shako plate, other ranks, shako plate
Accession Number
NAM.1984-10-124-1
Description
Shako plate, other ranks, 1st Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 1865 (c). Die-struck brass. Within a thistle wreath, the figure of St Andrew holding his cross upon a frosted oval ground. Across the base of the wreath, a frosted scroll bearing the burnished title, '1st Aberdeenshire'. Below the wreath, upon the horizontally hatched oval, the burnished numerals, '33'. The reverse bears two horizontally placed copper loop fittings.