Auction Catalogue

10 & 11 May 2017

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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№ 528 x

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10 May 2017

Hammer Price:
£500

1st Brecknockshire Rifle Volunteers Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet c. 1878-85, an extremely fine example complete with all plated fittings, the frontal plate of crowned star pattern with laurel overlays and circle ‘1st Brecknockshire R.V.’, in the centre on a ground of black velvet the Prince of Wales’s crest and motto and scroll ‘Gwell Angau Na Chwilydd’, complete with buff leather sweatband and attached brown silk lining, the plate original to the helmet, two minute moth nips at the left rear otherwise very fine overall condition £500-700