🔎 UNIDENTIFIED ID Help Please

[SpacemanSpiff]

Found this at a colonial homesite/plantation over the weekend. It resembles a civil war breast plate in size. Any ideas?

 

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[creskol]

what letters can you mazke out?

 

[ironhorse]

Incredible find...appears to be a Frasers Highlanders cartridge box plate 71st regiment...pic is upside down

The Fraser Highlanders

After the first failed Jacobite uprising of 1715 Clans loyal to the Crown were appointed Independent Highland Companies to police the Highlands of Scotland. But by 1717 these Companies had been gre…

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[villagenut]

Super ID on this one IH. Banner of a find, too bad there is no regiment number on the globe. You nailed it.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Super ID on this one IH. Banner of a find, too bad there is no regiment number on the globe. You nailed it.

There is a regiment number in the globe. It is hard to make out in the OP's picture but it is there. I can clearly make out the 7 but my old eyes are having trouble with the second one. I see a 1, 2,7 and 8!

 

[RustyGold]

Very cool find, congrats!

 

[BBJJBB]

Found this at a colonial homesite/plantation over the weekend. It resembles a civil war breast plate in size. Any ideas?View attachment 2025157

Now that is NICE!
You can make out FAC I believe.

 

[villagenut]

Yea, I see it now that the cobwebs in my eyes are gone.

 

[CRUSADER]

There is a regiment number in the globe. It is hard to make out in the OP's picture but it is there. I can clearly make out the 7 but my old eyes are having trouble with the second one. I see a 1, 2,7 and 8!

Pretty sure it is 71.

As other stated - A GREAT find!

 

[pepperj]

Brilliant recovery, certainly Banner worthy for sure.
Just rotated the picture and the 71 is a little easier to see now.

 

[ARC]

Stellar find... well done... i belive Cruz is correct on the 71.