A COLLECTION of more than 600 regimental cap badges is expected to make between £2,000 and £3,000 at a Cotswolds antiques auction.

The 610 cap and shoulder badges are mounted on eight boards, and ordered by region.

The Scottish, Welsh, Gloucestershire, and Yorkshire regiments are represented, as are some London, Somerset, Devon and Middlesex regiments.

The collection includes badges of the Artists Rifles, Royal Veterinary Corps, Pioneer Corps, Royal Armoured Corps, Tank Corps, Royal Corps of Signals, Reconnaissance Corps, and Army Catering Corps.

The collection will be sold by antiques auctioneers Moore Allen & Innocent in Cirencester on Friday, June 3.

From the same collector, a J Compton Sons & Webb peak cap together with a short stick, water bottle, braided leather belt, pouch and whistle tooled with Queen Mary’s emblem is expected to achieve between £40 and £60; two swagger sticks, one marked ‘Hampshire’ to the finial, the other ‘Yorkshire Regiment’ should make £30 to £50, and a military green signalling lamp and morse code box, together with a death plaque for Thomas Joseph Matthew, sapper in the Royal Engineers, commands an estimate of £40 to £60.

From brass badges to bronze sculptures, a statuette of a goblin riding a hare – yes really – carries an estimate of £200 to £300.

The goblin is part of the Hoblin series by the sculptor Julian Jeffery, whose best-known works include the Sir Stanley Matthews memorial outside Stoke City’s Britannia Stadium, and a sundial in the form of a male and female industrial worker at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light.

‘Spud’ is one of a series of seven goblin sculptures, each of whom play a special role in the garden.

Spud is the Protector of the Vegetable Patch, who jumps on the back of any animal that comes to steal the vegetables.

Standing at 28ins tall, the sculpture weighs 33kg and retails at over £1,000.

Finally, a local scene by post-impressionist artist Tony Klitz is being offered for sale with an estimate of £200 to £300.

The painting features figures in Cirencester’s Coxwell Street. Two London landscapes – one of Marble Arch, another of the River Thames and St Paul’s Cathedral – each command an estimate of £300 to £500.

Anthony Robert Klitz was born in Merseyside in 1917, attended Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury.

He moved to Cirencester in the 1930s, and studied art at the Cheltenham Art College (1936–1939), whilst simultaneously training to be an architect with Dowglass and Pyle in Cirencester.

In 1939, he joined the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and the Middlesex Regiment, leaving with the rank of Major.

He became a professional artist in the 1950s and returned to Cirencester in the 1970s. He died in Dublin in 2000.

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