A Scottish silver Royal Company of Archers Council Member’s badge, James McKay, Edinburgh, 1818

engraved with a depiction of a yew tree flanked by two Archers below the motto DAT GLORIA VIRES, the reverse engraved with depictions of Mars and Cupid below the motto IN PEACE AND WAR, reeded rim incorporating scrolls at top and bottom and with the points and flighted shafts of two arrows in saltire, the points downward, suspended from a red and black silk corded silk ribbon

Sir William Forbes, 7th Bt. (1773-1828);
Sir John Stuart Forbes, 8th Bt. (1804-1866)

Clearly marked. A few light scratches. Crisp engraving. Good condition.
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On 7 September James, Broun Ramsay, Marquess of Dalhousie (1812–1860), was to write about Queen Victoria's state visit to Edinburgh and the guard afforded by the Royal Company of Archers; 'It is impossible to imagine a finer sight, morally speaking, than Saturday's procession. Pageant there was none. There was an escort of cavalry, and the Archers surrounded the Queen's carriage, an advanced guard and rearguard of them, with a section of files on each side. The officers, Lord Elcho, myself, and Sir John Stuart Forbes on the right; Duke of Roxburghe, Sir John Hope, and Sir George Mackenzie on the left. The crowd was tremendous - no police, no arrangement, no order. The Archers were the sole police for the Queen's carriage, and from Holyrood to the Castle, and then to Queensferry Street, it was one incessant struggle'. J.G.A Baird, Private Letters of the Marquess of Dalhousie, Edinburgh & London, 1910, p. 13.