Auction Catalogue

18 & 19 July 2018

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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18 July 2018

Hammer Price:
£550

5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet and Named Carrying Tin c. 1908-14, a very fine and rare example, the skull complete with all silver plated fittings, a very fine frontal plate of crowned star pattern with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of red velvet (mothed) a silver cross bearing the enamelled arms of the Cinque Ports all upon the rousillon plume, a scroll at the bottom ‘Royal Sussex Regiment’, buff leather sweatband with scarlet silk attached lining, the plate is original to the helmet, the carrying tin with trade label for ‘J & B Pearse, Covent Garden, W.C’ and brass name plaque ‘T.A.S.Masters Esq. 5th (Cinque Ports) Bn Royal Sussex Regt’, very fine overall condition (2) £400-600