"Swedish "livdrabantkår" (Drabants)" Topic
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| Don Sebastian | 04 Jan 2012 6:23 a.m. PST |
Reading about them at wikipedia, I found out that they were restored in 1722. Is their uniforms at this date known? Also, after that date, they were reformed as a foot company. Does anyone knows their uniform in 1756 and 1765? |
| Don Sebastian | 06 Jan 2012 6:14 a.m. PST |
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| Don Sebastian | 08 Jan 2012 4:03 p.m. PST |
Does anyone knows where I could find that information? |
| Martinsson | 09 Jan 2012 6:31 a.m. PST |
I searched the collections of the Swedish Army museum but only found a few objects belonging to the Livdrabant corps. A cuirass worn c. 1800 by one of the four commanders (kaptenlöjtnant): link A cartridge box from the reign of Fredrik I (1720-1751): link Another cartridge box from the 18th century: link Various weapons: link It seems like all information on wikipedia about the Livdrabant corps for this time period originate from this hundred year old encyklopedia: runeberg.org/nfbf/0426.html |
| Musketier on the March | 09 Jan 2012 6:39 a.m. PST |
The helmet fittings in your third link look very impressive. A reply to Russia's Chevaliers-Garde perhaps? |
| Don Sebastian | 09 Jan 2012 8:32 a.m. PST |
Thanks man! The armor is specially awesome! No clues on their uniform? |
| spontoon | 09 Jan 2012 3:43 p.m. PST |
Probably blue? Some of those Livdrabanten items look post-Napoleonic, rather than 1700's. In some languages "18 Century" comes out as "1800's". For example, Italian, where 1800's is ottocento and 1700's is settecento. |
| Martinsson | 10 Jan 2012 1:39 p.m. PST |
There are no translation errors in the dates I gave in my previous post. But the results from my search are not filtered for any time period and at least one of them are indeed post-Napoleonic. The description to one of the helmet fittings indirectly dates it to the time period 1818-1821. The standard is also post-Napoleonic but apart from the recycled pole it did not belong to the Livdrabants. The cuirass is in the text described as both from c. 1800 and from early 19th century. The two matching helmet fittings are dated to c. 1800 respectively to the reign of Karl XIV Johan. Since Karl XIV Johan became king 1818 and the Livdrabant corps was dissolved 1821 this gives a very limited time frame for that helmet fitting (assuming the dating is correct which is not always the case). |
| spontoon | 18 Jan 2012 2:28 p.m. PST |
However, the request was for information regarding the period 1756 and 1765. |
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