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The Balmoral Highlanders, an extremely fine and rare ensuite full highland dress uniform of this small elite and prestiguous group of Royal attendants (1904). Comprises a heavy guage navy blue woollen glengarry complete with very broad black silk tails similar lower edging and a broad pleated sewn-in cockade, a small woollen tourie to the crown, a superb silver badge shows a circular strap inscribed with the motto of the Order of the Thistle this is applied with the Royal Crest of the...
£6,000–£8,000
2nd (South Middlesex) Rifle Volunteers, a fine collection of dark grey uniforms and headdress pertaining to Major WA Wells comprising folding forage cap complete with two unit buttons and red cord frontal boss with silver strung bugl;e horn badge, soft round forage cap complete with leather chin strap,and mohair braid band, scarlet cloth seam and central knop decoration to the crown; full dress tunic embellished with scarlet cloth facings and silver lace, correct rank lace to cuffs and...
Hammer Price: £360
Royal Warwickshire regiment, uniforms of an Edwardian officer ‘Lieut Walker’ comprising full dress scarlet tunic, blue facings and KC gilt buttons correct broad lace shoulder cords, lacking collar badges, severe surface mothing, stitching faults and inner lining ‘shot’, a dark navy fine cloth frock coat complete with all KC gilt buttons, lacking collar badges and shoulder boards, a dark blue woollen cloth four pocket frock complete with KC unit buttons, lacking rank insignia and...
Hammer Price: £90
12th (Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers, other ranks shapska, black leather skull and trencher top scarlet cloth and yellow cord side panels with correct yellow and blue cloth ‘lace’ waist band, plume boss of yellow and blue wool, the plate and boss button with QVCs the cap stamped WD /2/1902, lion’s mask side ornaments and leather backed brass chin chain, no plume or plume holder, brass ‘butterfly’ plume retaining key present, leather lining part detached on chin chain one acorn...
Hammer Price: £520
1st Fife Volunteer Artillery a very fine and scarce bandsman’s tunic dated 1906, of good quality blue cloth with scarlet cloth collar this, the cuffs, and the skirt pockets embellished with scarlet cording, scarlet cloth trim to the epaulette straps and left breast edging, white metal grenade collars and similar KC buttons, the shoulder titles ‘1/RA/FIFE’ in high quality plated white metal. Hobson’s trade label details include ‘Pearson’ ‘Band’ ‘2/1st Fife’ and finish date...
Royal Artillery, an officer’s round forage cap navy cloth body, scarlet seam around the crown gold lace band to the body and gold lace corded knop, narrow leather chinstrap present but part detached, some tearing to the leather sweat band; a post 1902 officer’s waist belt gold lace on black leather gilt clasp with ‘Ubique’ snake section and KC Royal crests on oval side panels, lace part detached; a Victorian officer’s shell jacket , a Victorian officer’s mess jacket blue cloth...
Hammer Price: £75
The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, a very fine and scarce officer’s full dress sporran post 1902 pattern but almost certainly Edward VII early GVR period, the heavily detailed cantle with battle honours central KC silver Thistle and title circle the whole profusely decorated with thistle sprays, the horse hair front with gold bullion and blue silk swags from which depend six gold bullion tassels, red moroccan purse and black patent leather waist belt, near mint condition £400-600
Hammer Price: £620
Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s), a good quality Senior NCO’s sporran red moroccan purse with brass and white metal cantle this engraved with thistle sprays and white metal mounts comprising the stag’s head cabossed Cuidich’n Rich thistle sprays and battle honours, above a multi part scroll bearing eleven further honours, white horse hair front bearing two brass engraved holders from which depend black horse hair tassels; together with an iron Middle...
Hammer Price: £85
Lancers, a good quality Victorian officer’s girdle, gold lace with two crimson silk lines three olivet fateners, red moroccan lining, some wear but good colour retention; a superb set of heavy gold cord cap and body lines terminating in large flat flounders, corded knops and long bullion fringes, scarlet cloth lining to the body line section, mint state (2) £150-200
Hammer Price: £250
5th American Cadets, an officer’s or officer cadet’s uniform comprising a black cloth and leather bound shako, drooping brass bound leather peak ,leather chin strap and unlined brass chain, large ornate brass plate with pierced ‘5’ centre and motto ‘Decus et Praesidium’ and the date ‘1867’ in surround, all within laurel sprays, above the motto strap a star burst bearing a town or college’s (?) crowned arms and motto ‘Fatti Maschi Parole Emine’, side ornaments are unit...
Hammer Price: £50
16th (The Queen’s) Lancers, a very fine other ranks QVC bi/metal cap badge (779) four loop fasteners, near mint condition £60-70
Hammer Price: £80
South Middlesex Rifle Volunteers a fine quality Victorian officer’s silvered white metal cross pattern helmet plate, central county shield with unit title in surround c1878-1888 together with the companion pouch badge in silvered white metal QVC over county shield oak sprays and unit title below; Victorian cavalry officer’s flap pouch ornament in gilt brass being a QVC over a wide floreated ‘VR’, excellent condition (3) £80-120
Hammer Price: £120
Gordon Highlanders, a good quality NCO’s post 1881 plaid brooch in silver plate, the quoit mounted with battle honour and unit scrolling which encloses the stag’s head coronet and ivy leaf wreath, the reverse with scratched names ‘Nichols’ and ‘Sgt Thomson’ (Bloomer p85/86), pin back missing, two attachment wires missing, some of the others loose, some plating loss on the mounts £50-70
Hammer Price: £55
Royal Irish Rifles (14th Young Citizens) Battalion, a good quality other ranks white metal cap badge slider fastener (KK1153) appears to be excavated and is somewhat ‘rusty’; Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) a bronzed metal photograph frame mounted on the top edge with a bronzed officer’s paggri sized glengarry badge the glazed frame contains a photographic image now transposed onto an opaque glass background of a young officer in service dress tunic which shows the second pattern collar...
Imperial Yeomanry/Yeomanry Cap badges, comprising a very fine silvered white metal Scottish Horse (1385) a g/metal Lanarkshire Imperial Yeomanry (1323) Norfolk brass EVIIR and similar GVR Scottish Horse KC w/metal (1502) and g/metal (1501) (large size) Yorks Dragoons KC blackened brass Loyal Suffolk Hussars bi/metal Wilts Yeomanry bi/metal slider, Lothians & Border Yeomanry g/metal Queen’s Own Yeomanry bi/metal fox and title scroll, excellent condition (11) £90-110
Hammer Price: £160
Lovat Scouts IY & Lovat Scouts Yeomanry, a very fine group of headdress badges comprising officers’ cap badges (1379) in gilt die-stamped loop fasteners (2) and in die-cast silver plate blade fasteners, other ranks gilding metal loops (1380); officer’s bronze (1499) blades other ranks g/metal (1498) loops and slider patterns, brooch as per (1498) in solid brass and blue enamel pin back, other ranks w/metal (1500), officer’s solid type in silver plate (2336) and other ranks w/metal plus...
Hammer Price: £310
Loyal Suffolk Hussars, a good quality officer’s cap and matching collar badges in gilt metal together with a similar cap badge in bronze and three large tunic buttons; Coldstream Guards a very scarce officer’s two piece small size bronze cap badge, two blade fasteners; British red Cross Society, County of Suffolk a two piece lapel or breast badge in gilded base metal and enamels, gilt dirty but sound on the first three items, blades missing off the LSH cap, buttons worn (9) £60-70
90th Punjabis , a large British made die-stamped white metal paggri badge, KC over a plain quoit enclosing the Chindte, ‘90’ and ‘Punjabis’ scroll below, original pin back, excellent condition £40-60
Hammer Price: £45
British Infantry Cap Badges, a selection of good quality items KSLI osd and bi/metal Royal Fusiliers KC osd (loops) 2 KC gilding metal Worcestershire 1st pattern with loops and similar with slider Royal Dublin Fusiliers bi/metal slider Royal Ulster Rifles w/metal Bedfordshire osd blades and bi/metal slider Artists Rifles g/metal and Artists w/metal, HAC (infantry) osd with mounted letters and blades Sgts bi/metal and g/metal; s/titles RDF with separate grenade RF with separate grenade KSLI...
Reproduction Cap Badges, a small group comprising ten various RND items five yeomanry and a Royal Dublin Fusiliers, sold as viewed (16) £15-20
Hammer Price: £40
WWII and Later Cloth Insignia, some 30+ shoulder titles and 50+ div. signs plus a few American items, a few are reproduction but the majority of good vintage and manufacture, viewing imperative,very good overall condition (a parcel) £150-200
Hammer Price: £150
Isle of Wight Rifle Volunteers, a fine and rare Field Officer’s black patent leather waist belt complete with 1855 pattern clasp, centrally the tower of Carisbrooke Castle upon a gilt domed backing, unit title in surround, ‘Isle of Wight Rifle Volunteers 1860’ this and the acanthus finials in silver plate, the belt has both sword slings and has provision for a sabretache, c1860-1887, some crazing to the patent leather and small white painted record numerals to the sword slings,...
Hammer Price: £420
Royal Warwickshire Regiment, a fine quality officer’s waist belt clasp 1881-1902,central Antelope with unit title in surround, excellent condition but the two sections appear to have been soldered together £60-80
King’s Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) Militia Battalions/1st Volunteer Battalion, a card of 12 large officers’ silver plated tunic buttons c1883-1901, QVC over Lion and Rose, title circle ‘King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt’, all by Herbert & Co London, some wear to the high points £20-30
Hammer Price: £20
Oxfordshire Constabulary, two very fine uncrowned star pattern helmet plates the circular mount with ‘Oxfordshire’ enclosing a KC, one in blackened brass with blackened silver plated mount two, two loop fasteners, the other originally blackened white metal, now part polished with white metal mount (larger central KC than the first item), two loop fasteners, a small KC star pattern helmet plate in blackened brass with a white metal circular mount, ‘Oxfordshire’ enclosing ‘66’, a...
Hammer Price: £180
27th South Australian Scottish Regiment, a very fine and rare officer’s full size die-stamped hat badge by Stokes in silver coloured metal, sun-burst over ‘27’ with a stag’s head cabossed below tri-part scroll with full unit title at base; Byron Scottish, a good quality officer’s bonnet badge in die-stamped silver plate c1930-42, one lug missing on the latter item otherwise excellent condition (2) £150-200
£150–£200
Royal Naval Division Anson Battalion, a fine and rare group comprising two other ranks cap badges and a single brass shoulder title an officer’s bronze cap badge (official strengthening bar behind the spear) and matching collar badges plus a further single officer’s bronze collar badge, excellent condition (7) £250-300
Hammer Price: £230
Royal Naval Division Benbow Battalion, an extremely scarce brass shoulder title and an excessively rare full length rating’s cap tally, gold thread on black silk ‘Benbow’, the gold thread discoloured otherwise very good condition (2) £700-800
£700–£800
Royal Naval Division Collingwood Battalion, a very rare brass shoulder title and an excessively rare rating’s near full length cap tally, gold thread on black silk ‘Collingwood’, slight discolouration to the gold thread otherwise very good condition (2) £700-800
Royal Naval Division Drake Battalion, a fine and rare group comprising an other ranks bi-metal cap badge, a brass shoulder title, an officer’s bronze cap badge with matching collar badges and one only larger officer’s collar badge in bronze with silver plated central ship (Gaunt ‘tablets’ where relevant), one of the pair of collar badges with a fracture in the oak sprays otherwisex excellent condition (6) £250-350
Royal Naval Division Hawke Battalion, a very fine and scarce group comprising an other ranks cap badge and single brass shouilder title, an officer’s bronze cap badge with extremely rare matching and facing collar badges (Gaunt ‘tablets’ where relevant), excellent condition (5) £250-300
Hammer Price: £210
Royal Naval Division Hood Battalion, a fine and rare group comprising an other ranks cap badge with two similar but smaller gilding metal badges a single brass shoulder title, an officer’s bronze cap badges with extremely scarce matching and facing collar badges (Gaunt ‘tablets’ where relevant), excellent condition (7) £300-350
£300–£350
Royal Naval Division Howe Battalion, a very fine and scarce group comprising two other ranks cap badges and one brass shoulder title, an officer’s bronze cap badge and a pair of matching collars plus a further odd collar of the same size, a further pair of officer’s bronze collar badges of larger size (Gaunt ‘tablets’ where relevant), excellent overall condition (9) £350-400
Hammer Price: £320
Royal Naval Division Nelson Battalion, a very fine and rare group comprising two other ranks cap badges, one without Gaunt tablet but of the period, a single brass shoulder title, two officer’s bronze cap badges one die-stamped the other die-cast both by Gaunts, and one only matching bronze collar badge, excellent condition (6) £250-350
Royal Naval Division Engineers, an extremely rare brass shoulder title ‘Engineers’ over ‘R.N.D.’ by HB Sale Ltd Birmingham, a very rare officer’s bronze collar badge being aten flame point fused grenade with ‘RND’ superimposed on the ball (worn below the globe and laurel collars), three other ranks gilding metal GVR cap badges, two with solid centres and a brass letter ‘E’, excellent overall condition (6) £120-150
Hammer Price: £480
Royal Naval Division Machine Gun Battalion, a good quality other ranks two part gilding metal cap badge, the slider fastener stamped ‘S’ on the inside, a small silver coloured metal officer’s side hat or collar badge by J&Co (Jennens), two copper loop fasteners, a further good quality other ranks cap badge embellishe with an overall gilt wash; Lapel Badges, a fine gilt metal and enamelled KC item to the RND Artillery by ‘O Ltd’, a base metal and enamelled KC item’ Royal Naval...
Hammer Price: £110
Royal Naval Division, a fine and rare officer’s solid bronze cap badge (KK1158) together with an officer’s bronze cap badge Royal Engineers GVR, one blade missing on the first item otherwise very good condition (2) £80-120
Hammer Price: £70
Royal Naval Division, a fine and very scarce officer’s cast bronze cap badge (KK1158); Royal Naval Reserve, an extremely fine and large period padded cap badge KC in gold thread velvet and coloured silks gold thread laurels and similar RNV silver metal fouled anchor, paper trade label to reverse ‘EJ Monnery Son Ltd London Southampton & Liverpool’ (cost 8/6d), blades bent over on the first item otherwise excellent condition (2) £200-250
£200–£250
Royal Naval Division, a very fine and rare officer’s cast bronze cap badge (KK1158); Royal Naval Reserve, a fine and scarce officer’s padded period cap badge, the KC in gold thread velvet and coloured silks gold thread laurels and similar RNV silver metal and thread fouled anchor, blades with slight buckling on the first item slight wear and colour loss on the second otherwise very good condition (2) £200-250
Royal Naval Division, a fine and scarce Chief Petty Officer’s bronze cap badge (KK1159) and the corresponding KC metal and bullion cap badge, padded black velvet ball with silver metal and thread fouled anchor, padded crown in crimson velvet gold thread and coloured silks, blades bent over on the first item otherwise excellent condition (2) £140-160
£140–£160
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