21st Empress of India’s Lancers, tropical epaulettes

21st Empress of India’s Lancers. A pair of slender gold lace epaulettes with major’s rank badges. We are not entirely certain when these would have been used but feel they were most likely to have been worn on the white tropical mess dress jacket. These would have been detachable to enable the cleaning of the jacket. They came with a large quantity of officer’s kit from this regiment – most now sold but an image of a group of it with a dress jacket can still be seen on the website with some details of the provenance. dec28/2