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Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment) Officer’s Post 1902 Blue Cloth Helmet. A good quality example with all gilt fittings and bearing the standard pattern crowned star back plate with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black velvet a Princess’s coronet over the Dannebrog, this with the date 1875 and ‘Alexandra’, at the bottom a complex silver scroll ‘The Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regt.’ and the white rose, very slight moth...
Hammer Price: £250
Army Medical Staff An Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet. Standard 1878 pattern with all gilt fittings and chin chain present including the ball top, bearing a mint condition helmet plate this of crowned star pattern with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black velvet a VR cypher and at the bottom a floreate scroll ‘Medical Staff’ c. 1878 - 1898, the gilt lacking on most of the fittings and scuff damage to the black leather trim on the rear peak, the plate not original...
Royal Horse Artillery an Officer’s Busby c. 1856 - 1878 and Sundry Forage Caps. The busby of brown sable (worn) complete with falling red cloth bag and fine gilt grenade plume holder this mounted with the Royal Arms, a cannon and the regimental mottoes, fitted internally with a white leather sweat band (holed) and the remains of the purple silk lining, the leather chin strap present but broken. An officer’s pill box blue cloth and gold braid patrol cap to the 2nd Dragoon Guards complete...
Two 1878 Pattern Blue Cloth Helmets. The first an officer’s with w/metal fittings, front peak trim and back spine and bearing a QVC plate to the Volunteer Artillery (laurel spray in place of Ubique), severely moth damaged and lacking chin chain and side ornaments, sweat band and quilted white silk lining present; the second an o/r with gilding metal fittings and bearing a post 1902 two part plate to the West Kent Regiment, the plate not original to the helmet, lacking chin chain, otherwise...
Steel Helmets. Comprising four British examples (one a relic and lacking all lining etc.,), one with painted badges to the National Fire Service and one with a painted red cross on a white ground; a WW I ? German steel helmet with leather lining; a leather fireman’s helmet lacking plate but with some metal trim remaining, together with a named tin (Black Watch) for an officer’s feather bonnet lacking clasp anchor section, fair overall condition (7) £100-150
Royal Welsh Fusiliers Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp. A fine quality example showing the Prince of Wales’s Crest and Motto on the centre and ‘Royal Welsh Fusiliers’ on the circle, no benchmarks but a perfect match, (Ryan 188), very good condition £180-240
East Lancashire Regiment & Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Insignia. The former comprises a single brass collar badge to the 30th (C 840), o/r glengarries to the 30th (K 473) and the 59th (K 520), an officer’s large gilt coatee to the 59th and a similar plated example to the 30th; post 1881 items include an o/r QVC cap badge and a similar glengarry to the 1st Volunteer Battalion together with sundry basic issue buttons and s/titles. The Loyal North Lancs items include o/r glengarries to...
The Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regiment Officer’s Helmet Plate 1904 - 14. A very fine example being KC over an eight pointed star with laurel overlay, in the centre a silver cross with gilt mounts, a silver stag couchant this upon a blue enamel ground and a silver scroll at the base ‘Sherwood Foresters’, three loop fasteners, requires careful cleaning otherwise very good condition £300-400
Hammer Price: £260
Royal Irish Fusiliers Reserve Regiment Cap Badges. An officer’s very rare example being a gilt fused grenade the ball mounted with a green enamelled silver shamrock, two loop fasteners, together with the corresponding o/r issue in bi-metal, (KK 1133), the green shamrock with slight damage to the enamel otherwise very good condition (2) £200-300
39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1855 - 1881. A fine quality example in gilt and silver plate, the gilt centre with crown over 39 and ‘Dorsetshire Regiment’, on the title circle matching bench marks (Ryan 63), very good condition £160-220
Royal Army Medical Corps Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet. A fine quality example complete with all gilt fittings and chin chain, the front bearing the post 1902 plate being the Royal Arms with bottom scroll ‘Royal Army Medical Corps’, the plate original to the helmet, slight gilt loss to the quadrant and ball top otherwise very fine condition £300-500
The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) an Officer’s Black Persian Lambskin Busby. A good quality example as described in Dress Regulations complete with sewn in cap lines and cording, coiled bugle horn badge with oval boss above this mounted with a QVC, complete with black leather chin strap, sweat band and dark crimson silk lining (part perished), black ostrich plume over black vulture lower plume (lacking corded boss holder), complete with correct pattern detachable cap and body...
55th (Westmorland) Regiment Other Ranks Collar Badge and Post 1881 Border Regiment Insignia. A scarce brass collar to the 55th (Churchill 936); post 1881 items include a single first pattern collar badge (C 938), a single collar (C 944), a pair of gilding metal collars (C 952/953) and a similar w/metal pair to the Volunteer Battalions, together with an officer’s pair of large osd post 1906 collars and a similar silver plated/enamelled pair, and later pattern o/r collars and sundry...
Indian Army Buttons. A large selection comprising mainly KC issues, 38 large, 34 small and 24 screw back. The large including 6 scarce Edward VIII large gilts and a few numbered infantry, good overall condition (96) £50-80
Coldstream, Irish and Welsh Guards Insignia. The Coldstream section includes six o/r pewter coatee buttons, an officer’s cap badge in ‘silver’ and enamels (KK 897), three officers service dress cap badges, two in HM silver (some surface wear to one) and another in silver plate and enamels (damaged), scarce pair of o/r gilding metal collar badges Boer War period, an o/r waist belt clasp and sundry buttons and officers rank badges. The Irish Guards section comprises an o/r waist belt...
Kent Artillery Volunteers Officer’s Busby Grenade/Midlothian Coast Volunteer Artillery Officer’s Pouch Badge. A scarce silver plated item being a fused grenade mounted with laurel sprays enclosing the White Horse of Kent complete with slider fastener (some wear to the high points); a scarce silver plated example being a pre 1874 pattern cannon over script initials MCVA, three screw post fasteners (lacking outer wheel), as described (2) £150-200
Royal Munster Fusiliers Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1881 - 1901. A superb special pattern example, a gilt centre mounted with a similar fused grenade, this with a silver tiger on the ball enclosed by laurel sprays adorned with battle honour scrolls and unit title scroll ‘Royal Munster’ at the base (Ryan 238), near mint state £300-400
Hammer Price: £270
Royal Munster Fusiliers Officer’s Fur Cap Grenade 1881 - 1914. Being a gilt fused grenade overlaid with similar laurel sprays adorned with battle honours, at the base a silver scroll ‘Royal Munster’, in the centre on a silver rococo shield three gilt crowns (KK 941), complete with screw post and double blade fasteners, near mint state £300-400
British Military Buttons. 33rd Regiment one officer’s small coatee 1853 - 55, one officer’s large gilt and one o/r large brass tunic buttons 1855 - 81; 76th Regiment one officer’s large gilt coatee c. 1840 - 55 and five officers’ large gilt tunic examples (gilt rubbed on three); sundry post 1881 large and small tunic buttons to the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. 6th West York Militia two officers’ large plated coatee, six officers’ large and one small plated tunic buttons, one...
Durham Light Infantry Insignia. 68th DLI a good quality o/r brass glengarry badge (KK 530 one lug missing), an officer’s small gilt tunic button; 106th Bombay Light Infantry an officer’s large gilt and two small tunic buttons (near mint state); a small pre 1881 brass collar badge being a QVC over a strung bugle horn (possibly Channel Islands); North Durham Militia an officer’s large plated tunic button, Durham Militia an officer’s large plated coatee button c. 1840 - 55, The South...
East Kent Regiment 2nd Volunteer Battalion Officer’s Victorian Helmet Plate and East Kent Rifle Volunteers an Other Ranks Victorian Helmet Plate. Two very fine examples, the first of blackened silver Bath pattern bearing a circle ‘East Kent Regt. 2nd Volr. Battn.’ enclosing the White Horse/Invicta scroll, three loop fasteners, the reverse with Hobson & Sons trade label; the second item of similar format the title circle reading ‘East Kent Rifle Volunteers’ and with central White...
Royal Westminster Militia (3rd Middlesex) Insignia. A very good selection comprising an officer’s embroidered forage cap badge c. 1857 - 81, an o/r w/metal glengarry badge, an o/r die stamped w/metal shako badge this being a crowned eight pointed star bearing the arms of the county & Westminster over a strung bugle horn with unit title in surround, the pin back appears to be original; an officer’s plated coatee button c. 1830 - 55, two o/r large w/metal tunic buttons and an officer’s...
WWII Raised Cavalry Badges. Comprising o/r cap badges to the 22nd Dragoons, 23rd Hussars, 24th Lancers, 26th Hussars and 27th Lancers, an osd cap to the 24th Lancers and an officer’s in gilt and enamels, an officer’s very fine and scarce single collar badge to the 25th Dragoons; a 25D and a 27L s/titles, an XXVII s/title (Indian Army). 17th/21st Lancers insignia comprising an osd die cast bronze cap badge (one blade missing), two o/r w/metal cap badges and one large size similar collar...
The Honorable Artillery Company Insignia/Territorial Artillery Shoulder Titles/Royal Horse Artillery Insignia. The HAC section includes an officer’s good quality Victorian period waist belt clasp, o/r cap badges in gilding metal, white metal and a sergeant’s (w/m with gilt mount) and sundry related buttons and s/titles; Artillery single s/titles T/RGA/N.Scottish, T/RFA/2/W.Riding, T/RFA/E.Lancashire and pairs T/RFA/Lowland and T/RFA/Kent; The Royal Horse Artillery section comprises GVIR...
Royal Munster Fusiliers Officer’s Fur Cap Grenade 1881 - 1914. A very fine example being a gilt fused grenade overlaid with similar laurel sprays adorned with battle honours, at the base a silver scroll ‘Royal Munster’, in the centre on a silver rococo shield three gilt crowns, (KK 941), complete with fixing loops and wires, requires slight cleaning otherwise very good condition £300-400
Hammer Price: £280
Womens’ Services, Dental Corps, Chaplains’ Department, Army Physical Training Corps, Pioneer Corps Insignia. Four carded displays of mainly basic issues KC and QEC comprising cap badges, collars, buttons and s/titles, good overall condition (parcel) £80-120
The Northamptonshire Regiment an Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet. Standard pattern complete with all gilt fittings and bearing the post 1902 crowned star helmet plate, this with laurel and Garter overlays and bearing in the centre on a ground of black velvet the Castle and Key with Gibraltar scroll above and Talavera scroll below, at the bottom a silver scroll ‘The Northamptonshire Regiment’, the plate original to the helmet, no gilt remains on all fittings, some gilt remains on the...
Kent Rifle Volunteers Three Pouch Belt Plates. Three fine quality examples of identical outline, the first in silver plate featuring a QVC over a plain plinth and laurel sprays, in the centre an ornate cross and star rays bearing thereon the White Horse/Invicta on a diamond shaped ground, this example with a shaped backing plate, four screw post fasteners; the second in heavy die cast silver plate, this example without a backing plate, four screw post fasteners; the third example in die...
Sussex and East Yorkshire Regimental Insignia. The former comprising mainly basic issue collars and buttons but including five officer’s large tunic buttons to the 107th Bengal Infantry, an o/r pair of scarce collar badges to the 107th, a single white metal s/title T/5/Royal Sussex and a pair of brass s/titles T/4/Royal Sussex, a single w/m s/title Cinque Ports and sundry other related items. The East Yorkshire Section includes two officer’s large plated tunic buttons East York Militia,...
Irish Militia and Artillery Volunteers Buttons. Small collection comprising two officers plated coatee buttons to the 94th Clare Militia, an o/r w/m tunic to the same, an officer’s extremely rare plated coatee button to the Limerick Artillery Militia, an officer’s plated coatee button to the Londonderry Militia and four similar tunic buttons (plating worn); two officers plated large tunic buttons to the Kent Artillery Volunteers and a similar w/m o/r (dented), an officer’s rare large...
London Regimental Insignia. Including an o/r QVC w/metal glengarry badge to the Queen’s Westminster Volunteers and one only QVC collar badge, a pair of w/metal s/titles T/16/County of London and one only black s/title T/16/London, an officer’s KC boss badge complete with boss to the 15th/16th London, two o/r cap badges 16th London and one officer’s o.s.d. cap 15th/16th London (one blade lacking), 1.5 pairs s/titles T/15/London, a fine quality QVC w/metal cross pattern helmet plate to...
Hammer Price: £290
North Mayo Militia Other Ranks Glengarry Badge, Irish Militia Buttons. A fine quality die stamped w/metal example showing the phoenix arising from a mural crown with ‘North Mayo’ scroll below, two loop fasteners (KK 1290), a pair of w/metal collar badges for the Roscommon Militia (one broken) and a single brass example, two officers’ large silver plated tunic buttons to the North Mayo Militia and a similar button to the Galway Militia, two o/r small w/metal tunic buttons Roscommon and...
50th (Queen’s Own) Regiment & 97th (Earl of Ulster’s) Regiment Insignia. Comprising to the 50th an o/r last pattern shako plate 1869 - 78, an o/r glengarry badge (KK 507), and a single very scarce collar badge (Churchill 1358), two officers’ large gilt tunic buttons (rubbed) and three small (rubbed); to the 97th an o/r last pattern shako plate 1869 - 78, an o/r two part successor helmet plate (1878 - 81), an o/r glengarry badge (KK 573) and two officers’ large gilt tunic buttons...
Helmet and Hat Tins. Comprising two named tins for cavalry helmets, RGM Newton Esq., Queen’s Bays and A Gallaher Esq., 4th Dragoon Guards; a named yeomanry tin, AF Freeman Esq., Montgomery Yeomanry; two named artillery, ER Culverwell, Royal Artillery and Captain FH Edwards, 1st Welsh (Howitzer) Bgde, RFA; a named infantry tin Captain AM Collard, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and three unnamed infantry tins; four forage cap tins one named to W Tozer Esq., The York and Lancaster...
11th (North Devon) Regiment/The Devonshire Regiment Insignia. Comprising a good quality o/r glengarry badge (KK 435), an officer’s small coatee button, five large and two small tunic, a single Imperial Crown collar badge; post 1881 items include a pair of T/5/Devon s/titles and singles T/6 and T/7 Devon, a single brass s/title Cadets/Devon, one point 5 osd collar badges, an officer’s very fine pair KC collars in silver plate and gilt enamels, similar pairs of officer’s collars to the...
South Wales Borderers and West Riding Regimental Insignia. The former comprising an officer’s waist belt clasp 1881 - 1901 matching benchmarks (Ryan 189), an o/r brass glengarry of the 24th Regiment (KK 458), and a scarce pair of brass collar badges c. 1874 - 1881, two o/r caps South Wales Borderers, a pair o.s.d. collars and sundry brass s/titles, 1st Battalion The Monmouthshire Regiment o/r w/metal caps 1908 - 20 and post 1920, 2nd Battalion The Monmouthshire Regiment an o/r cap and a...
Hammer Price: £300
27th (Inniskilling) Regiment/Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers & 108th (Madras Infantry) Regiment Insignia. An o/r glengarry badge 27th Inniskilling Regiment and a single brass collar badge (Churchill 728), 108th Madras an o/r 1861 pattern shako plate with soldered soft iron lugs and a brass glengarry badge (KK 586); a post 1881 o/r fur cap grenade and corresponding glengarry badge, a single brass collar badge to the Fermanagh Light Infantry (C 761), good overall condition (7) £220-280
Ordnance Store Corps Officer’s Helmet Plate & Other Ranks Helmet Plate Centre. An extremely fine and rare example being a gilt crowned star backplate with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black velvet a silver monogram ‘OSC’, three loop fasteners (1881 - 1896), together with an o/r brass corresponding slip-on h.p.c., ‘OSC’ in script capitals on a brass bar, very good condition (2) £300-400
British Military Swords. Comprising an 1822 pattern Rifles example, the 80 cm blade by Firmin and Sons, 155, Strand, London, with single fuller and etched with crowned VR cypher, a strung bugle horn and 5th Middlesex RV plus scrolling foliage, steel hand guard incorporating crowned strung bugle horn, wire bound fish skin grip in its steel scabbard; an 1897 pattern Infantry sword, the 82 cm blade by Mole, Birmingham with part single fuller and plain blade, sheet metal hand guard incorporating...
100th (Prince of Wales’s Royal Canadian) Regiment Insignia. Comprising an officer’s scarce waist belt clasp c. 1858 - 81, showing Prince of Wales’s Crest and Motto (motto scrolls lacking) over ‘100’ all within a continuous circle of maple leaves, the outer bars also decorated with maple leaves, matching benchmarks (Ryan 146), a single o/r bi-metal collar badge c. 1876 - 81 (lugs contemporarily repaired), one only officer’s gilt large size tunic button and similar brass o/r. ...
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