Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

1st Royal Lancashire Militia, an extremely fine and scarce officer’s rectangular shoulder belt plate hall marked Birmingham 1852 by ‘J&Co’, the overlays being a facetted silver star a crowned copper gilt and green enamel circle enclosing the Lancashire Rose in copper gilt red and green enamels, pattern worn c1840-55, one minute edge knock otherwise near mint condition £500-700