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Army LSGC Medal to 7630 Wm Button 75th Regt. Born Hibalstone, Brigg, Lincoln. Slightly Wounded at Delhi 14/9/1857. Copied service papers mention medal with Lucknow clasp, but this does not appear on the roll. GVF but edge with several cuts

A Salvation Army forty eight button concertina, early to mid 20th Century The pierced and carved foliate rosewood exterior ends with leather strap and internal leather clad bellows, adorned with forty eight bone buttons, within original fitted Salvation Army musical instrument department case, Kings Cross, London, instruction and sheet music manual. CONDITION REPORT: Lot 76: Working order, condition is generally good, bellows with no holes or tears, and all buttons move freely.

Selection of British Regimental Cap Badges of various regiments and periods including silvered Officers Robin Hood Rifles, anodised Cameron Highlanders, 22nd Dragoons, Welsh Guards, Royal Horse Artillery blackened anodised, Royal Bucks Hussars, blackened anodised Buckinghamshire Battalion, Cameron Highlanders, 16th Lancers, 6th Gurkhas, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 4th Volunteer Battalion Devonshire regiment, Royal Observer Corps, Royal Military Police, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1st Pattern Royal Armoured Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps, The Wiltshire Regiment, The Welch, 20th Hussars, Grenadier Guards, plus others. Mixture of original and restrike badges. Some collar badges and a button also. (60 items)

Selection of British Army Cyclist Battalion's Badges consisting of brass T 10 ROYAL SCOTS shoulder title and other ranks cap badge, T 5 E.YORK brass shoulder title and three variations of regimental cap badge including blackened brass with slider, two piece officers cap badge with J R Gaunt London Late Jennings makers mark to reverse (one blade remaining which is very fragile), three T HIGHLAND CYCLISTS brass shoulder titles, brass T HCB (Territorial Highland Cyclist Battalion) shoulder title with J R GAUNT LONDON makers mark on the reverse, T HC (Territorial Highland Cyclists) brass shoulder title and gilt officers button Highland Cyclist Battalion. (12 items)

Selection of British Army Cyclist Battalion's Badges consisting of brass T 7 DEVON shoulder title accompanied by a officers service dress cap badge with J R GAUNT LONDON makers mark on reverse and a other ranks all brass cap badge with slider, T 7 WELSH brass shoulder title and blackened brass The Welsh regiment cap badge worn by 7th (Cyclist) battalion, Northern Cyclists cap badge with slider fitting, two T CYCLIST NORTHERN brass shoulder titles, brass T NORTHERN shoulder title vendor states worn in 1920 only, brass pocket size Northern Cyclists tunic button, Kent Cyclist battalion white metal cap badge with slider fitting, two brass T KENT CYCLIST shoulder titles with lug fittings, scarce brass shoulder title I KENT worn in India by the 1/1st Battalion 1916-1920, other ranks white metal collar badge and trial die, five officers gilt tunic buttons, gilt and enamel Kent Cyclist sweetheart brooch, T 6 SUFFOLK brass shoulder title (missing one lug fitting), 6th Cyclist Battalion Territorial Suffolk Regiment cap badge with slider, brass T 8 ESSEX shoulder title, three variations of 8th Cyclist Battalion Essex regiment cap badges including al brass WW1 war economy issue, 2x brass Essex titles with a brass T and two Cyclist brass titles. Various conditions. (33 items)

Selection of Cyclist Battalion Badges and Army Cyclist Corps, consisting of brass T CYCLIST CITY OF LONDON shoulder title (one lug missing from reverse), T CYCLISTS shoulder title with two lug fittings on reverse, two T CYCLIST brass shoulder titles, two brass CYCLIST shoulder titles with two lug fittings, T 6 ROYAL SUSSEX brass shoulder title (two repaired lugs on reverse), officers bronze Royal Sussex regiment cap badge with lug fittings and a bi metal cap badge with a pin fitting added, brass T 9 HANTS shoulder title with three lug fittings on reverse, brass Hampshire Cyclist Battalion cap badge with slider fitting on reverse, two Huntingdonshire Cyclist battalion cap badges with slider fittings on reverse, Huntingdonshire Cyclist battalion tunic button, hallmarked silver (London 1917) & tortoiseshell sweetheart brooch with pin fitting on reverse, brass T HUNTS shoulder title with two lug fittings, brass 12 spoke Army Cyclist Corps cap badge with slider fitting on reverse, four variations of 16 spoke Army Cyclist Corps cap badges with sliders and lug fittings, brass non voided 16 spoke Army Cyclist Corps cap badge with slider fittings to reverse, officers bronzed 16 spoke Army Cyclist Corps cap badge with slider fitting, officers bronze 16 spoke Army Cyclist Corps cap badge with one of the three blade fittings on the reverse, non-voided bronzed war economy 16 spoke Army Cyclist Corps cap badge with two lug fittings on the reverse, two other ranks and two officers Army Cyclist Corps tunic buttons and a selection of general service buttons, pips and rank crowns. All remain in good overall condition. (41 items) 

Selection of Sweetheart Brooches and Lapel Badges consisting of bronze The Hertfordshire Regiment British Expeditionary Force, Irish Guards brass sweetheart tie pin, brass and enamel Kings Liverpool regiment lapel badge, chrome and enamel The Queens Own Association, 2x white metal Loyal North Lancashire regiment, sterling silver Grenadier Guards sweetheart brooch (missing pin), chrome and enamel Grenadier Guards, gilt and enamel Royal Army Medical Corps (missing pin), gilt and enamel ASC Motor Transport, gilt and enamel Royal Dragoons, gilt and enamel Oxford & Bucks LI, Royal Engineers mounted button sweetheart, Honourable Artillery Company gilt sweetheart, white metal and enamel Reconnaissance Corps lapel, brass 6th City of London regiment, Finsbury Rifles sweetheart (damaged mother of pearl backing), white metal and enamel Grenadier Guards, bronze Army Service Corps lapel and gilt and enamel York and Lancaster regiment tie pin. All with fittings on reverse unless stated otherwise. Various conditions. (20 items) 

Victorian Mess Uniform Possibly Indian Army, of red scarlet cloth with black stand up collar and cuffs. Collar and cuffs decorated with twist cord. To the collar are a pair of pioneer type crossed axes. Brass ball button front with hidden clip fasteners. To the breast are medal ribbons for the Indian General Service medal and Afghanistan campaign medal. Complete with blue/black mess waistcoat with gilt buttons and a pair of officers dress trousers with gilt braid and central crimson stripe to the legs. Some scattered moth damage. (3 items)

Family group of medals, ephemera and related items comprising Great War pair of Medals to 2nd Lieutenant Andrew Smith, King's Own Scottish Borderers, British War Medal and Victory Medal + Field Message Book (Army Book 153), with pencil signature of Andrew Smith and various pencil entries, the cloth cover with pencilled signature of a Captain C Coy, 2nd Batt NZRB with some notes re munitions etc handed over to the Company in April 1918, + Army Book 133 with lists of soldiers in 7 Platoon and with names of casualties crossed out + Field Service Pocket Book + booklet entitled "Prominent Landmarks opposite 2nd Army Front", pub 2nd Army Intelligence Sept 1918 +Message Forms No 9674 with internal double page map "Trenches corrected from information received up to 21-9-18" [Zillebeke to South West, Zonnebeke to North East] + various maps on linen, Germany Sheets 1K, 2K, 1L, all pub Nov 1918, scale 1:100,000; Belgium (Brussels) ND scale 1:100,000; Belgium Sheet 29 NE edition 3, pub 1916 scale 1:20,000; Belgium and France Sheet 29 edition 3 pub May 1917 scale 1:40,000, France Sheet 36 A edition 6, pub December 1917 scale 1:40,000; Belgium Sheet 29 NE Provisional issue edition 3A (local) pub 18-10-18, scale 1:20,000; Belgium Sheet 3 D edition 2 pub September 1918 scale 1:40,000; Ypres edition 3 B (local) pub 15-7-18 scale 1:10,000 + four other paper maps; Lys Valley pub 31-12-17 scale 1:40,000; Passchendaele Ridge pub 1-1-18 scale 1:40,000; Belgium Sheet 21 NB edition 3 B (local) pub 15-10-18 scale 1:20,000 + one other map + some pages from "The Scotsman" Feb 20 1920 with announcement Second Lieutenant A Smith to be a Lieutenant 18th Oct 1919 + WW2 Group of five medals to Sgt Andrew C Smith 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (QEII), + set of miniatures both mounted as worn + Portsmouth City Police Helmet plate, badge and button + Royal Life Saving Bronze Medal to A C Smith dated May 1942 + St John Ambulance Association Medallion to Andrew C Smith + 1948 Year Bar and Badge + sundry other items including German Great War Iron Cross, pair of Great War period S4 L6483 binoculars cased, Great War period Military Issue Compass, Verner's pattern 8 No 91121 dated 1917 in leather case, stamped "C & R Brinsley 1916" etc

An Army officer's bicorn dating: second quarter of the 19th Centuryprovenance: Grand Duchy of TuscanyOf brushed, black felt (small defects), with wide borders and bands of moiré silk; on the sides small tassels of gilt thread and red fabric with monogram "LII"; white and red cockade (small defects) with plate of gilt thread and smooth button; at the inside the keather sweatband with gilt border and uthe black silk cap marked " C. MEDICI". In its travelling leather case complete with compartment for the epaulettes.dimensions: height 22 cm.

World War II Italian army War Service Cross to/w Ethiopian Campaign medal; Albanian Campaign medal and artillery button (4)

A Collection of Seven Canadian Regimental Cap Badges and a Pair of Collar Dogs, including Prince Edward Island Light Horse, Prince Albert Volunteers, XII Manitoba Dragoons, Canadian Women's Army Corps etc; eleven British Army Cap Badges, three rank badges, a button, a German Third Reich Police cap badge etc

23 Finnish officers gilt embroidered cap badges, all bearing the Finnish lion on a red enamel button in the centre, within a wreath, with anchor above for navy (1), eagle for air force (2), the army without device but on different coloured cloth to centre and backing denoting different branches of the army (20); 12 various OR’s metal badges, some identified, sundry other items. GC to VGC

A quantity of cloth and Regimental badges, to include British Marine Commando badge, British Parachute Regiment badge, British Army Marksman's badge, Italian Artillery fob and badge, British WWII plastic cap badge and modern no. 2 dress button, British 5 Airborne shoulder flask, etc. (a quantity)

A Royal Army Medical Corp Captains uniform, in green, with gilt metal button, the trousers with Moss Bros. label, together with a matching coat, two other Royal Army Medical Corps uniforms, kit bag, collars etc, all circa 1945

Pair: BWM, Victory (2096 Pte P Boness RAMC), VF and pinned to an armband bearing Red Cross and stamped “Army Medical Service”, 3 MOP button fixing, GC. Nursing awards: Serbia Red Cross medal, reverse with Maiden of Kosovo, without the 1912-1913 dates and from a bow ribbon, VF and scarce, and a Serbian Cross of Charity or Mercy 1912 in bronze gilt and enamel. VF

Indian Ordnance Corps cap badges (4) with a shoulder title and button. Includes: WWI and WWII Indian ordnance corps cap badges and Army ordnance corps badge. All in good condition. (Brass and white metal) Kc

Militaria : USSR : An extremely rare Revolutionary - period Soviet Red Army Infantry ' Bogatyrka ' or ' Budenovka ' hat , folding button - back flap section , the brow having enamelled badge with red star under hammer & sickle emblem . The high - tip crown dates this hat as pre 1927 . CONDITION: Please Note - we do not make reference to the condition of lots within catalogue descriptions. We are however happy to provide additional information regarding the condition of items on request.

US style Cased Medal Military Merit, Card of 6 German Button, German Army Cap Badge

A RARE SEVEN YEARS` WAR FRENCH REGULATION HUSSARS` SABRE, À LA HONGROISE, OF THE REGIMENT DE BERCHINŸ, CIRCA 1752-67 with long slender curved blade double-edged towards the point, cut with a pair of narrow fullers bordering the greater central portion of the back-edge, etched with the royal arms of France below the figure of a hussar on both sides towards the base, with cartouches enclosing the inscriptions "Regiment de Berchinÿ" on one face and "Vive le Roÿ" on the other, and the back-edge etched with the signature of the fourbisseur "Berger Marchand Fourbisseur a Strasborg"(sic), brass hilt of flat bars with bevelled edges, including rounded double langets on both sides, cap pommel with a brass drop-shaped washer under the tang button, original grip bound with leather over cords, with a single brass-capped rivet on either side, fitted with back-piece, and in un-restored condition throughout 92.5 cm; 36 3/8 in blade This sabre conforms to the pattern set out in the French regulations for Hussars on 15th May 1752. The Berchiny Hussar regiment was raised in 1719 by a Hungarian Lieutenant, Count Ladislas Ignace de Berchenÿ (1689-1778). Three squadrons of the regiment, comprising 65 officers and 470 men, fought in the German campaign of 1743. During the Seven Years` War four squadrons of the regiment formed a part of the Light Troops of the Right Reserve of the French army of the Lower Rhine, June 1758-May 1760, and fought with distinction. See Pétard 1999, Vol. I, no.57a, pp. 76-7. For a variant de Berchinÿ sabre, its blade etched in a near-identical manner, see Blondieau 2002, p.91.

A chrome plated metal and enamelled Royal Artillery car badge, a quantity of military cap badges, an M.O.D. issue whistle, dated 1941, British Army pips, R.A.F. buttons, a British Railways button, German identity discs, Second World War period German buttons and sundry.

US style Cased Medal Military Merit, Card of 6 German Button, German Army Cap Badge

ACCESSORIES: Army & Navy black japanned dry fly box ten compartment base with cast compartment to lid 3 x glass oil bottles with leather button tabs a Wheatley copper cast holder a nickel watch case oiler various dry flies scissors etc.

ACCESSORIES: Army & Navy black japanned dry fly box ten compartment base with cast compartment to lid 3 x glass oil bottles with leather button tabs a Wheatley copper cast holder a nickel watch case oiler various dry flies scissors etc.

EIGHT GREAT WAR WOVEN SILK POSTCARDS including one Royal Army Medical Corps badge, mounted with a black and white portrait photograph of a R.A.M.C. Soldier, framed and glazed, overall 62.5cm x 62.5cm; together with a woven silk `Souvenir de France` handkerchief; and a small quantity of other items including a `Haig Fund` button, and a Second World War Defence Medal.

A Second War O.B.E. Group of Four to Colonel G. Gilbert, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Late Royal Army Ordnance Corpsa) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Officer's (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-giltb) 1939-1945 Starc) Defence and War Medals, nearly extremely fine, together with the recipient's cap badge and an R.E.M.E. button; and a silver cigarette lighter, with 'R.E.M.E.' emblem, and engraved 'Presented to Lt. Col. G. Gilbert. on the Formation of R.E.M.E. 1.10.42. by his Technical Staff 14 T.T.C., R.E.M.E.' (4) O.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1945 Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) George Gilbert, A.M.I.Mech.E. (111014), Royal Electrical and Mechanical EngineersColonel George Gilbert, O.B.E., Commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 18.12.1939; advanced Major and transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1.10.1942; retired with the honorary rank of Colonel, 15.3.1945.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.

AN OFFICER`S CLOAK AND OTHER ITEMS OF THE GUIDES CAVALRY with maker`s label of Hawkes, 14 Piccadilly, inscribed to JK Hensley Esq. A fine dark blue cloak with scarlet cloth lining to collar. A double row of plain white metal half-ball buttons to front, scarlet shalloon lining (top button missing); two lightweight khaki Service Dress tunics, one with scarlet piping round the collar (both lacking all badges and buttons); a good Sam Browne belt of Guides pattern, with white metal fittings, complete with sword-frog, brace and whistle but lacking its rectangular regimental waistplate; a brown pigskin pistol-holster and flat leather pouch, both with loops to attach to a Sam Browne; and a leather-covered swagger-stick (7) Frederic King Hensley was commissioned into the 15th Madras Infantry in 1902, transferring to the Guides shortly afterwards. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1903 and Captain in 1910. The 1914 Indian Army List shows him attached to the Assam Military Police. He accompanied the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from June to November 1918, and subsequently transferred to the 12th Frontier Force Regiment. He appears as a Lieutenant Colonel in the 1927 IAL

**A FINE GERMAN BRONZE SALUTING CANNON DATED 1714 with tapering multi-stage barrel formed with raised astragal mouldings, strongly moulded muzzle, cast with bands of elaborate scrollwork behind the muzzle, of the first reinforce and the chase, the latter incorporating the crowned coat-of-arms of the Duchy of Wurttemberg enclosed by foliage and the former with a scrolling panel with the abbreviated inscription and the date `17 E.L.H.Z.W.14` for Eberhard Louis Herzog von Wurttemberg, raised collar-shaped vent, a pair of dolphin lifting handles, a pair of long plain trunnions, and globose cascable moulded en suite, with the muzzle and drawn-out to a pierced button chiselled with acanthus: on a later finely constructed iron-clad field carriage painted in polychrome and fitted with a pair of spoked wheels 67.3 cm; 26 1/2 in barrel 2.5 cm; 1 in bore Eberhard Ludwig, tenth Duke of Württemberg (1676-1733), was the only son of Wilhelm Ludwig of Württemberg (1647-1677) and succeeded to the dukedom when under a year old. During the years of his minority, the duchy was ruled by a regent, his uncle Friedrich Karl. In 1693, when Eberhard Ludwig was sixteen, the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I proclaimed him duke in order to secure the duchy`s support for the Empire: strategically situated on the right bank of the Rhine, Württemberg represented a significant bastion for the Empire against the aggressive encroachments of Louis XIV`s France. Often popularly represented as a spendthrift and proto-absolutist ruler unduly influenced by his mistress and her family, the duke was typical of many of his peers - the rulers of the German princely states - in seeking to establish and increase the status of his duchy through overt magnificence, military expenditure and diplomatic manoeuvring. His uncle had created a standing army from Württemberg`s militia in the early 1690s and the duke capitalised on that initiative by increasing the size of the army: both men also raised regiments of Württembergers for the specific purpose of hiring them as mercenaries to other states. Although loyally allied to the Empire and the anti-French `Grand Alliance` during the War of the League of Augsburg (1688-97), the duke was ambivalent in his allegiance during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-14) and periodically flirted with the idea of a French alliance in the hope of increasing his status; his appointment as Imperial Field Marshal in 1712 was made in order to secure his loyalty to the Empire. The ending of the war with France in 1714 left Württemberg in considerable debt and the duke without his desired enhanced political status. In the same year, though, hostilities between Venice and the Ottoman Empire began; Venice had hired Württemberger soldiers during an earlier war with the Turks and so, in October 1714, the Serene Republic approached the duke for a large contingent of men. In the event, the duke was out-manoeuvred by the Viennese court, his personal negotiations with Venice failed and the Württemberger soldiers ended up in Imperial service at far lower rates of pay than the Venetians would have paid. It is possible that this gun was cast in 1714 as part of the duke`s attempts to provide appropriately equipped forces for Venice. A colourful figure with considerable, if poorly focussed, ambition, Eberhard Ludwig failed in his principal aim: the establishment of absolute rule in a duchy with a fully funded army and genuine status within the Holy Roman Empire. The cultural achievements of his reign - the building of Schloss Ludwigsburg, for example - must be regarded as outweighing the military and political ones. See Wilson 1995.

A FINE AND RARE .600 CALIBRE FRENCH PRESENTATION FLINTLOCK RIFLED CARBINE BY BOUTET, DIRECTEUR ARTISTE, MANUFACTURE À VERSAILLES, NO. 277, CIRCA 1800-05 with blued swamped octagonal polygroove rifled barrel, fitted with windage adjustable fore-sight on a punched and gilt bed, signed in italics on the left of the breech `Boutet Directeur Artiste No. 277`, inscribed on the right `Manufre à Versailles` and stamped beneath with the control mark of Daniel Boussavy, and the abbreviated italic inscription `Manu` and `V lles.` in italic, gold lined oval vent, the top of the breech chiselled with a garland of flowers beneath a triangular panel filled with a flower head, all on a punched and gilt contrasting ground, stamped with a series of marks including `Boutet` in miniscules, and `NB` (Neue Støckel 95), fitted with blued back-sight of two folding leaves, engraved tang decorated with neo-classical ornament including a pair of entwined serpents enclosing a smoking urn, stepped lock with moulded borders (small dents), signed `Boutet Directeur Artiste`, chiselled with beadwork along the step, fitted with engraved cock decorated with a garland of flowers, gold-lined pan engraved with a pair of volutes, with scrolling rear fence, blued steel spring with roller, engraved button safety, and detents, steel engraved en suite with the pan, set trigger, figured walnut full stock, impressed `47`, carved with a panel of fine chequering over the fore-end and the grip, carved with a moulding along the length of the barrel on each side and inlaid with a running design of silver foliage beneath, the muzzle carved with anthemion and neoclassical foliage (one very small repaired crack), further foliage about the rear ramrod-pipe and the lock, each enriched with further panels of leafy conventional foliage in engraved silver, the tang enclosed with a raised fluted moulding and a pair of neo classical demi flowers, the butt with carved raised cheek-piece inset with a large pierced and engraved silver flowerhead, the base of the butt encircled by a broad panel of silver pierced chased and engraved with geometric panels filled with scale pattern and a band of waves (a small area with minor lifting), burnished steel mounts comprising chiselled trigger-guard with a neo-classical flaming urn finial, the bow with foliage at each end and an engraved rear finial, the rear portion continued by a scrolling panel of pierced ebony decorated with neo classical foliage (very small chips), two-piece vestigial side-plate engraved with a garland and a flowerhead respectively, the right enclosed by two engraved silver dragons breathing thunder-bolts, butt-cap chiselled with an urn on the tang, rear ramrod-pipe chiselled with a leafy garland and beadwork, four further faceted ramrod-pipes with beadwork mouldings, contemporary horn-tipped wooden ramrod, and remaining in very good condition throughout 70.5 cm; 27 ¾ in barrel The Annuaire of the Versailles Manufactory for this period includes the following entry: Prince de Bade - Carab. doub. détente, acier cis. damasq., placage argent, fr. 6075 AN XI (September 23, 1802 to September 23, 1803) The use of silver inlay in the stock and steel mounts, as opposed to silver mounts, might suggest presentation to a high ranking military officer. The proximity to France of the territories of Charles-Frederick, Margrave of Baden (1756-1811), together with his initial opposition to the French revolution and its effects, resulted in the devastation of Baden by French armies in the mid-1790s. Thereafter, having indemnified France and ceded some territory to that republic, Baden remained under the sway of its powerful neighbour until 1813. In November 1802, the margrave - having lost his eldest son in the previous year and clearly prescient regarding the ambitions of Napoleon - wrote France`s First Consul a fulsome letter in which he thanked Napoleon for his continuing protection and assured him of his admiration and loyalty: significantly, he chose to send his third - and favourite - son, Prince Louis, to France with the letter. In April 1806, by which time the margrave had become an electoral prince, ties between Baden and France were strengthened by the arranged marriage of the elector`s grandson and heir, Prince Charles, to the Emperor Napoleon`s adopted niece and newly created imperial princess, Stéphanie de Beauharnais. The elevation of the elector to the rank of grand-duke - an elevation approved and arranged by Napoleon - followed in July 1806 and further bound Baden to the fortunes of Napoleonic France. Elements of Baden`s small army served alongside that of France in several campaigns between 1805 and 1812: against Austria in 1805, Prussia in 1806, Britain (in Spain) in 1809 and Russia in 1812. Prince Charles, heir to his grandfather after 1801 and husband of Napoleon`s adopted niece from April 1806, was welcomed by personal letter into Napoleon`s military entourage in September 1806 - `J`approve le désir que vous avez de faire la guerre`. The prince was summoned to meet Napoleon at Bamberg early the following month and was with the French army at its decisive victory over that of Prussia at Jena on 14th October 1806, after which Napoleon wrote to Prince Charles`s widowed mother to reassure her that her son had done well at his first battle - `...il s`est bien comporté à la bataille et supporte bien la fatigue`. In 1807, Prince Charles commanded the Baden contingent at the siege of Danzig and continued on active service until 1808. Succeeding his grandfather in 1811, Charles maintained Baden`s support for France until the battle of Leipzig in 1813 demonstrated that the tide of war was no longer flowing in France`s favour. The political, military and personal ties that bound Baden to France from the late 1790s until 1813 must account for the existence of this carbine in the descendant family of the Grand Duke of Baden. It is possible that it originally belonged either to Prince Louis, who visited Napoleon at his father`s behest in 1802 and remained in Paris for some years, or to his nephew, Prince Charles, who served alongside Napoleon in his campaigns between 1806 and 1808: given the martial qualities of the weapon, the latter seems the most likely of the two princes to have been its original owner. Nicolas-Noël Boutet (1761-1833) the distinguished maker of armes de luxe inherited the position of gunmaker to Louis XIV from his father-in-law, Pierre de Sainte (active 1747-88). In 1792 he became technical Director at the new Versailles Manufactory and in 1800 rose to Directeur Artiste with overall control. He held this position until the closure of the manufactory in 1818. Boutet died fifteen years later in poverty, his career having survived six French Political regimes. Daniel Bouyssay was controller at the Versailles Manufactory from Year II (1793-4) until Year XIV (1805).

A late Victorian violin `made and presented to H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught... by Robert Howe. 1890`, bearing label to interior inscribed `R. Howe Windsor Castle 1889`, the two-piece back bearing stamp `R. Howe`, length of back excluding button 33.7cm, the oak case with an applied silver plaque, engraved `H.R.H Prince Arthur of Connaught 1890`, the interior with an applied vellum panel, inscribed `This case is made from a piece of old oak taken out of the Round Tower... The upper table of the violin in this case was made from an old door of Windsor Castle... Both the case and Violin were made and presented to H.R.H Prince Arthur of Connaught upon his return from India...`, together with a silver mounted bow. Note: Prince Arthur was born the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria. He was the Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army from December 1886 to March 1890.

A PAUL YSART `ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS BUTTON` GLASS PAPERWEIGHT the button on a mottled green and white ground. 7.5cm Condition Reports: Some marks and scratches, wear to base.

A military knife, probably Indian Army, double edged blade 7 1/4in., steel crossguard with button terminals, contoured grip either lacquered or synthetic, scabbard with khaki cloth cover.

A T/Kent/Cyclists shoulder title and companion large button; a T/HCB title (one lug missing); a Northern Cyclist bronze collar; a Cyclist title; a large Army Cyclist button; 2 other items. GC (8)

1914-18: Royal Dublin Fusiliers trench art cap and postcard A piece of trench art in the form of a British Army service cap and made from the base of a shell decorated with the cap badge of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and a general service button. Also with a British Photogram Series postcard with the crest and history of the regiment and `Badges of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Booklet Two` by J. Maguire. (3 items) L Measurements: 1 by 3.75in., 2.5 by 9.375cm.

A parcel lot to include an inlaid Moorish card case, leather cased medicine glasses and minim measure, silver cased button hook hallmarked Birmingham, watch key, white metal fob with hardstone seals, ivory vesta case with silver mount hallmarked London A/F, white metal albert chain with miniature ivory penknife, white metal propelling pencil with cabouchon end, match case, brass compass, ARP police whistle by J Hudson, quantity of watches to include three white metal pocket watches, two with British Army marks to back, one on plated Albert chain, group of twelve contemporary watches to include Labarre, Pulsar, Fossil etc, and a Russian steel watch with KGB log to dial, 18 pieces

Enamelled metal ARP strong box containing two brass button polishing guards, Royal Army Service Corps cap badge, spurs, Acme "Thunderer" whistle, regiment photograph, soldiers portrait photographs, etc

A rare German composition headed doll dressed as a Sturm Abteilung Trooper (or brownshirt), circa 1937 with painted blue eyes and brown hair, swivel head, jointed stuffed body, original cotton brown shirt, black felt hat and trousers, black oil-cloth boots and belts, paper fastener button and shop retailer’s paper label on left foot for ‘August Herbst Bonn’ - 14in (35.5cm) high. Provenance: This doll was bought in Germany by one of four brothers; in 1937 the Portwine brothers, who were serving in the British Army and the RAF, visited Germany and were amazed at the militarisation of the country and they bought this doll as a souvenir

WWII group of five medals, 1937-45 star, war medal, France Germany star, The Italy star and the African star (Pte Charles Button Pioneer Corps) complete with ribbons, army no 13085204.

A WWII British Army 1944 leather jerkin No.2 size, one button missing

A SMALL ORIENTAL LACQUERED CABINET with three drawers containing a variety of medals, buttons and coins to include a medallion struck to celebrate The 1851 Exhibition, a Czechoslovak Army badge, a National Reserve London button and others

A British Army Greener type fencing musket, sprung plunger with button terminal riding in a steel tube with hardwood stock.

General Officer’s Cocked Hat A good example of the regulation black silk bi-corn hat, with double gold bullion loop, purl button and gold/crimson tassels. Pale roan leather internal headband and crimson silk lining by Army & Navy Stores, complete with its ten-inch drooping white over red feather plume. Clean condition, feathers with some age wear.

Royal Army Medical Corps Officer’s Patrol Jacket A rare and good example, blue cloth with stand-and-fall collar and pointed cuffs. The collar, cuffs and jacket edged with one-inch black mohair braid, the jacket with five loops of the same braid each side in front, with two olivettes on each loop, backseam ornaments and cuff-edgings of the same braid, traced with Russia. False collar, badges of rank and one shoulder-button absent, some stitching faults ... and a good companion pair of blue twill overalls with rare triple “dull cherry” cloth stripes. (2 items)

Collection of Military Related Items: To consist of WW2 Bicycle Lamp, 3 Field Message Books, Officers Advance Bank Book, 37 Pattern Straps, Peak Cap Strap, Officers Pistol Lanyard, Army Issue Pen Knife plus 1 other, 2 Button Sticks and James Dixon Hip Flask (13)

Army Medical Services Officer Uniforms Royal Army Medical Corps full dress tunic with KC collar badges and CaptainÕs rank badges. Small amount of moth. One shoulder button detached but present. Lining AF ... RAMC mess jacket with regimental buttons. Dull cherry roll collar, gauntlet cuffs and shoulder straps with MajorÕs rank badges. Collar badges removed ... Matching mess waistcoat. Buttons removed ... RAMC universal pattern frock coat with damaged collar. Collar badges and large number of buttons removed. Shoulder straps missing ... Victorian blue undress tunic for Volunteer Medical Staff with fine quilted lining, black velvet shoulder straps with white metal stars and small departmental buttons. 5 items.

Seven German Third Reich Badges:- an Infantry Assault badge, silver class; a bronze Tank Battle Badge by Frank & Reif, Stuttgart; a copy of an Army Flak Badge, marked W.H. WIEN; a Sports Badge; a broken SS Long Service Cross for 12 Years; a Winter Campaign in Russia Medal; a Reichsparteitag 1936 tinnie and a Labour Day 1938 tinnie; a Pair of Heer Painted Aluminium Badges, of eagle and swastika and tricolour shield, a cockade button and rosette (12)

Assortment of Army Service Corp buttons and a brass button polisher

Medals - WW1 Victory Medal to 28468 2.A.M. E W Watson RAF + Button and ID Tags RFC. GV Regular Army LSGC Medal to 7581301 S.Sjt W A Stenning RAOC. Civil Defence LS Medal QE2. Fire Service LSGC Medal to Sub. Offr. Leslie R. Cleal. (4) VF-EF

ROD: Army & Navy Victoria St., London greenheart drop ring Victorian salmon fly rod, 14`6" 3 piece + correct spare tip, all drop ring guides intact, bronze ferrules, brass/wood stoppers, bronzed reel fittings with matching butt cap and fruitwood button, complete good rod, in MOB, c1880.

A Rare German - Austrian Army Officer’s Tunic, of long skirted Austrian production, in field grey cloth, four pocket construction, the two upper, of typical Austrian type with false flaps, seven button front, deep barrel cuffs, and German officer’s dark green style collar, bearing a four section row of Austrian medal ribbons with a 1935 Third Reich War Honour Cross with Swords for Great War service.View on dnfa.com

A LOT OF GERMAN WWI AND WWII ITEMS. Comprising an original pair of late-war Army/Luftwaffe red green HBT summer weight trousers, two front slash pockets with button closure, watch pocket, pressed-paper front buttons and belt loops with large Bakelite barathea buttons as normally used on the black panzer uniform. Interior RBN and size stamps, near mint condition. Together with a pre-1931 leather helmet liner, two Reichswehr era gas mask containers with straps but without masks, a KN 35 dated canteen with straps and early apple green painted cup (no cover), a Franco-Prussian era canteen with cover, and a WWI B.A.X. 1915 brown leather EM/NCO belt with unit marking "JR 30 1915" (Jaeger Regiment 30), together with a traditional Bavarian folksshaft outfit comprising a grey dappled tunic with green wool trim, staghorn buttons, lederhosen with suspenders, and a 1987 dated Gebirgsjaeger M43 style cap.

A COLLECTION OF VIETNAM ERA CLOTHING, EQUIPMENT AND HEADGEAR. Including a jungle jacket, four slant pockets with concealed buttons, M56 button front closure, in country name and US Army tapes, CIB and 196th Infantry Bde. sleeve patch, two pairs of OG-107 fatigue shirts/trousers, four 4-pocket dress jackets, a transmitter with Vietnam era replaced antennae, a plastic canteen without cover, an M16 ammo pouch with survival Polarshield emergency blanket, multi-purpose survival tool in camo plastic case, lemon drops, an un-opened safety light stick, a tube of Hexamine tablets, WWII era army boot laces, an M9A1 gas mask bag and two US M1 helmets-- one with nametape on rear "Neufang" and 1970`s era airborne liner and two with US flag decal on right side and 1950`s era CAPAC liner, and a reversible camouflage helmet cover.

U.S. Army Infantry Mexican War Shell Jacketca 1840s. Kersey wool jacket from the Pennsylvania Volunteers - possibly from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Welted pocket set horizontally on the outside. This is probably a private purchase jacket. Lead buttons with eagle and patriotic shield bearing the letter I.. Three matching buttons on each sleeve with beige and red chevrons on both sleeves. Interior with red and beige cotton lining that is partially detached from the body of the jacket. The consignor relates that this is his Great-Great Grandfather`s Mexican War Jacket and that he was a member of the "Irish Greens" - a volunteer unit from Pittsburg area. Later in his career this soldier fought in the Civil War with the 134th Pennsylvania Volunteers as a colonel.This jacket was on the Antiques Roadshow and the appraiser valued it at $10,000. Condition: Top button on jacket is missing. Second button from the bottom is mis-shapened. Nominal mothing. Very good.Starting Price: $7000

A large quantity of foreign coinage to include bank notes from Spain, British Caribbean territories, India, Canada, Holland, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Portugal, a Kennedy half dollar dated 1967, further American coinage, Italian, French, etc., also two British ten pound postal orders dated 2004, a Royal Engineer`s cap badge, a Territorial Army button hole badge, possibly in silver, and two badges in the form of grenades with George the Dragon and motto `Quo Fata Vocant`, etc

Assorted 1950`s and Later Costume, including Susan Small London pink cotton printed dress, pink and floral printed gypsy style top; Sherman of London cotton printed dress; Horrockses Fashions printed button front dress; Victor Costa Ltd floral printed frilled strapless evening dress; cream jacket with floral embroidery; Bruce Oldfield Custom Made dark navy velvet evening dress woven with gold stars; Jean Muir yellow silk striped jacket (size 14); pair of Womens Land Army cord breeches; brocade theatrical coat with woven silver trims; brown velvet striped jacket (possibly Biba, label is worn) (11)

AN ARMY & NAVY CSL 12 BORE DOUBLE BARRELED SIDELOCK EJECTOR SHOTGUN having 28” Damascus barrels, nitro proof, safety button, extended stock, number 27030 *** Bidders must be in possession of a current shotgun licence to bid on this lot, and must produce the licence on payment.

22 German pin back badges featuring airships. Including- large copper US with suspended basket for, S.W. Lumbermen’s assn. Convention, Kansas City 1910, semi-circular cast WM ‘Zeppelin Landing 1930’ and ‘Zeppelin Landing Basel 1930’. Both with views of towns and lake, eagle and suspended shield ‘2nd Pan American Aeronautic Exposition. Atlantic City. May 1919’. Airship ‘Norge’ and racing car ‘Circuito di Milano, Monza 1926’, ‘US Army RN1’ airship ‘America’s Greatest Airship Port’ and arms of ‘Belleville ILL. 1924’. On leather button hole strap, etc. GC-VGC

2 1970’s Solido military vehicles. A US Army Patton M-47 tank (210), an unusual battery powered metal example, fitted with control cord and hand-held voice command/push button unit. Plus a Berliet T12 tank transporter, with an AMX 30T tank load. Both boxed, minor wear. Vehicles VGC-Mint. See illustration

Bombay Staff Corps - A two-part waist belt clasp, 1855 pattern but with acanthus finials, centrally the crown over `VR` and unit title in surround, matching bench marks `XXXVIII`, together with one only small officer`s gilt tunic button to the same unit, c. 1856-1901. The Indian Staff Corps was a branch of the British Indian Army during Colonial rule. Separate Staff Corps were formed in 1861 for the Bengal, Madras and Bombay Armies, which constituted the Indian Army, although they were later amalgamated. They were meant to provide officers for the native regiments, and for the staff and army departments. They were also designed to offer placements for civil and political appointments for posts for which Indian Army officers might be eligible. Those officers who were already employed by the Army had the option to join the Staff Corps or to stay employed under the old conditions of work. In that sense it was seen by the majority of post-1860 entrants as synonymous with the Regular Officer Corps of the Indian Army. 109th Bombay Infantry (Central India) -An officer`s waistbelt clasp, bi-metal, gilt finish, bearing regimental device The 109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry) was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1862 to 1881, when it was amalgamated into The Prince of Wales`s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians).The regiment was originally raised by the Honourable East India Company in 1853 as the 3rd Bombay (European) Regiment, and served in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. As with all other "European" units of the Company, they were placed under the command of the Crown in 1858, and formally moved into the British Army in 1862, ranked as the 109th Foot. As part of the Childers Reforms in 1881, the regiment was amalgamated with the 100th (Prince of Wales`s Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot to form The Prince of Wales`s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians). Black Watch Volunteers Regiment - An officer`s waistbelt clasp, 19th Century, bearing regimental device. The Black Watch was formed as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 when the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch) was amalgamated with the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot to form two battalions of the newly named Royal Highlanders (The Black Watch). The 1st Battalion then served in Africa taking part in the Highland Brigade`s dawn assault on the Egyptian position at Tel-el-Kebir in 1882. Two years later it was in the thick of the fight with the Mahdi`s tribesmen at El Teb and Tamai. The following year (1885) saw it taking part in the Nile Expedition and fighting at Kirbekan and Abu Klea. 18th Regiment of Foot - An officer`s waistbelt clasp, bi-metal, 19th Century, bearing regimental device, (4)

A Second World War Imperial Japanese Army Wool Overcoat - single-breasted, with five buttons and straight-flap pockets at the hip. Complete with original button-on hood.