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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 15

Relics Recovered from the Wreck of H.M.S. Birkenhead A Powder Flask A copper flask, bearing embossed decoration, with brass mount, lacking nozzle; the relic shell of another powder-flask, broken and lacking all mounts Brass Mounts from Military Firearms A butt-plate, two trigger-guards, one with a defective langet, and two side-bars, probably from Minié rifles; a pistol butt-cap A pair of Officer´s Spurs Two straight-necked brass box-spurs, one broken and seized in conglomerate but both parts present, traces of gilding remain, hasps and rowels missing, together with some 25 assorted brass buckles and clips A Collection of Uniform Buttons Approximately 95 ORs´ hollow-backed pewter buttons of the 74th (Highlanders) Foot, many in excavated or relic condition (lot) Estimate £ 80-120 H.M.S. Birkenhead sank off South Africa, 26.2.1852, with the loss of 450 lives, including many men of the 74th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot.

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