Lot 5596

Description

Dragoon Guards helmet, c1890, in silvered brass, with top spike and plume, back strip of laurel leaves, helmet plate at front for The Princess Royal's Dragoon Guards (QVC), below the plaque is a laurel leaf spray above the visor and around to Lancaster Rose chinstrap supports at each side, chinstrap of brass with leather backing, inside is a cloth liner which covers the sweatband, together with a spare brass and velvet backed chinstrap and a large japanned metal (bearskin-style) tin, marked on side in white paint, 'J.H.Davidson-Houston/Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers' and inscribed on brass plate on lid, 'J.H.Davidson-Houston/4th Royal Innis. Fus.'. Tin with much loss of paint and oxidation, several small dents to helmet body, otherwise good fine.

In 1893 Lt J.H.Davidson-Houston was appointed Sub-Inspector of the British Honduras Constabulary.