Officers’ shoulder belt plate, York Volunteer Cavalry, 1803 (c).
Copper gilt. Upon a burnished ground, an engraved design of an oval garter superimposed upon four crossed flags upon poles, the two outer flags having tassles and two swords and two muskets of which only the butts and hilts are visible, at the base, the whole within a foliate border. From dexter to sinister, a flag bearing the pre 1801 Union ensign in the canton, a flag bearing the letters ‘Y C’, a flag bearing the royal cypher ‘GR’ and the Union flag as used pre 1801. The garter is surmounted by a monarchial crown flanked by the flags. Below the garter, twin sprays of laurel tied with a bow at the centre. Within the garter, an eight-pointed rayed star at the centre of which is a cross within a circlet. Reverse bears a hook at top and two studs at base.