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Auction: 5012 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 63

A Plaid Brooch of the Sutherland Rifle Volunteers A massive thistle wreath, 3in. diameter, in cast nickel, mounted with a ducal coronet above the Arms of the Dukedom of Sutherland impaled with those of the Earldom of Carlisle, within an oval inscribed DUCHESS HARRIET´S COMPANY (ROGART) See illustration Estimate £ 150-250Although the Sutherland Rifle Volunteers were raised in 1859, the Rogart Company was not formed until January 1861. They became an independent company in 1864 as the 4th Sutherland Rifle Volunteers, and in 1881 became a Volunteer battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders. Harriet, a close friend of Queen Victoria, was the daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle and wife of the second Duke of Sutherland. She died in 1868.

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