Lot 5604

Description

King's Shropshire Light Infantry officer's home service helmet, c1890s, dark green cloth covered helmet with spike at top and roses at each corner of the top piece, gilt rosettes at each side for brass and velvet backed chinstrap, unit helmet plate (QVC), leather sweatband with quilted silk inner lining, also an extra chinstrap in leather faced with patterned golden silk, in a japanned storage tin, with a small brass shield on lid bearing maker's name, 'Hawkes & Co/14/Piccadilly/London', below this is a brass plaque inscribed with the name, 'Captain Silis (?)/16th Middlesex C V'. Tin with rust and metal separation at top point, good, silk lining shredded in parts, water stains on helmet and a few small mothed spots, otherwise good very fine, helmet plate extremely fine.