Scarce Tyneside Irish Shoulder Title - First Issue - maker marked Reid & Co Newcastle-on-Tyne - converted to a sweetheart pin brooch

This has been re-gilded and converted to a sweetheart, now missing its fixing pin but fairly easily restorable with a replacement pin. I can organise this if required, just let me know.

Originally a gilding metal shoulder title central device (it would have had a single NF (for Northumberland Fusiliers ) and battalion number above (24, 25, 26, 27 or 30). Locally made for the Tyneside Irish in the early days of the First world war by the local goldsmiths, Reid & Co. Still in Newcastle to this day!

G55.7

Code: 67967