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12 November 2020

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№ 829

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12 November 2020

Hammer Price:
£120

62nd (Clitheroe) Lancashire Rifle Volunteers Shako or Pouch Badge 1861-70.
A good quality excavated example in die-stamped brass (60mm x 45mm), being a crowned eight-pointed star, the centre with a raised design featuring a three cupola towered fortress over a bugle horn within a strap, ‘Castrum Sponte Defendimus’, traces only of two fasteners (N&S). Excavated ‘in Lancashire’,
good sound condition £60-£80

Note: Clitheroe had no official Arms until 1952, but Burke’s ‘General Armory’ (19th century) quotes, ‘Azure on a mount vert a castle embattled, with three towers domed, on each a pennon all or.’
This castle still features in the current Arms.

The Corps formed in May 1861 became part of the 8th Administrative Battalion (Blackburn), this corps becoming the 2nd Lancashire Rifle Volunteers in 1880.