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1st The Royal Dragoons an Officer’s 1871 Pattern Helmet. The plated skull complete with gilt metal laurel sprays, oak leaf pattern spine and gilt metal trim, the plate of post 1902 pattern shows a beaded multi-rayed gilt star overlaid with a silver oval ‘The Royal Dragoons’ and in the centre on a plated ground the Royal Crest in gilt, complete with black horsehair plume, leather sweat band and pink linings, chin chain lined with red Moroccan, some gilt loss and requires cleaning...
Hammer Price: £2,300
3rd (East Kent) Regiment (The Buffs) Officer’s Shako Plate 1829 - 44. An excessively rare example, the universal copper gilt back plate overlaid with large laurel sprays, central Dragon over ‘3’ with battle honours on a continuous scroll in surround, two loop fasteners and all other wires present, near mint state £1000-1500
Nelson Interest, Silver Pair Cased Pocket Watch, commemorating the Victory at the Battle of the Nile, approx. 47mm. dia., hallmarks for London 1799, numbered, ‘26352’, gold hour and minute hands, glazed face, ornate gilt movement engraved, ‘Adml. Nelson Lord of the Nile Aug. 1 1798’, complete with key, condition of movement unknown, otherwise good condition and very rare £800-1000
12th (Prince of Wales’s) Royal Lancers Full Dress Sabretache 1837-1852. A very rare example, 5.2cm gold train lace encloses a scarlet cloth face bearing a QVC over crossed lances, over the lances a ‘VR’ cypher, below the cypher ‘XII’, laurel sprays with battle honours Peninsula and Waterloo, between the scrolls the Sphinx/Egypt upon further laurel sprays. The bag of black moroccan (lacking the fastening tab). Two ‘D’ rings detached but present, small stitching fault on the...
Hammer Price: £1,500
Jamaica Militia Other Ranks Crossbelt Plate. A good quality solid brass example deeply engraved with a central motif of a crocodile upon a torse, ‘Jamaica’ above and ‘1803’ below, one hook and two stud fasteners, very good condition for age £300-500
Hammer Price: £1,400
3rd (East Kent) Regiment (The Buffs) Officer’s Shoulder Belt Plate c. 1830 - 40. A fine quality example being a burnished gilt back plate overlaid with a multi rayed silver star, a gilt crown and similar oval strap ‘Veteri Frondescit Honore’, in the centre on a silver ground a gilt Dragon over a silver ‘3’, standard hooks and stud fasteners, some gilt loss otherwise very good condition £600-800
Hammer Price: £1,250
A Victorian Photograph Album, containing numerous photographs of members of the 9th Bengal Cavalry (Hodson’s Horse), Circa 1890 and covering service in both India and the Sudan, the album generally distressed but containing some good group photographs and other superb images of the Indian Contingent in the Sudan £100-200
John Spring Hamilton 5th (Northumberland) Fusiliers, Oil Painting. A very fine 19th century oval portrait on card most probably after a miniature (c1808-15). Hamilton is shown wearing a scarlet coatee with green facings and silver buttons, a single silver laced epaulette, white shoulder belt and oval silver plate. A black stock and white shirt frill complete the picture. (25 x 19.7cm) set within a gilt card mount and maple wood frame. The shoulder belt plate features the regimental motto...
Hammer Price: £1,200
3rd (East Kent) Regiment (The Buffs) Officer’s 1844 - 55 Pattern Shako Plate. An extremely fine and rare example to the Battalion Companies, crowned eight pointed star each major ray with a battle honour, central overlays of wreaths of laurel and palm enclosing an oval strap ‘Veteri Frondescit Honore’ within the strap on a burnished ground the Dragon over ‘3’, below the crown a scroll ‘Peninsula’, two loop fasteners, the ‘Pyrenees’ battle honour ray with finial repair,...
Hammer Price: £1,150
3rd (East Kent) Regiment (The Buffs) Officer’s Shoulder Belt Plate c. 1840 - 55. A good quality example being a burnished gilt back plate overlaid with a beaded silver star, this with copper gilt battle honour rays and similar crown and central strap ‘Veteri Frondescit Honore’, in the centre on a burnished gilt ground a gilt Dragon over a gilt ‘3’, standard hook and stud fasteners, little gilt remains on the back plate and the central ‘3’ with wear, otherwise good condition ...
Hammer Price: £950
Indian Army Buttons c. 1830 - 1902. Very fine carded display of 68 items. The majority are large sized gilts including 24th and 19th Bombay, 46th, 25th, 29th, 5th Bengal and 36th, 3rd, 19th, 23rd, 12th, 15th, 32nd, 28th, 7th, 2nd Madras. A very rare large gilt to the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Nizam’s Army c. 1840 - 54. An o/r large brass to the 3rd Bengal and 1st, 3rd, 4th Hyderabad Contingent. 7th Bengal, 2nd Bengal (?), 23rd Bombay large and small KC brass to the Malay States...
Hammer Price: £880
21st (Royal North British Fusiliers) Other Ranks Glengarry Badge c. 1874 - 1877. A very rare and good quality die stamped brass example, stencilled central numerals with full unit title in surround, two loop fasteners N/S (KK 454), the centre very slightly depressed and slight service wear to the high points on the flames otherwise good condition £500-700
Hammer Price: £800
Miscellaneous Cloth Insignia. A large parcel including the coat tail pocket sections and one cuff section from an o/rs coatee to the Grenadier Guards c. 1837 - 55 (11 buttons present out of 12), a quantity of WW II Div signs, a KC RN officer’s bullion cap badge and a KC gilt and an embroidered side hat badge for an RAF Officer, a grey coloured cloth epaulette with applied grey cloth section this bearing V/Kent in white, two Japanese Naval cap tallies, two RSMs great coat badges for the...
3rd (East Kent) Regiment (The Buffs) Officer’s Shako Plate 1844 - 55 Pattern. A good quality example to the Battalion Companies, a crowned eight pointed star each ray with battle honours overlaid with half wreaths of laurel and palm, in the centre an oval strap ‘Veteri Frondescit Honore’, in the centre on a burnished ground the Dragon over ‘3’, below the crown a scroll ‘Peninsula’, two loop fasteners, the cross missing from the crown, the diadem of the crown with a neat repair...
Hammer Price: £750
Coldstream Guards Officer’s Hall Marked Silver Pagri Badge. A very fine example in solid hall marked silver (Birmingham 1923) by J. & Co., elongated star overlaid with the Garter, central red enamel St. George’s Cross and blue enamel backing to the motto, stout pin back fastener, the red enamel with a large surface chip to the centre, otherwise very fine condition £400-600
Australian and New Zealand Military Insignia. Comprising scarce large size buttons to the Queensland Vols. (silver plated and KC brass), Western Australia Forces, Queensland Rifles, New South Wales QVC Military Forces. A silver plated glengarry to the 16th Western Australian Highlanders, six sunrise hat badges and one collar, single collars to St. George’s England Rifle Regiment, 34th Infantry, 17th Light Horse, 35th Bn (Newcastle’s Own). Sundry ‘Australia’ s/titles and later basic...
21st (Royal North British Fusiliers) Special Pattern Officer’s Dirk Belt Clasp c. 1856 - 1874. An extremely rare and possibly unique example in solid unmarked silver in two parts and similar to the standard 1855 pattern, however, the securing bars are behind the acanthus scrolls, the centre with a triple headed thistle spray and full unit title in surround, matching benchmarks (similar to Ryan 32), very good condition £400-600
Hammer Price: £680
Engineer Volunteer Buttons and Territorial Shoulder Titles, Royal Army Service Corps Insignia. The former include scarce w/metal examples to the 1st Cheshire, Glasgow Volunteer Guards (2), 31 Royal Monmouthshire Militia, 1st Durham (2), QVC Clyde Submarine Miners (2), plus a large selection of standard QVC and KC issues in w/metal and silver plate; brass s/titles T/RE Kent (3), T/RE W.Riding, T/RE/Lowland, R.Anglesey (2), RE/T (2); the RASC section includes an osd cap (unfinished) for EVIIIR...
Hammer Price: £650
Tasmania Territorial Police Victorian Helmet Plate. A most rare die-stamped brass example featuring a QVC over laurel sprays, an oval strap ‘Tasmania’, in the centre in script capitals ‘PT’, three loop fasteners (one bent), a fracture between the base of the crown and the top of the strap otherwise very good condition £500-700
Hammer Price: £620
A Rare Other Ranks 1869 Pattern Shako to the 13th (1st Somersetshire) (Prince Albert’s Regiment of Light Infantry). The blue cloth body decorated with a top line of narrow braid red on pale green, the lower edge decorated with 20 mm band of similar braid, two black metal side ventilators, the narrow gilt chin chain supported by small rose side ornaments and hooking up to a lion’s mask rear anchor, complete with broad leather sweat band and narrow waxed liner, the standard crowned laurel...
Hammer Price: £580
Ayrshire Yeomanry Helmet Plate, with a superb gilt and enamel centre depicting St. Andrew bearing his Cross, 107 x 86mm., complete with reverse fitments, extremely fine £400-600
South Lancashire Regiment & The Northamptonshire Regiment Insignia. The former comprises a senior NCOs glengarry to the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment and a corresponding o/r brass (KK 490), a scarce single 40th Regiment collar badge (Churchill 1108), two o/r small tunic buttons and a relic shell jacket button; 82nd (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) Regiment an officer’s large gilt and a small coatee button, an officer’s large gilt and two small tunic buttons and one o/r large brass...
Hammer Price: £550
An Officer’s 1812-1816 Pattern Shako Plate. A fine quality example in die-stamped copper gilt, the crown over a rococo shield, this with raised cypher ‘GR’, one fastening lug missing and the other bent, very fine condition £500-700 NOTE. This pattern with the cypher only was used extensively by the County and Local Militia Regiments.
Fine and Rare Irish Military Buttons. Excellent selection comprising Bengal European Fusiliers five officers’ small gilt coatee buttons (1846 - 61), two officers’ large gilt tunic buttons 2nd Bengal European Regiment (Fusiliers), four officers’ large gilt and one small to the 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers (gilt lacking on one), one officers’ large and one small gilt to the 104th Bengal Fusiliers, two o/r large brass tunic examples to the 104th Bengal Fusiliers, six Mess Waiters’...
Hammer Price: £530
Cap, Collar Badges & Shoulder Titles to the Royal Munster Fusiliers. Comprising two o/r bi metal cap badgers (lugs and slider), two o/r 1916 all brass issue cap badges, four brass small RMF s/titles and one large all with separate fused grenades (one lug missing on the large example), two brass s/titles ‘M/gren with tiger/F’, one only officer’s gilt brass s/title ‘M/gren with tiger/F’ (one lug missing), 1.5 pairs officer’s horizontal gilt and silver collar badges (the gilt...
Hammer Price: £500
Lancashire Fusiliers Insignia. A good selection including an officer’s fur cap grenade in gilt with silver mounts, near mint state, corresponding o/r fur cap grenade and glengarry badges in gilding metal, an officer’s style glengarry badge but in die struck brass, an officer’s fine quality cap badge in gilt and silver, an osd cap badge with sundry pairs of collar badges, standard o/r bi-metal cap badges including one with an erased plinth, a good selection of buttons QVC and KC...
The East Kent Regiment of Militia Officer’s Shoulder Belt Plate c. 1840 - 55 & Coatee Elements. The belt plate of rectangular plated format with similar mounts comprising the crown, oak sprays, the White Horse of Kent and two scrolls ‘East Kent’ and ‘Invicta’; a silver lace panel from the coatee skirt, pocket mounted with relevant plated buttons and a small fragment of the Kentish Grey facing colour; a silver lace panel with two plated buttons from the collar of the coatee on a...
Royal Marine Uniforms. Comprising a scarlet tunic with rounded collar and slashed panel cuffs bearing KC buttons to the Royal Marines Light Infantry, a Bandsman’s scarlet tunic complete with blue and white decorated wings and similar trim to the sleeves and collar and three similar decorated stripes down the rear panel, bearing KC buttons to the Royal Marines Light Infantry, a navy blue tunic with scarlet collar and yellow cord decoration to the cuffs and lower collar bearing KC buttons to...
Royal Marine Artillery Officer’s Helmet Grenade Badge. A first class example, the gilt fused grenade overlaid with gilt laurel sprays and ‘Gibraltar’ scroll with a fouled anchor across the base of the laurels enclosing a pierced gilt strap ‘Per Mare Per Terram’ this with a ground of blue enamel, in the centre the globe in silver and gilt, (KK 1104) three loop fasteners, the four mount wires broken, very fine condition £500-700
The City of London Militia Insignia. Comprising a scarce o/r die stamped w/metal shako plate 1855 - 61 being a crowned eight pointed star bearing the motto and shield of arms of the City, original soft iron soldered lugs, the o/r w/metal ‘scroll’ hat badge ‘Royal London’, an officer’s waist belt plate a rectangular gilt backplate (rubbed) bearing in silver plate oak sprays, crowned motto and central shield, two officer’s large plated tunic buttons, plus o/r large and small...
24th (2nd Warwickshire Regiment) Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1855 - 81. A fine quality example the centre with silver QVC over ‘24’ and ‘2nd Warwickshire Regiment’ on the circle, matching benchmarks (Ryan 37), very good condition £200-300
Hammer Price: £490
Wiltshire Military Insignia. Including an officer’s 1855 pattern three part plated shako plate to the Royal Wiltshire Militia, o/r brass glengarry badges to the 62nd (KK 524) and to the 99th (KK 575); The Wiltshire Regiment two pairs officers’ o.s.d. collar badges, a pair of officer’s silver plate and gilt collar badges, sundry o/r cap badges including a WWII bakelite example and an anodised pattern with Prince Philip’s cypher; buttons, an officer’s large gilt coatee c. 1830 - 55,...
Hammer Price: £480
WWI VTC and National Reserve, Royal Army Medical Corps, Insignia . The former includes good quality cap badges to the following: The Poplar Battalion of the East London Regiment, Middlesex Volunteer Regiment, Sussex VTC, City of London Volunteer Corps, Corps of Citizens (London), a lapel in base metal and enamel Athletes Volunteer Force 1914, three VTC s/titles, a VTC Sussex s/title and a scarce bronze s/title 3/Carnarvonshire/VTC; National Reserve badges in base metal and enamels include...
British Military Cap Badges. A selection of good quality issues 7th Hussars (KK759) Robin Hood Rifles (K1740 bit in bi-metal) 2nd VB The Essex Regiment a QVC glengarry badge, Essex Imperial Yeomanry (K1365 no red backing) Liverpool Pals bronze loop fasteners, 8th Irish Bn The King’s Regiment (KC blackened brass) Surrey VTC 1915 in bronze, Inniskilling Fusiliers (all brass flag left) 18th Hussars (K/c w/m) Nottinghamshire Volunteer Regiment die-stamped bronze 65th CEF Bn (pickled copper...
Hammer Price: £470
RFC, RAF, AAC, Glider Pilot Regiment Insignia. Carded displays, the former includes a single white on black embroidered s/title ‘Royal Flying Corps’, two officer’s bronze cap badges and one collar, two o/r g/m cap badges and a pair of brass s/titles plus sundry large and small buttons; the RAF section includes a KC Pilot’s embroidered brevet, some interesting officer’s collar badges to the various branches, two scarce gilt sleeve badges to the Observer and Auxiliary Sections. The...
Hammer Price: £460
42nd Royal Highland (The Black Watch) Regiment/The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)/ York and Lancaster Regimental Insignia. The pre 1881 section comprises an officer’s scarce gilt diamond pattern double breasted tunic button in mint state, three officer’s large gilt and four small gilt tunic buttons, an officer’s coatee button to the 73rd Perthshire Regiment and an o/r large brass tunic example, an officer’s part forage cap badge to the 73rd being gold bullion 73 numerals on a red...
Hammer Price: £450
19th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers (Bloomsbury) Insignia. Comprising an officer’s fine quality helmet plate being crowned star pattern backplate with laurel overlays, central strap ‘19th’ Middlesex R.V. enclosing on a black velvet ground a strung bugle horn, a very rare NCOs blackened brass pouch belt plate crowned double strap and central ‘19’ on a rococo shield complete with blackened whistle, guard and chain, an officer’s silver plated tunic button and similar o/r white metal...
Irish Militia Buttons. An interesting selection comprising four officer’s coatee (2 large, 2 small) to Prince William Henry’s Regiment of Tipperary Militia, two officer’s GIVR plated coatee buttons to the Wexford Regiment of Militia and one officer’s plated tunic button to the same, together with an o/r large brass tunic button to the 18th of Foot, officer’s large size tunic buttons QVC and KC to the Royal Irish Regiment, one only officer’s unmarked silver collar badge to the...
Hammer Price: £430
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) an Officer’s 1891 Pattern Shako. A fine quality example, the green cloth body fitted with a broad band of thistle pattern braiding, a similar narrower band round the crown and complete with sewn in cap lines and cording, correct pattern side ornaments, strung bugle horn badge, green cord boss and a mullet, the plume holder and lower section of the plume lacking, the top section now faded, complete with black leather chin strap, leather sweat band and...
The East Surrey Regiment Officer’s Helmet Plate 1881 - 1901. A fine quality example, standard crown gilt backplate with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black velvet (worn) a silver star mounted with a shield bearing the arms of Guildford, at the bottom a silver scroll ‘The East Surrey Regt.’, three loop fasteners (KK 244), very good condition £250-350
Hammer Price: £420
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