38cm (15in) x 37.5cm (14.7in)
‘Silverine’. With painted hoops, rope tension system, and brass cylinder applied with maple leaf surmounted with 2 numeral and regimental title, flanked by battle honours ‘North-West Canada 1885’ to ‘The Rhine’, over secondary title scroll ‘The Buffs Allied with KRRC’. Cylinder stamped with maker’s details ‘A.F. Mathews (DRS) Ltd / Edgeware’, the War Department Broad Arrow and dated ‘1953’. A similar but later rod tension example in is the Aldershot Military Museum.