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LOT 1622
Items of Irish Military and Services Interest
17TH-20TH CENTURY A.D.
1/2 - 2 in. (162 grams total, 14-50 mm).
Comprising: four musket balls from the banks of the river Foyle in Derry; six Royal Ulster Constabulary (obsolete) buttons; Royal Irish Constabulary cap and collar badges from the 1950s-1960s; three Royal Irish Constabulary rank badges; WWI London Irish Rifles cap badge. [17, No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Irish collection, Germany.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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