A CIVIL WAR NATIONAL ARMY ISSUE BLANKET

A CIVIL WAR NATIONAL ARMY ISSUE BLANKET

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$5,500.00

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Item Code: 1316-13

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These wool blankets were an essential piece of a Union soldier's gear. This high quality one is full length and unaltered. It measures 63 inches wide by 76 inches in length. The ends are "raw" on the four sides. From the ends of the blanket at a distance of 3 1/4 inches is a brown stripe that runs from side to side and is 2 1/2 inches wide. This is now a faded but still a dark brown. Woven in the center of the blanket formed by three 1/4-inch stripes is a large “US”. This is stitched in yarn in open-top capital letters these are 6 inches tall. The blanket is a denser or heavier stiffer wool than most. It shows the expected weave and color, with the twill weave producing a diagonal “wale” to the fabric and the fabric showing a sand, tan or light brown color, with as we said browner tones to the end 2 1/2-inch stripes. US specifications called for the blankets to be gray including the lettering and the end stripes. Natural dyes can shift quite a bit from the environment and over time, and iron mordants used in logwood dyes oxidize very quickly, producing brown tones resulting in brown blankets. Please bear in mind how the so-called "butternut" uniforms of the Confederacy also intended to be gray changed shade, some immediately others over the years. The condition of this blanket is very good with a few minor insect holes and a couple of stains. The existence of such a prosaic but essential item today is unbelievable.  [pe] [ph:L]

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