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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Saturday, 22 February 2025

French Cavalry Standards at Warburg 1760 - Problems and Solutions

As so often with 18th century French cavalry standards, we do not know the emblems emblazoned on many of the standards carried by the French...

Friday, 14 February 2025

Guidons of the Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) c.1690-1715

Percy Sumner, in his article (with J. O. Dalrymple) UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT OF THE ROYAL SCOTS GREYS PART I—1678 TO 1751 in the Journal of th...

Thursday, 13 February 2025

Four Generic English Queen Anne Cipher Dragoon Guidons for 1702-1714

Written records tell us (e.g. the Great Wardrobe Accounts (" Boughton Papers ") preserved in the Round Tower, Windsor Castle) that...

Sunday, 9 February 2025

Three Damask Troop Guidons of the Royal Regiment of Dragoons 1685

At the coronation of James II in 1685 the 8 troop guidons of the Royal Regiment of Dragoons (later the 1st Dragoon Guards) were recorded. I ...

Saturday, 1 February 2025

Three Generic Damask Cavalry Standards With Queen Anne's Cipher For The Period 1702-1714

The three damask cavalry standards with Queen Anne's cipher, useful for the period of her reign 1702-1714: I shall do further variants w...

Three More Generic Plain Damask English Cavalry Standards for the 1690s-1715

Here are three further coloured plain damask cavalry standards that will be useful for the period 1690s to 1715.

Friday, 31 January 2025

1685 Standards of Peterborough and Plymouth's Horse Regiments (which will also be useful as "generic" standards for other regiments)

As we know so little, these plain damask standards will also be useful as generic standards for other British cavalry regiments of the perio...

Friday, 24 January 2025

Two Further Troop Standards of the English Royal Regiment of Horse 1685

For text see the previous post; here are two further troop standards of the Royal Regiment of Horse, later Royal Horse Guards Blue:

Troop Standard of English Royal Regiment of Horse 1685

First raised 1650 as a Cromwellian regiment of horse. Transferred to royal service on the restoration of Charles II in 1660; became the Earl...

Monday, 20 January 2025

Colours of North and Grey's British Regiment of Foot in the War of the Spanish Succession

First raised 1685 by John Granville, Earl of Bath. In the War of the Spanish Succession the proprietor was from 15th January 1703 until 1715...

Tuesday, 7 January 2025

Colours (or flags) of British Royal Scots or 1st Foot 1685 to probably 1707 (plus uniform WSS)

I recently did these as a favour so thought I'd also post them on the blog in case anyone else needs or wants them. Kronoskaf's WSS ...

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...

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