December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2024
Although somewhat battered in its period of service and perhaps later life, this is a rare example of the Model 1813 cap for U. S. rifle and artillery regiments, constructed in the same fashion as the so-called "Tombstone" cap of the infantry, but with a flat, circular crown. The leather of the cap is fairly stiff and evidences some shrinkage, but its rough measures are in accord with the contract specs and the other known examples of this cap in various museum and private collections, being 5 3/8 inches high behind and 7 3/8 diameter at crown, its cupped visor (green-painted on underside) 2 5/16 inches wide at center. The cap still retains its interior sweatband of leather, but the linen liner is now missing. It has two slits cut in front, to receive the loops of a ca plate, with leather socket plume on the left side at the seam 3 3/4 in H x 1 in. W and at its base is attached a 2 3/8 in. diameter cockade. PROVENANCE: Purchased from Jack Buchert in 2006. CONDITION: Good as described; the leather now dry and form slightly misshapen, with crazing to the black surface, but remarkably intact.