. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. lations for the Regulars. This often led to odd and unusual cap shapes and trimmings and bindings on clothing, and to somewhat garish horse furniture in in some mounted units. The illustrated cap and plate is very similar to the ones worn by the Boston Light Infantry'^" about 1839-1840 except that the upper or "mortar board" portion is beige instead of red and the plate is a full instead of a three-quarter sunburst. The mortar ijoard form is that introduced by the Polish lancers in Europe in the early years of the 19th century
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. lations for the Regulars. This often led to odd and unusual cap shapes and trimmings and bindings on clothing, and to somewhat garish horse furniture in in some mounted units. The illustrated cap and plate is very similar to the ones worn by the Boston Light Infantry'^" about 1839-1840 except that the upper or "mortar board" portion is beige instead of red and the plate is a full instead of a three-quarter sunburst. The mortar ijoard form is that introduced by the Polish lancers in Europe in the early years of the 19th century and worn by most European lancer reigments of the same I^eriod. Lancer units in the British Army adopted this type cap in 1816 when they were first converted from light dragoons.'-' The large, brass, eagle- on-sunburst plate was obviously patterned after the one prescribed for the Regular dragoons in 1833. COCKADE EAGLE, INFANTRY, C. 1836 USNM 60377-M QS-K i33). Figure 155. As an example of more than a dozen known variants of the eagle, this silver-on-copper specimen is illus- trated to show the general form and size of Militia cockade eagles that became distinct types in the 1830's and continued until about 1851. All such eagles were obviously stock patterns. COCKADE EAGLE, C. 1836 USNM 604960-M (S-K 1104'). Figure 156. This gold-embroidered cockade eagle with a wreath of silver lame about its breast appears to have been patterned directly after the eagle on the 1833 Regular dragoon cap plate (see fig. 38). It possibly is one of a type worn by general officers of Militia. On this specimen, both the eye and mouth of the eagle are indicated with red Figure 155. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior
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