4th Jun, 2014 10:00 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
Lot 146
 

146

Sergeant G.R Snowden, E.Company, 5th Battalion Kings Own, Morecambe and The Home Guard - An...

Sergeant G.R Snowden, E.Company, 5th Battalion Kings Own, Morecambe and The Home Guard - An Interesting Collection of Related Militaria, including:- a No.1 Dress uniform of a crimson tunic with black stand-up collar and cuffs, collar badges, shoulder titles and rank stripes, a pair of black trousers with red side stripes, two red sashes, a peaked cap and two field caps; a No.2 Service tunic and peaked cap, two battledress blouses with Home Guard insignia, a pair of trousers and two field caps, belts and puttees; cloth insignia, cap badges, shoulder titles, rank badges and buttons; his cut throat razor, portrait photographs and personal letters to and from his wife, and from his comrades whilst he was recuperating in hospital after being injured; unrelated medals, two silver war badges, two swagger sticks, four enamel trays, seventeen embroidered silk postcards, and other postcards and ephemera. All contained in box and his black painted wood travel trunk, inscribed in cream SERGT.G.R. SNOWDEN, E. COMPANY, 5TH BATT.KING'S OWN, MORECAMBE

Sold for £880
Estimated at £150 - £250


 

Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 4th Jun, 2014

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