A FIELD MODIFIED CONFEDERATE CARTRIDGE BOX

A FIELD MODIFIED CONFEDERATE CARTRIDGE BOX

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Item Code: 2025-2016

Offered is an early war Confederate made cartridge box that is a copy of the US 1857/1861 counterpart. Its dimensions across the front flap are 8 inches, and this has a height of 7 inches. The box itself is 7 inches by 5 inches and is 1 1/2 inches thick.  In many ways it is identical to the Federal product with its brass finial, but its assembly is sloppy. The hand sewn stitching of the latch tab to the front of the flap in 2 rows, not the typical 1 row, is very irregular. The vertical straps on the back to facilitate wearing on a belt are haphazardly placed with the right one too close to the center line. Also, where the over-the-shoulder strap would come through one loop is longer than the other. These things, as trivial as they are, would never allow this box to pass Northern State or Federal inspection.

Of great significance is the modification done to this box, namely removing the tin liners and replacing them with a 4 inch by 6 7/8 inch drilled wooden block. The 12 round receptacles with a 1 1/2-inch depth will hold cartridges ranging in size from .50 caliber up to .58 caliber. The block is not removable but was affixed with 18 iron round headed tacks (4 are missing). The implement pocket originally on the inside front of the box was removed as was the small inner flap. The two-iron roller buckles that the shoulder strap attaches to are intact. There is evidence that this box once had at least 2 different plates on the front, but where the plates sat are conspicuously the 1-inch initials " W. N"; these are so typically Confederate. The condition is good with one tiny loss on the lower left of the front flap. Also, one of the vertical belt loops was torn and it has now been backed, and it is stable. Whether the wood block addition/modification was done by a cavalryman, an artilleryman or a foot soldier is impossible to say but it is a very interesting transformation that "whistles Dixie".  [pe][ph:L]

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