Trumpeter’s Jacket c1806

The National Army Museum in Chelsea put on an exhibition of British hussar uniforms which ended in June 2019. This photo was taken there by Stephanie Smart and posted on her website The Regency Wardrobe Collection. It is a jacket worn by the trumpeters of the 10th Hussars around 1806, the year that the 10th Light Dragoons converted to Hussars. The rest of the regiment were clothed in blue jackets, or dolmans, which had white cord and braid. The trumpeters can be seen in the images on this page, which depict the regiment cantering in the background of an equestrian portrait of the Prince of Wales.
The cording decorates the front of the jacket with three rows of ball buttons. A frame of fringed yellow material surrounds the buttons and cording. The blue collar and cuffs are decorated with yellow braid and there are Prince of Wales feathers defined in braid at the top of the decoration. The jacket was worn with a blue pelisse slung over the left shoulder, and a grey fur busby. The shako in front of this exhibit was worn by an officer of the 15th Hussars c1830.

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