34th (Cumberland) Foot Victorian Officer’s shoulder belt plate

Code: 20568

An excellent scarce example. Burnished gilt rectangular plate mounted with facetted silver star in turned mounted with gilt crowned Bath cross superimposed on a laurel wreath; lions between the arms of the cross which bear the honours of the regiment. To the centre, within a circlet inscribed “CUMBERLAND REGT”, silver milled numerals “34” on a domed silver ground. Beneath the cross, in gilt, a tri-part scroll inscribed “ARROYO DOS MOLINOS”. Reverse retains original fixings comprising two hooks and two studs and complete with leather liner.