EPAULETS , Napoleonic ? can anyone confirm date of these please !

[arrestanddevelopment]

Picked these up recently, would love to confirm exact dat for them,believe possibly 1800/1850 may be wrong. Was told irish inniskilling regiment ??

any advice please.

Thanks

steve

[Guest Rick Research]

Very interesting! What do the bottoms look like?

They seem to be made out of copper, rather than brass?

[arrestanddevelopment]

Very interesting! What do the bottoms look like?

They seem to be made out of copper, rather than brass?

Yes looks copper...not brass ,my have been gilded at some time, bottom has backing plates with old pins loocked in pretty fragile. Overall pretty heavy.

cheers

steve

[Bear]

Hello Steve,

I can't help with the date but I did find this on Enniskillen.

thanks,

barry

Waterloo Relics

by Bernard & Lachaux

page 71

[Bear]

Hello Steve,

I would guess 1840-1860ish based on the American boards. I have never seen metal epaulettes for the Napoleonic French. I've always been told that the cavalry and artillery used these type boards to protect during cavalry slashes.

just guessing,

barry

American Lobster boards

Edited December 6, 2008 by Bear

[Graham Stewart]

I too are under the impression they may actually be later rather than Napoleonic, but I have none of my uniform books with me. The date Bear has given for similar boards on US uniforms seems to ring a bell with similar boards being worn by the British Army during the same time period.

At the same time a castle wasn't peculiar to the 27th(Inniskillings) as it can also be found with the Suffolks, Northamptonshire, Dorsetshire Regiments and would have thought it would have been accompanied by a Foot number and perhaps "Enniskillen" as seen on the plate. At the same time, with the other three units with castle as part of their badge again a Foot number and perhaps "Gibraltar"; "Talavera" or "Primus in Indus" to identify the unit in question. Have you contacted any of these Regimental Museums relating to your items?

[Chris Boonzaier]

I thought it was the castle of the WW! american engineering corps (blush)

[leigh kitchen]

The castle looks similar to the later standardised "Gibralter" castle, as it lacks a flag atop the central turret.

The pre standardised castles were two turret versions for the Suffolks & the Dorsetshires, 3 turrets with central flag for the Northamptonshires & the Essex (although the Essex had a two turret version on a helmet plate centre).

My first thoughts without comparing images were that it looks very similar to the collar badge of the Suffolks.