WW1 - British and Allies

BRITISH WWI ARTILLERY AND MOUNTED ENLISTED RANKS BOOTS.

A fine pair of the scarce lace up issued artillery and mountain troops riding boots. Stitching loose to the back seam on the right hand boot, both closure leather tabs and buckles present at the top of each boot, some minor distortion to the leather in the foot section, all of the metallic hooks are present with one exception to the left hand boot.  read more

Code: 86756

BRITISH WWI R100 ENLISTED RANKS AIR SHIP BADGE.

An extremely rare badge being the enlisted ranks version, worn on the visor cap for a member of the crew of the airship R100. The sister ship the R101 crashed with great publicity in northern France in the middle 1930’s, subsequently the R100 was scrapped. Residue of paper and glue on the back where once adhered to a collectors display board, beautifully hand embroidered.  read more

Code: 86928

RUSSIAN WWI DRUM.

A Russian side drum painted in triangular form to the upper and lower wood frames in black and orange with a double headed eagle badge of Russia pinned to the front of the drum.  read more

Code: 86577

BRITISH WWI OLD BILL CHINA.

During WWI the artist Bruce Bairnsfather was the editor and artist of the magazine produced in the trenches known as Old Bill. A whole series of china and crockery were produced based on the Old Bill drawings. These four pieces comprise of an ashtray, saucer, 2 small dishes. One of the small dishes has a crack and is faded, the teacup also has a small crack, the ashtray and the other dish are u...  read more

Code: 86588

BRITISH WWI COMPASS.

A cylindrical case measuring 9.5cm, the lid of which resembles the base of a shell case but has no markings. On opening the lid it reveals a very nice quality compass face, very nicely engineered to the edges of the lid and the upper edge of the case. At first glance it appears to be trench art but in fact would be a fully operational compass.  read more

Code: 86612

FRENCH WWI 8 PHOTOGRAPHS.

A nice mixture of French soldiers in various types of uniforms including 1 image of men wearing the leather tanker jacket, Colonial troops with machine guns, cavalry officer, Chassuer de Alpins troops  read more

Code: 86495

BRITISH WWI PHOTOGRAPHS.

8 all postcard size photographs, RFC man, franked and posted on the reverse side, a group of Northumberland Fusiliers at a rifle club 1913 in India, highly interesting British combat soldier in full combat kit including the leather jerkin and a camouflaged helmet, Royal Engineer in India photograph wearing sola topi, Royal Naval officer, group of naval officers pre WWI, First War soldier, anoth...  read more

Code: 86496

BRITISH & U.S. WWI PHOTOGRAPHS.

8 photographs of soldiers of WWI, one single U.S. soldier wearing full combat gear,
5 of various British WWI soldiers, studio shot, mixture of cavalry and infantrymen, 2 images of First War parades.  read more

Code: 86497

U.S. WWI INFANTRY DRESS REGULATION BOOKLET.

Dated ‘1891’ over 300 pages of dress regulations of the Infantry, both in parade mode and combat. Fitted into its nice leather cover, gold embossed American eagle with gold embossed lettering. It would appear to have a Spanish inscription to the front page.  read more

Code: 86041

BRITISH WWI IMPERIAL MUSEUM POSTCARD.

A super postcard published by the Imperial War Museum showing 8 types of steel helmets and 1 elephant face shield, used by Portuguese, American, British, Belgium, French, Austria and German forces of the First World War. The helmets are some of the rarest of WWI including French Polack, the German M.18 with the front shield, Berndorfer, Portuguese with the ribbed skull. Ideal for the in-depth h...  read more

Code: 86285