Great Britain – Royal Navy officer’s full dress epaulettes M/1864.

Pair of Royal Navy lieutenant´s full dress epaulettes lined with black leather stamped in gold with the manufacturer’s label, Gieves Limited, and with padded dark blue silk where the epaulette rests on the end of the wearer’s shoulder.

 

Each epaulette has a brass slide underneath the strap and a gilded brass Royal Navy officer’s button on top of the strap to secure it to the coat. The slides are stamped ‘RIGHT’ and ‘LEFT’. The upper side of the epaulette straps are covered in plain gold lace with a raised gold wire embroidered crescent at the shoulder end. Each strap bears a silver embroidered anchor and cable chain for the rank of lieutenant.

The ends of the epaulettes have a double row of gold bullions. There are twenty gold bullions around the outer rim and nineteen smaller bullions inside them. The bullions are held out from the shoulder by a rigid crescent that is padded with dark blue silk on the inside and covered with gold silk on the outside.