shoulder belt plate, shoulder belt plate
Accession Number
NAM.1982-11-51-1
Description
Officers’ shoulder belt plate, Hull Volunteers, County of Hull Volunteers, 1803 (c). Silver. Upon a burnished ground, an engraved design of a garter below a monarchial crown, above a scroll and enclosing three smaller similar crowns in pale (the Arms of Kingston upon Hull are in fact three coronets, not crowns, in pale). Reverse bears a hook at top and two studs at base. Hallmarked on sinister side with head of George III, a lion passant and maker’s marks ‘I / I H / P’



