ALLEGHENY ARSENAL 1864 MARKED ARTILLERY LIMBER POLE PAD

ALLEGHENY ARSENAL 1864 MARKED ARTILLERY LIMBER POLE PAD

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A U.S. artillery limber pole pad, the domed face clearly stamped in three lines "ALLEGHENY / ARSENAL / 1864." Pole pads are described under artillery harness in the wartime Ordnance Manual. Field pieces, limbers and caissons were drawn by six horses in pairs — lead, swing and wheel — with the limber pole running forward between the wheel pair. The heavy leather pad was fitted over the forward end of the pole and pinned in place to keep it from gouging or injuring the horses ahead of it.

This example is of the riveted construction associated with later-war production: a full-form cup of heavy leather with a domed end, closed around the body by a row of copper rivets set over copper burrs, and a reinforced socket notch at the open end, secured by two further rivets and pierced for the retaining pin that passed through the pole.

The Allegheny Arsenal at Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, was one of the principal Federal manufactories of artillery harness, accoutrements and ammunition, and arsenal-marked pieces are especially desirable to collectors of government-made equipment. The arsenal is perhaps best remembered for the explosion of September 17, 1862 — the day of Antietam — which killed 78 workers, most of them young women employed in the cartridge laboratory.

CONDITION:  Solid and retaining its original shape. The leather is dark brown with a good surface overall; scattered small areas of scuffing and grain loss show lighter leather beneath, with light crazing and some verdigris at the rivet burrs. The stamp is sharp and fully legible. The retaining pin is not present. Approx. 4 in. diameter x 4 in. long.

A well-marked and dated example of a necessary piece of field artillery equipment, and a natural companion to any limber, harness or artillery display.    [ss][ph:L]

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