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The Warwickshire Militia Officer’s Shako c. 1822 - 29, an extremely rare and very fine example the body and sunken crown of black beaver, top silver lace band 4.8 cms and narrow double scallop silver lace band around the base 11 mms, the black leather front peak unbound the frontal plate displays crowned laurel sprays in gilt overlaid with a multi-rayed silver star, this bearing gilt scrolls ‘Warwick’ and ‘Regt’ and in the centre a Garter circle with GR cipher on a ground of blue...
£6,000–£8,000
The King’s Royal Rifle Corps Other Ranks Full Dress Tunic, a very fine example in rifle green with scarlet facings complete with black horn buttons all the large ones are QVC, the two smaller epaulette ones are KC, complete with original tailor’s label dated February 1912, very good condition £60-100
£60–£100
60th The King’s Royal Rifle Corps Officer’s Pouch Belt Plate, a fine and rare unmarked silver example by J & Co., the arms of the cross bearing Peninsula honours only (c. 1830 - 1852), in the centre strung bugle horn and 60 with title in surround “The King’s Royal Rifle Corps”, four screw post fasteners, very good condition £200-300
£200–£300
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Officers HM Silver Glengarry Badge, a very fine large size example by Bent & Parker Birmingham 1898 the two silver loop fasteners also struck with the lion passant, very good condition £180-220
£180–£220
The Gordon Highlanders Officer’s Bonnet/Glengarry Badges, three very fine examples the first hallmarked Edinburgh 1917 retailed by Meyer & Mortimer, London, engraved ‘PD Clendenin’, the second hallmarked Edinburgh 1947 by TE and the third in die-stamped and hollow back silver unmarked retailed by Kirkwood of Edinburgh, all with original pin back fasteners, very good condition £350-450
£350–£450
Argyll And Sutherland Highlanders Officer’s Bonnet/Glengarry Badges, a very fine hallmarked silver example Edinburgh 1914 retailed by McDougalls, London, a solid unmarked silver or silver plate example retailed by Forsyth Ltd., Edinburgh and Glasgow, a die-stamped unmarked silver example and a die-stamped example later gilded and enamelled, all with loop fasteners, very good condition (4) £300-400
£300–£400
Royal Tank Regiment Sweetheart’s Brooch, a very fine pin bar example with central badge showing a KC laurel sprays ‘Fear Naught’ scroll and central tank, the cushions of the crown in red enamel and blue enamel backing to the motto scroll, the tank presumably in white gold has the badge and the pin bar both marked 14 ct, contained in its original velvet lined case by Flights Ltd., 4, New Burlington St., London W.l. very fine condition £100-150
£100–£150
6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons And The Royal Horse Artillery Watercolour Drawings, two well executed mounted full dress figures showing officers c. 1871 - 1901 17.6 x 12.5 cms both are inscribed R. SIMKIN, now contained in glazed wooden frames, very good condition (2) £120-160
£120–£160
Rare Original Crimean War Period Correspondence, including two letters addressed to Lieut. Gen. Sir James Yorke Scarlett KCB, Commanding Cavalry, one dated 21st June, 1855 the other 21st October 1855, one signed by Richard Airey concerning arrangements for cavalry orderly duties, returns and requisitions for equipment etc., together with signatures of Light Division Commanders Sir George Brown, Sir William Codrington and Lord William Paulet, also a later signature for Sir Colin Campbell,...
£150–£250
8th (King’s Own Royal Irish Hussars) Mounted Model Figure c. 1850, the well executed figure 17 x 13 cms is shown with sword raised and presumably taking part in the Charge of the Light Brigade. He is fully equipped with carbine, water bottle, haversack, ammunition pouch and sabretache, the figure is mounted on a rococo wooden base representing grass and rocky outcrop, complete with further wooden base and perspex cover, very good condition £60-100
Queen Elizabeth II Period Police Badges, three chromed helmet plates North Wales, West Riding and Monmouthshire; seven similar cap badges North Wales, West Riding, West Yorkshire, York And North East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Lancashire, West Yorkshire Special and a KC example North Riding; sundry collar badges, numerals chin chains and helmet parts; together with thirteen solid bronze KC Metropolitan Special Constabulary lapel badges, good overall condition (parcel) £50-80
Hammer Price: £30
Four various African spears, the first with long socketed blade and butt, the second with leaf shaped blade the shaft bound overall with plaited brass wire, the third and fourth with partly leather wrapped shafts, overall in good condition (4) £50-100
Hammer Price: £45
The Queen’s West Surrey Regiment Sweetheart Brooch, a fine quality pin-bar example the Paschal Lamb with blue enamel title scroll and red and white enamel banner, the bar is marked ‘9 ct’, together with a silver teaspoon engraved with the badge of the 24th County of London Regiment and hallmarked Sheffield 1913, good condition (2) £60-80
Hammer Price: £50
9th Bengal Native Infantry Headdress Badge, a good die-stamped silver plate example featuring a unit title and battle honours Bhurtpre, Sobraon, and Afghanistan ‘78-80, three loop fasteners; together with a good other ranks Victorian valise badge for the Grenadier Guards, now fitted with box-style fastening; and a broken other ranks pickelhaube plate for a Saxon Infantry regiment; four military buttons including an officer’s good quality coatee button for the 5th Dragoon Guards (c. 1840...
Hammer Price: £60
Officers’ Collar Badges, an interesting group of singles comprising Lincolnshire Regiment silver plate gilt and blue velvet, East Surrey Regiment KC silver and gilt (marked S on reverse), another similar marked P on reverse, the Devonshire Regiment Volunteer Battalions (QVC) now fitted with brooch pin, Royal Marines gilt and silver plate, King’s Regiment Liverpool post-1923 marked S on reverse, Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars silver plate and gilt, the Green Howards HM silver Birmingham...
Regimental Photographs, four large good quality photographs featuring 1st Battalion The South Wales Borderers, Color (sic) Sergeants (named) complete with Regimental Colours and officers Major Trower, Lt. Melvill, Meerut - December 1898, F Company Football Team (named details), 1899, Regimental (?) Football Team by Dean & Co., Rawalpindi & Murree (undated), Gymnastic Team by Bremner, Lahore, India (this item unmounted); together with a silk embroidered regimental badge on linen of the...
Hammer Price: £65
The Border Regiment An Officer’s Sterling Silver Cap Badge, a fine quality die cast silver example 1906 - 1953, the centre with red enamel behind the Chinese Dragon, marked on reverse ‘sterling’ complete with two silver loop fasteners, excellent condition £80-120
Hammer Price: £70
Coldstream Guards Officer’s Cap Badge, a fine quality multi-part example being an eight pointed facetted star overlaid with a raised oval bearing the Garter motto, this with a ground of blue enamel and enclosing a red enamel St. George’s Cross marked silver on the reverse, two long loop silver fasteners; Royal Sussex Regiment Officer’s Cap Badge a very fine silver plated example being a Garter star laid over the Rousillon plume with title scroll at the base, the Garter star with flush...
Hammer Price: £80
A pair of British cavalry lances, regulation steel blades and butts mounted on bamboo shafts fitted with red and white pennons, (2) basically good condition overall £100-150
Reproduction Helmet Plates, Badge Pins, Buttons, a small tin containing a few reproduction helmet plates/parts; ten other tins containing a large variety of crowns mainly KC and QEC, modern buttons, broken badges, backing plates for shoulder titles and badge pins, sold as viewed not subject to return (parcel £50-80
Northumberland Fusiliers Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1881 - 1901, a very fine example of standard 1855 pattern St. George slaying the dragon with motto scroll above Quo Fata Vocant (end of scroll missing) and title in surround, (Ryan 166) no matching bench marks but is a perfect match, very good condition £80-120
Hammer Price: £85
1st West India Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1855 Pattern, a good quality two part item showing central QVC over ‘1’ with ‘West India Regiment’ in surround, matching benchmarks xxii, sight service wear and the gilt rubbed £80-120
Works Police, a large circular die-stamped brassard with raised legends ’Special Constable’ and central ‘C.B.W.D’; ‘R O & Co.’ (Rubery Owen & Co.) a very fine die-cast silver plated cap badge showing an eagle with outspread wings perched on the ‘O’ of the monogram, laurel sprays enclose the lettering, two loop fasteners, together a plated shoulder title, ‘RO’ over ‘POLICE’, two loop fasteners; a cast white metal shoulder title being script capitals ‘RTP’ (River...
Hammer Price: £95
Other Ranks Late Victorian Lance Cap Plates, two good die-stamped brass examples the first to the 9th Queen’s Royals honours to Kandahar and Afghanistan 1878-80, the second to the 16th (The Queens) honours to Aliwal, the first with two small fractures and two small holes on the bottom edge, the second with replacement screw posts, good general condition (2) £80-120
Hammer Price: £100
15th (York East Riding) Regiment Officer’s Shako Plate, a fine quality die stamped copper gilt example 1869 - 1878, stencilled central numerals “15” within the garter and laurels, complete with clipped in gauze ventilator and two loop fasteners, retains approx. 80% original fire gilt, very good condition £120-170
Royal Regiment of Artillery Other Ranks Shako Plate 1844 - 1855, a good quality die-stamped brass example featuring the Royal Arms, cannon and mottoes (KK 803A), original soft iron loops replaced and the plate with age wear and cracks overall £80-120
Sweetheart Brooches, a small selection but including a large ornate example in hallmarked silver and enamels to the York and Lancaster Regiment, Birmingham 1901; an Edinburgh hallmarked example to the Cameron Highlanders; sterling silver examples to the Machine Gun Corps and Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee; an unmarked silver example to the Seaforth Highlanders; other base metal examples include Levenshulme Rifle Club, South African Air Force, “Ropers Midgets HMS Lilliput” and other...
Prints And Reproduction Photographs, a large quantity featuring various British feats of arms from the Crimean War onward, together with an original Vanity Fair print of “Bobs” dated April 10th 1880, two original copies of The Times, November 13th and 14th 1854, two sets of cigarette cards Players Military Headdress (50) loose and Military Uniforms of the British Empire Overseas mounted in the John Player and Sons album; three pairs of white canvas riding breeches, good overall condition...
Miscellaneous Railway Badges, including an early period heavy brass waist belt plate, this with a 2-2-2 engine mount, loose D end section missing; a gilt metal and black cloth badge of laurel spray format with central numerals 721, two screw post fasteners; four small circular “Conductor” with central star metal badges unused, “Station Hotel” two large cast brass letter style title plates; together with sundry other items some uncut, good overall condition (18) £150-200
Hammer Price: £110
Other Ranks Hussar Uniform, comprising a black sealskin busby with sewn in yellow cord cap lines, scarlet bag with yellow cloth tracing, replacement white horsehair plume, lacking chin strap and severely worn around the top rim, a blue cloth dress tunic complete with yellow cord frogging and plain brass ball pattern buttons dated 1913; together with a Volunteer Artillery officer’s pillbox undress cap of blue cloth with silver lace band and top ornament, complete with leather chin strap and...
2nd West India Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1855 Pattern, a very fine quality two part example showing central QVC over ‘2’ with ‘West India Regiment’ in surround, matching benchmarks 5, excellent condition £140-200
The West India Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp c. 1881 - 1901, a scarce two part all gilt special pattern example, large central circular disc mounted with sprays of laurel and palm and enclosing a Garter motto and the initials ‘WIR’, gilt rubbed on the loose D end otherwise very good condition £80-120
10th Company Imperial Yeomanry, The Sherwood Rangers Slouch Hat Badge, a very rare brass example ‘XIY’ (3 x 1.5cm), two loop fasteners, good condition £80-120
Indian Army Medical Service Victorian Officer’s Part Uniform, comprising a Lieutenant Colonel’s full dress tunic in blue cloth with black velvet facings, gold rank lace and shoulder boards and gilt buttons, these with central and VRI cipher, complete with original quilted lining, retailed by Hobson & Sons, London and named to Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel F.F. MacCarter (?), his full dress pouch and pouch belt, the pouch complete with gilt metal crowned VRI cipher, the waist belt with very...
Hammer Price: £120
35th Royal Sussex Regiment Other Ranks Waist Belt Clasp, a good quality heavy brass two part example 1856 - 1881, central “35” on a lined ground with title surround “Royal Sussex Regiment”, reverse marked Smith & Wright, Birmingham, very good condition £80-120
3rd West India Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1855 Pattern, a very fine two part example showing QVC over ‘3’ with ‘West India Regiment’ in surround, no benchmarks but a perfect match, very fine condition £140-200
Coldstream Guards Warrant Officer’s Cap Badge, a fine example in unmarked silver or silver plate, the eight-pointed star with a pierced Garter Motto this with a ground of blue enamel and a red enamelled St. George’s cross fretted, two silver loop fasteners centre; together with a fine quality officer’s side hat badge this of smaller longated star form by ‘J & Co.’ central pierced Garter mount in gilt and silver with backgrounds of blue and red enamel, minute loss to the enamel...
Nigerian Government Railways Headdress Badges, four variable die-cast brass badges all featuring a KC over the following letters, “LGR”, “SNGR”, “LR”, and “NER”, all with loop fasteners. Together with “BESR” this mounted on black cloth within a plated oval strap, two screw post fasteners; “NGSR” raised lettering upon a crescent, pin back broken; Canadian Pacific Railway a white metal badge for Newsagent No. 400; Southern Nigeria Preventive Service an uncut...
Hammer Price: £130
Coldstream Guards Warrant Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp, a fine quality example in gilt silver and double enamels, in the centre silver and gilt Garter star with red and blue enamels and “Coldstream Guards” on the circle, one minute section of blue enamel missing otherwise excellent condition £150-200
4th West India Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1855 Pattern, a very fine two part example showing QVC over ‘4’ with ‘West India Regiment’ in surround, matching benchmarks 17, mint state £150-200
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