Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1st Dumfries Rifle Volunteer Corps, a good quality officer’s blue cloth helmet c1880-1887, the frontal plate being QVC star pattern in silver plate, central ornament as per Bloomer Bk. 2 p34, this within the Garter Motto, at the base the title scroll, 1st Dumfries R.V. Corps, complete with all plated fittings, sound internally, contained in a correct pattern carrying tin, free from moth, the plate not original to the helmet, one star tip with surface fracture, the silk lining partially detached from the sweat band (2)