Auction Catalogue

7 & 8 July 2010

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 834

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8 July 2010

Hammer Price:
£180

1st King’s African Rifles Officer’s Silver Cap Badge, a fine hall marked example Birmingham 1961 (JRG & S); Malawi Rifles a scarce officer’s silver plated cap badge together with two other ranks gilding metal cap badges, a two part cap badge to the Malawi Army; Sarawak Rangers a fine large sheet brass headdress badge complete with tricolour cloth backing a pair of collar badges and a pair of shoulder titles; four Cadet Corps white metal cane tops - Bloxham School OTC, Wellington College OTC, Bedford Modern School and Cranleigh OTC; together with sundry officers’ silver plated tunic buttons to the Welsh Regiment (KC), Volunteer Artillery and Imperial Glamorgan Yeomanry, good overall condition (parcel) £200-250

Note: The property of the late Lieut. Col. D. E. Thornton who designed the badges for the Malawi Army and was their first Commanding Officer following Independence.