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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 705

An Officer's Undress Sabretache Badge, Royal Horse Artillery and/or Royal Artillery

die-struck in gilt-metal, the Royal Arms of Great Britain of the period 1837-1901 above a field gun, with separately struck and riveted wheel, upon a ground with, above, a scroll bearing the motto UBIQUE and, below, a scroll bearing the motto QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT; the reverse originally fitted with seven screw-posts, of which three remain, each with square nuts; good condition; 100mm x 82mm.

Campbell, D. A., The Dress of the Royal Artillery (London, 1971) states, p. 142, that badges of this type were worn on the black patent-leather undress sabretache by all officers of the Royal Horse Artillery and by mounted officers of the Royal Field and Royal Garrison Artillery between 1855 and 1901, when the sabretache was abolished.

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