Uniform coatee
Category
Costume
Date
1776
Materials
Wool
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350644
Summary
Coat; Uniform coatee of Edinburgh Volunteers First Regiment. Made from blue wool with red collar and cuff flashes with cream wool facings on the tails. It is lined with cream wool twill on skirts and front facings and sleeves. It fastens with gilt buttons decorated with a 3 turreted castle enclosed within a shield surmounted by a fouled anchor with the words 'Edinburgh Volunteers' around the edge. The coatee is marked inside the left sleeve 'Pendr'. (uniform) Charles Wade catalogue No.45: "Military coat. Dark blue cloth, red cloth collar, white lining and facings to tails. Gilt buttons, engraved. Coat marked Pendr 1770-90". From Eyre Crow Collection. Bought from Mrs Solomon for £1.0.0d
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection, Snowshill Manor
Marks and inscriptions
'Edinburgh Volunteers' (buttons)