Officers’ helmet plate, 1st Hertfordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 1880 (c).
An eight-pointed silver star, the rays extending to each point are wide and flat with seven graduated length smaller rays of rounded cross-section between each wider ray. The whole plate is bombé to conform to the curvature of a helmet. Mounted on the star is a hart trippant facing right and standing in a shallow stream below which is a triangular section of grass and flowers. Reverse bears two loop fittings horizontally placed.