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29 June 2006
Buttons, Royal Artillery and Royal Irish Artillery, a very rare officer’s gilt convex open back showing the usual Ordnance shield c1790-1810 but with a ‘3’ above the shield, no back mark, possibly worn by the 3rd Battalion RA but a similar type also used by some HEIC units (Litchfield r3) vgc; Royal Irish Artillery, on a separate establishment until 1801, an excavated example of (Litchfield r4) displaying the crown over the Harp & Maid over a cannon, around the edge ‘Royal Irish...
Hammer Price: £140
Buttons Assorted British, a very good stock selection from the’VR’ period down to present day including anodised, good overall condition (750+) £70-90
Warwickshire Royal Horse Artillery (TF), a most rare officer’s cast bronze service dress cap badge c1908 (KK823), top scroll ‘Warwickshire’ bottom ‘Royal Horse Artillery’, double wheel, two blade fasteners, very good condition £200-250
Volunteer or Militia Artillery Officers’ Grenade Plume Holders, two very fine examples in silver plate the first with narrow flames, the ball with applied mounts comprising the QVC Royal Arms, a cannon and scroll ‘Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt’, the second with broader flames, similar mounts but the cannon of a different pattern and a small blank scroll above the cannon, complete with holders and sliders stated to be c1881-90, very fine condition (2) £160-220
Buttons, Indian Army, a selection of officers’ coatee buttons, large examples to the 17th, 25th, 38th, 44th, 46th, 56th, & 57th Bengal NI, a large early example to the 51st Bengal NI, a large example to the Bombay Artillery and similar to the Madras Engineers, 3 variable small to the Bengal Artillery (one open back) and a small to the Bombay Artillery, good overall condition (14) £80-120
Hammer Price: £130
Royal Regiment of Artillery, a very rare Sealed Pattern senior NCO’s arm badge, KC over GVIR over a cannon, in gold thread, sealed 23.3.37, headed ‘Stores and Clothing Inspection Division, mint state £80-120
Buttons, Volunteer Artillery, 1st Essex AV, a large and small white metal other ranks tunic, a small officer’s plated tunic; 2nd Essex AV, a very rare off icer’s plated ball pattern (Lv14&15); 1st London AV, a large other ranks white metal tunic (Lv26); Tower Hamlets AV, a small white metal other ranks tunic (Lv36), very good condition (6) £60-80
Cadet Norfolk Artillery, a very rare other ranks gilding metal cap badge, within a circle inscribed ‘Cadet Norfolk Artillery’ a shield bearing the arms of the City of Norwich, at the base a scroll ‘Multum in Parvo’, two lug fasteners, excellent condition £60-80
Royal Regiment of Artillery, three very fine gilt badges stated to be officers’ pagri badges c1900, the format being that of the Grenadier Guards, all with slightly varying numbers of flames, eight quite variable officers’ field service hat badges c1894 to present day, format being the fused grenade over a scroll ‘Ubique’ (one without scroll), including a very scarce WW2 period unofficial type, this being in gold wire and brown silks all on a khaki backing; an other ranks bakelite...
Suffolk Artillery Volunteers, a scarce other ranks white metal grenade plume holder, the ball with applied mounts comprising a cannon over script capitals ‘SAV’, complete with holder and slider, very good condition £150-200
Volunteer Artillery Other Ranks Grenade Plume Holders, General Patterns, two examples in die-stamped white metal displaying a central cannon within laurel sprays; together with two further white metal QVC types displaying the Royal Arms over a cannon, one of which bears the scroll ‘Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt’, all complete with holders and sliders, very good condition (4) £120-150
Militia Artillery Cinque Ports Division, a fine and scarce officer’s helmet plate or undress sabretache badge in die-stamped copper gilt, the QVC Royal Arms with cannon and title scroll ‘Cinque Ports Division’, laurel sprays in place of Ubique, three screw posts to reverse 1882-89, expertly regilded very good condition £150-200
Buttons British Army, a large selection of OTC and cadets items, including a few Victorian examples, Oxford Military College, Scottish Cadets (piper’s diamond pattern) mixed sizes and down to the anodised period, good overall condition (280+) £50-60
Hammer Price: £120
7th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, a very rare officer’s die-stamped forage cap badge in white metal, being a fused grenade with large central ‘7’, two loop fasteners, mint state £150-200
Buttons, Volunteer Artillery, 1st Hampshire Artillery Volunteers, a large plated officer’s tunic; 2nd Hampshire AVs, a large and a small plated officer’s tunic (grenade with ‘2’ centre); 1st Admin Brigade/2nd Hampshire AVs, a very rare small officer’s plated tunic (cannon centre); Cinque Ports AV, a large and a small other ranks white metal tunics (Litchfield v7), good overall condition (6) £60-80
West Riding Royal Horse Artillery (TF), a very scarce other ranks gilding metal cap badge c1908, top scroll ‘West Riding’ bottom ‘Royal Horse Artillery’, two lug fasteners at the extremities of the bottom scroll; West Riding Brigade Royal Field Artillery (TF) (possibly 7th-9th Batteries) a scarce other ranks gilding metal cap badge c1908, top scroll ‘W.Riding’ bottom ‘Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt’, slider fastener, very good condition (2) £120-150
Volunteer Artillery, four very fine cap badges c1902-08, all standard RA pattern but with top scroll ‘Volunteer/Volunteers’, two osd with and without the top ‘s’, a very fine officer’s No.1 Dress in silver plate with ‘s’, and a fine quality other ranks white metal (double wheel) ‘Volunteer’, all fasteners present except for one blade on an osd, very good condition (4) £200-240
Royal Horse Artillery Indian Servants’ Badges, a very fine sheet silver item to ‘S’ Battery RHA 1899-1901, being the Royal Crest over a strap engraved ‘Royal Horse Artillery’, in the fretted centre an ornate ‘S’, three small holes for attachment (the lion’s tail on the crest missing); a fine cast silver item to ‘D’ Battery B Brigade RHA 1877-89, a cannon with linstock over a scroll ‘D/BRHA’, fastener part fractured, good condition (2) £60-80
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...
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
Volunteer Artillery Lancashire Division, a fine and very rare officer’s silver plated helmet plate 1882-91, standard QVC Royal Arms plate with laurel scroll and ‘Lancashire Division’ bottom scroll, excellent condition £200-250
Buttons British Army, Guards Regiments a large selection, Victorian Period down to present day, officers and other ranks, large and small, good overall condition (240+) £60-80
Hammer Price: £110
Buttons, Royal Horse Artillery, a good selection from the ‘VR’ period down to present day, some 30+ varieties, together with 36 variable general patterns to the Militia and Volunteer Artilleries, officers’ and other ranks; HAC, a good selection of officers’ and other ranks examples, ‘VR’ period down to present day; together with 30+ examples to the Royal Naval Artillery, Royal Artillery, hunt, blazer etc., good overall condition (136+) £60-80
Buttons, Volunteer Artillery, Berwick-on-Tweed AV, a large plated officer’s and a similar white metal other ranks large tunics and a small white metal tunic; Rothesay Artillery Volunteers (?) a very large size open back pewter example c1794-1815, the crown over a thistle spray with script ‘RAV’ at the base around the rim the motto in Gaelic (Highlanders Stand Shoulder to Shoulder) original soft iron shank, good overall condition (4) £100-120
Buttons Volunteer artillery, Kent AV, a plated large tunic a large and small white metal tunic and a rare plated full ball pattern; 1st Suffolk AV, a large white metal (now plated) tunic; ‘SAV’, a large white metal tunic crown over script ‘SAV’ all within oak sprays; Norfolk Cadet Artillery, a large and small other ranks brass tunic; together with five various general pattern items, one with dented reverse, otherwise good overall condition (13) £70-90
Buttons Assorted British, a large stock selection, ‘VR’ period down to present day including some anodised and many small issues, good overall condition (600+) £50-60
3rd Middlesex RGA Volunteers, two fine and rare other ranks white metal cap badges 1902-08 (KK847) one with double wheel and lugs behind the top scroll, the other with single wheel and lugs at the extremities of the bottom scroll, title structure identical, excellent condition (2) £140-160
4th W. Riding of Yorkshire RGA Volunteers, a most rare officer’s die-stamped silver plate cap badge 1902-08, top scroll ‘4th W. Riding’ bottom ‘Yorkshire R.G.A. Volunteers’, provision for ‘extra’ wheel (missing), fasteners being a top sprung clip (part missing) and bottom short blade, very good condition £150-200
Royal Artillery Cadet Companies, a scarce other ranks gilding metal cap badge (KK810) top scroll ‘Cadet’; Territorial Artillery, a fine quality osd bronze cap badge with laurel top scroll, an other ranks gilding metal cap with an ‘official’ blank top scroll, a heavy cast brass cap badge (double wheel) top scroll probably regimentally erased, two fine quality officers’ silver plated No.1 Dress caps but with ‘Ubique’ top scroll (one blade missing on one), a curious ‘hybrid’...
National Artillery Association King’s Prize Awards, a collection of eighteen small fob size examples, covering a variety of years 1913-38, plus one only larger version with ornate border scrolls and cannon, the great majority hallmarked and one or two with extra engraving, including one to 4th Coy Hants RGA, a few with surface wear, otherwise very good condition (19) £180-220
Buttons British Army & Court, a large assortment of General Officers, Royal Arms, Court Dress etc., etc., Victorian period to E11R, all metal, including some EVIIIR examples, large and small, officers and other ranks qualities, good overall condition (350+) £70-90
Hammer Price: £100
Volunteer Artillery General Pattern Plume Holders, an extremely fine and scarce officers’ silver plated example c1901-08, the grenade with narrow flames and applied KC Royal Arms etc., to the ball; the second an other ranks pattern in die-stamped white metal, the ball with central cannon and laurel sprays, complete with holders and fasteners, very good condition (2) £160-200
Militia Artillery, a very rare other ranks general pattern helmet plate c1853-56, in die-stamped white metal for use on the leather helmet, a crowned rococo shield with central fused grenade and crossed cannon barrels below, three blade fasteners, one blade fastener missing, otherwise very good condition £150-200
Royal Horse Artillery, the important Field Service Cap of the late Major John Wainwright Hopkins, the cap in navy blue and scarlet cloth, the curtain and crown embellished with gold cord, two small gilt KC buttons to the front, the large cap badge of padded format in gold thread, crimson velvet, blue silk and red cloth shows the KC over the Garter Motto enclosing GVIR below a scroll ‘Royal Horse Artillery’ original trade label for ‘Hawkes Co. Ltd. 1 Savile Row London W1’ and named...
Hammer Price: £90
Militia Artillery Northern Division, a very scarce officers’ copper gilt helmet plate 1882-89, the QVC Royal Arms, cannon and scroll ‘Northern Division’, three loop fasteners, expertly regilded £150-200
Militia Artillery Permanent Staff, a very scarce other ranks gilding metal helmet plate 1882-1900, QVC Royal Arms, top scroll omitted, cannon and bottom scroll ‘Militia Artillery’, two loop fasteners; Militia Artillery, a scarce other ranks gilding metal helmet plate, QVC Royal Arms, top scroll area blank, cannon, bottom scroll ‘Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt’, c1882-1900?, three loop fasteners; a similar QVC helmet plate in gilding metal but with ‘Ubique’ scroll and applied white...
Buttons, Volunteer artillery, Lancashire AV, a large and a small officer’s plated tunics (Lv23); 8th Lancashire AV (definite) two large plated officer’s tunic and one each large and small other ranks white metal; Essex VA, a large plated officer’s; Cinque Ports AV, a small plated officer’s, good overall condition (8) £60-80
Hammer Price: £85
1st Worcestershire Artillery Volunteers, a special pattern plated white metal die-stamped sleeve (?) badge for efficiency at ‘Repository Excercises’, an Imperial Victorian crown over a roped bar depending to an oval, the border inscribed ‘First Worcestershire Artillery Volunteers’, the central reserve with a cannon over a shield bearing the arms of Worcester with Latin motto below ‘Civitas in Bello in Pace Fidelis’, four original fasteners, very good condition (1) £60-80
Buttons, Georgian Period Artillery, Coast Artillery a large and small brass coatee the large with b/m Firmin & Westall, the small excavated the central cannon on the Ordnance shield replaced by a musket; Seaford Volunteer Artillery, large copper gilt (now reduced to the copper) Ordnance shield, central cannon replaced by a spear (excavated on the cliffs near Seaford); Pendennis Regiment of Artillery, an officer’s large gilt (mint state), good condition (4) £50-70
Hammer Price: £80
Honourable Artillery Company, medallion of the ‘Old Gunners Club’ in fine quality bronze by ‘WJC’, complete with broad suspender and RA ribbon; HAC annual ‘Competition’, a fine fretted bronze medallion with unit title, motto, shield/crest, etc., engraved on the reverse, ‘Championship/1912/won by/Corpl/ E.Pechell’; two sections of medal ribbon for the HAC Territorial Decoration and Efficiency Medal in the racing colours of EVIIR granted in 1906; Souvenir Medal ‘Commemorating...
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