Help finding a nice baldric

[macwilkin]

Hi Teufel,

Welcome to XMarks. I don't know if it helps at all but, the second picture is of course Sean Bean in his guise of Richard Sharpe. The uniform he is wearing was specially designed to look like an Irish regiment but was also designed to not be like any existing or previous Irish military group. There was some argument between the Ministry of Defense and the production company, so although the uniform looks authentic there is in fact nothing authentic about it. So, all I am saying is this - don't base any large financial decisions on the basis of that picture.

Regards

Chas

Chas,

I hate to correct you, but the regiment in question in the Sharpe series was the 95th Rifles, not an Irish one. Irish regiments of the line would have worn the traditional red coat of the Napoleonic era.

The 95th Regiment of Foot became the Rifle Brigade in 1816.

The "baldric" that Sean Bean/Sharpe is wearing the photo is actually a "pouch-belt" particular to officers in rifle regiments, such as the aforementioned Rifle Brigade, the KRRC, Gurkhas, etc. The whistle is particular to rifle & light infantry units, as neither had drums as a form of battlefield communication.

Regards,

Todd