Description

C.1890 pre federation Western Australian Military Forces officer’s mess dress uniform jacket and vest. Red wool felt body, with white wool felt lapels and cuffs, these with 2 white metal ‘vigilans’ and swan embossed buttons, with 3 larger buttons to centre, 2 to the white wool felt shoulder boards, showing removed single rank device slits. Heavily worn and frayed red silken liner. The red wool felt vest with 4 small vigilans/swan buttons, with twin horizontal slant pockets, with adjuster strap, Paris marked metal buckle and faded red cotton backed. The jacket with some mothing to lapels, light wear and storage wear. Colours still very good and would look fantastic after some interior restoration. Ex museum display piece. Scarce.