Auction Catalogue

2 March 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 702

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£300

18th Hussars: Two albums, 18th Century to 1936, facsimile paintings after Dighton, Finart, Norblin etc., colour print by Knotel; photograph of a mounted trooper. c.1890; a series of Brennan watercolours of the regiment in India depicting their various orders of dress worn in 1892; a group photograph of officers in khaki drill at Aligarh; another similar of N.C.O.’s; another of officer’s charger with native syce; a mounted march past at Umballa, 1893; numerous photographs of mounted parades and regimental groups in India, 1895/6, including a good group of the band and a named officer group at Umballa, January 1895; a Gale and Polden (?) group of officers in blue patrols, 1908; numerous photographs of the drum horse and also of the funeral of Corporal Matthews, 1907; church parades, the band, etc. (2) £350-400