6th Dec, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
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A First World War Ship's Crown Top Brass Bell to HMS Yeovil, with black highlighted name and broad arrow, lacks originial clanger, 27cm diameter, 35cm high.
Footnote:- HMS Yeovil was a Hunt-class minesweeper classed as a Fleet Minesweeping Sloop (a ship intended to clear open water) and was launched on 27th August 1918. She was sold for scrapping on 4th October 1928 and scrapped by Ward & Co at Pembroke Dock.
Sold for £280
Estimated at £150 - £200
Deep pitting to body. Rusty flakes to suspender loop.
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 6th Dec, 2023
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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