November 15 & 16, 2022 Extraordinary Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/15/2022
Lot consists of 2 red, white and blue Maryland Union cockades and tintype: (A) Red, white and blue silk cockade with the blue portion extending in 2 short ribbons with forked tails. Secured at center by stitching to a circular web disk though which is fixed a small, cuff sized Maryland seal button. (B) Red, white and blue cockade made by 3 silk ribbons folded and stitched to a white web square though which passed the shank of a coat size Maryland state seal button and extending about 2" down. The button is surrounded by a narrow bullion coil. (C) Ninth plate tintype, matted, glassed and framed in half a leatherette case, showing a young boy, waist up, wearing a large cockade with ribbons on his chest at viewer's left. CONDITION: Very good. Button backmarks not examined. Type is slightly dark with rubs at right, touching figure's shoulder, but not affecting face or cockade at left. Smaller cockade illustrated in "Arms Makers of Maryland", pg. 114, Fig. 98.