NAM.1985-06-12-1

Flank company officer's full dress coatee, Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, 1806. Scarlet wool cloth. Double breasted. Upright open collar, with scarlet wool cloth front and blue wool cloth back. Blue wool cloth chevron shaped cuffs. White wool cloth piping. One straight buttonhole stitch crimson silk loop on each collar front, three place one and two on sleeve, four in pairs at centre back waist and four in pairs of pocket flap. Chevron shaped crimson silk buttonhole stitch loop on sleeve. One blue silk chevron shaped buttonhole stitch loop on cuff. Six blue silk straight buttonhole stitch loop in pairs on each lapel, a seventh above. Gilt metal half domed open backed buttons on collar, shoulder, back, cuffs and sleeves, with design of a shield edged with leaves, charged with a representation of Edinburgh Castle, with a fouled anchor upon an heraldic wreath above the shield and the inscription ‘ROYAL EDINBURGH VOLUNTEERS’. White kerseymere turnback. Scarlet wool cloth three pointed horizontal pocket flap. Blue wool cloth and brass bow shaped tail ornament. Bodice and sleeves lined with white linen, collar and tail lined with white kerseymere.