The Collection of Militaria Formed by The Late R.E. Handley

Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment) Officer’s Post 1902 Blue Cloth Helmet. A good quality example with all gilt fittings and bearing the standard pattern crowned star back plate with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black velvet a Princess’s coronet over the Dannebrog, this with the date 1875 and ‘Alexandra’, at the bottom a complex silver scroll ‘The Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regt.’ and the white rose, very slight moth damage and the plate not original to the helmet, the central mount lacking one fastener
£400-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Militaria Formed by The Late R.E. Handley.

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