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The Haytor Volunteer Infantry Regimental Colour (Devon) 1803-1814, a very fine and rare item, the buff silk 6 feet square (c172cm) with painted decoration showing the flag of the first Union in the upper left canton, centrally the full Arms of Great Britain 1801-1813, below the Arms a scroll, ‘Haytor Rt. Volunteers’. In 1852 the Torquay Companies of the Devon Rifle Volunteers saw fit to further embellish this historic item with a further painted scroll (gold on dark green), ‘Torquay...
Hammer Price: £1,600
27th Punjabis Major’s Full Dress Scarlet Tunic c. 1903-22, a fine quality example in scarlet cloth with green facings gold lace trim gilt buttons shoulder cords with correct rank badges named inside to Major C. W.Keene, remains of tailor’s label showing the address ‘Simla Umb...’, together with linen waist belt, this with full dress sword slings full dress waist sash of maroon colour, good overall condition (3) £200-£260
£200–£260
21st (Empress of India’s) Lancers Officer’s Sabretache c. 1898-1901, the black patent leather front complete with all gilt metal mounts comprising the first pattern Imperial crown crossed lances overlaid with two scrolls ‘XXI Lancers’ ‘Empress of India’s’ in the centre the double ‘VR’ cypher; complete with reverse pouch securing strap and the three D rings, the front crazed with two elements of the patent missing, the gilt ornaments very fine £600-£800
Hammer Price: £800
The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment Officer’s Helmet Plate c. 1881-1901, of standard crowned star and Garter pattern, in the centre on a ground of black velvet the white horse of Kent with Invicta scroll and motto above ‘Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt’ silver scroll at the base ‘The Royal West Kent Regiment’, three lug fasteners, slight verdigris otherwise in good condition £80-£120
Hammer Price: £120
The Manchester Regiment Officer’s Helmet Plate c. 1901-1914, of standard crowned star laurel and Garter pattern, in the centre on a ground of black velvet the arms of the City of Manchester, a silver scroll at the bottom ‘The Manchester Regiment’, three lug fasteners, some verdigris otherwise good condition £80-£120
Royal North Down Rifles Militia Officer’s Pouch Belt Plate c. 1855-1881, a very fine example being a crowned silver plated pierced strap ‘Royal North Down Rifles’ with applied central section in silver plate featuring two sprays of shamrock and a gilt ‘Maid and Harp’, two screw post fasteners, no gilt remains on the Maid and Harp otherwise very fine condition £300-£400
Hammer Price: £480
The Connaught Rangers Officer’s Glengarry Badge 1881-1897, of special pattern in silver plate being a crowned circle ‘The Connaught Rangers’ plus shamrock decoration in the centre on a raised ground of green velvet the Harp, two lug fasteners, one retaining wire lacking otherwise very good condition £260-£300
Hammer Price: £420
Westmeath Rifles Militia Other Ranks Glengarry Badge c. 1874-1881, a fine quality example in die struck blackened brass featuring crowned bugle horn with shamrock centre and tripart Gaelic scroll below, three brass lug fasteners (KK 1300), very good condition £120-£160
Hammer Price: £180
Royal Irish Constabulary Officer’s Hat Badge c. 1880-1901, a good quality heavy die cast silver plated example featuring the crown over a decorated Harp, original pin back fastener, very good condition £160-£200
Hammer Price: £260
88th (Connaught Rangers) Light Company Officer’s Silver Gilt Whistle, an exceptionally rare, if not by now unique, the whistle and case are both hall marked for London 1827 with maker’s mark ‘DD’ (Daniel Denney). It measures, including the knop that supports the carrying ring, 5.8 cms when in the case, out of the case the whistle measures 4.9 cms. The readed case is mounted with two hand wrought heavy gauge bands of shamrocks, the front of the case further embellished in silver with...
Hammer Price: £750
Cape Government Railways Station Master’s Hall Marked Silver Hat Badge, a fine quality die stamped example, hall marked Birmingham 1904 by ‘V.R.B.’, the badge features the Imperial crown wreaths of proteus plant enclosing an oval ‘Station Master’ with central ‘C.G.R.’, two silver lugs one stamped with the lion passant, very fine condition £160-£200
Hammer Price: £170
A Pair of Argentinean Naval Epaulettes, a fine quality pair of Lieutenant-Commander’s full dress epaulettes, with gold lace straps and purl fringe, the straps bearing a single star over a fouled anchor, with elaborate embroidered detail, good condition (2) £80-£120
Hammer Price: £60
A Royal Navy H.M.S. Amethyst Sailor’s Cap tally. A mint un-issued cap tally for H.M.S. Amethyst, the ship that distinguished herself in the Yangtze incident of 1949, mint condition £40-£60
Hammer Price: £55
The Essex Regiment Insignia, comprising an officer’s post 1902 cast silver plated cap badge, an osd die-stamped bronze cap badge with earlier pattern centre, a 1916 Economy all brass issue other ranks cap badge, a reproduction cap badge of the Essex Yeomanry and a broken swagger stick to the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, white metal top (dented), good condition apart from where stated (5) £30-£40
Hammer Price: £50
A selection of approximately 36 assorted miscellaneous lapel badges, buttons, and pins &c., including a Great War Silver War badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘286017’; two Second War ‘For Loyal Service’ badges; an A.R.P. Warden’s badge; and a Second War Escape Compass of the type issued to Air Crew, silver, bronze, gilt, and enamel, generally good very fine (lot) £60-£80
Hammer Price: £110
British Army Cloth Shoulder Titles and Arm Badges a Carded Display, the former include printed white on red to the Manchester, Bedfs. and Herts, Army Air Corps, Canadian Armoured Corps, Parachute Regiment (navy on pale blue), embroidered include Womens Transport Service F.A.N.Y. (red on buff), Coldstream. Scots. Grenadier. Irish Guards, the Cape Breton Highlanders Canada; the following are probably copies, Airborne, 2nd S.A.S., No.4 Commando, Special IV Service, Royal Marines Commando. Div....
Hammer Price: £3,000
St. James’s Royal Volunteers Officer’s Spadroon c1794-1801. The 81cm straight blade with a single full length fuller, the back edge engraved ‘J.J.Runkel Solingen’. The blade faintly etched with the ‘GR” cypher and Royal Arms. Gilt metal cross guard with decorated langets, ‘D’ shaped hand guard, domed balustraded pommel, reeded ebony grip with gilt brass band incorporating an oval cartouche engraved, ‘St. James’s Royal Volunteers’ enclosing St. Edward’s crown. A...
Hammer Price: £300
The Bucks Militia Officer’s Spadroon, c1790-1803, the 82cm straight blade with single full length fuller, engraved with the Royal Crest and crowned ‘GR’ cypher, trophy of arms and floral swags. Gilt metal cross guard incorporating a pierced lozenge, ‘D’ shaped hand guard, reeded ivory hand grip with central gilt metal band featuring oval cartouches on both sides, the obverse displays the crowned Garter Proper with central ‘GR’ cypher, the obverse with crowned Garter Proper...
A Second World War 2nd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Knife. An excellent condition 2nd pattern Fairbairn Sykes knife, full length mint blade with both its Fairbairn Sykes and Wilkinson Sword Company logos. To one side a scroll reading ‘1st Sergeant W. J. A. De Hart’, in its original scabbard which is virtually in mint condition with both of its leg tabs and its elasticated hook retaining strap, the leather to the scabbard as fresh as the day it was issued, extremely good condition £1,200-£1,600
Hammer Price: £1,200
A Polish Air Force Officer’s Dagger. Excellent condition post-Second War period dagger with bright blade numbered ‘12858’. All fittings good. Undamaged celluloid grip with both hanging rings complete, extremely good condition £80-£120
Hammer Price: £130
New Land Pattern Flintlock Pistol, 38 cm overall length, the 22.5cm steel barrel fully stocked and stamped ‘TL’ plus armourer’s marks. The lock plate marked with the crown over ‘GR’ and ‘Tower’, integral ram rod, brass butt cap and trigger guard, this stamped ‘B’ /’29’/’C.Y’, an old hole through the stock recently plugged otherwise good condition £500-£700
Hammer Price: £500
A Brass Barrelled Flint Lock Pocket Pistol, 19.5 cms long, the brass barrel with proving marks, the lock plate marked ‘Richards’ and illegible on the other side, the wooden stock cracked, mechanism in working order, reasonable condition £80-£120
Hammer Price: £200
A Flintlock Pistol, fully stocked, 365mm in length, brass trigger guard and butt plate, other elements in steel, the lock plate with a small cartouche bearing Arab markings, butt plate carrying ring broken, otherwise good overall condition £100-£140
Hammer Price: £140
A Small Single Shot Colt No.3 Derringer Pistol, overall length 12.5cm, the steel barrel 6.5cm marked ‘Colt’, brass frame work marked ‘41 CAL’ and a prancing horse with ‘C’ above, concealed trigger, wooden curved handgrips, the action part seized, otherwise good condition £60-£100
An Allens Patent Six Shot Pepperbox Pistol, overall length 19cm, the hexagonal steel barrel 10cm, the framework with some decoration, wooden curved handgrips, the hammer stamped. ‘Allens Patent 184(?)5’, the action part seized, one screw missing in the handgrip area, rusting overall £80-£120
A Six Barrel Pepper Box Persussion Pistol Marked R. Cooper’s Patent, 20 cms in length, plated barrels with white metal detail and scrolling design, wooden hand grip, complete with working safety catch, the barrels and trigger areas rusted overall otherwise good condition £160-£220
Two Percussion Pistols, the first 18cm overall, the hexagonal steel barrel 8cm, framework with some decoration, chequered wood one piece handgrip with unmarked silver escutcheon plate, action in working order, trigger guard missing; the second 21.5cm overall the hexagonal brass barrel 10cm, plain wood one piece handgrip, the first with rust overall, the second with non-working action (2) £60-£100
Hammer Price: £160
A Continental Percussion Pocket Pistol, overall length 18.5cm, the hexagonal steel barrel 7.5cm, fully stocked with chequered handgrip area, working action, original blueing overall with gilt inlaid decoration to all areas, no provision for ramrod, good condition £80-£120
A Twin Barrelled French Percussion Pistol 20 cms in length, marked on the lock plate A.Laport & Fils and on the other side A. Rio. Janeiro, wooden stock with plain escutcheon plate and opening butt cap, some surface rust otherwise good condition £80-£120
Hammer Price: £95
An early 19th Century Middle Eastern Flintlock Pistol, overall length 46cm, the circular steel barrel 30cm, this with some decoration and armourer’s marks. The carved wooden stock with decorated steel furniture, the handgrip area inlaid with silver wire decoration, the bulbous butt cap profusely decorated with patterned steel and brass, the action working, front stock cap and ramrod missing otherwise reasonable overall condition £160-£200
Two Middle Eastern Flintlock Pistols, the first 49cm in length, 32cm circular steel barrel, half stocked (front area broken), steel lock mostly missing, brass furniture and bulbous butt cap; the second 33.5cm with 20cm circular steel barrel, fully stocked partially inlaid with silver wire, the lock area all present but seized, bulbous decorated steel butt cap, both with overall rust (2) £60-£100
Two Relic Pistols being a Tower converted percussion example and a six shot Continental percussion example, action working but weak, rusting and decay overall (2) £40-£60
Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Cavalry (1900) Silver Statuette. A mounted Corporal of Horse in hall marked silver is shown in three quarter relief, this mounted on a rectangular marble base. Hall marked London 1900 the figure is shown in full dress, the marble base 18 cms x 15 cms, the figure 16 cms x 12 cms, very fine £100-£140
Second Lieutenant George Peter Dudley Wallis, Scots Guards, an extraordinary personal archive of this Great War officer, equipment elements are his binocular case (empty), map case complete with Flanders maps, pistol holster, Field Message Book No. 153, a large folder tracks his military career, attempting to enlist on several occasions from 1914 but turned down on medical grounds. He finally receives a commission in the 1st Bn. Scots Guards, his commission dated 28th November 1917. He is...
Hammer Price: £220
Grant of Arms Edward VII Period to Richard Horton Horton-Smith dated 1905 and granted by Garter Principle King of Arms and Clarenceux King of Arms, fully signed parchment scroll with attached brass cased seals and contained in its red covered case bearing the cypher of Edward VII, the box scuffed otherwise very good condition £80-£120
Grant of Arms George V Period to Jane Jackson granted 1914 by Garter King of Arms, Clarenceux King of Arms and Norroy King of Arms, parchment scroll complete with attached three cased seals in its original presentation box with GVR cyphers, box with scuffing otherwise good overall condition £80-£120
Hammer Price: £100
A large quantity of miscellaneous ephemera, the items all mostly individually researched, including the Commission Document appointing M. C. Strover a Lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals, dated 13 November 1945; the Regular Army Certificate of Service Red Book and Soldier’s Service and Pay Book to R. L. Tebby, King’s Royal Rifle Corps (served 1931-54); the Royal Navy parchment Certificate of Service of K. W. Smith; various attributable Naval postcards, letters, portrait photographs,...
Hammer Price: £190
Bestowal Documents awarded to John Frederick Jones Bestowal Document for a Knight of the Spanish Order of Isabella the Catholic, dated 15 July 1890; together with accompanying letter; and a French Permission to Wear Document (on vellum) for the above insignia, dated Paris, 14 January 1893 Bestowal Document for the Fourth Class of the Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh, with envelope of issue; together with a French Permission to Wear Document (on vellum) for the above insignia, dated Paris, 11...
A French 1871 Dragoon Officer’s Helmet in its Original Case. A most magnificent example of a French Dragoon officers helmet. Bright undamaged skull with all gilded fittings bright, with its full length horsehair plume. Untouched internal lining with its short red feather plume, the base of the plume known as the olive, which is situated in its own original cardboard container. All fitted into its own fitted case, which is suede lined to the interior. The exterior imitation leather covering...
£1,800–£2,200
A French Dragoon Helmet c. 1860-1900, the white metal skull with gilt metal fittings original black horse hair crest push in cut red feather plume graduated chin scales the side retaining points are replacements, original leather sweat band; together with a theatrical sabretache featuring a rampant lion on a blue cloth ground with gold lace border, on the helmet the ‘shaving brush’ plume from the top crest missing the side feather plume worn and the leather lining fractured and part...
Hammer Price: £340
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