A collection of seven vintage British badges and medallions, including military, veterans’, and civilian interest pieces. The group features a sweetheart brooch for the Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) fashioned as a Lee-Enfield rifle in white metal? with a green enamel regimental crest and a blue enamel scroll reading NOTTS & DERBY. Also included is a Royal Engineers sweetheart brooch on a bar mounting, featuring the GvR royal cypher for King George V in red enamel within a blue enamel garter bearing the motto HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE, topped with a scroll reading ENGINEERS and ROYAL at the base. A bimetal badge for the North Staffordshire Regiment displays the Prince of Wales’s plumes above a Staffordshire Knot with a blue enamel scroll reading NORTH STAFFORD. Civilian and veteran pieces include a circular bronzed Empire League of War Workers lapel badge featuring a shamrock, thistle, and rose within a laurel wreath, and two gilt and blue enamel British Legion lapel badges, one featuring a white metal? lion’s head mask. Completing the lot is a bronzed Art Deco style medallion with a suspension loop, featuring a stylized IDMA monogram above a plaque reading BALLROOM AMATEUR.
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