Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1st Devon Artillery Volunteers Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet c. 1878-1901, the skull complete with all plated fittings, the frontal plate of Royal Arms pattern with ‘1st’ on the top scroll and ‘Devon Artillery Volunteers’ on the lower, the plate is not original to the helmet, buff leather sweatband with retailer’s label ‘Hobson & Sons, London’, ten small moth holes and damage to the rear peak leather trim, lower section of the ball finial with a fracture otherwise in sound condition £300-£400