December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2024
5th Battalion, 60th (or Royal American) Regiment of Foot Other Ranks Cross Belt Plate, a good excavated, oval cast-brass example, die stamped with a strung bugle horn enclosing ‘LX’, and around the top edge ‘RIFLE-MEN’ and around the lower edge ‘5TH BATTN’, complete with single hook and double stud fasteners, 2.75 x 2 inches. A rare pattern of the plate worn by this famous unit, the first one in the British regular establishment fully armed with rifles and a pattern previously unknown until its discovery in 2007 by a French relic collector, who found it on ground fought over at the foot of "col de Lessessa" pass during the Battle of the Pyrenees, 25 July-2 August 1813. PROVENANCE: As noted above; Irvin Mortenson Collection, 2008-2015; purchased lot 67 at DNW London (now Noonans) 25 MAR 2015 sale; with extensive documentation file. CONDITION: very good condition for age, with salt and pepper finish to plate surface.