Original British Napoleonic Stovepipe Shako Cap Plate Found on Island of Antigua - West Indies Service 1797-1802 Price_$-030 - $50 TrumpowerGunner (Tail) - Sgt

TrumpowerGunner (Tail) - Sgt

Thanks to the Geneva Convention

The simple expedient was to elevate the guns by having them fire from pits but the size and weight of the guns were excessive and pack animals couldn't move the guns in the trenches or across the shell-pocked quagmire of no man's land

Note that the national color has a non-pebbled surface

Original British Napoleonic Stovepipe Shako Cap Plate Found on Island of Antigua - West Indies Service 1797-1802 Price_$-030 - $50 TrumpowerGunner (Tail) - SgtOriginal Item. Only One Available. This is a lovely example of a British Stovepipe Shako cap plate, of the generic GR type adopted for the new shakos and tall hats worn by many British corps in the West Indies during the 1797 1802 period. This example was supposedly found on the island of Antigua, an island in the Bahamas often noted as Britain's "Gateway to the Caribbean". These cap plates continued in use until they were replaced by the 1802