THREE ITEMS OF OFFICER'S INSIGNIA OF THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS &C The first 19th early 20th Century; the second circa 1910; and the third 1913 A burnished gilt metal shoulderbelt-plate, mounted with a large white metal 'hobnail' cross and star, with Huntly crest in the centre, Sphinx above and Tiger below, and scroll inscribed GORDON HIGHLANDERS, reverse complete with hooks and studs, and maker's name R & HB KIRKWOOD; a silver-plated plaid-brooch of bombé ring form bearing one long scroll with regimental title and battle-honors PENINSULA, WATERLOO, EGYPT and INDIA and mounted with a stag's head, coronet and ivy wreath (the Huntly crest) and motto BYDAND, the back engraved with the officer's initials A.S.B.G. and impressed with maker's details R. & H.B. KIRKWOOD, EDINBURGH, with brooch-pin fitting, in its velvet-lined and fitted case with initials on lid; together with a badge for Glengarry or Full Dress feather-bonnet, in form of a prominent well-modelled stag's head and ducal coronet with devices similar to those on the plaid-brooch, the reverse bearing maker's mark HT and hallmark Edinburgh 1913 and scratched with the name J. GRAHAM; together with a later Glengarry bonnet with red tourie and black ribbons and with label inside GLENGARRY CAP MADE IN SCOTLAND The second 3½in. diam. (3)
THREE ITEMS OF OFFICER'S INSIGNIA OF THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS &C The first 19th early 20th Century; the second circa 1910; and the third 1913 A burnished gilt metal shoulderbelt-plate, mounted with a large white metal 'hobnail' cross and star, with Huntly crest in the centre, Sphinx above and Tiger below, and scroll inscribed GORDON HIGHLANDERS, reverse complete with hooks and studs, and maker's name R & HB KIRKWOOD; a silver-plated plaid-brooch of bombé ring form bearing one long scroll with regimental title and battle-honors PENINSULA, WATERLOO, EGYPT and INDIA and mounted with a stag's head, coronet and ivy wreath (the Huntly crest) and motto BYDAND, the back engraved with the officer's initials A.S.B.G. and impressed with maker's details R. & H.B. KIRKWOOD, EDINBURGH, with brooch-pin fitting, in its velvet-lined and fitted case with initials on lid; together with a badge for Glengarry or Full Dress feather-bonnet, in form of a prominent well-modelled stag's head and ducal coronet with devices similar to those on the plaid-brooch, the reverse bearing maker's mark HT and hallmark Edinburgh 1913 and scratched with the name J. GRAHAM; together with a later Glengarry bonnet with red tourie and black ribbons and with label inside GLENGARRY CAP MADE IN SCOTLAND The second 3½in. diam. (3)
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