Shako plate, officers’, 9th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, 1861-1869 (c).
An eight-pointed rayed star, the topmost point displaced by a monarchial crown. The rays are decorated with a ribbed effect and have a burnished ray on top of this. In the centre of the star is mounted a frosted circlet bearing the burnished regimental title. Within the circlet is a rose mounted upon a red cloth ground. The whole badge has a brown patina but the raised surfaces have been deliberately highlighted. Reverse bears two horizontally placed loop fittings.

The 9th Lancashire were raised in Warrington in 1859.