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Auction: 4014 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 85

An Assortment of Military Headdress A 19th Century officer's rare scarlet cloth shako, believed to be of the South Nottinghamshire Hussars, with black leather top and band (the latter now detached) braid around top connected by a gold cord loop to the frontal device of a "wheel" formed by twelve interlocking ovals in gold embroidery on a black cloth ground, quilted buff silk lining; another shako by HOBSON & SONS ARMY CONTRACTORS with "boat-tail" back, plaited black festoon in front, fitted with composite plate formed of a brass KC above an OR's helmet-plate centre of the Border Regiment applied to an incomplete OR's 1869 pattern shako-plate, the shako with a red/white pompom in an incorrect socket (lining and chin-strap missing); an officer's blue side cap of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps by Moss Bros, with scarlet piping to cap and gold piping on flaps, mounted buttons and embroidered QEC badge; and an OR's side cap, also of the RAOC, with red piping, anodised buttons and badge (4) Estimate £ 70-100

Sold for
£160