Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Volunteer Light Company Officer’s Coatee.
A fine and scarce Officer’s Coatee c.1810, the coatee of scarlet cloth with black facings, the collar decorated with gilt finial buttons marked the breast of the coatee set with two sets of eight gilt buttons, crowned star with ‘LV’, padded silk lining to the interior, the ornately patterned rear skirts with duff trim to the false pockets, gilt buttons, the skirt ornament being a gilt rifle bugle, complete with all 38 buttons marked H.T & D, minor service overall, some moth nips, good condition £1,800-£2,200

Note: The 1806 Willson’s Chart (pages 127-128) states that the only volunteer unit with black facing were the Louth Volunteer Infantry (Lincolnshire), commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel S. M. Clarke with 420 Officers and men.