Vickers Smith Evelyn (5 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. GOOD/ NO DUST JACKET. Former Library Book. 36 pages. Text is clean and unlined. Usual library markings and stamps. White photographic wrap with black lettering. Cover is worn on the edges and rubbed. Binding and hinges are firm.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. First edition. softcover. Published Washington, DC:Enfield Arsenal, 1965. 4to. stapled wrappers, 8 1/2" x 11", 36pp., illus b/w plates, illustrated covers. Very good plus.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1965. Very good condition. Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos. Creasing to a couple of corners. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.

Wraps. Condition: Good. First Edition, First Printing. 34, [2] pages. Illustrations. Illustrated covers. Hundreds or buttons are illustrated in this work. Dotted lines indicate that a button could not be identified. Battle honors are indicated, as are nicknames. Units often underwent changes in name, number, and form/style of button. Cover has some wear and soiling. The author was a Lieutenant in the Royal Ordnance Corps.There is now a database on British Military Buttons: The Early British Military Button Project aims to provide the most definitive resource of these artefacts and covers the militias, volunteers and yeomanry units. Whilst there are some sites and books that deal with the Regular Regiments of Cavalry, Infantry and the few Corps of the period, there are very few on the ever expanding finds of these smaller irregular units. Many of these units we know little about and often the only surviving artefacts we know of, to even physically show they ever existed, are their uniform buttons. Their goal Is to bring together all the sides interested in these artefacts, their history and heritage, from the militaria collectors and academics. G. V. Rolph (Photographer) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Useful reference, 36pp., numerous ills., vgc, large format, card covers. 0.0.