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A Collection of Approximately Three Hundred and Sixty Four Buttons, mainly brass and chrome, mounted on ten display cards, including Army, RAF, Navy, Police, Fire Brigade, ARP. Civil Defence, Red Cross, Railways etc; a Collection of Twenty Eight Military Embroidered Insignia, mainly worked in bullion thread, including RAF Bomber Command, Royal Marines, Royal Suffolks, Tank Corps etc; Fifteen Sports Insignia, including Sheffield, Banister Park, West Bromwich Albion, Oxfordshire Football Association etc. (53)
Guide Price: £80-120
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An Official Group Photograph, showing No 5 Company, Officer Training Corps, Oakhamstead, by Walshams Ltd., Doughty Street, W.C., numbered 290, in a glazed ebonised oak frame.
Guide Price: £30-50
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A George III Ebonised Elm Truncheon, painted in red and gilt with a crowned GR cypher over a circular panel numbered 84, a gilt band below dated 1804 and initialled SIS, the swollen grip pierced to hold a hanging strap - missing, 56cm long; a William IV Red Painted Wood Truncheon, painted with WR IV over a crown with SPL below in yellow and black, with slightly swollen grip, 62.5cm long; a Victorian Walnut Truncheon, painted with crowned VR cypher in black, red and white, with ring turned grip, 46cm long (3)
Guide Price: £180-250
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An Irish Bog Oak Truncheon, carved with a wrythen band of shamrock, 24.5cm; a Mahogany Truncheon, of plain form with ring turned grip, 35cm; a Beech Truncheon, with leather wrist strap, 26cm. (3)
Guide Price: £40-50
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A Brass Fireman's Helmet by Merryweather & Sons, London, with dragon embossed comb, the helmet plate as a torch, crossed axe and hose, with folded rim to the peak and neck flange, the underside with maker's brass label, with leather sweat band, ear rosettes and brass chin scales; a Large Brass and Copper Hose Nozzle, stamped John Morris & Sons Ltd., Fire Engineers, Manchester, 53cm high. (2)
Guide Price: £280-350
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A Post 1895 Prussian Pickelhaube, Enlisted Model, with black leather shell, brass spike with five ventilation holes, brass helmet plate, plain back rib and folded brass rim to the peak, lacks chin strap, back peak coming unstitched.
Guide Price: £150-180
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A Swiss Model 1918/66 Steel Helmet, with granular painted surface and rolled edge, leather liner and strap.
Guide Price: £50-80
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A 20th Century Japanese Black and Red Lacquer Jingasa, the shallow domed skull with upturned front brim and ribbed and panelled decoration, with painted gilt mon.
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A Bulgarian M1936 Steel Helmet, with white, green and red shield decal, and with leather liner.
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A 20th Century Indian Steel Khula Khud, the skull chased with scaled panels of flowers, with silver inlaid blade shaped spike, two plume holders and sliding nasal bar, hung with chain mail neck and ear guards.
Guide Price: £100-150
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