coat

Summary

Camel-yellow wool, trimmed with metallic thread braid & lined yellow twilled silk (fronts) and natural coloured linen (sleeves); high curved V neck with 1.5" turn-down collar of double thickness; fastening centre front to waist with three metal hooks and eyes; fronts each in one section to side back seams, cutaway from waist; five pairs of frogs, three above waist and two below; metal disc engraved with eagle with metallic thread loops and tassels; shoulder seam sloping down from neck to back; back in two shaped sections with centre back seam and two side seams; vent with overlap at centre back from hip; vents at side seam from hip with metal disc and metallic thread tassels at top; caught up below in two places with metal discs and metallic thread tassels forming vertical pleat; long curved sleeves in two sections, seam at outside and inside arm; cuff of double thickness felt, cut to point at outside and inside wrist; vent at outside wrist fastening with two silk covered buttons; metal disc and tassel at inside wrist; large square pockets in lining at each side waist, lined linen. Believed to have been worn by General Hale in Quebec in the late 1770s