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10 & 11 May 2017

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Lot

№ 531 x

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10 May 2017

Hammer Price:
£460

The Shropshire Light Infantry Officer’s Victorian Period Green Cloth Helmet, a good quality example, the green cloth skull complete with all gilt metal fittings, the frontal plate of crowned star pattern with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of green velvet a silver strung bugle horn with in gilt ‘KLI’ within the strings, a silver scroll below ‘The Shropshire Lt.Infy.’, buff leather sweat band with crimson silk lining, retailed by Hawkes & Co., London, appears to be the second frontal plate used on this helmet, the chin chain short of the fastening links otherwise very good condition £500-700