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

Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, a good quality trooper’s 1847 pattern brass and white metal helmet plate, large QVC over a rococo shield this mounted with a beaded white metal star and overlay of an oval strap bearing the unit title and enclosing the county badge of three loggerheads, large laurel sprays around the shield; East Lothian Yeomanry, a pair of officer’s mounts from the undress shoulder scales c1840-55 stout oval gilt brass backplates with silver overlays script ‘ELY’ within laurel sprtays, some fixing wires missing on the mounts and two of the four fasteners missing from the central mount on the helmet plate, otherwise very good condition (3) £150-200