3rd Dec, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
Lot 171
 

171

A Victorian Officer's Busby to the Royal Horse Artillery by Hawkes & Co., London, in black sable with crimson wool bag, gold cord triple cap line, black patent leather chin strap, leather and crimson silk lining with maker's gold stamped label, in black japanned tin with brass label engraved A.P.Heneage Esq., R.H.A., together with a white egret feather plume in black japanned tubular tin

Sold for £350
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

There is some loss of sable with some loose patches, mostly around the underside of the back neck area. Small area of moth damage to bag. The tin is scratched, as is the plume tin which also has a dent.

Lot 171 - A Victorian Officer's Busby to the Royal Horse... Lot 171 - A Victorian Officer's Busby to the Royal Horse... Lot 171 - A Victorian Officer's Busby to the Royal Horse... Lot 171 - A Victorian Officer's Busby to the Royal Horse... Lot 171 - A Victorian Officer's Busby to the Royal Horse... Lot 171 - A Victorian Officer's Busby to the Royal Horse... Lot 171 - A Victorian Officer's Busby to the Royal Horse...

Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 3rd Dec, 2021

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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