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Nice pair of Victorian campaign medals. Awarded to J Steen, 72nd Regiment. Medals consist of Crimea Medal 1854-56 with single claps Sebastopol and Turkish Crimea Medal Sardinian issue. Both medals come complete with ribbons and in very nice condition with minor toning.

Birmingham manufactured Webley Bulldog revolvers are becoming scarce and in my estimate are outnumbered by generic examples by at least 10 to 1. This is a particularly handsome looking Webley “British Bulldog” revolver in obsolete .44” Webley (.442”) calibre. The revolver has a faded finish but little or no pitting and has excellent grips. The top strap is marked “British Bulldog” and the barrel has the maker’s name P. Webley & Son with Birmingham & London stamped on the side of the barrel. The revolver features Webley’s famous flying bullet logo and the model number and calibre.
The revolver has a good bore and functions as it should in both single and double action.
The British Bull Dog was a popular type of solid-frame pocket revolver introduced by Philip Webley & Son of Birmingham, England in 1872 and subsequently copied by gun makers in Continental Europe and the United States. It featured a 2.5-inch (64 mm) barrel and was chambered for .44 Short Rimfire, .442 Webley, or .450 Adams cartridges, with a five-round cylinder. Webley produced smaller scaled .320 Revolver and .380 calibre versions later, but did not mark them with the British Bull Dog name.
The design of the British Bull Dog revolver had been in existence since 1868, but Henry Webley registered the trademark in 1878. From that time to the present, the term has come to mean any short barrelled double-action revolver with a swing-out ejector rod and a short grip.
Intended to be carried in a coat pocket as an affordable means of self-defence, it can be argued that the Bulldog was actually the gun that really “won the west” as it was produced in far more significant numbers than the more expensive USA manufactured revolvers.
The design originated in 1868 for the Webley Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) model revolver and was manufactured as late as 1917.
This is a decent revolver that would enhance any collection of British revolvers.

In Lovely Unissued Quality a Scarce / Sort After, Pair of British Jungle Boots. Features:

• Black Rubber Moulded Soles with a Strip of Protective Black Rubber covering the Sides & Toe.
• Deep Grip, Pattern of Raised Horizontal Bars & Diamonds.
• Black Reinforced Rubber Ankle Patches.
• High / Mid Calf Length.
• Full Sewn in Tongue.
• Closed by 6 pairs of Riveted Eyelets & 6 pairs of Lace Hooks.
• Ink Stamps Reads: 9.

Notes: Malayan Scouts: 1950: Founded by Lt Col Mike Calvert Counter Insurgency Unit to Fight Communist Guerrillas in Malaya. The Original Recruits of “A” Sqn came from the Local Volunteers, some of them with Special Operations Executive (SOE) Experience in WWII. Trained in Johore to Live & Fight in the Jungle in Groups of 3 or 4, in Order to Track & Ambush Guerrilla Forces & to direct Air Strikes. A Hearts & Minds Policy was adopted with The Native People. “B” Sqn soon joined which was made up from Members of 21 SAS, shortly followed by “C” Sqn (Rhodesian) Squadron Malayan Scouts (S.A.S.).

Dimensions: Size UK 9.