17th North Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps Officer’s Green Cloth Helmet c. 1880-1908, a rare and good quality example, the skull complete with all bronzed fittings, the frontal plate being an eight pointed star overlaid with a Guelphic crown over a plain plinth and laurel sprays and enclosing a Bath style star the centre inscribed ‘North Middlesex’ and a strung bugle horn, buff leather sweatband with attached silk lining retailed by ‘Firmin & Sons, London’, the plate is original to the helmet, the bottom retaining screw on the spike is cross threaded otherwise in very good overall condition £400-500

Note: In 1908 the 17th North Middlesex became the 19th Battalion the London Regiment.