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Lot Essay
Although this cap is of RHA pattern, the colour of the plumes suggests that it was worn by a trooper of a Yeomanry regiment, possibly The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
Details
A Trooper's Busby
A black fur busby with yellow worsted cords and black patent leather chinstrap, two plain scarlet cloth bags, two short white-over-red bristle plumes with brass sockets, and two sets of yellow cord cap-lines, now in a cylindrical black tin of officer's pattern
See illustration of main items opposite
A black fur busby with yellow worsted cords and black patent leather chinstrap, two plain scarlet cloth bags, two short white-over-red bristle plumes with brass sockets, and two sets of yellow cord cap-lines, now in a cylindrical black tin of officer's pattern
See illustration of main items opposite
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