Epaulette
Freeman and Sons
Category
Costume
Date
1877
Materials
ostrich feather, paper, elm, gilt, leather, silk, metal, photographic paper, lace, cotton sateen
Place of origin
Fenchurch Street
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348887.6.1
Summary
Epaulette - Part of a coat, waistcoat, hat, hatbox, bill, epaulettes, photograph - Coat of garnet silk velvet with cream cotton sateen lining. It is trimmed with gold Vandyke lace around the front, hem, collar, cuffs, pockets and across the shoulders, down the back seams and centre back pleat. There are ears of barley - stalks and leaves - one on each front, along the cuffs and 1 centre back, embroidered in gold purl with metal barley corns. There is narrow gold braid running down fronts and along the hems with a looped design in the corner. There are 2 gold toggles covered with gold purl and twist with 8 gold fringes at the back. There is a small loop of gold braid across to gold lace at chest fastening. The waistcoat is of same fabric with back of black cotton sateen velvet. It is decorated with narrow gold vandyke lace around the foreparts. The back buckle is marked with 'Paris Solide'. The three cornered hat is made from black silk with a stiff leather cockade, white ostrich feathers on the crown inside the brim and a part quilted silk and leather lining. It is trimmed with garnet silk velvet and gold vandyke lace and gold narrow braid with 1 crested gilt button ' Freeman and Sons, 18 Fenchurch Street, London'. The box is made from elm wood. The epaulettes are of garnet silk velvet, gold vandyke lace with a crested button and an embroidered sheaf of barlet in gold purl. They are edged with a rouleau of gold plate and twist inside which is a gilt scroll. They have a gold wire fringe. The sepia tone photgraph 'Imperial Portrait' Wolstenholmr Bros, Blackpool and Blackburn shows 9 people in state livery with a coachman in the front centre row. The bill is from T S Freeman and Sons, 48 Fenchurch Street, London EC to the Rt Hon T S Owden Esq Lord Mayor. Xmas 1877 in the sum of £656.11.10d. It is the livery of Thomas Scambler Owen who was a Common Councilman then Deputy for Bishopsgate Ward (1846-1868), Alderman for the same ward (1868-1889). In 1870-1871 he was Sherriff and Lord Mayor of the City of London 1877-1878.He was knighted 27.11.1878. Also a member of the Innholders Company (Master 1853-1854) and of the Loriners (Master 1882). He died 9.1.1889. The crest on the buttons is that of Sir Thomas Owden (small heart on a shield placed over the lower part of a sheaf. The wreath beneath the crest is shown in alternate shields and silver 'Confide Recte Ageus'.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade
Makers and roles
Freeman and Sons