Canada - Canadian 50th ( Calgary, Alberta ) Overseas Battalion CEF Enamel and Gilt Souvenir Mess Card / Menu Holder - Registered Design
A scarce and unusual find, a commecially produced (registered design stamped to reverse strut) menu holder in the form of an enamelled CEF Cap Badge above a pair of rifles as legs, with a hoop to the reverse to hold either a place card or menu. It stands 9cm tall, the badge is circa 4.6cm tall. Much of the blue enamel from the bottom scroll is missing but the other enamel is in good condition... read more
WW1 10th West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s Own) Silver Hallmarked and Enamel Tribute Medal / Medallion / Watch Fob - to Leonard Clegg
Attractive enamelled and silver hallmarked WW1 tribute medallion with suspension loop. Not sure of the significance of the stripped red and yellow shield to obverse, but enamel in good condition, with circlet neatly engraved "10th West York Regt." The reverse is engraved "Pte. Clegg, 75375, France. 1918 - 19." Some minor surface wear but otherwise in very good condition. Circa 4.1cm tall ex... read more
WW2 Home Front Large White metal Spitfire Fund raising lapel pin badge
WW2 Home Front Large White metal Spitfire Fund raising lapel pin
Generic pattern white metal Spitfire fighter aircraft pin lapel badge which was sold in exchange for a donation to the build a Spitfire fund. With original pin fixing. This example is larger than average with a 4.5cm wingspan and is nicely modelled.
A36.2 read more
30.00 GBP
WW1 1915 Manchester Volunteer Regiment ( VTC ) Enamel & Brass Lapel Badge
An attractive mufti lapel badge which has seen some wear, but enamel is intact and undamaged. Maker stamped Fattorini Bradford. Circa 4.2cm tall. Very scarce.
A35.3 read more
1st Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment ( Territorial Force ) White Metal Cap Badge
White metal die struck cap badge with original tapering slider to the reverse. Slightly polished, but attractively so. Worn circa 1908 - 1922.
Gaylor, plate 23 refers.
A33.7
KL400395180GB read more
5th West York Militia Officer's Silver Plated Waist Belt Clasp ( WBC ) - Also of Yorkshire Regiment ( Green Howards ) Interest
A rare, silvered, waist-belt clasp for an officer of The 5th West York Militia with matching benchmarks ( No 1). In excellent condition with some tarnishing. Raised in 1853.
In 1881, the 5th West Yorks Militia became the 3rd Militia Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment ( Green Howards ). See Hayes "The Constitutional Force" p.295).
A24.1
Sold to MM
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WW2 War Raised Unit - 22nd Dragoons Die Struck White Metal Cap Badge - JR Gaunt London
White metal die struck cap badge with original slider to reverse, stamped JR Gaunt London (no dot). Sealed pattern 1941. Note the voided Roman numerals. In very good condition.
The Regiment was raised in December 1940. All six wartime cavalry regiments were disbanded in June 1948.
K&K Vol 2 No 1912 refers.
A16.2 read more
Essex Volunteer Artillery Victorian Officer's silvered large pattern button
Circa 25mm in diameter. EVA entwined below gun and Victorian crown and enclosed in an acorn and oak leaf wreath. Fixed shank and backstamped Hobson & Sons, 94 St Martin's Lane, London. Some wear to highpoints of silver plating otherwise in excellent condition.
A7.11
Sold to DJ (Batch 1) read more
Indian & Burma Army - Rangoon Volunteer Rifle Corps (Burma) Officer's Silver plated pagri badge
Circa 4.7cm tall and 3.7cm wide, a silver plated (unmarked) die struck (British made) wheat sheaf badge with two original small silvered lugs to the reverse. In very good condition with sharp detail. Scarce.
The Rangoon Volunteer Rifle Corps were formed on 9th August 1878.
Cox No 2674 refers.
A6.3 read more
Seaforth Highlanders early pattern Officers OSD bronze collar badge , Right Facing
Worn from 1881 until 1898, two original lugs to the reverse and in very good condition. Circa 3.4cm wide and 2.4cm tall. It would have been worn with a 'F' cypher. Die cast and bronze suggests it is an officer's OSD pattern. Scarce.
Churchill No 1807 refers.
A2.1 read more