20th Mar, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
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A Victorian Home Service Helmet to 1st Cumberland Artillery Volunteers, with six panelled blue cloth top set with a white metal ball with cruciform base, die stamped white metal helmet plate, bound front rim and ear rosettes with chin scales, with crimson silk lining, cream leather sweatband and maker's gilt tooled crimson morroco label for T. McBride & Son, 17 Charles Street, London, S.W., in a black japanned tin set with brass tablet engraved C.A. Valentine Esq., 1st Cumberland V.A.; a Pair of North American Indian Buckskin Gauntlets, the backs with coloured glass beadwork decoration, with floral chintz cotton linings; a Brass 1½" Single Draw Telescope, with anti-flare hood and lens cover, 61cm extended (4)
Sold for £600
Estimated at £400 - £500
Helmet in good clean condition, left ear rosette hook is broken. Some scrapes to the tin.
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 20th Mar, 2024
Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.
Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.
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Tuesday 19 March 10am-5pm and the morning of the sale from 8am
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