11th Dec, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
  Lot 42
 

42

A Boer War/First World War Group, comprising Queen's South Africa Medal with two clasps CAPE COLONY and SOUTH AFRICA 1902, awarded to 37748 TPR:J.W.BURGESS, 27TH BN.IMP:YEO.(Younghusband's Horse), British War Medal and Victory Medal named to 24561 PTE.J.BURGESS, K.S.L.I., together with photocopied research material including his Military History, photographs, medal rolls, short typed biography etc

Sold for £110
Estimated at £120 - £180


 

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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