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Carter, Thomas, Medals of the British Army and how they were Won, London, 1861, Crimean Campaign, viii, 185pp, Egypt, Peninsula, Waterloo and South Africa, viii, 191pp, India, viii, 192pp, plus colour plates, bound in one volume, ex-libris R. S. Mansergh, red half calf; Carter, Thomas, War Medals of the British Army and how they were Won, London, 1893, xv, 656pp, plus colour plates, red cloth; Long, W. H., Medals of the British Navy and how they were Won, London, 1895, xiii, 450pp, plus...
Hammer Price: £260
Irwin, D. Hastings, War Medals and Decorations, London, 1910, 4th edition, 536pp., plus plates; Steward, W. Augustus, The A.B.C. of War Medals and Decorations, 2nd edition, xvii, 407pp., plus plates; Dorling, Taprell, Ribbons and Medals, London, 1956, 285pp., plus colour plates, with dustcover; Long, W. H., Medals of the British Navy and How they were Won, London, 1895, xiii, 450pp., plus colour plates; Abbott, P. E. & Tamplin, J. M. A., British Gallantry Awards, Enfield, 1971, 359pp, with...
Hammer Price: £230
Raikes, Captain G. A., The History of the Honourable Artillery Company, Richard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street, London, 1878-79, Volume I, xxxi, 491pp., Volume II, xl, 563pp, both plus maps and plates, original gilt decorated blue cloth, volume II cloth cover becoming detached, both with general wear to corners and edges, interior in good condition (2) £50-70
Hammer Price: £20
Ropes, John Codman, An Atlas of the Campaign of Waterloo, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1893, containing 14 maps relating to the campaign - including theatre of war, position of the armies and positions on the field of battle, ex-libris U.S.A. War Dept. Library, blue half calf, boards a little worn, maps in good condition, scarce £60-80
£60–£80
Sterry, Sir Wasey, The Eton College Register 1441-1698, Eton, 1943, xxxviii, 414pp.; Stapylton, H. E. C., The Eton School Lists from 1791 to 1850, 2nd edition, London, 1864, xiv, 273pp.; A Register of S. Nicholas College, Lancing, 1848-1900, viii, 317pp., edition limited to 500 copies; The Malvern Register 1865-1904, 2nd edition, Malvern, 1905, xxxix, 627pp.; Auden, J. E., Shrewsbury School Register 1798-1898, Oswetry, 1898, lx, 264pp., with plates and maps; Hughes-Hughes, W.O. (Editor), The...
Hammer Price: £80
Webb, Lieutenant-Colonel E. A. H., History of the 12th (The Suffolk) Regiment 1685-1913, 1st edition, 1914, Spottiswoode, London, xxii, 505pp, 17 colour and 29 b/w plates, original three-quarter morocco, gilt, boards a little faded, spine and edges slightly worn, good condition £50-70
Hammer Price: £50
[Members of the Battalion], History and Memoir of the 33rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps and of the 19th, 98th, 100th and 248th M.G. Companies, Privately printed by Waterlow Brothers & Layton Ltd., London, 1919, edited by Lieutenant-Colonel G. S. Hutchison, C.O. 33rd Batt. M.G.C., copy number ‘870’ of a limited edition of 1,600 copies, 118pp., plus 18 coloured plates, numerous b/w plates, original buff cloth, covers stained and worn, interior slightly stained but in good condition £80-100
Hammer Price: £75
[Ministerio de Guerra], Historia de los Premios Militares Republica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1906, 3 volumes, 359, 253 and 271pp, beautifully illustrated with colour and b/w plates, marbled boards with ribbed calf spines, boards and spines worn, scuffed, interior very good, scarce (3) £120-150
Hammer Price: £150
[The Times], The War in Egypt, with illustrations by Richard Simkin, George Routledge & Sons, London, 1883, 64pp., including 16 pages in colour, b/w sketches and maps, original red boards, these stained, interior in good condition £30-40
3rd Dragoon Guards: Two albums, includes facsimile paintings of Morier, Vernet, M. A. Hayes, Norie; correspondence from the Revd. Percy Sumner and Lionel Bucknell; various photographs of the regiment in India, 1886; several studies of mounted troopers and N.C.O.’s by F. G. O. Stuart, c.1890; a large chromolithograph of a mounted officer by Harry Payne, creased; a Simkin print; a good photograph of the band in mounted full dress, c.1900; a photograph of the mounted kettle drummer in full...
Hammer Price: £180
5th Dragoon Guards: Two albums, facsimile watercolours after Morier, Dighton; copy photographs of regimental carte-de-visites; a group photograph of officers at Dundalk, 1873, in stable jackets, frock coats or patrol jackets; a 3/4 length photograph of Captain B. H. Entwhistle, c.1875, in full dress; a full dress parade at Dundalk, 1873; a large chromolithograph of a mounted officer in mounted review order, c.1895; a Simkin print of a similar subject; also a photograph of cavalry manoeuvres,...
Hammer Price: £120
The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons): Three albums, 18th Century to 1938, including several large watercolours of the c.1742 grenadier cap; numerous watercolours; a carte-de-visite size portrait of an officer in full dress in Dublin, c.1870; numerous copy photographs of regimental portraits; correspondence from the noted collector and authority of the regiment - James Allison addressed to Brennan, dated 1943; a Simkin print of an officer in full dress; various postcards of the drum horse...
Hammer Price: £140
6th Inniskilling Dragoons: Two albums, 1689-1930’s. includes numerous copy photographs of named officers of the 1860’s; a large facsimile painting by Brennan after Daubrawa showing various ranks, c.1848; facsimiles after Norie; a carte-de-visite size photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel Crauley, c.1860’s, in full dress with helmet beside him; a group photograph of the officers in braided frock coats and pillbox caps at the Curragh, 1871; a photograph of several military bands probably...
Hammer Price: £100
7th Hussars: Two albums, includes facsimile paintings after Morier, 18th Century sword exercises, Dighton, Norie etc; two colour prints by Knotel; eight carte-de-visite size photographs of officers, mostly named, in pillbox caps and frock coats or astrakhan-trimmed patrol jackets; a good officers group at Hounslow, 1874; a full length photograph of Colonel (later General) C. Haggart C.B. in full dress; a photograph of the kettle-drummer, c.1890’s; a cabinet photograph of the Duke of...
Hammer Price: £200
8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars: Two albums, 18th Century to 1952, includes facsimile watercolours after Hamilton Smith and Dighton; an oval photograph of a mounted officer in full dress, 1869, the white of the busby plume and throat plume heightened with white paint; two officer group photographs, in various orders of dress, Ireland, c.1870; another photograph of the trumpet-major in stable dress, mounted drill order, 1872; a group of three N.C.O.’s in full dress with pillbox caps, 1886;...
9th Lancers: two albums, includes facsimile of Morier, Hull, Loder; another after a contemporary sketch of the regiment in their Indian Mutiny kit; a photograph of Quartermaster Fuller, 1874, in cocked hat, full dress but plain black leather sabretache; a series of nine small named photographs of officers, mounted, in stable dress; two photographs by Burke in Afghanistan, one depicting Roberts and staff with escort of the regiment and Indian cavalry, the other of a group of officers in blue...
Hammer Price: £310
12th Lancers: Two albums, includes numerous facsimile watercolours, prints; a good named group of officers at Scunderabad, 1880, in Indian hot weather dress, white jackets, tropical helmets and dress overalls; another named group in blue patrols and other orders of dress; another named group in khaki drill, helmets with quilted neck protectors, blue breeches and high leather boots, at Bangalore, 1884; a fine officer group in several orders of dress, 1869; several other photographs including...
Hammer Price: £300
14th/20th Hussars: Two albums, one for each component regiment, includes facsimiles of Dighton, Drahonet; some interesting sketches relating to a trial pattern of leather helmet; a section of a photograph of 20th Hussars with yeomanry; a good photograph of mounted kettle-drummer of the 20th Hussars, c.1900; a large watercolour of a 20th Hussars sabretache; a Simkin print; a 3/4 length photograph of an officer of 20th Hussars with astrakhan-trimmed patrol jacket, c1897; six good R/P postcards...
15th/19th Hussars: Two albums, one for each of the component regiments, 15th Hussars facsimile watercolours after Dighton, Dubois, Drahonet, Spooner, Ebsworth, Norie, etc.; three good cartes-de-visite, vis. Godfrey Watt, in full dress as regimental surgeon, with cocked hat and sabretache, c.1868; a 1/2 length portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley and a study of an officer in mess kit taken at York, 1860’s; an F. G. O. Stuart photograph of a R.S.M. in full dress, c.1890; various ephemera...
Hammer Price: £220
16th/5th Lancers: Two albums, one for each of the component regiments, includes 5th Lancers - a fine group photograph of officers in various orders of dress at Lucknow, 1865; a carte-de-visite size photograph of Major Grant at Lucknow, 1865, in full dress but bareheaded; large chromatolithograph of a mounted officer, c.1890; photographs of mounted and dismounted parades, c.1895; two F. G. O. Stuart photographs of troopers in stable dress; numerous coloured postcards; three photographs in...
17th Lancers: Four albums, 18th Century to 1930, includes numerous watercolours; prints; two hand-coloured figures from cavalry sword exercise; a group photograph of the Guard in full dress with czapkas and lances, 1868/9; also a large number of F. G. O. Stuart photographs of the regiment, mounted and dismounted in various orders of dress and at lance exercise; groups and single figure studies, drum-horse etc.; an interesting series of watercolours by Brennan depicting the numerous orders of...
Hammer Price: £250
18th Hussars: Two albums, 18th Century to 1936, facsimile paintings after Dighton, Finart, Norblin etc., colour print by Knotel; photograph of a mounted trooper. c.1890; a series of Brennan watercolours of the regiment in India depicting their various orders of dress worn in 1892; a group photograph of officers in khaki drill at Aligarh; another similar of N.C.O.’s; another of officer’s charger with native syce; a mounted march past at Umballa, 1893; numerous photographs of mounted...
Royal Horse Artillery and Honourable Artillery Company: Three albums, two for the R.H.A. and one for the H.A.C., including a certain amount on H.E.I.Co. Artillery; numerous facsimile watercolours after various 19th Century artists: a 3/4 length watercolour of a R.H.A. officer by B. T. A. Griffiths dated 1927 after an early 19th Century portrait; twelve carte-de-visite size portraits of R.H.A. officers, mostly with interesting medal groups and all named; various regimental group photographs...
Hammer Price: £360
Mixed Cavalry interest: Four albums, one each on the Royal Horse Guards, 2nd Dragoon Guards (The Queen’s Bays), 4th Dragoon Guards and 21st Lancers, including numerous facsimile watercolours after Morier, Norie, Wymer etc., chromolithographs, R/P and printed postcards, ephemera, 2nd Dragoon Guards: a photograph of a trooper by F. G. O. Stuart, in dress uniform; another in stable jacket; another of a Troop Sergeant-Major; a photograph of a mounted officer in Boer War service dress in South...
Mixed Cavalry interest: Six albums comprising two on the 3rd Hussars and one each on the 4th Hussars, 10th Hussars (not part of the Brennan collection), 11th Hussars and 13th Hussars, mostly facsimile watercolours as in previous lot, some Knotel prints; postcards; chromolithographs; a group photograph of Royal Military Tournament Staff, c.1892; various F. G. O. Stuart photographs; a large full-length photograph of a Rough Riding Sergeant-Major of 4th Hussars, 1895; a photograph of drum horse...
12th Prince of Wales’s Royal Lancers, a fine quality officer’s undress ‘pill-box’ pattern forage cap of stiffened scarlet cloth the side with deep gold Austrian wave regimental lace the top with gold cord boss and narrow gimp quartering, soft leather sweatband scarlet quilted silk lining gold blocked with ‘(Ranken) & Co Calcutta’ trade label, part of narrow leather chin strap only, slight surface mothing to crown and slight fracturing of the quilted lining otherwise good...
£250–£300
15th The King’s Royal Hussars, a rare good quality officer’s unstiffened ‘pill-box’ forage cap c1855-1870, crimson cloth with deep gold regimental lace around the side this with narrow navy cloth ‘lights’ above and below, the top with gold gimp cord boss and ornate gold lace figuring, soft leather sweat band and quilted red silk lining, very narrow ‘cord’ chin strap, lace dull otherwise very fine condition for age £300-350
£300–£350
Huntingdon Light Horse Volunteers (Duke of Manchester’s), a very scarce other ranks undress forage cap c1860-83, of pill box form and in navy blue and white cloth, to the front an applied ducal coronet white thread on black and below in in light blue embroidery ‘1st MV’, internally sound and complete with narrow chin strap, remains of owner’s label ‘...utton’, some surface wear and staining from melted patent leather otherwise good condition £80-120
Hammer Price: £65
Queen’s Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry Cavalry, a fine quality officer’s ‘pill-box’ forage cap c1880-1900, of stiffened blue cloth and narrow red cloth crown piping broad gold thistle pattern lace to side, gold gimp cord top boss and a most ornate gold lace figuring around the boss covering most of the crown, soft leather sweat band and still with narrow leather chin strap, quilted crimson silk lining, this gold blocked with Messrs Hawkes & Co 14 Piccadilly London trade label, excellent...
WWI Brodie Pattern Steel Helmet, complete with original leather chin strap but lacking liner, some bubbling to original finish, free from dents, good condition for age £80-120
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire & Wiltshire), a very rare Bandmaster’s full dress blue cloth helmet c1958-1995, of contemporary construction but well modelled on the officers 1878 pattern, blue cloth with usual fittings, front trim broader and rivetted rather than pressed, chin chain rosettes metal spine, spike and quadrant, the special pattern plate of QEC star shape with Garter Proper centre all in gilding metal, the centre in bi-metal being the badge of the combined...
Imperial German Navy, a fine and rare naval officer’s dress mutz of navy blue cloth, the side with plain black ‘lace’ band, the narrow peak of blaclk leather with a deep double stitched black leather binding, chin strap of black patent leather retained by small Imperial crowned naval buttons, the fine large frontal badge of gold and silver metal thread being the crown over oak wreaths centrally the national cockade in silver metal thread black silk and red cloth, soft leather sweatband...
Hammer Price: £270
Imperial German Naval Air Service Rating’s Cap, of blue cloth with black silk ribbons, to the front a small national cockade (repainted), the silver ‘lace’ tally reads, ‘Marine=Flieger=Abteilung’, blue silk lining with silver blocked retailer’s details, Imperial crown over (name indistinct) of Cuxhaven, blackened hessian sweatband, one or two minute moth holes otherwise good condition £100-150
German Naval Rating’s Cap, of navy blue cloth with scarlet welt, the front with small national cockade (worn), the attached cap tally reads ‘XVIII Torpedoboots=Halbflottilie. XVIII.’, leather sweatband and black fabric lining, good condition £100-150
Hammer Price: £330
Indian State Forces, a Major-General’s impressive special pattern scarlet cloth double-breasted tunic with navy blue facings, the deep turn down collar heavily embellished with gold lace and inner panels of gold leaf and flower patterns, deep 18th century style cuffs similarly decorated, six leaf and flower panels to the rear skirts,very large gilt mounted buttons display crossed kukries with wreaths of alternating oak and laurel leaves, between the wreaths at the top a rayed face of the...
Royal Army Physical Training Corps, a QEC period WOI’s scarlet Mess jacket and trousers, the former with anodised collar badges and bullion sleeve badges comprising parachute wings rank badge and crossed swords, the tailor’s label (HE Glover & Sons. Aldershot) states ‘WO2 D Challinor 1964 APTC’, trousers with WD arrow and supplied by L Silberston & Sons Ltd 1955’, also his green soft tropical hat, this with applied black cloth patch double red stripe and silver plated and red...
Hammer Price: £70
Seaforth Highlanders (The Duke of Albany’s), an officer’s post 1881 shoulder belt plate, rectangular gilt back plate with silver mounts comprising a Royal Ducal coronet ‘F’ the elephant a stag’s head cabossed and title scroll ‘Seaforth Highlanders’, usual fasteners retailed by Kirkwoods Thistle Street Edinburgh; together with a small group of West African s/titles collars etc., LAGOS/WAFF, KAR, GAMBIA, WAFF, GC/WAFF, a broken ?/WAFF a pair of collars to the WAFF, a 1st KAR KC...
Hammer Price: £130
Frome and Selwood Volunteer Cavalry, a pair of officer’s silver plated undress shoulder scales complete with red cloth padded liners, each with silver plated hollow back buttons bearing a central crown with ‘F&S’ to left and right with ‘V&C’ above and below, the scales with two official holes perhaps indicating Royal cypher and rank badges, small dents to one crescent otherwise good condition (2) £80-120
£80–£120
Lagos Constabulary, a very fine and rare Victorian senior officer’s all gilt multi-part pouch belt plate, crowned wreaths of laurel and palm enclosing the Garter Motto, in the centre script initials ‘LC’ at the base the battle honour scroll ‘Ashantee’, two bolt fasteners to reverse, mint state £200-250
Hammer Price: £380
The Hampshire Regiment, an extremely fine quality officer’s KC cap badge in silvered coloured metal gilt enamels and red velvet by JR Gaunt London; Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Birmingham Battalion, a base metal and enamelled lapel badge dated 1914; Army Service Corps an officer’s two part bronze KC cap badge, very good condition (3) £60-80
Hammer Price: £60
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