tunic, tunic
Accession Number
NAM.1983-03-46-1
Description
Tunic, full dress, Staff Officers’ of Pensioners’, 1855-1868. Blue with scarlet facings. Collar upright, rounded at front. Front, lower and back edges trimmed with gold lace. Cuff, rounded, trimmed with two bands of gold lace. Down each side front nine gilt metal Staff buttons bearing the following design: within a border of laurel leaves a step pattern on a hatched ground. Buttons manufactured by: JENNENS AND CO LONDON. Corresponding buttonholes down each front. Each front can be worn turned back to reveal scarlet cloth facing to fronts. Small pocket let into waist seam. Bodice lined with red silk, sleeves with white twill weave cotton, skirt and collar with black silk. The black silk is in very poor condition.
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