NAM.1983-04-55-1

Officer's shoulder belt plate, 1840 (c). Associated with 26th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry (Volunteers). Design mounted on a stippled gilt-copper rectangular plate with burnished raised edges: a burnished white metal eight-pointed rayed star with truncated points superimposed upon a burnished gilt metal star-shaped plate. On the star in gilt metal, a laurel wreath surmounted by a hemisphere decorated with a sunburst design. Within the wreath is a frosted gilt metal garter with title, 'Regiment'. Within the garter, in white metal, the frosted numerals, '65', on a burnished domed ground. Below the star, a frosted white metal scroll with title, 'Bengal Volunteers', decorated at the ends with foliate designs and having rope-pattern borders with an inner line of beading.