France, Third Republic (1870-1940).
Charles Aloys Jean Gabriel Ney (1873-1933), 4th Duke of Elchingen, 5th Prince of Moskowa (1928), fancy ceremonial frac suit modeled after the 1st Empire staff officers, by master tailor Gerbeaud-Ducher Hebrard et Cie in Paris, 1907.
In fine scarlet cloth. Plastron lapel in fine scarlet wool cloth, fastened straight front with hooks and trimmed with seven smooth domed buttons in gilded brass, each embroidered with oak leaves in gold cannetille. Black velvet collar and facings embroidered with oak leaves, tassels and wolf's tooth baguettes in gold cannetille. False-pocket basques, each piped in black and trimmed with three smooth domed buttons in gilded brass. The ruffles are embroidered with winged thunderbolts, tasselled oak leaves and gold-toothed baguettes. Inner lining in quilted ecru satinette bearing the master tailor's label "Gerbeaud-Ducher Hebrard et Cie Paris" and a tailor's nominette handwritten in an inner pocket "Duc Ney d'Echingen" and dated "16-12-07" for December 16, 1907. Epaulets consisting of an epaulet with flexible bangs in gold passementerie, embroidered with a flaming grenade, and a trefoil counter-epaulette with gold passementerie needles with gilded brass ferrets stamped with empanached helmet motifs (staff). The suit comes with a vest in fine unbleached wool cloth, fastened straight with ten domed smooth buttons in gilded brass; the buttons are in silver passementerie with a body entirely embroidered with scales, lined in scarlet cloth with white piping.
Note: Charles Aloys Jean Gabriel Ney, 4th Duke of Elchingen, 5th Prince de la Moskowa (Paris, December 3, 1873 - Geneva, October 22, 1933), married for the first time in Paris on January 14, 1902 to Germaine Roussel (Neuilly, August 17, 1873 - Paris, May 22, 1930), then married for the second time in Nice on July 10, 1930 to Denise Bienvenu (Mazière-en-Touraine, January 16, 1885 - Paris, August 21, 1973).
Provenance: Family estate in the Amboise region.
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