Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Civil Service Rifle Volunteer Corps (12th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers) Officer’s Grey Cloth Helmet c. 1878-1902, the grey cloth skull complete with all plated fittings, the chin chain of ribbed Rifles pattern, the frontal plate of crowned Bath star style cross with central circle ‘Civil Service Rifle Volunteer Corps’ enclosing the Prince of Wales’s plume and crest, the plate with shaped blue cloth backing, buff leather sweat band and attached crimson silk lining, retailed by ‘Hobson & Sons, London’, the plate original to the helmet, the helmet with a depression below the top quadrant, chin chain, leather and velvet lining part perished and detached, one small moth hole at the rear, otherwise sound condition £400-600