Epaulette
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile, Metal, Gilt Thread & Silk
Collection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638378
Summary
Four military epaulettes of scarlet stuff with oak leaves of gilt metal thread embroidered on them and terminating in a single gilt metal button cast with the insignia of the Royal Artillery Regiment (crossed cannon and sword encircled by an oak chaplet). .2,.3,.4 lined with scarlet silk. Moth damage to .3 and (severe) to .4.
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.