3rd Volunteer Battalion Victorian Leeds Rifles (West Yorkshire Regiment) Silver Plated Field Service Cap Badge
Victorian 3rd Volunteer Battalion PWO West Yorkshire Regiment Leeds Rifles small Forage Cap Badge, with two original long silvered lug fittings. Circa 3.5cms tall. In very good condition.
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Northumberland Fusiliers Volunteer Battalion - facing pair of other ranks white metal collar badges
A matching facing pair of collars badges to either 2nd or 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers. Worn on full dress tunic and patrol jacket, 1897-1908. Both with two original loops to the reverse. In very good condition.
Col. D. Wood, item 258 refers.
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10th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers Officers silver plated Waist Belt Clasp ( WBC )
A fine and scarce silvered example, worn circa 1876 - 1883, with matching benchmarks to each piece. Plain ends but a highly decorative figure 10 to the centre.
Formed at Ulverston in 1859 and became the 1st Volunteer Battalion The King' s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in 1883.
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Norfolk Regiment Volunteer Battalion Officers Silver Plated Collar Badge (Chain Mail Pattern)
There are a lot of varieties to be collected of the Norfolk Regiment's Britannia. This is my favourite as it shows an avantail of chain mail around her neck and a languid fully draped figure unlike some of the other stiffer looking and upright patterns. It also has a fuller seven sprig olive branch than most. In super condition and circa 3 cms tall with two original dark toned loops to the r... read more
3 / CAMBS / V / SUFFOLK One Piece White Metal Shoulder Title
A fine scarce pre 1908 white metal shoulder title to the 3rd (Cambridgeshire) Volunteer Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment. Three loops to the reverse. In very good condition.
Became Cambridgeshire Battalion Suffolk Regiment in 1908.
Westlake No 867 refers.
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19 / VR / Middlesex one piece shoulder title (later 9th London Regiment)
The 27th St Giles and St George's Bloomsbury or GGB became the 19th Bloomsbury's in 1880 and was in 1908 amalgamated with the 1st Victoria Rifle Corps to be come the 9th London Regiment.
This is a bronze shoulder title in good condition with three original loops to the reverse. It appears to have been blackened at some point but this has been worn off. Most of their badges we... read more
1st Volunteer Battalion (Hallamshire) York and Lancaster Regiment Other Ranks Reversed Metals Cap Badge
A lovely example as worn by the 1st Hallamshire VB between 1897 - 1908 (type 1 without the scroll added). See Ivan Machin "A Guide to the badges of the York & Lancaster Regiment 1822 - 1968" Figure 78. With two dark toned lugs and braising holes behind both the brass rose and brass coronet, the rest of the badge in white metal. In very good condition.
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3rd VB Volunteer Battalion Prince of Wales Own (Leeds Rifles) West Yorkshire Regiment Other Ranks White Metal Cap Badge
Die struck white metal example with two original lug fittings to the reverse. The only other example I have seen of this badge also had the same white metal strengthening strips behind the crown. In very good condition and rare. Worn 1902 - 1908 only.
In 1908 the Leeds based 3rd Volunteer Battalion, West Yorkshire Regt became two separate Battalions - 7 & 8th (Territorial) Bn'... read more
Hampshire / Hants Regiment White Metal Volunteer Battalion Field Service Cap Badge
Small size silver plated badge with 2 original loops to reverse (not cut down from HPC). Worn on the field service cap in the 1890s. Circa 3cm wide and 2.3cm tall. In very good condition.
Churchill p161 & Fig 1001 refer.
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1st Berwickshire (Scotland) Rifle Volunteer Corps Collar Badge (Royal Scots pattern)
A single collar badge with two original brass loops to the reverse (one with plier mark) otherwise in very good condition. The 1st Berwicks were allied to one of the Royal Scots' Volunteer Battalions in 1881 but allowed to retain its 1880 title. Sealed pattern for this title, 23rd May 1884. It mimics the regular battalion collar badge (Churchill No 4. In 1887 they were transferred to the KO... read more