Officers’ shoulder belt plate, Loyal North Britons Volunteers Middlesex, 1813 (c).
White metal. Engraved design of St Andrew holding his cross and standing upon a ground, all within an oval scallop-cut border. Below the ground a thistle (dexter) tied with a rose (sinister). Below all, a tripartite scroll. Above St Andrew, a further tripartite scroll. Reverse bears one hook and two studs and, on the dexter side, the hallmark. The maker’s mark (’JA’ in an oblong cartouche, for Joseph Angell) has been struck twice, once overstruck.
Associated with Napoleonic Wars, Home Defence (1803-1815).