NAM.1979-07-134-1

Mount from an officers’ shoulder belt plate, 10th Bengal Native Infantry, 1829 (c). White metal. Two crossed colours upon staffs with tassels. The design on the right hand colour is a cross, at the centre of which is a gun standing upon an heraldic wreath, with the upper hoist showing a lion rampant gardant standing upon an heraldic wreath supporting a banner and with two mullets and a crescent in each of the three remaining quarters. The design on the left hand colour is a cross, at the centre of which is a lion rampant gardant standing upon an heraldic wreath supporting a banner, with a gun upon a heraldic wreath in the upper hoist and with two mullets and a crescent in each of the three remaining quarters. In the V-shape between the two colour staffs the numeral ‘X’, above which is a gun standing upon a heraldic wreath. At the centre of the staffs cross, a ribbon formed in the shape of a trefoil. Below the colours, superimposed upon the base of the staffs, a scroll with twisted borders, at whose centre is a double flower with eight petals. On the reverse, five screw fittings, the topmost of which has a square nut.