A Royal Medical Corps Officers Blue Cloth Helmet 1902-08. Quality gilt helmet plate which is original to the helmet. Buff leather sweat band with fully attached silk liner. Leather backed chin chain. No visible makers mark.
Very good condition $1425
A Royal Regiment of Artillery Officer’s Full Dress Sabretache to the 8th Lancashire Artillery.
A fine example c.1870-1901, the pouch and back of black Moroccan, the face of blue cloth overlaid with silver train lace, in the centre the Royal Arms of Great Britain in silver thread, velvet and silks, the honour ‘Ubique’, sprays of oak and laurel, a silver metal cannon and bottom scroll ‘Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducant;’, complete with 3 D rings, together with its black Moroccan foul weather cover, There are no loose or broken wires in the embroidery.
UNDER OFFER
Very good condition $950
A Royal Welsh Fusiliers Tunic with Slade Wallace webbing.
The Slade Wallace set comprising shoulder straps, two pouches and a bayonet frog. Standard Victorian brass belt buckle with crown, lion and motto. Tunic in very good condition complete with brass titles and collars.
Good condition SOLD
A scarce 13th Light Horse WW1 period Hat badge IMPRESSED possibly Tip Taft and not one of the crude cast ones.
$385
A scarce 1796 Pattern Troopers Heavy Cavalry DISC HILT Sword. True to pattern in all respects still retaining its langets and hatchet point . A good heavy scabbard which is dent free and marked C over 17 with matching marks on the hilt.
Blade marked crown over 3. Back strap marked with remnants of WOOLLEY.
Very good condition
A scarce 1871 Pattern British Cavalry Helmet of the 1st (Royal) Dragoons.
Regulation form with nickel skull and brass fittings including helmet plate and chin chain.
Leather liner is in good condition. The nickel Dragoon helmets are much rarer than the 7 Dragoon Guards Regiments who wore brass helmets.
Very good condition $2850
A Scarce Albert Pattern 1844 helmet plate to the 69th South Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot. Complete with both lugs.
Good condition $685
A scarce Cavalry Officers Mameluke Hilted dress sword with blade etched with crossed Lancers over IX Lancers and maker Prosser. The etching is worn but still very readable.
Red velvet covered scabbard in very good condition. Sword being similar to Plate 12.9 page 112 of Richard Dellar’s book. Circa 1822-37.
Overall good condition $6950.00
A scarce Cavalry Officers Mameluke Hilted dress sword with blade etched with Kings Hussars and makers details
Hawkes & Co London Manufacturers to the Queen. All etching very clear. Sword being very similar to Plate 12.12 Page 113 Of the British Cavalry Sword by R. Dellar. Circa 1838-1868. Complete with scabbard & sword knot.
Overall good condition $6950.00
A Scarce Colonial Australian sword being an 1882 pattern British cavalry trooper’s sword and scabbard well marked with impressed numbers and letters N.S.W.G.C over C over 1256 over 00. The scabbard number is matching. Another scarce item from this old established collection.. $2450.00
A Scarce example of a New South Wales Artillery White Cloth 6 panel Pre-Federation Helmet Circa 1890. Helmet Plate original to the helmet with a recipient label which reads “Tr. Carmichael, No4 Company”. The inside of the helmet is quite dirty. All the cork sweat band spaces are intact, but the band itself shows heavy wear. The helmet cork is quite sound and not spongy. The exterior has most likely been whitened with a modern Whitner due to the lack of available Blanco and all fittings are correct white metal including leather backed chin chain.
Reasonably good overall condition $2,650
A scarce French XIII Heavy Cavalry sword with full Klingenthal engraved backstrap dated June 1813.
Wire on the grip has only a few bits remaining (near the pommel). Good markings in all the right places (as shown by the photos) and is complete with a nice dent free scabbard.
This sword has been in a local collection for between 30 & 40 years. Blade length 37 ½ inches.
Overall in Very good condition $2850
A scarce Great War ‘French theatre’ M.M. awarded to Lance Corporal M. J. Sheridan, 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, Australian Imperial Force, who was wounded in action 18 February 1917
Single: Military Medal, G.V.R. (1163 L. Cpl. M. J. Sheridan. Aust: E.)
M.M. London Gazette 17 June 1919.
Michael Joseph Sheridan was born in Kingston, Dublin, Ireland in 1886. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at Blackboy Hill, Western Australia, 29 November 1915, and served with the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, Australian Engineers in the French theatre of war from 5 May 1916. The Australian company relieved the 255th Tunnelling Company in the Laventie/Fauquissart area in May 1916.
Sheridan was wounded in action, 18 February 1917, and having returned to his unit was posted to work around the Cité St. Pierre area near Lens in late 1917. In February 1918, ‘a party of men from the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company’s headquarters at Bracquemont travelled 40 kilometres to the British Tank Corps headquarters located at Bermicourt. On 10 February, an overcast day which saw men thickly clothed and cloaked in their trench coats to stave off the chill wind that swept across the open landscape, the tunnellers prepared and simultaneously blew two mines placed next to each other on the Tank Corps’ tank testing area.
The mines were blown as part of a trial designed to test the effectiveness of mine craters as a defence against tanks, and British tanks were used to negotiate the obstacles thus created. The group of Australian tunnellers comprised the company’s CO, Major Alexander Sanderson, Sergeant 1012 Matthew Goodlad, 2nd Corporal 1163 Michael Sheridan.... [and 7 others]... Two tanks rumbled down into the mine craters until their roofs were flush with ground level. Then, amid clouds of exhaust fumes and the roar of engines, they struggled to gain sufficient traction up the steep, crumbly crater walls to haul themselves out.
Among the witnesses to the trial were Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Holland, the General Officer Commanding I Corps, his Chief Engineer, Brigadier General H. Gordon, D.S.O., the commanding officers of the 185th Company and the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company, Majors Tulloch and North respectively, and Charles Bean, the Australian Official Historian.
The information gained on this day proved to be of immense value to the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, then operating in the I Corps area, in its preparation of defensive works to meet German tank assault along the front at Loos....’ (Crumps and Camouflets, Australian Tunnelling Companies on the Western Front by D. Finlayson refers)
Sheridan advanced to Lance Corporal in April 1918, and returned to Australia in June 1919. He was discharged, 19 December 1919.
Nearly very fine $2250
A scarce Grey Cloth Quilted Shako of the 1861 Pattern.
Body of helmet in good condition minus leather chin strap. Correct rear gorgons head for ventilation. Shako plate being the Militia General Service type worn by Militia Battalions which did not have plates of their own. Plate not original to shako possibly due to a unit transfer. Good strong leather liner. I have found this colour shako extremely difficult to find.
Good overall condition $1475
A scarce Napoleonic Bi-Corn General Officers hat. The bow in the liner would indicate this hat was worn shoulder to shoulder. Unfortunately the large silk cockade and button are no longer present, but the liner shows good honest overall wear and is all present.
Overall good condition $1650
A scarce ROYAL MARINE Foreign Service Helmet post 1905 when the Home Service Helmet was discontinued for the Marines. Classic six panels of white cloth with leather sweatband and regulation eight cork spacers. Plate appears original to the helmet with no multiple holes. Size 7 stamp plus what appears to be a Regimental number 2618 which is also present on the separate (almost impossible to find) storage helmet cover. Overall the helmet is in very good condition and retains its attractive shape.
Very good condition SOLD
A scarce Royal Naval Pursers sword 1825 pattern engraved on scabbard with makers details Firmin & Sons, sword cutlers, 153 strand, London.
True to pattern with crossed anchors on hilt. Retaining 80 percent Blue & Gilt in an excellent brass mounted leather scabbard retaining all its strength with no damage.
Overall excellent condition $3750
A scarce set of SLADE WALLACE WEBBING 1888 Pattern to the NSW Scottish.
A set of full-length shoulder straps and two pouches, one being marked with a broad arrow and what might be 1900. Complete with white metal belt buckle.
Good condition SOLD
Good detail in silver work $2850
A scarce Shoulder belt plate overlay to the 12th Regiment being of the type worn by the Regiment at Eureka Stockade in 1854. Complete with all four lugs and in excellent condition.
$1500.00
A Scarce Slade Wallace Bayonet Frog clearly marked to the 7TH H. L. I
A clean example of a Slade Wallace bayonet frog stamped 7TH H.L.I. All stitching in sound condition, with minor bayonet stains.
$100
A scarce USMC WW2 frog skin camouflage overalls believed to be used in France during the war. Purchased over 10 years ago in France and appears to have been worn by a POW as high on the back near the collar are two large red letters PW and also on each Leg (one letter on each). As an ex-Infantry man, I can understand why overalls would not have been flavour of the month, having to drop all your gear to climb out of them to use the loo would be a pain, so give them to the POW’s.
True to pattern in herring bone twill with all press studs, zip and decorative cuff buttons. Internal straps have been removed which seems to be normal. Ankle draw strings still present. No visible rips or holes. Good colour external with an almost light blue hue to the internal three dot pattern.
Good condition $1575
A scarce Victorian Military Forces Officers Blue Cloth Helmet C 1880-93 complete with “double wreath” helmet plate. Plate not original to the helmet but may have been changed from the single wreath. I have not had the maker before, being T. WHITE & CO Union St. Aldershot. Silk liner complete and still attached to buff leather liner.
Very good condition $2650
A Selection of 9 KINGS COLONIAL INSIGNIA. A very fine carded display of unissued examples. All with original Gilt. This collection of badges comes from the original J.R. Gaunt and Son Ltd. Pattern book archive and was originally sold in the UK by the National Army Museum.
This is only the second time in 35 years I have offered a series of these badges with a good gilt finish. Discussions with various serious badge collectors indicate that the splendour of the K.C. uniforms is that there is every chance that all ranks may have worn Gilt badges.
A unique opportunity to obtain guaranteed original badges, complete with lugs.
Excellent condition SOLD
