AN OFFICER'S SHABRACQUE AND HOLSTER-COVERS OF THE 1st LIFE GUARDS

CIRCA 1910

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AN OFFICER'S SHABRACQUE AND HOLSTER-COVERS OF THE 1st LIFE GUARDS
Circa 1910
Dark blue cloth shabracque, edged with three rows of gold lace (with scarlet cloth showing between) and richly adorned on each hind-corner with a "King's Crown" above scrolls bearing the honors: DETTINGEN, PENINSULA, WATERLOO, EGYPT 1882 and TEL-EL-KEBIR above the LG cypher reversed and intertwined (and surrounded by the further scrolls: SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1900, RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY and PAARDEBERG) above the Garter star, all executed in elaborate gold embroidery etc. and with black leather straps etc; together with a companion pair of holster-covers, each of dark blue cloth with gold lace and scarlet cloth edging as on the shabracque, and embroidered with the crown and regimental cypher, the two covers linked by a section of bearskin; together with their black japanned metal horse-furniture case bearing a brass plate engraved EARL OF GIFFORD. 1st LIFE GUARDS
The shabraque 54in. by 39in., the holsters 41in. (2)

Lot Essay

William George Montagu Hay, Earl of Gifford was born 1884 and succeeded his father as 11th Marquess of Tweeddale in 1911. He attained the rank of Captain in the 1st Life Guards and was wounded in the First World War

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