11th Dec, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
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Second World War Items attributed to 7375929 Private Arthur Bland RAMC, including a captured Italian Army wooden medical chest, the hinged cover set with a paper label inscribed with Private Bland's service details, containing his housewife containing his printed RAC shoulder titles, brass RAMC shoulder titles, brass RAMC cap badge, dog tags, also his Soldier's Release Book, demobilisation paperwork, buttons, a wallet containing an Italian cloth cap badge, sundry wartime coins and bank notes, a soldier's guide to France booklet, postcards and ephemera, also medical instruments and equipment, post Second Waorld War British Rail items
Sold for £130
Estimated at £80 - £120
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 11th Dec, 2024
The sale will include a large selection of Victorian, First and Second World War and Post-War medals and Civil awards, and a variety of cap and other badges, cloth insignia and helmet plates.
A good private collection offers Victorian and Edwardian military headgear and a number of scarlet tunics to local regiments including the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, the Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) and the Northumberland Fusiliers.
Edged weapons include a private collection of British Cavalry swords, alongside bayonets and fighting knives; and from a further private vendor is a good collection of antique firearms, pistols and revolvers.
The ethnographic section of the sale will see notable tribal weapons from Fiji and Australia.
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Tuesday 10th December 10am-5pm, and the morning of the sale from 8am
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