blueman Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 help needed please guys on pouch id Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter monahan Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 (edited) Victorian pouch to the 14th Hussars. Not my field so I'm not sure on details but would have expected the eagle an officer's belt to be gilt rather than brass so I'll stick my neck out and go with OR's kit. The Prussian eagle is peculiar to the regiment - awarded to them in 1798 to mark their having escorted Princess Frederica of Prussia from Dover to London to marry Frederick, Duke of Kent. And the cipher is hard to make out but looks like a variation on "VRI" which would date it from 1798 to whenever the reg't switched ciphers after Victoria's death - probably the early 1900s. By the style, later in that period rather than earlier, but that's a guess. A lovely thing! Edited November 26, 2014 by peter monahan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QSAMIKE Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 There are Hallmarks on the pouch so you can get an exact date....... I think after 1843 but before 1901......... Mike P.S. Silver hallmarks can be found on line...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter monahan Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Yes, 1843 and after sounds right. Hadn't thought of the hall marks, as I suppose subconsciously I was thinking 'nickel steel rather than sterling. Well done, that man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueman Posted November 27, 2014 Author Share Posted November 27, 2014 guys,,,hallmarked 1899 made by h lehmann military tailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mervyn Mitton Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 A nice pouch belt and in silver - an officers'. The Cypher is difficult to read - however it is VRRV. Like the Grenadiers the Cypher is repeated in reverse. Mervyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter monahan Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Hallmarked silver certainly sounds like officer's wear to e. Lovely to have a definite date! Presumably made not long before the monarch's cypher changed too, so the poor fellow may have had to order another before he's worn the shine of this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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