Shoulder Belt Plates
Lot 5692 SESSION 20 (7.30PM FRIDAY 20TH APRIL Shoulder Belt Plates
Estimate $250
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SOLD $1,200
GREAT BRITAIN, Trinity House Artillery, c1803, shoulder belt plate in darkened brass, two lugs and one hook on reverse, all lettering and design is engraved and features a 3-masted man-of-war in an oval with top of an anchor above and around are flags and canons, below is a field gun. Very fine and scarce.
Tag with item states 'ex Jerico (sic, should be Jericho) Museum (central Tas)'. Believed from Trinity House in Hobart Town'. However, it is more likely that it relates to Royal Trinity House Volunteer Artillery formed in 1803 from seamen of the Merchant Marine and employed in manning ten armed hulks moored across the Thames from Tilbury to Gravesend.
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