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Lancers Foreign Service Helmet Plate

Lancers Foreign Service Helmet Plate

A scarce, Lancers general pattern, brass helmet plate with two lug fastenings (east and west). KK1126 or Rowe & Carman 53A.

Note: The 2nd Revised Edition of Kipling & King includes this plate in the section on reserve regiments of the South African war (chapter 21) but states this was a more general helmet plate for cavalry regiments serving abroad.

Rowe & Carman c...  read more

Code: 59965

135.00 GBP

E Surrey Regt Officer's HP

E Surrey Regt Officer's HP

A rare, silver and gilt, helmet plate for an officer of The East Surrey Regiment with three lug fastenings (north, east and west). As KK244.

Note: The scroll reads Regiment rather than Regt, which Kipling & King say dates it to circa 1891-1901.  read more

Code: 59950

375.00 GBP

KRRC Officer’s HP

KRRC Officer’s HP

A rare, blackened/silvered, helmet plate for an officer of The King's Royal Rifle Corps with three lug fastenings (north, east and west). The centre has a scarlet cloth backing. As KK196A/269.

Note: I understand this pattern plate, with the extra scrolls but without the 60 numerals to the centre, was worn circa 1881-83 only. The upper scroll has been reattached to the cross (by t...  read more

Code: 59890

225.00 GBP

RMA Helmet Plate

RMA Helmet Plate

A brass helmet plate for The Royal Marines Artillery with two lug fastenings (north and south). KK1106.

Note: There is a strengthener behind the neck of the grenade.  read more

Code: 59880

150.00 GBP

10th Middlesex Regt Officer’s HP

10th Middlesex Regt Officer’s HP

A rare, silvered, helmet plate for an officer of the 10th (territorial) battalion of The Middlesex Regiment with three lug fastenings (north, east and west).

From the Hugh King collection.

Note: It has been highlighted to me this might be a helmet plate for the 1st volunteer battalion of The Middlesex Regiment (without the usual additional volunteer designation scr...  read more

Code: 59870

400.00 GBP

2VB Essex Regt HP

2VB Essex Regt HP

A scarce, blackened brass, helmet plate for the 2nd volunteer battalion of The Essex Regiment with three lug fastenings (north, east and west). HQ at Colchester.  read more

Code: 59860

150.00 GBP

The King's Regt Pre-1902 HP

The King's Regt Pre-1902 HP

A bi-metal helmet plate for The King's Regiment (Liverpool) with two staple-style loop fastenings on the backplate and all four intact on the centre. KK287/297.  read more

Code: 59839

100.00 GBP

SLI Helmet Plate

SLI Helmet Plate

A post-1902, brass, helmet plate for The Somersetshire Light Infantry with two staple-style loops on the backing plate and all four intact on the centre (two of them perhaps repaired?). KK358/302.

Note: Kipling & King states the title on the circlet changed to read just Somerset in 1912.  read more

Code: 59829

SOLD

Dorset RV HP

Dorset RV HP

A scarce, blackened brass, helmet plate for The Dorset Rifle Volunteers with three lug fastenings (north, east and west).

Note: There may have been some repair work to the crown?  read more

Code: 59825

120.00 GBP

1st Herefordshire RVC HP

1st Herefordshire RVC HP

A scarce Victorian white metal helmet plate for the 1st Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps with three lug fastenings (north, east and west). KK1788.  read more

Code: 59820

150.00 GBP