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Renfrewshire Militia, a very fine and scarce officer’s shoulder belt plate c1852-81, the rectangular gilt engine turned back plate with burnished rim overlaid with a large silver Thistle star, this with further mount being a QVC over an oval bearing the Thistle motto and outer thistle sprays in the centre in silver the Prince of Wales’s crest and motto, usual hook and stud fasteners, very fine condition £400-500
Hammer Price: £410
The Royal Scots of Canada, 5th Battalion. a very fine quality officer’s shoulder belt plate, the burnished gilt rectangular back plate with silver mounts comprising a Royal Duchess’es coronet over maple leaf sprays in the centre a boar’s head over ‘5’ over a scroll ‘Ne Obliviscaris’, at the bottom a scroll ‘The Royal Scots Of Cananda’, usual hook and stud fasteners; together with the companion waist belt plate, the rectangular gilt back plate with silver mounts being the...
Hammer Price: £250
Royal Westminster Volunteers, a scarce other ranks oval brass cross belt plate c1803-1815, the obverse with raised crowned title strap ‘Royal Westminster Volunteers’ and a portcullis in the centre, one hook (bent) and two stud fasteners, very good condition £200-300
Hammer Price: £180
Queen’s Own Highlanders (Seaforth & Cameron), an officer’s shoulder belt plate, rectangular gilt back plate, engine turned with burnished edge plated mounts comprising QEC over a thistle spray with a stag’s head cabossed below and, at the base, a scroll ‘Cuidich’n Righ’, usual hook and stud fasteners; Seaforth Highlanders, a plated piper’s plaid brooch, the plain quoit mounted with a Royal Duchess’es coronet ‘L’ and a stag’s head cabossed; Argyll & Sutherland...
Hammer Price: £150
The Black Watch (4th Perthshire) Volunteer Battalion, a good scarce officer’s shoulder belt plate c1883-1908, rectangular seeded silver plated back plate with similar mount, being the charge from the arms of Perth, a double headed eagle bearing a shield on its breast, this with a Paschal lamb, a scroll at the base ‘Pro Rege Lege Et Grege’, standard hook and stud fasteners, very good condition £250-350
The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Militia Battalions, a fine quality officer’s shoulder belt plate 1901-08, pattern as for Line battalions but with metals reversed, silver plated engine turned back plate with gilt Thistle star scrolls and St. Andrew silver plated KC over thistle sprays and Thistle motto and Sphinx, usual hooks and stud fasteners; together with the companion rectangular waist belt plate, both retailed by Anderson & Sons Edinburgh, some gilt loss on the first item,...
Hammer Price: £260
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s) Militia Battalions, an officer’s all silver plate shoulder belt plate, rectangular back plate with mounts as for Line battalions coronet title scrolls the boar’s had cat and laurel ovals, usual hook and stud fasteners; The Royal Scots (Royal Regiment), an officer’s or senior NCOs shoulder belt plate, rectangular gilt back plate overlaid with plated diamond shaped Thistle star central raised Thistle motto and thistle spray, green...
Hammer Price: £130
The King’s Own Scottish Borderers, a good quality officer’s shoulder belt plate c1902-39, rectangular burnished gilt back plate with silver overlays comprising a large cross of St. Andrew with the Royal Crest above, a scroll at the top ‘In Veritate Religionis Confido’ and at the bottom ‘Nisi Dominus Frustra’, in the centre Edinburgh Castle within a circle ‘King’s Own Scottish Borderers’, usual hook and stud fasteners, gilt rubbed on the back plate, good condition £140-170
The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), a good quality officer’s shoulder belt plate c1901-39, rectangular gilt engine turned back plate with burnished rim, overlaid with a large silver Thistle star, title scrolls and central St. Andrew, a KC over thistle sprays, the Thistle motto and the Sphinx all in gilt, usual hook and stud fasteners; together with the companion rectangular waist belt plate (loose end not present), both retailed by Anderson & Sons, Edinburgh, some staining to the gilt on...
Hammer Price: £220
The Gordon Highlanders, an officer’s post 1881 shoulder belt plate, rectangular burnished gilt back plate with silver overlays, a large star of the Thistle with pinned mounts Sphinx/Egypt, Tiger/India and central device being the title ‘Gordon Highlanders’ with thistle spray base, and in the middle the stag’s head and coronet, usual hook and stud fasteners; The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment), a large fine quality silver plated piper’s plaid brooch, the plain quoit with similar...
Hammer Price: £140
The Royal Scots Fusiliers Volunteer Battalions, a rare and very fine officer’s shoulder belt plate c1887-1908, a silver plated rectangular back plate with seeded ground, a large silver fused grenade mount, with a thistle spray upon the ball, below a scroll ‘Nemo Me Impune Lacesset’, four hook fasteners (Bloomer Bk 2 21/22), very good condition £300-400
Hammer Price: £290
The Highland Light Infantry Militia Battalions, a fine and rare officer’s shoulder belt plate c1881-1901, seeded ground rectangular gilt back plate overlaid with a large Thistle pattern star, a silver coiled bugle horn with ‘HLI’ gilt monogram in the coil, a gilt Imperial QVC above, and below gilt Elephant and blank scroll, usual hook and stud fateners, very good condition £300-400
Hammer Price: £280
The Highland Light Infantry Militia Battalions, a very fine and rare officer’s shoulder belt plate 1881-1901, rectangular gilt back plate with seeded ground, mounted with a large silver Thistle style star, coiled silver bugle horn in the centre with gilt ‘HLI’ monogram in the coil, a gilt Imperial QVC above, usual hook and stud fasteners, very good condition £300-400
The Royal Scots Fusiliers, a very fine quality officer’s shoulder belt plate 1901-52 (the quality indicates manufacture prior to 1914), burnished gilt rectangular back plate with silver mounts, the KC over a circle ‘Nemo Me Impune Lacesset’, in the centre on a raised gilt ground a thistle spray, at the bottom a scroll ‘Royal Scots Fusiliers’ and the date ‘1678’, usual hook and stud fasteners, mint state £400-500
Hammer Price: £300
Royal Company of Archers The King’s Bodyguard for Scotland, a very fine and most rare commanding officer’s shoulder belt plate c1902-52, rectangular gilt back plate with seeded ground with large silver overlay, a KC over an oval inscribed ‘King’s Bodyguard For Scotland’ ‘R.C.A.’, this with a large thistle spray to the centre and all upon the Cross of St. Andrew, four small stud fasteners, the back marked ‘Reserved Design’ ‘Brook & Son 87 George St. Edinburgh’; together...
£700–£900
The Gordon Highlanders, an officer’s shoulder belt plate pattern 1881-1960’s, burnished gilt back plate with large silver overlay, a Thistle style star with central stag’s head and coronet, a scroll around ‘Gordon Highlander’ and thistle sprays at below at the top of the star the Sphinx/Egypt and at the bottom the Tiger/India, usual hook and stud fasteners, the back plate has been recently ‘flash’ gilded £80-120
Hammer Price: £85
72nd Highlanders (Duke of Albany’s Own), a rare Senior NCO’s shoulder belt plate c1840-81, in fine quality die-stamped gilt brass, central QVC over ‘72’ within thistle sprays, a floreate scroll above ‘Duke of Albany’s’, and in free standing Roman capitals below ‘Own’ ‘Highlanders’, hook and stud fasteners, hook fasteners replaced otherwise very good condition £250-350
The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s), a late issue 1881 pattern officer’s shoulder belt plate, rectangular burnished gilt back plate with cast silver mounts, a Royal Duchess’es coronet with scroll ‘Princess Louise’s’, two leaf ovals with the boar’s head and cat within the leaves, adorned with battle honours, a scroll at the base ‘Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders’, the mounts applied hook and stud fasteners, retailed by ‘Brook & Son, 87 George St...
Hammer Price: £80
62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment, a good quality other ranks heavy die-stamped brass cross belt plate c1816-30, the rectangular plate with a multi-rayed pattern star, thereon a crowned strap ‘Or Wiltshire’ enclosing ‘62’, at the bottom a floreate scroll ‘Peninsula’, period hook and stud fasteners, very good condition £200-300
Hammer Price: £210
Coldstream Guards, a very fine overlay for the last pattern officer’s shoulder belt plate 1825-55, on a copper gilt slip, an eight pointed multi-facetted star in the Garter Proper in fretted gilt, this with vitreous blue enamel backing, the central St. George’s cross with similar red enamel, all six back plate fittings remain (see Parkyn Fig.66), mint condition £150-200
Hammer Price: £360
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), a good cast officer’s silver plated KC pouch belt plate c1902-52, KC over thistle sprays enclosing a mullet over a strung bugle horn, at the base a scroll ‘The Scottish Rifles’, three screw fasteners; together with the matching pouch badge, thistle head with swept leaf sprays, two screw fasteners; a good quality white metal piper’s glengarry badge; two pipers’ white metal baldric badges KC over thistle sprays enclosing a mullet and strung bugle...
Hammer Price: £120
Army Medical Staff, a scarce two part pouch belt plate c1856-65, a QVC multi-rayed star with central mount of the Garter Proper enclosing the ‘VR’ cypher, three screw post fasteners; a floreate scroll ‘Medical Staff’, blade fasteners, one missing, very good condition, gilt excellent (2) £50-70
£50–£70
Bombay or Bengal Irregular Cavalry, (?) c1857-61, a fine and scarce officer’s silver plated pouch belt plate, Guelphic crown over laurel sprays enclosing a double star of eight and six points respectively, with central monogram ‘BLC’, complete with shaped backing plate and four screw fasteners, stamped ‘Ranken & Co.’ plus the HEIC lion and crown in an oval cartouche, very good condition £200-300
21st (Royal North British Fusiliers) Regiment, a very rare officer’s shako plate c1812-16, the standard rococo die-stamped crowned gilt back plate with silver pinned mounts comprising a large ‘GR’ cypher over the numerals ‘21’, four small fastening holes around the rim, very good condition £700-900
Hammer Price: £1,300
British Military Headdress Badges, a selection of good quality items including helmet plate centres to the West Yorkshire and Leinster Regiments, a Volunteer Artillery other ranks white metal grenade plume holder, Lancashire Fusiliers o/r glengarry badge, 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment o/r glengarry (K473) (now fitted with an incorrect half slider), Royal Artillery o/r helmet plate c1878-1901 (unicorn’s horn broken), Black Watch o/r glengarry 1937-52, 9th Battalion HLI glengarry, caps to...
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s), a fine and very rare officer’s Foreign Service helmet plate c1881-1900, a crowned Thistle star, this overlayed with large thistle sprays, in the centre a circle ‘Argyll And Sutherland’, mounted at the top of the circle Princess Louise’s coronet depends onto her reversed ‘L’ cypher with the boar’s head and cat to the left and right, this section on a ground of black velvet (worn)(see Bloomer Bk 2 p109/110), the finial ball...
Hammer Price: £450
93rd Sutherland Highlanders, a fine and rare officer’s glengarry/bonnet badge c1836-55 in heavy die-cast copper gilt, a crowned circular strap ‘Sutherland Highlanders’ enclosing the numerals ‘93’, these mounted on a blackened disc, thistle sprays around the strap and a short furled scroll at the base ‘Cape of Good Hope’, copper loop fasteners missing otherwise very good condition £300-400
1st (the Royal) Regiment, a good quality other ranks shako plate 1861-68, small die-stamped brass crowned star bearing the Garter Proper and central stencilled numeral ‘1’, original and correct soft iron soldered lugs, very good condition £150-200
Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, a scarce other ranks Victorian white metal helmet plate, the die-stamped back plate with applied white metal glengarry pattern centre being the Imperial QVC on a Thistle star coiled bugle horn centre with ‘LVR’ monogram in the coil, three lug fasteners, slight damage to a square end section of the mount otherwise good condition £80-120
Hammer Price: £75
36th (Herefordshire) Regiment, good quality other ranks ‘pork-pie’ conjoined numerals ‘36’ period copper lugs c1840-74, very good condition £50-70
Hammer Price: £50
1st or the Royal Scots Regiment, a good quality other ranks 1869-78 pattern shako plate, crowned laurels and Garter with stencilled ‘1’, correctly placed copper lugs, the plate retains some original gilt wash, very good condition £70-90
Hammer Price: £60
4th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, a rare die-stamped brass glengarry badge, a crowned lion passant guardant upon a strap ‘Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers’ in the centre a large ‘4’ upon a bar, original brass lugs; Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteers, a good quality white metal die-stamped glengarry badge, large thistle sprays with central unit title strap in the centre, the crest and motto from the arms of Dumbarton an elephant with castellated howdah and a scroll above ‘Fortitudo et...
The Royal Scots (Lothian) Regiment, a fine quality officer’s glengarry badge c1881-1935, a beaded silver Thistle star with raised gilt Thistle motto and central thistle spray, this with a translucent green enamel backing; The Highland Light Infantry, a good quality officer’s shako/glengarry badge c1901-52, silver thistle star with central silver coiled bugle horn gilt ‘HLI’ monogram centre, similar gilt mounts above and below being a KC and Elephant with Assaye scroll below, all lugs...
Hammer Price: £100
78th Highland (Ross-shire Buffs) Regiment, a good brass glengarry badge, crowned elephant with thistle sprays, a scroll below ‘Cuidich’n Righ’ with ‘78’ at the bottom, re-soldered lugs (K544); 93rd (Sutherland) Highlanders, a good quality brass glengarry badge, thistle sprays with central numerals ‘93’ and title strap ‘Sutherland Highlanders’, period copper loops (K568), good condition (2) £80-100
Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, Duke of Albany’s), a good officer’s four part silver plated headdress badge (K276); The Royal Scots (Lothian) Regiment, a fine quality officer’s glengarry badge c1881-1935, silver beaded thistle star with raised gilt Thistle motto central gilt thistle spray, this with translucent green enamel backing, all fasteners present, very good condition (2) £100-120
Scottish Military Badges, The King’s Own Scottish Borderers a good QVC helmet plate centre 1887-1901 (1 lug missing), HLI QVC glengarry badge (lugs replaced), Scots Guards WW2 bakelite (buckled blades present), The Royal Scots a QVC o/r back plate with bi-metal glengarry style centre, Queen’s Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Brigade (Bloomer Bk 2 p13/14), HLI officers’ full dress collar badges two odd QVC one KC, good overall condition (8) £100-120
Royal Company of Archers The Queen’s Bodyguard for Scotland, two very fine Victorian period dress sash badges, Thistle style star with’ Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland on the arms, circular Thistle motto with green enamel ground and central thistle spray, together with an ‘undress’ sash badge in cast gilt, the Scottish Royal crown over a strap ‘In Peace and War’ with crossed arrows running overall, gilt slightly worn on the last item, otherwise excellent condition (3) £500-600
Hammer Price: £620
1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, a good quality other ranks blackened brass helmet plate c1878-87, crowned cross form with central strung bugle horn and title circle ‘First Lanarkshire R.V.C.’ three lug fasteners, very good condition £100-150
The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, Duke of Albany’s), a very rare officer’s four part bonnet/glengarry badge, hall marked en-suite Birmingham 1916 by B&P (Bent & Parker), stag’s head cabossed coronet ‘L’ and scroll ‘Cuidich’n Rich’ all with correct pin or lug fasteners, very good condition (4) £300-400
Hammer Price: £340
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Militia Battalions, a very scarce other ranks die-stamped white metal helmet plate, the Guelphic crown over wide thistle sprays, on the left spray a Sphinx with blank plinth, and on the right a Dragon with blank plinth, in the centre a mullet over a strung bugle horn, at the bottom a scroll ‘The Scottish Rifles’’, two lug fasteners, very good condition £150-200
£150–£200
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