REGULATION CIVIL WAR US ARMY ISSUE BLANKET IN AMAZING CONDITION

REGULATION CIVIL WAR US ARMY ISSUE BLANKET IN AMAZING CONDITION

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These wool blankets were an essential piece of a Union soldier's gear. This one is full length and unaltered. It measures 66 inches wide by 80 inches in length. The ends are finished on the sides, and they are basted over 1/2 inch on the long ends to reinforce. From the ends of the blanket at a distance of 3 1/4 inches is a brown stripe that runs from side to side and is 2 inches wide. This is now a faded but still a dark brown. Woven in the center of the blanket is a large but faded “US”. This is stitched in yarn in open-top capital letters these are 4 inches tall. Actually, these are officially specified in the regulations to be 4 inches tall.

The blanket also shows the expected weave and color, with the twill weave producing a diagonal “wale” to the fabric and the fabric showing a sand, tan or light brown color, with as we said browner tones to the end 2-inch stripes. US specifications called for the blankets to be gray including the lettering and the end stripes. Natural dyes can shift quite a bit from the environment and over time, and iron mordants used in logwood dyes oxidize very quickly, producing brown tones resulting in brown blankets. Please bear in mind how the so-called "butternut" uniforms of the Confederacy also intended to be gray changed shade, some immediately others over the years. The condition of this blanket is flawless and the existence of such a prosaic, but essential item today is unbelievable.

A must for the serious Civil War collector or a museum!  [pe] [ph:L]

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