Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire & Wiltshire), a very rare Bandmaster’s full dress blue cloth helmet c1958-1995, of contemporary construction but well modelled on the officers 1878 pattern, blue cloth with usual fittings, front trim broader and rivetted rather than pressed, chin chain rosettes metal spine, spike and quadrant, the special pattern plate of QEC star shape with Garter Proper centre all in gilding metal, the centre in bi-metal being the badge of the combined regiment a cross pattee bearing a central Dragon within a roped circle, this with a Ducal coronet, at the base a double white metal scroll ‘The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment/ (Berkshire and Wiltshire)’, excellent condition £100-150