Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

57th (West Middlesex) Regiment Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet c. 1878-81, a rare example, the blue cloth skull complete with all gilt metal fittings, the front peak of rounded pattern, the crowned star pattern plate (original to the helmet) with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black leather (now shrunken) gilt numerals ‘57’, red moroccan sweatband with crimson silk lining (mainly detached) and retailer’s label ‘J.Haslett Woolwich’, together with a japanned metal carrying tin, very little gilt remains overall, the retaining finial of the spinal strap is loose but the retaining nut is present, loss of pile to the blue cloth overall otherwise sound condition £400-500