56th (West Essex) Regiment Officer’s Shoulder Belt Plate c.1827
A fine and rare Officer’s Shoulder Belt Plate c.1827-30, rectangular design back plate, hallmarked silver (Birmingham 1827), maker’s mark ‘S.H’, gilt mounts with crowned laurel wreath, title straps ‘Moro’ and ‘Gibraltar’, to the centre a castle, below ‘LVI’, complete with usual hook and stud fasteners with leather liner, ‘key’ device missing from below castle, otherwise good condition £600-£800

Robert W. Tilling Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2022.