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

№ 745

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25 June 2014

Hammer Price:
£1,150

Scarce Cloth Insignia, an interesting selection comprising two printed brassards both black on khaki LDV and Home Guard, a painted s/title ‘Home Guard’ and two printed sections SY/55, an embroidered s/title ‘France’ on khaki (large lettering), a section of khaki material mounted with an embroidered ‘Coldstream Guards’ red cloth IV red and blue cloth ‘Armoured Division’ badge and a corporal’s stripes, two green cloth embroidered in white panels K.O.Y.L.I./FARELF, a good quality white on red embroidered and unissued arm badge ‘Machine Gun/Guards’, an embroidered white and green on brown s/title ‘1/Canadian Parachute/Italian’, a small red on blue embroidered s/title RNAS and similar R.N.A.S./A.A.C., a section of khaki (mothed) with sewn on badges ‘Hallamshire’ (red on khaki), printed 49th West Riding Division and narrow red cloth bar; a selection of Polish badges including an embroidered example to the 3rd Carpathian Division, an embroidered example for Polish Forces in the Middle East, an embroidered (black and tan) Polish Armoured Division, a silver thread embroidered on red showing the Maid within a shield, a very scarce silk and metal thread example to the 2nd Motorised Artillery Regiment and two other Polish items; two very scarce KC Pilot’s brevets for the Rhodesian Air Force and South African Air Force; a selection of Tank Corps/Royal Tank Regiment items including a single white on khaki T.C. s/title, a black on khaki slip-on s/title R.T.R., another similar without the fullstops, a pair of silver embroidered on black Tank arm badges, two embroidered white and black on khaki arm badges (one severely mothed), three variable gold embroidered on black Tank arm badges, three pairs of a Lieut. Col. Royal Tank Regiment slip-on epaulette straps all with the RTR coloured Tank ribbon and all KC; Royal Armoured Corps a pair of printed red on yellow cloth s/titles, a pair of ID discs with serial no. indicating Royal Tank Regiment to B.E. Adams Beech (although ‘Beech’ is all that appears on the dog tag), a black on khaki embroidered slip-on s/title RAC, good overall condition except where mentioned (44) £400-600