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| This unknown officer displays the full dress uniform of the Blues well. The coatee has red collar, cuffs and turnbacks similar to the Life Guards (see Officer's Coatee 1817-1855). The epaulettes seem enormous in this portrait and the aiguilette hangs carelessly where other portraits show the wearing of this item as they are worn today. His sword is the Royal Horse Guards Pattern of the time and his helmet is seen from an unusual angle. The most astonishing thing about this picture is the grey charger behind him being led by a private. The horses of the Household Cavalry were black then and now. Officers are sometimes shown on bay horses at this time, but the only members of the regiment who rode grey horses were the trumpeters. As this horse has a shabraque it can only be an officer's. |
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