Military Police & Other Services- Helmets & Hats
Lot 5611 SESSION 20 (7.30PM FRIDAY 20TH APRIL Military Police & Other Services- Helmets & Hats
Estimate $200
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $220
ROYAL ENGINEER'S OFFICER'S BICORN HAT, black 'beaver' with black pleated cockade with woven silk band through centre and button for Royal Engineer's (QVC), gold bullion coils at each end and patterned black silk band on one side at each end, leather sweatband with narrow magneta silk band above, the inside is lined with quilted magneta silk, on the leather liner is printed in ink three letters obliterated, another three at side, 'JHT' (on old sales tag is recorded John Henry Thompson) and below, 'S.A'., together with a metal bicorn hat container. The container with rusting, the hat with some loss of fur at edges and cut at one end, otherwise very good.
Note officers of the Royal Engineer's were stationed in Australian colonies between 1835-70.
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