Auction Catalogue

29 March 2000

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 328

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29 March 2000

Hammer Price:
£1,150

Grenadier Company Fur Cap Plate, a most rare and fine officer’s die stamped copper gilt example for the period 1801-1813, of triangular shape the raised design shows the full achievement of Arms for Great Britain, the central Hanoverian escutcheon with Electoral Bonnet. This exceptional plate retains 100% of the original fire gilt, a fracture in the plate runs through the top of the right fore-leg to the near bottom of the left fore-leg of the Unicorn, at the base one of the two retaining holes has been distorted £700-1000

See colour illustration on back cover.

The vendor states the plate may pertain to a Guards regiment, but as regiments with specific badges did apply them to plates of this period, it is more likely that of a line regiment without such a badge.