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The Leinster Regiment, a good quality KC other ranks gilding metal helmet plate fitted with bi-metal centre (lugs missing from back plate, all lugs present but bent over on the centre); The Royal Irish Regiment a good quality other ranks gilding metal QVC back plate fitted with a KC centre, this originally having a pagri slider, now clipped (no lugs on back plate and centre ‘blue-tacked’ to plate); Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, an other ranks gilding metal fur cap grenade 1881-1914 (lugs...
Hammer Price: £120
British Army Cap Badges, a fine selection of good quality examples including QVC period issues to the 2nd 4th & 6th Dragoon Guards, Volunteer Artillery (Gren Gds size and format), Cadets/Y/Sussex two very scarce pairs of shoulder titles complete with backing plates, other caps mainly post 1910 issues include Royal Irish Regiment, RMLI, Sussex Imperial Yeomanry (brooched), Sussex Yeomanry, Norfolk Regt (1st), 8th Bn London Regt, Leics, W Kents, Buffs, Suffolks, Scots Guards, SLI (beret), 1st...
Hammer Price: £370
British Army Cap Badges, R Warwicks, R Norfolks, Northants, Machine Gun Corps, RAF s/title, T/RFA/London, plus an assortmnent of WWI War Service lapels WWII ARP lapels and other similar items, good condition (parcel) £40-50
Hammer Price: £100
Irish Regimental Cap Badges, good quality examples 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars (KC lugs c1904-10), North Irish Horse (KC g/m slider), Connaught Rangers (KC gm slider), The Leinsters (bi-m slider), South Irish Horse (correct ‘solid’ type lugs), Royal Dublin Fus (bi-m lugs c1897-1910), Royal Irish Rifles a scarce KC blackened gm now stripped, Royal Ulster Rifles (wm), Inniskilling Fus (bi-m flag left slider), 6th Inniskilling Dragoons (bi-m late but good issue), Royal Munster Fus...
Sweetheart Brooch: miniature Military Cross, G.V.R. in 18ct. gold with silvered obverse, fitted with a gold and enamel brooch bar, in Wilson & Gill, London case, extremely fine and scarce £100-120
Hammer Price: £160
Parachute Maker’s Company Brooches (GQ), in the shape of outstretched wings with central parachute and a figure dependent, the company initials “GQ” near the base of the wings, one in 9ct gold and the other enamelled HM silver both 1989 (Birmingham) and by JR Gaunts & Sons pin backs mint state (2) £40-60
Hammer Price: £65
16th Punjab Regiment, a scarce KC white metal paggri badge c1903-22 crescent cross and quoit with central numerals; 1st Punjab Regiment a KC bi-metal cap badge (lugs broken); Machine Gun Corps a good solid metal gilt officer’s cap badge, three blades (requires cleaning); together with a quantity of mainly unissued buttons including Indian Police (KC) and twenty-four large plated examples to the Sirmoor Rifles (upright P. of Wales’s plumes), (parcel) £40-50
Hammer Price: £55
22nd Indian Cavalry, a brass harness badge of irregular lozenge shape bearing central motif of ‘22’ upon crossed sabres (fasteners intact), a similar shaped heavy brass item to the ‘Guides’ this with battle honours around the edge (excavated fasteners missing); Archaeological Survey Of India, a large heavy brass circular waist belt plate (complete with ‘D’ section) having a central KC mount and title in surround; Forester, Bahawalpurstate No 15, a large rectangular brass waist...
Hammer Price: £150
Sukkur Police, two heavy plated brass rectangular waist belt plates both with central KC mount one with ‘127’ below and the other plain both with unit title above the crown; Muccadum S.D.D. a very large oval heavy brass waist belt plate with impressed title; Baluchistan, a massive brass rectangular waist belt plate with applied white metal mounts a shield indented per fess with two camels in the upper, and large scroll below ‘Baluchistan’ made or retailed by JH Johnson & S... Aligarh...
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Transvaal Cadets, ten white metal KC cap badges (Owen 2901) 20th Company two pairs white metal shoulder titles (Owen 2913); Rand Light Infantry seven brass s/titles c1914 (Owen 2195); Witwatersrand Rifles one pair w/m s/titles ‘Wit. Rifles’ (curved); South African Motor Cycle Corps two pairs brass s/titles (1916-18) wen 2242); The Pretoria Regt (Princess Alice’s Own) three gilding metal cap badges (Owen 675); South African Constabulary two large w/m KC helmet badges, solid centres;...
Hammer Price: £240
Flint-lock Sea Service Pistol c1790-1820, overall length approx 16 inches, standard fittings and brass furniture, iron ring to butt base cap, wooden stock with period bruising and marks, appears to be in good working order, maker’s mark an oval cartouche with worn cypher (?), good condition £300-350
Hammer Price: £320
HMS Naiad 1805, an oak walking stick with applied white metal top, this engraved ‘ HMS Naiad Trafalgar 1805’; Horatio Spencer Nelson, a small bound inventory of family items from the estate of the late The Rev. the Hon. John Horatio Nelson inherited by HSN in 1917, the inventory compiled in 1923; Royal Scots Dragoon Guards a modern gilt band pouch badge; good condition (3) £40-50
Hammer Price: £310
C18th Pewter Plate, 8 inches, with dished central reserve, lined lapped over rim, the obverse large (worn) stamp of a saint with staff within a beaded oval, reverse with two pewterer’s marks, a double cross within laurel sprays and the letter ‘Y’, the other being a tudor rose with lettering beneath (worn), scratches and wear commensurate with age (2) £200-300
Hammer Price: £200
Royal Naval Interest: 1914 Princess Mary’s Gift Tin, complete with original cardboard carton, the greetings card inscribed on reverse, ‘Fleet Surgeon H. S. Burniston, R.N., H.M.S. Warrior, Xmas 1914’, mint condition £80-120
Hammer Price: £80
Second War Marching Compass, by T.G. Co. Ltd., London b229716, 1943 Mark III, dampened mop dial reinforced glass port, thumb ring rotating brass bezel with clamp, minor repairs to one hinge and screw nut replacement; W.W.II Commando Knife, complete with leather scabbard and stated to be the Fairbairn Sykes pattern by William Rodgers Sheffield England, slight knocks and abrasions (2) £100-120
Hammer Price: £95
Portrait Miniatures, a small framed oval example originally for locket use of a late C18th gentleman wearing a red coat blue vest and white stock, would appear to be on ivory, a small mounted oval of a Prussian General c1780-1810 wearing a double breasted blue frock coat with red turn down collar and wearing a large breast star of the Order of the Black Eagle, period frame in ivory and tortoiseshell, stated on the reverse to be General ?Fleuris, a framed roundel of a Light Cavalry man or...
Hammer Price: £270
The Leicestershire Regiment, 2nd Battalion, an attractive depiction, in silk work and metal threads showing the crossed colours post 1902 period with battle honours to 1920, additional Tiger badge with Hindoostan scroll and title scrolls (28” x 23”) retains good colour, contained in a modern Hogarth frame and glazing; a framed sepia photogravure print after the original by J. P. Beadle showing British troops in a rest area close to the Front during the Crossing of the Canal St. Quentin...
Hammer Price: £45
Photographs Leicestershire Units, a good large size original of a mounted Imperial Yeoman, wearing peaked service cap with white cover but with cap badge displayed LIY s/titles and fully equipped with carbine bandolier etc, by Speight (Market) Harboro’, 30 assorted images of WWI soldiers to the Leicestershire Regiment singles and groups; a framed large WWI period ‘silk’ of the regimental colour, a wooden shield with applied QEC coloured badge to the Royal Leicestershire Regt, two cased...
Prints, ‘A 12th Lancer’, a semi-cartoon style depiction of a mounted lancer armed with lance and flourishing a 1798 pattern sabre with which he has just decapitated a French soldier, ‘Pub. as the Act directs 21st June 1826 by D.Ash, 27 Fetter Lane London’; ‘A 17th Light Dragoon’, a similar print the mounted trooper wearing ‘bell-top’ shako etc., a French Cuirassier has just been decapitated, again by Ash of Fetter Lane 1st February 1826, contained in modern glazed frames;...
Hammer Price: £50
Anderson, J. H., Precis of Great Campaigns 1796-1815, London, 1907, viii, 142pp., plus maps; Guy, A. J., The Road to Waterloo, the British Army and the struggle against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815, 1990, 223pp.; Chandler, David, Waterloo, The Hundred Days, 1987, 224pp; Fletcher, I. & Poulter, R., Gentlemen’s Sons, 1992, 249pp., the story of the Guards Regiments in the Napoleonic Wars; Macdonald, Capt. J. A., Troublous Times in Canada, a History of the Fenian Raids of...
Hammer Price: £60
Balmer, Major J. L., British and Irish Regimental & Volunteer Medals 1745-1895, Volume 1, Regular Army, 1988, 309pp.; Hibbard, M. G., Boer War Tribute Medals, 1982, lviii, 240pp., with dustcover, very good condition (2) £40-60
Hammer Price: £40
Cannon, Richard, Historical Record of the Seventeenth or Leicestershire Regiment of Foot ... 1688 to 1848, London, 1848, vii, 56pp., red cloth; Webb, Lt-Col. E. A. H., A History of the Services of the 17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment ... 1868-1910, London, 1911, xxvii, 322pp., red cloth; Wylly, Col. H. C., History of the 1st & 2nd Battalions Leicestershire Regiment in the Great War, 125pp., green cloth; Underhill, Brig. W. E. (Editor), The Royal Leicestershire Regiment ... 1928-1956,...
The Register of the Victoria Cross, 1981, with dustcover; The Register of the George Cross, 1985, with dustcover; Creagh, Sir O’Moore and Humphris, E. M., The Distinguished Service Order 1886-1923, Hayward & Son, 1978, parts 1 & 2 in one volume, with cellophane dustcover; Henderson G.M., D. V., Heroic Endeavour, a register of the Albert, Edward and Empire Gallantry Medals; Webb, J. V., Recipients of Bars to the Military Cross 1916-1920, with cellophane dustcover; Abbott, P. E., Recipients...
Everson, G. R., The South Africa 1853 Medal, with dustcover; Lummis, W. M. & Wynn, K. G., Honour the Light Brigade, with dustcover; Mackinnon, J. P. & Shadbolt, S. H., The South African Campaign of 1879, with dustcover; Shadbolt, S. H., The Afghan Campaign of 1878-1880, with dustcover; Farrington, A., The Second Afghan War 1878-1880 Casualty Roll, with dustcover; Maurice, Col. J. F., The Campaign of 1882 in Egypt, with dustcover; Webb, J. V., The Abu Klea Rolls; McInnes, I. & Fraser, M.,...
Hammer Price: £180
Gardyne, Lieut.-Col. C. Greenhill, The Life of a Regiment, The History of the Gordon Highlanders from its Formation in 1794 to 1816, (Vol.I), Medici Society, 1929, xx, 438pp., plus plates and maps, green cloth, minor staining to cover, very good condition; Gardyne, Lieut.-Col. C. Greenhill, The Life of a Regiment, The History of the Gordon Highlanders from 1816 to 1898, including an account of the 75th Regiment from 1787 to 1898, (Vol.II), Medici Society, 1929, xxiv, 346pp., plus maps, green...
Hammer Price: £35
Gardyne, Lieut.-Col. C. Greenhill, The Life of a Regiment, The History of the Gordon Highlanders, Volume III, from 1898 to 1914, Leo Cooper, London, 1972, xix, 522pp., plus plates, green cloth; Miles, Wilfred, The Life of a Regiment, The Gordon Highlanders, Volume V, 1919-1945, Frederick Warne, 1980, xv, 422pp., plus plates, green cloth, with dustcover, very good condition (2) £30-40
Gilbert, S. H., Rhodesia & After, the story of the 17th & 18th Battalions of Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, 1st edition, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, London, 1901, autographed by the author, 350pp., plus plates, original white buckram; Codrington, Col. Sir Geoffrey, An Outline of the History of the Leicestershire (Prince Albert’s Own) Yeomanry, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955, 61pp., red boards; Standing Orders of the Leicestershire (Prince Albert’s Own) Yeomanry, 1928, 95pp.,...
Joslin, E. C., Litherland, A. R. & Simpkin, B. T., British Battles and Medals, London, 1988, viii, 299pp., plus colour ribbon chart, with dustcover; plus addendum Spring 1989; Douglas-Morris, K., Naval Medals 1857-1880, London, 1994, xxii, 436pp., blue boards, in slip-case; Creagh, Sir O’Moore and Humphris, E. M., The Distinguished Service Order 1886-1923, Hayward & Son, 1978, parts 1 & 2 in one volume, with cellophane dustcover; Walker, R. W., Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal...
Hammer Price: £75
Joslin, E. C., Litherland, A. R. & Simpkin, B.T., British Battles and Medals, Spink, 1988, 299pp., with dustcover; Gordon, Major L. L., British Battles and Medals, 5th edition, Spink, 1979, 437pp., with dustcover; Taprell Dorling, H., Ribbons and Medals, Spink 1974, 359pp., with dustcover; Abbott, P. E. & Tamplin, J. M. A., British Gallantry Awards (2), 1971 edition, 359pp.; 1981 edition, 316pp., both with dustcovers; Drew, Lieut-Gen. Sir Robert, Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services...
Kipling, A. L. & King, H. L., Head-Dress Badges of the British Army, Vol. 1, up to the end of the Great War, 1980 reprint, 479pp.; Westlake, R. A., Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles, 1980, 187pp.; Rosignoli, G., Badges and Insignia of World War II, Air Force, Naval, Marine, 1983 reprint, 363pp.; Baker, A., Battle Honours of the British and Commonwealth Armies, 1986, 398pp.; James, Brig. E. A., British Regiments 1914-18, Haythornthwaite, P. & Chappell, M., Uniforms of the Peninsular War...
McInnes, I., The Annuity Meritorious Service Medal 1847-1953, 1995, 450pp., boards and cased; Sainsbury, Major J. D., For Gallantry in the Performance of Military Duty, 1969, 63pp., card cover; McInnes, I., The Meritorious Service Medal, The Immediate Awards 1916-1928, 1992, 511pp., boards, with dustcover; McInnes, I. & Gregson, J. B., The Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 1830-1848, 1995, 290pp., number 28 of 300 copies, signed by authors, leather covered boards and cased; McInnes,...
Mayo, J. H., Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, Westminster, 1897, in 2 volumes, lxxxviii, 617pp, with colour plates, smartly rebound in red buckram with gilt titles, original gilt upper page ends, in excellent condition overall (2) £100-120
Milne, J., Footprints of the 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment, 1914-1918, 1935, xii, 158pp., paperback; Hills, Capt. J. D., The Fifth Leicestershire, a record of the 1/5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, T.F. during the Great War, Loughborough, 1919, 379pp., red cloth; Richardson, M., The Tigers, 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th (Service) Battalions of the Leicestershire Regiment, 2000, 288pp., red boards with dustcover; Priestley, Major R. E., Breaching the Hindenburg Line, the story of the 46th (North...
Mullen, A. L. T., The Military General Service Roll 1793-1814, London Stamp Exchange, 1990, 726pp; Gould, R. W. & Douglas-Morris, Captain K. J., The Army of India Medal Roll 1799-1826; Hayward & Son, 1974, 123pp., with cellophane dustcover; Everson, G. R., The South Africa 1853 Medal, Samson, 1978, 155pp, with dustcover, very good condition (3) £50-70
Patterson, S., Royal Insignia, British and Foreign Orders from the Royal Collection, London, 1996; Galloway, P., The Most Illustrious Order, The Order of Saint Patrick and Its Knights, London, 1999; Risk, J. C., The History of The Order of the Bath, London, 1972; Thorpe, A. W. (Ed.), Burke’s Handbook of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, London, 1921, original leather binding with gilt badge of the Order to front cover, and gilt titles, top of spine a little distressed and...
Priestley, Major R. E., Breaking the Hindenburg Line, The Story of the 46th (North Midland) Division, Unwin, London, 1st edition, 1919, 200pp., plus 2 folding maps, original blue cloth; Kelly, D. V., 39 Months, with the “Tigers” 1915-1918, Benn, London, 1st edition, 1930, xiv, 160pp., green cloth; Jamie, Lt-Col. J. P. W., The 177th Brigade, Leicester, 1931, 73pp., green cloth; Thompson, E. J., The Leicestershires Beyond Baghdad, London, 1st edition, 1919, 156pp., red boards; The Tiger...
Tamplin, J. M. A., Spink Booklets Nos. 1-12, The Imperial Yeomanry Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; The Militia Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; The Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; The Volunteer Officers’ Decoration; The Volunteer Long Service Medal; The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration and The India Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration; The Territorial Decoration 1908-1930; The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal; The Territorial...
Taprell Dorling, H., Ribbons and Medals, Osprey, 1983, Purves, A. A., The Medals, Decorations & Orders of the Great War 1914-1918; Purves, A. A., The Medals, Decorations & Orders of World War II 1939-1945, these with dustcovers; Mericka, V, Orders and Decorations, 1967, 315pp.; Simenstad, A., Norwegian War Decorations awarded to members of the British Armed Forces, with dustcover; Brough, R., White Russian Awards to British & Commonwealth Servicemen during the Allied Intervention in Russia...
Tyrrell, Henry, The History of the Present War with Russia, giving full details of the Operations of the Allied Armies, London Printing and Publishing Co., 1855-56, 6 volume set, 1100pp., plus chronological precis of the events of the war and index, xxxix, plus many full page steel engraved plates of celebrated commanders, events and maps, red boards with gilt titles and ornamentation, covers worn, covers and interior water stained, fairly good condition (6) £50-70
Werlich, R., Orders and Decorations of All Nations, Washington D.C., 1990 (2nd edition), virtually unused £30-40
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