leather chinstrap, retaining original pull-tie leather liner, indistinct issue marks, good condition overall £250-300
A scarce regimental pattern sword for an officer of the Northumberland Fusiliers, 1897 pattern infantry officer’s sword, the 89cm dumbell section blade by Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London, No 55883 for 1918, etched with crowned GVR cypher, foliate scrolls, regimental device of St George & Dragon, flaming grenade and battle honours to South Africa 1899-1902, regulation plated steel guard incorporating GVR cypher and with affiixed regimental badge, fish-skin covered grip bound with copper...
The Royal Scots of Canada, 5th Battalion. a very fine quality officer’s shoulder belt plate, the burnished gilt rectangular back plate with silver mounts comprising a Royal Duchess’es coronet over maple leaf sprays in the centre a boar’s head over ‘5’ over a scroll ‘Ne Obliviscaris’, at the bottom a scroll ‘The Royal Scots Of Cananda’, usual hook and stud fasteners; together with the companion waist belt plate, the rectangular gilt back plate with silver mounts being the...
The Black Watch (4th Perthshire) Volunteer Battalion, a good scarce officer’s shoulder belt plate c1883-1908, rectangular seeded silver plated back plate with similar mount, being the charge from the arms of Perth, a double headed eagle bearing a shield on its breast, this with a Paschal lamb, a scroll at the base ‘Pro Rege Lege Et Grege’, standard hook and stud fasteners, very good condition £250-350
The Highland Light Infantry Militia Battalions, a very fine and rare officer’s shoulder belt plate 1881-1901, rectangular gilt back plate with seeded ground, mounted with a large silver Thistle style star, coiled silver bugle horn in the centre with gilt ‘HLI’ monogram in the coil, a gilt Imperial QVC above, usual hook and stud fasteners, very good condition £300-400
Sweetheart Brooches in Silver & Tortoiseshell. Three RFC, two RAF, two RNAS, plus one ‘Sterling’ RNAS brooch, tortoiseshell with slight damage one RFC example o/wise very good condition (9) £170-200
Hammer Price: £240
Bahawalpur 1935, an interesting photograph album, containing approx 23 images taken on the occasion of the presentation and trooping of the colours of the 1st Bahawalpur Infantry [Sadiq Battalion] 13th January 1935, {the album so titled on the front board}. The first image a full length portrait of Sir P E Chetwode, C in C India, the following images record the occasion, some wear to front board and some pages detached, images in good condition £80-100
Hammer Price: £230
A Prussian enlisted man’s ersatz pressed felt pickelhaube, grey metal plate and fittings, national and state cockades, retaining original pull-tie leather lining, indistinct issue marks, chinstrap replaced otherwise very good condition overall £250-300
36th ‘Peel Battalion’ of Canadian Militia, an officer’s helmet plate c1878-1901, the gilding metal (probably originally gilt) die-stamped back plate of QVC star pattern but with maple leaves replacing the standard laurel, central circular strap ‘Canada Militia’ with ‘36’ in the centre, this with an original ground of scarlet cloth on leather backing, three lug fasteners; the corresponding gilding metal other ranks QVC star and laurel pattern with central strap ‘Canada...
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), a scarce white metal engraved piper’s plaid brooch, the solid rococo quoit engraved overall with a ground of thistle sprays, an oval at the top ‘The Scottish Rifles’ enclosing the Sphinx, a similar oval at the base enclosing the China Dragon, battle honour scrolls occupy the remainder Blenheim to South Africa 1877.8.9., the raised centre mounted with a slab cut moss agate, original iron pin to the reverse (c1881-1903), very good condition £250-350
18th (Victoria Mary Princess of Wales’s Own) Hussars, an extremely fine and rare officer’s forage cap badge c1905-10 in die-cast rich fire gilt, a KC over laurel sprays enclosing an oval ‘Pro Rege Pro Lege Pro Patria Conamur’, in the centre on solid ground the burnished numerals ‘XVIII’ over ‘H’, on the laurels the honours ‘Peninsula’ ‘Waterloo’, at the base a scroll ‘Princess of Wales’s Own’, two gilt lugs, mint state £250-350
The Cavalry Officer’s Sword carried by Lieutenant-Colonel A. H. C. Kearsey, D.S.O., O.B.E., late 10th Hussars, who was uncle of the famous Mitford sisters An 1821 Pattern light cavalry officer’s Sword, by Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London, No 40399 for 1905, the 86cm blade etched with crowned EVII cypher, foliate scrolls etc., and regimental device of the X Hussars, regulation steel guard, fish-skin covered grip bound with silver wire, complete with its field service scabbard and...
Hammer Price: £220
An 1897 pattern infantry officer’s sword, the 82cm dumbell-section blade retaining all original finish, etched with crowned GVR cypher, foliate scrolls etc., and engraved within a cartouche ‘Donald F Kelly, 22nd London Regt ‘The Queen’s’, regulation plated guard incorporating GVR cypher, fish-skin covered grip bound with copper wire, complete with its brown leather field service scabbard, in excellent condition throughout £100-150
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