Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment) Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet 1902-14, a good quality example, the blue cloth skull complete with all gilt metal fittings, the frontal plate being a crowned eight pointed star with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black velvet a silver Royal Princess’s coronet over the Dannebrog this with engraved ‘1875’ ‘Alexandra’, an ornate silver scroll at the bottom ‘The Yorkshire Regt. Princess of Wales’s Own and a silver rose’, the frontal plate not original to the helmet, complete with sweat band and attached crimson silk lining, two small moth nips otherwise very good overall condition £400-600