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4 July 2001
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Royal Marines Labour Corps, a fine other ranks gilding metal cap badge 1917-1918 (KK1098); Royal Marine Artillery, a scarce officer’s service dress collar badge c1902-1923, a grenade with attached scroll PER MARE PER TERRAM, an other ranks brass forage cap badge (KK1108); together with a WWII other ranks black bakelite cap badge by Stanleys of Walsall, excellent overall condition (4) £100-150
Hammer Price: £250
Royal Marines, a group of five very fine early buttons, an officer’s large flat gilt by Nutting c1800-1820, an officer’s open back slightly convex type by Walter Williams c1820, and an officer’s closed back by Boggett & Reynolds c1840-1855, two other ranks pewter large (Doughty & Co) and small (Nutting); together with seven later buttons mainly KC, very good overall condition (12) £80-120
Hammer Price: £80
Royal Marine Artillery, a scarce four part badge in copper gilt for the officers’ undress sabretache c1870-1901, comprising a ‘Gibraltar’ scroll over the Royal Crest crossed cannon barrels and a scroll ‘Per Mare Per Terram’, screw posts to all components, some wear to the gilt overall £150-200
Hammer Price: £310
Royal Marine Light Infantry, the very scarce three part brass other ranks glengarry badge c1870-1898, globe laurels and bugle horn (KK1094); togethet with a fine other ranks QVC valise badge a KC musician’s card case badge and a RA/RMA officer’s shoulder belt finial, grenade and laurel sprays, good overall condition, (6 pieces) £70-100
Hammer Price: £130
Royal Marine Light Infantry/Royal Marines, a group of nine shoulder titles including a white metal RMP, brass RMLC, brass RMB, RMLI, RMA, etc. an other ranks gilding metal helmet plate KC (KK1100); an other ranks helmet plate for the RMLI Chatham Division Band (KK1118), one lug missing off the first helmet plate otherwise very good overall condition (11) £50-70
Hammer Price: £110
Royal Marine Bands, the three part KC brass and white metal cap badge for the Plymouth Division band (Type KK2107); a similar three part brass and white metal KC cap badge for the Chatham Division (KK2108); Royal Marines School of Music gilt cap badge (KK2110); Royal Marine Police cap badge in white metal (KK2102), excellent overall condition (8 pieces) £50-70
Hammer Price: £150
Royal Marines, a copy Georgian style silver gorget engraved with crown anchor and GR, c1900, good condition £40-60
Hammer Price: £85
Broke-Middleton Family, an ornate cast silver hat or sleeve badge, an oval strap engraved with the motto ‘Saevumque Tridentem Servamus’ encloses the family crest, a Naval crown from which issues a dexter arm adorned with a laurel wreath and holding a trident, three of four claw fasteners present, excellent condition; together with nine full length naval cap tallies WWII and later and one printed naval arm badge featuring stars thunderbolts and ‘L’, good condition (11) £30-50
Hammer Price: £65
Cap badges/shoulder titles, a group of WWII and later caps and shoulder titles mainly infantry, all genuine, also a HM silver London Schools Life Saving Competition winner’s medal won by D Braitsch 1921, good overall condition (23) £30-50
Hammer Price: £60
Militaria Insignia, a very large quantity of buttons, badges cloth insignia etc. British and continental, the cap badge content all reproductions, a parcel. £30-50
Victorian Levee Pattern Sword, pierced sheet metal handguard with crown/VR cypher, the blade engraved with usual crown Royal Arms and foliate scrolls, the handguard with contemporary engraving, Sergt Major T Burdett’, complete with leather field service scabbard, blade with some discolouration but generally good condition £60-100
Hammer Price: £120
Coldstream Guards, an Officer’s George V levee pattern sword by Henry Wilkinson (54509), the pierced handguard with Garter Star the blade engraved with Royal Cypher and the regiment’s battle honours to South Africa 1899-1902, the blade further engraved in the reserve , ‘A R Clare Smith’, complete with leather field service scabbard, very good condition £150-200
Hammer Price: £200
Warwickshire Yeomanry, a HM silver cigarette case (Birm 1913) the front engraved, ‘Warwickshire Yeomanry Winter Training 1913-14 ’D’ Squadron Prize Sergt Parke’; a similar cigarette case HM Birmingham1916, engraved on the inside, ‘To Capt C R Mullings RFA As a mark of esteem and appreciation from his Employees Christmas 1917’; an American rolled gold on base metal cigarette case engraved on the outside, ‘Angus Campbell Queens Bays 1920’, fastener broken and the ‘rolled...
Queen’s Regiment, a silver cigarette case HM Birmingham 1918 engraved on the front, ‘Presented to Private V C Bean 24 Queens Regt by W G White & Co. in appreciation of services rendered to King and Country in the Great War 1914-1918’; a similar silver case Birmingham 1917 engraved on the front, ‘Lieut A P Farquarson From The NCO’s of The 67th Divisional Signal Co. RE/29th September 1918’; a plated cigarette case engraved on the front with the Arms and Motto of the burgh of...
King’s Royal Rifle Corps, a silver cigarette case 800 mark engraved on the front, ‘To Lieut S Mackey From the Boys of 12 Platoon ‘C’ Coy 20th Batt. K.R.R.C. British Army of the Rhine Xmas1919’; a similar case Birmingham 1907 engraved on the front, ‘Captain/Arthur S Hay 3.8.07.’ details of Hay’s military career enclosed; a similar plated case engraved on the front,’ W J Staley 21st W.S.Y. Bayonet Competition 1918’ (West Somerset Yeomanry), very good overall condition (3) ...
Hammer Price: £180
Grenadier Guards, a very fine engine turned slide opening silver cigarette case London 1934 by Carrington’s the front with gold regimental inset, long-hand engraved on the inside, ‘John Vernon-Wentworth 10th October 1934’; another case engraved on the outside with the KC cannon motto of the Royal Artillery and on the inside, ‘to Driver W Gupwell RFA in commemoration of the years 1916-1919/From/Captain E N Crosse’; a plated case engraved on the front with Royal Artillery insignia...
Hammer Price: £70
25th Dragoons, a very scarce silver cigarette case (London 1918) the front engraved with a representation of the 25th Dragoons cap badge, further engraving on the inside, ‘S.S.M. A.Sanger From the Officers C.Squadron 25th Dragoons’, the case with gold stud fastener and hinges, excellent condition £50-70
Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, a large silver cigarette case Birmingham 1938, the front with applied small ‘cap badge’ insignia, black gold enamel stripe and engraved ‘1688-1938’, engraved on the inside,’Pte J Hardy Serving 116th 1938’; a smaller silver case Sheffield 1910 engraved on the front ‘L.C.J.Mackenzie from Dance Com. D.Squad. L.S.Y. Decr. 1910’ (Lovat Scouts Yeomanry); a base metal case engraved on the front with a Middle East scene and , ‘P.J.Izod’, on...
Hammer Price: £210
Army Service Corps, a silver cigarette case Birmingham 1918 the front with engraved badge of the ASC and further engraved on the inside, ‘C.Q.M.S. R.J.SCOTT RASC for services rendered Shortlands Hazeley Down’; a similar plate case the front with embossed badge of the Royal Signals and tri-part scroll, ‘The Northern Signal Coy. Royal Engineers’; a small Far Eastern stamp match case engraved on the front, ‘H.Mott. CPO Presented By Coxwains 4th sm FlotillaChina 1934’, good...
Hammer Price: £30
Cigarette Cases, a group of six base metal large size cases all with varying insignia RAF Corps etc. good overall condition (6) £20-30
Hammer Price: £25
Military/Police Match Box Covers, a group of fifteen base metal, mostly brass, covers WWI period all engraved with military insignia unit titles etc. one German, together with a brass knapkin ring, two ‘folding-box’ style vesta case these with embossed insignia 2nd Gloucesters and QVC The Kings Royal Rifles, and an aluminum cigarette lighter, the latter item defective otherwise good overall condition (19) £50-70
£50–£70
Middlesex Regiment, a very fine quality sweetheart’s brooch being a representation of the regimental collar badge, of good weight and fine manufacture in gold coloured metal, good condition £60-80
£60–£80
Telescope, a very fine two draw with frontal focusing draw military/naval style telescope in gilt brass and mahogany, both lens covers present, no maker’s marks discernible but most probably of English manufacture c1800/30, good condition £60-100
Royal Malta Militia, a fine and rare officer’s waist belt clasp 1855 pattern, centrally the Victorian Imperial crown over the Cross of St John with laurel surround, on the circle ‘Royal Malta Militia MDCCC’, matching bench marks ‘1’, c1875-1901, excellent condition (1) £100-150
York and Lancaster Regiment, a group of cap badges etc, comprising an officers silver/gilt/enamel cap badge, gilt rubbed and now fitted with brooch pin; a WO’s polished bronze cap blades four other ranks bi-metal cap badges one with lugs one slider and broken sliders on the others; a dark brown plastic cap badge and a chromed cap badge all (KK 679); a pair of other ranks bi-metal collar badges and a single rubbed example; a pair of Y&Lbrass shoulder titles a white on red woven cloth...
Hammer Price: £45
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), an extremely fine and scarce very senior NCO’s KC helmet plate the detachable centre with East Kent (KK294/358) the whole badge in high quality fire gilt, the centre with one lug missing and no fasteners have ever been applied to the back plate, the gilt mint state (1) £80-120
Hammer Price: £95
42nd Royal Highland (The Black Watch) Regiment, the very fine quality silver and gilt brass mount from the officers’ shoulder belt plate c1850-1881, format as for (KK497) but larger, described in Parkyn p211; Dorset Yeomanry, a fine quality officer’s silver plated die-struck cap badge 1908-1920 (KK1445) now fitted with brooch fastener, excellent overall condition (2) £80-120
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), an extremely fine and scarce officer’s glengarry/bonnet badge in silver and gilt brass c1937-1952 (KK2003), the back plate stamped , ‘Sterling Silver’, original pin back, slight wear to the gilt section otherwise excellent condition (1) £100-150
Coldstream Guards, Great War period officer’s cap badge, unmarked silver with enamelled strap and central cross, minor enamel chips, otherwise very good £60-80
Spanish Percussion Pistol, dated 1827, the 24cm barrel with octagonal breech, inlaid in gold with the date and ‘En Eibar, de Herraduras’, decorative punches and chiselled gold band. The breech is also struck with a gold poincon with the letters ‘OR/BEA’. Half stocked in walnut, with chequered butt and plain iron furniture including butt cap with lanyard ring, the iron ramrod a replacement. Plain lockplate with chiselled line border, the cock en suite, decorated with a stylized...
Hammer Price: £400
Army List 1788, 388pp, the original bindings a little distressed, contents in good condition £30-40
Monthly Army Lists (2), comprising lists for November 1812 and May 1852, both with original paper covers, some pages loose, but worthy of re-binding £30-40
Hammer Price: £55
The Quarterly Army List, January 1914, with an extremely informative graduation list of Officers, date of birth, first appointment (unit) etc; regimental list; colonial militia; and volunteers; volunteer battalions; orders of knighthood, etc., Foreign Orders; War and Meritorious Services, etc., fully indexed, 3252pp., original red cloth bindings, spine of bindings damaged, otherwise good condition £40-50
The Military General Service Medal Roll 1793-1814, by A. L. T. Mullen, 726 pp. red leather binding with marbled boards, in slip case, very good condition £50-70
Naval Medals 1793-1856, by Kenneth Douglas-Morris, 542pp; together with Naval General Service Medal Roll 1793-1840 (2), by Kenneth Douglas-Morris, this the cheaper edition, and the alphabetical roll by Colin Message, all in good, but used, condition (3) £80-120
Medals and Decorations of The British Army and Navy, by J. H. Mayo, published 1897, two volumes, 617pp, containing numerous coloured plates, original red cloth bindings, spines faded, otherwise good condition £80-120
Hammer Price: £90
The Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 1830-1848, by I. McInnes and J. B. Gregson, 291 pages, full leather binding in slip case, one of a limited edition of 300 copies, containing the names with biographical detail of 2,900 men awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. Medal, type 1, very good condition £50-60
The Annuity Meritorious Service Medal 1847-1953, by I. McInnes, 450 pages, hard covers in slip case, one of a limited edition of 400 copies, containing the names with biographical detail of nearly 6,000 men who were awarded the M.S.M. with annuity between 1847 and 1953, very good condition and a useful publication £60-70
Black and White War Albums, by Rene Bull (Special Correspondent to ‘Black & White’), four issues bound as one, comprising, Soudan No. 1, Omdurman; Soudan No. 2, Atbara; No. 3, The Tirah Campaign; No. 4, Naval Number, total of 128pp; together with The Navy & Army Illustrated 1898, June 1898-September 1898, 314pp, rebound in modern red buckram, good condition (2) £60-80
Hammer Price: £160
My Experiences of The War Between France and Germany, by Archibald Forbes, two volumes, published by Hurst and Blackett, 1871, 979pp, original decorated green cloth bindings, good condition (2) £30-40
£30–£40
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