Lot 87
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A Victorian Officer's Pouch, possibly of the Wiltshire Yeomanry
A Victorian Officer's Pouch, possibly of the Wiltshire Yeomanry

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A Victorian Officer's Pouch, possibly of the Wiltshire Yeomanry

A leather pouch, probably for a Yeomanry Officer, with engraved silver flap (HM B'ham 1879) bearing crowned VR cypher, reversed and intertwined, mounted with the Prince of Wales's Plumes and Motto in fine white metal

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Lot Essay

Of the regular cavalry regiments, the 3rd Dragoon Guards and the 12th Lancers wore silver-flapped pouches with the Prince of Wales's feathers superimposed on the cypher. However, both these regiments wore the standard (un-reversed) version of the VR cypher.