22nd Foot (Cheshire Regiment) Silver Regimental Medal of Merit

In very good NEF condition with no edge knocks or polishing. Unnamed as issued. Issued in silver for 14 years good conduct. Such medals were replaced in the 1850s by the issue of the Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Silver dark toned. Often found unofficially mounted with a suspender but this has not been so modified. Scarce.

The 22nd Regiment of Foot (restyled as ...  read more

Code: 65130

Scarce WW1 Boots the Chemist Patriotic Postcard - The King's Message to his Army

A thick card in good condition. Postally unused but has a contemporary message on the reverse. Very good condition. Printed in Nottingham, which is still the city which houses the HQ of the Boots Corporation. Scarce.

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Code: 58838

59th Regiment of Foot (2nd Nottinghamshire) Glengarry, pre 1881

A good example, slight loss of detail from service wear but even wear overall with two original brass loops (e-w) to the reverse.

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Code: 65749

WW1 Welsh Wales Home Front - Glamorgan Volunteer Training Corps (VTC) Brass Cap Badge

A very scarce WW I bronzed-brass cap badge with two original flat connector style loops to the reverse (typical to Fattorini made cap badges but no maker's name evident). A shield bearing three chevrons to the centre of a circlet carrying the title, " Glamorgan V.T.C." Circa 4cms in diameter. Some service wear to rim and dried polish, otherwise in good condition.

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Code: 66954

5th Dragoon Guards Officers OSD Facing Bronze Collar Badges

These look like a reasonable facing pair from the front, but one is die struck bronze and the other is die struck. Each with two original loops to the reverse. King's crown, worn 1902 -1922. In very good condition.

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Code: 60535

5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards White Metal Cap Badge, King's Crown

A white metal die cast cap badge to the 5th Dragoon Guards. With original slider to the reverse. Pre 1953. Good condition.

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Code: 60694

WW2 War Raised Unit - 22nd Dragoons Officers Silver & Gilt Collar Badge

Two part die cast construction with two original loops to the reverse and marked S for Silver. Circa 3.1cm across, Worn with the flags facing outwards making this a left side collar badge. Worn on the Service Dress and Battledress blouse with no bakcings. In very good condition.

The badge reflects the regiments which provided the first cadres from the 4/7th Dragoon Guards and th...  read more

Code: 62426

WW2 Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) Plastic Economy Cap Badge

Complete with its original blades, maker marked 'A Stanley & Sons, Walsall' and ' 1-A'. In good overall condition with little distortion and no crazing of the cellulose acetate plastic. Sometimes incorrectly described as Bakelite. One small split in top blade but this has not extended to the rest of it and fully functional.

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Code: 65520

10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles Officer's Silver Plated Cap Badge

Sealed pattern dated 15 July 1970 describes the officer's felt hat badge as being silver plate with a rhodium finish. I believe this to be such an example. In very good condition, some tarnish to the finish but on the whole in lovely condition with two original silvered loops to the reverse. This was the pattern authorised for wear from 1955 - 1994.

The Gurkha Museum's publi...  read more

Code: 67567

7th Gurkha Rifles Embroidered Felt Cloth Shoulder Title

In good condition with one slight edge nip and small white mark to numeral '7'. Worn by all ranks circa 1948 - 1965. Black on Rifle Green, therefore tough to photograph.

Following India's independence in 1947, the regiment was one of four Gurkha regiments to be transferred to the British Army. In the 1960s it was active in the Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation, and t...  read more

Code: 67912