Arms, Armour and Militaria

1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, a good officer’s 1878 pattern blue cloth helmet, complete with all plated fittings and bearing the QVC Royal Arms pattern plate ‘First’ on the top scroll, and ‘Lancashire Artillery Volunteers’ on the bottom, lining and sweat band all intact, some slight surface mothing, plate not original to the helmet bottom retaining nut on the metal spine missing, otherwise good condition £300-350