Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

2nd Durham Rifle Volunteer Corps (Bishop Auckland) Officer’s Green Cloth Helmet c. 1878-87, a good quality example, the skull complete with all blackened metal fittings, the frontal plate of crowned Bath style cross pattern with circle ‘2nd Durham Rifle Volunteer Corps’, in the centre a strung bugle horn, the whole on a ground of red cloth, buff leather sweat band with no lining and supplier’s details ‘J & B Pearse & Co., London’, the plate is original to the helmet, the interior fabric lining to the cork skull perished in one large panel otherwise in very good overall condition £600-800