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Auction: 4020 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 22

An Officer's Mess Jacket of the Northumberland Fusiliers An interesting very late example of the shell-jacket style discontinued by infantry officers at the end of the 19th Century, with white facings, hooks and eyes, and gilt studs in front, edged all round with unusually wide gold Russia braid, the cuffs edged with double row of the same braid forming an Austrian knot above the point and a crowsfoot in the lower angle, fine Grenade collar-badges in gold embroidery mounted with St. George in white metal, twisted gold shoulder-cords, as for Full Dress tunic, bearing Captain's stars in silver embroidery above magnificent white metal grenades mounted with gilt Tudor Rose and Crown, tailor's label of inside collar, named in manuscript A.E.L Crofton Estimate £ 180-240 A.E.L. Crofton, b. 1866, joined the 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in 1886. He was promoted Captain in 1896 and appointed Adjutant of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion in 1896. He succeeded to the family title as the 4th Lord Crofton in 1912 and was a Representative Peer for Ireland. This jacket can be dated to the years 1895, when winged shoulder-cords were replaced by those of the type worn on the Full Dress tunic, and 1898, when the shell jacket was replaced for mess dress by a jacket with a roll collar.

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£160