Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1st Bucks Rifle Volunteer Corps Officer’s Green Cloth Helmet c. 1878 - 1901, a superb example of rounded front peak pattern complete with all blackened plated mounts, the frontal plate being a crowned Bath style style cross with central circle ‘1st Bucks Rifle Volunteer Corps’, in the fretted centre the white swan on a red cloth ground, chin chain of correct ribbed pattern, retailed by Hobson & Sons, London together with its japanned metal carrying case this with a pasted contemporary label Dannett, the helmet extremely fine the tin rusted overall otherwise in sound condition £400-£500