December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2024
A Revolutionary War "soft" of bag-style cartridge box with a wooden block drilled with 17 holes of 3/4 in. diameter, set in two rows; the block 3 inches deep; body approximately 4 inches deep and fitted closely around the block at top and covered by a scalloped flap, approximately 11 in. wide by 8 1/2 long. This is a form of cartridge box commonly used by New England troops in the first half of the war and the 17-hole versions can be most closely identified with Massachusetts origin/use. The remains of a 1 5/8 in. W, black leather shoulder can be seen, sewn into the seam between flap and back panel of body ear each end. CONDITION: Good to very good, the leather crazed and stiffened with passage of time; light edge wear.