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27 & 28 September 2017

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Lot

№ 930 x

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28 September 2017

Hammer Price:
£400

10th (North Lincoln) Regiment Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet c. 1878-1881, the skull with gilt trim to the rounded front peak and complete with all other gilt metal fittings, the frontal plate of crowned star pattern with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black velvet a silver Sphinx/Egypt over ‘10’, buff leather sweatband with crimson silk lining, the plate not original to the helmet, oxidising to the chin chain and slight gilt loss to the helmet plate, two small moth holes with indifferent repairs otherwise good sound condition £500-700