Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Wiltshire & Berkshire), a very rare Bandmaster’s full dress blue cloth helmet c1958-1995, of contemporary construction but well modelled on the officers’ 1878 pattern, blue cloth with usual fittings, front trim broader and rivetted rather than pressed, chin chain rosettes metal spine, spike and quadrant, the special pattern plate of QEC star shape with Garter Proper centre all in gilding metal, the centre in bi-metal being the badge of the combined regiment a cross pattee bearing a Royal Ducal coronet over double rope circle and the Dragon within, the full unit title on a double scroll at the base, mint state £250-300