A Victorian Officer's Uniform of the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars
A Victorian Officer's Uniform of the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars

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A Victorian Officer's Uniform of the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars

A blue Full Dress tunic with "Mantua Purple" facings, circa 1895, trimmed with silver chain-gimp, Field Officer's silver lace and Russia braid figuring to the collar and cuffs, Colonel's badges of rank in gold embroidery; a pair of superb Mantua Purple leve pantaloons, the silver lace stripes edged with Russia braid, the fronts decorated with "carpet-beaters" in the form of Austrian knots in silver chain-gimp, richly traced and figured with Russia braid; together with a good set of silver cord cap-lines with acorn finials. (3)

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See illustration in black and white, and detail of pantaloon ornaments on back cover.