MILITARIA 717
NORTH YORK RIFLES MILITIA OFFICER’S WHISTLE GUARD, a good silver plated example featuring a Bath style cross with central crown over a rose within laurel sprays, provision for a whistle’s chains (chains lacking) two screw post fasteners; LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE, shako plate, a good Victorian example in blackened bronze featuring a crowned eight pointed star overlaid with oak sprays, unit title, shield bearing the Royal Arms and elements of the City of London Arms, two loop fasteners, very good condition (2)
£70-100
718
VICKERS ARMSTRONG ARP BADGE, a fine quality hallmarked silver example (Birmingham 1940 by J.R. Gaunt & Sons) featuring the initials A.R.P. over the monogram VA original pin back fastener; Royal Engineers sweetheart’s brooch in 9ct gold, a fine cased example of cap badge style (GVR), mounted on a pin bar and contained in its original case by Charles Packer & Co., Ltd., Regent Street, London, very good condition (2)
£80-120 719
IMPERIAL RUSSIAN SAILOR’SCAP TALLY, a very rare example in buff coloured silk 44 inches in length by 2.5 inches wide, the tally is stamped at either end
with a fouled anchor and bears the ship’s name “POCCIЯ”, the item is in a fragile state and is part detached at one end
£250-350
This ship was launched in 1896 and represented Russia at Queen Victoria’s Jubilee in 1897. She was the flagship for the Vladivostock Cruiser Squadron in the Russo/Japanese War, and sank the Hitachi Maru with a thousand troops on board. She herself sustained casualties of 48 killed and 165 wounded at “Ulsan” in August 1904. She again represented Russia at the Coronation of George V in 1911 and was the flagship of the Baltic Cruiser Fleet. The crew took part in the 1917 Revolution and the ship was eventually scrapped in 1922.
720
NORWEGIAN CAP BADGE, BEARING THE CYPHER OFHAAKON VII, silver, reverse with hallmarks for Birmingham 1942, nearly extremely fine; AXIS POWERS PROPAGANDA BOOKLET, aimed at ‘Arabic readers’ of North Africa, with 20 coloured anti-British, pro-Axis Powers’ cartoons with Arabic captions - cartoons depict a drunken Churchill; British shipping being sunk; Churchill and The King praying to the god of money; Churchill begging from ‘Uncle Sam’; an Arab hand-in-hand with soldiers of the Axis, etc., a little water stained, good condition (2)
£40-60 Cap badge worn by Norwegian troops in Britain. 721
COLDSTREAMGUARDS BADGES, comprising a good quality Warrant Officer’s cap badge in unmarked silver, silver gilt and dual enamels; an officer’s good side hat badge in sterling silver and dual enamels; a good quality sweetheart’s brooch in silver and triple enamels; a scarce single gilding metal collar Boer War period; a QEC full-dress RSM’s arm badge and a similar Colour Sergeant’s badge; a pair of officer’s bronze rank stars; two other rank gilding metal cap badges; a pair of embroidered white on red shoulder titles; Cambridgeshire Regiment, a bi-metal cap badge; RAF (QEC) full-dress bullion pilot’s brevet; one only general’s gilt shoulder insignia; together with sundry copy brevets and cap badges, good overall condition (parcel)
£100-140 722
59TH (2ND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE) REGIMENT OFFICER’S SHOULDER BELT PLATE, a fine quality officer’s rococo pattern (Parkyn 258), ornate gilt backplate with cut silver overlay star and further overlays in gilt, in the centre red enamel circle bearing unit title with “Java” scroll above, central LIX (the blue enamel ground missing), standard hook and stud fasteners c. 1845 -55, minor chips to the red enamel and dirty overall otherwise good condition
£700-900
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