Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Scots Guards Base Drum, A rope-tension main base drum of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, by Henry Potter & Co., Charing X Road, London, 24 inches in diameter, 14 inches in depth, the wooden shell bearing the Royal Arms and cypher of G.VI.R., Badge of the Scots Guards below, with 38 Battle Honours, Namur 1695, Dettingen, Lincelles, Talavera, Barrosa, Fuentes d’Onor, Salamanca, Nive, Peninsula, Waterloo, Alma, Inkerman, Sebastopol, Tel el Kebir, Egypt 1882, Suakin, Modder River, South Africa 1899-1902, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 and 1917, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 and 1918, Cambrai 1917-18, Hindenburg Line, France and Flanders 1914-18, Quarry Hill, Rhineland, N.W. Europe 1944-45, Gazala, Medenine, Djebel bou Aoukaz 1943, N. Africa 1941-43, Monte Camino, Anzio, and Italy 1943-45, fitted with hoops, skins and buff tabs &c., and brass eyelet and retaining loop, some wear in places, generally good condition £400-500