Auction Catalogue

29 June 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Lot

№ 1568

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29 June 2006

Hammer Price:
£340

British Army Cap Badges, a small collection of good quality items, comprising Isle of Wight Rifles osd blades, Gloucestershire Regiment osd blades, RE’s EVIIIR osd fretted blades, FANY Womens’ Transport Service osd large lugs, Inns of Court Reserve Corps bronze lugs, Lincs Yeomanry die-stamped bronze (some rubbing), R Irish Regiment cast osd long lugs, 23rd Hussars officer’s silver/gilt by JR Gaunt & Son marked ‘S’, 5th R Irish Lancers o/r bi-metal (re-lugged), 25th Dragoons officer’s gilt/silver plate riveted, 6th Bn London Regt o/r black KC, 6th Bn Hampshire Regt o/r bi-metal slider, The Leinster Regt o/r bi-metal slider, Manchester Regt pre 1923 o/r bi-metal, 4th RI Dragoon Guards o/r bi-metal (slider removed brooch fitting), Oxfordshire LI o/r w/m (two ‘black’ lugs N&S), 7th Bn London Regt o/r bi-metal riveted mount, R Munster Fus o/r bi-metal, 8th KR Irish Hussars KC o/r bi-metal, Royal Marine Artillery o/r brass fused grenade, City of London Yeomanry (large size) o/r bi-metal slider missing lugs fitted; together with a Natal Police o/r g/m KC cap badge, 56th Indian Army (Frontier Force) an HM silver Birm 1916 officer’s field service cap badge pin back, 13th DCO Lancers cap/collar badge KC in gilt/silver (four lugs), unidentified Indian Army item being a blackened brass ‘open’ style strung bugle horn two lugs, Grenadier Guards good quality sweetheart’s silver coloured metal brooch (grenade with ‘GG’ left and right) pin missing; Popski’s Private Army a HM silver (Birm 1977) commemorative cap badge by London Badge & Button Co marked ‘72’, good condition overall (27) £360-400