Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The King’s Own Scottish Borderers Volunteer Battalions Officer’s Victorian Period Blue Cloth Helmet, a good quality example complete with all silver plated fittings, the front plate of crowned star pattern with laurel overlays and further overlays comprising the Royal Crest, the cross of St. Andrew, Edinburgh Castle, unit title and the two mottoes for Edinburgh, buff leather sweat band with quilted silk lining this gold blocked for ‘R. Hunter, Glasgow’, the plate not original to the helmet, the quilted silk lining part perished and detached, the thread for the spike mount stripped, the helmet sound in all other respects £500-700