Auction Catalogue

25 March 2015

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 577

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25 March 2015

Hammer Price:
£170

British & Continental Military Insignia, Collection of Military Ephemera WW2 Period. Badges include an osd cap to the Buffs a Sergeant’s cast white metal glengarry A & SH, gilding metal cap 3rd County of London Yeomanry, card of 19 buttons including an officer’s plated example to the South Gloucester Militia, Victorian Commissariat Staff Medical Staff, four large white metal examples to the West Kent Yeomanry; a Victorian brass star shaped badge with central applied button for the ‘Salt Abkari & Customs’ (lacks fasteners), a ‘VR’ plated pricker plate holder, a Danish Army officer’s embroidered and enamelled hat badge, several Norwegian Army hat badges and buttons; the ephemera includes the soldier’s ‘Small Book’ for Samuel Barlow Davis, joined the 4th Northumberland Fusiliers in 1905 (Dublin) he served and survived WW1, but his son also Samuel Barlow Davis, Staff Sergeant REME died or killed in action 1943 (official commemorative GVIR scroll); another section concerns a L/Cpl Silk (WW2) together with many WW2 booklets etc., good overall condition (parcel) £100-150