Russia, Imperial. A Cossack Chokha Auction Archive with an intact buffer pad

with an intact buffer pad covering the seam

reported that Wellington aircraft

in uniform removed condition

and the cap remains in an extremely fine condition

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Russia, Imperial. A Cossack Chokha Auction Archive with an intact buffer padA rare and very well preserved Imperial period Cossack chokha, constructed of black wool. The shoulders are flanked by boards constructed of golden yellow wool with a buckram core, and which are topped by silver aluminum wire tresses bisected by a single length of red machine emroidered piping and pinned with dual gilded stars (corresponding to an Imperial Army rank of Podporuchik). Each measuring 62 mm (w) x 145 mm (l), the boards are affixed in