36th Monmouthshire Rifle Volunteers Officer’s 1861 Pattern Shako Later Adapted to Conform with the 1869 Pattern, the blue cloth body with quilted finish now trimmed with silver braiding and plated chin chain and side ornaments, the frontal plate in white metal of crowned laurels and Garter pattern with stencilled numerals ‘36’, the plume of dark green or black wool (no holder), buff leather sweatband and silk lining gold blocked ‘Improved Cork Body Webb & Bonella, 23, Old Bond St., London’, the plate not original to the shako, a severe crack in the cork body at the rear and surface moth damage to the crown otherwise in sound condition £200-300