1 sabretache : leather, gold and silver braid ; 35 cm high x 29 cm wide at base (18 cm wide at top)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Thomas Gilchrist (1812-1856) was the stepson of Charles Frederick Schlaberg (1794-1883). Upon Gilchrist's death in the Crimean War in 1856, the present sabretache was sent to his family in Canada as a gift from Gilchrist's commanding officer (cf. a note of provenance accompanying the item). The sabretache subsequently passed to John James Schlaberg and Thomas Lowe Hughes.
Subject Terms:
Gilchrist, Thomas, 1812–1856. | Schlaberg, John James. | Hughes, Thomas Lowe, 1925– | Great Britain. Army. Royal Regiment of Artillery -- Uniforms. | Great Britain. Army -- Officers -- History -- Uniforms. | Crimean War, 1853–1856. | Military uniforms.