Orders, Decorations and Medals

44th East Essex Regiment, a group of three items, comprising two other ranks ‘pork pie’ or Balmoral hat numerals, c1840-1874, in heavy brass, one brass loop missing on one badge; together with a very fine and early silver (not HM) officer’s forage cap or paggri badge, a QVC over a pierced circular strap ‘FORTY FOUR’, enclosing the Sphinx, the plinth with Coptic script, pin back, the orb and cross to the crown replaced, crude solder repair to the ‘R’ in ‘ FOUR’ (3) £80-120