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13 & 14 September 2012
British Military Buttons. A carded display of 45 fine quality and rare examples, Large Gilt Coatees, 98th, 41st (The Welsh), Commissariat Staff, 99th, 72nd Highlanders (replacement shank), 31st Huntingdon, 1st Invernesshire Local Militia, Upper Tivy Local Militia, North Hampshire Militia, Voluntarios De Espana (Spanish Unit fighting for Britain in the Peninsula), Redruth Volunteers, 1st Harts Volunteers, Field Marshal, Andover Volunteers (little gilt remains), 2nd BN 2nd Brigade Royal...
Hammer Price: £980
British Military Buttons. Two carded displays comprising 31 officers' large silver plated tunic examples to Line Infantry Volunteer Battalions, mainly QVC where applicable and 21 officers' small silver plated tunic examples to Line Infantry Volunteer Battalions, mixed QVC and KC. Three officers' early period coatees to the Upper Tivy Local Militia, North Hampshire Militia and Irish Volunteers general pattern showing a crowned Harp and Maid. Other large tunic examples include officers' to...
Hammer Price: £330
British Military Buttons. A carded display of 82 items including officers' small coatees to the 12th (East Suffolk) (2), officers' large tunic examples to the 3rd, 4th (no gilt), 9th, 10th (2, little gilt remains on one), 16th, 32nd (no gilt), 47th, 55th (part rubbed), Rifle Brigade, 92nd (3), the very rare 103rd Royal Bombay Fusiliers (gilt rubbed), 3rd Militia Battalion The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) (this is the gilt version of the 1st Royal Lancashire Militia worn c. 1881 - 83...
Hammer Price: £220
British Military Buttons. Twelve carded displays together with several duplicate examples, comprising Foot Guards, Infantry, Corps and Court, mostly post 1902. (No anodised), good overall condition (250+) £100-150
Hammer Price: £95
British Military Buttons. Four hundred plus basic issues post 1902 and including some anodised examples, Infantry, Corps and a few Canadian, good overall condition (400+) £100-150
British Military & Naval Buttons. Two hundred and sixty plus basic issues post 1902 mainly Corps, a few Cavalry and Canadian. The Naval Section include a few Royal Marine items together with a few cloth Trade badges and rank stars, good overall condition (260+) £80-120
Hammer Price: £80
7th (Princess of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards, 2nd East Ontario Regiment, Transjordan Frontier Force. Comprising two gold engraved examples to the 7th Dragoon Guards (16mm) (4.7gms), the obverses engraved with the regimental crest and motto (Earl Ligonier) over 'VII D.G.' the reverse marked '9CT' and 'WG&S'. A silver example to the 2nd East Ontario Regiment (16.5mm) shows the unit title and laurels in a circle enclosing a Maple Leaf bearing '2'. Marked on the reverse 'B&P' (Bent & Parker) and...
British Cavalry & Yeomanry Buttons. Three carded displays mainly post 1902 issues but including a few QVC period items, which are large gilts 5th Royal Irish Lancers, Royal Horse Guards Regiment (no gilt remains), 1st KDG (2 both mounted), 1st Royal Dragoons (mounted), Middlesex Yeomanry Cavalry, officer's large silver plate Warwickshire Yeomanry and Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, other ranks large brass Queen's Own Royal Staffordshire Yeomanry. The scarcer officers' large gilt tunics include...
Hammer Price: £270
Colonial & Dominion Buttons. A carded display of 52 items including an officer's small flat gilt coatee c. 1820 to the Jamaica Militia, large gilt tunics to the 2nd Regiment West Indies, 3rd and 4th West India Regiments, St. Helena Regiment, Uganda Protectorate (VRI), Uganda Protectorate (GRI), Roberts Horse, 5th CEF Battalion, Royal Malta Militia (QVC & KC). Other large size tunics include Australian Commonwealth Forces (EVIIR), Transjordan Frontier Force, Malayan Volunteer Infantry, Umvoti...
Hammer Price: £180
Indian Army Buttons. A carded display of 76 items. Pre-Mutiny examples comprise 2 officers' large gilt coatees to the 3rd Bengal NI and 3 officers' small gilt coatees to the 59th Bengal NI and 24th Bengal NI (2). Other officers' large gilts comprise 36th Madras (mounted), 10th Madras, 12th Bengal, 14th Madras, Bombay Staff Corps, Bengal Staff Corps, The Hyderabad Contingent, Bengal Engineers, 39th Bengal (disbanded 1890), Madras Staff Corps, 26th Sikhs (KC), 119th Infantry, Madras Governor's...
Indian Army Buttons. Three old carded displays, an interesting selection of post 1902 period, those of interest include large size tunics to 1st, 3rd, 9th, Gurkha Rifles (all black horn), 13th Malabar Battalion, 19th Hyderabad, Mysore Infantry and Mysore Lancers, 6th Gurkha Rifles (blackened metal). Small tunics include examples to The Rajpipla Infantry, Madras Volunteer Guard, Kolar Gold Field Battalion, Mysore Infantry, 2nd Bombay Urban Infantry, 2nd Punjab Regiment, 2nd Gurkha Rifles,...
Hammer Price: £450
Continental and USA Military Buttons. A collection of 190 plus items, some identified on cards. A card of badges and buttons pertaining to San Marino with a covering letter from Peter Thorneycroft, House of Commons, 27.9.1963, good overall condition (190+) £100-200
£100–£200
American Revolutionary War and Later Pewter Buttons. Comprising an officer's large tinned pewter with wooden back to the 2nd Connecticut Regiment c1781 (25mm). The 'double dolphin' type with central '2'. Troiani (Military Buttons of the American Revolution) p109 A2CRa (complete with gut fastening). '?I' an unidentified 19mm example, the obverse shows part of a script capital letter and script capital 'I', complete with integral shank. Royal Provincial c180-1783 16.5mm, large St. Edward's...
Hammer Price: £920
Livery, Civilian and Military Buttons. A carded display of 68 items comprising 14 large livery examples including Duke of Norfolk (postilion's very large gilt), The Marquess Conyngham, Leslie Family, Hay Family, Bisset/Fenwick Family, Williams of Balgray, Roberton of that Ilk. Very rare large gilt examples for Newcastle upon Tyne Pilots, Trinity House Kingston upon Hull Pilots (a superb mounted example), Aberdeen Civic Official, London and North Western Railway Dining Car issue (Froggatt p....
Hammer Price: £190
Miscellaneous Military Insignia. Comprising a carded display featuring an officer's KC silvered bronze cap badge to the KRRC, two variable silver mounted red cord boss badges to the same, 1.5 s/titles KRR. One pair printed Formation signs to the 5th Corps and an embroidered pair to the 56th Armoured Division, a brass cap badge to the South Irish Horse (this example was sent by Lady Aldington to H.G. Parkyn who returned it with a note "Parkyn has it"!), two white metal shoulder cord buttons...
1918 White Armistice Flag and a 'C' Flt 6th Squadron RAF Ramleh Coloured Streamer. The first item being a gentleman's large white cotton 'bandana' complete with laundry mark and indian ink inscription 'A.M.Henniker' contained in an O.H.M.S. envelope which is inscribed 'White Flag Dec. 1918 1st English White Flag to enter Liege, carried on motor car by Col. Henniker, from Brussels to Liege and then on to (?) Spa'. This ink inscription is translated from the original pencil note on the right...
Hammer Price: £70
Officers’ Collar Badges of the Free French Troops Serving in the Levant 8 June -11 July 1941. A most interesting collection of 14 items, the badges of 'kite' shape display the facing colour of each regiment and the unit distinction in gold or silver wire, all are complete with a finial button though 9 of these are in fact plain. Well displayed and annotated contained in a very fine hinged and glazed mahogany case, very good condition (14) £200-300
Hammer Price: £230
WW2 Italian Items. Comprising a torn part panel from the fuselage of a crashed C.R.42 displaying the arms of the Italian Republic. A car pennant in green white and red silk-like material, the central white panel bearing the blue red and white arms of the Republic complete with the remnants of the ties and a typed note "Italian Flag off an Italian General's car (Western Desert 1941)". "Notes on Enemy Army Identifications Italy October 1941" an 85 page booklet providing exhaustive detail on...
Hammer Price: £260
WW2 Polish Items. A small but very interesting collection, two Polish military buttons together with a handwritten note from Comte Stanislas Orlowsky, five other Polish military buttons, a Polish army eagle cap badge, a rare blue and red silk pennant complete with ties with a Compliments card of the Polish Brigade of Carpathian Rifles in Palestine. Another note states "Colours of the Carpathain Brigade taken from the Polish Cavalry School". A printed sheet of Polish unit insignia...
Hammer Price: £290
"Shoulder Belt Plates And Buttons" by Major H. G. Parkyn O.B.E. "Military Buttons The Emilio Collection" by Luis Fenollosa Emilio, Captain United States Volunteers 1863 - 1865. This first edition of Major Parkyn's well known work is signed (rarely) on the title page H.G.Parkyn, on the fly leaf an inscription 'M. with all my love Toby, Christmas 1956'. (M or Minta was the diminutive name for Lady Aldington). The work is accompanied by one letter dated 20 June 1947 to the then Mrs. Low...
Hammer Price: £120
Military Books. The Indian Army List 1939, Half Yearly Army List July 1939, Monthly Army List November 1939, C.C.P. Lawson 'A History of the Uniforms of the British Army' Volumes 1 and 2 First Editions but fronts only of the dust covers. India's Army by Major D. Jackson 1940, The British Army by Talbot Booth 2nd Edition 1940, Heraldry in War Formation Badges by Lieutenant Colonel Howard Cole, British Military Uniforms Henry VII to Present Day by W.Y. Carman 1957 (no dust cover), Clans...
Hammer Price: £60
Correspondence, Cigarette Cards, Crest Albums and other Ephemera. The former includes several hand written letters from the late Marquess of Cambridge, a letter from Field Marshal Lord Wavell (a family friend), an interesting social letter from Captain Myles Hildyard, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, (MBE, MC, MID, a notable escapee from Crete subsequently fighting in the North African battles of Mareth and Enfidaville, took part in the D Day Landings 6 June 1944. Resided at Flintham Hall,...
Hammer Price: £75
Military Pictures. JOHN SCOTT two very rare water colour drawings heightened with gold, depictions of a mounted and a dismounted soldier c. 1800, both signed 'John Scott, delin'. Though typed labels on the reverses state 'c. 1790 1st Bt. Volunteers Regt. Light Dragoons' both pictures clearly illustrate the uniform of the London and Westminster Light Horse Volunteers. Both figures wear the Tarleton crested helmet with red turban and white feather plume, short tailed blue jackets with gold...
£300–£500
Military Prints. Comprising two large Crimean 'Simpson' examples being 'The Highland Brigade Camp' and 'The Railway at Balaklava', published 24 May 1855, Imperial French and Native Troops c. 1800, 'The Legion de Lorgna', Portugese c. 1810, 'The King's Royal Rifle Corps' a Regimental Group 1905. R. Knotel reproduction print for the soldiers of Anhalt and a steel engraving by T. Medland 'A Cassay Horseman' (heavily foxed). All framed and glazed, good overall condition (7) £50-80
Hammer Price: £55
Military Prints. A good selection comprising 'British Army Series Nos. 1, Officers First Life Guards, 5, A 42nd Officer and a 4th Dragoon Officer and 29, A 13th Light Dragoon Officer', published c. 1831. Three examples by T. Goddard of Pall Mall, An Austrian Officer of Cuirassiers, a Soldier of the Greek Light Infantry and a Prussian Officer of Hussars, 1763, published c. 1820.Three early 19th C examples showing Russian Foot Guards, a French Officer of Dragoons and a Moravian Irregular...
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