WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR TIMED ON-LINE AUCTION 17 MAY TO 7 JUNE 2024

135 THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2024 350 Afghanistan collection of silver medals 1880-1973 Abdul Rahman (1880-1901) ‘To The Victory over The Mongol’, Muhammad Nadir Shah (1929-1933) For the Participants in the Fight agains Habibullah Kalakeni (Bachha-I-Sagpa), Muhammad Zahir Shah (1933-1973) ‘for The Suppression of The Pashtun Rebellion in Kunar Province 1945’. Condition: Fine to very fine. Estimate €200-€250 (approx £170-£210) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 350 351 Sweden. Royal Red Cross medal to a British general, 1946. Gustav V obverse, inscribed to Major General Lindsay on reverse. Condition: Extremely fine. Major-General George Mackintosh Lindsay, CB, CMG, CBE, DSO (3 July 1880 – 28 November 1956) was a British Army officer who played a prominent role in the development of mechanised forces during the 1920s and 1930s. Lindsay had spent much of the First WorldWar developing doctrine for the use of machine-guns and training specialist units to operate them. After the war, commanding an armoured-car unit in Iraq, he became intrigued by the potential of mechanised warfare techniques. He was an influential figure in the debate around armoured forces during the 1920s and 1930s, working with J.F.C. Fuller on the Experimental Mechanized Force, and commanded the first experimental armoured division in 1934. Retiring just before the SecondWorldWar, Lindsay was called out of retirement to command the 9th (Highland) Infantry Division in the first months of the war, following which he worked as a civil defence commissioner and as a representative of the Red Cross during the liberation of Europe Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 351 352 15th-16th century skullcap helmet. Skull-cap, made of iron, of hemispherical form with rounded cut- outs for the ears. The main edge is plain, bordered by pairs of lining holes. The exterior is smooth and patinated. For a similar example see British Museum number 1961,0202.29. Condition: Mostly oxidised, will restore well. The skull-cap, called a sallet in 15th century accounts, was probably intended for wear by an archer. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 352