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An Officer's Mess Kit and other items of the 20th Lancers, Indian Cavalry
A good blue mess jacket with scarlet facings and piping, gold lace edging and plaited shoulder-cords bearing Captain's badges of rank in silver embroidery, the printed tailor's label inscribed E PEARSON, Civil & Military Tailor & Outfitter, Cutter 14 Years with RANKEN & Co RAWAL PINDI & MURREE, and in manuscript Capt P.C.Bullock 5/2/31; companion scarlet waistcoat, with similar tailor's label and date, decorated with gold braid eyes and ornaments in the form of Bengal knots, bearing buttons of the 20th Lancers; a pair of blue overalls by Hawkes & Co, 1 Savile Row, with double scarlet stripes and scarlet central welt, the label inscribed Capt P.C.Bullock 28/8/35; a scarlet sidecap with blue flaps and white cloth top, bearing a regimental badge in cast metal; together with photocopies of Captain Bullock's commission, dated 1919, a photograph of him in shirt-sleeve order wearing jodphurs and leather pouch-belt, two pages of his reminiscences, and a map of the Indian Empire (lot)
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