Officer's helmet plate, 1st (The Royal Scots) Regiment, gilt, 1878-1881.
Upon the universal backplate (eight-pointed star with top point displaced by Victorian crown with bright rays and frosted crown), is mounted a laurel wreath (with two scrolls superimposed upon it) enclosing a circlet in the form of links of the collar of the Order of the Thistle.
Scrolls bear bright letters in relief on a matt ground with frosted foliated end ornaments.
Upper scroll bears the title, 'The Royal Scots'.
Lower scroll bears the motto, 'Nemo Me Impune Lacessit'.
Circlet has roped outer edge and is finished frosted.
Centre is slightly bombe and has a silver figure of St Andrew standing upon ground and holding before him his (saltire) cross.