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A 1796 pattern Light Cavalry Officer’s sword, the curved flat-solid section 79cm blade back-edged for the last 28cm, undecorated but for the engraved legend ‘A faithful servant in the hands of the brave’ and on the reverse ‘Often drawn in the defence of my country, but never returned without glory’, steel stirrup guard, facetted back-strap and pommel, shield shaped langets, wood black leather covered grip bound with twisted silver wire, complete with its steel scabbard with two...
Hammer Price: £580
An 1821 pattern heavy cavalry officer's undress sword of the 5th.Dragoon Guards, the curved 86cm blade by Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London, number 14572 for 1866, etched with crowned VR cypher panels of foliage and within a cartouche the owners initials ' FFB ' regulation scroll guard chequered pommel, fish-skin covered grip bound with silver wire, complete with its steel scabbard, blade a little stained, mounts patinated overall £280-300
A Saxon artillery officer’s pickelhaube, black leather skull, two piece plate, with silver state arms and gilt sunburst, four stars to top ball mount, state and national cockades, chinscales with leather backing, black leather sweatband brown silk lining, good condition overall £450-500
P.....Infantry (Irish Volunteers), a fine and scarce other cross belt plate c1796-1815, heavy oval brass engraved at the top ‘For Our King’, at the base ‘And Country’, in the centre the crowned Harp and Maid with script initials left and right ‘P’ ‘I’ below the Harp and Maid ‘1796’ ,one hook two studs to the reverse, very good condition £250-350
Banks, Insurance Companies, Hotels & Commerce, a card of excellent quality items representing some famous British institutions of the C19th including very large gilt issues to the Colchester & Leicester Corporations; similar gilt types bearing the arms of Norwich, Glasgow, Salford, Carlisle, Ipswich, Lincoln and Oswestry, Rochester; similar silver plate examples bearing the arms of Lichfield, Hull and Cork; a rare large gilt for Chorley Improvement Commissioners and a similar silver plate...
An unusual custom built solid-patent tang cavalry officer's fighting sword by Reeves, the heavy curved 90cm blade struck on the back edge 'Reeves patent' single wide fuller, back-edged and spear-pointed, undecorated but for a retailers name within a cartouche 'Milan & Mann, George St. Edinburgh’, steel bowl guard pierced through with a maltese cross, simple linear decoration following the shape of the cross and bordering the edge of the guard, two slots to the back, ribbed polished horn...
Hammer Price: £550
Livery, Seven original pattern cards containing 187 large and 104 small silver plate and gilt examples, one card identified, a few foreign nobility otherwise commoners, the majority require cleaning, good overall condition (291) £600-700
Livery, Ten original pattern cards containing 195 large and 52 small silver plate and gilt examples; including very few peerage and some foreign nobility, together with a few plain types, very good uncleaned condition (253) £600-700
Livery, Ten original pattern cards containing 179 large and 183 small silver plate and gilt examples; including a good selection of British peerage ladies types and foreign nobility, also three types for the Prince of Wales’s staff, together with 7 plain types, two damaged otherwise in very good uncleaned condition (362) £600-700
Livery, Ten original pattern cards containing 213 large and 128 small silver plate and gilt examples, one card identified, many initial and monogram types and a few British peerage, very good uncleaned condition (341) £600-700
Livery, Ten original pattern cards containing 222 large and 53 small silver plate and gilt examples, a few British peerage and ladies types, many initial and monogram patterns, together with 6 plain types, two livery damaged, otherwise very good uncleaned condition (275) £600-700
Livery, Eight original pattern cards containing 286 large and 17 small silver plate and gilt examples, virtually no peers and none identified but including a collar badge for Claridge’s Hotel, many though of simple format are early C19th., very good uncleaned condition (303) £600-700
Ladies’ Dress & Gentlemen’s Golden Age Pattern Book, an incomplete late Victorian pattern book now comprising eleven pages; the ladies patterns include small size ball or half ball types in gilt or gilt and enamels, also medium and small near flat gilts with raised and incised designs; other types include twisted gilt ‘cords’ oblongs in enamels and many other patterns; ‘trouser’ style buttons are numerous, many with chased designs; the ‘golden age’ section include many with...
A good Prussian artillery officer’s pickelhaube, gilt plate the centre with intwined FR, possibly for the 3rd regiment, black patent leather skull, gilt fittings, national and state cockades, leather backed chin scales, the front peak lined with green leather and the rear with red, retaining its brown leather sweatband and white silk lining, the silk a little shot, minor wear to gilding and a little crazing to the leather otherwise good condition overall £500-550
Hammer Price: £520
Fox Hunts, a very fine and rare selection c1870-1914 nineteen large and thirty small including small gilts to the Earl of Kintore’s, New Forest ,Zetland, Running fox over G-A, Essex & Suffolk, South Dorset, Beaufort, Warwickshire, Dartmoor, Surrey Union, Monmouthshire (silver plate) plus many other scarce and unidentified items, very good condition (49) £300-400
A Royal Military College prize sword, an 1897 pattern infantry sword, the 89cm dumbell section blade by Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London, No 59269 for 1921, etched with crowned GVR cypher, panels of foliate scrolls and within a central panel the presentation inscription ‘Royal Military College, Prize for Tactics, Gentleman Cadet [JUO] CA Wigham, July 1921’, regulation plated steel guard incorporating crowned GVR cypher, fish-skin covered grip bound with copper wire, complete with its...
Hammer Price: £500
A Georgian officer’s presentation sword of the Ross-shire Local Militia, the deeply curved 77cm blade etched with the Royal Arms, a stand of arms and floral motifs etc., and within a scrolling ribbon a presentation inscription ‘Presented by the permanent non-commissioned officers of the 1st. Regiment Ross-shire Militia to Captn Simon Simpson their adjutant in testimony of the high sense they entertain of his conduct as an officer & gentleman towards them & the regiment in general’,...
Livery, Ten original pattern cards containing 178 large and 119 small silver plate and gilt examples, some identified including a few British peerage and some early C19th examples in very fine condition together with 5 plain types, some require cleaning, otherwise good overall condition (297) £550-650
Livery, Ten original pattern cards containing 169 large and 103 small silver plate and gilt examples, very few British peerage but a fine group of early C19th items together with 5 plain examples, very good uncleaned condition (272) £500-550
Livery, Ten original pattern cards containing 260 large and 57 small silver plate and gilt examples, one large card identified, some peerage and foreign nobility, good uncleaned condition (317). £550-650
A Russian kindjal, the 34cm double edged blade with triple grooves etched with scrolls, grip plaques of bone and dark polished horn, copper-gilt filigree studs, complete with its wood scabbard covered with red leather, suspension mount and finial en-suite with filigree work, good condition £200-250
Hammer Price: £490
An interesting 17th Century Dutch brass tobacco box, the base engraved with the Dutch arms, the lid engraved in detail with a naval engagement and a long inscription in Dutch; together with an old hand written document recording the history of the box,.taken from a Dutch ship of war by a Mr Furmidge, ‘one of Admiral Blake’s warrant officers’ during the celebrated sea fight with the Dutch Admiral Van Tromp. Thence passed down through his family in turn, all of whom served in the Royal...
Hammer Price: £460
20th ‘Halton Battalion’ Lorne Rifles Regiment of Canadian Militia, a very fine and rare group of badges c1872-1901, comprising a first pattern officer’s pouch belt plate, mounted on an original section of the black leather belt of heavy die cast silver plate, a QVC over maple leaf sprays, enclosing an oval ‘Canada Rifles’ gilt ‘20’ in the centre, three screw fasteners; the second pattern officers’ pouch belt plate in die-stamped silver plate, of QVC crowned Bath star...
Shipping, a very fine and rare selection c1850-1900 including the following large gilts - Cunard anchor centre and beam engine centre, White Star Line, Warren Line, Columba Line, King Line, Dominion Line, Glen Line, Hawthorn Line, Ayr SS Co., A.US.N Co., WHS N Co., W&J Co., BSO Co., SD&F Co., TSN Co., A&WIL, TSSC, BB& Co., SS Buccaneer, Alexander & Mair; a silver plate Yeoward Brothers; a gilt and enamel Niagara Navigation Company; plus many other quality examples, very good condition (49) ...
An Imperial Austrian officer’s tschapka of the 6th.Uhlans, black patent leather skull and peak, red cloth sides and mortarboard crossed with gold bullion cord, silver lace headband with thin blue stripe, gilt plate in the form of double-headed Austrian eagle, shield to chest with enamelled numeral 6, lions head ear bosses, gilt chains, chinscales in the form of gilt acanthus leaves backed with velvet, complete with red horse-hair plume, with gilt bullion boss with FJI cypher, skull a...
Hammer Price: £450
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s), a fine and very rare officer’s Foreign Service helmet plate c1881-1900, a crowned Thistle star, this overlayed with large thistle sprays, in the centre a circle ‘Argyll And Sutherland’, mounted at the top of the circle Princess Louise’s coronet depends onto her reversed ‘L’ cypher with the boar’s head and cat to the left and right, this section on a ground of black velvet (worn)(see Bloomer Bk 2 p109/110), the finial ball...
Livery, three original pattern cards containing 235 large and 19 small silver plated and gilt examples, the vast majority to commoners and many unidentified, very good condition, a few require cleaning (254) £500-600
Livery, Ten original pattern cards containing 147 large and 148 small silver plate and gilt examples; including some British peerage ladies and foreign nobility, very good uncleaned condition (295) £500-600
Livery, Nine and one part original pattern cards containing 151 large and 77 small silver plate and gilt examples; including a few mourning types, the majority all commoners, very good uncleaned condition (228) £450-500
Livery, Ten original pattern cards containing 250 large and 50 small silver plate and gilt examples, mainly commoners and none identified, good uncleaned condition (300) £500-550
Canada Militia, a very fine and rare officer’s shako plate of British 1861 pattern but worn in Canada c1864-78, a crowned eight pointed silver plated star mounted with a gilt circle ‘Canada Militia’, and enclosing a gilt beaver on ground, this on a plated domed ground two lug fasteners; Canada Rifles, a very fine and rare officer’s pouch belt plate, a QVC over maple leaf sprays, enclosing an oval ‘Canada Rifles’, in the open centre a gilt beaver on ground, three screw posts, very...
Hammer Price: £430
An Victorian OR’s helmet of the Yorkshire Dragoons, white metal skull, large three-piece plate with legend within garter ‘ Yorkshire Dragoons’ cockades in the form of a rose, white metal chin-chain, falling red horse-hair plume, some denting to skull, minor damage to plate and plume spike lacking part of central mount £250-300
Hammer Price: £420
An imperial Austrian NCO’s dragoon helmet, black leather skull, steel black japaned front and rear peaks, high brass and steel comb, brass plate in the form of double-headed eagle with cyper FJI, brass leather backed chinscales, retaining its black leather pull-tie lining and makers label for ‘Rudoph Muller and Sohne, Berardgasse,Wien’ front peak a little loose otherwise good condition £350-400
Buttons Worn at Court, two cards containing a large, variable selection of gilt, silver plate gilt and silver mounted examples dating from the reign of WIVR to GVR, including issues to Her and His Majesties Chapels Royal, Royal Academicians, a fine selection of different patterns for Prince Albert’s Household, similar types for Prince Leopold’s Staff, Viceroy of Ireland (QVC & KC), The King’s Band (EVIIR & GVR); a small gilt King’s Watermen (EVIIR); plus many other standard Royal...
Renfrewshire Militia, a very fine and scarce officer’s shoulder belt plate c1852-81, the rectangular gilt engine turned back plate with burnished rim overlaid with a large silver Thistle star, this with further mount being a QVC over an oval bearing the Thistle motto and outer thistle sprays in the centre in silver the Prince of Wales’s crest and motto, usual hook and stud fasteners, very fine condition £400-500
Hammer Price: £410
Royal Company of Archers (The Queen’s Bodyguard for Scotland), a very fine quality sash badge in cast gilt, the crown of Scotland over an oval strap ‘In Peace And War’ with two long arrows running through the centre, these ‘tied’ in the centre with a bow, three lug fasteners; an Archer’s black leather waist belt complete with the very ornate central plate being the Royal Crest of Scotland with woven Celtic designs to the left and right, the patent leather crazed, together with...
‘Golden Age’ Fancies Ledger, a fine and rare mid-Victorian leather bound ledger containing approximately 450 gentlemen’s ‘golden age’ gilts (17-19mm), 7 diamond pattern and a few plain types, some very scarce varieties, the vast majority in fine condition, a few require cleaning (465+) £450-550
A scarce sword belt from a Thirty Pound Lloyds’ Patriotic Fund sword, of dark blue morroco leather, embroidered with bullion scrolls and borders and sewn on sequins, fine quality copper-gilt lions mask mounts, serpents head buckle, complete with two sword slings, some service wear overall £400-500
A Rope tension drum of the XIII [Lancashire] Battalion The Parachute Regiment TA, painted with winged regimental badge motto ‘Utrinque Paratus’ and wreaths on a red ground, some service wear and paint flaking away £200-250
Hammer Price: £400
WW1 CEF Pipe Banner, a very rare example of khaki cloth with, on one side only, a sewn on rust brown triangular panel, this in turn applied with sewn on designs. Nearest the fly a large circular badge of the 92nd CEF Battalion, design as for the glengarry badge, khaki cloth with raised painted legends, this is guarded by two soldiers in khaki doublets, coloured glengarries, tartan kilts, puttees and rifles. To the right, sewn on mid-green cloth, numerals and lettering ‘92nd Highlanders...
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