Pouch belt plate, Cheshire Rifle Volunteers, 1860-1880.
White metal. An oval frosted circlet with rope pattern borders, surmounted by the Prince of Wales’s plumes, coronet and motto. Within the circlet a shield charged with the arms of the Earl of Chester (three garbs upon a horizontally-lined ground, and surmounted by an earl’s coronet). The shield is superimposed upon crossed swords, the hilts downwards, the dexter one without a quillon. Below the circlet a scroll. Two screw fittings on reverse, one with a nut.