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War Service & ARP Badges, lapel badges 1914-15-16, eight assorted a KC Civil Def Corps lapel, KC ‘CD’ collar, a KC VW monogram lapel, Berkshire Nat Reserve badly damaged lapel, seven HM silver ARP lapels standard size and one ‘silver’ small size; twelve assorted RAF squadron lapel and sweetheart brooches mostly in base metals and enamels but including two ‘Silver’ and enamelled RAF brooches, generally good condition (32) £40-60
Hammer Price: £110
ARP Badges, eight standard HM silver KC lapel badges together with a card of 22 restrike cap and glengarry badges (30) £30-40
Hammer Price: £60
VAD Australia a very scarce shoulder title curved ‘VAD’ over ‘AUSTRALIA’ in heavy guage silver coloured metal with a single companion KC collar badge full unit title around the Cross of St John in similar metal; gilding metal cap badges to the 10th & 19th London Regiments, sundry hall-marked silver sporting medallions and decorated coins, fourteen various cap collar and sleeve badges (some restrikes) a brooched button of the Norfolk Regiment and a brass match box cover with applied...
Hammer Price: £50
Australian Flying Corps, a very rare embroidered pair of pilot’s breast wings WWI period, unpadded the crown wings and AFC in buff coloured thread the cushions of the crown in red the laurel sprays in gold coloured thread; a bronze curved ‘AUSTRALIA’ shoulder title as used by the AFC (by Stokes of Melbourne), an Austalian Commonwealth Military Forces sun-burst cap badge in bronze (unmarked) and a ‘Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League’ of Australia dated 1920 lapel or hat...
Hammer Price: £350
Canadian Parachute Corps, a scarce dark brown plastic cap badge complete with integral lugs, the ‘chute with elevated wings maple leaf spray and tri-part unit title at the base, a similar good quality other ranks gilding metal cap badge; a good pair of cloth wings, dark green cloth backing with white ‘chute and wings central gold coloured maple leaf, one printed cloth shoulder title maroon on green ‘1/Canadian Parachute/Battalion’, an embroidered white on green cloth shoulder title...
Hammer Price: £240
1st Canadian Special Service Force, a very scarce WWII period scarlet cloth arm patch in the shape of a spear head embroidered in white with ‘USA’ and vertically ‘CANADA’, together with one period collar badge being a brass coloured disc with raised legend ‘CANADA’ single central bolt fastener and ‘Sterling’ marked ‘ circular nut; a post WWII American collar circular brass coloured disc with crossed arrows but with hollow back and bar with two clutch pin fasteners,...
Hammer Price: £70
Life Guard Hussar Regiment, a very fine and scarce officer’s Imperial German silver-plated busby badge, the very large voided skull resting on crossed bones and facing the viewer’s left, three sets of large soldered brass clip fasteners to reverse, one set of fasteners missing and slight plating loss, otherwise very good £150-200
Hammer Price: £150
Royal Indian Air Force, a good solid ‘SILVER’ cap (?) badge, the KC over an eagle circular unit title and with the RAF motto at the base, two copper wire fasteners to the reverse, a similar other ranks cast brass example slightly larger and inscribed ‘Indian Air Force’, an other ranks KC cast brass collar badge ‘IAF’ within crowned laurels; Royal Artillery Air Spotter’s embroidered breast wings, on black cloth ground pale blue wings with a gold coloured grenade and red silk...
Italian Army Pre WWII solid gilding metal cap badges to the 4th 5th 9th & 14th Infantry regiments a similar cap badge showing the crown over crossed cannon barrels a grenade and the motto ‘Regis Ultima Ratio’ another cap badge displaying the crown over a circle embellished with laurels crossed cannon barrels and a central knight’s helm gorget and breast plate, a gilded copper badge displaying a Roman style helmet lying upon six thunder bolts all within a buckle shaped border the badge...
Hammer Price: £35
South African & Colonial Group, including four large brass and gilding metal examples of the 8th Infantry Transvaal Scottish, South African and Natal Artillery, 2 Australian ‘sun-burst’ cap badges and sundry other South African and Rhodesian items c1935 to present day, generally very good condition (41) £80-120
Hammer Price: £130
South African Air Force, a good quality pair of pilot’s embroidered breast wings WWII period (Owen C107) black cloth backing white wings and multi coloured shield/crown, four press stud fasteners; a cast brass shoulder title ‘SAAF’ and an other ranks g/m KC cap badge (Owen 1533) this with frontal die fractures, good overall condition (3) £50-70
South African Air Force, a very fine KC gold bullion and coloured silks pair of pilot’s breast wings WWII period (Owen C103) with original paper trade label for Hobson & Sons (London) Ltd; a very fine officer’s gilt cap badge 1926-59 (Owen 1533) and a KC SAAF base metal and enamelled tie-clip, excellent overall condition (3) £80-120
Hammer Price: £100
South African Air Force, a good quality pair of embroidered WWII pilot’s breast wings (Owen C107) black cloth backing with white wings etc and multi coloured crown and central shield, an officer’s die-stamped bronze KC cap badge (Owen 1533) and a pair of plain red cloth slip-on shoulder ‘titles’, excellent condition (4) £50-70
South African Air Force, an interesting assortment of squadron lapel badges including examples to Nos. 2 (2 variable) 25, 24, 19, 1, 30, 3, 40, 34(2) squadrons plus three other unidentified units, a tie-clip in the form a WWII fighter plane and a bronze coloured cravat pin in the form of a Tommy’s steel helmet with raised lettering, M.O.T.H’, very good overall condition (16) £80-100
Hammer Price: £80
Rhodesia & Nyasaland Air Force, a very scarce officer’s bullion and gilt metal cap badge (Owen C414) padded ‘QC’ British type the crown over a gilt metal eagle and gold bullion spray below; together with two Middle East Land Force Air Despatch cloth arm badges, the first printed a yellow Dakota on mid blue ground the second displaying an embroidered yellow Dakota on a purple cloth backing (removed from uniform); RASC Air Despatcher QEC unit title with AD to centre pale blue wings all...
Hammer Price: £40
Rhodesian Special Air Service, a scarce pair of padded embroidered wings for dress uniform (Owen C405) a similar pair for work-dress (C394) and a variant work-dress pair with smaller backing cloth, excellent overall condition (3) £80-120
£80–£120
Southern Rhodesia Air Force, a fine and rare pair of officer’s embroidered breast wings WWII period, (Owen 429), on a black cloth ground the padded KC in white and red over white wings and laurels enclosing the shield picked out in red white and green silks, four press stud fasteners to reverse; together with a base metal and enamelled QEC lapel badge for 44 Rhodesia Squadron RAF, and a similar KC lapel badge featuring the eagle laurels and legend scroll in dual language ‘Comrades in...
Hammer Price: £30
Livery Buttons, eighteen (6 X 3) large silver plated examples the first set showing a wyvern’s head and neck and wings, the second with a baron’s coronet over a statant beast half lion half dragon and the third with a demi-gazelle holding a heart in its forelegs, some plating loss but generally good condition (18) £30-40
A good Persian helmet, Kula Khud, the bowl chiselled overall with intricate floral patterns and cartouches filled with Koranic script, gold & silver koftghari, two plume holders, sliding nasal bar, bowl surmounted by a tall central spike, camail of butted rings, with vandyked edges, 19th. Cent., koftghari with some wear overall, minor rusting, camail holed in places £650-700
Hammer Price: £580
The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment), a fine quality post 1904 officer’s full dress scarlet tunic, buff facings and complete with all buttons collar badges and Lieutenant ‘s rank badges, supplied by Messrs Hamburger Rogers & Co named and dated to ‘GS Browne Esq’ ‘17.4.13’, together with the corresponding crimson silk waist sash and navy blue trousers, wear to the gilt buttons and gold lace areas, a few minor moth nips but retaining good colour and of good general...
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, a good quality officer’s navy blue four pocket patrol jacket, complete with silver and gilt Prince of Wales’s crest/motto collar badges and silver plated buttons bearing a KC over the PoW crest, ‘chain’ shoulder scales not present; together with a fine quality officer’s mess jacket and waistcoat of dark blue cloth with narrow scarlet piping down the back and arms, narrow flat double gold cord shoulder straps bearing gilt rank stars for a Captain, plated KC...
£50–£70
Royal Engineers, a very fine officer’s black fur busby of the pattern originally introduced in 1856 and worn until 1874, briefly re-introduced c1928/39 complete with mid-blue bag, a gilt KC grenade plume holder and white horse hair plume, leather chin strap, sweat band and trade label for ‘Hawkes & Co Ltd 1 Savile Row W late 14 Piccadilly’, japanned metal carrying tin with brass name plate ‘Captain PA Ullman/Royal Engineers’, minor gilt loss to the plume holder otherwise excellent...
£300–£350
The Tyneside Scottish, a large buff coloured leather musician’s card case stamped inside’O.N.0821 broad arrow head and ’076’, now mounted with a white metal glengarry badge (two feet on tower pattern), a small cased set of contemporary gilt blazer buttons for the ‘Yorkshire Volunteers’ (six small two large) by the London Badge & Button Co.; a group of five coloured French postcards of a satirical and anti British nature for the Boer War period, one used and dated Brussels 1900,...
Hammer Price: £25
The Royal Sussex Regiment 2nd/6th Battalion, a very large and most interesting photographic and written archive compiled by 2553 Pte Walter Woods No 1 Platoon A Company throughout his service with the battalion in India 1915-1919 including pictures taken during the Waziristan Expedition 1917 and featuring every aspect of camp life, several hundred photographs, accompanied by some subsequent and excellent private research notes; together with an official pictorial history of the ‘Indian...
Hammer Price: £75
Japanese Prayer Flag, of very fine cotton, approx 32” X 24”, white with large central dyed red sun, thereafter adorned with black ink Japanese texts extending three-quarters around the sun, one pair of ‘ties in original material the other replaced with string, minute areas of wear but generally in very good condition (1) £50-70
Hammer Price: £85
Bayonets, a group of three British, two with scabbards; Imperial German, dated 1891, with scabbard; and another continental example, with scabbard, possibly danish. Fair overall condition (5) £50-70
Anderson, Major-General W. H., The History of the Twenty-Second Cheshire Regiment 1689-1849, London, 1920, xv, 164pp, cloth; Disbrowe, E. J. W. (Editor), History of the Volunteer Movement in Cheshire 1914-1920, Stockport, 1920, iii, 108pp, plus plates and map, cloth; Spence, Lieut. J. C., “They also Serve”, The 39th Cheshire Battalion Home Guard, 189pp, plus plates, including nominal roll, cloth, good condition (3) £40-60
Army Record Society Publications (21), titles including: Amherst and the Conquest of Canada; John Peebles American War 1776-1782; The Maratha War Papers of Arthur Wellesley; Sir Hugh Rose and the Central India Campaign 1858; Lord Chelmsford’s Zululand Campaign 1878-1879; Roberts in India, The Military Papers of Field Marshal Lord Roberts 1876-1893; Lord Roberts and the War in South Africa 1899-1902; The Army and the Curragh Incident 1914; Montgomery and the Eighth Army, all with board...
Ashmole, Elias, The Institution Laws & Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, printed by Maycock, London, 1672, viii, 720pp, appendix and errata 104pp, title page in red and black, frontispiece portrait of Charles II in Garter robes by Sherwin, plus 35 full and double-page plates mostly by Hollar, folio, full light brown morocco and gilt borders, ribbed spine, a.e.g., extremities rubbed, hinges a little cracked, front marbled endpaper to title page loose, good condition, a very...
Hammer Price: £650
Barclay, Brig. C. N., History of the 16th/5th The Queen’s Royal Lancers 1925-1961, Aldershot, 1963, 235pp, with 10 plates and 9 maps, red cloth, with dustcover, very good condition; Boardman, Capt. C. J., Tracks in Europe, The 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards 1939-1946, Salford, 1990, 263pp, plus plates, with dustcover, excellent condition (2) £50-70
Hammer Price: £90
Bulloch, John Malcolm, Territorial Soldiering in the North-East of Scotland during 1759-1814, Aberdeen, New Spalding Club, 1914, copy number 55 of 400 printed, lxviii, 517pp, green cloth with gilt crest on front cover, covers a little worn, good condition, scarce £80-100
£80–£100
[By a Staff Officer], Historical Record of The Honourable East India Company’s First Madras European Regiment, London, 1843, xxviii, 575pp, plus maps and plates, half calf, marbled boards and endpapers, good condition, scarce £150-200
Hammer Price: £120
Chorley, W.R., Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, 7 volumes: 1939-1940, 159pp; 1941, 224pp; 1942, 318pp; 1943, 494pp; 1944, 576pp; 1945, 224pp; Operational Training Units 1940-47, 373pp, paperback, generally very good condition (7) £70-90
Hammer Price: £190
Colledge, J. J., Ships of the Royal Navy, 1987, Volumes 1 & 2, Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the Fifteenth Century to the present, 388 & 245pp, boards with dustocovers; Lenton, H. T., British and Empire Warships of the Second World War, 1988, 766pp, illustrated, boards, with dustcover; Rohwer, J. & Hummelchen, G., Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945, Volumes 1 & 2, xv plus x, 650pp, boards, with dustcovers; British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-18 and 1939-45, 1988, boards, with...
Hammer Price: £220
de Ruvigny, The Marquis, The Roll of Honour (2), Volume II, 324pp and Volume III, 295pp, biographies and photographs of those killed in the Great War, embossed cloth, good condition (2) £40-50
Dos Santos, Francisco Marques, Medalhas Militares Brasileiras, Rio de Janeiro, 1937, 47pp., with black and white plates and text figures, covering Brazilian awards dating from the Colonial period until the end of the Empire, original paper covers, these a little ragged, discoloured in places, fairly good condition £50-70
Foot, M. R. D., History of the Second World War; S O E in France, an account of the work of the British Special Operations Executive in France 1940-1944, London, 1966, xxvii, 550pp, plus plates, complete with four four maps, boards, with dustcover, good condition £20-30
Franks, Norman L. R., Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War, 3 volumes: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1939-1941; Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1942-1943; Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1944-1945 (incorporating Air Defence Great Britain and 2nd TAF), paperback, good and better condition (3) £30-40
Fraser, A., The 48th Highlanders of Toronto, Toronto, 1900, 128pp, illustrated, embossed cloth; Aitken, Sir Max, Canada in Flanders, volume 1, xx, 243pp, plus maps, cloth; Beaverbrook, Lord, Canada in Flanders, volume 2, xx, 258pp, including maps, cloth, with dustcover; Batten, J., The Spirit of the Regiment, an account of the 48th Highlanders from 1956 to 1991, 171pp, illustrated; boards; Wood, S., The Scottish Soldier, Manchester, 1987, 176pp, illustrated, boards, with dustcover; Speed,...
Hammer Price: £140
Gough, Brig. G. F., Thirty Days to Dunkirk, Wrexham, 1990, xiv, 180pp, plus maps, an account of the 1st Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers’ in May 1940, with dustcover; Horsfall, John, Say not the Struggle ..., Warwick, 1977, xx, 178pp, plus map and black and white plates, an account of the Irish regiments in the Battle of France, with dustcover; Horsfall, John, Fling our Banner to the Wind, Warwick, 1978xvii, 225pp, plus black and white plates, an account of the Irish Brigade in Italy 1944, with...
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