Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The British Army Crest Album, a very scarce example of this fine young collector’s publication issued c1890-1908 by Messrs Gale & Polden Ltd, comprising over 220 pages with all regiments of cavalry guards and infantry allotted a separate page, there are blocks of blank pages for the yeomanry volunteer and militia artillery and engineers etc etc, every page in two tone green has a background of military accoutrements, printed panels of information on the respective corps, six blank roundels for the embossed crests to be applied and blank rectangular panels for additional notes. The roundels were sold in sets also by Gale & Polden and these were applied plus many others by the original collector, some of the crests are now exceedingly rare, many Imperial Yeomanry items obscure Mountain Batteries, short lived Militia Battalions, Indian Army units and some exotic Colonial units, 1st Chinese Regiment Penang Volunteers etc, a wonderful compilation. This issue is c1888-1901 as the title for the KOYLI is post 1887 but the Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regiment is still shown as The Derbyshire Regiment; a pasted label shows that the book was subsequently given as a present in 1916, excellent condition with original coloured and printed covers £150-200