id needed on belt pouch

[blueman]

help needed please guys on pouch id

[peter monahan]

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

[QSAMIKE]

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......

[peter monahan]

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!

[blueman]

guys,,,hallmarked 1899 made by h lehmann military tailor

[Mervyn Mitton]

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

[peter monahan]

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.