Shako Badge 1829


A sketch by Percy Sumner of a brass badge worn on other ranks' bell-topped shakos around 1829. An actual example of a similar badge can be found in the Coldstream Guards section, but with the garter star badge instead of the star of the Order of the Thistle.


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