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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 711

An Officer's or Piper's Plaid Brooch, 79th (Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot

cast and chased in nickel-plated metal, a continuous wreath of thistles and leaves with, mounted upon the voided centre, the Sphinx upon a tablet bearing the numeral LXXIX below a scroll bearing the battle honour PENINSULA and above a scroll bearing the battle honour WATERLOO; transverse steel pin brooch fitting upon the reverse; very good condition; 71mm diameter.

Plaid brooches of this style seem to have been adopted by the 79th in the 1840s and would have been worn until 1881.

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Sold for
£170