Victorian Royal Horse Artillery Full Dress Tunic

£800.00

Victorian Royal Horse Artillery Full Dress Jacket in very good condition clean and free of moth damage. Dark blue superfine jacket with red stand collar edged with gold lace and embroidered gold and silver bullion artillery grenades. Collar lined with black silk and fastened with two metal hooks and eyes. Top and lower edges of collar trimmed with gold bullion cord which also extends down the centre fronts and lower edge of the jacket. The front of the jacket is elaborately decorated with eighteen tapered rows of looped gold bullion cord, with a crows foot and twirl positioned at each shoulder and a brass hook for cap lines on the left, second row. The plaited gold wire shoulder straps have two embroidered bullion stars for the rank of Captain and a gilt button. The sleeves are decorated at the cuff with gold cord Austrian knots with gold Russia braid eyes and tracings and a single gilt button, note all buttons are correct and with Victorian crown.

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