MANN’S PATENT REVOLVER CARTRIDGE BOX

MANN’S PATENT REVOLVER CARTRIDGE BOX

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Item Code: 2026-930

This is a Mann’s Patent leather cartridge box for revolver ammunition.

The box, a patented style ammunition holder, was a leather accoutrement available to Federal soldiers during the last part of the Civil War.  Referred to as the Mann’s Patent box, it was introduced in December 1863 by Colonel W.D. Mann of Detroit, MI, and was designed to replace earlier accoutrements.   This accoutrement system used a set of leather straps or slings that enabled the box to be worn on the upper front of the trooper and thus it acted as a counterbalance to the other equipment worn by the soldier.  The new equipment combined the cartridge box, pistol box and cap box in one rig and enabled the soldier to carry more than double the amount of ammunition as held in the old boxes.

The leather of this cartridge box is in good condition, strong and smooth, with only light wrinkling. In place of the traditional oval US brass box plate on the outer flap is a large embossed, double-bordered oval, with 1” high embossed letters “US” inside. Within the border is stamped, “COLONEL MANN’S PATENT REISSUED JUNE 7TH 1864 / E. GAYLORD MAKER CHICOPEE, MASS.” Also stamped on the front flap is an oval sub-inspector’s stamp.

Box outer flap has the original leather closure tab that is strong and complete and fits tightly onto the original brass finial at the bottom of the cartridge box.  Outer flap also retains both end-pieces, a.k.a. “ears”, strongly stitched in place. Leather pouch is strong and complete.  Box has a 1 3/8” wide, leather strip or loop stitched and riveted to the backside enabling it to be used as a waist belt. Leather carry strap appears to have been cut off.  All black leather is in very good condition with a few tiny areas of scattered surface wear.  The metal cartridge tin wears a mottled, dusky gray coloring and is in fine original condition.

This maker-marked accoutrement is a rare and nice leather specimen most sought after by the Civil War collecting field.  [jet][ph:L]

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