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Auction: 4014 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 61

A Royal Artillery Officer's Mess Dress A late Victorian stable/mess jacket of dense dark-blue twill edged with gold lace, grenade collar-badges and Captain's sleeves with Austrian knots edged with Russia braid eyes; a rare scarlet mess vest of Royal Horse Artillery pattern, edged with gold lace and traced with gold Russia forming alternate eyes and figures-of-eight; a pair of blue trousers with 13/4 in. gold lace stripes; and a pillbox forage-cap with gold lace band and Russia braid ornament on the top (shoulder-cords of jacket missing, lining of cap defective and chinstrap missing) (4) See illustration of waistcoat and cap Estimate £ 120-180

Sold for
£170