AUSTRALIAN ARMY BATTLE DRESS JACKET - ROYAL NEW SOUTH WALES REGIMENT, DATED 1953

AN AUSTRALIAN ARMY KHAKI WOOL BATTLE DRESS JACKET BEARING A SEWN SHOULDER TITLE FOR THE ROYAL NEW SOUTH WALES REGIMENT. THE JACKET IS A WAIST-LENGTH, FOUR-POCKET PATTERN WITH WIDE LAPEL COLLAR, PLEATED BREAST POCKETS WITH FLAP CLOSURES, AND LOWER PATCH POCKETS. WAIST TABS ARE PRESENT AT THE SIDES.

IDENTIFICATION AND MARKINGS:
* RED FELT CURVED SHOULDER TITLE ON THE RIGHT UPPER ARM READING ROYAL NEW SOUTH WALES / REGIMENT IN WHITE EMBROIDERED LETTERING
* INTERIOR STAMPED MARKING: D ^ D / MADE IN AUSTRALIA / 1953
* SEWN INTERIOR LABEL WITH FIELDS FOR REGIMENTAL NO. AND NAME, BOTH BLANK
* RED SIZE LABEL: M. TX / SIZE 18
* HANDWRITTEN SWING TAG ATTACHED READS: AUSTRALIAN ARMY / ROYAL NEW SOUTH WALES REGIMENT / JACKET

CONSTRUCTION:
* KHAKI WOOL OUTER FABRIC
* FOUR FRONT POCKETS: TWO PLEATED BREAST POCKETS WITH BUTTONED FLAPS, TWO LOWER PATCH POCKETS
* WIDE NOTCHED LAPEL COLLAR
* WAIST TABS AT SIDES
* BUTTONED FRONT CLOSURE
* LINED INTERIOR

CONDITION NOTES:
* WOOL FABRIC IS SOUND WITH NO VISIBLE HOLES, TEARS OR MOTH DAMAGE TO THE EXTERIOR
* CREASING AND FOLD MARKS THROUGHOUT, CONSISTENT WITH STORAGE
* MINOR SOILING TO INTERIOR LINING
* SHOULDER TITLE PATCH INTACT WITH MINOR FRAYING TO ITS EDGES
* BUTTONS APPEAR PRESENT AND INTACT

MARKINGS: D ^ D / MADE IN AUSTRALIA / 1953, SIZE 18, M. TX

69X40

Condition: Good - Refer To Images

293645+182

Location of item: 60 Marple Avenue, Villawood, NSW, Australia

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