Oberstleutnant Dress Epaulettes, Cased

[Rick Research]

posting this for Ted-- taken on a mirror to show the underside as well as the top. The cardboard "8" shaped case has a tray to allow the fringe to hang straight down, both insignia being tied securely with the "shoelaces" shown. The pink fluffy "brassiere" was actually to cushion the tops of the insignia securely under the maker marked lid.

The only Prussian regiment I can find that had yellow and the number 10 was Hussar Regiment 10...

[Glenn2438]

Rick,

on what uniform could an hussar officer wear epaulettes

Glenn

[Rick Research]

OK, if not Hussar 10, then the only other yellow "10" I can find was Jäger Regiment zu Pferde 10?...

[stogieman]

Oye Ve

Holy Hamster Droppings Bat Man, talk about cross-dressing, there's enough pretty colors and fringes on that thing to make my daughters jealous!

[Glenn2438]

Rick,

just checked through the epaulette colours for the Prussian army. No peacetime regiment has that combination and the number 10 in 1914.

Although Grenadier-Regiment 10 had yellow, it members wore a cypher.

Dragoon 10 is not a possibility and neither is Ulan 10. Hussars did not wear epaulettes.

Feldartillerie-Regiment 10 wore white and Fußartillerie-Regiment 10 also white.

Jäger-Regt. zu Pferde Nr.10 had light green epaulettes (as did all Jäger-Regt. zu Pferde regiments) with an inner field of yellow (it's regimental colour).

Two thoughts: Perhaps an officer attached to Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr.10 which would wear the colour of it's associated regular regiment but with a number instead of the cypher. Whether an officer would do this in wartime is of course debatable as the full dress I think would have been very rarely worn even during the first year of the war

The second possibility is that the epaulette belonged to an officer of Grenadier-Regiment Number 10 prior to the 27th of January 1889 when the FW II cypher for that regiment was introduced.


Glenn

[Rick Research]

Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!

Much obliged, I was approaching this from the "fancy dress all over with, 1914" end.

Your knowledge is much appreciated, for I am out of my depth that far back! My brain didn't even click that Hussars in fancy dress wore the silly jacket-over-the-shoulder and not epaulettes ("Banjo boards" we call 'em), and I couldn't come up with any other Prussian yellow 10 unit.

Pre-1889 they must be. It is astonishing how airtight storage CAN protect things of such age, but I've seen "mint" 1870s items, so...

many thanks on Ted's behalf! Rick