Auction Catalogue
Assorted Colonial African Military and Police Badges.
A good selection including Cape Town Highlanders (2) a small bronze Cap Badge, the reverse with two loop fixings,with a large bi-metal die-stamped white metal Cap Badge, the reverse with two loop fixings; Transvaal Scottish (2) a gilding metal example Other Ranks Cap Badge, with a thistle to the voided centre, the reverse with two loop fixings, with a poorly cast white metal example Cap Badge, the reverse with two loop fixings; a good early brass example Rhodesian Defence Force Cap Badge with a Coat of Arms, the reverse with a slider fixing; a brass example Rhodesia Defence Force Cap Badge, with a lion and an elephant’s tusk above a regimental title scroll, the reverse with a two loop fixings; a brass example Rhodesia general service Collar Badge; a white metal example, circa 1944-53, Somaliland Scouts Cap Badge, the reverse with a brass slider fixing with maker’s marks for ‘J R Gaunt London’; a scarce example Senior Officer’s bronzed brass and enamel Sudan (Khartoum Province) Provincial Police Pagri Badge, with an elephant’s head above a title scroll, some enamel damage, the reverse with a pin and hook fixing, numbered ‘178’, with maker’s marks for ‘Toye & Co’; an Elizabethan hallmarked silver Officer’s example King’s African Rifles Cap or Collar Badge, the reverse with Birmingham hallmarks for 1960 and maker’s marks for ‘J.RG&S’ and two loop fixings north and south; a brass example 1st South African Infantry Zuid Afrika Shoulder Title, the reverse with two bent brass loop fixings, generally good condition and better (11) £90-£120
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