Vapenrock

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Coat of arms, general and honorary officer, Tavastland’s rider. Group C I. From a uniform made of coat of arms, trousers, riding trousers, cap with a screen, parade crimp, cartusch bag with a cartuschrem, armband with text “Satatunta’s head of protection,” boots, travel stories. The Cage of General E. Linder. VAPENROCK of gray clothing, enclosed with eight buttons with slit, 200 mm long down the waist. The rock lined with 10 mm wide, grey ribbon from the collar down, along the front and bottom edge of the rock and around the slit, and along the dorsal seams from the sleeve to the lower edge of the rock. On the chest, the coat has additionally with similar ribbon preaching “buttonhole.” There are two buttons in the back seam for the belt. AXELCLAFFS of braided coaches in silver and gold on bottom sled in red colour with yellow passepoil (generals in cavalry shoulder flaps with Tavastland’s cavalry regiments). On the lower part of the shaft piece the riches in gold on top of the regiment’s emblem “The Elder’s Eagle from the Fana of the Regiment” (The Emblem of the Tavastland Cavalry Regiment). On the upper part of the shoulder flaps buttons of white metal, gray-colored, smaller size, gun-adorned. The shaft flaps were attached to the sleeve seams and attached to the coat. FICKOR - two side pockets, sewn in the middle, fitted with vertical countertops with three-odd pocket caps. The pocket lid edged with the same 10 mm wide, light gray band. KNAPPAR of white metal, dark gray color, gun-adorned (lion crest). KRAGE of dark gray fabric double bay. The collar has on the lower and front edges a 40 mm wide silver embroidered galon (sgalon general) and three lions of yellow metal in the lower corner (three lions are the grade designation for the rank of general). The collar has two cabs and hooks, lined with black satin. WORK LAW of dark grey fabric, cut out that their height at the rear seam is 120 mm. Two beside each other, buttons placed at the end of the outer “buttonhole” of 10 mm wide grey ribbon. On the upper edge of the sleeve covers is a 40 mm wide, embroidered galon (sgalon). LITERATURE: According to the Finnish War Power, Turku 1924. Page 8, 13. Pictures of cavalry, shoulder pieces, grade designation. According to the Republic’s decision on Uniform cladding for the War Power of the Kingdom. Publishers of the Ministry of Defence. Helsinki 1922. The coat of arms of the same model with the same detailed provisions on page 2, 10; grade designation: page 5 and 6. In Annex: page 9, table 12, 15. KRAGEN page 19, drawing 79. AXELKLAFFAR page 18, drawing 71; sleeve cover: page 22 drawing 106. The Elk Tower - Weapons for the Tavastland Regiment. Gift of General E. Linder’s estate.