December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2024
Epaulette strap of gold, vellum lace with buttonhole on one end and embroidered crescent at the other, from which 3 in. L x 1/4 in. dia. fringe is suspended, with two under rows of finer fringe, the first of twisted, gold wire and the last of buff twist. The original scarlet cloth underside of the strap is missing, but a small trace remains at its junction with the wool crescent pad, which is covered with a buff silk, heavily shattered, but upon which the original sales price of the epaulette is inscribed, "CM/ $4.[?]8"; the pasteboard support for the strap is inscribed "Captain / Simeon P. Strong." S. P. Strong (1774-1841) is recorded commanding a troop of horse in Tompkins County as early as 1807 and is buried in Athens, NY. NY Dragoons generally wore red coats with red facings and "yellow" (gold or brass) trimmings during this period. With the epaulette is a note "Capt. Simeon Prime Strong / my father's Maternal / Grandfather / [signed] Florence Fox Harrop" (1880-1966). Purchased from J. Craig Nannos in 2014.