A collection of seventy-five assorted hats, helmets and caps, 19th century and later

encompassing a variety of headgear from military and civilian life, occasionally of fancy-dress manufacture but generally historical and vintage examples, together with eleven assorted hatboxes in either 19^th-century painted faux-grain toleware, wood or cardboard, and eight white-painted wooden hat stands, some with velvet pads to the top, the largest 45cm high; 17 ¾ in.

Hats:

1. cream hat with artificial flowers and veil
2. red military felt hat with pin for the 15th the King's Hussars
3. green felt tyrol hat with red pom pom
4. woven straw pith helmet
5. boater with black hatband, by Henry Heath (1822 by warrant to George IV)
6. black beret with a red pom pom and red feather
7. black and white striped pillbox with black lace
8. light blue beret with pin for Army Air Corps
9. black peaked cap with a pin for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
10. black, white and red peaked cap with a pin for the Royal Marines
11. teal velvet beret
12. black woollen beanie with a label for Midwest Knitting Mills Inc
13. black peaked cap with H.M.S. Nelson in gold lettering
14. bachi with Amiral Charner in gold lettering
15. naval pork pie with chin strap
16. naval pork pie with Κ.Ε. ΠΑΛΑΣΚΑΣ in gold
17. black beret with a pin incorporating the Highlanders stag and motto CUIDICH N RIGH on an X
18. peaked cap with a pin of the arms of Elizabeth II and leather lining
19. grey-blue peaked cap
20. white corduroy peaked cap
21. blue felt beret with a pin for the Cambridge University Officer Training Corps
22. brown felt hat
23. sand-coloured cap with long green mosquito netting
24. dark green brimmed hat with long black mosquito netting
25. green campaign hat with leather chin strap
26. brown campaign hat with a lace chin strap
27. taupe bowler hat by Hilhouse & Co, New Bond Street
28. black bowler hat with a chin strap by Jones & Dunn
29. light brown campaign hat by Christy's London
30. light brown boater with brown grosgrain hatband
31. pale yellow boater with black hatband by G. A. Dunn & Co., Piccadilly Circus
32. gold-coloured boater with black hatband by R Dry
33. straw-coloured boater with striped brown grosgrain hatband by Bennetts London
34. pale green pith helmet by Griffiths M^cAlister
35. finely woven caramel-coloured brimmed hat
36. cream-coloured pith helmet by Charles Owen, London
37. a red silk doge hat with gold embroidery
38. gold and silver pillbox hat
39. black felt schoolboy cap with a handwritten label F. T. STRIBLEY 7 to the interior
40. felt hat with pin centred by a costume ruby
41. green felt hat with a red slit to the top, possibly modelled on Robin Hood's bycocket
42. blue and white polyester jester coxscomb
43. yellow, orange and blue polyester jester coxscomb
44. a straw fedora with brown grosgrain hatband by Christys'
45. a straw boater with a black hatband by Bennetts London, with a Christie's 2004 tag
46. a blue peaked cap with gold trim
47. a black velvet peaked cap with interlacing silver braid to the top
48. a white motorcycle helmet with a sticker for the Kent Constabulary
49. a dark yellow hard hat with the letters MP to the front
50. a brimmed conical straw hat surmounted by a loop and with a leather chin strap
51. black leather semi-spherical cap with red leather trim incorporating a white cross
52. a hard hat made of cork and canvas by Christys London
53. blue and red kepi with an inverted crescent moon and the number 4 for the French North-African Tirailleurs
54. plain naval pork pie
55. plain naval pork pie with chin strap
56. pale green pith helmet with brown leather chin strap
57. structured pale green brimmed hat with reflective interior and a label ROYAL LETTERS PATENT [...] 10-15 COOLER / SPECIALLY MADE FOR Hall & Anderson Ltd. / Calcutta / RECOMMENDED BY THE TROPICAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT
58. pale straw hat with black hatband
59. grey felt schoolboy cap with green stripes by Billings & Edmonds Ltd
60. black, yellow and black schoolboy cap with a label reading 6 ⅞ C. R. CONE
61. red schoolboy cap with the embroidered initials AW
62. field-grey kepi, the buttons with three crowns
63. dark green peaked cap with leather hatband above visor
64. black felt schoolboy cap
65. black and red felt kepi
66. grey hardhat with crossed yellow pistols emblem, the printed label to the inside reading CPT J.R. NINO and a handwritten label identifying the battalion in Williamsburg, VA.
67. cream jockey helmet with elastic strap by Adams of London
68. black metal Brodie helmet
69. brimmed straw hat with a brown grosgrain hatband
70. green metal Brodie helmet, the interior fitting detached
71. cream pith helmet with foil lining to the interior
72. black felt schoolboy cap
73. olive-coloured pith helmet with cream chin strap
74. green hard helmet with red stripe and centred with the initials MP, with white leather linings and chin strap, by Stadium Ltd
75. peaked camouflage cap

Hatboxes:

1. oval-shaped metal hatbox
2. oval-shaped metal hatbox with faux graining
3. small oval-shaped metal hatbox with faux graining
4. large circular stained wood hatbox with buckled leather strap and metal border
5. oval-shaped cardboard cream hatbox with label for G. A .Dunn, London
6. oval-shaped cardboard cream hatbox with a brown lid and a label for Geo. H. Leavey, Maidstone
7. oval-shaped black hatbox with a buckled leather strap for Dobbs
8. oval-shaped brown-painted metal hatbox
9. circular buff-coloured hatbox with a delivery label from Christys to Captain F. Jones (hole to top)
10. brown box-form hatbox with wooden planks to top and sides
11. circular hatbox with handle and lock and Cabin P&O label inscribed Mrs P James

the largest (number 4) 41cm diameter, 26cm high