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A bust of a Scottish Horse Trooper by any chance........?

Cedar oil & little balls of cedar wood are marketed as moth deterrents, how about nice big fat, green, resinous cedar cones? Would they have the same effect? Wrapped in cloth so that the whole or sliced cone would'nt smear sticky resin all over, placed under a cap or tucked in a pocket of a tunic, would they keep moths at bay?

lovely collection, what colour's the top of the sidecap please, is it yellow, or dark blue with yellow piping, & the buttons, would they be Mountie pattern or could they be General Service?

His SWB found in the possesson of an abscondee & returned to him?

Service number? Theres are a few j. Neals...... I think I've found him on the National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=6547185&queryType=1&resultcount=1 Looks like it may be the MSM card that you've already got though?

John Player's cigarette card, "Army, Corps & Diisional Signs 1914 - 1918", first series, published 1924. No. 21 in the series is "5th Division". Does'nt really add a lot.

Victorian era Kettle Drummer of The Life Guards, in State Dress ("VR" cypher on chest etc) - remind me, how do you tell the 1st Life Guards & 2nd Life Guards apart - one had red powder flask cords, the other blue, the amalgamated "Life Guards" wear a red powder flask cord. In State Dress was it one with blue showing amongst the gold of the "tunic", one with red? Did the colour of the drummer's horse vary with the 1st & the 2nd?

Rifle Brgade, wearing the busby:

Rifle Brigade Officer? - the helmet beng worn, prior to introduction of the busby:

Horse Guard:

Horse Guard:

"60th Rifles Bugler" - wearing the helmet,prior to adoption of the busby:

Black Watch:

Scots Guards Pioneer:

Grenadier Guardsman:

Scots Greys Trumpeter:

Scots Grey:

Scots Greys - "Charge Of The Scots Greys At Balaclava Oct. 25. 1854."

Scots Grey & 13th Hussar:

Coldstream Guardsman?. If so, an inaccurate representation, particularly the cuffs & collar. Again, to me it looks as if it's produced abroad:

Possibly inaccurate representatons of British Guardsme, but perhaps foreign troops? Danish? A lot of scraps were produced abroad, notably in Germany, I think, somehow these don't look as if they were produced in Britain:

Grenadier Guardsmen, including a minature version of the figure above:

Grenadier Guardsman:

Horse Guards:

"Infantry of The Line, Private Full Dress, Officer Undress". Trefoil cuffs, green facings on the private - "jam pot" cuffs came in during 1902? LIncolnshire Regiment, Dorsetshire Regiment?