Auction Catalogue

19 & 20 September 2013

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1230

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20 September 2013

Hammer Price:
£900

13th Regiment of Foot Officer’s Shoulder Belt Plate, an extremely rare and early example of elliptical outline of raised beaded edge enclosing a further elliptical applied section this with a ground of flush blue enamel and the numerals ‘J3’, one hook and two studs and with maker’s mark ‘Archer’, the lower part of the blue enamel section now crudely replaced otherwise in very fine condition £600-800

Note: As the first pattern of shoulder belt plate of the 13th Regiment of Foot is unknown there is a good case for it to be this plate. The 13th Regiment were variously in Minorca, Wells (Somerset) and the West Indies during the period 1769-82. The motto ‘Spectemur Agendo’ (Let us be judged by our actions) is the motto of no less than twenty plus families. It could well apply therefore to a Commanding Officer of the 13th during this period. The motto was authorised to the 1st Madras Fusiliers Regiment but only in 1841. There appears to be no usage of the Latinised numeral ‘1’ in the early badges and buttons of the Native Infantry Regiments of India. Likewise the Precedence numbers of English Militia Regiments during the period 1778-1802 are most unlikely.