Orders, Decorations and Medals

17th (Leicestershire) Regiment & 70th (The Surrey) Regiment Officers’ Shoulder Belt Plates, the former shows engine turned rectangular backplate with a burnished edge overlaid with a faceted crowned silver star the star bearing four battle honour scrolls (severely worn), in the centre a gilt strap ‘Leicestershire Regiment’ enclosing a domed centre this mounted with the Tiger over ‘17’ (Parkyn Fig. 175), two hook and two stud fasteners, little gilt remains to the backplate and the fasteners defaced. The second item shows a rectangular engine turned backplate with a burnished rim overlaid with a multi rayed silver star, this in turn overlaid with the crowned Garter Proper, to the centre the floreate numerals ‘70’ on a dimpled silver ground, below the Garter a floreate scroll ‘Surrey’, two stud fasteners one hook fastener missing the other damaged, four of the mount fixings lacking and little gilt remains overall (2) £300-400