Lot 5572

Description

NSW Naval Artillery Volunteers officer's bicorn hat, black 'beaver' with black pleated cockade with gold bullion coil at centre and button for N.S.W.N.A.V. and gold bullion coils at each end, the inside is lined with pleated purple silk and with gold blocked maker's monogrammed initials, 'A&NCS', on the leather liner is printed in ink, '400' and crossed out and the name, 'Williams', together with a metal bicorn hat container. The container with rusting, the hat with some loss of fur at edges and bullion coils unravelling and in need of repair, otherwise very good and rare to NSWNAV.