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A FINE & RARE 'PATTERN 1817' SABRETACHE, CROSS-BELT AND POUCH FOR AN OFFICER OF THE 18TH HUSSARS
A FINE & RARE 'PATTERN 1817' SABRETACHE, CROSS-BELT AND POUCH FOR AN OFFICER OF THE 18TH HUSSARS
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WELLINGTON, THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AND WATERLOO, a commemoration in the 200th anniversary year of the battle of Waterloo (Lots 1-50)THE ALLIED ARMY OF OCCUPATION, 1815-1818.THE 18TH HUSSARS
A FINE & RARE 'PATTERN 1817' SABRETACHE, CROSS-BELT AND POUCH FOR AN OFFICER OF THE 18TH HUSSARS

CIRCA 1817

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A FINE & RARE 'PATTERN 1817' SABRETACHE, CROSS-BELT AND POUCH FOR AN OFFICER OF THE 18TH HUSSARS
CIRCA 1817
The flaps of the sabretache and pouch each richly embroidered with silver thread, battle honours for 'PENINSULA' and 'WATERLOO'
Sabretache: 13 ¼ in. (32.5 cm.) x 11 in. (28 cm.), pouch: 4 in. (10.2 cm.) x 5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm.)
Provenance
The Sir David McAlpine Collection.

Lot Essay

Following service during the Peninsula and at Waterloo, the 18th Hussars served in the Army of Occupation as part of Lord Combermere's British Cavalry Corps. The Corps was composed as follows:

1st Brigade, Lord Somerset: 2nd and 3rd Dragoon Guards.
2nd Brigade, Sir Richard Hussay Vivian: 12th Light Dragoons and 18th Hussars.
3rd Brigade, Colquhoun Grant: 7th Hussars and 11th Light Dragoons.

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