The Honorable East India Company Cadet’s Shako Plate Addiscombe College Early 19th Century. An exceptionally rare example in die stamped copper gilt and featuring a multi-rayed incised pointed star bearing a central strap ‘Auspicio Regis Et Senatus Angliae’, within the strap a mortar and trunnion on ground with ordnance to the left and right, the gilt rubbed and lacking fasteners otherwise very good condition
£500-700

Note: The College opened in 1809 and was initially called The East India Company’s Military Seminary. It was retitled College in 1855 and was closed in 1861.