Military Collectables

WW1 Royal Sussex Regiment Cap Badge

The bi metal badge for the Royal Sussex regiment used the same design from the late 19th century until 1958 when the home counties brigade badge was used. This one is the size and form of a WW1 example, it has been used with slight wear but still remains in good order.
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Code: 25416

Pair of WW2 1st Anti Aircraft Division Cloth Badges

The sword was taken from the arms of the City of London. This was the first Anti-Aircraft Division and was raised in 1935, composed originally of Territorials from London and the Home Counties; in 1938 it became a purely London Territorial formation. An earlier pattern of this badge had a kahki background. Many surviving examples seem to have faded to grey. A good true pair of period patches in...  read more

Code: 25403

WW2 Anti-Aircraft Command Cloth Badge

Originally this formation badge was worn only by the staff of General Sir Frederick Pile's HQ, but in 1943 it was universally adopted for use by all formations and units of Air Defence of Great Britain (ADGB) including the Home Guard batteries, and the use of separate badges as previously worn by the UK Anti-Aircraft Corps and Divisions was discontinued. This badge comes in good but used cond...  read more

Code: 25395

Superb Boer War – Edwardian Norfolk Regiment Lieutenants Tunic

This scarce and wonderful Norfolk regimental Tunic dates from the Boer war into the Edwardian period up to the Great war and could not be more ‘Norfolk’ if it tried…it was made in Norwich by R.H. Mason & Son Castle Meadow Norwich and has really never left the area. It is a Lieutenants jacket and possibly carries the name of the owner ‘Walsh’ on a period little sticky label on the inside...  read more

Code: 25391

Victorian British and Foreign Sailors Society Medallion.

Issued in 1888 this commemorative white metal medallion was given to commemorate 70 years of the British and foreign sailors society who had as their patron Prince Edward. It comes in good condition, there are some dark stains on each side, it is a good sized medal measuring 1.5 inches in diameter.
Ref. 16910
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Code: 25373

Vintage German Webbing Spade Cover.

Green webbing spade cover, made of olive green webbing with press clasp on the front, this is marked ‘Knip Hier’. It is in very good order, looks like it has never been used.  read more

Code: 25361

Very Good Selection of Large Sized Royal Naval Cloth Patches

Here are six good vintage large sized Naval cloth patches, all you see in the pictures, the largest (blue and white stripes) measures 7 inches across and all come in very good condition.  read more

Code: 25347

Vintage Rifle Cleaning Kit

A good quality vintage rifle or gun barrel cleaning kit complete with brushes and pull through chain, there is an oil bottle but this is empty, comes in good but used condition.  read more

Code: 25341

Superb 1917 Early Bruce Bairnsfather 'Old Bill' Plate by Grimwades

Towards the end of 1917 the Bystander magazine granted Leonard Grimwade permission to reproduce a limited number of cartoons from the 'Fragments from France' publications and place these on items from the Grimwades range of pottery then in production. The first piece to be made by the Staffordshire firm was their 'wartime butter dish for a family of ten' followed quickly by a whole range of pie...  read more

Code: 25323

Interesting WW1 Era David Lloyd George Munitions Poster

Headed ‘the passing show’ this was apparently a newspaper issued just post war by Odhams press in London containing cartoons by well known artists and cartoonists of the day, depicting LLoyd George in a go cart and having a dig at munitions with a double meaning caption which was probably very relevant at the time. The poster comes in very good condition with signs of age and it has been folded...  read more

Code: 25320