ID'd CONNECTICUT COLONEL'S M1902 FROCK & HAT

Identified to Colonel M. Moody Downer who served as the Commissary General of the National Guard of the State of Connecticut. Model 1902 US Army officer's frock coat with Connecticut state seal buttons, commissary crescent, officer's cuff braid, and bullion epaulets. Frock is quilted at the chest, with linen sleeves and a cotton collar, and is identified to Col. Downer in pen on the tag inside the left breast interior pocket. Coat is made by Ridabock & Co. of NY. Shows age and has a few spots of mothing, but only scant tracking. Comes with a M1902 officer's bell crown style hat, also identified in handwritten ink in the sweatband to M M DOWNER. The hat has rimless federal Eagle buttons instead of Connecticut buttons, and is made by the same company. The hat has slightly worse moth tracking above the bullion Army eagle, but it comes in the original paper over cardboard hatbox. Very Good