Epaulette box
Category
Metalwork
Date
1837 - 1901
Materials
Lacquer, Tin
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349738.3
Summary
Black lacquered tin box containing a pair of epaulettes. They are made from silver wire. They are decorated with three shamrock leaves worked in gold wire and small silver buttons with the Queen's crown surrounded by laurel leaves. There are initials 'L H N' handwritten in the right epaulette. They were made for Deputy or Vice Lt of Counties. Possibly Gloucestershire - belong to coat SNO.TC.2150. See hat SNO.TC.1218. (uniform)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade