PAIR OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL'S EPAULETTES (Division General), July Monarchy.
Embroidered in twisted frizz and gold sequins. The body is embroidered with a design depicting a V-shaped baton braid bordered by a scalloped trimming on a dark blue, almost black woolen fabric; its badge is decorated with a shield with a scalloped edge adorned with three silver stars. The fringes are in large matte twists. The outline consists of three twists: a large one in matte cord and alternately rolled bright thread on a cotton core; a smaller inner one in twisted matte Milanese mix with another simple bright thread; a third, of the same work, is applied below the large one, at the beginning of the fringe. 1830 uniform button (half-domed, gilded with a matte and burnished finish, embossed with a trophy formed by flags and a shield with a rooster helmet on top), fixed at the top of the epaulette body, a strong unmarked brass clasp is placed below, in the corresponding part (this clasp fits into a small pocket sewn on the uniform). A paper label is sewn on the lining printed in black "DASSIER hatter and passementerie maker patented by SAR Monsgr the Duke of Orleans at 12 Rue de Richelieu in Paris".
The epaulettes are presented in a metal box from a pair of epaulettes of the English army.
Good condition, passementerie with usual oxidation, one of the two uniform buttons missing.
France.
July Monarchy.
NOTE:
The title of lieutenant-general is used again instead of "Division General", and of camp marshal instead of "Brigade General" under the Restoration and July Monarchy, and disappears definitively in 1848.
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