Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet c. 1902-14, the skull complete with all gilt metal fittings, the frontal plate of crowned star pattern with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of red velvet (faded) the White Horse of Hanover on ground with scroll above ‘Nec Aspera Terrent’, a scroll below ‘The West Yorkshire Regiment’, the plate not original to the helmet, white leather sweatband and retailer’s label for ‘Hobson & Sons, London’, the gilt reasonable throughout, one moth hole near the rear spine and a small one on the front peak otherwise sound overall; together with a rusty metal carrying tin the retaining part of the hasp lacking (2) £340-440