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Lot 224:
Description
A varied collection of Brass and Silver military insignia and historical ephemera. The lot includes an enamel Royal Observer Corps cap badge depicting a signalman with the text FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED and ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS. A Silver Indian Sangram Medal displays the Lion Capital of Ashoka and is inscribed SANGRAM MEDAL, with its red and white striped ribbon. A bi-metal 20th Hussars cap badge shows a rampant horse above the numeral XX. The collection also features a black German First World War Wound badge, a Brass Frontiersmen shoulder title, and a Silver bugle horn badge with a crest of three crowns. Additional items comprise a cloth Scottish Prison Officers Association patch inscribed POA, a Silver commemorative medallion for the BOROUGH OF WILLESDEN PEACE 1919, and a pressed Steel tin embossed 100 SACCHARIN TABLETS FULL STRENGTH with the cursive Boots logo.
Diameter of Sangram Medal: 1.4 inches
Width of Frontiersmen title: 2.5 inches
Height of POA patch: 2.5 inches
Diameter of saccharin tin: 1.25 inches.
Condition report:
Significant loss of black finish to the German First World War wound badge (photo 2). The ribbon on the Sangram medal is soiled and frayed at the top edge (photo 1). Surface oxidation and tarnish are visible on the Willesden medallion and Indian medal (photo 2). Minor fraying to the edges of the POA cloth patch (photo 3). Surface scratches and general wear to the embossed saccharin tin (photo 3).
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