I have commented on this garment before on the Victorian Wars Forum at least a year ago. It is a Foot Guards (Grenadiers) ‘musicians’ (the distinction of Guards over other Army ‘bandsmen’ at the time), tunic from before WW1, when all members of the band had gold chest lace, rather than just the drum major as today. At that time collar badges and buttons were removed before old ‘(conditioned’) tunics were sold off. The current collar badge and buttons have been retrofitted and the latter are not British but from a Continental European state.
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