10th Surrey Rifle Volunteers (Bermondsey) Other Ranks Shako Plate or Pouch Belt Plate, c.1860-80.
A very rare example in die-stamped blackened brass, laurel and oak sprays enclose a crowned strap, ‘Arma Pacis Fulcra’, in the centre a shield heraldically shown as ‘per pale gules and argent’, below the leaf sprays a scroll, ‘Xth Surrey Rifles’ and below the scroll a shield bearing the Royal Arms, three out of four very long wire fasteners (ex factory) for subsequent shortening, very good condition £140-£180

Note: The 10th Surrey Rifles along with the 23rd (Rotherhithe) became part of the 4th Admin. Battalion (Bermondsey) when it was formed in 1868.