The York and Lancaster Regiment 1st Battalion Officers’ Mess Soup Plate. A scarce example of rococo outline (26 cms), the edge decorated with simple gold lines and further decorated with regimental insignia in mauve being St. Edward’s crown over the Royal Tiger over the Union Rose and a tripart scroll ‘First Battalion the York & Lancaster Regiment’. The reverse marked ‘Royal Worcester Mess Contractors 1902’ and ‘Apsley Pellatt & Co., Northumberland Avenue’, the gold linear decoration with considerable wear, otherwise good condition £100-150