Officer’s Undress Sabretache c1865

Officers of the 17th Lancers did not wear dress sabretaches after c1825 and there is no evidence that they wore the undress sabretache before 1865. The portrait of an officer 1865 shows him wearing a plain black sabretache with a gilt deaths head. It is generally thought that the pattern of the badge changed c1870 from the style seen here, with the skull on the bones, to the skull being above the bones. This sabretache also has a silver guelphic crown, above the badge, which was worn on appointments in the reign of Queen Victoria.

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