25th Jun, 2025 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
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Five Victorian Silver Place-Card Holders
Two by William Thomas Wright and Frederick Davies, London, 1891, Three With Indistinct Maker's Marks, London, One 1892 and Two 1893
each formed as a grenade, each engraved with the badge of the Royal Fusiliers, three engraved '4th Batt'n Royal Fusiliers' and two engraved for the 1st Volunteer battalion Royal Fusiliers, each on ebonised plinth, two with silver plaques with engraved inscription, one part lacking, 11cm high; Together With a pair of silver plate grenade-form cigar-lighters, each applied with the badge of the Royal Fusiliers above an engraved inscription (7)
Provenance:
Sold by Order of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers to Benefit the Fusiliers' Aid Society.
Sold for £420
Estimated at £120 - £180
The place card holders are marked on back as expected. There is some wear to the marks, some of which are only just visible. One is lacking the front side of the card holder, as can be seen in the catalogue illustration. Another is detached from the base. There is some overall surface scratching and wear, consistent with age and use. There are some scuffs and marks to the ebonised bases, three bases are lacking the silver shield. The pair of lighters with overall surface scratching and wear. The wear is noticeable as a loss to the silver plate. There are bruises overall.
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Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 25th Jun, 2025
The June Militaria & Ethnographica Sale will offer a broad and interesting array of medals, including a fascinating and possibly unique Group of Eleven Second World War and Post War Medals to a British serviceman with a remarkable history of military service, and First World War DSC Group of Medals, which were awarded to Captain George F. Hiles, Master of S.S. Portaferry, which rescued the crew of a French steamer after she had been torpedoed by an enemy submarine in 1917.
Further interesting lots of Militaria include an Inert Rapier Drill Missile measuring 2.32 metres long, the War Diary of Major General Sir Cecil Lowther, who was in command of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards as Lieutenant Colonel, and there are also good quality binoculars, police truncheons, cap badges, Victorian and Edwardian helmet plates and various Edwardian, Victorian and later uniforms.
Of archaeological interest is a very rare Middle Bronze Age Complete Spearhead, found by a metal detectorist in Northumberland. The spearhead dates from circa 1550-1250 BC and is made from copper alloy; it is sold with a report from the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
The sale will also offer nearly 120 lots of regimental silver from The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own) Regiment and The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers to benefit The Royal Lancers Charitable Trust and the Fusiliers' Aid Society respectively.
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