Westmeath Militia Officer’s Epaulettes, a magnificent pair of a junior officer’s full dress box epaulettes, silver lace and silver crescents on linings of red Moroccan and pink silk, the finial silver buttons are incised with an eight pointed star, a central “6” and title circle “Westmeath Regt”, with backmark Jennens & Co. London (plus Prince of Wales crest), complete with three out of four lace ties and contained in the original carrying tin, very good condition £500-700

Westmeath drew a precedence number 114 in the 1833 Royal Ballot the combination therefore of the 6th precedence number and the backmark on the finial buttons places these epaulettes c. 1832-33.