Military Collectables

Pair of Vintage St John Ambulance Collar Badges with Backing Plates

A good pair of white metal collar badges for the St John Ambulance complete with brass backing plates, they both come in very good condition and measure just under 1.5 inches long.  read more

Code: 28747

WW2 Era REME Regimental Association Button Badge – Fattorini

A good quality brass and enamel button badge for the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers regimental association, marked to the back for Fattorini of Birmingham, it comes in very good condition with some light surface marks and no loss to the enamel, it measures 1.25 inches long.  read more

Code: 28746

Dorsetshire Regiment Cap Badge.

The brass and white metal layered badge of the Dorsetshire regiment. This type of badge was issued from 1900 until 1951 when it became the Dorset regiment. This one is a WW1 to WW2 badge, it is a well made badge with no economy elements. It is in lovely original condition with a nice even tone.
Ref. M2  read more

Code: 28744

WW2 South African President Steyn Regiment Cap Badge.

A scarce large size white metal pagri badge worn on the slouch hat.
The Regiment was raised as a machine gun regiment in Bloemfontein and its surrounding districts in the Orange Free State on 1 April 1934. A reserve regiment that was named after Martinus Theunis Steyn, the last President of the Orange Free State Republic and is stationed in the city of Bloemfontein.
During WW2, th...  read more

Code: 28742

Royal West Kent Regiment Cap Badge.

A superb quality cap badge for the Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment worn through both world wars until the regiment joined the Home Counties brigade in 1958. The quality relates this badge to be an earlier version, probably between the wars.
Ref. M12  read more

Code: 28730

RAF 1st Pattern Service Cap Badge.

1918 first pattern NCO’s, Flight Sergeant and Flying Officer service cap bade made from gilt brass and should be supported by a red cloth cushion. This one is in excellent condition, probably never used. It measures just over 2 inches wide.
Ref L19  read more

Code: 28729

Vintage The St John Ambulance Association Large Cap Badge

A large sized white metal cap or sleeve badge for the St John Ambulance Association, it is of a domed shape and carries a registration number to the front of 111905, this would date it to 1889 but I think that must be its inception date, it comes in good condition and a previous owner has scratched his name on the back ‘Smith’, it measures just under two inches in diameter.  read more

Code: 28727

WW2 Era The St John’s Ambulance Association Enamel Button Badge

A good example of a WW2 era enamelled button badge for the St John’s Ambulance Association, it is marked on the back ‘registered at St John’s gate London’, it comes in good condition with some light wear to the enamel on the edge and measures just over one inch in diameter.  read more

Code: 28726

Vintage Brass & Copper Bosun’s Whistle on Chain

Here is a vintage Boatswain's call, pipe or bosun's whistle, made from brass and copper with the Naval anchor to the ball, it comes on a brass chain and is in very good condition with mild signs of use.  read more

Code: 28724

Book.. Firearms Past and Present by Jaroslav Lugs

Issued in two volumes and written by Jaroslav Lugs, entitled ‘firearms past and present’ and subtitled ‘a complete review of firearms systems and their histories’. Printed in 1973 the two volumes cover the earliest matchlocks to post WW2 weapons. The two books are housed in a stiff card outer cover, they come in very good condition with the outer cover having wear and a split to one edge. Toget...  read more

Code: 28723