FIG.1. Kepi black with gold lace bands and gilt chinscales, plume green, coat dark blue, green collar and cuffs, gold lace shoulder bars and cuff rank lace, gilt buttons, coat piped in green along front.
Waistbelt white with gilt buckle, trousers crimson with green double stripe, black shoes, gold sword knot.
FIG.2. Kepi green top, red base band, gold lace, black visor, National cockade [sky blue/white], coat dark blue, collar and cuffs green, gold lace shoulder straps and cuff lace, green piping along front of coat, gilt buttons and waistbelt buckle, white waistbelt and sword slings, trousers as FIG.1.
Sword scabbard black leather with gilt fittings, geld sword knot.
SOURCE:
Photographs in the General Archives of the Nation, "Coleccion Whitcomb".
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