helmet plate, helmet plate
Accession Number
NAM.1979-11-68-1
Description
Officers’ helmet plate, 1st Glamorgan Rifle Volunteers, 1878-1881. White metal. Mounted upon an eight-pointed rayed star, the topmost point of which is displaced by the Prince of Wales’s plumes, coronet and motto, a laurel wreath encircling a garter. Within the garter a castle with two towers, with flames issuing from the keep and from the tops of the towers, upon a black cloth ground.