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West Kent Yeomanry, Officer’s 1829-40 Pattern Shako Helmet.
A very good and scarce attributed example, 1829-40 pattern, Officer’s (Bell Top) Shako Helmet with its original named Japanned helmet tin, with a brass nameplate ‘C. W. Martin, West Kent Yeo,y’, the helmet with a black beaver body, sunken top, gilt on brass plume base and original heart shaped gilt on brass screw, with 38 mm regimental pattern silver lace to its upper section, the front upper section with a central gilt metal rosette, silver or white metal Lion masks with loops attached east and west, a large detailed silver White Horse of Kent badge to the front centre with its feet upon a patent leather band that circles the helmet, with a blackened buckle to its reverse, attached to this, east and west, two large plated discs with a lion upon a crown with sixteen black velvet backed graduated silver plated chin scales attached to its opposite matching scales via a patent leather strap and blackened buckle, with a deep patent leather silver trimmed peak, the interior with a 63 mm tan leather sweatband with a satin crimson half liner attached, the base, again with satin crimson, with a circular disk stitched to a paper backing with the maker’s logo and details of ‘MOORE (Late Bicknal & Moore) Old Bond Street’. (Bicknal and Moore were the patentees for the regulation cap of the British Army at that time, they were also Hat & Glove makers to the Royal Family). The Helmet is complete with its fine bullion silver cap lines and two elaborate tasselled flounders, with one tassel absent, a black horsehair plume with its silver ring and brass plume holder, overall very good and better condition, extremely well made and scarce £3,000-£4,000
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Charles Wykeham Martin, the son of Fiennes Wykeham of Leeds Castle, Kent, was born on 11 September 1801. Educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, in 1821 his father assumed the additional surname of Martin. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, a corresponding member of the Academy d'Archeologie de Belgique, and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, he was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Kent , and as a Justice of the Peace for Hampshire. He was commissioned into the West Kent Yeomanry and later advanced Captain on 11 February 1836, before further service with the 3rd Battalion, West Kent Rifle Volunteers, with whom he was advanced Lieutenant Colonel. Standing unsuccessfully for Parliament for the Newport (Isle of Wight) constituency in 1837, he was elected as the Member of Parliament in 1841. Losing his seat in 1852, he next stood unsuccessfully for Maidstone in 1853 but was elected for West Kent at a by-election in 1857 as a Liberal, losing his seat two years later. At the 1865 general election he was elected for Newport again and re-elected in 1868, holding the seat until his death, aged 69, at Leeds Castle, on 30 October 1870.
A very good and scarce attributed example, 1829-40 pattern, Officer’s (Bell Top) Shako Helmet with its original named Japanned helmet tin, with a brass nameplate ‘C. W. Martin, West Kent Yeo,y’, the helmet with a black beaver body, sunken top, gilt on brass plume base and original heart shaped gilt on brass screw, with 38 mm regimental pattern silver lace to its upper section, the front upper section with a central gilt metal rosette, silver or white metal Lion masks with loops attached east and west, a large detailed silver White Horse of Kent badge to the front centre with its feet upon a patent leather band that circles the helmet, with a blackened buckle to its reverse, attached to this, east and west, two large plated discs with a lion upon a crown with sixteen black velvet backed graduated silver plated chin scales attached to its opposite matching scales via a patent leather strap and blackened buckle, with a deep patent leather silver trimmed peak, the interior with a 63 mm tan leather sweatband with a satin crimson half liner attached, the base, again with satin crimson, with a circular disk stitched to a paper backing with the maker’s logo and details of ‘MOORE (Late Bicknal & Moore) Old Bond Street’. (Bicknal and Moore were the patentees for the regulation cap of the British Army at that time, they were also Hat & Glove makers to the Royal Family). The Helmet is complete with its fine bullion silver cap lines and two elaborate tasselled flounders, with one tassel absent, a black horsehair plume with its silver ring and brass plume holder, overall very good and better condition, extremely well made and scarce £3,000-£4,000
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Charles Wykeham Martin, the son of Fiennes Wykeham of Leeds Castle, Kent, was born on 11 September 1801. Educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, in 1821 his father assumed the additional surname of Martin. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, a corresponding member of the Academy d'Archeologie de Belgique, and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, he was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Kent , and as a Justice of the Peace for Hampshire. He was commissioned into the West Kent Yeomanry and later advanced Captain on 11 February 1836, before further service with the 3rd Battalion, West Kent Rifle Volunteers, with whom he was advanced Lieutenant Colonel. Standing unsuccessfully for Parliament for the Newport (Isle of Wight) constituency in 1837, he was elected as the Member of Parliament in 1841. Losing his seat in 1852, he next stood unsuccessfully for Maidstone in 1853 but was elected for West Kent at a by-election in 1857 as a Liberal, losing his seat two years later. At the 1865 general election he was elected for Newport again and re-elected in 1868, holding the seat until his death, aged 69, at Leeds Castle, on 30 October 1870.
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West Kent Yeomanry, Officer’s 1829-40 Pattern Shako Helmet.
A very good and scarce attributed example, 1829-40 pattern, Officer’s (Bell Top) Shako Helmet with its original named Japanned helmet tin, with a brass nameplate ‘C. W. Martin, West Kent Yeo,y’, the helmet with a black beaver body, sunken top, gilt on brass plume base and original heart shaped gilt on brass screw, with 38 mm regimental pattern silver lace to its upper section, the front upper section with a central gilt metal rosette, silver or white metal Lion masks with loops attached east and west, a large detailed silver White Horse of Kent badge to the front centre with its feet upon a patent leather band that circles the helmet, with a blackened buckle to its reverse, attached to this, east and west, two large plated discs with a lion upon a crown with sixteen black velvet backed graduated silver plated chin scales attached to its opposite matching scales via a patent leather strap and blackened buckle, with a deep patent leather silver trimmed peak, the interior with a 63 mm tan leather sweatband with a satin crimson half liner attached, the base, again with satin crimson, with a circular disk stitched to a paper backing with the maker’s logo and details of ‘MOORE (Late Bicknal & Moore) Old Bond Street’. (Bicknal and Moore were the patentees for the regulation cap of the British Army at that time, they were also Hat & Glove makers to the Royal Family). The Helmet is complete with its fine bullion silver cap lines and two elaborate tasselled flounders, with one tassel absent, a black horsehair plume with its silver ring and brass plume holder, overall very good and better condition, extremely well made and scarce £3,000-£4,000
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Charles Wykeham Martin, the son of Fiennes Wykeham of Leeds Castle, Kent, was born on 11 September 1801. Educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, in 1821 his father assumed the additional surname of Martin. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, a corresponding member of the Academy d'Archeologie de Belgique, and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, he was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Kent , and as a Justice of the Peace for Hampshire. He was commissioned into the West Kent Yeomanry and later advanced Captain on 11 February 1836, before further service with the 3rd Battalion, West Kent Rifle Volunteers, with whom he was advanced Lieutenant Colonel. Standing unsuccessfully for Parliament for the Newport (Isle of Wight) constituency in 1837, he was elected as the Member of Parliament in 1841. Losing his seat in 1852, he next stood unsuccessfully for Maidstone in 1853 but was elected for West Kent at a by-election in 1857 as a Liberal, losing his seat two years later. At the 1865 general election he was elected for Newport again and re-elected in 1868, holding the seat until his death, aged 69, at Leeds Castle, on 30 October 1870.
A very good and scarce attributed example, 1829-40 pattern, Officer’s (Bell Top) Shako Helmet with its original named Japanned helmet tin, with a brass nameplate ‘C. W. Martin, West Kent Yeo,y’, the helmet with a black beaver body, sunken top, gilt on brass plume base and original heart shaped gilt on brass screw, with 38 mm regimental pattern silver lace to its upper section, the front upper section with a central gilt metal rosette, silver or white metal Lion masks with loops attached east and west, a large detailed silver White Horse of Kent badge to the front centre with its feet upon a patent leather band that circles the helmet, with a blackened buckle to its reverse, attached to this, east and west, two large plated discs with a lion upon a crown with sixteen black velvet backed graduated silver plated chin scales attached to its opposite matching scales via a patent leather strap and blackened buckle, with a deep patent leather silver trimmed peak, the interior with a 63 mm tan leather sweatband with a satin crimson half liner attached, the base, again with satin crimson, with a circular disk stitched to a paper backing with the maker’s logo and details of ‘MOORE (Late Bicknal & Moore) Old Bond Street’. (Bicknal and Moore were the patentees for the regulation cap of the British Army at that time, they were also Hat & Glove makers to the Royal Family). The Helmet is complete with its fine bullion silver cap lines and two elaborate tasselled flounders, with one tassel absent, a black horsehair plume with its silver ring and brass plume holder, overall very good and better condition, extremely well made and scarce £3,000-£4,000
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Charles Wykeham Martin, the son of Fiennes Wykeham of Leeds Castle, Kent, was born on 11 September 1801. Educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, in 1821 his father assumed the additional surname of Martin. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, a corresponding member of the Academy d'Archeologie de Belgique, and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, he was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Kent , and as a Justice of the Peace for Hampshire. He was commissioned into the West Kent Yeomanry and later advanced Captain on 11 February 1836, before further service with the 3rd Battalion, West Kent Rifle Volunteers, with whom he was advanced Lieutenant Colonel. Standing unsuccessfully for Parliament for the Newport (Isle of Wight) constituency in 1837, he was elected as the Member of Parliament in 1841. Losing his seat in 1852, he next stood unsuccessfully for Maidstone in 1853 but was elected for West Kent at a by-election in 1857 as a Liberal, losing his seat two years later. At the 1865 general election he was elected for Newport again and re-elected in 1868, holding the seat until his death, aged 69, at Leeds Castle, on 30 October 1870.
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