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The Early Years => 63rd Regiment 1758 - 1881 => Topic started by: themonsstar on November 29, 2013, 10:12:00 AM

Title: 63rd Regiment of Foot shako plates
Post by: themonsstar on November 29, 2013, 10:12:00 AM

Last month I was talking to one of members of a club I go to,the conversation got onto the Crimean War and he told me he'd been collecting old regimental relics from this period, so I asked him if he had anything from the 63rd Regiment of foot.

Last night he came along to the meeting with his display case of Shako plate badges and buttons.

I took the following pictures with my phone camera, and was lucky enough to be given one of the Shako badges and three buttons. other than the fastings missing from all of the Shako's they were in what I would call decent condition,he said a lot of the areas are extremely rocky and dry and also there were a lot of dumps all over the battlefields.

Title: Re: 63rd Regiment of Foot shako plates
Post by: themonsstar on November 29, 2013, 10:15:05 AM

This one is a Grenadier Shako plate

Title: Re: 63rd Regiment of Foot shako plates
Post by: themonsstar on November 29, 2013, 10:16:00 AM

This one is from the light company

Title: Re: 63rd Regiment of Foot shako plates
Post by: themonsstar on November 29, 2013, 10:17:05 AM

Shako plates

Title: Re: 63rd Regiment of Foot shako plates
Post by: themonsstar on November 29, 2013, 10:18:53 AM

Shako plates, the one without the piece on top of the Crown is the one was given

Title: Re: 63rd Regiment of Foot shako plates
Post by: themonsstar on November 29, 2013, 10:22:44 AM

This photo shows 3 different badges of the number 63.

Title: Re: 63rd Regiment of Foot shako plates
Post by: themonsstar on November 29, 2013, 10:23:50 AM

Back of the number 63

Title: Re: 63rd Regiment of Foot shako plates
Post by: themonsstar on November 29, 2013, 10:24:40 AM

Back of the other two 63's

Title: Re: 63rd Regiment of Foot shako plates
Post by: themonsstar on November 29, 2013, 10:25:42 AM

And the last one

Title: Re: 63rd Regiment of Foot shako plates
Post by: themonsstar on November 29, 2013, 10:26:40 AM

Some of the buttons

Title: Re: 63rd Regiment of Foot shako plates
Post by: Robert Bonner on November 29, 2013, 02:42:58 PM

What a super little collection.  The Grenadier Company & the Light Infantry Company Shako plates are extremely scarce.

Title: Re: 63rd Regiment of Foot shako plates
Post by: themonsstar on December 01, 2013, 10:03:57 AM

It was a nice collection, I did tell him to remember me when he is looking to pass it on ::)