The Collection of Militaria Formed by The Late R. E. Handley 263
A COLLECTION OF FORAGE CAPS. Comprising two Field Officers’ peaked caps the peaks inlaid with gold lace, one to the Royal Artillery, this with KC badge the other to the RAOC (QEC badge), another in blue cloth with a red welt bearing a bullion KC Royal Crest cap badge GVIR and Garter cap buttons, the peak inlaid with gold oak leaf lace, complete with white linen summer cover and cork block stiffener, a Staff Officer’s khaki example with red welt and KC gold bullion cap badge and GVI gilt cap buttons, an Irish Guardsman’s forage cap in blue cloth with green piping and green welt dated 1964 complete with GM cap badge and anodised cap buttons, a Gurkha’s pale khaki felt hat with buff pagri and now bearing an anodised cap badge to the 10th Gurkhas, good overall condition (6)
£100-200
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THE RIFLE BRIGADE (PRINCE CONSORT’S OWN) AN OFFICER’S BLACK PERSIAN LAMBSKIN BUSBY. A good quality example as described in Dress Regulations complete with sewn in cap lines and cording, coiled bugle horn badge with oval boss above this mounted with a QVC, complete with black leather chin strap, sweat band and dark crimson silk lining (part perished), black ostrich plume over black vulture lower plume (lacking corded boss holder), complete with correct pattern detachable cap and body lines, contained in its japanned carrying tin, good condition
£250-350
265
COLONEL CHARLES GISBORNE BRITTAN, R.M.L.I. COCKED HAT AND TIN. A very fine example in black plush with black oak leaf lacing, black silk cockade and a four bar gold loop the inner two twisted terminating in a gold purl knop, the ends with six gold bullions over crimson, the white leather sweat band with slight worm damage, a crimson silk lining part shot, complete with its screw in correct pattern white over red cock’s feather plume; the japanned metal carrying tin with brass plate Col. C. G. Brittan (the lid detached from the body), very good condition (2)
£300-400 Note: Charles Gisborne Brittan, Commissioned 1877, 1st Lieutenant 1878, Captain 1886.
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