Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

19th Battalion County of London Regiment (St. Pancras) Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet c. 1908-14, the skull complete with all gilt metal fittings, the frontal plate of special pattern (KK 1849) being smaller than standard issues and featuring a crowned star with laurel overlays, title circle ‘XIX County of London St. Pancras’, in the centre on a ground of black velvet an ornate silver badge featuring the arms of the Borough of St. Pancras, across the base of the laurels a silver scroll ‘South Africa 1900-02’, buff leather sweatband and retailer’s label for ‘Hodgson & Morgan, Woolwich’, the plate not original to the helmet, no gilt remains to the spike and quadrant otherwise very good condition £500-600