Military Collectables

Rare WW1 Era Bicorn Hat & Epaulets Royal Naval Surgeon Orwin.

A very rare opportunity to purchase a historic piece of Royal naval dress uniform. It includes an Officers Bicorn Hat with all the gold bullion trimmings and the epaulets in gold bullion and sterling silver anchor highlighted with silver bullion. The whole set is made by Gieve, Mathews and Seagrove Ltd, London, Portsmouth and Devonport. It also comes in its original fitted and named tin to Roya...  read more

Code: 28902

Vintage United States Navy Wardroom Officers Mess Jug

This silver plated jug has the emblem for the United States Navy to one side, it was manufactured by the American company of Reed and Barton, it came to me with a ticked inside which reads ‘ 1900-1930 United States Navy Reed and Barton wardroom officers mess’ and I have no reason to doubt this information. The piece itself is very heavy and solid, sensible on a ship, it comes in good condition ...  read more

Code: 29008

Super Quality Brass Box Lock Pocket Pistol.

A beautiful little pocket percussion pistol. It has an decorative engraved brass box lock, hexagonal turn off barrel, engraved steel trigger guard and cross hatched walnut stock inset with a silver cartouche.
It is in wonderful condition and was probably one of a boxed pair, the lock needs a little attention, I don’t think there is anything terribly wrong, the spring feel good, but the h...  read more

Code: 28998

WW1 Medal Pair to Jones Cheshire Reg / Machine Gun Corps.

A very nice WW1 British war and victory medal pair correctly named to 15549 Private William Jones Cheshire Regiment. The medals come with copies of this mans medal index card and medal roll which shows he was later transferred to the machine gun corps with a change of number to 171617. He was discharged on 23rd October 1919 and put on the reserve list. He was obviously trained as a battalion ma...  read more

Code: 28993

Unusual Vintage White Metal Indian Delhi Press Corps ‘Kalli Trophy’

Dated March 1967 this unusual trophy has a plaque to the front which reads ‘Kalli trophy’ presented to H. R. Sivaramakrishna by his friends and admirers of Delhi press corps March 1969’, it is made from a silver plated metal on a solid black base and I assume the shape on the top is relevant to the press corps. It is worth further research and comes in good condition requiring a good clean and ...  read more

Code: 28980

Decorative Wooden Model of Early 19th Century Naval Mortar

This is a great display piece, made from wood it is a model of an early 19thC Naval mortar complete with sailor, ball and barrels of powder, it comes in very good condition and measures 9.5 inches x 6.  read more

Code: 28972

WW1 Princess Mary’s Christmas Tin

WW1 brass Christmas gift tin, issued Christmas 1914 and into 1915, the fund headed by the Wonderful Princess Mary Countess of Harewood the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. She did so much for the War effort during the Great War and WW2 and was a tireless worker for Girls and Women’s movements. This example comes in good condition for its age with signs of wear to the surface of th...  read more

Code: 28938

Scarce WW2 Era Regimental Stitch Pack – Middlesex Regiment

I say scarce for this item as I simply cant find another outside of a museum context, never designed to survive the idea was for people to be able to stitch the emblems for their preferred regiments, in this case the Middlesex regiment. produced by a company called WM Briggs & Co Ltd of Manchester they supplied the colour four page booklet and two tissue paper transfers of the emblem these havi...  read more

Code: 29077

WW2 Era Tail Fin for a Two Inch Mortar Round

Here is a tail fin for a WW2 era two inch mortar round, this example is in semi relic condition having been used and fired, it retains the screw cap end which carries a few marks including the number 40 which may be a year date. It measures 3.25 inches long.  read more

Code: 29086

WW1 German Veterans Medal & Ribbon Wurttemberg Kriegerbund.

An unusual German WW1 war veteran’s ribbon, mount and Kyffhauser Veterans medal. The ribbon has a large plated metal mount showing the arms of Wurttemberg in front of flags swords and rifle butts; below is written Wurttemb Kriegerbund (Wurttemberg Warrior League) to this, is suspended the Kyffhauser Veterans medal in gilt bronze. The metal mount has a pin attached to the back and the makers det...  read more

Code: 29209