shako plate, officer, shako plate
Accession Number
NAM.1983-04-41-1
Description
Officer's shako plate, Armagh (Light Infantry) Militia, 1855 (c). Die-struck, in gilt metal, a multi-rayed eight-pointed star, the uppermost point of which is displaced by a monarchial crown. Mounted at the centre a white metal circlet bearing the pierced title, 'Armagh/ Regiment', upon a burnished gilt-metal ground. Within the circlet, the stippled white metal numeral, '75', upon a burnished, domed gilt-metal ground. The reverse bears two pairs of copper wire fittings behind the crown, and two copper loop fittings horizontally placed, one on either side of the centre.
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