December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2024
Tall, cylindrical felt caps furnished with yellow metal (brass) cap plates were authorized in February 1812 to replace the leather caps and caps worn by the U.S. Rifle Regiment since 1808. Both cap plates and buttons bearing an "RR" device were contracted for later that year and began issue by fall 1812. This diamond-shaped, Pattern 1812 Rifle Regiment cap plate of die-struck brass bearing "R.R." is the better of the two surviving examples currently known, both excavated at Sacketts Harbor, New York. Illustrated and described in numerous reference works, including Campell and Howell (1963), p. 20 and Campbell and O'Donnell (2004), p. 39 and Kochan (2--as "Figure 43 in currently known. PROVENANCE: J. Duncan Campbell Collection until 2009; Al Scipio Collection until 2015; purchased from Dan Griffin, June 2015. CONDITION: Good, with dark bronze patina, with a metal support backing of aluminum applied when restored, but three small fragments missing from upper and lower edge areas.