Netherlands. A Pair Of Early Royal Dutch Navy Vice-Admiral Dress Epaulettes GTRexclude on a black metal button

on a black metal button hole attachment

5 mm (w) x 51 mm (h) inclusive of its wreath suspension

presumably used for reconnaissance missions

Both for button hole wear

the document dated at Paris on May 2

Netherlands. A Pair Of Early Royal Dutch Navy Vice-Admiral Dress Epaulettes GTRexclude on a black metal buttonLarge, decorative stiff framed epaulettes, the uppers in a very fine gold coloured bullion wire, with a brass Dutch Navy button bearing a crowned anchor placed at the neck end, both epaulettes missing their dual rank star devices on the oval cap. There is a large raised gold coloured bullion wire ridge flanked by rows of fine gold coloured bullion wire on either side of the protruding wide oval cap, with two rows of tightly wound bullion wire fringe