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A CASED PAIR OF US MEDICAL SERVICE EPAULETTES
Contained within a jappaned metal casing the lined with a pillowed red-baize lining, gilt brass and gold bullion epaulettes with MS surrounded with laurel baranches, red satin lining to interior, marked E. Owen & Sons Washington D.C., rigid type.
Presented with an interesting letter noting that these epaulettes were once the property of Emperor Haile Sellassie, and tracing its history through Mussolini, and others through to President Roosevelt - a generous tale.
Contained within a jappaned metal casing the lined with a pillowed red-baize lining, gilt brass and gold bullion epaulettes with MS surrounded with laurel baranches, red satin lining to interior, marked E. Owen & Sons Washington D.C., rigid type.
Presented with an interesting letter noting that these epaulettes were once the property of Emperor Haile Sellassie, and tracing its history through Mussolini, and others through to President Roosevelt - a generous tale.
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