Helmets, Hats & German Belt

Lot 4837    Session 17 - (11:30am Friday 3rd August)    Helmets, Hats & German Belt

Estimate $800
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $500

ROYAL NAVY COMMANDER'S BICORN, black beaver with pleated black silk cockade at one side with gold bullion coil at centre and Navy button and gold bullion coils at each end, with leather sweatband and the inside is lined with pleated white silk and on the underside of the crown is a gold blocked maker's name, 'Owen Harris & Co/15, Bessell Street/Portsmouth', also a pair of Commander's epaulettes with gold bullion edging and silver bullion fouled anchors and single gilt Navy button at end of each, reverse with brass securing brackets, one marked 'Right' the other 'Left', gold blocked on leather backing is maker's name, 'Gieves Limited', stored in a japanned bicorn tin, on one side is painted in white, 'H.T.Haylock/R.A.N', there is also a brass plaque below this which has had an inscribed name mostly removed so it is illegible. The sweatband is loose on one side and some wear near edge, otherwise good very fine, the epaulettes nearly as new, the tin with rusting, good.

Harold Thomas Haylock, born 01May1897 at Portsmouth, England; Enl.19May1921 in RAN with Home Port at Sydney; commissioned Shipwright with seniority 25Nov1936; listed as KIA 01Mar1942 when HMAS Perth was sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait.