Armagh Cavalry Officer’s Silver Coloured Metal Shoulder Belt Plate 1796.
A very fine quality oval example with engraved details featuring the crowned Harp and Maid, ‘A’ ‘C’ ‘1796’ and the motto, ‘For Our King And Country’, the reverse with contemporary engraving, ‘Mr. Barlow’. Two hook and two stud fasteners, very good condition £1,500-£2,000

Note: Tony Skelsey discusses this plate and other Irish Volunteer plates of the period in his exhaustive article in the M.H.S. Bulletin No. 256, May 2014. Other ‘A C’ plates are discussed and are found to pertain to other specific units. Both the Armagh Cavalry and the Armagh (Neighbourhood) Cavalry were under the titular command of Francis, Earl of Charlemont, in 1804.