Bosleys big badge sale

Bosleys held its latest Military Badge Auction on 9 March and this marked the 28th anniversary of these popular sales of original badges. The sale got of to great start with lot 2, a King's Liverpool Regiment post-1908 Officer's helmet plate of the 9th Bn which sold for £657.28 (includes Buyer’s Premium of 26.4%). A collection of badges to the regiments and corps of Wales proved very popular with lot 379, a rare Welsh Border Brigade Bearer Company RAMC

Volunteers Victorian cap badge selling for £985.92. This badge could easily have been dismissed as a usual Volunteer RAMC example, which looks similar, but careful, detailed cataloguing bought the difference to the attention of buyers.

This was also the case with a Pembroke Yeomanry anodised cap badge, relatively common as a beret badge with one selling for £56.88, but a small size difference spotted by the specialist cataloguing raising lot 161 to be a rare cap badge, resulted in a price of £1,643.20. Anodised badges remain popular with an example of the Lancashire Fusiliers selling for £404.48.

The badges of the colonial regiments continue to have an international following with an example to the Australian Commonwealth Horse 2nd pattern Boer War slouch hat badge, c. 1902, selling for £1,516.80. Closer to home a collection of Great

War raised Volunteer Training

Corps badges saw an example for Leeds selling for £303.36 and another for the Rotherham & District Volunteer Defence Corps sold for £252.80. Also IY proved popular with £404.48 paid for the lot 64, Northamptonshire IY and £733.12 for lot 413, the rare Essex IY Officer’s badge.

A small number of Special Forces badges could be found and an example for the Long Range Desert Group, despite have both loops removed, sold for £834.24.

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