6th Dec, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
A First World War Derby Scheme Khaki Armband, applied with a King's crown, together with five Cumberland Volunteer embroidered cloth patches (6)
Footnote:- The Derby Scheme was introduced during the First World War in Britain in the autumn of 1915 by Lord Kitchener’s new Director General of Recruiting, Edward Stanley, the 17th Earl of Derby, after whom it was named.
A khaki armband bearing the Royal Crown was provided to all who had enlisted, or who had been rejected, as well as to starred and discharged men. This ceased once conscription was introduced in January 1916
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 6th Dec, 2023
Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.
Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.
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