Textiles
Category
Ephemera
Date
1823
Materials
Textiles ; paper
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 936042.2
Summary
A threaded gold ribbon or loop and brown rosette or cockade in a nineteenth-century fold of paper, inscribed "The gold loop and cockade that Owen wore when he first went to the Royal Naval College January the first 1825 [i.e. Owen Stanley (1811-1850), brother to Catherine Maria Vaughan.]
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).