A extremley rare and unique example having been owned by one of the founding officers of the Irish Guards in 1900.
 
This pattern of pill box hat was faded out within early 1901 with the change of dress regulations and the new soveriegn King Edward VII.
 
Fitzclarence was a VC winner in the second Boer was before transferring to the Irish Guards on 1st April 1900.
 
His sand cast capstar was a early pattern based loosly on the Officers cap badge of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons