QVC The King’s Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment) button

Large 24mm gilded brass button in good unpolished condition. The King’s Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment) — formed 1 July 1881 in the Childers Reforms, with roots back to 1755.

Queen Victoria Crown surmounting a circlet reading “SHROPSHIRE” with crossed laurel sprigs, and the cypher “KLI” (King’s Light Infantry) at the centre — a brass convex circular button the cypher “KLI” within the circlet’s centre, and “SHROPSHIRE” around the circlet with crossed sprigs of laurel , matching an example held by the Imperial War Museums.

Maker’s mark: “PITT & CO, ST MARTIN’S LANE, LONDON.” Charles Pitt & Co operated at St Martin’s Lane, London, from 1875 to 1895 , after which they moved premises. That gives you a solid dating bracket of roughly 1875–1895 for this particular button, sitting right in the regiment’s early KLI period (before it became “King’s Shropshire Light Infantry” in later usage) and under Queen Victoria’s crown design.