25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
240
◉ A TARLETON HELMET OF THE OSWESTRY RANGERS, CIRCA 1800-20
with leather skull, fitted with a protective curved copper alloy bar on the left side, and concave black leather peak edged with copper alloy, the twelve-pleated hessian turban secured by narrow copper alloy chains and forming a rosette at the rear, frosted copper scroll struck with the regimental title above the pointed concave peak, crowned oval copper badge on the right, with the initials OR and the motto PRO LEGE PATRIA ET REGE, black bearskin crest and pleated lining (two small holes in the left side of the skull indicate the absence of a plume and plume-socket, otherwise in good condition)
Sold for £2,400
with leather skull, fitted with a protective curved copper alloy bar on the left side, and concave black leather peak edged with copper alloy, the twelve-pleated hessian turban secured by narrow copper alloy chains and forming a rosette at the rear, frosted copper scroll struck with the regimental title above the pointed concave peak, crowned oval copper badge on the right, with the initials OR and the motto PRO LEGE PATRIA ET REGE, black bearskin crest and pleated lining (two small holes in the left side of the skull indicate the absence of a plume and plume-socket, otherwise in good condition)
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
The Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria department run by Thomas Del Mar is now a recognised world leader in this field.
The sales offer a broad selection of objects from all over the world, from the earliest times until the Great War. Firearms from the earliest matchlock, wheel-lock, flintlock, percussion and pin-fire guns, rifles, pistols and revolvers; edged weapons from the bronze age, Viking, Medieval and Renaissance periods through to the swords of the regular armies of the 18th and 19th centuries; armour from the earliest times through the medieval and renaissance periods to the First World War; African, Australasian, Chinese, Islamic and Japanese weapons and armour; accessories including gunpowder flasks, gun locks, mechanical locks, iron work and books.
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