A LIGHT COMPANY OFFICER`S JACKET, OR SHORT-TAILED COATEE, AND BREECHES, EAST SUFFOLK MILITIA, CIR

A LIGHT COMPANY OFFICER`S JACKET, OR SHORT-TAILED COATEE, AND BREECHES, EAST SUFFOLK MILITIA, CIRCA 1815-20 the double-breasted jacket of scarlet wool, with high pale yellow collar, closed at the front, and with mustard-yellow cuffs and lapels and white turn-backs to the skirts; lined in white cotton or linen, quilted at the neck and shoulders; pair of skirt ornaments, each in the form of a strung bugle-horn, of silver-wire embroidery on pale yellow cloth; buttons of silver-plate, half-domed and engraved with the initials: E*S - 38 to the front, 4 to each cuff; 2 to each collar side; 16 to the skirts and 1 on either side of the neck at the shoulder wings; with a pair of shoulder-wings of scarlet cloth, edged yellow and faced with three interlinked sections of interlocking white metal rings of descending size, centred at the shoulder upon a white metal disc mounted with a gilt metal strung bugle-horn and terminating at the neck with a regimental button, the wings edged with silver-wire bullions; the breeches of white `doe-skin` with a trap-fly and some contemporary buttons (2)