Uniform coat
Category
Costume
Date
1800
Materials
Cotton, Metal, Wool
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350645
Summary
Uniform coat - An officers undress coat, of the Edinburgh Royal Volunteers made from red wool with blue collar, lapel and cuffs, with cream piping and tail facings. It is lined with cream wool to the facings, skirts, pocket flaps and cotton to the pockets and sleeves. It fastens with gilt buttons decorated with a 3 turreted castle enclosed in a shield surmounted with a fouled anchor, the shield surrounded with leaves and the words, 'Royal Edinburgh Volunteers' around the edge. (uniform) Wade Catalogue number 47 "Coat, military, of red cloth faced with black - white piping - gilt buttons, dome shape. ROYAL EDINBURGH VOLUNTEERS 1770-90" Brought from Mrs Solomon for £1.0.0
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection, Snowshill Manor
Marks and inscriptions
'Royal Edinburgh Volunteers' (buttons)