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Auction: 4014 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 86

An Officer's 1855 Pattern Shako A regulation Infantry pattern black beaver shako, with fine glazed leather top, peaks and chin-strap, leather internal headband (inscribed in manuscript M Barnard and crimson silk lining printed with Crown and maker's name B WOOLF & Co./ Naval & Military OUTFITTERS/ 45, OLD BOND STREET/ ONE DOOR FROM PICCADILLY/LONDON, now fitted with contemporary star plate in silvered copper bearing the Horse of Kent within the strings of a bugle-horn, in a circlet inscribed WEST KENT LIGHT INFANTRY MILITIA (plume socket and pompom missing) See illustration Estimate £ 500-800

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£520