HABIT SAID KURTKA OF COLONIAL ARTILLERY, Second Empire. 29147

HABIT SAID KURTKA OF COLONIAL ARTILLERY, Second Empire. 29147

Kurtka entirely in dark blue cloth, buttoning straight at the front with seven bone buttons, entirely madder piping. Low-cut collar closing with a metal clip, point-cut facings in dark blue piped madder cloth, garnished with a small module uniform button (diameter 1.6 cm), in half-bell brass stamped in relief with two crossed cannons surmounted of a flaming bomb with a navy anchor in the background. Rolled up in madder cloth garnished with a flaming grenade cut out of dark blue cloth and sewn, false vertical pockets forming three points, piped madder, each point completed with a large module uniform button, diameter 2.1 cm. Two large module buttons are attached at the waist. Shoulder straps in dark blue cloth covered with madder cloth. Breastplate entirely in dark blue piped madder cloth. This breastplate is attached to either side of the coat using twelve large-module uniform buttons and two small-module buttons (at the bottom).
Interior lining in ecru canvas with black ink marking “6c. Ors. d’ART”, dated 4th quarter 1868 “4 68” and registered “1640”.
Pair of madder wool epaulettes lined in dark blue, with label of a regiment of the line.
Complete with its madder snowshoe cord.

France.
Second Empire.
Very good condition, a small repair at the bottom of the plastron.