Helmet plate, other ranks, 1st Shropshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 1881 (c)

White metal, die-struck. An eight-pointed, rayed star the uppermost point of which has been displaced by a monarchial crown.
Upon the star, a laurel wreath within which is a frosted circlet with burnished edges bearing the burnished title, '1st Shropshire Rifle Volr Corps'.
Within the circlet a shield charged with three leopard's masks upon a hatched ground.
On the reverse three copper loop fittings, one behind crown and one on either side of centre.