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    An officer of the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) in Review Order, post Anglo-Boer War, HRH Nicholas II Emporer of Russia was their Colonel in Chief at the time.

    A Harry Payne card by Raphael Tuck & Sons, I'm not sure if this is a King Edward VII or King George V card, I think it's KE VII.

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    The Despatch Orderlies (21st Lancers) passing Marlborough House.

    A Raphael Tuck & Sons "Military In London" Series III card, by Harry Payne.

    Don't they look smart. You should have seen my wife's face the first time she saw the cavalry on the way to Buckingham Palace.

    My Grandad used to collect the by-products from the horses for his garden.

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    Leigh:

    I am always looking for something to illustrate a medal or something related and find these postcards and other early print material as being one way to do it. You have a number of nice cards in your collection and was wondering if you have anything early that depicts cavalry from Waterloo, the Crimea or Indian Mutiny. Did Payne or one of the others do a series?

    Michael

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    Leigh,

    it is interesting to note that the 2nd DG trumpeter is wearing a white metal helmet. Dragoon Guards wore a gilt or brass helmet and Dragoons a white metal one. Was this different for trumpeters? It must be a 2nd DG because of the white stripes to the pantaloons.

    Stuart

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    Stuart,

    I think the 'white' metal of the helmet is an error of the colourist. Trumpeters did wear a different colour of horsehair, but I doubt they wore a different helmet.

    Nice postcards.

    Eric

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    The kettle drummer wore a yellow metal helmet with white plume, I believe that the trumpeters did also.

    ER cards were produced in Germany, which may account for colour inaccuracies.

    German cards went out of favour in Britain come WWI, the card producers over here "waging war" on their German counterparts, even issuing newsheets & posters refering to their "struggle" as if reporting on real battles.

    I'll dig out some more cards & photos, see what I have in the way of Crimean etc uniform portrayals.

    The Paynes & others produced artwork of early & pre Victorian uniforms, I don't know what they were involved in in the way of series.

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    1st Life Guards "On Guard, Whitehall"

    Produced by "A. & G. Taylor" of 70 & 78, Queen Victoria St, London E.C. as part of their "Orthochrome" Series of Copyright Pictorial Post Cards.

    They were "By Royal Appointment to Her Late Majesty" whose coat of arms they print on the back of the card - an Edwardian card.

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    "1st King's Dragoon Guards Relieving Guard", posted from Chesterfield on 9th August 1918, to an address in nearby Old Whittington, & featuring the badge that the regiment had to give up at the beginning of WWI but later recovered.

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