8th Jul, 2020 10:30 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
Lot 103
 


Lot 103 - An Early 20th Century Bolivian Consular Dress Uniform to Norman Oughtred, comprising a black...
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An Early 20th Century Bolivian Consular Dress Uniform to Norman Oughtred, comprising a black...

An Early 20th Century Bolivian Consular Dress Uniform to Norman Oughtred, comprising a black wool tailcoat with gold bullion thread collar and cuffs and gilt brass buttons, a pair of black wool trousers with gold lace side stripes, a black wool cape, a bicorn hat trimmed with black ostrich feathers and with Hull maker's mark, a cummerbund, a pair of kid gloves, and a dress sword, with foliate etched triangular section steel blade, gilt brass stirrup hilt with pierced shell guard cast and applied with the Bolivian coat of arms, mother of pearl grip scales, leather scabbard and velvet frog with gros grain sling, gold bullion sword knot and American cloth rain slip, all contained in a japanned tin trunk, the hinged cover stencilled N. OUGHTRED B.C.
Footnote:- Mr Norman Oughtred was approved by King George V as Consul of Bolivia at Hull on July 16, 1923 - see London Gazette, 31 July, 1923 and The Edinburgh Gazette, August 3, 1923

Sold for £380
Estimated at £250 - £350


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. Uniform in good clean condition, no sign of moth damage. Hat with some wear to the lower edge. Sword in good condition. Tin trunk with some rust patching to the exterior.

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Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 8th Jul, 2020

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