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Waistcoat attributed to LtCol Andrew Stephens, second-in-command to Col Washington,
1st Virginia Regiment (c. 1750-60) [1]
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Washington in the uniform of a British Provincial Colonel,
by Peale (1772), Washington and Lee Univ.
The Stephens waistcoat is almost identical.
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Note the raw edge of the fabric on the arm hole detail.
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[1] Smithsonian online collection, The Price of Freedom: Americans at War, http://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html?path=1.5.r_446, accessed 26 Jan 12.
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