Royal Arch Mark Jewel, 1860, in silver, silhouetted design on stone, glazed and encircled with brilliants, rev. named (Presented with a Mark Jewel to Captn. Whyte, Royal South Down Lt. Infty, by his Brother Officers as a Token of Regard, June 1860), 43mm. Extremely fine £200-260

Provenance: DNW Auction 120, 5 December 2013, lot 3306.

John Lewis Auriol Whyte, of Miltown Malbay, appointed Captain 10 October, 1857 [Edinburgh Gazette, 4 December, 1857], married Rosina Alice Pegge on 8 December 1864. The Royal South Down Light Infantry was a militia regiment that later became the 5th battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles