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Cheshire Regiment Figure of a Military Personnel

The silvered figure of military interest is stood upon a stepped ebony base with a solid silver name plaque. The name plaque engraved ‘Presented to 24754826 Cpl C Metcalf on completion of 22 years colour service. Best of Luck for the future by the Corporals’ Mess 1st Bn Mercian Regt (Cheshire).’ The plaque with 925 sterling silver hallmarks for Chantry Silversmiths London 2008. The figure is beautifully cast with crisp detail from top to bottom and is modelled as a boer war infantry foot soldier bearing a Lee-Metford Mk II rifle. The base of the figure features the Cheshire regiment emblem with a central acorn surrounded by an eight-pointed star crest.

Cheshire Regiment, a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales’s Division. The 22nd Regiment of Foot was raised by the Duke of Norfolk in 1689 and sustained independent existence for over 300 years. The regiment was expanded in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms by the linking of the 22nd Regiment and rifle volunteers of Cheshire. In September 2007 the Cheshire Regiment was merged with the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) and the Prince of Wales’s Staffordshire Regiment to form a large regiment named the Mercian Regiment, becoming the 1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment.

Chantry Silversmiths Limited, The Chantry Silversmiths mark was registered on 23 February 1954 by John Harry Richardson and Victor Albert Gondolo. It was registered from the business address of 55 Grays Inn Road, WC1, and the mark was last registered in 1976. A note in the register reveals that the firm was taking over from another firm at the same address, called W. Evans. Chantry Silversmiths is referred to as ‘late W. Evans’. The Evans firm had registered their mark in 1950 (information courtesy David Richardson)

Lee–Metford rifle also known as the Magazine Lee–Metford (MLM) was a bolt-action British army service rifle. The rifle combined James Paris Lee’s rear-locking bolt system and detachable magazine with an innovative seven groove rifled barrel designed by William Ellis Metford. It replaced the Martini-Henry rifle in 1888, following nine years of development and trials it only remained in service for a brief period of time before it was replaced by the similar Lee-Enfield rifle.

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