Hi All , I’m struggling to make headway with those NH ones but still searching.
As for the question of stripe/stripes – looking at all the old paintings available from late 1700’s to early 1800’s , they all look to be "stripes" as we’d know them today. Can’t recall seeing any rider with a single wide stripe. May be wrong but I’d be willing to bet ( a small amount ) that the single stripe came much later when there became a need for more options or variations to be available as the number of owners increased.
As for caps , Eleanor , one of Bunbury’s , has a striped cap yet I’ve a picture of Diomed where the cap is black. I’m pretty sure that when colours first had to be declared all caps were black – whether this was a link to the hunting field is a possibility – or may be rubbish.
Anyway , having solved nothing I’ll get off the fence and search some more.
Cheers