NAM.1986-01-38-1

Shako plate, possibly officers’, 5th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers (The Liverpool Rifle Volunteer Brigade), 1862 (c). Bronzed copper. An eight-pointed rayed star, the topmost point displaced by a monarchial crown. In the centre within a laurel wreath a stringed bugle horn having a Tudor rose between the strings. Below the wreath a frosted scroll bearing the burnished corps title. Two horizontally placed loop fittings on reverse.