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Four-piece wool broadcloth body with integral tails, lined in cotton. Red broadcloth collar, cuffs, and false front panel. Front panel fitted with fourteen 22mm brass coin-type "REPUBLICA MEXICANA" buttons, seven with "BEST QUALITY WARRANTED" backmarks, and seven with "LEDSAM & SONS LONDON" backmarks. Eight buttons on the tails and false pockets with Ledsam and Sons backmarks of the same type. Cuffs, collar, and front panel adorned with gold and silver bullion embroidery in a floral style. Shoulder straps are of the regulation type with heavy gold bullion embroidery featuring a Mexican eagle flanked by two five-point silver stars, surrounded by floral designs. Coattails with two large 12x11cm bullion Mexican eagle patches. French-made epaulettes of the stiffened type with heavily embroidered strap with crescent of alternating twisted wire and 49mm gold fringe. Insignia en suite with straps. Epaulettes secured by metal hook showing makers mark of a crown and "MARQUE DE FABRIQUE". Both show two-piece buttons with Mexican eagle over "RM". **Very good condition overall. Some scattered areas of repair throughout with one later repair to outside of right sleeve. Some moth holes to lining of coattails. Some staining of interior from use. Some fading of color on edges of facing fabric from age. Bullion in fine condition with some scattered loss of silver wire wrap on threads. Some scattered loss of stitching and light pulling of threads. Rear right sleeve seam has ripped and is held with pins, likely caused by display on mannequins weakening stitching. Some later reinforcing stitching present throughout.** For serious inquiries or more detailed condition reports on this lot, please contact us at info@lewisandgrant.com. Provenance New Orleans Picayune / James A. Sylvester Collection “Battle for Texas: The Experienceâ€, San Antonio, Texas $50,000-$75,000
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111 Beech Street Newport, KY 41071 USA, New Port, Kentucky, 41071, United States
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