Navy wool military jacket. Royal blue collar and shoulder straps with brass buttons. Royal blue pocket detailing and cuffs with brass button detailing. Sleeves have royal blue detailing with yellow accents. Jacket buttons to side with fauz brass buttons. Pleated hem with red trim. Small pocket on left breast with red detailing.

Makedonomachos , Macedonian Freedom Fighter, uniform. Collected by Maria Fakonas, to honor Pavlos Melas (3/29/1870-10/13/1904), an officer in the Hellenic Army, he was among the first who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia. Maria's father Demetrios G. Karageorgis left America to return to Greece in 1912 to fight for the freedom of Epirus and Macedonia.

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