Auction Catalogue

29 March 2000

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 414

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29 March 2000

Hammer Price:
£450

5th Royal Irish Lancers, an other ranks full dress lance cap dated internally and on the front peak for 1914, the brass King’s crown plate in excellent condition, the wool rosette fitted with an incorrect KC General Service button, the leather lined chin chain present but lacking the end links; lion’s mask side ornaments present but both are the ‘hooking-up’ type, brass plume holder present with a black and white falling horse hair plume (9th Lancers), incorrect plain yellow cloth ‘lace’ around the base of the trencher top indicates the skull pertains to the 21st Lancers, the cap generally sound £300-400