South Lancashire Regiment & The Northamptonshire Regiment Insignia. The former comprises a senior NCOs glengarry to the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment and a corresponding o/r brass (KK 490), a scarce single 40th Regiment collar badge (Churchill 1108), two o/r small tunic buttons and a relic shell jacket button; 82nd (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) Regiment an officer’s large gilt and a small coatee button, an officer’s large gilt and two small tunic buttons and one o/r large brass tunic (heavily worn), two officers’ Mess Waiters’ plated buttons; post 1881 items include an o.s.d. cap badge (blades) and a Warrant Officer’s (?) all gilt cap badge with plain plinth (blades), sundry o/r cap badges and a selection of officers’ and o/r collar badges. The Northamptonshire Section includes a 58th (Rutland) Regiment o/r glengarry (KK 519), officers’ tunic buttons to the 48th and 58th and an officer’s scarce Mess Waiter’s large gilt example to the 58th; the post 1881 items include basic issue caps, collars and s/titles for the other ranks, scarce Victorian officers’ scarce collar badges in gilt, silver and enamels and in bronze and similar KC issues, a good gilding metal cap badge to the Huntingdonshire Cyclists/Home Guard; two officers’ large plated and two small coatee buttons to the 48th Northamptonshire Militia, two officers’ large plated tunic buttons to the Northamptonshire & Rutland Militia and an officer’s scarce silver plated large tunic to the 4th Northamptonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps (Ripley 249), good overall condition (parcel) £250-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Militaria Formed by The Late R.E. Handley.

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