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Royal West African Frontier Force, a framed collection of cap badges collar badges and buttons including the large bronze and gilt cap badges (35); a small frame containing four cap badges all other ranks ASC, RASC GVIR metal KC, anodised QEC Royal Corps of Transport and Royal Logistic Corps; a Nazi breast badge blackened brass helmet on crossed swords, 20 excavated other ranks pewter buttons from the Crimea including 9th, 14th, 28th, 38th, 42nd, 44th, 48th, 63rd, 79th, Scots Fusiliers and...
Hammer Price: £140
The Heroes of Waterloo, a very large framed engraving of the Duke of Wellington and other senior officers (some deceased); engraved by C.G.Lewis after the painting by J.P.Knight RA, published by Henry Graves and Company, October 1845, complete with a small photostat key plate, the engraving, mount and frame all in excellent condition £200-300
Hammer Price: £260
Royal Flying Corps, sweetheart wings, 9 carat gold and enamels, contained in a fitted velvet lined jeweller’s case, very fine £50-60
Hammer Price: £100
Germany, Third Reich, ‘Ausweis‘, organisation pass, inscribed ‘Britische Kanalinseln’; together with R.A.D. workers cap badge; Party membership badge; two day badges; and a miniature Czeck pilots badge, the first in excavated condition, the second and last lacking their reverse fittings, otherwise good condition (6) £25-35
Hammer Price: £65
91st Argyll Highlanders, a good quality die-stamped white metal piper’s plaid brooch the strap like quoit with raised legend ‘Ne Obliviscaris. XCI.’, in the pierced centre the boar’s head on a torse, original stout pin to the reverse, excellent condition £80-120
Hammer Price: £220
Seaforth Highlanders, a very fine silver plated piper’s plaid brooch post 1881, the pierced quoit engraved at the top with a stag’s head cabossed and long motto scroll ‘Cuidich N Rhi’ and at the base with a QVC over ‘72’; the reverse engraved ‘Piper’s 1st Seaforth Highlanders’, original stout pin fastener, excellent condition £80-120
Hammer Price: £230
Argyll Highland Rifle Volunteers, a very fine officer’s silver plated plaid brooch, the pierced quoit with eight raised arms which support the central device of a boar’s head within the coil of a QVC bugle horn, maker’s mark on the reverse ‘CS’, original stout pin fastener, near mint state £150-200
Hammer Price: £320
Colonial & Dominion Cap Badges, an interesting group including a QVC glengarry to the Royal Malta Artillery, a bronze cap to the CEF unit Overseas Railway Construction Corps, similar to the 10th Canadians, a white metal cap to the Barbados Regiment and similar to the Rhodesian African Rifles, excellent overall condition (14) £60-80
Hammer Price: £75
The Rifle Brigade, a good quality other ranks blackened brass helmet plate 1881-1890 (KK284); Bedfordshire Yeomanry, a very fine officers’ gilt and silver cap badge (KK1489) ‘J Gaunt & Sons’ and one only matching collar badge; Reconnaissance Corps, a good officers’ bronze cap badge, original blades; OTC brass caps for Sedbergh and Dean Close schools, osd cap The Hampshire Regiment and a bi-metal cap Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; a pair of brass shoulder titles...
Hammer Price: £130
Cap Badges, a large group c1935-1953 including an officer’s glengarry badgeto The Royal Scots silver plate gilt and enamel; 15th/16th and 18th London battalions; 3rd King’s Own Hussars and 3rd Dragoon Guards; 33 other infantry and corps caps, one posd/silver collar Northamptonshire Regiment and a copy PO’s cap badge RND, excellent condition overall (40) £100-120
Prussian Veteran Commemorative Pipe Bowls, two highly decorated with swags of floral decoration in relief, military and social scenes and listings of personnel, one dated 1895-1898 the other 1898-1900, both with brass covers one in the shape of a pickelhaube, both with minor cracks and the short stem repaired on one; a third dated 1914 of simpler form but with a section of the wooden stem and mouth piece present, good colour and general condition apart from the defects stated (3) £60-100
4th Middlesex (West London) RV, an interesting official card dated December 19, 1899 requesting members of the Corps to register their names if they desire to serve abroad, sent by A S Daniel and addressed by hand to Mr G A Hawkes, 170 Blythe Road, Hammersmith, card posted in Kensington Dec 20 1899, together with Queen Victoria’s 1900 chocolate gift tin, this contains some straw lining, a hard tack biscuit, a silver threepenny piece (1900) and two small pieces of white flannel, some...
Hammer Price: £50
Royal Flying Corps, a good embroidered breast badge KC/RFC/wings beige and white on black backing; together with a brass Edward VIII National Defence Company cap badge and a pair of brass shoulder titles NDC, very good overall condition (4) £40-60
World war ii battledress tunic, 1940 pattern and dated March 1942 and bearing a Captain’s rank insignia, five WWII medal ribbons, two woven shoulder titles ‘S.A.S’ very pale blue on maroon and the woven SAS parachute and wings badge on the upper right arm, these badsges not removed for inspection but appear to be period items; the WD label inked ‘Harington’ (correct spelling) and later crudely marked ‘Major Harrington’; together with an undated pair of of BD trousers; a fine...
Hammer Price: £170
16th Regiment of Foot (probably HEIC), a33cm long ram’s hotn decorated with a selection of scrimshaw illustrations wrought by ‘Peter Nangle Serjant 16th Regt’, hunting and camp scenes, a schooner, elephant, palm tree etc., crossed flags being a Union Jack and one inscribed ‘Liberty’, between these the crowned Harp & Maid but with an eagle on top of the crown, the work of reasonable standard, 1800-20, slight ‘fraying’ to the large open end otherwise good condition £60-80
Middlesex Yeomanry, an extremely fine and scarce officer’s gilt cap badge c1908-1910, crowned eight pointed star with circle inscribed ‘pro Aris et Focis M.D.C.H.’ and the cypher of Edward VII in the centre, two long loop fasteners; together with a small tunic button ‘Imperial Yeomany’, cap badge in mint state £40-60
Hammer Price: £60
Catalogue of British, Hanoverian and other Waterloo Medals in the Collection of Henry Gaskell, with notes on the last survivors, by N. Kynaston Gaskell, includes index of recipients mentioned therein, published in London 1905, original red board covers, 76pp; together with, The Orders of Chivalry, by J.H. Lawrence-Archer, 55pp; Orders and Decorations, by Vaclav Mericka; and a pamphlet on Brasilian medals, generally very good condition and the first two rare (4) £60-80
J. B. Hayward & Son Medal Catalogues 1966-1978, comprising an almost complete run of these rare catalogues, which also contain many interesting articles, good condition (38) £60-80
The Ninth (Queen’s Royal) Lancers 1715-1903, by Frank H. Reynard, 258pp, original blue cloth covers, with Army Museums Ogilby Trust book plate, lacking one of its nineteen colour plates, the spine damaged, otherwise in good condition £40-50
Hammer Price: £70
War Services of Officers on Retired Pay, December 1924, modern reprint, 703pp, containing useful detail on the Great War Services of numerous retired officers, original hard covers, very good condition £30-40
Hammer Price: £25
The Cheshire Regiment and its Miniature Colour at Mons, by Frank Simpson, published 1929, 75pp, original red cloth covers, good condition £40-50
Hammer Price: £35
The Conquest of Scinde, Part I, by Major-General W. F. P. Napier, 196pp, original red cloth covers, the spine split, otherwise in good condition £80-100
£80–£100
The Standing Orders of The 1st Battalion, 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment, published 1882, 77pp, original red cloth covers, good condition £20-30
£20–£30
George Bleazard Cowpe, Memories and Letters 1916-1917, compiled by The Reverend Robert A. Taylor, being a privately printed memorial volume, numbered ‘193’. published 1918, 107pp, in original 1/4 vellum bindings, good condition and rare £50-60
The History of The Cheshire Regiment in The Second World War, by Arthur Crookenden, 371pp, including detailed biographies and photographs of the regiments fallen officers, red cloth bindings, very good condition £40-50
Hammer Price: £40
The War Record of The 1/5th (Earl of Chester’s) Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment August 1914 - June 1919, by Lieutenant Colonel W. A. V. Churton, D.S.O., T.D., published by Phillipson and Golder 1920, 130pp, original red cloth covers, good condition and rare £50-60
Hammer Price: £55
Napoleon and Waterloo, by Captain A. F. Becke, two volumes, being a strategical and tactical study of The Emperor’s campaign with the Armee du Nord in 1815, 696pp, original red cloth covers; together with, Wellington’s Campaigns Peninsula - Waterloo 1808-15, by Major-General C. W. Robinson, C.B., three volumes, Part I ‘Roleia to Albuhera’; Part II ‘Barrosa to Vittoria and Invasion of France’; Part III ‘Nivelle to Waterloo’, 678pp, all with original red cloth bindings, the...
Hammer Price: £80
The Annuity Meritorious Service Medal 1847-1953, by I. McInnes, 450 pages, hard covers in slip case, one of a limited edition of 400 copies, containing the names with biographical detail of nearly 6,000 men who were awarded the M.S.M. with annuity between 1847 and 1953, very good condition and a useful publication £60-70
Hammer Price: £95
The Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 1830-1848, by I. McInnes and J. B. Gregson, 291 pages, full leather binding in slip case, one of a limited edition of 300 copies, containing the names with biographical detail of 2,900 men awarded the Army L.S, & G.C. Medal, type 1, very good condition £50-60
Sudden Death, Sudden Glory, The 59th Regiment 1793-1830, by D. Ingham, 185 pages, hard covers, one of a limited edition of 400 copies, containing much biographical detail on the Regiments officers and other ranks, very good condition £30-35
£30–£35
In Adversity, by Squadron Leader N.G. Tucker, R.A.F., 337 pages, hard covers, one of a limited edition of 1,000 copies, containg details of gallantry awards, including M.I.D.’s to the R.A.F. Regiment and its associated forces 1921-1995, very good condition £25-35
Under Shell-Fire, by Frederick Miller, being the story of The Hartlepools, Scarborough and Whitby under German shell-fire, published 1915, 166pp, original paper covers, good condition £20-30
Hammer Price: £30
The Quarterly Army List, January 1914, with an extremely informative graduation list of Officers, date of birth, first appointment (unit) etc; regimental list; colonial militia; and volunteers; volunteer battalions; orders of knighthood, etc., Foreign Orders; War and Meritorious Services, etc., fully indexed, 3252pp.,original red cloth bindings, spine of bindings damaged, otherwise good condition £80-100
Official History of Australia in The War of 1914-18, Volume IX, The Royal Australian Navy, by A. W. Jose, published 1935, 649pp, original red cloth bindings, good condition £20-30
Hammer Price: £20
The Story of The First Life Guards, by Captain C. W. Bell, published 1922, 80pp, original red cloth bindings; together with two miscellaneous books on world orders, good condition £20-30
Mutinies in Oudh, by Martin Richard Gubbins, published in 1858, one of the best accounts of the Mutiny and the Defence of Lucknow, in which Gubbins played an important part, 484pp, fly leaf signed by Francis Drake, late Quartermaster 5th Fusiliers, who was wounded at Lucknow, original boards but these detached and distressed, contents fair £50-60
Hammer Price: £110
History of the Scottish Regiments of the British Army, by Archibald Murray, 2nd edition published 1863, 416pp, 47 engraved plates, binding restored, otherwise good condition £40-50
Old Scottish Regimental Colours, by Andrew Ross, William Blackwood & Sons 1885, 28 fine coloured plates of regimental Colours and other illustrations, with historical narrative, original red cloth boards, but these very loose, water stained and generally distressed, the contents largely unaffected and the plates still fresh, a scarce work £100-150
Bomber Pilot, by Squadron-Leader Leonard Cheshire, D.S.O., D.F.C., 1st edition, signed by the author in November 1944, Ex-Libris Air Commodore W. P. Sutcliffe and with two contemporary letters relating to Sutcliffe, rebound but contents good £60-80
My Mystery Ships, by Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O., a 1932 edition, with Honours and Awards, signed by the author in 1932, Ex-Libris Air Commodore W. P. Sutcliffe, good condition £50-60
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