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Auction: 6017 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 75

A Georgian Waistcoat A short primrose cloth waistcoat with upright collar, circa 1800, edged all round with narrow embroidery and fitted with ten fine flat burnished gilt buttons stamped on back JOHN WILLIAMS, bearing the Prince of Wales´s plumes beneath crown within a dotted border, and button-holes trimmed with gilt studs and gold embroidery forming frog-drop loops (back and side-seams of waistcoat now opened) See illustration Note: The pale yellow colour was much favoured by the Prince of Wales (later George IV), who even had carriages painted in that shade. The embroidered button-loops are in a style suggestive of that later used on the uniforms of Equerries and ADCs to the Sovereign. It seems quite possible therefore that this waistcoat was worn by a member of the Prince´s personal staff. Estimate £ 120-180

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