shoulder belt plate, shoulder belt plate
Accession Number
NAM.1982-10-115-1
Description
Officers’ shoulder belt plate, Prince of Wales’s Volunteers, 1803-1814. Mounted on a burnished gilded rectangular copper plate with truncated corners, a white metal design of a burnished cross upon a frosted ground, within a frosted garter at the centre of an eight-pointed rayed star, the star itself being within a frosted garter which is surmounted by the Prince of Wales’s coronet, plumes and motto. Reverse bears two hooks at top and two studs at base.