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16 September 2010
United States of America Naval Badges, four interesting headdress badges featuring the Eagle over a shield and crossed anchors, two in silver plate and gilt, one all silver plate and the other of single piece construction in gilt (fasteners a/f); three variable small rectangular waist belt plates and two probable arm badges, all require careful cleaning (9) £200-250
Hammer Price: £180
16th (The Queens) Lancers Officers’ Mufti and Coatee Buttons, two very fine large mounted gilt mufti buttons 1840 - 1850 by Jennens & Co., London, two large corresponding coatee buttons c. 1840 - 55 (shank part detached on one), a small similar coatee button, two officers’ large gilt tunic buttons 1856 - 1901, together with one small gilt mounted example for the 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars (QVC), two post 1902 gilt mounted mess dress buttons for the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, very good...
Hammer Price: £140
RAF Badges, early cloth badges ‘Royal Air/Force’ and ‘eagle arm badge both white on black, Royal Flying Corps an Observer’s brevet padded white embroidery on black (priced 3/-!), an RAF pilot’s brevet flat white and brown on black embroidery, Royal Flying Corps a Pilot’s brevet flat white and brown embroidery on the remains of a black ground (severely mothed), an other ranks cap badge and one collar badge. W.R.A.F an early shoulder title white embroidery on a black ground...
Hammer Price: £270
Fire Brigade Badges, two unused die-stamped helmet plates for the Liverpool Fire Brigade both shield shaped and showing the Liver Bird over block capital initials ‘L.F.B.’ one white metal, one gilding metal; a part only die-stamped gilding metal plate for the ‘Salop Fire Office’ this title on a strap enclosing the county badge of three logger-heads all within laurel sprays; four badges to the Dublin Fire Brigade two gilt and one white metal with this title scroll, a slightly larger...
Hammer Price: £780
British Red Cross & St. John’s Ambulance Badges, a large selection of items including two heavy white metal rectangular waist belt plates to St. John Ambulance Brigade; together with a wide variety of civilian items including KC badges for the GPO, a QVC badge Straits Settlements Weights & Measures, a cast white metal badge Northern Assurance Co. (rampant lion centre), a white metal badge Birmingham Corporation Gas Department, a large white metal hat badge Hastings & St. Leonards Gas Coy....
Hammer Price: £850
Badges, Medallions for Sporting & Athletic Associations, a large selection for mainly UK associations and clubs but including a few European and overseas examples, together with a selection for the Red Cross, a few political items and a fine HM silver and tortoiseshell brooch for the 16th Battalion The London Regiment, well worth careful viewing, a few fasteners broken or missing (parcel) £150-250
Hammer Price: £820
Pattern Books, three volumes containing a vast variety of civilian waist belt clasps, minor elements of ladies’ jewellery and runs of heavy brass numerals and letters, all items require careful cleaning. £300-500
Hammer Price: £380
Pattern Card Thistle Badges, a large accumulation of die stamped and die cast thistle badges of varying sizes and metals together with a quantity of buttons, mainly civilian and with plain faces but including a few military basic issues, (parcel) £80-120
17 & 18 September 2009
British Army Buttons. Officers’ infantry coatees c.1830-55 comprising forty-three large (some duplication) and nine small, two diamond shaped doublets (79th & 93rd), a very rare black horn example to the 52nd for wear in Canada, two mess waiters 27th & 60th and a large gilt example to the 17th Spanish Infantry and small similar to the 14th Regiment (Peninsula period); together with three examples without shanks (50th, 99th and 74th doublet), also two large gilt tunics 4th Light Dragoons...
British Army Buttons. Officers’ large gilt tunics 1856-81, eighty-one different examples including 101st, 102nd, 103rd, 104th, 106th, 107th, 108th, 109th, a few require cleaning otherwise very good condition (81) £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,100
British Army Buttons. Officers’ large tunics 1856-81, seventy-two large gilt examples including 100th-109th inclusive; variable patterns for the 43rd, 21st and 40th, a few require cleaning otherwise good overall condition (72) £700-900
Hammer Price: £920
British Army Buttons. Officers’ fine quality gilt undress and mufti examples, comprising thirty-eight large and twenty-two small, including 5th DGs, 3rd LDs, 8th RIH, 13th LD, 10th RH, 15th KH; 1st, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 10th, 22nd, 37th, 41st, 43rd, 49th, 67th, 86th, 90th, 98th Foot, Medical Staff, Lymington Yeomanry, etc., very good overall condition (64) £600-800
Hammer Price: £550
British Army Officers’ Tunic Buttons. Seventy-seven large gilt examples representing 44 different infantry regiments 1856-81, many therefore are duplicated; together with nine different large other ranks pre-1881 issues, and thirty-four small other ranks (some duplication), some require cleaning otherwise very good condition (120) £900-1100
Hammer Price: £900
British Army Officers’ Buttons. One hundred and one large gilt infantry examples 1856-81 representing sixty-three different regiments, therefore some duplication, many require cleaning otherwise good condition (101) £1000-1200
Hammer Price: £1,000
British Army Buttons. Officers’ small gilt tunics 1856-81. Two hundred examples with much duplication, and some fitted for epaulette usage, good overall condition (200) £400-600
Hammer Price: £350
British Army Buttons. Officers’ small gilt tunic 1856-81. Two hundred examples, much duplication and including some fitted for epaulette usage, good overall condition (200) £400-600
British Army Buttons. Officers’ small gilt tunics 1856-81. One hundred and fifty examples including some fitted for epaulette usage, good overall condition (150) £300-500
Hammer Price: £250
25 September 2008
The firm of J. R. Gaunt & Son was established in 1884 when John Richard Gaunt and his eldest son, Charles Frederick, left their employment with the long established London military buttonmakers Firmin & Sons to set up on their own. The firm, originally based at the intersection of Clifford Street and Furnace Lane in the Birmingham district of Lozells, prospered and began to supply badges and buttons to uniformed organisations all over the world. By 1895 the business had moved to the city’s...
Hammer Price: £720
Naval Prison Buttons, large gilding metal examples to Bodmin and Portsmouth and a small similar to Portsmouth Prisons; a RNH brass example; a gilding metal example to ‘R.N./M.D.S.F.’; Naval School of Gunnery, a large and small gilt examples (Britannia & Cannon centres); ten interesting Merchant Marine items including City of Glasgow SSS, and City of Bristol (Pilot Service?); together with one half of a Naval Officer’s cloak fastener being a mounted anchor on a gilt roped circle, very...
HEIC Marine, a small group of very scarce items including HEIC Beam Engine patterns (3 sizes), Bengal Steam Service (2 sizes), Bengal Pilot Service (3 types including a large bronze example), Indian Navy Mufti (small mounted), Calcutta Port Commissioners (3 sizes), mint state (17) £200-250
Shipping Companies, a very fine and scarce selection of mainly large size buttons, including two variable patterns showing beam engines, North of Europe SNC Guion Line (with enamelled black star centre), NSN Co. (Old English capitals), ASS Co. (OE capitals), MOSS Co. (OE capitals), near mint state (160) £100-150
Hammer Price: £680
Maritime and Royal Naval Interest, four large boxes containing a vast amount of mainly 20th century buttons, some still on the manufacturers’ cards, good overall condition (2000+) £50-100
Hammer Price: £420
Shipping Company, a vast quantity of early 20th century examples primarily gilts, much duplication, very good overall condition (1000+) £100-150
Hammer Price: £490
Foreign Military and Consular, a very fine and scarce selection of mainly 19th century examples including, seventeen items concerning the War of South American Liberation; fine Diplomatic items, including Brazil, Paraguay, Peru and Argentina; together with a large accumulation of more modern foreign military and diplomatic examples, good overall condition (108 carded, 300+ loose) £150-200
Hammer Price: £410
United States of America, a fine and rare selection including examples to the infantry, artillery and rifles of the 1808-1815 period, very good condition (75) £400-600
Colonial Police, Prison & Civil Bodies, a very fine selection including large Victorian issues to Grenada, Leeward Islands, Victoria and Bangalore Police; British Honduras, Bermuda and Jamaica Constabulary; Georgetown, Hamilton, New South Wales Prisons (Victorian); East Africa and Unganda Protectorates (EVIIR); New Chang Custom House; Rangoon Customs (EVIIR); Rangoon Pilot Service; HM Customs Bombay; British Guiana Medical Service; together with assorted loose examples of similar types, good...
Charities, Asylums, Schools, a selection of very rare items mid to late 19th century, including large and small silver St. Marks Hospital; a large gilt Opthalmic Hospital; large and medium gilts London Hospital; large and small bronze Alnut’s Hospital; three varying patterns to Bancrofts Hospital; large bronze St. John’s Hospital; four blackened Daniel Stewart’s Hospital; large gilts to Royal Albert Institution Salop & Montgomery Asylum, Broadmoor (3); Royal Institution for the Blind;...
Corporation & Civic Livery Buttons, a fine and rare selection including a large pewter example to the City of New Sarum; large gilts to Colchester Corporation; Borough of Droitwich; Glasgow; Inverness; Manchester (very early); Dowgate Ward (London); Lincoln’s Inn UK Law Society; City of Rochester; County of Somerset; County of Middlesex; large silver plated examples to Oldham Inner Temple; Middle Temple; Lichfield; County of Middlesex and Borough of Newport, very good condition (72) £150-200
Hammer Price: £210
British Royal Court Buttons, a very rare and fine carded selection including many early 19th century examples (seven varying pre 1837 issues); GIVR Visit to Ireland; Prince Albert’s and Queen Adelaide’s Household; Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Household; Duke of Cambridge (two patterns); Highland Dress for the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York; together with several hundred associated items (multiple duplication), good overall condition (95 carded plus loose items) ...
Hammer Price: £480
George, Prince Regent, a very rare packet containing 23 small gilt buttons with outer attached small and large examples of the same. The crown over ‘GPR’ on lined ground within a circle of raised bezants, all with maker’s mark of ‘Charles Jennens London’ (plus the Prince of Wales’s crest), excellent condition (25) £130-160
Hammer Price: £120
Court Diplomatic and Foreign Ambassadors, two original pattern cards containing 132 examples mainly late 19th century, very good condition (132) £100-150
Hotels, Clubs, Banks & Commercial Houses. a very fine and scarce carded selection including many examples to clubs and institutions now long defunct, together with many loose similar items, very good condition (197) £80-120
Hammer Price: £470
Railways & Tramways, a very fine and scarce carded selection including large brass examples to Cavan & Leitrim, Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge, Belfast & Northern Counties Highland, Glasgow & South Western, GER, NBR, GNR, GN&GE Railways; large gilt examples to L&SW Marine, Midland, GWR (brackets QVC & KC); Danish Railways (c1861); large Colonial Railways include Lagos Government, Nigeria, Nigeria Eastern, Trinidad, Uganda, Burmah, Western Australia (KC); Large Tramways include...
Yacht Clubs, a large and scarce selection including many Victorian large gilts mainly British Isles but including a few USA items, also included are around twenty large examples to Boat Clubs, good overall condition (200+). £50-80
British Police Forces & Prison Service, a fine and scarce carded selection including large gilts to City of London, Neath, Borough, Paisley; large silver plated to Perth, Grimsby, Reading, Canterbury; large white metals to Brighton, Berwick-on-Tweed, Govan, Dundee City, Stockport, Guildford, Hamilton; Prison Service include large sizes to East Sussex, Carnarvon Castle, Rushen and Isle of Man; together with a large selection of loose examples, good overall condition (88 carded 190+ loose) ...
£200–£250
Fire Brigades British & Overseas, a fine carded selection including large sizes to Birmingham, Coventry, Dublin, Edinburgh, Leamington, Volunteer, Middlesborough, Rishton Printers Volunteer Fire Contingent (OUP), Antigua, British Honduras, Rangoon, together with a fine white metal helmet badge to the British Honduras Fire Brigade, very good condition (54) £100-150
Hammer Price: £390
Sporting & Social Clubs, a fine and scarce selection, including golf club examples to the Needles, Dunbar, Troon, Portmarnock, Ryde, Edinburgh, Burgess Ealing (combined), Toronto; others include Cardiff Tricycling Club, Forest of Arden Bowmen, St. John’s Archers, Savernake Forest Canterbury Cricket Club, a selection of Masonic examples and many other initial only clubs, very good condition (83) £150-200
Hammer Price: £340
Hunting & Other Sporting Buttons, two original pattern cards mainly mid to 19th century containing a fine selection of mainly large gilts including examples to the following fox hunts: Vine Union, Perth, Summerford, Oakley, Albrighton Mr., St. Maur’s Royal Leamington (two patterns), Dartmoor Forest, Lord Dacre’s Hoo Hunt; various racing clubs, other unidentified hunt and sporting clubs, together a few yacht club and diplomatic items, very good condition (142) £400-500
Hammer Price: £1,600
Hunting, Fox, Hare & Stag, a very fine and rare selection mounted on two cards, including large gilts to the Tregeb Fox Hunt (annotated), Ifold (INH), (Mr. John Napper’s plus a small example), Madras (mounted), Tiviside, BFH under a Baron’s coronet, Captain Wilder’s Royal Rock Beagles, plus many other interesting and unidentified examples, inspection imperative, very good condition (175+) £600-800
Hammer Price: £2,900
Hunting, Fox, Hare & Stag, a very fine and rare selection mounted on two cards and including large gilts to the Ifold (Mr. John Napper’s), West Meath, Down, TBWH (with Viscount’s coronet), RSH (script pre 1835), ECSH (script), ‘Gone Away” plus running fox, ‘L & C running hare, H-s’ (Old English capitals), The Wynnstay (c1840-60 period), H.P.H. (block capitals), D & HH (Old English), EKH (Old English), LH (Old English) within a plain strap, ‘CH’ (decorated script) under a...
Hammer Price: £2,600
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