US CIVIL WAR FEDERAL ISSUE FORAGE CAP WITH MAKER’S LABEL

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Item Code: 149-36

Cap is made of a dark blue wool and is in overall good condition.

The base of the cap has numerous small moth bites with several that could be considered small holes. These are mostly on the back of the cap. The base of the crown at front, behind the leather chin strap, has scattered mothing and two repairs, one obvious and the other not. The disc of the crown is in nice shape with four scattered moth bites. The largest being just a bit smaller than the width of a pencil eraser.

Despite these scattered imperfections the cap displays well. Viewing it from the front and sides reveals only small nips. Of course, the small bites on the disc are visible no matter what but they are minor.

The side buttons are two-piece general service eagle buttons with a thin leather chinstrap complete with the original sliding brass keeper and one leather keeper. The visor is strongly attached to the cap and has an unbound edge. Surface finish shows light crazing.

Interior has a well-used and well-worn dark ox-blood sweatband. It is complete and original but looks to have been resewn to the base of the cap at the rear. The brown polished cotton lining is complete and in nice condition. Lining is present on the underside of the crown and still retains its paper label reading “SIZE NO. 2, 7, US ARMY, L. J. & I. PHILLIPS.”

Lewis J. and Isaac Phillips of New York had huge army contracts for caps every year of the war, furnishing some 35,000 in 1861, 175,000 or more in 1862, 251,000 in 1863, 330,200 in 1864, and even 50,000 on a contract of January 1, 1865. If there is such a thing as a typical Union army forage cap of the Civil War, it is likely one by L. J. & I. Phillips.  [ad][ph:L]

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