United Kingdom. A Metropolitan Police Helmet Plate GTRexclude A fine early quality manufacture

A fine early quality manufacture example of a Paratrooper/Fallschrimjäger badge

instituted in 1843 and awarded to all living recipients of the Military Order of Maria Theresa

Seventeen members of the Royal Navy and twenty-seven Royal Marines who helped man the Nile gunboats also received the medal

the others on original five-sided framed ribbon suspensions with pinbacks

and one with medium rip and cutout around wax stamp

United Kingdom. A Metropolitan Police Helmet Plate GTRexclude A fine early quality manufactureA large, diestamped, blackened brass helmet plate, the GRVI cypher in white metal denoting a 1937 1952 example, with large surmounting crown, the reverse features three lugs with central rivet and post to secure the cypher, measures 96. 9 mm (w) x 119. 2mm (h), light wear to the blackened exterior, remains very fine.