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Click here to subscribe*Coal Bucket. A Victorian copper helmet shape coal bucket, with hinged handle decorated with a shell motif, and a handle at the rear, 42cm long, together with a large Edwardian coal bin of cylindrical form with lions head swing handles on three brass paw feet, 41.5cm high x 37cm diameter, and other items (4)
2nd (Southampton) VB Hampshire Regiment Edwardian Officer’s helmet plate circa 1901-08. A good scarce silvered example. Crowned star mounted with laurel sprays and Garter, the black velvet centre mounted with silver Tiger within a laurel wreath. Mounted on the base of the sprays, a tri-part scroll ‘The Hampshire Regiment’ with supplementary scroll beneath ‘2nd Volunteer Battalion’. Three horizontal loops to reverse. VGC
Royal Marines Officer’s helmet plate circa 1905-52. A fine gilt example. Crowned star mounted with laurel sprays and ‘Gibraltar’ scroll; fouled anchor to base. Centrally, a pierced strap inscribed ‘Per Mare Per Terram’ on blue enamel ground. To the centre, a globe in relief. Three loops to reverse. VGC
Royal Marines Portsmouth Band helmet plate. A good die-stamped brass example. Crowned star bearing laurel sprays with ‘Gibraltar’ to the top and fouled anchor to the junction below. Within the wreath, a strap inscribed ‘Per Mare Per Terram’. To the centre, a globe in relief. The combined silver cyphers of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip screwed on the base of the Crown and a GvR cypher wire soldered above fouled anchor. Two loops to reverse. Some service wear otherwise GC. (KK 2104) GvR Cypher authorised by GO RM 44 of 1912 following the Band’s attendance on HM King George V on his visit to India. Cyphers of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip granted for the Band’s attendance on the 1953-54 Tour of the Commonwealth
Royal Marine Light Infantry / RM Chatham Division Band OR’s helmet plate circa 1905-50. A good die-stamped brass example. Crowned star bearing laurel sprays with ‘Gibraltar’ to the top and fouled anchor to the junction below. Within the wreath, a strap inscribed ‘Per Mare Per Terram’. To the centre, a globe in relief. Silvered rose mounted over the fouled anchor. Two loops to reverse. VGC (KK 1118) White Rose of York granted by General Order, R.Marines 31 of 1902 for their attendance on HRH The Duke of York (late George V) on his voyage to the Colonies in 1901.
Royal Marine Light Infantry / RM Plymouth Division Band helmet plate circa 1919-52. A good die-stamped brass example. Crowned star bearing laurel sprays with ‘Gibraltar’ to the top and fouled anchor to the junction below. Within the wreath, a strap inscribed ‘Per Mare Per Terram’. To the centre, a globe in relief. Silver Prince of Wales’s plumes riveted on the crown. Two loops to reverse. Spot of surface verdigris otherwise VGC.
South Africa. Queenstown Rifle Volunteers OR’s helmet plate circa 1902-13. A good die-stamped white metal example. ‘QRV’ foliated cypher within a laurel and oak wreath surmounted by Cape Arms. Two loops to reverse. VGC (Owen 285) Raised 20th April 1860; disbanded 30th September 1880. Re-raised 1883.
Channel Islands. Royal Jersey Light Infantry OR’s helmet plate circa 1901-14. A good die-stamped brass example. Crowned star bearing laurel wreath (KK 358) and mounted with detachable circlet ‘Royal Jersey Light Infantry’; to the centre, a strung bugle. (KK 418). Two loops to reverse of plate, three of four to centre. Toned. VGC
Channel Islands Royal Guernsey Light Infantry NCO’s helmet plate circa 1901-14. A good die-stamped brass example. Crowned star bearing laurel wreath (KK 358) mounted with detachable circlet ‘Royal Guernsey Light Infantry’; Arms of Guernsey and ‘Diex Aie’ scroll to centre. (KK 355). Two loops to reverse, three offour to centre. Toned. VGC
Hampshire Rifle Volunteers Victorian OR’s helmet plate circa 1880-85. A good scarce die-stamped white metal example. Crowned star bearing laurel sprays and strap inscribed ‘Hants. Rifle Volunteers’; voided centre bearing shield charged with Crown and Rose (from Arms of Southampton). Three replcement loops to reverse. otherwise VGC Uniquely this unit’s helmet plates, both Officer’s and OR’s, sometimes had a voided section between the crown and star.
Royal Irish Regiment Victorian Officer’s helmet plate circa 1881-1901. A good gilt example. Crowned star mounted with laurel sprays and Garter, the crimson velvet centre with silver crowned Harp within shamrock sprays. Mounted on the base of the laurel, a silver scroll ‘The Royal Irish’. Three loops to reverse. Some wear to gilt, centre securing lug absent otherwise GC. (KK 233) Provenance. Ex Hugh King Collection, Bosleys December 2009, Lot 18. This is the actual piece photographed as No. 233 in “Head-dress Badges of the British Army”.
1st Admin. Bn. Hampshire Rifle Volunteers Victorian OR’s helmet plate circa 1878-85. A fine and scarce die-stamped white metal example. Crown star bearing laurel sprays and strap inscribed ‘1st. A. Bn. Hants. Rifle Vols.’; strung bugle to voided centre. Three replacement loops to reverse otherwise VGC. HQ at Winchester.
VB Bedfordshire Regiment Edwardian OR’s helmet plate circa 1901-08. A good scarce die-stamped white metal example. Crowned star bearing laurel wreath and applied circlet inscribed ‘Bedfordshire’; voided centre with a star bearing Maltese cross with central Hart crossing a ford. Three loops to reverse. VGC HQ at Bedford.
Indian Army. East Indian Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps helmet badge. A good scarce British made die-stamped brass example. Crowned EIRVR cypher superimposed on crossed rifles; strung bugle beneath the cypher with tri-part scroll ‘Defence not Defiance’ below. Original single central screw post to reverse. VGC (Cox 2676)
Scottish. 1st Fifeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps Victorian OR’s helmet plate circa 1880-87. A fine and scarce die-stamped white medal example . Crowned star bearing laurel wreath and strap inscribed ‘1st Fifeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps’, Thane of Fife to voided centre. Three loops to reverse (two replacements). VGC 1st Fifeshire RV became a VB of the Black Watch in 1881, redesignated 6th (Perthshire) VB Black Watch in 1887.
Devon Volunteer Brigade Bearer Company Edwardian OR’s helmet plate circa 1901-08. A fine and rare die-stamped white metal example. Crowned star bearing a laurel wreath and an applied circlet inscribed ‘Bearer Company Devon Volr. Brigade’; centre with voided Geneva Cross with red felt backing. Three loops to reverse. VGC
1st VB Leicestershire Regiment Victorian OR’s helmet plate circa 1883-1901. A good die-stamped white metal example. Crowned star bearing laurel sprays and circlet inscribed ‘The Leicestershire 1st Volr. Battn.’ ; three lions in pale with label to voided centre. Three loops to reverse. VGC HQ at Leicester.
South Africa. Transvaal Light Infantry helmet badge circa 1903-07. A good scarce die-stamped slveredl example. Within a circular wreath surmounted by an antelope, a circlet inscribed ‘Transvaal Light Infantry’; strung bugle to centre set on a rich blue enamel ground. Beneath the wreath, a bi-part scroll inscribed ‘Tam Marti Quam Mercrio’ (As Much for Mars as for Mercury). Stout pagri pin to reverse (actual pin a replacement). VGC. (Owen 645) Raised in 1903 and absorbed into the Witwatersrand Rifles in 1907.
South Staffordshire Regiment Victorian OR’s helmet plate circa 1881-1901. A good die-stamped brass example of crowned star pattern bearing laurel wreath (KK 287) mounted with detachable centre inscribed ‘South Staffordshire’ with Sphinx to voided centre (KK 329). Two loops to reverse of star, three of four to centre. otherwise VGC
Halesowen Cavalry Georgian Tarleton helmet badge circa 1803. A fine rare die-stamped brass example. Star inscribed ‘Halesowen Cavalry’ with crown to centre. Iron loops now partially absent otherwise VGC. Officers : Captain Joseph Carruthers (OC), Lieutenant John Ellis Sutton and Ensign Richard Bloxridge. All commissioned 9th June 1803
Royal Marine Light Infantry Victorian OR’s helmet plate circa 1878-1901. A good die-stamped brass example. Crowned star bearing laurel sprays joined at the top by ‘Gibraltar’; fouled anchor and strung bugle below. Within the sprays, a circlet inscribed ‘Per Mare Per Terram’; to the centre, the globe in relief. Two loops to reverse. VGC(KK 1092)
Royal Irish Regiment Officer’s helmet plate circa 1901-04. A good rare, short-lived gilt example. Crowned star mounted with laurel sprays and Garter; the crimson velvet centre bearing silver crowned Harp resting in shamrock sprays. Mounted on the base of the laurel, a silver scroll ‘The Royal Irish’. Three loops to reverse. Some service wear. GC In 1904 the scroll was altered to “The Royal Irish Regiment” and the central harp device changed its design to KK 234
Oxfordshire Light Infantry Victorian OR’s helmet plate circa 1881-1901. A good die-stamped brass example of crowned star pattern bearing laurel wreath (KK 287) mounted with detachable centre inscribed ‘Oxfordshire’ with strung bugle to voided centre (KK 333). Two loops to reverse of star, four to centre. VGC
Royal Berkshire Yeomanry Cavalry Officer’s helmet plate. A fine and scarce die-stamped example. Silvered hobnail mounted with gilt oval strap ‘Royal Berkshire Yeomanry Cavalry’ applied silvered star and crescent from the Seal of the Borough of Hungerford to centre. Two screw posts to reverse. VGC
Shropshire Imperial Yeomanry helmet plate circa 1901-08. A good scarce example worn on the 1871 pattern helmet. Mounted on a brass crowned rococo shield, a white metal hobnail star bearing oval brass strap ‘Shropshire Imperial Yeomanry’ with three leopard heads to the lined centre. Three screw posts to reverse. VGC This pattern of helmet was introduced to the regiment in 1872. Regiment assumed the title Shropshire Imperial Yeomanry 17th April, 1901; redesignated Shropshire Yeomanry 1st April, 1908.
Prince Albert’s Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry Victorian Officer’s helmet plate circa 1853-73 . A good scarce die-stamped silvered example worn on the black leather helmet. Crowned star with squared points resting on a tri-part scroll ‘Prince Albert’s Own’; mounted to the centre in a laurel and oak wreath, ‘LYC’ on a lined ground. Three screw posts to reverse. VGC This pattern of helmet was introduced to the regiment circa 1853, it was replace by the busby in 1873.
2nd County of London IY (Westminster Dragoons) OR’s helmet plate circa 1902. A good scarce die-stamped example. Elongated brass backing star mounted with nickel crowned oval Garter resting on bi-part scroll “2nd County of London”; applied brass “2” to centre and “IY” below the Garter. Three screw posts and a pair of blades to reverse. GC (KK 1519) Raised as 2nd County of London Imperial Yeomanry, granted additional title “Westminster Dragoons” in 1903.This is the actual piece photographed as No. 1519 in “Head-dress Badges of the British Army”.
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays) Victorian Officer’s helmet plate circa 1871-1901. A very fine and scarce example. Facetted silver twelve pointed star mounted with gilt pierced Garter on a rich blue enamel ground. To the centre, a silver VR cypher set on a translucent red enamel ground. Four screw posts to reverse. VGC
Scottish. Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry Victorian Officer’s helmet plate circa 1860-71. A fine scarce die-stamped silvered example. Resting in thistle sprays, a crowned applied gilt Garter with Order of the Thistle Star to voided centre. Below, resting on further thistle sprays, a four part gilt scroll ‘Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry’. Five screw posts to reverse (lower two clipped). VGC (similar to KK 1516)
Scottish. Lothians and Berwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry Victorian OR’s helmet plate circa 1897-1900. A good scarce die-stamped brass example. Resting in thistle sprays, a crowned Garter with Order of the Thistle Star to voided centre. Separately below, on further wide thistle spays, a four part scroll ‘Lothians and Berwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry’. Screw posts and blades (one absent) to reverse. VGC (KK 1517)
King’s Own Norfolk Imperial Yeomanry Edwardian Officer’s helmet plate circa 1905-10. A fine scarce die-stamped example. Gilt star resting in laurel sprays mounted with silver crown above ERVII cypher over a tri-part title scroll inscribed ‘King’s Own Norfolk Impl Yeomy’. For screw posts to reverse. Left hand laurel spray repaired otherwise VGC. Helmet was introduced to the regiment in 1905 on the instruction of Col Barcley. In May of that year Hawkes supplied the first 22 Officers helmets and 425 Other Ranks. This pattern was worn until 1914.
King’s Own Norfolk Imperial Yeomanry OR’s helmet plate. A good die-stamped brass example. Crowned EVIIR cypher within laurel sprays. A tri-part scroll inscribed ‘King’s Own Norfolk Impl Yeomy. mounted to the base. Two screw posts to reverse, complete with both washers a hooped securing nuts. VGC
Queen’s Own Worcestershire Yeomanry Victorian OR’s helmet plate circa 1850-70. A good scarce die-stamped white metal example. Crowned VR oval inscribed ‘Queen’s Own Regiment’ with Lion and Unicorn supporters set in laurel sprays. Bi-part scroll along the base of the sprays inscribed “Worcestershire Yeomanry”. Three original screw posts to reverse (all shortened). GC Hussar pattern uniform adopted in 1871.
King’s Own Norfolk Imperial Yeomanry Officer’s helmet plate circa 1910-14. A fine rare die-stamped example. Gilt star resting in laurel sprays mounted with silver crown above GvR cypher over a tri-part title scroll inscribed ‘King’s Own Norfolk Impl Yeomy’. For screw posts to reverse. Gilt a little dull otherwise VGC. Helmet was worn until 1914.
Irish. 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons Victorian OR’s Albert pattern helmet plate circa 1847-71. A scarce example. Within brass sprays of laurel and oak, a crowned rococo shield mounted by a brass star bearing oval brass strap inscribed ‘Inniskilling Dragoon’; VR Cypher to centre. Three of screw posts to reverse. Service wear, blades behind crown clipped, fracture between oak and shield. One mount securing wire absent.
Scottish. Queen’s Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry Victorian Officer’s helmet plate circa 1848-1901. A fine large example. Die-stamped gilt crowned rococo shield resting in thistle sprays. Mounted to the centre, a silver Thistle Star bearing gilt ‘Nemo Me Impune Lacesset’ strap with lion on burnish gilt ground. Five screw posts to reverse, base wires clipped. Top leaf on one of the sprays AF, one or two minor fractures otherwise VGC, Adopted the busby in 1883
South Salopian Yeomanry Victorian OR’s helmet plate. A good scarce example worn on the Albert pattern helmet. Resting in a brass laurel sprays, a crowned rococo shield mounted with a white metal eight pointed hob nail star bearing a strap inscribed ‘South Salopian Yeomanry’. To the centre, three loggerheads on a lined ground. Three screw posts to reverse. One pearl adorning cross above the orb absent otherwise generally VGC
North Somerset Yeomanry Victorian OR’s helmet plate circa 1854-1901. A good 1847 Albert pattern worn by the regiment 1854-1901. Die-stamped brass crowned rococo shield resting in sprays of laurel and oak. To the centre, an applied white metal hobnail star with a brass brass strap ‘The North Somerset’; central VR cypher. Three screw posts to reverse. One of four securing wires to mount absent. VGC
Suffolk Yeomanry Cavalry Victorian OR’s helmet plate circa 1876-1883. A good 1847 Albert pattern worn by the regiment 1876-83. Die-stamped brass crowned rococo shield resting in sprays of laurel and oak. To the centre, an applied white metal hobnail star with a brass strap ‘Suffolk Yeomanry Cavalry; central VR cypher. Three screw posts to reverse complete with securing nuts. VGC. Adopted the busby in 1883
3rd (The Prince of Wales) Dragoon Guards Officer’s Albert pattern helmet plate circa 1847-71. A fine and scarce example. Within gilt sprays of laurel and oak, a crowned rococo shield mounted by a facetted silvered star bearing oval gilt strap inscribed ‘Prince of Wales Dragoon Guards’; VR Cypher mounted to centre. Three screw posts to reverse. VGC
Household Cavalry EIIR post 1953 Trooper’s Helmet Plate. A good die-stamped brass example. Crowned Collar of the Order of the Garter resting in laurel sprays mounted with bi-metal Garter Star. Three screw posts and three of four pairs of blades to reverse. Cross surmounting orb absent otherwise GC.
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