Lot 5583

Description

Western Australia Volunteer Artillery officer's bicorn hat, c1880s, black 'beaver' with black pleated cockade with gold bullion stitched silk overlay and this affixed with button for the Volunteer unit, with bullion coils at each end, the inside is lined with pleated white silk and with black printed Royal coat-of-arms, with leather sweatband, together with a japanned metal bicorn hat container on each side of which is painted the initials, 'T.A.W.' Some loss of fur around lower edge, otherwise good very fine, tin with considerable rusting and loss of paint.