December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2024
A group of artifacts recovered from an 1814 Jackson campaign site in Georgia, excavated by Jim Baldwin, from whom acquired in 2001. The lot includes a trade ring, table knife, sheet lead whirligig, button and most important, a modified Pattern 1812 Artillery cap plate. This plate was purposely altered from the original oblong form, by cutting it down into a "football" or pointed ellipse form, 3 1/4 inches wide, encompassing the stacked cannonballs portion of the original plate. This may represent a purposeful cut-down for reutilization on a fatigue cap or hat, once new cap plates were issued out to a unit. Described and illustrated in Campbell & O'Donnell (2004), p. 44. CONDITION: Good to very good, as found; the cap plate has a piece that has separated, as seen.