Four hunting coats

Four hunting coats, comprising: - A gentleman's black hunting coat with Southdown Hunt buttons (one replaced.) The inside breast pocket has a tailor's label for E. Tautz and Sons, 485 Oxford Street, London W. with ink inscription 'S. Sassoon 24/9/1910' - A gentleman's black hunting coat with Southdown Hunt buttons. The inside breast pocket has a tailors label for E. Tautz and Sons, 485 Oxford Street, London W. with ink inscription 'S. Sassoon 4/2/1931' - A gentleman's red hunting coat with brass Southdown Hunt buttons - A gentleman's red point-to-point jacket with brass Southdown Hunt buttons. The inside pocket has a tailors label for Askew and Company Ld, 42 Conduit Street, London W, with ink inscription 'N.W. Loder Esq' Norman Loder was educated, like Sassoon, at New Beacon Prep School in Kent and Cambridge University, and they later became close friends. Loder was Master of the Southdown Hunt 1911-1913. Sassoon dedicated his poem 'The Old Huntsman' to Loder. Provenance: Siegfried Sassoon and thence by descent to the present owner 'But I couldn't help wondering, as I was being ushered into one of the fitting compartments, just how many guineas my black hunting coat was going to cost.' Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (Faber and Gwyer 1928) 'Resplendent in my new red coat and almost too much admired by Aunt Evelyn and Miriam, I went off to the opening meet …' (Ibid)