63rd Regiment of Foot shako plates

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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.

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This one is a Grenadier Shako plate

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This one is from the light company

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Shako plates

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

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This photo shows 3 different badges of the number 63.

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Back of the number 63

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Back of the other two 63's

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And the last one

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Some of the buttons

[Robert Bonner]

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

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