Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Royal Warwickshire Regiment Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet c. 1881-1901, the skull complete with all gilt metal fittings, the very fine frontal plate of crowned star pattern with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black velvet a silver and gilt Antelope, silver title scroll below ‘The Royal Warwickshire Regiment’, buff leather sweatband with silk lining and retailer’s details ‘Hobson & Sons, London’, the plate not original to the helmet, together with a japanned carrying tin with white stencilled details ‘Kirkwall Orkney R.A. Vols’, a small repair to a moth hole on the front peak, the silk lining part detached otherwise good overall condition £460-560