Hammer

£140

19th (Bloomsbury) Middlesex Rifle Volunteers Victorian Officer's first pattern forage cap badge c. 1859-63. Fine rare die-stamped silvered strung bugle with stylised WM cypher between the cords. Loops. VGC 19th Middlesex RVC formed 13th December, 1859 at Bermondsey by members of the Working Men's College. Renumbered 10th in 1880, attached to KRRC in 1881 then in July 1883 became 1st VB Royal Fusiliers.Provenance. Bosleys March 2007, Lot 69