The Captain William Chatterton Dickson Collection of Medals ...
The Captain William Chatterton Dickson Collection of Medals and Coins - a George III officer's red cloth coatee with yellow collar and cuffs, circa 1800, all of the buttons with crown over italic UAV (U A over V), the gilt copper gorget with crowned GR cypher and original leather backing, the silver oval pin with maker's mark HP&C in a square (with George III bust & lion passant, no assay office or date letter), with sash and belt (a lot). Footnote - a kind researcher has informed us that UAV refers to the Upper Agbrigg Volunteer Infantry (colours presented 19 March 1804), and an officer's belt plate kept at the Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, is shown in Rumsby (reference literature - 'A History of the Formation and Development of the Volunteer Infantry, from the earliest times, Illustrated by Local Records of Huddersfield and Its vicinity from 1794 to 1874', by Robert Potter Berry, 1903).
[ translate ]The Captain William Chatterton Dickson Collection of Medals and Coins - a George III officer's red cloth coatee with yellow collar and cuffs, circa 1800, all of the buttons with crown over italic UAV (U A over V), the gilt copper gorget with crowned GR cypher and original leather backing, the silver oval pin with maker's mark HP&C in a square (with George III bust & lion passant, no assay office or date letter), with sash and belt (a lot). Footnote - a kind researcher has informed us that UAV refers to the Upper Agbrigg Volunteer Infantry (colours presented 19 March 1804), and an officer's belt plate kept at the Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, is shown in Rumsby (reference literature - 'A History of the Formation and Development of the Volunteer Infantry, from the earliest times, Illustrated by Local Records of Huddersfield and Its vicinity from 1794 to 1874', by Robert Potter Berry, 1903).
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