Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1st (King’s) Dragoon Guards, a late Victorian period officer’s scarlet mess jacket and waist coat, the jacket with fine large bullion Eagle collar badges, black velvet facings and correct pattern gold lace to the collar front and cuffs, broad woven gold cord shoulder epaulettes, these fitted with replacement QEC crowns and rank stars, mounted QVC gilt buttons to the epaulettes and cuffs, provision on the left breast for medals and orders, scarlet quilted linings with some replacement; the waistcoat profusely decorated with gold lace as per regimental pattern, minor moth holes and surface mothing to the jacket, slight surface mothing to the waistcoat (2) £100-150

Note. Vendor’s researches indicate that the items could pertain to the Colonel-in-Chief at the time, the Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, as he appears to be the only officer entitled to wear Orders. Certainly worthy of further research.

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