Results: Militaria & Ethnographica 11th December

An interesting and varied offering of Militaria and Ethnographica was sold in a specialist sale at Tennants Auctioneers on 11^th December, which included several private collections. From a good private collection of Victorian and Edwardian military headgear came a Victorian Officer’s Black Cloth Forage Cap to the 106^th Bombay Light Infantry (sold for £850 – all figures exclude buyer’s premium). The cap was complete with the black horsehair plume and housed in a japanned tin with brass label engraved to ‘Col. Leith, 106^th Regt.’. A Victorian OR’s Home Service Helmet to the 2^nd Volunteer Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment sold for £700, and a Victorian Officer’s Black Cloth Forage Cap to the 33^rd (Duke of Wellington’s) Regiment of Foot sold for £600. From the same vendor came a notable Tyneside Scottish lot, comprising two horsehair and leather sporrans, a black leather waistbelt and a glengarry that smashed the £150-200 estimate to sell for £3,000.

Further notable lots of militaria include a Collection of Mainly Second World War Cloth Insignia, which sold for £1,900, an Elizabeth II Regimental Marching Snare Drum to the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, which sold for £800, and a Small Collection of Iraq War Souvenirs from circa 1991, which sold for £800. One of the top lots of the sale was a First World War Bavarian EM Pickelhaube inscribed with the original soldier’s name, ‘Ebert’, which achieved a hammer price of £1,300.

Amongst the blades in the sale, a 19^th Century Indian Zulfiqar Tegha (Executioner’s) Sword sold for £700, and notable revolvers included a 19^th Century Tranter’s Patent 54 Bore Five Shot Trigger-Cocking Percussion Revolver (sold for £1650), and a Colt Model 1860 Army .44 Calibre Six Shot Percussion Revolver (sold for £1,400).

The sale achieved a total hammer price of £86,870 for the 440 lots with an 81% selling rate.

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