Auction Catalogue

28 November 2007

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Arms, Armour and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 147

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28 November 2007

Hammer Price:
£1,000

British Infantry Shako 1812-16 Pattern, a very rare example in napped felt, plain unbound horizontal front peak, bound with narrow leather strip around the base, the lower front panel bound with black herringbone cloth, the upper ‘false front’ section broken off and missing, to the upper left side a black cloth ‘lace’ cockade, this with applied pewter bugle horn, internally are remains of the paper and fine yellow cotton linings, the period shako plate of standard rococo pattern is an officer’s and bears the large ‘GR’ cypher only, it would appear to be the original plate for the shako, also present but detached is a period tooled yellow silk cockade, some nap remains to the crown and rear panel, the front apart from where the plate is fitted is bare, other inevitable stitching faults but a good genuine example for the period £1000-1500

Note. The presence of the Light Company side cockade but the use of a Battalion Company frontal plate suggests the shako appertains to a Militia or Volunteer unit as the Light Infantry Regiments and Light Companies of Line Regiments employed special pattern frontal badges.