Auction Catalogue

17 & 18 May 2016

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 1071

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18 May 2016

Hammer Price:
£130

King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Officer’s Forage Cap Badge 1881 - 1897 and Other Good Quality Military Items, the first in gold embroidery with central green velvet disc this mounted with a silver rose, a die cast bronze large ‘smasher’ hat badge, a good quality example of the 1st Armoured Motor Battery cap badge, an officer’s shoulder title 4 CLY, an officer’s small size hall marked silver cap badge to the Machine Gun Corps Birmingham 1918 complete with all three blade fasteners, bi-metal cap badge of the Motor Machine Gun Corps, an early Victorian or late Georgian bandsman’s shako badge in die stamped brass featuring a group of instruments enclosed by oak sprays, original soft iron soldered loop fasteners, a small silvered pewter medallion of The Hoxne and Hartsmere Suffolk Yeomanry Cavalry, three good quality World War II period div. signs and a Holy Bible for J. Nelson, 51st Regt LI Sheffield 6.2.74, later killed in action on the 21st November (?) 1879 at the taking of Ali Majid Khyber Pass, good overall condition (12) £140-200