the well-made helmet, believed to be late 19th Century, with a brass chin-chain (the lining partially detached) and spike on a domed base, 6-fold puggaree and roan leather internal head-band; a scarlet tunic with blue facings and white piping to cuffs, skirt-slashes and backseams, brass buttons and regimental collar-badges, red shoulder-straps, embroidered with the regimental title, and bandsman’s wings, white belts, the shoulder-belt holding a music-pouch (badge absent), and the waist-belt clasp with ornate brass loops and KC centre
Sold for £350
the well-made helmet, believed to be late 19th Century, with a brass chin-chain (the lining partially detached) and spike on a domed base, 6-fold puggaree and roan leather internal head-band; a scarlet tunic with blue facings and white piping to cuffs, skirt-slashes and backseams, brass buttons and regimental collar-badges, red shoulder-straps, embroidered with the regimental title, and bandsman’s wings, white belts, the shoulder-belt holding a music-pouch (badge absent), and the waist-belt clasp with ornate brass loops and KC centre
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 26th Jun, 2024
Viewing
Public Exhibition
Sunday 23rd June: 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Monday 24th June: 10:00am to 7.00pm
Tuesday 25th June: 10.00am to 5.00pm
AUCTION DAY: 26TH JUNE 2024, AT 11:00am