Overall: 23.5cm (9.2in)
Silver on copper. Standing figure of a Musketeer of the Scottish Regiment of Foot Guards, attired in the proscribed uniform comprising ‘coat of red broad cloth, lined and faces with Blew, with black hats, laced with silver, and blew broad cloth Breeches’ and armed with a ‘snaphance muskquets with snaguin’d barrels’
When Charles II was restored to his throne in 1660, companies of Scottish Foot Guards were re-raised to garrison Edinburgh, Dumbarton and Stirling Castles. Expanding first to six, then to thirteen companies by 1666, the regiment fought against the Covenanters at Rullion Green in 1666 and at Bothwell Brig in 1679. As early as 1666, Charles II was making enquiries about bringing the Scots Guards to London in anticipation of a Dutch invasion.