Lot 320
VICTORIAN 11TH HUSSARS (PRINCE ALBERT'S OWN) OFFICER’S FULL DRESS EMBROIDERED SABRETACHE
19TH CENTURY
Auction: Five Centuries Day One | Wed 11th November | Lots 1 to 322
Description
of red cloth, gilt lace border, the centre with gilt and colour Guelphic crown, scroll ‘Prince Albert’s Own Hussars’, reversed and interlaced VR cypher on crest and motto of Prince Albert, with regimental badge of the Sphinx stamped ‘Egypt’, surrounded by overlaid eight battle honour scrolls of 'Peninsula, Waterloo, Alma, Salamanca, Balaklava, Inkkerman, Rhurtpore and Sevastopol’, dark tan leather backing and pouch
Dimensions
37cm high, 30cm wide
Provenance
Munros of Lindertis
Footnote
Possibly belonging to either Sir Thomas Munro, 2nd Baronet (1819–1901), who served as a Captain in the 10th Hussars, or Sir Campbell Munro, 3rd Baronet (1823–1913), who served as a Captain in the Grenadier Guards