Livery jacket
Firmin and Sons
Category
Costume
Date
1850 - 1860
Materials
Textile
Place of origin
London
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349071
Summary
Livery jacket - A Hunt Servant's livery jacket made from green melton with a lining of tartan on the back and black and white tweed on the skirts. It fastens with gilt buttons with the Duke of Beaufort's crest (Firmin and Sons, London). The date of the buttons could be 1824 - 1826 or 1839 - 1841. Livery of the Beaufort Hunt. Hunt servant's jacket Beuafort Hunt. (male) Charles Wade Catalogue No.A.18 (19th Century) " Huntsmans coat of green cloth with brass buttons showing the crest of the Duke Beaufort. C 1830-60" Bought or given by D Murray
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade
Makers and roles
Firmin and Sons