Nice original pasteboard container mostly full of musket caps.  2 1/4” in diameter x 3/4” tall.  Paper label pasted to lid reads: “U.S. MILITARY MUSKET CAPS. / WALLACE & SONS. / 100 / WATER PROOF”.  Pasteboard container is in excellent condition with some soiling on the label. About ¾ filled with copper musket caps.

Thomas Wallace received his training in Birmingham, England as a wire drawer, having come to America in 1832. In 1841, he moved to Derby, Conn. and through 1848, drew wire for the pin machines at the Howe Manufacturing Company.  In 1848, he started Thomas Wallace & Sons in Ansonia. Wallace and his sons built a reputable business rolling metal and drawing wire.  Obviously they made percussion caps as seen by this package.  But during the Civil War they also manufactured drawn brass cartridge cases. They made 1 million Maynard cartridge cases for the Frankford Arsenal.  They also made brass Burnside cartridge cases for the Watervliet Arsenal and the Burnside Rifle Mfg. Company.  [jet]

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