Auction Catalogue

5 July 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 405

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5 July 2011

Hammer Price:
£520

British Military Buttons. An interesting selection including officers’ large: three General Officers’ coatee examples, a 99th Regiment coatee, 57th tunic (2), 82nd coatee, 46th tunic (2), Commissariat and Transport Staff, Deputy Lieutenant coatee, General Officers’ coatee (Charles Jennens London), West Surrey (QVC), QVC Volunteer Battalion examples to the Queen’s West Surreys, East Surreys and the Buffs (both worn), Medical Staff (2) and Royal Engineers early Victorian; Officers’ small 6th Inniskilling Dragoons (c. 1800 - 1820), First Somerset Regiment of Militia (VR), Queen’s Edinburgh Militia, Georgian period plated Yeomanry buttons simply bearing a central crown (14), Royal Engineers early VR issues; other ranks large examples to the Grenadier Guards (VR pewter) (2), 79th Camerons (VR brass), 78th Highlanders (tunic), 1st City of London Engineers, 19th and 25th Lanark Rifle Volunteers, Liverpool Volunteer Corps and 79th Fifeshire Rifle Volunteers; a further selection of large and small mainly Victorian issues of basic patterns; a selection of excavated items the majority in very poor condition but including two large silver plated examples to the Cranbrook and Woodsgate Local Militia and a large silver plated ‘SV’, a small pewter example to the 9th Royal Veteran Battalion; Indian Army examples an officer’s small to the South Andaman Volunteer Rifles, a large plated example to an Indian Police unit, other ranks large examples to the Bheel Corps, the 6th Hyderabad Infantry and the Rajputana Rifles, as described (parcel) £250-350