CONFEDERATE LOUISIANA HAT DEVICE

CONFEDERATE LOUISIANA HAT DEVICE

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You could call this stamped brass insignia of a Pelican feeding her young a hat pin, but it has 2 brass wire prongs on the reverse floating in a bed of lead that facilitate attachment. The size is 1 /2 inch by 1 1/4 inch. The type was most often worn on the front of a kepi or to hold up one side of a slouch hat. Not the only one known it was actually excised, or cut out from, a ca. 1860 Louisiana shoulder belt plate. These plates were stamped brass oval in shape and had 2 wire loops soldered to the back. The obverse showed a pelican feeding its nesting young, a scale over which is "JUSTICE" and below the nest the motto "UNION AND CONFIDENCE" (see attachments). They were meant to be worn on the thin, single ply, linen belts of the militia type.

Almost immediately when the war began this form of accoutrement was abandoned in favor of a more durable form made from leather and if linen of double thickness and blackened. The result was a surplus of die-struck plates from which these hat badges could be cut. The other possibility is that these insignia were struck, as is, by the same manufacturer who created the shoulder belt plates because the motif of the pelican feeding young is identical the that on the breast plates. Whichever is the case, we are offering this excellent condition insignia as Confederate Civil War.  [pe] [ph:L]

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