Busby
Category
Costume
Date
1905
Materials
Fur, Metal, Textile
Order this imageCollection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 1176056
Summary
A Soldier's busby from the 19th Queen Alexandra's Own Royal Hussars, Great Britain c.1905. Fur with cream, fulled, wool crown with a point going over to the right hand shoulder. The silver cockade has hair in two stages. There is a metal link under chin strap attached to leather. The 19th Hussars were amalgamated in 1922 to form part of the 15/19th The King's Hussars, now The Light Dragoons.
Provenance
collection of Col E.P.Ryan (see PLN/RYAN/B/34)