Royal Dockyard Battalion Officers’ Mess Dessert Plate. A very rare example (21.8 cms) of rococo outline, the outer rim decorated in gold, pale green and mauve, the rim also decorated in mauve with crowned oak sprays enclosing a fouled anchor, the central reserve is plain. The reverse is impressed ‘Copeland’ over St. Edward’s crown, also marked with the broad arrow c. 1840 - 58, a small discoloured mark in the pale green decoration of the rim otherwise in very good condition; The Windsor, Knight of the Garter Service Dinner Plate. An exceptionally rare example of rococo outline (25.8 cms), the white ground decorated with a central Garter Proper, the wide outer rim decorated with raised swags in blue and gold. The reverse stamped with a crowned oval strap ‘Nixon & Son Windsor’ enclosing ‘Windsor Castle’, the reverse raised foot with one small crack, otherwise in very fine condition (2) £100-150