A VERY RARE '43RD REGIMENT OF FOOT' (MONTGOMERYSHIRE) PEWTER CASTER

A VERY RARE '43RD REGIMENT OF FOOT' (MONTGOMERYSHIRE) PEWTER CASTER

C.1780

with an applied plaque engraved with a crown over '43 and a bugle

15.4cm high

Provenance

The Carl Ricketts Collection of Pewter.

Catalogue Note

Regimental pewter castors are rare. For a similar example wee the V&A Museum, London, acc. No. M.889-1926 and P/ Hornsby, ‘Pewter of the Western World’ (1983), fig. 436, formerly in the Ken Gordon Collection.