Swan Hall Fine Art & History of War Auction

marked for 5.56mm blank cartridges

including field dressing, peak cap, side cap and metal canteen bottle, various periods

of circular form, the hide shield complete with hand grip, 34.5 cm diameter

including Bill Horan's Military Modelling Masterclass, The World Encyclopedia of Battleships, and World War II DVD box set

in original boxes

including postcard, magazines and other assorted items

with brass buckle

pottery bust of Churchill depicted in an Admiralty uniform

including Mein Kampf, English edition with inscription dated 1939, Dunkirk to Berlin and Warfare Today

containing photographs, magazines and other items relating to WWII

including two defence medals, two other service medals, 1939 - 1945 star, together with a collection of small copper coins

including Artillery, Naval and other regimental examples

decorated with applied symbols and ciphers

12 x WW1 period buttons, 19mm

12 x WW1 period gilt tunic buttons, 25mm

5 x silver and gilt small size mess dress buttons, 8mm.

other ranks medium sized, 20mm

the gilt medals complete with edge legends detailing recipient names, ranks and serial numbers

twin lugs E-W.

25th Anniversary Medal, cased.

silver and silver plated bronze, male half only, female half lacking.

possibly Flight Sergeant pattern, twin lugs E-W.

twin lugs N-S (Kipling & King 972) ...[more]

USA, Civil War leader, commemorative bronze medal

Helmet plate centre converted for use as pugaree badge.

with contemporary handwritten note that it was collected on the field of Waterloo in 1841

staff officers red cloth, braid and gilt button tabs

to the Hall of Chelsea Hospital, Friday 12th November 1852, with printed signature of Exeter, William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter. 133mm...

battle honours to 1815, for the Peninsular War and Waterloo. 10 inches x 9 inches (27cm x 22cm) approx.

appointing Percy George Barnes 2nd Lieutenant, Middlesex Regiment, dated 20th September 1892, signed Victoria. Barnes was subsequently promoted Li...

Admiral Charles Luxmore Hockin, seated in uniform and wearing campaign medals. Entered Royal Navy 1831, retired 1864, saw service during the Crime...

The Morning Chronicle, for Wednesday 6th April 1808, with details of the evacuation of British troops from Monte Video, French privateers in the W...

together with a small kukri in a faux lather scabbard

the carved hardwood handle leading to a curved blade in the traditional taste, complete with remnants of leather scabbard, in need of restoration,...

brass stock and grip

the steel barrel designed for either the Remington .22 short or .22 long round, 73.5 cm long

the spear point blade with single wide fuller leading to a gilt brass hilt guard and a wire bound grip with lions head pommel

in wooden scabbard with copper wire bindings

Croix de Guerre pattern colours

in memory of Bobby Sands 1981, mixed media on board, tricolour, framed, 103.5 x 69 cm

gents in military dress with Sphinx and pyramid, framed

framed newspaper cutting depicting a military camp, dated 1855

pair of framed uniform prints, The 5th Royal Scots of Canada and Victorian Artillery

camp site with sea in background, oil on canvas, signed with initials, 24 x 19 cm

framed newspaper cutting depicting African scenes, dated 1883, 27 x 34.5 cm

cavalry officer mounted with rifle slung, oil on cardboard in an oval gilt frame

The Volunteers Review in Hyde Park, dated 30 June 1866, 36 x 25.5 cm

officer of The 17th Lancers, coloured print, framed, 16.5 x 19.5 cm

uniform prints, after E.P. Gibbs, framed, 21.5 x 15.5 cm

Royal Fusileers in dress uniform, coloured print, framed, 14 x 19.5 cm

combined portraits of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, the Gallant Allies. This badge was originally worn by Brigid ...

(the post 1880 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment) pork pie cap badge, probably for an officer, twin lugs to reverse, E-W, 19mm high appro...

38mm high, by Gaunt.

silver and gilt bronze. Male half only, female half lacking (Ryan 214)

silver on gilt bronze, 38mm high, twin lugs N-S.

printed photographic portraits of Lord Roberts.

Victorian Museum of Science and Arts, Dublin, and Irish Lights, both 25mm

the silver bar mounted with a crowned rod and serpent motif, together with another bar brooch

crest comprising a stag standing on a cap, probably the Jones family of Mullinabro, county Kilkenny, who originally established themselves in Kilk...

the silver bar brooch with a sunburst GR device decorated in blue and red enamel