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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 27

xA Coronation Uniform of a Page of Honour to a Nobleman A large hardwood box containing Page´s uniform items as follows: a mulberry-coloured cloth coat, with cuffs of crimson velvet, edged and trimmed with 9/16 in. silver lace forming twelve loops each side in front and three on each cuff and pocket-flap, (buttons present but now removed from the coat); a long cream silk waistcoat, hook-and-eye fastenings, edged with silver lace as on coat, and with eleven loops of Russia braid each side (buttons also present but detached); a black silk tricorne hat by WILKINSON, with edging of silver lace and buttoned loop of plaited silver gimp; a pair of white kerseymere knee-breeches with cloth-covered buttons; a postcard bearing a reproduction of a painting by Terence Cuneo, depicting the above uniform being worn at the 1953 Coronation by the Hon. George Andrew Beaumont as Page to Viscount Allendale; approximately 60 white metal buttons, bearing a double crest; together with another Page´s coat, of dark-blue cloth with rich yellow velvet cuffs, edged and trimmed with silver lace forming loops on fronts, cuffs and pocket-flaps, white metal buttons bearing the triple crest of The Temple-Vane-Stewart family within the Garter, surmounted by a Marquis´s coronet, white silk ribbon knot on right shoulder (lot) See illustration Estimate £ 300-400 The use of the Garter in conjunction with a family crest indicated that the then head of the family was a Knight of the order. Both the 6th Marquis of Londonderry (1884-1915) and the 7th Marquis (1915-49) were KGs, indicating that the blue Page´s coat could originally have been made either for the Coronation of 1902, 1911 or 1937.

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£350