Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 725

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25 June 2014

Hammer Price:
£580

Miscellaneous Scarce Military Insignia, comprising single s/titles NM /Volunteers, Howe, RDF (Officers), two three part s/titles University/OTC/Of London, single gilding metal collar badges Coldstream and Irish Guards (Boer War period), a die stamped w/metal Railway Engine (242) with loop fasteners, a large size gilt mounted mufti button to the Staffs Yeomanry Cavalry, a large silver plated Sphinx/Egypt hat badge, a large w/metal Sphinx/Egypt hat badge (possibly sergeant’s bonnet badge 42nd Highlanders), a lapel badge in gilt metal and enamels 1st Essex National Reserve and a g/m lapel badge Ayrshire National Reserve Class 1, a hall marked silver Birmingham 1945 Commemorative badge featuring laurel sprays ‘RAF’/eagle/1942, two loop fasteners, two lapel badges hall marked silver and enamelled Birmingham 1944 by Thomas Fattorini one in the shape of a parachute and paratrooper (lapel type fastener) the other shield shaped with three parachutes terminating in ‘PAK’ (pin fastener) stated to be Birmingham University TA; four single QVC collars to VBs of the Devonshire Regiment, an officer’s side hat badge to the VBs of the Cheshire Regiment in silver plate and green enamel; King’s Colonial badges comprising single o/r collars to the British American and British African Squadrons, a stock pin with gilt Prince of Wales’s crest/KC/Regi Adsumus Coloni finial, a KC s/title; a musician’s g/m arm badge, the lyre with applied Maid and Harp; an arm or hat badge featuring a triple petalled rose and calyx leaves, a central ‘5’ all with red felt backing on the shaped reverse (two loop fasteners); a Yeomanry officer’s plated plume holder, a silver plated blue and white enamelled winged brevet the centre being a white star on blue ground, the reverse numbered and with mandarin lettering, two clutch pin fasteners, very good overall condition (29) £400-500