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№ 857

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13 December 2012

Estimate: £300–£400

29th Worcestershire Regiment Officers’ Mess Dessert Plate. A fine and rare example (23.1 cms) of rococo outline, the outer edge decorated in gold tracery work leading to a bright green inner edge descending onto the central reserve, this decorated in gold and featuring a gold regimental badge, this being a crowned strap ‘Worcestershire’ enclosing a crowned lion statant over ‘XX1X’. The reverse with one faint impressed mark otherwise plain, c. 1840 - 81, slight gold loss to the outer and inner edging otherwise very good condition £300-400