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A group of three Beswick Art Deco pottery female face masks Two brunettes with blue berets and green earrings, the other a blonde with a green beret and blue earrings, each 24cm high. (3)

A QEII 4th / 7th Royal Dragoon Guards 1951 Pattern greatcoat, together with two pairs of dress trousers, belt, boots and spurs, a cap, UN beret, driver's goggles and face mask

After Adriaen Van Ostade (1610-1685) - A 19th Century Dutch oil on board portrait painting on panel depicting a gentleman in red beret and jacket. Signed to upper right corner A Van Ostade. Measures approx; 20cm x 16cm.

An RAF beret, a 14th Kings Hussar cap, a box containing Royal Horse Artillery brass buttons and pin badges and another beret, possibly Merchant Navy badge?

An Army Air Corps Company Sergeant Major helicopter pilot, number one dress uniform tunic, trousers and beret, slight moth damage. P&P Group 2 (£18+VAT for the first lot and £3+VAT for subsequent lots)

Royal Irish Rangers parade beret with plume. P&P Group 2 (£18+VAT for the first lot and £3+VAT for subsequent lots)

Parachute Regiment badged red beret, in poor condition. P&P Group 2 (£18+VAT for the first lot and £3+VAT for subsequent lots)

Clothing including tam o'shanter, glengarry with feather bearing Royal Regiment of Scotland badge, beret, jersey with 'The Green Howards B Company' stitching and another with 'Light Infantry' stitching, great coat and cap bearing Frontiersmen badges, trousers etc and a framed print displaying various badges of the Royal Navy

A box containing a quantity of assorted books including Campfire Tales, The Green Beret, etc. - sold with a box containing a quantity of books including art, history and interior design

Eight Australian Army uniform sets and spare buttons Eight Australian Army uniforms, to include 1970's Lieutenant's Royal Australian Engineers Barathea Blues jacket and trousers, Lieutenant's Summer Service Dress jacket and trousers, Lieutenant Colonel's Summer Service dress jacket and trousers, two Colonel's Winter Service dress uniform jacket and trousers, one with beret and tie, Colonel's Summer Mess jacket and trousers, another spare Summer Mess Jacket, two Colonel's Summer Service Dress jacket and trousers and one further spare pair of trousers, also a bag of approximately sixty spare buttons.

A Normandy Veterans' blazer, beret and necktie, together with a box of assorted militaria items, including webbing, compass, loose and cased cloth patches etc.

PARACHUTE REGIMENT BERET

A Vintage Girl's Life Brigade Life Uniform, Hat and Beret

Assorted CC41 Ladies Costumes including three jackets, two co-ords, two shirts and six dresses, including the labels Beyvene, Kara and Charles Kirk; quantity of night dresses and wool undergarments; and a cream wool beret. (28)Labelled CC41 - Floral dress - small stain to the chest, 40" bust. Cream dress with purple and blue flowers - 36" bust, slight wear. White dress with brown and pink shapes - some fraying to the button holes, collar and underarms, seam loose at the waist and armhole, 34" bust. St Michael cream dress - brown stain to the front, size 34. Satin shirt - 38" chest, holde in left armhole, some pulls overall. Blue white polka dot dress - 38" chest, stain on the front and slight wear, fading. Charles Kirk spot striped shirt - 35" bust, staining to the front. Jacket - side seams taken in and wear, 36" bust. Black A Beyvene jacket - two holes in left pocket, 38" chest. Kara light red jacket - 38" bust, some staining to the lining, underarms, holes on both shoulders and front, holes in the lining. Purple skirt and jacket - small holes to the front and towards hem of jacket, large hole under a pleat and several smaller, Jacket has holes to the front, back and shoulder, 37" chest. Green wool two piece - shirt has holes to the front, 38" waist, Jacket has small hole to the front left side, 35" chest. Kangol wool beret - stains to the underside. Blue Meridian pants, size 18 - slight fading to the back. Dark blue ribbed Shephard pants, faded logo, hole at the waist. Viyella dark blue pants, size 20 - slight wear.No CC41 label - Shephard full body wool undergarment, hole on right shoulder, right leg and back. The Wolsey - full body wool undergarment, 30" chest - small hole to back of the leg. Vedonis 29" chest, a few stains overall. Peach bra labelled Excelsior, size 36 - slight wear. Black sleeveless underdress - 42" bust, some small repaired holes to the back. Proper Pride lingerie - 38" chest, small holes to the front. Peach nightwear - 29" chest, some stains to the hem. Peach night dress - 40" bust, some small holes to the shoulders, and the back. Silver grey nightdress - 40" bust, some staining to the back.

RAF Peak cap, with oak leaves to peak, by Bates of Jermyn Street, London; Service dress jacket, size 10, Montague Burton Ltd 1952; Kangol Wear limited beret, 7 1/8; etc

WW2 Veteran Col Phillip Newton collection of his medals and personal items. He was a main driving force for a Suez Medal, he campaigned for many years to get the medal awarded, sadly his was given after his death. This named medal is a tribute to a dedicated Military figure.1) Original photograph of Major P S Newton, Moascar, Canal Zone, Egypt, July 1952 on being awarded the MBE when he was Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), Suez Canal North District in El Ballah, Egypt, and from 16.10.1951 HQ 1st Infantry Division District at Ferry Point, Ismalia (MBE)2) Original photograph of Philip Sidney Newton (Lt Col, Commanding officer Royal Sussex Regiment 1960-1962 (Holywood, Northern Ireland, later Shorncliffe) - or is this after promotion to full colonel on 09.08.1965, seniority 19.08.1964)?3) 12 inch diameter Solid silver salver “Pip Newton with grateful thanks from The Museums of The British Army 1972-1989”4) 4.5 inch Solid Silver dish “Colonel Pip Newton 1988-1998”5) Plated Silver Salver “Goodbye H & C January 1956” (this must have been a gift from friends when he was Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), War Office (London))6) Solid Silver salt spoon7) 3 small salt spoons, 2 being solid silver8) Plated Silver Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Mustard Pot and spoon9) Plated Silver Salt and Pepper Mills10) Plated Silver Sugar Shaker11) Plated Silver Salt and Pepper shakers12) Parachute Regiment beret and badge13) 2 separate Parachute Regiment cap badges14) 8 Miniature Medals and the Order of Orange-Nassau pin15) Major P S Newton's Suez Canal Zone Medal, 1951-1954, awarded in June 2003 after 25 years of campaigning for the veterans by my father. Because of his campaign, he was awarded the medal, rather than the GSM bar. After his death his daughter, Anne, joined the campaign16) Pingat Jasa Malaysia Medal following service in Borneo in 1964/5 when he was General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ 17th Division, Land Forces Borneo (Kluang, Malaya & Labuan, Borneo)2001 Parliament announcement - Andrew F. Bennett (Denton and Reddish): I am grateful for the opportunity to raise, in a short debate, the Government's failure to recommend or the Queen to award campaign medals to those who served in the Suez canal zone between 1951and 1954. I had hoped that there would be more time for the debate because many other hon. Members are concerned about the issue. I am pleased that my hon. Friend the Member for Wentworth (Mr. Healey) is present; no doubt he will hope to speak, and he has my permission and that of the Minister to do so briefly. My hon. Friend the Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Cryer) has also raised questions about the matter. I place on the record my appreciation of my constituent Mr. Davenport, who has been keeping me up to speed on the issue, and of the late Pip Newton, who led the delegation to press the case with my hon. Friend the Minister for the Armed Forces, 18 months or so ago, when my hon. Friend was a junior Minister. Mr. Newton worked extremely hard to press the campaign. I also wish to record my appreciation for Mr. Blackburn, Mr. Golder and Mr. Radford for all their work in documenting the case.2003 Daily Telegraph article - Thousands of British troops who served in the Suez canal emergency will finally be honoured, the government will announce tomorrow. The Queen has given royal assent to the issuing of a General Service Medal with a special clasp for veterans who served in Egypt from 1951-54. The MOD will spell out plans tomorrow to produce the medals. Veterans could get them as early as next month. An estimated 200,000 British troops served in the canal zone during the emergency - which preceded the Suez crisis of 1956 - and more than 300 people were killed. Campaign medals are not normally awarded more than five years after a conflict, but the prime minister, Tony Blair, has acknowledged the operation. The emergency in Oct 1951 when the Egyptian government unilaterally overturned a 1936 treaty with London that governed the number of British troops in the canal zone, triggering an anti-British guerrilla campaign. Col Newton Career22.10.1939 commissioned, The Royal Sussex Regiment11.11.1939 - 1939 Regimental Depot, The Royal Sussex Regiment (Chichester)1939 - 29.05.1940 Training Centre, The Royal Sussex Regiment (Seaford)30.05.1940 - 08.1941 5th Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (Tetbury, then Thorn, Yorkshire, then Seaford, then Brasted, then Westerham, and finally Ringwold, near Dover)08.11.1940 - 07.02.1941 Second-in-Command of a Company08.02.1941 - 08.1941 Company Commander08.1941 - 14.03.1942 Commandant, 44th Divisional NCO School (Bridge, near Canterbury, from 01.1942 Tonbridge)15.03.1942 - 25.04.1942 Commandant, 44th Divisional Battle School (Tonbridge)26.04.1942 - 09.1942 Company Commander, 5th Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (UK, Western Desert)09.1942 - 12.1942 Staff Captain, 133rd Lorried Infantry Brigade (Western Desert)01.1943 - 10.1943 Middle East Officers' Cadet Training Unit (Acre, Palestine)10.1943 - 01.1944 Force 133 (as proposed Liaison Officer with the partisans in Greece; on the cancellation of this operation, he returned to the UK)02.1944 - 07.1944 2nd Special Air Service Regiment (Ayr, Scotland & Ainsdale)08.08.1944 - 07.12.1944 Staff Captain, 21st Army Group (Normandy, France & Brussels, Belgium) [embarked for Normandy 27.07.1944]12.1944 - 01.1945 attached to HQ 43rd Infantry Division on the Dutch-German border (for a month)04.01.1945 - 05.07.1945 Staff College, Camberley (psc)01.08.1945 - 18.09.1945 Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG) (Wehrmacht), British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) (Bad Oeynhausen) [responsible for the disbandment of the German Army]29.10.1945 - 06.10.1946 Deputy Assistant Military Secretary (DAMS), British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) (Bad Oeynhausen)07.10.1946 - 01.03.1948 General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2), British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) (Bad Oeynhausen)03.1948 - 04.1948 parachute course (Aldershot)05.1948 - 11.1948 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Itzehoe & Hildesheim)11.1948 - 12.1948 company commander's course (Warminster)12.1948 - 12.1950 Adjutant, 10th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (TA) (London)05.02.1951 - 14.12.1952 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), Suez Canal North District in El Ballah, Egypt, and from 16.10.1951 HQ 1st Infantry Division District at Ferry Point, Ismalia (MBE)12.1952 - 01.1955 Company Commander, 1st Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (Canal Zone, Tidworth (UK) & Minden, Germany)08.01.1955 - 24.01.1957 Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), War Office (London)02.1957 - 02.1958 1st Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (Korea & Gibraltar) (initially Officer Commanding, A Company, from 07.1957 Second-in-Command of the Battalion)02.1958 - 04.1960 Officer Commanding, The Depot, The Royal Sussex Regiment (Chichester)06.05.1960 - 17.09.1962 Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment (Holywood, Northern Ireland, later Shorncliffe)17.09.1962 - 10.01.1964 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ Gurkha Division, Malaya Area (Serembang)11.01.1964 - 09.05.1965 General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1), HQ 17th Division, Land Forces Borneo (Kluang, Malaya & Labuan, Borneo)09.07.1965 - 10.1968 Colonel General Staff (Combat Development), Ministry of Defence (London)11.1968 - 11.1970 UK Representative at the United States Command and General Staff College (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas)12.1970 - 19.08.1972 Colonel (M3), Ministry of Defence (London)Secretary of the Army Museums Ogilby Trust, 1972-1989. Honorary Curator of The Staff College Museum, Camberley, 1989. FMA (1986). FRSA.

After Rene Gruau, Beret, lithographic poster, 70cm x 50cm

A collection of various caps and head dress: to include a blue Royal Marines beret dated '1945' and a French helmet (relic.)

Royal Marines Badge Grouping, consisting of a officers headdress badge (re-gilded), other ranks waist belt clasp, RMLI cap badge, and three variations of Royal Marines cap / beret badges. (6 items)

Antique plated snuff box in the shape of a military beret hat, engraved with a stag and thistles, 1919 and S. Ogilvie. [8.5cm in length]

A quantity of pins possibly military plus a pair of naval epaulette's and a Royal Marines green beret with the globe and laurel.

Royal Observer Corps ephemera comprising airman's rain proof coat, size No 6 dated 1960, man's blue grey jacket, size 12 dated 1972, with associated badges and medal ribbon, trousers, belts, Serve in Your Spare Time poster, various publications, beret with cap badge, plotter headset and microphone, two sets of binoculars etc

Twenty Eight ERII metal cap badges: Cavalry (6), Infantry (5), Yeomanry (9), Corps (5), Malta Artillery beret, Bermuda Regt and Ryl Monmouthshire Ryl Engineers Militia; also a Household Cavalry brass band pouch badge, 12 anodised cap badges, and 5 collars. Average GC (46) £60-100

Sixteen various cap badges including 7th QO Hussars, 5th Inniskilling Dgn Gds, 23rd Hussars, Machine Gun Corps, pre 1920 Army Pay Corps, Intelligence Corps, and officers bronze Ryl Artillery (bronze worn, no prongs); a United Nations enamelled beret badge; 14 various collars, titles etc; two brass WBCs, of the Scots Guards and Universal pattern with QVC; and 28 cloth items, many of them reproduction. Average GC £40-60

11 Royal Army Service Corps cap badges: GRVI and ERII officers and ORs, 3 anodised Ryl Corps of Transport cap badges, and 7 various RASC collar badges; 11 RAMC cap badges, including Victorian, KC and QC officers and ORs, and a pair of QC officer's collar badges; 9 RAOC cap badges: pre 1947 officer's and OR's, 1949-53 officers and ORs, and post 1953 officers and ORs; and Royal Army Pay Corps, KC OR's cap and beret and chrome plated beret with pin fitting, and QC officers cap and beret (2). Average GC (50) £40-60

RAF head dress badges: KC and QC officer's bullion cap badges, QC officer's of Air Rank beret badge, three KC officer's gilt beret badges (one lacking fittings), bronze and cast brass WO's cap badges, and WO's gilt beret badge; also sealed pattern RAF musician's prototype bullion collar badge (1992), another musician's collar badge, two small KC officer's cap type bullion badges (mess dress ?), and a QC musicians bullion arm badge; also a large QC and Chaplain's bullion badge, from a stole (?). Average GC £50-80

A selection of WWII-1980 RAF cap badges: Warrant Officers (3), Officer beret (3), Officer QC, enlisted embroidered (2). (9 items) £50-80

RAF cap badges, post 1953, including Air Rank, Air Rank Field Service, officer's cap and beret, Field Service (2), other ranks.(12 items). £50-80

RAF Cadets insignia: 3 RAF cap badges with numerals 1,2 and 4 attached, for Halton Technical Training School, 1920-28; figure "2" on green and white patch for Hastings Cadet Brigade 1918; Officer Cadet beret badges, pre 1953 and post 1953 on white plastic discs; and 6 different Cranwell collar tabs for different Squadrons and terms, displayed on a card. GC £150-250

WWII Free French Paratroopers beret badge. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

A post-War RAF officer pilot's tunic, cap, beret and dress waist belt

The Italy Star, 1939-45 Star(x2), 1939-45 Defence medal(x2) Coronation medal for Edward VIII by Rowntrees, Submarine Spitfire coin with certificate of authenticity, Royal Engineers beret and the Boys Brigade belt

1965 Royal Marines tunic, trousers and beret with NI medal ribbon, some moth damages throughout. P&P Group 2 (£18+VAT for the first lot and £3+VAT for subsequent lots)

British Home Front: Civil Defence Corps (Lancashire Rescue) tunic, trousers and beret, ARP issue, size no.10, in very good condition, one visible moth-hole to tunic. P&P Group 2 (£18+VAT for the first lot and £3+VAT for subsequent lots)

British Military Police embroidered red beret with sergeants armband (2). P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)

Retro Gaming - a collection of vintage Commodore 64 video game console cartridges / cassettes to include; Alien, Impossible Mission, The Lords of Midnight, Star Trek, Kane, Rocket Man, Green Beret, Ghosts n Goblins and others.

A collection of assorted vintage 1990s Hasbro Action Man playset figure accessories comprising; 27540 Ultimate Assault Gear (x2), 12389 Navy Seal Commando, 27530 Red Beret, 12814 Aussie Outback, 12815 Sniper Patrol and 12763 Adventure Kit. All sets sealed on card / boxed.

Advertising poster for Roy Lichtenstein artwork exhibition that took place from September 28 - October 24, 1963 at Leo Castelli New York, featuring a pop-art illustration of a lady in red beret aiming and firing the gun with loud comic explosion, the caption reads - Crak! Now, mes petits... Pour la France! / Crack! Now, my little ones... For France! Horizontal. Excellent condition. Country of issue: USA, designer: Roy Lichtenstein, size (cm): 54x72, year of printing: Unknown.

Original vintage advertising poster for Loterie Nationale Tranche de la Marine de Guerre 5eme Tranche 1940. Touchez le Pompon... et achetez un billet de la Loterie Nationale / French National Lottery Tranche of the French Navy 5th Tranche 1940 Touch the Pompon... and buy a National Lottery ticket, featuring a fun illustration of a lady's hand reaching to touch French World War Two navy soldier's red pompom on the uniform beret. Printed by Lafayette, Paris. Good condition, small tears on edges, creasing on edges, minor staining, small separate sheet attached on top left corner with date. Country of issue: France, designer: C. Marcoussis, size (cm): 59x40, year of printing: 1940.

Australian beret (size 6 ⅞) and black leather Pacific Islands regiment belt t/w canvas military belt.

GERMAN ARMY PANZER BERET COVER A fine example of the black wool beret cover worn by a member of the German army's panzer corps. This cover would have been stretched over an interior 'crash helmet' constructed of rubber and worn for the purpose of protecting the wearer's head while inside a tank. The cover is rough 12.5 in. diameter with a BeVo style machine-embroidered cloth national eagle above a cockade between a double spray of oak leaves. Interestingly, affixed over the red cockade at the center is a Totenkopf ('dead head') unit insignia of the German Panzer Corps. This insignia, usually worn on the collar tabs of panzer soldiers, was likely affixed on purpose to give it the appearance of a Waffen-SS Panzer beret, for which it may have at one time been substituted. No evidence of moth holes or tears, very fine condition.

‘When arriving at the scene of a raid I always send him ashore in a folboat to search out the enemy dispositions of guns and men’ A rare Second War ‘Levant Schooner Flotilla’ Special Forces D.S.M., 1943 ‘Mine-Disposal’ B.E.M. group of seven awarded to Petty Officer L. G. Taber, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (P.O. L. G. Taber. B.E.M. P/JX 139146); British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (P.O. Leonard G. Taber, P/JX.139146); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, these last five unnamed as issued, together with R.L.S.S. bronze medal (L. G. Taber, July 1933) in case of issue, first two with light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (8) £3,000-£4,000 --- D.S.M. London Gazette 14 August 1945: ‘For the clearance of the Aegean and the relief of Greece during the period 1944-1945.’ The following recommendation by his Skipper, Lieutenant Bernard Stipetic, R.N.R., commanding Anglo-Hellenic Schooner 1 (awarded a D.S.C. in the same gazette) confirms his earlier award of ‘British Empire Medal - for mine-disposal’, and states: ‘Petty Officer Leonard George Taber, H.M.S. Mosquito [Coastal Forces base at Alexandria]. Action or Operation – Served as coxswain of many of the Anglo-Hellenic schooners, engaged in the landing and picking up of the raiding and reconnaissance parties in the enemy-controlled Aegean Islands. Specific act or service – This rating at all times shows determination in pressing home an attack and I have come to rely on him for his determination and keenness. When arriving at the scene of a raid I always send him ashore in a folboat to search out the enemy dispositions of guns and men. He has the ability to obtain this information in its entirety and report back accurately. On his report largely depends my decision as to how the raid is to be effected and where to lie up the following day. His coolness and devotion to duty while obtaining this information on enemy territory surrounded by possible informants is exemplary. This is done on every enemy island we go to. On the last raid I put him in charge of a captured caique with three undesirable and bellicose aliens. He showed considerable tact and ingenuity in making them work as part of his scratch crew and bringing the boat safely to port under tricky weather conditions.’ B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1944. Awarded whilst on the books of H.M.S. Prometheus, depot ship for patrol service personnel in the Mediterranean, for services with a naval mine-disposal unit which accompanied the Eighth Army in its advance from Alamein. Leonard George Taber was born in Portsmouth to a naval family but at around twelve years of age, he and his two brothers, because of family hardship, were sent to the Naval School at Greenwich, effectively an orphanage. He and his brothers all joined the Royal Navy and served throughout the Second World War. After serving in a naval mine disposal unit in North Africa, he volunteered for service in Special Forces and was posted to the Levant Schooner Flotilla. The activities of the schooners and caiques of the Levant Schooner Flotilla, a recognised “Commando” unit, are described in some detail in Undercover Sailors by A. Cecil Hampshire and Dust upon the Sea by W. E. Benyon-Tinker. The following from Undercover Sailors, pp 54-55, describes Petty Officer Leonard Taber: ‘Not the least important and hazardous aspect of Raiding Force work was reconnaissance. One of the caiques engaged in this work was commanded, not entirely unusually, by a petty officer who, after working with a naval mine disposal unit which accompanied the Eighth Army during its advance from Alamein had volunteered to transfer to the Levant Schooner Flotilla. Ordered to take a Royal Marine patrol on a reconnaissance of the island of Milos, in the western Cyclades, he wrote in a report remarkable for its understatement: “Milos was not a nice place to approach because of enemy D/F gear, searchlights and shore batteries. We therefore decided to land the marines on Kimilos, a neighbouring island, and let them paddle across to Milos in folboats. While we were lying up in Polygandros waiting to effect the pickup in due course, a gentleman informed us that on another island there were thirteen Germans desirous of surrendering. I said we’d take them, and later that day they entered harbour in their own boat and secured alongside. They were dirty and hungry and had had enough of the war. The Milos reconnaissance having been successfully completed, we made a round trip of Naxos, Ios, Siphanos and Siphos. But on our way back to base the engine seized up and refused to budge. We had to sail, and once used our two sweeps manned by twelve men on each side. One night with the wind gale force we logged twelve knots for two hours. Finally, however, the wind failed altogether, and we had to be towed the last 40 miles along the gulf of Cos to base.” This cheerfully laconic Lower Deck skipper, who spent twelve months in the flotilla, was eventually awarded the DSM and BEM.’ Taber received shrapnel wounds in his leg and arm, and after the war was discharged suffering from tuberculosis. He moved to Scotland and worked in the Highlands as a shepherd and then as a gardener. There, aged 36, he met his wife who was working there in a hotel during the summer months. They had three children and moved to Essex around 1970. He was active in naval organisations, and proudly wore his green beret at reunions. The British Legion and the Royal Naval Association were strongly represented at his funeral. (Personal information provided by Leonard Taber’s eldest daughter in 2001). Sold with copied recommendation and extracts from both Undercover Sailors by A. Cecil Hampshire and Dust upon the Sea by W. E. Benyon-Tinker.

MILITARY, Fusiliers cap, military beret and American "Massachusetts Military Academy" helmet

MILITARY INSIGNIA, collection mainly cloth based regimental insignia including Parachute Regiment, also cloth beret and cap

Field Marshall Montgomery Autographed Menu, the menu is for Ostende 12 July (Juillet) 1954, signed in blue ink to the inside page “Montgomery of Alamein F.M”. Accompanied by two postcard images of Montgomery wearing the famous black tank beret and a British Legion Ostend Branch programme for the unveiling of a memorial in 1962.

WW2 British Parachute Regiment Beret and Cloth Insignia Grouping of Walter Jokel who Captured Irma Grese the Head Warden of the Women’s Camp in Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp and was Tasked with Her Interrogation, the wartime beret appears to date from 1945, it shows heavy service wear and has some moth damage. Beret with leather trim and black cloth lining has the remains of the war department broad arrow stamp and possible date letter “Z” for 1945. Beret is complete with a chromed beret badge for the Parachute regiment. Leather patch behind the air vent gromets. Spiralling pattern to the top of the beret. Accompanied by his post war 1955 dated Airborne forces beret, by this time he was a Second Lieutenant in the Parachute regiment. The berets are accompanied by a large grouping of both cloth and metal insignia, including various pairs of parachute jump wings, printed and embroidered Pegasus formation signs, rank badges, medal ribbons, airborne pattern rank pips, etc. Also with his Normandy 1944 commemorative medal in its box and various items of wartime and post war paperwork. Walter Jokel lied about his age when he enlisted for service in WW2. Because he was born in Austria, he spoke fluent German, because of this he was placed under the Field Security Section of the Intelligence Corps. Newspaper articles written during the 50 year commemoration of the liberation of the Belsen camp gives us details of Walters time with Irma Grese and how he found her, “He found a young woman hiding in a barn a few miles away from the camp – her blonde hair was matted with straw and she wore only the tattered remains of her Nazi uniform. She looked scared”. Jokel was selected as her sole interrogator, he states in the article, “despite 12 intense days alone with her – he never saw fear in her blue eyes again, only glee”. He continues to say, “I thought I had been hardened by the war. I thought nothing could shock me. But Grese did. In the seclusion of a small wooden hut, she boasted to Jokel about her violent acts”. The evidence that Jokel provided at the Belsen War Crimes trial, helped convict Irma Grese of war crimes and he watched as she was hanged at Hamelin in December 1945. Walter Jokel parachuted into Normandy on 6th June 1944, he also participated in Operation Market Garden and the Rhine Crossing. See lot 1215, 1245 and 1498 for the souvenirs Jokel brought home as war booty. This collection has been consigned directly from the daughter of Walter Jokel and has never been offered on the collecting market before.

Rare Royal Ulster Rifles Officers Beret / Cap Badge, fine example produced in sterling silver. Complete with lug fittings to the reverse.

Parachute Regiment Badge and Insignia Grouping, including beret badges, collar badges, shoulder titles and tunic buttons. WW2 period through to Elizabeth II. All mounted onto a display board. (16 items)

Grouping of British Military and Police Badges, including WW2 Lincolnshire regiment officers cap badge, 2x other ranks RFC cap badges, Victorian valise badge, WW2 Parachute regiment beret badge, Mine Clearance service badge, 23rd London Regiment cap badge, bronze George V Corps of Military Accountants cap badge, Peterborough Borough police helmet plate, EIIR blackened Huntingdon County Police helmet plate, plus others. (19 items)

Quantity of Mostly African Nations Paratrooper Wings and Badges, including Drago Paris made Niger Paratrooper wing, Ugandan Army sergeants paratrooper jump wing, Ethiopian Army paratroopers beret badge, Rwanda parachute wings, French made Chad paratrooper wing, Mauritania army paratrooper wing, Gabon paratrooper wing, Togo paratrooper wing, plus others. Many mounted on cards giving identification. (15 items)

Heath (Frank Gascoigne, 1873-1936). Whiffing, oil on wood panel, depicting a man in a white sailor's smock and red beret steering a boat, frame aperture 36.5 x 27 cm (14 3/8 x 10 5/8 ins) framed (52 x 42 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:The present work has been authenticated by the art historian Catherine Wallace.This work is a preparatory study for the finished painting sold at Christie's on the 3rd November 1999, lot 26, which was exhibited by David Messum at Penlee House in 2004.

A collection of Palitoy Action Man clothing and accessories, to include a complete Crash Crew set, partial Russian Infantryman set comprising case, light machine gun, bi-pod, magazine, ammo box, two grenades, Order of Lenin Medal, belt and hat, partial French Resistance Fighter set comprising beret, sweater, radio set, shoulder holster, Croix de Guerre medal, with assorted other items and accessories including three dog tags and two intelligence manuals, together with a collection of 1990s Mattel Barbie outfits in a fashion gift pack box. (qty)

A group of four military hats including a red Beret parachute regiment German and American (4)

Vietnam War Era ARVN Rangers Camo Beret.

WW2 Italian Republica Social Italiana (R.S.I) Beret Skull Badge.

Fairburn Sykes presentation dagger, Para's beret, and special forces manual 1965 (3).

CINEMA, signed large album page by Tony Hancock, overmounted beneath colour photo, h/s wearing beret, 15 x 15.25, EX

A Scottish kilt and beret.

GAMAIN FRANCOIS: (1751-1795) French Locksmith who played a crucial role in the trial against King Louis XVI which ended with his execution. Gamain informed the Convention that he had built a hidden iron cabinet at the Tuileries Palace according to the King´s orders, a cabinet found containing the documents which were the main accusatory evidences used by the prosecutor during the King´s trial. Gamain would be later appointed municipal officer. Rare L.S., `Gamain´, one page, small 8vo, Paris, 3rd July 1794, in French. The letter bears to the heading an ink stamp bearing the motto `Liberty - Equality´ and showing the revolutionary beret, also bearing the written heading of the Public Relief department. Gamain, in his capacity as Municipal Officer at Versailles, certifies that Pierre Etienne Marie Duval was born on 22nd August 1792. Countersigned by two additional officers. Irregularly trimmed bottom edge, otherwise G to VG 

PORTMAN NATALIE: (1981- ) Israeli-American Actress, Academy Award winner. Very attractive signed colour 8 x 10 photograph of Portman, the colourful image depicting the awarded actress in a close-up portrait pose, wearing a red beret. Signed by Portman in bold blue ink with her name alone to a clear area of the image. EX