This embroidered bullion officer’s insignia showing crossed sabers is the regulation Civil War insignia for an officer of cavalry. This was made using narrow and slightly wider bullion with the narrower strands used to form the body of the saber scabbards, with drags on the very tips and small carrying loops, and the alternating the wide and narrow to delineate the upper part of the scabbards and the guard and grips. The maker used a dark blue wool ground on a web backing. This shows some small moth holes at right and staining at left, but the bullion retains a lot of its gilt finish and the color of ground is good. The patch has been trimmed to a rectangle that shows some raggedness to the lower edge. This was likely worn by an officer on the front of a forage cap or kepi in the field rather than a regulation dress hat that might have used a larger insignia with oval ground and jaceron wire edge. This has a small piece of tape on the back with a collector’s inventory number and still shows what are likely some of the original threads used to attach it to the cap along one of the edges.  [sr][ph:L]

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