2nd Hants RV Officer’s PBP

A nice, blackened (?)/silvered, pouch-belt plate for an officer of The 2nd Hampshire Rifle Volunteers with two screw fastenings (north and south). From the Rod Flood collection. Woods 3.33.

Note: Terence Woods, in his book on The Military Insignia of Hampshire and The Isle of Wight, describes this badge as a pre-1878 shako plate (approximately 75mm high x 58mm wide).

It looks like this example may have previously had two lug fastenings east and west - possibly a conversion from a shako plate to a pouch-belt plate?

Code: 61810