. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 15. -Specimen in Fort Erie Museum Ontario, Figure 16.âSpecimen in Campbell collection. through them. Most cap plates of this period were pierced at the corners for attachment ijy threads. ^ The cap plates issued to the artillery regiments (less the Regiment cf Light Artillery) and the rifle- men during the period 1812-1821 are known, but onlv a fragment of one is represented in the national collections. Illustrations of all extant are included to complete the picture. Two of the 1812 plates issued the 2d Regiment of Artillery
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 15. -Specimen in Fort Erie Museum Ontario, Figure 16.âSpecimen in Campbell collection. through them. Most cap plates of this period were pierced at the corners for attachment ijy threads. ^ The cap plates issued to the artillery regiments (less the Regiment cf Light Artillery) and the rifle- men during the period 1812-1821 are known, but onlv a fragment of one is represented in the national collections. Illustrations of all extant are included to complete the picture. Two of the 1812 plates issued the 2d Regiment of Artillery (fig. 15) ha\-e been excavated at Fort Erie, Ontario, and are in the collections of the museum there. A plate cf the 3d Regiment (fig. 16) excavated at Sackets Harbor. New York, is of an entirely different design. The lower third of a plate of the 1st Regiment (fig. 17). again of a different design, was excavated by the authors in 1961. In 1814, when the three regiments were consolidated into the Corps of Artillery, these plates were superseded by one bearing the eagle-on- cannon device closelv resembling the button of the artillery for the period 1814-1821, which has the word ''Corps" ;- Specimens of this latter plate representing two distinct though similar de- signs have been excavated at posts known to have been manned by Regular artillery in 1814 and later (figs. 18, 19). The same general design appears also on crossbelt plates and waist-belt plates (see below pp. 34-35). CAP PLATE, 1ST REGIMENT ARTILLERY, I8I2 USNM 67240-M. Figure 17. The over-all design of the plate of which this brass- struck fragment represents approximately one-third can be rather accurately surmised by comparing it with several of the ornamented buttons issued to the infantry in 1812-1815. It is probably the work of the same ;'' The plate is rectangular with â See Johnson, vol. 1, p. 45, and vol. 2, pi. 10. ' See Johnson, vol. 2, specimen nos. 183, 184, 210-213. 6
Size: 1322px × 1890px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorun, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectscience
