South Africa - Kaffrarian Rifles Beret Badge complete with Felt Cloth Badge Backing, post 1964

A red enamel and blackened brass cap badge, post 1964 so worn without a crown and mounted on its original felt backing cloth (the correct pattern for this regiment). Two original loops with cotter pin Some glue traces to reverse. Slight hole in the maroon half of the backing cloth otherwise in super condition for age. This format as worn on the beret.

In order to keep pace wi...  read more

Code: 68990

WW2 War Raised unit - RECCE Reconnaissance Corps White Metal Cap Badge

A die struck white metal cap badge with two original D style loops to the reverse. I understand that other ranks of Scottish RECCE units wore this badge in white metal. Circa 4 cms tall. In very good condition.

K&K Vol 2 No 1925 refers.

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Code: 68667

WW1 Navy & Army Canteen Board (NACB) Kings Crown Cap Badge

A large die struck blackened brass cap badge (almost looks bronzed from the front) with two original flat loops to the reverse.5.2cm wide and 4.8cm tall. In very good condition with sharp detail. Artistically this is a very attractive item.

The Navy and Army Canteen Board (NACB), along with the Expeditionary Force Canteens, was a precursor to the NAAFI (Navy, Army and Air Force I...  read more

Code: 66110

WW2 RAF Squadron Leader Larry Curtis DFC, 617 Squadron, Framed Original Autograph & Commemorative Display

Original Signature Squadron Leader Larry Curtis, DFC. An original framed and glazed signature of Larry Curtis (Lawrence Wesley Curtis) winner of two DFCs, he was an air gunner and wireless operator who flew more than 30 bombing operations including the first bombing op’s after the Dams raid and the V-1 sires in the Pas de Calais. The frame contains his signature, woven cloth air gunner mess dr...  read more

Code: 66003

Royal Sussex Regiment Large Silver Plated Mess Waiters / Orderlies Button

Circa 29 mm in diameter, fixed shank and maker marked Jennens & Co (PoW feathers) London to reverse. A very large solid button with light wear to silver plate on highpoints otherwise in very good condition.
Pre 1912 as Jennens stopped making buttons about then. Scarce as there would only have been circa half a dozen officers' mess room orderlies.

Ripley page 59 refer...  read more

Code: 62994

Memento of the Great War - 4th August 1914 - Tinnie celebrating the Birth of the Treasury One Pound Note or Bradbury!

The gold standard was suspended at the outbreak of the war in 1914, with Bank of England and Treasury notes becoming legal tender as a substitute for scarce gold coins.

The First World War (1914-18) placed great demands on Britain's gold supply: the Government needed gold to meet the costs of the war, and the public tended to hoard gold as private security in this time of uncerta...  read more

Code: 62934

WW2 South African Middellandse (Midland) Regiment (Commandos) Brass Cap Badge

A die struck gilding metal cap badge with two original loops to the reverse (one bent with service wear) otherwise in very good condition. Circa 5.5cms tall. Scarce.

Die Middellandse Regiment (Eng variant: The Midlands Regiment( was raised at Cradock as an infantry unit in 1934. In June 1941, after a period of intensive training in the Union as a machine-gun battalion, the unit...  read more

Code: 67361

WW1 Home Front - Scarce Dundee Women's Suffrage Society War Relief Fund Gilt and Enamel Badge

An attractive gilt and enamel badge which shows the crest of the city of Dundee, 29mm in diameter. It is engraved with 37/2 and has the maker's details on the reverse Rattray, Dundee. It also has an extra loop mounted on it for a safety chain (the safety chain is no longer present). In good condition with only a small bit of surface damage to the surface of the enamel at about 1 o'clock.
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Code: 59942

Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) White Metal Half Brevet Wing Navigator - Maker marked KNW

Made by Mayer & Kane of Wellington.

A very hard to find WWII / Cold War Navigators Half Brevet of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF). Of all the Commonwealth Pilots in WWII and thereafter, only the RNZAF wore metal wings or brevets of this type.

Made exclusively in Wellington by the jewellers Mayer and Kane ltd they were only ever issued to aircrew in the Pac...  read more

Code: 61930

11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) Officer 's Bullion Collar Badge

Worn example as worn by The Officers, The RSM and the Bandmaster in No 1 Dress and by the Bandmaster in the Frock Coat. In very good condition, colours bright and bullion undamaged. Paper backing half present and traces of glue to the reverse. Circa 4.3cm tall and 4.5cm wide. Worn pre 1969.

The 11th Hussars did not wear a badge in the beret. Thank you to Martin for pointi...  read more

Code: 59185