24th Apr, 2018 10:00

The Professor Charles Thomas Collection

 
Lot 192
 

192

Insignia of the Royal Armoured Corps

Insignia of the Royal Armoured Corps A card displaying ORs' first pattern cap-badges, cloth and metal shoulder-titles and an Arm of Service strip. Many KC examples of cap and collar-badges of the second pattern in silver, silver-plate, white metal, bronze and plastic. QEC examples include white metal and anodised aluminium. Together with officers' and ORs' buttons, and worsted badges of rank on yellow cloth backing; and another card, of Commonwealth Armoured Corps insignia, largely depleted but retaining a cap-badge of the Australian Tank Corps, a KC cap-badge and a QEC cap and collar set of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps; and a KC metal and QEC cloth cap-badge of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. (2 cards, 45 items)

Sold for £180


 
Insignia of the Royal Armoured Corps A card displaying ORs' first pattern cap-badges, cloth and metal shoulder-titles and an Arm of Service strip. Many KC examples of cap and collar-badges of the second pattern in silver, silver-plate, white metal, bronze and plastic. QEC examples include white metal and anodised aluminium. Together with officers' and ORs' buttons, and worsted badges of rank on yellow cloth backing; and another card, of Commonwealth Armoured Corps insignia, largely depleted but retaining a cap-badge of the Australian Tank Corps, a KC cap-badge and a QEC cap and collar set of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps; and a KC metal and QEC cloth cap-badge of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. (2 cards, 45 items)