Pair of company officers’ epaulettes, Bengal Artillery, worn by Capt H Clerk, 1837 (c).
Gold lace straps lined with red Morocco leather. Crimson worm. Gold metal thread edging. Gilt metal crescent lined with crimson silk. Twenty-nine heavy boxed gold bullion tassels lined with crimson stiffened silk. Black silk tape straps. Silver metal thread and scarlet wool cloth embroidered badge of a grenade with seven flames upon a shaped scarlet ground. Gilt metal half domed button, with die struck design of three guns set one above the other, all within a garter bearing ‘BENGAL ARTILLERY’. Manufacturer’s name on metal box.