Hammer

£190

2nd VB Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment) Victorian Officer's helmet plate badge circa 1887-1901. Fine scarce silvered crowned star mounted with laurel sprays bearing SHERWOOD FORESTERS and 2nd VOLUNTEER BATTALION scrolls. Within the sprays, a Maltese cross bearing an applied oak wreath and scrolls THE DERBYSHIRE REGT to the arms. To the centre, a silver Stag lodged, set on blue enamel ground. Three loops (one replaced). Service wear GC HQ moved from Bakewell to Chesterfield in 1898.