Georgian / Napoloeonic Liverpool Fuzileers / Royal Liverpool Fuzileers / Second Battalion, Liverpool Volunteer Corps

Circa 18mm in diameter, silver plated, fixed shank (slightly bent over), blank reverse, small ding to right of crown. Otherwise in good worn condition and rare. Worn until 1808 when they were absorbed in to the Local Militia.

The following extract is from:

https://thisreilluminatedschoolofmars.wordpress.com/notes-on-the-dress-of-the-infantry-volunteers-of-1803/lancashire-liverpool-volunteer-infantry-and-artillery-of-1803/

Liverpool Fuzileers / Royal Liverpool Fuzileers / Second Battalion, Liverpool Volunteers

Lieut Col William Earle. The six company battalion included grenadier and light companies, and by the close of 1803 its artillery section had been expanded to a company under Capt Francis Jordan. The corps disbanded in 1808, Earle becoming commanding officer of the Liverpool Local Militia.

Willson’s chart gives the uniform colours as red, faced yellow, with no officer’s lace and white legwear. (Reeves states that the legwear was white breeches with black gaiters, as opposed to pantaloons, though this may be an assumption.) The yellow facings hardly justified a “Royal” title.

Silvered buttons are known, 18 mm in diameter. The raised design shows a garter with beaded edges inscribed “LIVERPOOL FUZILEERS” in Roman capitals, enclosing a crown.

Comm MaFi

Code: 69540