Militaria

6th (Royal First Warwickshire) Regiment Officer’s Shoulder Belt Plate, a rare and probably unrecorded example, the copper gilt rectangular back plate with pinned through silver mounts, the format as per Parkyn (Fig 107) but without the Roman numerals ‘VI’, and there is no evidence that they were ever placed upon this example. The reverse with standard double hooks and studs, the plate is also stamped with the still untraced maker’s mark of a fleur-de-lys, this usually indicates manufacture c1830-1840, the gilt rubbed and the silver mounts with considerable surface wear £600-800