Unknown Old White Metal Helmet Plate?

[leigh kitchen]

I bought this a few days ago, white metal, brass loops, minus the bottom tip of the star.
It measures about 8 cm tall by about 6.5 cm wide, it has a few cracks in the metal here & there - looks like it may originally have been quite curved at the top, the neck of the crown cracking when it was bent forward & "flat"?
I have'nt got any idea what it is, other than that early Victorian Dockyard Police shako plate comes to mind for some reason.
Any suggestions as to what this is please?

[leigh kitchen]

& the reverse

[Ciaran Byrne]

Looks to me like a Victorian Worcestershire regiment badge of some description. The motto and the Lion are present on all these regiment's badges.

[leigh kitchen]

The Worcester's wore the star similar to this but a bit bigger, in yellow metal & without the crown on top, & the lion was on a a tablet "FIRM", but I see what you mean.......

[leigh kitchen]

Found it - kind of.The first thing I checked when I got the badge was Kipling & Kings chapter on the Reserve Regiments of the South African War, as this star shape seemed similar to the helmet plates of the reserve cavalry units.
Unfortunately I did'nt bother to look at the flaming photos properly, because there it is, the Other Ranks helmet plate of Her Majesty's Reserve Regiment of Dragoons (K&K 1123) - except that mine is of white metal 7 K&K state that it was in gilding metal.