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Morning/evening gents
Alzheimer's has arrived I'm afraid
I'm looking for some help identifying a set of figures I bought ages ago from Battle Honours
I thought they were Duchy of Warsaw Hussars or Chasseurs but I doubt it now that I'm looking at uniform plates :oops:

Any suggestions?
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valleyboy wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 8:13 am Alzheimer's has arrived I'm afraid
And what....it's not the one you ordered? :hair:
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First impression -tall, thin plumes say Russian to me...but I could be wrong, I'm not a Napoleonic uniform expert.
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Look ok as DoW Hussars to me, but i'm no expert either just have a smattering of google-fu.
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French Chasseur a Cheval officer by the looks of him: lapels on the coat, sheepskin shabraque, covered cross-belt...
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RMD wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 1:03 pm French Chasseur a Cheval officer by the looks of him: lapels on the coat, sheepskin shabraque, covered cross-belt...
That was my first thought. More French looking than anything else.In plain English, there's no czapska, more a shako, and he's certainly not wearing a kurtka, there's no plastron, and it looks like a surcoat, He's more a chasseur than a hussar, the shabraque looks French, as do the epaulettes, I couldn't see a sabretache. (See what I did there.)

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DoW Hussars and Chasseurs don't seem to have worn the czapska.
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However the Battle Honours Polish Chasseur don't appear to have sported Plumes:
http://porterbergsfoxandhound.blogspot. ... seurs.html
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Tim Hall wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2018 2:18 pm I couldn't see a sabretache.
Perhaps one of those jaw-dropping single Asian women shaved it off?
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Thanks Gents
Actually RMD it looks like the Newer AB French Chasseurs but it was sold as something else I think :EB:
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