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Description: | Military hat known as a shako. Belltopped. Blue felt, trimmed along upper edge with 2.25 inch black worsted lace. Lower edge trimmed with similar lave, 1 inch wide. Lower edge bound with black patented leather. Black patented leather peak and chin strap. Strap has a gilt buckle. On each side, at top, a gilt lion's mask cap line fitting. Black worsted cap lines, plaited to a width of 1.25 inches at back and 2.75 at deepest part at front. The plaited lines at the front completely cover the peak. Cap lines join at right side with a knot and a black wire tassel 1.5 inches in length with a plaited black silk tassel boss. Cap lines terminate in two flounders 2.5 inches in diameter of plaited black twisted and round-cord with 2 inch black wire tassels. Plaited black worsted slider with twisted black silk loop. At centre front, a gilt metal stringed bugle horn, within the strings of which is the numeral: 71. Above the badge, a black corded silk cockade, in the centre of which, is a gilt metal thistle flower. Above the cockade, set into the crown, a tuft socket in the form of a gilt metal thistle flower. | Source: | Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.socialhistory.162794 | Go to resource |
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