28th Jun, 2023 12:00

Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria

 
Lot 401
 

401

A GROUP OF THREE CONTINENTAL UNIFORMS, LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY

the first a Parade Attila (Full Dress Tunic) of the German Life Guard Hussars, of scarlet cloth, edged and trimmed with yellow worsted Russia braid, forming five loops each side in front with brass metal rosettes and olivets (one detached but present), red cotton lining stamped with ‘EB’ and ‘1891’, with a trooper’s peakless Undress cap of the same regiment, with scarlet top and blue band edged with yellow piping (lining and headband defective), and a black sealskin busby bearing the brass W1R badge of Regiment No.7, with domed brass chinscales and an imperial rosette (lining replaced, bag, lines and plume absent); the second a Parade Ulanka (Full Dress Tunic) of German Uhlan Regiment No.13. Dark blue cloth with white cloth collar and cuffs, and white piping to central plastron, backseams and skirt-slashes, the plastron with six white metal buttons each side and one at the upper points, stamped inside ‘5EUR13 88’, white cloth binders for shoulder scales (scales absent) and shoulder-buttons bearing number 5, with a black patent leather chapka, with white metal edging to peak, a massive white metal Eagle plate, mounted with a small brass star of the Black Eagle, domed brass chinstrap with Imperial rosette, and leather internal headband, and another patent leather chapka, lacking all fittings; the third a cornflower blue tunic of thin twill, with scarlet collar, cuffs, slashes and piping, the ends of the collar bearing leaves in silver embroidery, shoulder-straps of silver/blue heavy Russia braid, grey cotton lining with label of ‘Uniformhaus Karl Hintzen, Korschenbroich’

Sold for £600


 

the first a Parade Attila (Full Dress Tunic) of the German Life Guard Hussars, of scarlet cloth, edged and trimmed with yellow worsted Russia braid, forming five loops each side in front with brass metal rosettes and olivets (one detached but present), red cotton lining stamped with ‘EB’ and ‘1891’, with a trooper’s peakless Undress cap of the same regiment, with scarlet top and blue band edged with yellow piping (lining and headband defective), and a black sealskin busby bearing the brass W1R badge of Regiment No.7, with domed brass chinscales and an imperial rosette (lining replaced, bag, lines and plume absent); the second a Parade Ulanka (Full Dress Tunic) of German Uhlan Regiment No.13. Dark blue cloth with white cloth collar and cuffs, and white piping to central plastron, backseams and skirt-slashes, the plastron with six white metal buttons each side and one at the upper points, stamped inside ‘5EUR13 88’, white cloth binders for shoulder scales (scales absent) and shoulder-buttons bearing number 5, with a black patent leather chapka, with white metal edging to peak, a massive white metal Eagle plate, mounted with a small brass star of the Black Eagle, domed brass chinstrap with Imperial rosette, and leather internal headband, and another patent leather chapka, lacking all fittings; the third a cornflower blue tunic of thin twill, with scarlet collar, cuffs, slashes and piping, the ends of the collar bearing leaves in silver embroidery, shoulder-straps of silver/blue heavy Russia braid, grey cotton lining with label of ‘Uniformhaus Karl Hintzen, Korschenbroich’