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Auction: 6017 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 46

An Officer´s Sabretache of Madras Cavalry The 14in. flap faced with French Grey cloth, edged with silver train lace and embroidered with the VR cypher above a scroll and star (scroll illegible, centre of star missing, the pocket re-fixed) See illustration Note: The sabretache-flaps of the Madras Light Cavalry appear to have been French grey until the mid-1840s (cf the one shown in the Hunsley print at Lot 66), after which dark blue velvet flaps were adopted. Estimate £ 400-500

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