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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 695

MILITARIA



Waist belt clasps of the patterns offered in the following eleven lots were worn by British infantry officers between 1855 and 1902. The standard reference work on this subject remains Ryan, L. B., Officers' Waist Belt Clasps 1855-1902 (London, 1994): this is cited in the following ten catalogue entries.

An Officer's Waist Belt Clasp, 3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot (The Buffs)

a gilt-metal and white-metal, two-part interlocking clasp with gilt rococo loops, the outer circlet in matte white-metal with burnished borders bearing the burnished title EAST KENT OR BUFFS; the domed centre in matte gilt-metal mounted in white-metal with the Regimental badge of a dragon passant upon a ground above the numeral 3 (the numeral damaged and partly absent); slight distortion and some wear with surfaces polished overall; 45mm x 90mm.



Ryan p. 4, fig. 7; the pattern worn 1855-81.



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