M1881 Horse Artillery Soldier's Frock Coat
Price: $430.00
M1881 Artillery Soldier's Dress Frock Coat of the Indian War period into the Span Am War. Standard blue wool coat with nice red on cuff, Collar & tails. Coat is in good used condition with a few moth holes mainly on sleeves & some on the back. Shoulder boards are missing but can be seen where they were sewn on. Full complement of buttons though some are earlier CW style by Horstmann & some standard IW Waterbury. Most of the buttons are Penn. buttons & the rest are the standard Eagle buttons.The inside of the coat has the early stye green cloth which has some wear & inside the sleeves are white cotton. The tail pockets on the inside of the coat are brown. There may have been a white lining but is missing. The sleeves on the inside below the shouders are marked One side marked : US Inspected Joe Jones N.Y. & the other side marked John L. Hanford N.Y. The lining at the cuffs has what looks to be a name but is hard to read. The Artillery Dress coat is very attractive & shows well with any Indian war display. A good, used Indian War Artillery Soldier's Dress Coat. of the 1880s.
M1881 Artillery Soldier's Dress Frock Coat of the Indian War period into the Span Am War. Standard blue wool coat with nice red on cuff, Collar & tails. Coat is in good used condition with a few moth holes mainly on sleeves & some on the back. Shoulder boards are missing but can be seen where they were sewn on. Full complement of buttons though some are earlier CW style by Horstmann & some standard IW Waterbury. Most of the buttons are Penn. buttons & the rest are the standard Eagle buttons.The inside of the coat has the early stye green cloth which has some wear & inside the sleeves are white cotton. The tail pockets on the inside of the coat are brown. There may have been a white lining but is missing. The sleeves on the inside below the shouders are marked One side marked : US Inspected Joe Jones N.Y. & the other side marked John L. Hanford N.Y. The lining at the cuffs has what looks to be a name but is hard to read. The Artillery Dress coat is very attractive & shows well with any Indian war display. A good, used Indian War Artillery Soldier's Dress Coat. of the 1880s.
