Meat dish cover, 1840 (c).
Silver plated, made by Benjamin Smith, hallmarked London 1840-41.
With reeded edge and plain body with applied device, with silver lion finial.
Uopn the front of the cover is a cast applied device, consisting of a lion rampant to sinister bearing a crown within a garter, inscribed, 'MADRAS EUROPEAN REGIMENT', surmounted by an escroll inscribed, 'AVA'.
The whole above an escroll inscribed, 'MAHIDPORE'.
The cover is surmounted by a rampant lion finial cast in silver.
From the Mess Plate of the 1st Madras European Fusiliers and the Indian Army.