20th Sep, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
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Royal Artillery Interest:- A Display of Helmet Plates, Badges and Buttons, including a Victorian Home Service pattern brass helmet plate to the Militia Artillery, a Home Service pattern white metal helmet plate to the Territorial Artillery, with KC, a Royal Artillery white metal flaming grenade plume holder with white horse hair plume, fourteen service cap badges including Honourable Artillery Company, Royal Malta Artillery, South Africa Artillery, Warwickshire Royal Horse Artillery, First Hants R.G.A. Volunteers, Cadet Corps etc., one with QE2 crown, thirteen with KC, twenty tunic buttons with QVC and KC, two pouch badges etc, all loosely mounted on blue velvet in a white frame.
Sold for £160
Estimated at £250 - £350
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 20th Sep, 2023
The sale will offer a range of good medals, including a rare silver medal struck to commemorate the death of Captain James Cook, and a Second World War MM Group of Eight Medals, awarded to Corporal Frank Shepherd of the 1st-5th Battalion the Queen’s Royal Regiment.
Amongst a good offering of militaria in the sale is a Victorian 1847 Pattern Gilt Brass Helmet to an Officer 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, a First World War Cameron Highlander’s Kilt and Sash which belonged to Private George Potts Brown, and an Early 19th Century Naval Officer’s Dirk.
A rare 19th Century Percussion Single Barrel Big Game Rifle by William Powell & Son of Birmingham leads a selection of fine guns in the sale, also of note are a Pair of 19th Century 40 Bore Side-by-Side Double Barrel Percussion Travelling Pistols.
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Tuesday 19 September 10am-5pm and the morning of sale from 8am
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