Militaria, Medals and Awards

A collection of late 19th century bullion and embroidered military titles, including a group of shoulder titles with buttons for the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards.

A collection of mainly military badges, including two bullion naval officers' badges, a Second World War 7th Armoured Brigade Desert Rat cloth badge and an air gunner's wing.

A collection of ephemera relating to G.H. Buck, Deputy Chief Warden in Hatfield Heath, Essex, at the beginning of the Second World War, including warden's logbook covering G. Group, Friday 21st June 1940 to 2nd October 1941, containing ink-written entries, various other paperwork relating to air raids and various broadsheets.

A collection of twenty-seven Second World War Daily Express, News of the World and other news headlines posters, including 'Churchill War Lord', 'Adolf The Conqueror By Strube' and 'Goering Talks Bombs', together with a collection of wartime newspapers.

A collection of Second World War period publications and propaganda ephemera, including a rare 'Enemy Warplanes' recognition wheel by George Philip & Son Ltd, 82 Fleet Street, EC4, circa 1940, 'The World War in Maps' and Grand Pictorial Souvenir 'They led us to Victory'.

A group of eleven various Italian and other European airborne forces and parachute regiment badges, including 1st Battalion 'Tuscania', Alpine parachutist with painted detailing, Quartier Generale parachute brigade and French army parachutist wings.

A collection of military items, including a French Gras bayonet with single-edged blade, blade length 52cm, dated '1876', three Sam Browne belts, one with pistol holster, a Brodie pattern helmet and a lance tip.

A collection of various military related collectors' items, including a group of medals and ephemera awarded to Leslie Frederick Standen Esq, including a Queen Elizabeth Imperial Service Medal for service as a Brighton postman, named and cased, two boxed Second World War service medals, a group of ephemera and photographs relating to 'Ubique' Lodge No. 1337 RAOB, November 1928, Bareilly, India, and a collection of various cap badges, including Sussex Constabulary and various military, mounted within two glazed frames.

A collection shooting-related ephemera, including a group of advertising and other items related to ELEY cartridges, including a novelty trade card, detailed 'A good Gun - deserves a good Cartridge', and an Avon ELEY Grand Prix aftershave bottle in the form of a cartridge, boxed, a group of advertising badges and two hand-held clay pigeon shooters, together with a collection of shooting-related books, including 'Under Five Flags: The Story of Kynoch Works, Witton, Birmingham 1862-1962' and 'The ELEY Book of Shooting Technique' by Michael Rose, with introduction by Jackie Stewart.

A pressed brass shako plate, detailed with crowned 'GR' cypher, a group of early/mid-19th century British military buttons, including Royal Artillery, two other military items and a Spanish silver coin, dated 1722, all mounted within a glazed frame. Note: all items purportedly found at Shirley Heights, English Harbour, Antigua.

A collection of various late 19th century Japanese armour, combined from at least two suits, including manju no wa, haidate, suneate, kusari gusoku, two sets of kote and tekko, and various kusazuri sections (all in relic found condition).

A collection of various mid-20th century military items, including water bottles, gaiters, a folding entrenching tool with canvas carrier, a net scarf and a post-war medical tin.

A collection of various mid-20th century military items, including a 'Bomb Disposal' sign, two bugles, one with the badge of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, a paratrooper's knife and a scale model of a Schwimmwagen.

A Second World War period British patent monocular with broad arrow mark, serial number '41684', together with a group of other gunsights and a torch.

A collection of various mid-20th century canvas map bags and belts, a leather belt and holster, another holster and a Lee Enfield pigsticker-type bayonet.

A collection of mid-20th century flying jackets, including a Second World War period example with fleece lining and Air Ministry zip-pull, together with a flying helmet, two fleece-lined flying hats and a pair of goggles (most with overall wear, losses and damage).

A Second World War period silk escape map of Cyrenaica, detailed with Crete, the Mediterranean Sea and the coast of Cyrenaica, framed and glazed, together with an Evening Post billboard poster for the island of Jersey, dated '1940' and detailed 'Orders of the Commandant of the German Forces in Occupation of the Bailiwick of Jersey' with twelve orders for the general population, signed 'Gussek Hauptmann, Commandant Jersey', framed and glazed.

A collection of various military helmets and caps, including a First World War period French Adrian helmet with artillery badge, later leather lining and chin strap, a British Brodie-type helmet and a group of post-Second World War helmets.

A Queen Elizabeth II Military General Service Medal with bar 'Cyprus' to 'Capt.J.H.Moore. R.E.' and a George VI and Queen Elizabeth Coronation medal to 'J.H.Moore. 117. Midland Rd. Bedford', both mounted, together with the corresponding dress miniatures, a collection of various military ephemera and a group of military uniform, including field trousers, a Sam Browne belt, a gas mask bag and a peaked cap with Royal Engineers badge.