CONFEDERATE CAVALRYMAN’S PISTOL CARTRIDGE BOX ON BELT

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This cartridge box measures about 5-1/2” wide, 3-1/2” tall, and about 1-1/2” front to back, making it likely a box for pistol cartridges. It is made of brown leather with the outer flap having slightly rounded lower corners and an incised border line along the sides and bottom edge. It is fastened at bottom by a short latch tab secured by a single, straight line of stitching that fastens over a small rather flat headed brass finial on the bottom of the box. The box is fitted with an inner flap with somewhat angled corners and straight lower edge. Where most federal boxes apply half-circle side ears to the inner flap, in this case they are sewn to the outer flap.

The interior of the box is open, without tin magazine, dividers or friction flaps for cartridge packs. The surface of the leather has good color and a good finish. The seams are tight, though nowhere near as neatly and tightly done as on the box’s federal counterparts. The back of the box is fitted with two narrow belt loops with incised border lines, secured at top and bottom by broad copper rivets. One belt loop has break just above the lower rivet.

This is mounted on a wide leather belt with a narrow billet on one end that would fasten into a narrow iron horseshoe buckle on the other. The belt shows a decoratively stitched portion that is broken at the end and may have been longer originally, being meant to extend over and conceal the functional simple narrow billet and buckle, the loose end then being kept in place by a sliding leather loop. We have seen some similarly arranged early militia belts, some intended to be worn with a free-floating belt plate, and some, often in the context of a rifle or light infantry company, apparently intended to be worn without a belt plate at all. In any case, it is pretty clearly an adaptation of an earlier belt and, given the cartridge box, would seem to have been done by a Confederate cavalryman, who would carry several packs of cartridges to reload his revolver.  [jet][ph:L]

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