Auction: 6025 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 34
An Officer´s Shako Plate of the Royal Artillery A very attractive and extremely rare example of the 1839 - 46 Pattern Belltop Shako plate, the hobnail star surmounted by a crown and mounted with Gun and UBIQUE scroll, all in gilt metal, as KK 801 (all fixings removed or shortened, a small, probably contemporary, reinforcement at the rear of the junction between crown and top of star, not affecting the original gilding)
See illustration
Estimate £ 500-600
Sold for
£460