Auction Catalogue

16 September 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 279

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16 September 2010

Hammer Price:
£250

Sweetheart Brooches, a group of four very fine examples comprising, Liverpool Scottish (first pattern glengarry badge) in sterling silver and blue enamel; the second is to the Black Watch in silver and tortoiseshell HM London 1918; the third to the Northamptonshire Regiment in cap badge form by TLM and marked sterling; finally an extraordinary example to the 17th Lancers being a large unmarked silver oval filled with black enamel and bearing the following mounts, a QVC crossed lances, the death’s head and bones ‘Or Glory’ scroll, ‘17’ and ‘L’, the cushions of the crown in red enamel, the lance pennons in red and white enamel and the scroll with blue enamel lettering, small chip to the black enamel above the scroll, all four items with pin back fasteners, in very good condition £100-150