Hammer

£520

Badge. Irish. Fermanagh Light Infantry Militia Victorian Officer's helmet plate circa 1878-81. Fine rare variant silvered crowned star mounted with laurel sprays and pierced gilt FERMANAGH UT PROAVI circlet; the black velvet centre bearing gilt Enniskilling Castle with a bugle in the foreground. Three loops. Toned otherwise VGC Raised at Enniskillen in 1793 as Fermanagh Militia, redesigned Light Infantry in 1855, became 3rd Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 1st July 1881.