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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 489

A Suite of Items Pertaining to Lieutenant, Later Rear-Admiral W.J. Munn, Royal Navy, KC period full dress cocked hat, epaulettes and waist belt/sword slings, plus an undress belt with sword slings all pertaining to Lieutenant W. J. Munn, R.N.; together with his GVR period full dress sword and scabbard, this with raised panel on the blade ‘W.J. MUNN Sepr 1st 1931’, complete with dress sword knot and brown leather carrying case (initialled ‘W.J.M.’), his dress Midshipman’s dirk complete with scabbard (engraved on reverse WJM) and knot, complete with original black patent linen carrying case; unifom element comprises of a frock coat (dated 1932) but bearing Rear-Admiral’s cuff lace and QEC buttons, the undress belt with some service wear, otherwise the early full dress accoutrements in mint state contained in the original carry tin with painted name W.J. Munn, the sword in very good condition but some gilt loss to the scabbard, the dirk’s release button broken off, the blade with very slight surface rust patches, the top chape of the scabbard loose, both chapes down to the brass, uniform in good condition and free of moth (lot)

Provenance: Sold with Rear-Admiral W.J. Munn's C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E. Group of Twelve, Spink November 2005.

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Sold for
£900