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14 December 2011
H.E. Munro, 32nd Light Infantry Uniform Trunk. A black japanned uniform trunk with brass plaque now containing a large quantity of dress and undress belting, webbing etc., etc., sold as viewed not subject to return £80-120
Hammer Price: £50
Royal Artillery Insignia. Comprising two o/r QVC helmet plates (the unicorn’s horn missing on one) and a similar o/r KC example, a Victorian officer’s waist belt clasp being the double oval panelled type bearing the Royal Crest and a double headed swan’s neck fastener bearing ‘Ubique’, an officer’s gilt pouch badge (lacking fasteners), officers’ KC cap badges in gilt and bronze, a selection of grenade collar badges, two grenade WWII bakelite cap badges and a selection of buttons from c. 1840...
Hammer Price: £55
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) Other Ranks Cap Badges and Associated Buttons. Comprising standard gilding metal examples, two WWII bakelite types and later anodised Brigade and Queen’s Regiment examples; the buttons comprise a selection of King’s Crown examples, officers and other ranks, including large and small anodised issues together with officers’ cap buttons and Mess waiters types, good overall condition (parcel) £80-120
Hammer Price: £65
16th Bedfordshire Regiment Insignia. A good die stamped brass glengarry badge (KK 445), a single brass collar badge (Churchill 499) (lugs crudely replaced) and one only officer’s Mess Waiter’s button, good condition (3) £80-120
Military Buttons 16th Bedfordshire Regiment. Comprising two officer’s large gilt coatee buttons and two later examples with inserted shanks (probably Indian Army), an officer’s large gilt tunic and one small, three o/r large brass tunic (poor condition) and one small, one o/r shell jacket example; Bedford Militia two officer’s large plated tunic and six o/r pewter; one officer’s large plated tunic for the Bedfordshire VBs and four small, one o/r large brass for the Hertfordshire Rifle Volunte...
Hammer Price: £70
Cornwall Military Insignia. The DCLI comprising a single scarce first pattern collar badge (Churchill 896), a scarce w/metal collar badge to the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, an hpc with pagri slider, sundry later pattern cap and collar badges including a WWII bakelite cap and osd pairs of collars large and small sizes; 46th (South Devon Regiment) an officer’s large gilt coatee button and a subsequent tunic button, an officer’s silver plated tunic button to the 5th Rifle Volunteers, good overall c...
Hammer Price: £75
Machine Gun Corps Buttons. Comprising 140+ o/r large and 140+ similar small size, sold as viewed not subject to return, good overall condition (parcel) £80-120
Hammer Price: £80
Police Hangers. Two ‘W.Parker.Warranted.’ examples, both with 60 cm curved blades, each one etched with title details, solid brass hand guard, pommel and fish skin bound wooden grips (lacking wire), no scabbards, good condition (2) £100-150
Assorted British Military Uniforms. Comprising a GVR period Grenadier Guardsman’s tunic (some moth damage), a Northumberland Fusiliers scarlet tunic gosling green facings, metal shoulder titles mounted, buttons and collar badges present but detached, a four pocket scarlet frock dated April 1900 complete with QVC Royal Arms pattern buttons, an infantry regiment’s scarlet tunic with white facings all insignia missing, a RAMC Colonel’s khaki four pocket tunic and trousers complete with GVIR butt...
Anodised Basic Issue and Excavated Buttons. Four cartons together with modern stamped out numerals, rank crowns, rank stars, etc., etc., sold as viewed not subject to return (parcel, approx. 15 kilos) £100-200
Hammer Price: £85
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Military Insignia. Comprising a small selection of buttons to the 43rd and 52nd Regiments, an officer’s large plated coatee button to the Royal Bucks Militia and a similar tunic button, tunic buttons to the Oxfordshire Light Infantry and their Volunteer Battalions, basic issue s/titles to the Oxfordshire L.I. and Oxf & Bucks L.I., an officer’s KC silver plated cap badge to the Buckinghamshire Battalion and two o/r bronze issues, sundry other related items and t...
Crimean Period Buttons. Comprising six large gilts to the Turkish Contingent, a single large brass to the British Italian Legion and a large gilt (excavated retains approx. 30% gilt) to the British Foreign Legion, very good overall condition (8) £80-120
16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp. A good 1855 pattern example, central crown (worn) over ‘16’ and unit title in surround, no benchmarks, good condition £150-200
Hammer Price: £90
Livery Buttons. 110 examples including a few to the peerage, many excavated and lacking shanks; together with 16 officer’s large and two small plated tunic buttons to the 2nd Somerset Militia, 5 large plated buttons to the Militia Artillery; 3 sweetheart brooches to the Royal Fusiliers (2 HM silver and one gold coloured metal, lacking fasteners) and sundry other items, good overall condition (parcel) £150-250
Officer’s 1857 Pattern Forage Caps. Four examples, all without badges, but one bearing a multitude of official seals and vellum notices dated variously in the 1860s, fair overall condition (4) £80-120
Hammer Price: £95
USSR Midshipman’s Dirk. A good quality example 21.8 cm straight blade dated 1946, white bone or composition grip with gilt metal quillon and knop this impressed with the Soviet insignia and a five pointed star on top of the pommel, contained in its gilt mounted leather scabbard the upper chape engraved with a fouled anchor and a sailing ship, very good condition £200-300
The Border Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1884 - 1901. A good quality example, central Garter Star mount (lacking enamels) and unit title in surround, matching benchmarks, good condition apart from defect mentioned £120-170
56th West Essex Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1855 - 1881. A good standard pattern example showing the crown over ‘56’ in the centre with ‘West Essex Regiment’ in surround (Ryan 89), matching benchmarks, requires cleaning otherwise very good condition £160-220
Hammer Price: £100
The East Surrey Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1881 - 1901. A fine quality example in gilt and silver, in the centre on a gilt ground a silver star bearing a shield with the arms of Guildford, on the title circle ‘East Surrey Regiment’ matching benchmarks (Ryan 198), very good condition £160-220
A Sealed Pattern Tricorne Hat for Sergeant Major and RQMS In Pensioners Royal Hospital Chelsea. A most interesting example constructed from fur trimmed buckram and supplied by F. Jacobson Army Contractor, 11 St. Martins Court, WC, complete with leather sweat band and crimson silk lining, two seals and documented label, together with a card bearing information obtained by the late owner. It is Sealed Pattern No. 2763 and it is dated inside the sweat band 1890, some of the fur trim now worn aw...
Bedfordshire Regimental Insignia. A carded selection of post 1881 - 1960 items comprising caps, collars, s/titles, buttons and a named bed plate, good overall condition (parcel) £80-120
Royal Naval Buttons. Two carded displays including some early Victorian Flag Rank examples, a scarce RNAV button in silver plate and gilt, three Polar Expedition (?) buttons ‘Morning’, ‘Nimrod’ and ‘Discovery’, good overall condition (parcel) £100-200
1st Bengal Fusiliers Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1855 - 1861. An extremely rare and short lived example of special pattern, the central gilt disc mounted with the fused grenade bearing on the ball a QVC strap ‘Bengal European’, in the centre ‘1’ within a scroll ‘Fusiliers’. The grenade part surrounded by laurel sprays adorned with battle honours, some wear to the central silver mounts otherwise in good condition £200-300
Hammer Price: £110
Army Pay Department and Corps of Military Accountants Military Insignia. A carded display including a Victorian officer’s waist belt clasp to the Army Pay Department, a good selection of corresponding QVC and KC officers’ buttons, ‘the slip over’ helmet plate centre for the Army Pay Corps and the corresponding brass glengarry badge and a KC cap badge, sundry later pattern KC and QEC badges to the Royal Army Pay Corps, two brass s/titles to the Corps of Military Accountants, good overall condi...
5th Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Middlesex Militia Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp. A very fine 1855 pattern example in silver plate, in the centre a VR Cypher over a strung bugle horn, on the circle ‘5th Royal Elthorne Middlesex Militia’, matching benchmarks, near mint state £200-300
Two Officers’ Forage Caps c. 1857 - 1880, An Officer’s 1880 Pattern Forage Cap, A GPO Shako. The first item being an infantry officer’s 1857 pattern of blue cloth with a horizontal front peak and bearing the vestigial remains of a scarlet cloth band indicating that the hat once bore the badge of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers, linings complete, lacking leather chin strap and top crown decoration; the second item c. 1859 - 1880 in Rifle Volunteers’ grey cloth with black leather horizontal fron...
A Collection of Forage Caps. Comprising two Field Officers’ peaked caps the peaks inlaid with gold lace, one to the Royal Artillery, this with KC badge the other to the RAOC (QEC badge), another in blue cloth with a red welt bearing a bullion KC Royal Crest cap badge GVIR and Garter cap buttons, the peak inlaid with gold oak leaf lace, complete with white linen summer cover and cork block stiffener, a Staff Officer’s khaki example with red welt and KC gold bullion cap badge and GVI gilt cap b...
The Royal West African Frontier Force Side Drum. A good quality brass bodied example complete with all roping and both vellum ends, the front panel with applied stencil insignia showing the Royal Crest (QEC) over a palm tree and scroll at the bottom ‘R.W.A.F.F.’, good condition £200-400
32nd Rifle Volunteers Other Ranks Sealskin Dress Cap. A good quality example complete with rifle green sewn in cap lines, the black boss badge bearing a blackened w/metal badge showing the QVC over a strung bugle horn and ‘32’ within the strings, (possibly Midlothian), a white over white horsehair plume (no holder) and a black patent leather chin strap, very good condition £200-300
Tropical Helmets and Forage Caps. A large assortment including three white canvas tropical helmets, a tricorne hat to a Chelsea Pensioner (a/f), four British peaked caps, two side hats and a modern glengarry, a modern Russian peaked cap and a modern Russian winter fur cap and a Russian khaki cloth summer weight peaked cap adorned with modern Russian lapel badges, a comic opera bearskin cap, three various cocks’ feather plumes, a stable belt and two swagger sticks, sold as viewed not subject t...
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) Officers and Other Ranks Collar Badges. A good selection from c. 1881 - 1970 including a pair of officer’s sterling silver examples, three pairs of osd, a scarce o/r pair of bi-metal first pattern examples, subsequent gilding metal issues, an anodised pair of Dragons and similar to the Queen’s Own Buffs, three officers’ single plated collars the first stated to be c. 1876 - 81; five shoulder titles including two pairs of white on red embroidered examples, good o...
19th Surrey Rifle Volunteers (Lambeth) Insignia. Comprising an officer’s multi part silver plated shako plate 1861 pattern of crowned star format, with central strung bugle horn enclosing XIX and title in surround ‘Surrey Rifle Volunteers’ (fasteners missing); a corresponding o/r blackened brass two part shako plate of the same period (dent to the title circle) (two loop fasteners); a heavy cast blackened bronze pouch belt plate being a QVC over laurel and palm sprays with central strung bug...
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1881 - 1901. A good 1855 pattern example central, antelope upon a torse with ‘The Royal Warwickshire’ in surround, matching benchmarks (Ryan 169), some wear to the antelope and requires careful cleaning £150-200
The Suffolk Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1881 - 1901. An extremely fine 1855 pattern showing central Gibraltar Castle and honour scrolls, on the circle ‘The Suffolk Regiment’, matching benchmarks, (Ryan 176), very good condition £160-220
The Suffolk Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1881 - 1901. Showing central Gibraltar Castle with honour scrolls, on the circle ‘The Suffolk Regiment’, matching benchmarks, (Ryan 176), very good condition £160-220
Northumberland Fusiliers Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1881 - 1901. A very fine example showing St. George slaying the dragon with motto above ‘Quo Fata Vocant’, on the circle ‘Northumberland Fusiliers’, matching benchmarks, (Ryanb 168), very good condition £180-240
Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Warrant Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1883 - 1901. Pattern as for Ryan 232 but the finish in inferior gilt and the eagle on the grenade is of white metal, matching benchmarks, very good condition, £150-250
Hammer Price: £120
Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Insignia. Comprising an officer’s fine quality two part cap badge in gilt and silver with blade fasteners to both items (KK 694), a single corresponding two part collar badge, a very scarce Brodrick hat badge in bi-metal with separate coronet (KK 693), slider fastener broken, a single gilt collar badge as per o/r pattern (Churchill 1766), two officers’ large gilt tunic buttons in mint state, a cast silver or silver plate cap badge style sweetheart’s...
The 105th (Madras Light Infantry) Regiment, The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Insignia. Comprising a scarce pair of o/r collar badges (Churchill 1388/1389 one lug missing), seven officers’ large gilt tunic buttons and two small, a large gilt (’CV’ Mess Waiter’s button); post 1881 items include a single first pattern collar badge (Churchill 1391) and a facing pair of w/metal examples (Churchill 1410), a pair of officer’s collar badges in gilt, silver and black enamel, together with relat...
Miscellaneous Militaria. A quantity of reproduction and defaced military badges, a small collection of cloth shoulder titles mainly post WWII. Three male sections only to the following officers’ waist belt clasps - the 30th Regiment, 51st Light Infantry and the Norfolk Regiment, a similar o/r section for the 2nd of Foot and a female section for an officer’s clasp of the Lincolnshire Regiment. Sold as viewed not subject to return (parcel) £100-150
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