Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment Officers Shako Plate c.1812-30.
A fine Officers Shako Plate c.1812-30, burnished copper gilt Maltese Cross, red velvet backed crown, to the arms of the cross ‘Minden, Waterloo, Peninsula, Egypt’, with silver inlays of ‘hob nailed’ panels, with gilt ‘sun-in-splendour’ and Egyptian Sphinx on laurel ground, to the centre gilt roped circle with gilt and red enamel Welsh Dragon on a white enamel ground, with correct pronged slider to the rear, very good condition £800-£1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Fine Militaria from the Collection of the Late Robert W. Tilling.

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