Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet c. 1902-14, the skull complete with all gilt metal fittings, the frontal plate of crowned star pattern with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of red velvet a silver and gilt Prince of Wales’s crest and motto with maple leaves and a scroll below ‘Central India’, below a title scroll ‘Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment’, the plate not original to the helmet, white leather sweatband and retailer’s label for ‘J.B.Johnstone, London and Dublin’, gilt lacking to the quadrant and back spine, reasonable gilt to the frontal plate and chin chain, one side ornament a loose fit, moth damage above the right hand side ornament otherwise of sound condition £340-440