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Royal Artillery Sweetheart Brooches, a fine 9ct gold example featuring crossed arrows and a heart plus the RA badge, an unmarked gold coloured metal example with blue enamel ‘Ubique’ scroll engraved on the reverse ‘1908’ ‘B.C from F.C.J’, four silver and tortoiseshell circular examples all with ‘cap badge’ style motif; a very fine painted porcelain oval panel depicting a standing RA officer in full dress against a landscape background, the base metal frame set with 12 paste...
Hammer Price: £120
Royal Field Artillery Sweethearts’ Brooches, six KC period rococo shield types, four in base metal with white faces and coloured designs, one smaller in Sterling Silver and enamels, and a very fine example in silver with pale green enamel face and enamelled designs; a heavy eight pointed star example in silver (lion passant only) this with mounts ‘Ubique’, the cannon and ‘80th Battery RFA’ bottom scroll, very good condition (7) £80-120
Bombardment of Hartlepool 16 December 1914, two fine and scarce commemorative items, both sold to raise funds for local hospitals, the first a bar brooch in gilt metal and enamels depicts a coastal scene with casualties being assisted away, scrolls and the border inscribed ‘Thank Offering to the Hartlepools Hospitals For Services Rendered Dec 16th 1914’; the second of medal format with narrow crimson silk ribbon in base metal and enamels ‘Ye did it to mine’ ‘Ye did it to me’...
Hammer Price: £70
The King’s German Legion, 1st & 2nd Dragoon Regiments, a most rare and probably unique offiicer’s frontal plate for the 1818 pattern heavy cavalry helmet, in die-stamped hallmarked silver, London 1818, maker’s mark ‘J (?) A’, the multi rayed plate with raised designs comprising the Royal Arms of Great Britain (1813-37), a Guelphic crown, and four battle honour scrolls ‘Peninsula’, ‘Waterloo’, ‘Garzia’ ‘Hernandez’, the plate retains its convex shape, three ray...
Hammer Price: £2,100
Russian Helmet Finial, 53mm. high, silver-gilt, in the form of a triple-headed Russian eagle, screw fitting at base; Badge for Graduates of the Michael Artillery School, 35 x 30mm., silver and silver-gilt, with pin-fitting, ref. A/W 132, P.& B. 1.4.5., good very fine (2) £300-400
Hammer Price: £500
Highland Light Infantry Interest, a fine water-colour by Richard Simkin (22.5cm x 25cm), the full dress uniforms, c.1890, are depicted, two officers (front and rear) and a Piper in the foreground and a further nine figures in the background, including a Sergeant, signed and entitled ‘The Highland Light Infantry’ and with the number ‘113’, enclosed in an attractive double mount and framed and glazed, good condition £500-600
£500–£600
Buttons, British Army, a carded display of officers’ large tunic 1855-81 issues, a very fine and comprehensive collection from 1st Foot to the 109th inclusive, plus the following variants: both 1st Foot, facing pairs to the 5th & 8th Ft, 11th ‘North Devon’ & ‘Regiment’, 21st with and without scalloped edge, both 23rds (the XXIII type possibly a last pattern coatee), both 42nds, 43rd laurels and bugle horn type (with and without rim), three patterns 65th (one of the ‘Tiger’...
Hammer Price: £1,500
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...
Hammer Price: £340
Gold Coast Geological Survey, a fine quality cast gilt KC pagri badge by ‘Firmin London & Birmingham’, central reserve depicts an elephant and palm tree, title circle ‘Gold Coast’ ‘Geological Survey’, with crossed hammers between the two legends, original pin back, very good condition £50-70
Hammer Price: £360
Buttons, British Army, a carded display of large size infantry buttons 1881-1970, the vast majority being officers’ (no anodised), all QVC issues including the scarce West Surrey, both early East Yorks, KOB 1881-87, Inniskilling Fus rare gilt mess waiters, both early DCLI, Border Regt 1881-84, early Essex, Dorsets 1st Bn mess waiter’s, Berkshire 1881-85, early South Yorks LI, all three Connaughts plus mess waiter’s, other items include post 1908 Territorial Regiments (Monmouths is a...
Hammer Price: £350
Buttons, British Army, 1855-81 officers’ large tunic issues 84th (2), 33rd, 91st (first pattern), 51st (laurels), 65th (‘65’), 39th, 62nd, 61st, 93rd, 53rd, 102nd (2), 103rd, 100th, 104th, 87th (2), 88th (coatee style), 21st (not scalloped), 68th, 63rd, 35th, 76th, 58th, 11th (Regiment), 46th (2), 31st, 37th, 44th, 96th (2), 64th, 86th, 38th, 80th (all good condition), 19th, 84th, 80th, 89th (coronet), 41st, 37th (plated), 106th, 16th, 17th, 32nd, 66th, 48th (with torse), 81st, 61st,...
Hammer Price: £620
Buttons, British Army, a large selection of post 1881 infantry officers’ buttons (QVCs and most distinctive patterns of the period), scarcer items include early South Yorks LI (4), DCLI (first type large and small ) second type (2 large), KOB (2), Connaughts (first 2), Connaughts (second 1 QVC 2 KC and a large KC o/r), Border Regt (1881-84), R Irish (2 QVC one KC); other items include Leinsters (5), 2nd West Indies Regt, 3rd Guernsey LI Militia, Oxford Military College, 9th Bn HLI...
Hammer Price: £310
Buttons, British Army, a large assortment of officers and other ranks tunic buttons, KC period, infantry & Guards; QVC to QEC, Corps & Departments, Yeomanry (KC QEC), Cavalry (mainly o/r KC QEC) plus various civilian items, virtually no anodised, good to rubbed condition (600+) £60-80
Hammer Price: £150
British Army Cap Badges, Reproductions, a large assortment, sold as viewed (175+) £100-150
British Army Cap/Collar Badges, 85+ o/r line infantry mainly KC period good quality caps, some duplication, five osd collars including a pair of Buffs, assorted o/r collars and s/titles; territorials Herts Regt, 15/16th London (KC & QEC), 23rd, 13th, 15th (2), 11th, and 19th Bns London Regt, HAC gun and grenade, a genuine ‘NCLC’ cap with slider, Tyneside Scottish (two feet on tower pin back), 8th Irish Bn King’s Liverpool (blackened brass), 6th Bn Liverpool (fractured), Cambridgeshire...
Hammer Price: £260
British Army Cap Badges, an assortment of cavalry and yeomanry items mainly KC period but a few QEC, no anodised, with a few associated collar badges, some lugs missing, sold as viewed (60+) £180-220
Hammer Price: £240
British Army Cap Badges, a large assortment of Corps & Department items KC to QEC period (no anodised), including RE EVIIR, Machine Gun Corps, Army Cyclist Corps, AOC (shield), Army Chaplain’s Dept, APTC, RAVC (KC), Sandhurst NCO’s (GVR), Sandhurst Cadets (w/m GVIR), Army Education Corps, Army Dental Corps, AVC (Indian cast example), Reccy Corps, Royal Military School of Music (KC), Military Foot Police, WAAC (No G8954), Parachute Regt (KC), together with a few overseas items including...
Hammer Price: £140
Royal Naval Interest, a suite of items pertaining to Lieutenant, later Rear-Admiral W. J. Munn, R.N., KC period full dress cocked hat, epaulettes and waist belt/sword slings, plus an undress belt with sword slings and a small box containing some spare black braid and gold lace, all pertaining to Lieutenant W. J. Munn, R.N.; together with his GVR period full dress sword and scabbard, this with raised panel on the blade ‘W. J. MUNN Sepr 1st 1931’, complete with dress sword knot and brown...
Hammer Price: £600
WWI Aviation Interest, a plated metal model of a Hawker Hart bi-plane, complete with movable propellor, fixed undercarriage etc., painted roundels and tailplane decal, approximately 7” x 6”, mounted on attractively turned mahogany base, slight loss to the finish, otherwise good condition £50-100
Hammer Price: £220
Royal Naval French Revolutionary War Period Silver, an historic presentation visiting card salver, hallmarked London 1802, by ‘WB’, of oval shape with four pad-foot bracket shaped feet, the rim of raised reeded design, the central reserve with engraved outer decorative band and an inner one enclosing the badge of a phoenix rising from the flames, the reverse engraved ‘Presented by the Bengal Phoenix Insurance Society To Captn P Gordon of the Wellesley for defending that Ship against a...
Hammer Price: £550
Royal West Kent Regiment, a scarce other ranks white metal QVC glengarry badge to the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, and a similar blackened brass QVC issue to the 1st Volunteer Battalion (unvoided centre); together with a very scarce other ranks blackened brass forage cap badge to the 2nd Volunteer Battalion c1898-1908, standard pattern style badge with small ‘2nd VB’ tablet below ‘Kent’, two loop fasteners, one lug missing and one replaced on the first item, otherwise good condition (3) ...
Hammer Price: £210
Royal West Kent Regiment, two scarce other ranks white metal QVC helmet plates to the 1st & 4th Volunteer Battalions respectively, c1883-1902, complete with all lugs, top jewel of the crown missing on the latter item, otherwise very good condition (2) £130-150
Royal West Kent Regiment, 1st Volunteer Battalion, a fine quality officer’s silver plated two part pouch belt plate, c1883-1902, a crowned cross of the Order of the Bath style with central White Horse and ‘Invicta’ scroll within a title circle ‘Royal West Kent Regt’ ‘1st Volr Battn’, three screw fasteners; East Kent Rifles, an other ranks QVC brass (originally blackened) cross pattern helmet plate, c1878-83, all three lugs missing, some finial points buckled on the latter item,...
Kent Rifle Volunteers Interest, a fine quality baluster shaped pewter tankard with part glass base, engraved with a circular strap and inner legend ‘44th KRV Competed for by the 2nd Class Won by Sergt Hale 1862’; another pewter tankard with glass base and decorative banding, the central one engraved ‘1st KRV Band Prize John Scoles 1871’, the first item with accompanying handwritten and photostat notes concerning the 44th (Lamberhurst) Kent RVs, good condition (2) £60-80
£60–£80
Royal West Kent Regiment, 1st Volunteer Battalion, a silver plated tankard engraved ‘R.M.T. 1890 Bayonet Exercise Auxiliaries First Prize Privt A. L. Woods A&B Cos 1st Vol Batt Q.O. Royal West Kent Regt’; a tapered ram’s horn beaker with plated top band engraved ‘R.M.T. 1891 Bayonet Exercise 2nd Prize’, good condition (2) £30-40
Hammer Price: £50
The Bedfordshire Regiment, a superb example of the officers’ forage cap badge 1881-97, gilt cross and star with central silver Hart and water butt, gilt reeds on a background of blue enamel, silver scroll at the base ‘Bedfordshire’, two lug fasteners, mint state £120-150
Hammer Price: £100
King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, a fine and scarce example of the officers’ forage cap badge 1881-97, large diamond-cut silver star with circular gilt mount ‘Shropshire’ and central device on a raised green enamel ground of a silver bugle horn ‘KLI’ within the strings, two lug fasteners, a small silver coloured metal officer’s side hat badge being a bugle horn with KLI within the strings, two long lug fasteners, an osd bronze cap badge (blades), and one only same size collar...
The Rifle Brigade, a very fine hall-marked silver two-part officer’s Foreign Service helmet pagri badge, Guelphic crown and honours to the Crimea, pin fastener, the back plate is secured via four ‘blind’ nuts (one missing) by Bent & Parker, Birmingham, either 1893 or 1899 (date letter mis-struck,) very fine condition £80-120
85th Burma Rifles, a scarce officer’s KC pagri badge in solid cast Indian silver, crown over a strung bugle horn with ‘85’ between the strings, stout pin fastener; Hampshire Regiment, an officer’s osd cap KC, c1902-46; Plantagenet Society (?), a very fine ‘Founder’s Badge’, the early English crown over the Garter with central shield bearing the Royal Arms of the Plantagenet period, all in fine enamels with gilt metal pin fastener; Devon Constabulary, a current chromed helmet...
Hammer Price: £190
British Indian Army Badges, 125th (Napier’s Rifles), a pair of osd facing collar badges (one lug missing) (Cox 2568); 121st Pioneers, a fine officer’s gilt/silver pagri badge (Cox 2561) (orb and cross missing and pin back); 14th Punjab Regiment, post 1922, a large cast brass pouch or pouch belt badge, KC over a star with central ‘14’, scroll at base ‘Punjab Regiment’ (screw post missing); 16th Punjab Regiment, a small white metal side hat badge, KC over a cross and crescent with...
Hammer Price: £160
British Indian Cavalry Badges, 5th Bengal Cavalry a scarce, possibly pre-Mutiny, excavated horse harness badge, Guelphic crown over a title strap with central ‘V’, one fastener stud missing; 19th King George’s Own Lancers, a scarce cast gilt brass pouch badge, crown over ‘19’ over ‘GRI’ upon crossed lances, scroll at base ‘King George’s Own Lancers, four crew fasteners; another cast gilt pouch badge, ‘19’ upon crossed lancers with KC above, title scroll at base as...
Sukkur Police, a large rectangular waist belt plate, white metal on brass, central KC with ‘Sukkur Police’ above and ‘302’ below; (Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir) Kashmir Lancers, a good quality pagri badge in white metal on sheet brass backing, original fasteners (central design Cox 2617); Larkana Police, a solid cast iron horse harness badge, circular scalloped outline with plain convex centre and title ‘Larkana Police’, four blade fasteners; Nagpur Rifle Volunteers, two pairs and...
Hammer Price: £130
42nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot, an historic bandsman’s dirk c1815, semi-relic state, the plain blade in quite good condition and with fighting point, the remains of the shaped baluster handle carved and with pin decoration, the knop missing, the iron scabbard with only traces of the leather covering bears three decorated brass chapes, at the top ‘42’ over thistle sprays enclosing St Andrew, the middle and lower ones with thistle sprays, the reverse of the middle one finely engraved...
Hammer Price: £1,200
Georgian Baggage Warrants, six official warrants issued by the ‘Town or Borough of Stamford In the County of Lincoln’, the earliest 12 January 1808, addressed to Mrs Anne Greenwood via the hand of the Constable of ‘All Saints’ Parish requiring her to furnish ‘One cart’ by ‘Wednesday next by six o’clock in the Morning with a sufficient number of horses to go to Stilton in the County of Huntingdon to carry the Baggage of the Fifeshire Regiment of Militia for His Majesty’s...
Prince Alfred’s Guard, a fine quality other ranks die-stamped white metal helmet plate 1874-90’s (Owen 40), a bi-metal helmet plate c1897-1939 (Owen 42), a bronze helmet plate with pin fastener 1940-43 (Owen 46), and a bi-metal sporran badge or cap badge c1903-34 (Owen 50); Cape Town Highlanders, a cast white metal and brass helmet/tam o’shanter badge 1902 to date (Owen 220); two variable quality cap badges Regiment President Steyn Bloemfontein, a cast brass depiction of the Royal Arms...
Hammer Price: £110
Diamond Fields Horse, a scarce good quality white metal forage cap badge pre-1897 (Owen 186); Natal Mounted Rifles, a fine white metal helmet badge c1922-43 (Owen 474); Natal Carbineers, a fine white metal KC smasher hat badge (Owen 363), near mint state (3) £80-120
Royal Army Medical Corps, a very fine officer’s shoulder belt and pouch 1911-36, the black leather pouch with central gilt crowned GVR cypher and double band of gold wire decoration, the belt with triple lines of gold wire decoration and gilt metal buckle tip and slide, near mint state (2) £80-120
Hammer Price: £80
The Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), a fine quality other ranks helmet plate centre 1881-1914 (all four lugs present), a good quality other ranks cap badge c1898-1910 (lugs); Royal Munster Fusiliers, o/r bi-metal cap badge (slider); 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards, o/r bi-metal KC cap badge (slider); Middlesex Imperial Yeomanry, a good white metal cap badge, long slider (Woodward B’ham); 2nd Life Guards, o/r g/m GVR cap badge (slider); King...
The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment, an officer’s blue cloth home service pattern helmet, bearing the KC silver plated helmet plate c1902-08, complete with all relevant plated fittings, internally sweat band only present, the cloth covering devoid of all nap, the front peak metal trim cracked at the point, rear peak missing some of the leather trim, the thread on the spike part stripped and the plate not original to the helmet £250-300
Assorted Military Insignia, a General officer’s scarlet and gold thread gorget patches, three pairs gilt (rubbed) shoulder rank insignia and assorted tunic buttons (rubbed); nine large gilt (rubbed) livery buttons showing a boar passant its right leg upon a spur; five plated fiddle pattern dessert forks engraved to the ‘5th R.W.K.’; white metal caps to the West Kents and the Volunteer Artillery, a similar o/r large tunic button to the East Devon Militia; a plated white enamel faced...
Hammer Price: £95
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