Orders, Decorations and Medals

1st Volunteer Battalion, The Essex Regiment, an extremely fine blackened silver officer’s QVC helmet plate, c1883-1901, pattern as for the regular battalions but the Sphinx has a blank plinth, below the usual title scroll a secondary scroll, ‘1st VOLUNTEER BATTALION’, dark green cloth backing to the centre, the principal rays of the star are burnished, excellent condition £250-350

See colour illustration (Plate VII).