Not By Appointment

Not By Appointment

Being a uniform and flag design service to wargamers and to the imaginary crowned heads of 17th and 18th Century Europe, especially of the Seven Years War period - now By Appointment to the Court of Saxe-Bearstein! (But please note that the uniforms and flags presented here are not fictional - they are genuine 17th and 18th Century uniforms and flags that are as authentic as I can make them from my sources.)

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Tuesday, 31 December 2024

A Happy New Year to everyone - and a final Danish infantry flag in appropriately festive colours...

And here's a final Danish infantry flag, which I am posting only minutes before the end of 2024. Hopefully there'll be many more fla...

Wednesday, 25 December 2024

Flags and Uniform of French Irish Regiment Galmoy 1702?-1715; and good wishes for Xmas and the New Year!

First raised 1698 by Pierce Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoy, who had fought with the Jacobites in Ireland, from the remains of regiments Charlem...

Wednesday, 18 December 2024

Flags and possible uniform of French Irish Regiment Bourke or Burke 1699-1715

This was an Irish regiment created out of the two Jacobite regiments Queen's Guards and Klincarthy in February 1698 by Henry Luttrell, a...

Tuesday, 10 December 2024

Speculative Leibfahne of Austro-Hungarian regiments raised 1741-2 (but based on the surviving Leibfahne in the HGM)

I was reminded today by a request on the Seven Years War Wargaming Facebook page that I had not yet posted the long-promised speculative Lei...

Sunday, 8 December 2024

Flags and uniform of Prussian Garrison Regiment VI

First raised 1741 as the Brieg Garrison Regiment. Expanded from 2 battalions to 4 in June 1756. 1741-1746 garrisoned only Brieg but from 174...

Friday, 6 December 2024

Flag Dutch Infantry Regiment Aylva captured Seneffe 1674 and depicted in the Triomphes Louis XIV

This is my version of the Dutch Aylva Infantry Regiment flag captured at Seneffe 1674 by the French and depicted in the Triomphes Louis XIV....

Friday, 29 November 2024

Flag and uniform of Dutch Infantry Regiment Ingen-Nielant/Gent/Essen/Plettenberg late 17th to early 18th century

First raised 1622 for the Count van Nassau-Dietz. One battalion strong. Province of Geldern This is my version of the flag of Regiment Ingen...

Monday, 25 November 2024

Flags and uniform of Prussian Garrison Regiment VII

First raised 1741 as the Stettin Garrison Regiment. 6 battalions strong before the Seven Years War. Garrisoned: 1st Battalion Glogau; 2nd Br...

Thursday, 21 November 2024

Flags and uniform of Prussian Garrison Regiment VIII

As a Completist I have been frustrated for some time that I have not yet posted all the flags of the Prussian garrison regiments on the blog...

Saturday, 16 November 2024

Flag and uniform of Danish Schack Infantry Regiment late 17th to early 18th century

As the Warburg 1760 French infantry flag texts are long and taking a lot of time to complete I am posting another Danish infantry flag of th...

Saturday, 9 November 2024

Two Further Standards of the Danish 1st and 2nd Jyske Cavalry Regiments

For the moment these are my last Danish cavalry standards, two further standards of the Danish 1st and 2nd Jyske Cavalry Regiments according...

Friday, 8 November 2024

Possible standard of the Danish Livgarden til Hest late 17th to early 18th Century (see disclaimer below!)

Disclaimer : We do not know the standard for the regiment in the early years of the century or at the end of the 17th century; a later stand...

Thursday, 7 November 2024

Probable standards of the Danish Jyske Cavalry in the early 18th Century (after Sapherson)

Sapherson, in his volume on the Danish Army 1699-1715, describes and depicts two standards which are remarkably similar to the one shown in...

Standards of the Danish 1st Jyske Cavalry Regiment early 18th Century

First raised 1670 and then separated into 1st and 2nd Jyske Cuirassiers in 1675. Served in the Great Northern War; in Scanian Campaigns 170...

Friday, 1 November 2024

Standards of the Danish Livregimentet til Hest late 17th to early 18th Century

I can't seem to let go of the Danish cavalry standards yet so here are my versions of the standards and uniiform of the Livregimentet ti...

Saturday, 26 October 2024

Standards of the Danish 2nd Sjaellandske Cavalry Regiment late 17th to early 18th Century

These are probably the last Danish cavalry standards for the moment as I feel the need to go back to the mid-18th century; there are French ...

Thursday, 24 October 2024

Standards of the Danish 2nd Jyske Cavalry Regiment late 17th to early 18th Century

First raised 1670 as Livregiment Ryttere and Rantzau’s Independent Company but split into 1st and 2nd Jyske Cavalry in 1675. Strength 8 staf...

Saturday, 19 October 2024

Standards of the Danish 3rd Jyske Cavalry Regiment late 17th to early 18th Century

3rd Jyske Cavalry Regiment (Jutland) First raised 1670 as 2nd Jyske Cavalry Regiment but split into 3rd and 4th in 1675. Strength 8 staff of...

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Standards of the Danish 1st Sjaellandske Cavalry Regiment late 17th to early 18th Century

First raised 1670. Divided into 1st and 2nd Sjaellendske Regiments in 1675. Service: Served in the Great Northern War; landing at Humlebaek ...

Saturday, 12 October 2024

Flags and Uniform Dutch Infantry Regiment Aylva/Schratenbach/Ockinga/Nassau-Dillenberg Late 17th/Early 18th Century

First raised 1577 One battalion strong Aylva from 1637-1694 under various commanders named Aylva, then Schratenbach 1694-1706 and then Ockin...

Thursday, 10 October 2024

Two Extra Generic Austrian Cuirassier Standards For Regiments Without Known Standards - Useful for WSS to SYW and also late 17th century, probably

To complete the set and add to the variety possible I offer two extra generic Austrian cuirassier standards, in yellow and green.

Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Generic Austrian Cuirassier Standards For Regiments Without Known Standards - Useful for WSS to SYW and also late 17th century, probably

As a favour I put together a sheet of generic Austrian cuirassier standards, based on work I did many years ago, for those relatively many r...

Tuesday, 1 October 2024

Standards of the Danish 5th Jyske Cavalry Regiment late 17th to early 18th Century

Strength 8 staff officers and 6 companies in 2 squadrons with a total strength of 440 officers and men. In the service of Great Britain and ...

Saturday, 28 September 2024

Standards of the Spanish Carabineros Reales in the Seven Years War

This is the last set of Spanish cavalry standards recreated by me earlier this year for Lewis Simpson-Jones. Carabineros Reales first raised...

Friday, 20 September 2024

Guidons and uniform of Spanish Reina Dragoons in the Seven Years War

This is the third set of Spanish cavalry flags commissioned by Lewis Simpson-Jones this summer. As I explained previously, I recreated the c...

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