1822 Pattern Infantry Officers Sword. Blade by H. Hart, Pall Mall, London etched with the crowned "VR" cypher and scrolling foliate panels, standard gilt brass gothic hilt incorporating the crowned "VR" cypher, wire bound fish skin grip in its field rank brass scabbard, complete with a continental gold lace and bullion sword knot.
Good condition overall SOLD
1822 Pattern Rifle Officer’s Presentation Sword to Captain H.G. Sutton 40th Lancashire (3rd Manchester) Volunteer Corps, the 81.5 cm blade with single fuller by J. & W. Wood, King St., Manchester is etched overall with scrolling foliage crowned VR cypher strung bugle horn and presentation panels ‘Presented To Captain H.G. Sutton By The Members of No. 8 Company 40th L.R. Volunteers On His Promotion As A Token Of Their Most Sincere Regard 28th Day Of February 1874’, on the reverse a further etched section ‘40th Lancashire Rifle Voltrs.’, the exceptionally ornate pierced hand guard features a crowned strung bugle horn foliate panels side panels of Union sprays wire bound fish skin grip with back strap of ornate oak sprays contained in its plated scabbard this with three highly decorative panels, the sword in overall excellent condition, the scabbard similar but with one very minor dent
Note: Sold with a considerable amount of research concerning Sutton’s career. In brief he was a self-made man being called to the Bar in January 1876 and was promoted to Lieut. Col. in 1876 but resigned his commission in 1879 although only 36 yrs old. This was possibly due to what was then considered a disgrace being in debt regarding a mortgage.
$4750
1831 Pattern General Officers Mameluke Hilted Sabre. A Victorian period example, unfullered blade with clip and pipe back point by Thurkle of Soho London etched with crowned "VR" cypher crossed sword and baton crossed laurel and palm sprays and other scrolling foliage, brass mounted hilt with crossguard, this with foliate ecussian incorporating crossed sword and baton within laurels, two piece ivory grip in its brass scabbard complete with gold and crimson lace sword knot, the blade retains the majority of original polish.
Very good condition overall SOLD
1854 RIFLE OFFICER’S SWORD : 33” blade in vg. condition, profuse etching & fullers to both sides, reverse side marked MOUBRAY, ROWAN & HICKS. MELBOURNE: Typical Rifles guard with crown & stringed bugle complete with leather sword knot, surface rust & staining to hilt & scabbard, but pristine blade. Obviously used in the State of Victoria during the Pre-Federation period.
Overall good condition Sold
18th Adelaide Lancers. This is a superb badge which the photo does not do justice. The two-tone gilt effect suggests a rare Officers hat badge.
$760
18th Infantry Battalion - The Kuring-Gai Regiment - 50mm brass Hat Badge (C251)
1908 Pattern Trooper’s Cavalry Sword marked to the 7th Dragoon Guards, the 88 cm straight blade with single fuller marked at the forte with the broad arrow EFD crown over 36 over E and various other markings, the plated scabbard marked M 11.13 and 7/DG 232, complete with brown leather sword knot, the hand grip of chequered composition, Matching hilt and scabbard numbers .
good overall condition SOLD
1939/45 Star, France & Germany Star, Defence & War Medals, George VI Jubilee Medal, Territorial Efficiency Medal (GVI) and bar, correctly named 2570052 SIGMN. V. R. PAIN. SIGNALS; and Police Special Constabulary Long Service medal correctly named VICTOR R. PAIN.
Note: Further research required
GD VF SOLD
An emotional and Historical WW2 relic of immense importance to the history of Ukraine being a 19th century Bronze Bust of Napoleon by Antoine Denis Chaudet, with a rear hair ribbon with shoulder drapes of the type used by Houdon.
Its history is as follows. Prior to the well-known “Death Match” in which 8 Ukrainian footballers were arrested by the Nazi’s, several of the lead up matches were played in June 1942. The Germans wanting a suitable Trophy, liberated this Bronze from a Ukrainian Institution. They had the front of the socle polished and engraved as follows.
FUSSBALL TURNIER
CHARKOW JUNI 1942
DEM SIEGER
Under German occupation, all Soviet organizations and clubs were dissolved. By the end of 1941, German administration allowed newly formed Ukrainian sport clubs. In January 1942, football trainer and sport reporter Georgi Dmitrievich Shvetsov founded the club Rukh (Movement). He tried to engage the best players in Kyiv.
But most of the former Dynamo players, among them the very popular goalkeeper Trusevich, did not want to play in Rukh, probably because they took Shvetsov for a collaborator. Trusevich found a job in the Bakery No. 1 which guaranteed their workers and their families normal supplies of food. More former Dynamo players found jobs in the bakery. The German director Joseph Kordik, an engineer from Moravia, encouraged them to form a football team: FC Start. After World War II Kordik declared to the NKVD that in reality, he was Czech, not German.
Three players of the former club Lokomotiv Kyiv were incorporated into the new team. Four former players who were directly submitted to the German administration also played for Start: three Ukrainian policemen and one engine driver of the German Railways Reichsbahn in Kyiv. None amongst the Start players had played for the Dynamo team in the years immediately before the war, although some of them had left the club only a couple of years before.
Matches in June and July 1942
Seven Start matches are documented for June and July 1942: against the Ukrainian teams Rukh and Sport, three Hungarian military teams, a team of the German artillery and the German railway team RSG. FC Start won all these matches, scoring 37 goals in total and conceding only 8. There is an enormous amount of material dealing with the “Death Match on the internet.
Some damage to the nose and chin of the Bronze otherwise good condition overall.
POA
$60
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19th Infantry Battalion |
The South Sydney Regiment |
Single brass collar |
SOLD |
C252 19th Infantry Battalion - The South Sydney Regiment - 52mm brass Hat Badge
C252 19th Infantry Battalion The South Sydney Regiment Collar Badges 28mm
C123 19th Kuring-Gai Infantry Regiment New South Wales Hat Badge 42mm
1st (Royal) Dragoons Horse Gilt Bit Boss in very good gilt. Victorian issue with Guelphic crown and central lion over crown complete with all lugs. Superb condition.
$285
C229 1st Armoured Car Regiment Oxidised Collar/Cap Badge 30mm
C73 1st Australian Infantry Regiment Collar 22mm J. R. Guant & Sons London. Period replacement of lugs to spikes in order to make it a cap badge (single spike left) sold
1st Brecknockshire Rifle Volunteers Other Ranks Victorian Period Helmet Plate, good quality example in die stamped white metal of crowned star and laurel pattern, with central circle ‘1st Brecknockshire. R.V’, in the centre the Prince of Wales’s crest and motto and regimental motto, three loop fasteners, very good condition
$285
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1st Infantry Battalion | The East Sydney Regiment | 53mm brass Hat Badge | SOLD |
$30
1st King’s Dragoon Guards Other Ranks 1871 Pattern Helmet, a fine quality example, the all brass skull with frontal plate being a multi-rayed white metal star overlaid with a brass oval Garter Proper and central white metal numeral on a black japanned ground, complete with leather sweat band, leather bound brass chin scales, complete with red horsehair plume with small brass finial.
Very good condition
1st Royal NSW Lancers 30-42 period hat badge
$SOLD
