. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure i DRAGOON HELMET PLATE, 1800, DIE SAMPLE USNM60283''M<iS-K41'). Figure 2. Although from a different die, this plate, struck in thin brass, appears to be a die sample of the plate described above. It is also possible that it is a sample of the dragoon plate authorized in 1812. ^ The 1813 uniform regulations specified for enlisted men of the artillery a "black leather cockade, with points 4 inches in diameter, a yellow button and eagle in the center, the button in uniform with the coat ; '^ This specification gives s
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure i DRAGOON HELMET PLATE, 1800, DIE SAMPLE USNM60283''M<iS-K41'). Figure 2. Although from a different die, this plate, struck in thin brass, appears to be a die sample of the plate described above. It is also possible that it is a sample of the dragoon plate authorized in 1812. ^ The 1813 uniform regulations specified for enlisted men of the artillery a "black leather cockade, with points 4 inches in diameter, a yellow button and eagle in the center, the button in uniform with the coat ; '^ This specification gives some validity to the belief that a cockade with an approximation of the artillery button tooled on it may also have i)een worn. LEATHER COCKADE, ARTILLERY, C. I808-I8I2 USNM60256-MCS-K14'). Figure}. This cockade is of black leather of the size prescribed by the 1813 regulations. Tooled into the upper fan " General Order, .Southern Department, Army, Jan- uary 24, 1813 (photostatic copy in files of division of military history, Smithsonian Institution); also, American State Papers, p. 434. is an eagle-on-cannon device with a stack of 6 cannon balls under the trail; an arc of 15 stars partially surrounds the eagle device. It is believed to have been worn on artillery chapeaux de bras as early as 1808. The specimen is unmarked as to maker, but from correspondence of Callendar Irvine, Commissary General of Purchases from 1812 to 1841, it seems very possible that cockades similar to this one were made by Robert Dingee of New York City. Dingee is first listed in New York directories as a "saddler" (1812); he is listed later as "city weigher" (1828) and "in- spector of green hides" (1831). The eagle-on-cannon design is siinilar to that of several Regular artillery buttons worn between 1802 and 1821, but it most closely approximates a button Johnson assigns to the period f The question has been raised as to whether the Regulars e\'er w
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