Three Civilian Coats, originally the Property of Captain Laurence Oates

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Three Civilian Coats, originally the Property of Captain Laurence Oates

A good scarlet hunting coat, with plain gilt buttons, together with a green-striped white flannel waistcoat; a scarlet hunt-ball tailcoat, with red silk lapels, the gilt buttons engraved with the device of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards; and a blue double-breasted cloth coatee with plain gilt buttons, now fitted with scarlet cloth collar and cuffs, and a horizontally-striped red and white waistcoat (5)

Provenance

By descent from Captain Oates's elder sister to her great-nephew.

Lot Essay

These three coats were acquired by Captain Oates's sister at his death and passed by her to her nephew, an officer in Oates's former regiment (by then amalgamated to form the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards). The evening tailcoat was converted for his use by replacing the original buttons with those of the current regiment.