with tall black patent leather skull (old crazing) and vertical domed strips of white metal to sides and back, white-metal crest with slotted sides and top bearing a red and white horsehair plume, drooping to the left, shaped white-metal plate to front of skull mounted with a fine gilt device of the Royal Crest above the VR cypher within an oval inscribed 'QUEEN'S OWN REGIMENT', flanked by the Lion and Unicorn above the regimental title, the front and back peaks of black leather, with white-metal edging, fine white-metal chin-chain, attached by lion's head bosses, the headband of quilted black silk