Auction Catalogue

25 September 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1022

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£210

British Army Cap & Collar Badges Shoulder Titles & Buttons, a large assortment mainly KC period but plus a few QEC issues the better caps include Sutton Valence School OTC, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Lowland Regiment, 9th Lancers (KC), 7th Hussars (KC slider missing), Army Catering Corps (KC officer’s gilt silver), Middlesex Regt osd, Reconnaissance Corps (g/m), 88th Bn CEF (brass), 238th Bn CEF brooched collar badge; Shoulder Titles include T/RFA/KENT, T/14/LONDON. A good helmet plate centre style pagri to the South Wales Borderers (slider missing); 9th Lancers a late Victorian unmarked silver sweetheart’s brooch; Imperial Russian Army an officer’s hat badge in gilt and silver plate featuring the Imperial eagle cypher laurel and oak sprays; South African items including a glengarry badge to the 8th Infantry Transvaal Scottish; a KC cap badge and ID tags for Sgt M Skinner SAMC; together with assorted buttons (basic issues), plus some excavated items these include an officer’s flat silver plated coatee button to the 43rd (Monmouthshire Regiment/Light Infantry) (Firmin & Westall back mark 1794-1811); a small East Kent Volunteers coatee button (1803-08); a 10th (North Lincoln) regiment o/r tunic button (poor) and a very small interesting thin brass rectangle stamped ‘23rd Regt’, sold as viewed (parcel) £160-200