Orders, Decorations and Medals

63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment Officer’s 1855-1861 Pattern Shako Plate, a good quality example being a crowned star back-plate overlaid with the Garter Proper and central numeral ‘63’ mounted on a ground of black leather; together with an associated painted photograph in an ornate gilt frame, 225 x 200mm., the photograph shows a Lieutenant wearing the 1856 pattern scarlet tunic with Lincoln green facings, his shako on a table alongside; together with two portrait miniatures of officers in glazed frames, in wooden plaques, 162 x 142mm. and 122 x 101mm., one inscribed on reverse ‘C. J. Hill, Chatham, March 6, 1841’, very good condition (4) £300-350