NAM.1986-07-6-1

Officer's full dress coatee, 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers), 1848-1855. Scarlet wool cloth with pale yellow wool cloth upright closed collar and slash cuffs. Double breasted. Collar fastens with three hooks and eyes. Slash of scarlet wool cloth on cuff conceals vent fastened with two brass hooks with worked loops. Gold metal thread vellum pattern lace forming two loops on each collar front and four in pairs on each cuff slash. White kerseymere turnback. Silver, yellow, crimson and scarlet metal thread, silk, velvet and wool cloth tail ornament, with design of a yellow garter bearing ‘STAFFORD VOLUNTEERS’ in silver, between two silver wire laurel sprays upon the base of which is a yellow scroll bearing ‘EGYPT’. Within the garter a silver Staffordshire knot. Above the garter a silver and crimson monarchial crown, the whole upon a scarlet cloth padded ground. Two gilt brass half domed buttons on each collar front, four in pairs on each cuff slash, ten down each front in pairs and two at centre back waist, with die struck design of a Staffordshire knot above ‘80’, the whole surmounted by a monarchial crown and between two laurel sprays. Bodice and sleeve lined with brown silk, collar lined with black silk poplin, waist lined with red plush fastened at centre front with large gilt metal, tail lined with kerseymere with vertical welt pocket let into each tail lining.