Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

38th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers (Artists) Officer’s Helmet Plate c. 1878-80, in die stamped blackened silver plate with burnished highlights, a cross pattee with applied oval featuring the heads of Mars and Minerva and the motto ‘CVM Marte Minerva’, on the top arm of the cross the Imperial crown over a ‘VR’ cypher, this bearing the numerals ‘38’, with a scroll below ‘Artists’, complete with three loop fasteners, very good condition £160-220