Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Middlesex Regiment Militia Battalions Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet c. 1902-08, the skull complete with all plated fittings, the frontal plate of crowned eight pointed star pattern with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black velvet laurel sprays, the Prince of Wales’s crest and motto, a ducal coronet and entwined and reversed initials, a scroll at the bottom ‘The Middlesex Regiment’, buff leather sweat band with ivory silk lining, the plate most probably original to the helmet, the silk lining part detached from the sweat band, the front peak metal trim with a small fracture at the apex, some leather loss to the rear peak trim otherwise good overall condition £400-600