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LOT 2147
British Cap Badge and Other Item Group
MID 20TH CENTURY A.D.
5/8 - 2 3/8 in. (83 grams total, 16-61 mm).
Including Essex Regiment, Durham Light Infantry, Devonshire Regiment and others, with regimental button and other items. [10, No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson.
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