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Grand Connaught Rooms 61 - 65 Great Queen St London WC2B 5DA
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Yorkshire Yeomanry Badges, a mounted display ot items to the Yorkshire Dragoons comprising an officer’s silver plated KC cap badge and a similar pair of Guelphic crowned and monogram collar badges, one only officer’s large pattern bronze collar badge (SA scroll at base), a white metal KC o/rs cap badge and single brass YD s/title, a scrace slightly larger pattern KC g/m cap badge and a scarce pair of g/m collar badges, crowned rose over scroll ‘Yorkshire Dragoons’, a large single g/m...
Hammer Price: £270
British Infantry Regimental Cap Badges, a very fine and comprehensive display of all the Line regiments c1898-1910, with the following QVC period examples, Royal Fusiliers Devons Suffolk Royal Irish Yorkshire Regiment Royal Scots Fusiliers KOSB (large) East Lancs East Surreys (DCLI is second w/m pattern) Border (QVC) South Staffs Dorsetshire Black Watch essex Derbyshire Loyal North Lancs Northants DLI HLI Royal Irish Rifles (small) Connaughts Rifle Brigade (small w/m Guelphic), the...
Hammer Price: £1,300
Cap & Collar Badges, a small group of KC period items comprising caps,4th Hussars Dorsetshire Essex (slider clipped) The Welch (relic) South staffs RAOC small bi/m Royal Hampshire Worcs bi/m Royal Northumberland Fusiliers bi/m SLI (beret) KRRC 12th Lancers (relic) RAC (cast Indian made) Royal Welch Fusiliers REME bi/m FIJI Defence Forces g/m worn RAVC bi/m worn RAPC (relic) Royal Fusiliers (near relic) Royal Corps of Signals (two part) 13th/18th Hussars (worn) Scots Guards RAMC g/m; collars...
Hammer Price: £45
Coldstream Guards, an extremely fine Warrant Officer’s waist belt clasp silver, gilt and enamelled centre with unit title and laurel sprays in surround, plain gilt finials, matching bench marks ‘7’, mint state £120-150
Hammer Price: £90
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, a very fine post 1881 officer’s waist belt clasp (Ryan 169), no bench marks but a perfect match, some gilt loss on the acanthus areas otherwise excellent state £80-120
Hammer Price: £85
The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1st Volunteer Battalion, a very fine officer’s 1855 pattern silver plated two part waist belt clasp c1883-1902 central motif of the Lion passant over a silver and enamelled rose, retailed by Hobson & Sons Lexington St London W, mint state £80-120
The Border Regiment, a good quality officer’s waist belt clasp c1884-1902 (Ryan 201) Garter Star to the centre with unit title in surround, matching bench marks ‘7’, enamels sound dirty overall and witrh gilt loss to the scanthus sections £80-120
Hammer Price: £150
96th Regiment (later 2nd Bn Manchester Regiment), a good quality officer’s 1855 pattern waist belt clasp (Ryan 139) central crown over 96 with Regiment and laurel spray on circle, non matching bench marks but a perfect fit, right hand section neatly resoldered, has been lacquered and gilt loss to the acanthus sections £60-80
Hammer Price: £60
17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment, an 1855 pattern officer’s waist belt clasp (Ryan 26) matching bench marks ‘4’, the central mounts with considerable wear and the ‘7’ distorted, very little gilt remains £60-80
Hammer Price: £40
The Queensland Scottish, a very fine silver plated Victorian Warrant Officer’s two part waist belt clasp, central section shows the arms and supporters of the State with extra thistles and motto ‘Defence Not Defiance, ‘Queensland Scottish’ and thistle sprays on circle, excellent condition £60-100
Hammer Price: £190
Sukkur Police, a heavy rectangular brass waist belt plate impressed the title and with applied white metal Imperial crown; Zail Jundla 1879 District Karnal, a large and heavy weight octagonal brass bearer’s or minor official’s breast plate, incised with the full title heading a single line of Urdu(?) and small floral sprays, three stud fasteners to reverse; an other ranks KC g/m cap badge Lord Strathcona’s Horse (lugs missing) a similar KC glengarry Royal Scots Fusiliers, a part only...
Hammer Price: £170
United States of America Navy, a very fine officer’s two part gilt waist belt clasp central motif of the Eagle astride an anchor with cannon ball below, thirteen stars in surround, the outer circle with ornate oak sprays and the belt retaining bars decorated with florets and scrollwork, retailed by JR Gaunt & Sons Ltd England, the extra decoration a suggests a senior officer and the quality of the gilt is pre 1914; British Regular Infantry Officer’s Levee Belt Clasp, 1855-1901 pattern...
Imperial German Army, a very fine officer’s circular waist belt clasp central section with the crowned cypher of Kaiser Wilhelm II outer circle with broad laurel sprays, now mounted on a child’s length of silver bullion and black flecked belting, clasp excellent belting faded £50-70
Hammer Price: £50
1st Life Guards, an other ranks Victorian waist belt plate the brass back plate with brass and white metal mounts, central Garter Star upon a crowned oval, double ‘LG’ to the sides and honours at base Peninsula and Waterloo; together with a Heavy Cavalry officer’s Victorian waist belt plate, seeded rectangular back plate with burnished edge silver mounts comprising a crowned ‘VR’ attendant oak sprays and ‘Dieu et Mon Droit’ motto at base, the first item with some wear the...
Royal Naval Air Service, a fine and rare officer’s bullion velvet and silver cap badge c1914-18, heavily padded gold bullion on black cloth the crown with crimson velvet cushions and silk jewels, small eagle in silver, accompanied by a large copy photograph of a Lieutenant in the RNAS wearing the relevant cap and showing cuff rank etc., hand written on the reverse ‘ Captain FW Weatherill RAF Jan 1919’, bullion dulled otherwise in very good condition (2) £200-250
Hammer Price: £210
Royal Australian Air Force, a small modern uniform Commendation badge QEC over eagle in brown finished base metal, clutch pin back, a plastic seal-type badge eagle with motto ‘I go to return’; a small uniform gun metal badge to the Royal Australian Navy QEC clutch pin back; a decorative bullion and silk badge QEC period with scrolls ‘Atelier Sar (?)’ & ‘Since 1914’; a ladies’ rectangular brass compact case with appllied KC Royal Artillery badge in gold coloured metal and...
Hammer Price: £35
Australian Forces Widows’ Badge, a rare large rectangular double pin brooch in embroidered black silk with top and bottom plinths of silver coloured metal, the top with small laurel sprays and border decoration the bottom with similar border but mounted with a small gilt star, the centre panel embroidered in orange red and white with the Rising Sun badge KC and ‘Australian Military Forces’ below, ‘For/Australia’, excellent condition £100-120
£100–£120
Scottish Regimental Buttons, a very good collection of 47 pre 1881 items, 2 post 1881 and 1 Canadian Scottish Militia comprising:- officer’s mounted gilt mufti buttons c1840 to the Royal Scots Greys and 90th Perthshire Volunteers Light Infantry, officers’ gilt coatee buttons large size c1840-55 to the 71st 73rd 75th 90th (& small) 91st (& small Senior NCOs silver plated); officers’ gilt tunic large size to the 1st 21st 25th (2 varities) 26th 42nd 71st (2) 72nd (2) 73rd 74th 75th (2)...
Hammer Price: £470
Royal Tyrone Regiment, Loyal Orange Association Interest, a rag paper printed certificate of 1809 with additional hand written details, these shown in italics, ‘God Save King George the 3d’ We the Master, Deputy Master, and Secretary of No 134 Loyal Orange Association, Royal Tyrone Regiment, do hereby certify that Brother William Haus Has received the regular degrees of an Orange and Purple Man in the above No. and during his stay with us behaved himself as becoming a worthy Brother;--...
Hammer Price: £30
Royal Dublin Fusiliers, a fine and rare watercolour by WB Wollen 1901, mounted framed and glazed the picture measures apprx 13” x 10” and depicts a fusilier in full dress at the present arms position, behind him a detachment of the regiment are marching back into a summer camp, large white bell tents amidst a rural setting, the men all wear scarlet tunics and dark blue ‘Austrian’ field service caps, very fine condition overall with no colour loss or foxing £300-500
Hammer Price: £250
Omani Khunjar, modern plated blade with silver sheet and filigree frontal decoration, green ‘velvet’ panel to rear, complete with ornate belt mount and silver bullion thread and leather sling, excellent condition £20-30
£20–£30
Imperial German Period, a brass match box holder with applied white metal crown button; a tourist’s base metal badge for a day event in Dresden 1914 pin back; together with an assortment of post WWII Nazi badges, East German collar patches etc, (a parcel) £10-20
Books, “British Military Prints by Ralph Nevill’ the standard original work 1909 (thick card covers), ‘History of the Northumberland Hussars 1819-1923’ edited by Howard Pease, ‘The Uniform of the London Scottish’ by JO Robson 1960, Military Naval & Family Crests, a privately assembled collection cut from letter heads envelopes etc mounted in a loose leaf album 250+ military & naval 100 family, some wear to the first item otherwise good overall condition (4) £60-80
‘Badges Buttons Medals Swords &’, a rare copy of the products naval military and civilian produced byMessrs JR Gaunt & Son Ltd including a compliments sheet signed by CF Gaunt and dated August 1916, the work includes illustrations of many obsolete badges and buttons as well as those currently supplied, accompanied by privately undertaken detailed research describing the majority of items more fully, scuffing to the outer corrners and some colour loss to same otherwise very good...
Hammer Price: £120
‘Our Armies’ illustrated and described by Richard Simkin, a rare 2nd edition of this popular work c1900, printed by Day & Son (Lithographers to the Queen) contains 101 facsimile water colour drawings, the hard case covers with groups of soldiers in oval cartouches with the Union flag as background, a rare work, some scuffing, the spine attached but loose, internal colours excellent £100-150
‘The British Army’ by A Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army’, a fine and rare copy of the book published in 1899 and bound in khaki cloth, with an introduction by Major-General F Maurice CB and containing 27 full page colour plates, these by the renowned artist R.Knotel, numerous other black and white illustrations with the text covering all aspects of the army, traditions uniforms colours guidons training badges of rank heroes etc, etc., excellent condition £100-150
Hammer Price: £100
15th (York East Riding) regiment, an interesting parchment certificate of discharge by purchase (£20) pertaining to 1980 Private William Berridge who had enlisted at Beverley 26 June 1878, served 103 days and left 30 September 1878, together with C de V of Berridge in full dress tunic and glengarry; ‘Pals’ Battalions a rare official copy of Army Order ‘20/General Number/31412’ issued by the War Office 7 September 1915, and entitled ‘Authority has been given for the raising of the...
Hammer Price: £55
A wooden match-holder made from the teak of H.M.S. “Terrible”, the base inlaid with a brass plate inscribed, ‘From the Teak of / H.M.S. Terrible / Whose Guns Relieved Ladysmith’, 57mm. overall height, in good condition £20-30
The following nine lots are all Nostalgia model Soldiers, by Shamus Wade: Ten boxed sets comprising: Indian army 1bn. 21st Bengal native inf. 1815, Madras European foot artillery 1850, Madras Artillery band 1850, Madras Artillery Gun Lascars 1850, 1st. Ghurka Lt. Inf. 1880, 5th.Bn. Ghurkas 1882, 35th. Bn. Sikhs 1905, 6th. Bn. Jat Lt. Inf. 1909, 38th. Bn. Dogras Pipes & Drums 1905, all in very good condition £80-120
Seven boxed sets comprising: 5th West India Regt. 1815(4), 2nd Gurkha Rifles Truncheon Party 1890.Trinidad Lt. Inf. 1897(8), Victorian Mounted Rifles 1897 (8), New South Wales Irish Rifles 1900 (8), British Honduras Defence Force 1910 (8), South Irish Horse 1902 (8), all in good condition £70-90
Ten sets of figures representing the colonial contingents sent to the 1897 diamond jubilee, including the Queensland Mounted Rifles, the Royal Malta Engineers & the West Australian Inf. Volunteers 80 pieces, all in very good condition £80-100
Nine sets of figures representing Indian, Gurkha and State forces, including Colour Party of the Ludiana Sikhs & Indian Mutiny Veterans 117 pieces, all in very good condition £80-120
Hammer Price: £160
Seven sets of figures representing Indian and State forces, including some WWII Indian Woman’s Services 90 pieces, all in very good condition £70-90
Hammer Price: £110
Eight sets of figures representing the colonial contingents sent to the 1897 diamond jubilee, including the West India Regiment and the British Guiana Police 80 pieces, all in very good condition £80-100
Hammer Price: £65
Twelve sets of figures representing the colonial contingents sent to the 1897 diamond jubilee, including the Cyprus mounted police, the Trinidad Field Artillery, & the Bermuda Militia Artillery, the Hong Kong Police & H. K. Engineers. 114 pieces, all in very good condition £80-100
Hammer Price: £75
Seven sets of figures representing Mounted Indian and State forces, including The Bikanir Camel Corps. 28 pieces, all in very good condition £80-120
Sixteen Sets with an African connection including the Ashanti war of 1873-4 i.e. Glovers force and a native carried artillery piece. 115 pieces + 8 mounted, all in very good condition £80-120
The following five lots are all Britians model Soldiers: Arabs, 21 various horsemen (5 in original damaged box), 2 mounted on camels, 8 marching on foot with muskets, 4 charging on foot, 1 large palm tree & 1 small palm tree. 8 Abyssinian tribesmen marching with muskets 43 pieces, generally good condition £150-200
Eight set world soldiers Set 117. Egyptian Infantry (7)(post 1957), Set 2019. Danish Livgarde (7) (post 1955), Set 574. Italian Bersaglieri (8), Set 2009. Belgian Grenadiers (8), Set 2035. Svea Life Guard (8), Set 2051. Uruguayan cadets (8) 1953 to 1959 only; together with two unidentified Sets, generally good condition £300-400
Set 2104. Venezuelan Infantry in box 7 pieces, Set 2105 officer & 13 soldiers., set 197. 1st. Gurkha Rifles 8 pieces, in box. Set 196. Greek Evzones 8 pieces, in box, 9 French Zouaves & Mounted Office in box all post war. Plus several empty boxes. Plus 23 piece John Hill & Co Coldstream Guards Band, generally good condition £100-150
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