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"Rifles" Busby and Jacket
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...
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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 |
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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
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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.
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