NAM.1985-10-15-1

Officers’ waistbelt clasp, 8th Madras Native Infantry, 1855-1888. The plate has upon a gilt metal ground a silver twelve-pointed rayed star upon the centre of which a gilt metal laurel wreath within which a gilt metal garter. Below all a gilt scroll. Above the garter, at the break in the wreath, a gilt elephant statant. The belt fitting is die struck gilt metal, with acorns and oak leaves upon a hatched ground.