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A VICTORIAN EARLY FOREIGN SERVICE HELMET AND UNIFORM OF PRINCE ALFRED'S GUARD (BANDSMAN)
A VICTORIAN EARLY FOREIGN SERVICE HELMET AND UNIFORM OF PRINCE ALFRED'S GUARD (BANDSMAN) the well-made helmet, believed to be late 19th Century, with a brass chin-chain (the lining partially detached) and spike on a domed base, 6-fold puggaree and roan leather internal head-band; a scarlet tunic with blue facings and white piping to cuffs, skirt-slashes and backseams, brass buttons and regimental collar-badges, red shoulder-straps, embroidered with the regimental title, and bandsman’s wings, white belts, the shoulder-belt holding a music-pouch (badge absent), and the waist-belt clasp with ornate brass loops and KC centre
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A VICTORIAN EARLY FOREIGN SERVICE HELMET AND UNIFORM OF PRINCE ALFRED'S GUARD (BANDSMAN)
