"Rifles" Busby and Jacket

[Staffsyeoman]

Friends, sent to me from a collector in Canada for ID - does anyone recognise it? The pale green frogging and shoulder straps have thrown me. I suspect the busby doesn't go, hence my asking...

[leigh kitchen]

Speaking from my usual position i.e. ignorance of such matters - is it definitely a Commonwealth item rather than, say, German or Austro Hungarian?
I think the frogging could be gold rather than pale green

[54Bty]

Officers Patrol Jacket (in the Royal Regiment of Artillery it was worn c1874-1883), the style continued to be worn to 1900 but is a slightly different pattern. The lace would have originally been black, washing and the weather turns it green.

Marc

[peter monahan]

Originally Posted by 54Bty

Officers Patrol Jacket (in the Royal Regiment of Artillery it was worn c1874-1883), the style continued to be worn to 1900 but is a slightly different pattern. The lace would have originally been black, washing and the weather turns it green.

Marc

Absolutely agree. The two least colour fast shades, even today are bright red and Rifle Green. The Rifles [60th?] stationed in India during the Mutiny wore frocks which went from 'black' [Rifle Green] to pale green to straw colour over 18 months or so of daily wear.