[CIVIL WAR]. US 1858 Pattern enlisted infantryman's belt equipped with 1839 Pattern "US" belt plate, socket bayonet, scabbard, and Watertown Arsenal cap pouch.
Sale 1046 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann
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[CIVIL WAR]. US 1858 Pattern enlisted infantryman's belt equipped with 1839 Pattern "US" belt plate, socket bayonet, scabbard, and Watertown Arsenal cap pouch.
Approx, 40 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. leather belt with 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. die-struck brass "US" plate with arrow hooks and verso stamped, in part, "B&D[?] / SNY[?]" (leather pliable, with crazing and surface wear throughout; plate with heavy nicking, denting, and significant spots of oxidation especially to arrow hooks; lacking keeper). Belt exterior retains traces of mostly indecipherable embossed stamp reading, in part, "York."
Cap pouch with outer flap having integral latch tab (some crazing and cracking to leather throughout; significant oxidation to brass fittings; retains wool, lacking pick). Inner flap stamped "Watertown / 1863 / Arsenal." Belt loops, latch tab, and brass finial all present and complete.
Model 1855 socket bayonet with approx. 18 in. blade and crisp "U.S." stamped on ricasso (surface wear throughout including some scratching and light nicking). "C" stamped on elbow, "A" stamped on socket. Accompanied by leather scabbard with frog, collar, and brass endmount (surface wear to leather throughout, with surface cracking to frog and collar; endmount missing one rivet).
The Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann
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