2nd Life Guards Officer’s Full Dress Tunic.A scarce pre-amalgamation Troop Officer’s example. Scarlet cloth with blue velvet collar, cuffs and edging to fronts and skirts. The fronts of the collar bearing patches of oak and bay leaves in gold embroidery. Gauntlet cuffs with embroidered loops and six squares of embroidery to back-skirts. The regimental buttons bear Royal Crest over numeral “2” and flanked by “L” and “G”. 8 such buttons in front, the lower 6 of these being OR’s buttons of same pattern (very old replacements, possibly in service). Fine quilted silk lining. Minor traces of wear, otherwise GC. Attached to the shoulders by ribbon-ties is a fine and massive pair of plaited gold shoulder-cords of the Life Guards each bearing two Garter Star rank badges in silver embroidery and a button of the Life Guards. The right hand cord extends to form an aiguillette with two plain loops and two long plaits terminating in ornate gilt metal tags with worked wire heads, Scarlet lining and attachment ribbons. Among minute differences from 1st Life Guards, there is stitching along the tunic edges (as mentioned in Dress Regulations).
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Officer’s Frock Overcoat, attributed to 2nd Life Guards.A fine example of this extremely elusive and barely recorded uniform. Massive blue cloth, double-breasted, with turned-back notched collar. One-inch black mohair braid edging to collar, fronts, sleeves and backseams. Four loops of the same braid each side in front, the left-hand ones with single olivets. Shoulder-straps edged with narrow braid and bearing two embroidered Garter stars. Black quilted lining. Medal ribbons include those of the India Medal 1896, Queen’s Sudan Medal, Queen’s South Africa Medal and Khedive’s Sudan Medal. Minimal moth damage, otherwise VGC ... together with a 2nd Life Guards scarlet dummy front for wear with this type of coat, with blue velvet collar, gold oak leaf lace and gilt studs, to give the appearance of a regimental stable jacket worn under the coat. (2 items) The frock overcoat, which was worn mainly in the early years of the 20th century by a few other regiments as well as the 1st Life Guards, was never mentioned in Dress Regulations. Nevertheless, that of the 1st life Guards appears in a drawing by T.H. Holding in his book on Military tailoring (published in 1894) which mentions no other examples. The coat shown in his illustration is broadly similar but some details differ from the one offered above. It seems quite possible that the coat offered belonged to the 2nd Life Guards. However, the dummy front is undoubtedly 2nd Life Guards as it has a blue velvet edging to the regimental gold lace, which is specifically noted in Dress Regulations and was a feature unique to the 2nd Life Guards.
Royal Scots Edwardian NCO’s Full Dress Uniform.A good complete example: blue Glengarry with diced band, red tourie and good regimental badge ... Scarlet doublet with blue facings and white piping, the collar bearing a pair of Royal Scots thistle badges, the right sleeve bearing a Lance Corporal’s chevron in white braid. The left sleeve bears a marksmanship badge (Victorian crown over crossed rifles) in wire embroidery above four white Good Conduct chevrons on the forearm. Scarlet cloth shoulder-straps embroidered with the regimental title. Good post 1901 Royal Arms buttons to front, cuffs and Inverness flaps. The lining stamped RS/3477/12 07 ... together with a pair of Hunting Stewart tartan trews, also stamped RS/3477 and with Clothing Factory label dated Jan 1908. VGC (3 items)
Royal Scots Officer’s Service Dress Uniform.A good khaki doublet by JB Johnstone, with bronze buttons, collar-badges and rank-stars. Ribbons of the 1914 Star (with rosette), BWM and Victory Medal. Tailor’s label named to Captain A.Robertson 2/The Royal Scots and dated 29/7/24 ... together with a pair of Hunting Stewart tartan trews with similar label. Minimal moth, otherwise GC. (2 items)
Gordon Highlanders Officer’s Mess Coatee and anotherAn extremely rare example of the short-tailed mess uniform introduced briefly for Highland regiments in the 1920s. Scarlet single-breasted cut-away coat with yellow cloth lapels and plain cuffs with 3-button slash. Vented skirt 7 ½ in. long. Shoulder-loops of red square cord with a central row of black braid, bearing small metal rank-stars. Three regimental buttons to front, with false button-holes on left side. Scarlet lining bearing label of J&F French, Dover St, London, dated 1925 to 2Lt RN Christie ... together with an officer’s mess jacket of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders with pale yellow cloth facings and white piping. Notched roll collar, turned back to conceal six regimental buttons on the right-hand side, and with real buttonholes on the left. Four more front buttons visible below the collar. Pointed cuffs, each with two buttons. Fine shoulder-cords as for Full Dress each bearing two embroidered stars. One shoulder-cord button absent, otherwise GC. (2 items) The short-lived Mess Coatee was not mentioned in any issue of Dress Regulations and it is not clear how many officers actually wore it. Richard Norman Christie appears as a Major in the Gordons in the 1938 Army List. He became 2i/c of his Bn. and was taken prisoner and held in Oflag X11B.
17TH CENTURY; oil on oak board, portrait of a child wearing elaborate dress, unsigned, 38.5 x 28.5cm, framed. CONDITION REPORT This was professionally restored and cleaned in 1999.Large area of over painting, restoration mainly to left hand side- see additional photo before restoration right hand side crazed.
A Continental silver gilt enamel tie slide, marked 830s, a pair of Victorian sterling silver cufflinks, an aesthetic movement stick pin with silver finial and metal pin, a 9ct front and back tie slide by Henry Griffiths & Sons, a silver gilt paste starburst brooch, marked 900, with metal pin, approximately 46mm diameter, a silver paste crescent brooch, marked 935, approximately 17mm diameter, together with a quantity of paste buttons, slides and clips, a quantity of cufflinks, dress studs and hat pins, and a silver key wound fob watch (qty)
A gold sapphire and pearl stick pin, the finial tested as approximately 15ct gold, the pin as approximately 9ct gold, 1.05g, together with a gold bar brooch and a gold dress stud, both tested as approximately 9ct gold, 2.38g total, a jet watch chain, broken , and a quantity of cufflinks, bar brooches, and beaded necklaces (qty)
Two Armand Marseille Germany bisque head dolls; 2-D1 head stamp, fixed eyes, open mouth, rag body, composition limbs, rose silk dress, bonnet and faux pearl necklace, 41cm, 390 4/0X head stamp, rosy cheeks, sleeping eyes, open mouth, composition body and limbs, pink dress and hat, 41cm. (Qty: 2)
Three small bisque head doll, including two Armand Marseille Germany, 1894 10/0 head stamp, fixed eyes, open mouth, composition body, silk dress and beaded handbag, 17cm, a Armand Marseille, 390 11/0 head stamp, fixed eyes, open mouth, composition body and limbs, pink dress and bonnet, 25cm, and another German made, with faint makers marks, fixed eyes and open mouth, bisque limbs, 25cm. (Qty: 3)
Three Armand Marseille Germany bisque head dolls; 9/0 head stamp, fixed eyes, open mouth, rag body with composition limbs, pink slik dress and bonnet, 31cm, 390 2/0 head stamp, sleeping eyes, open mouth, composition body, blue silk dress, handbag and bonnet, 36cm, 370 6/0 head stamp, sleeping eyes, open mouth, rag body, pink silk dress and bonnet, 34cm. (Qty: 3)
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