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Sussex Rifle Volunteer Badges and Buttons and Three Georgian Period Sussex Militia and Volunteer Buttons, a carded display comprising two shako plates of the 16th (Battle) Rifle Volunteers of 1861 pattern both of three part construction, one in silver plate being an officer’s and the other in die stamped white metal, both display Battle Abbey in the centre with unit title in surround ‘Battle Rifle Volunteers’; a blackened metal and silver plated pouch belt plate this of crowned laurel outline...
Hammer Price: £1,400
North Tipperary Militia Other Ranks Glengarry Badge c. 1874-1881, an extremely fine and rare example in die stamped white metal being a crowned strung bugle horn with the Maid and Harp applied to the centre of the bugle horn, at the bottom a floreate scroll ‘Tipperary’, complete with original lug fasteners, very good condition £200-300
Hammer Price: £280
Good Quality British Military Badges, comprising a KOSB Victorian period glengarry badge, a Manchester Regiment first pattern o.s.d. cap badge, South Lancashire Regiment two o.s.d. cap badges, a Manchester Regiment Pals bi-metal cap badge, a Lancashire Fusiliers o.s.d. cap badge, a King’s Regiment Liverpool o.s.d. second pattern cap badge, an RFC gilding metal cap badge, a King’s Own Malta Regiment of Militia K/C helmet badge, South Lancs Regiment brass issue cap badge, a KOYLI Officer’s silv...
Hammer Price: £550
British and Colonial Good Quality Cap Badges, Collar Badges and a few Shoulder Titles, comprising 45+ cap badges mainly line infantry and corps, 20+ collar badges and shoulder titles, a few lugs missing and a few blade fasteners reduced otherwise good overall condition (parcel) £80-120
Hammer Price: £320
A Large Accumulation of Reproduction and Broken Badges Together With Basic Issue Buttons and a Few American and French Colonial Items, condition as described, sold as viewed not subject to return (parcel) £60-100
Hammer Price: £190
Reproduction British Military Cap Badges, 250+ examples together with a packet of similar cloth RAF, RFC reproduction items, sold as viewed not subject to return £240-340
Hammer Price: £480
Miscellaneous Militaria, comprising a WWI period French Adrian helmet complete with frontal badge and fractured leather chinstrap; a 1942 dated khaki canvas pistol holster; two khaki puttees; a single WWI period model soldier being a bugler in khaki uniform; plus a .303 bullet converted to a lighter, generally good condition overall (6) £60-100
Hammer Price: £60
WWII and Later Good Quality Cloth Insignia, including printed examples pale blue Pegasus on maroon, Lancashire rose on white within a red border (3), Lancashire Fusiliers two printed shoulder titles removed from uniform, two pale blue on maroon Parachute Regiment cloth shoulder titles removed from uniform, an embroidered gold on black Commando shoulder title with period stamped number on reverse 31473, a WWII period pilot’s brevet removed from uniform, together with several other items, good...
Hammer Price: £100
British Army of the Rhine Berlin District Headquarters Flag, an exceptionally large example in navy blue, red and black cotton, central black and red roundel with sewn on red on black cotton section ‘BERLIN’, very good condition £100-150
£100–£150
An 18th C Powder Horn With Scratch Engraving ‘Tenterden 1797’ and in Another Hand a Ducal Coronet Over the Motto ‘Aut Nunquam Tentes Aut Pereice’ this encloses a circular strap ‘West Kent 1st Regt of Militia’ with a leaf design in the centre, in yet another hand ‘GR/111’ and a Broad Arrow With ‘B.O’ Below, 24 cms in length, sold as viewed not subject to return £60-80
An Important Mid-19th Century Decorated Pokerwork Malacca Cane. The 80cm tapering shaft profusely and superbly decorated with British military personnel and notable occurrences. Commencing with an ornate double cross hatched band and laurels, a script capital ‘B’ followed by the post 1837 Royal Arms. The mounted figures of Wellington and Blucher, this with the caption ‘The Duke of Wellington and Blucher at Waterloo’, the mounted and captioned figure of ‘Corpl Shaw of the Life Guards’, shown...
Hammer Price: £380
Walking Stick, formally belonging to Major General Sir G. P. Colley, shot by the Boers at the Battle of Majuba Hill in 1881. Lower section broken off (see reason for this on plaque), 29ins long, one side having a silver coloured plaque engraved 'Coomassie 1874', and on the other a much larger plaque engraved ‘I.M.O. [in memory of] Major Genl. Sir George Pomeroy Colley killed at the Amujaba [sic] Hill, Natal. March 1881, fighting against the insurgent Boers. This stick carried by him during th...
Hammer Price: £460
Zulu Knobkerrie c. 1870, two tone wood ball head and 25in shaft, with silver colour plaque on shaft, engraved ‘Hlobane Hill 1879’, dark old patina overall, good condition £400-500
Hammer Price: £360
10th (North Lincoln) Regiment Portrait Miniature, a fine quality example of oval outline probably painted on ivory and contained in its original gold coloured frame with suspender, the junior officer is depicted wearing a scarlet coatee with yellow facings, single silver bullion epaulette this with blue ribbon embroidery on the strap, his white leather shoulder belt bears the distinctive gorget shaped silver shoulder belt plate (Parkyn Fig. 129), 7.5 x 6.2 cms, very good condition £500-700
Hammer Price: £400
Miniature Portrait of an Unidentified British Officer c. 1797, of oval outline the Field Officer is shown in his scarlet coatee with stand-up open-necked white collar, black stock, silver epaulettes and a gilt gorget this with white rosettes, most likely painted on ivory and contained in its original rectangular wooden frame complete with period suspension clip this in the form of a bunch of grapes, the miniature measures 8.8 x 7 cms, very good condition £300-500
£300–£500
Portrait Miniature of Major General Sir Hussey Vivian KCB When an Officer in the 7th Queen’s Own Light Dragoons, of oval outline Vivian is depicted in the first full dress uniform of the 7th Hussars soon after conversion from Light Dragoons in 1807. He wears a gold braided jacket with slung pelisse, gold lace on scarlet shoulder belt, painted on ivory and his career details written on the reverse, these transcribed onto an accompanying note. Together with a fine quality hard cover book being...
Captain Mowbray Smith 1st Madras Light Cavalry Pastel Portrait by J.F. Mollow (?) 1847, a fine quality rendering 26 x 19 cms half length showing Smith in full dress uniform, this of French grey profusely embroidered with silver lace and three lines of buttons, stand-up heavily laced collar, gold and scarlet girdle. At the bottom a period handwritten caption ‘Captain Mowbray Smith 1st Light Cavalry’, contained in a good quality wooden and plaster glazed frame, very good condition £400-600
£400–£600
Lieut. Col. William Hunter Watercolour and a Pastel Drawing of Surgeon Samuel Good Surgeon in Ordinary to His Highness Prince Albert, the first 17 x 13.4 cms of three quarter length shows the sitter in full dress scarlet coatee with bullion epaulettes, sky blue facings, sword and scarlet sash. Period handwritten details on the reverse state ‘Probably Great Uncle William Hunter Father’s Mother’s second eldest brother’ with further career details. Research has indicated that Hunter was born in...
Hammer Price: £180
7th A Fusilier Officer Edwardian Portrait Miniature and Humorous Rifle Volunteer Watercolour and Guache Sketch, the first possibly painted on ivory depicts head and shoulder portrait of a young officer wearing his full dress scarlet tunic with blue facings and silver grenade collar badges contained in a base metal oval glazed frame; the second 21.5 x 15 cms depicts two ranks of Rifle Volunteer soldiers c. 1860 being addressed by a Regular Army Drill Sergeant, behind him are four attractive yo...
Fuentes Onoro, May 5th 1811, a Print by W.H.Smith & Sons, 186, Strand, After the Original by R.Caton Woodville, R.I., the incident displays Norman Ramsay at the head of his Battery of Horse Artillery in close encounter with the French Cavalry, 68.5 x 45 cms now contained in a mounted, glazed frame, some damage to the frame otherwise very good condition £40-60
The Gloucestershire Regiment Framed Watercolour, a good quality depiction 42.5 x 25 cms showing the regiment resting during a route march most likely in the UK, officers and men are dressed in the scarlet frock with dark blue trousers these with narrow red seam stripe and full dress spiked helmets. Featured are two Field Officers one dismounted his charger being held by a bugler, the Field Officer is giving instructions to a Senior NCO, the soldiers are resting at the road side in groups smok...
Hammer Price: £200
45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment At Orthes 1814 a Water Colour drawing by R. Simkin, the 34 x 22 cms picture shows a mounted Field Officer of the 45th leading a charge upon fleeing French Infantry, the Colours of the regiment are also in evidence, only one French Non-Commissioned Officer is making a stand against the onslaught, with ink inscription in block capitals on the lower left of the picture ‘R.Simkin’, now contained in a glazed wooden frame, very good condition £300-400
£300–£400
14th (King’s) Hussars Watercolour of a Mounted Officer by Orlando Norie c. 1865, the officer is depicted wearing busby, tunic, trousers with his sabre and sabretache, shabraque and bedding roll all adorned with the regimental insignia, his charger with yellow throat plume, signed ‘O.Norie’, 25 x 19.5 cms, unmounted and unframed £160-220
Hammer Price: £170
British War Correspondents’ Sketch Book, in pen and ink, apparently belonging to a War Correspondent who covered the 1884 Egyptian Campaign to relieve General Gordan at Khartoum and the Afghan War, with various ink sketches, including Colonel Stewart’s wrecked steamer on the rocks at Sulammanich on the Nile; the Madhi’s hut; a dead native after the Battle of Gemizah; Osman Digna’s hut & courtyard; moving a field gun up a hill at Kotal, Afghanistan, Black Mountain Expedition. Also very interes...
Hammer Price: £240
The Dress of the First Regiment of Life Guards in Three Centuries by Urban H.R. Broughton Lon. Halton, 1925. 80 plate leaves (40 colour plates, 40 b/w plates), folio size full leather binding. Limited edition of 300 copies. By repute approximately only 30 copies were sold to the general public. This example No. 98 of the limited edition with original full leather binding, the spine details have been neatly replaced with tooled leather and gilt embellishment, the end papers replaced otherwi...
Hammer Price: £150
3rd Foot Guards Signed Letter by Major General Maclean Clephane Dated 1803, a framed hand written letter, 32 x 19.5 cms, the gist of the letter being that Clephane who was also a Second Major of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards is appointing agents to receive regimental monies. Signed by Clephane with his wafer seal and countersigned by John Litsher?, the reverse stated ‘Entered Off. And Public Accounts 1 June 1803 Thos. Gibbes’ now contained in a fine quality glazed frame, very good conditio...
£160–£240
French Military Items, comprising the front only section of a French Artillery Officer’s flap pouch mounted with gilt brass badge comprising a fused grenade over crossed cannon barrels, a brass copy French gorget (mounted with a Grenadier Guards other ranks cap badge) and a pewter medal commemorating the Duke of Wellington’s funeral, sold as viewed not subject to return (3) £40-50
Hammer Price: £40
Sweetheart Brooches and a Lapel Badge of The Women’s National Unionist Association, comprising two RAF sweetheart brooches the first marked silver in red and green enamel with small set diamantes 6.4 x 2 cms, the second in sterling silver and marcasite 5.5 x 2.2 cms, both are KC and with brooch fasteners; a tortoiseshell and silver gilt circular brooch (hall marked London 1917) to the King’s Liverpool Regiment; a small brooch to The King’s Liverpool Regiment marked silver; a small medallion...
Hammer Price: £70
A Selection of 16 Silver Spoons, 4 with initials ‘A.W.’ on handle (one with hallmarks for Edinburgh 1823, the other three with hallmarks for London 1832), the first 137mm in length, the others 144mm in length; 5 with initials ‘R.S.K.’ on handle (one with hallmarks for London 1833, the other four all with hallmarks for London 1836), all 143mm in length; 4 with initials ‘T.H.’ on handle (all with hallmarks for London 1872), all 139mm in length; and three miscellaneous silver spoons, generally v...
Hammer Price: £65
Queen Victoria South Africa 1900 Gift Tins, three examples all empty, two measuring 15.3 x 9 cms, the other 15.9 x 8.2 cms, generally good condition the latter with some tinning loss to the sovereign’s head roundel (3) £60-100
Hammer Price: £120
Queen Victoria South African 1900 Gift Tins & Three Christmas 1914 Princess Mary Gift Tins, all empty, the first two measure 15.4 x 9.3 cms and 16 x 8.2 respectively, the three 1914 examples of standard size, the first two with scuffing to the sovereign’s head roundels, one of the 1914 tins severely dented otherwise good overall condition (5) £60-100
Hammer Price: £95
A Falklands War Argentine Helicopter Relic, a segment of a rotor blade from a Bell UH-IH Argentine Helicopter captured in the Falkland Islands in 1982, mounted on a wooden plinth; with a fragment of the fuselage of an Argentine Aircraft from the same conflict, this similarly mounted on a wooden plinth, good condition (2) £200-300
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