A Most Rare Victorian Waist Belt Buckle of The Dundee Volunteer Rifles of Scotland

In jolly good condition, and a most rarely seen Scottish military buckle. With rococo acanthus terminals, and the Dundee City arms to the centre, with the regiments intials, D V R, at the top of the circlet above the laurel wreath. A volunteer rifle regiment that in 1881 was integrated with other militia, into what became, The Black Watch, [The Royal Highlanders]. When the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot amalgamated with the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot, to become the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, seven pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Fifeshire, Forfarshire, and Perthshire were integrated into the structure of the regiment. Volunteer battalions had been created in reaction to a perceived threat of invasion by France in the late 1850s. Organised as 'rifle volunteer corps', they were independent of the British Army 1st 1739 1st Battalion, 42nd Highlanders 2nd 1780 1st Battalion, 73rd Regiment of Foot Militia 3rd (Militia) 1798 The 86th Royal Perthshire Rifles Volunteers 1st (Dundee) Volunteer 1859 1st Forfar (Dundee) Rifle Volunteer Corps 2nd (Angus) Volunteer 1859 2nd Forfar (Forfarshire, or Angus) Rifle Volunteer Corps 3rd (Dundee Highland) Volunteer 1860 3rd Forfar (Dundee Highland) Rifle Volunteer Corps 4th (Perthshire) Volunteer 1859 1st Perthshire Rifle Volunteer Corps 5th (Perthshire Highland) Volunteer 1860 2nd Perthshire (The Perthshire Highland) Rifle Volunteer Corps 6th (Fifeshire) Volunteer 1860 1st Fifeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps