Whitgift School Cadet Corps Victorian Sergeant’s pouch belt plate

Code: 20941

A good rare die-stamped blackened post 1874 example. Laurel sprays surmounted by a crown resting on a blank tablet, mounted with a circlet inscribed “Mea Arma Pauperum Preces”; to the centre, a shield vertically divided in two and surmounted by a mitre; the dexter side bearing the arms of the Canterbury Archbishopric. Two screw posts.
Croydon. Surrey. Formed 1874. Affiliated to 1st VB Queen’s West Surreys