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A Very Rare 1831-38 Pattern Full Dress Other Ranks Shako of the Surrey Yeomanry CavalaryCirca 1830
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,250 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Very Rare 1831-38 Pattern Full Dress Other Ranks Shako of the Surrey Yeomanry Cavalary
Circa 1830
Circa 1830
With characteristic body of black beaver with sunken black patent leather top, black patent leather peak and trim around the brim, the top encircled by a broad band of black appliqué, the front with crowned silvered frontal plate of Maltese cross form with central gothic 'S' above a plaited cord mount suspended from a hook on both sides, the hooks also carrying the cord cap line with ornamentally plaited terminals each with bullion tassels, the interior with leather and silk sweat-band (partly detached), black velvet-lined silvered metal chin scales on foliate disc-shaped supporters, and complete with original black horsehair plume with detachable petalled silvered plume-holder (some wear, leather with some old crazing): in its japanned carrying tin (surface rust); together with a pair of contemporary silvered epaulettes each retaining its red woollen liner, a pair of silvered spurs each retaining its leather straps and buckles, and two fabric belts, one lined in leather (7)
The first 22 cm. high
The first 22 cm. high
Footnotes
The leather sweat-band is inscribed in ink 'Moore SYC. VIII' for Philip Moore who enlisted in the 8th Troop of the Surrey Yeomanry Cavalry on 25 April 1831. He was Corporal 1833-34, private 1834-35, and resigned in August 1835








