CIVIL WAR UNION CAVALRY LINE OFFICER’S FROCK COAT

CIVIL WAR UNION CAVALRY LINE OFFICER’S FROCK COAT

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$2,500.00

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Item Code: 1316-07

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This is a regulation Civil War Union cavalry officer’s coat as worn by company or “line” officers: Captains, First Lieutenants, and Second Lieutenants, as indicated by the single-breasted nine-button front and the use of cavalry officer’s “Eagle-C” buttons throughout. This shows use and wear, indicating the owner saw active service, along with some moth damage from storage over the last 160 years or so, with the latter concentrated mainly on the collar and meriting some conservation, though not affecting the structural integrity of the coat.

The coat is fully regulation, with standing collar about 1-1/2” tall at the front and 1-1/4” tall at the center rear. A small iron wire eye is still in place on its lower right front. An iron wire hook on the lower left is missing. All nine large Eagle-C cavalry officer’s buttons are in place on the front, with four more at the rear waist and bottom of the tail pocket openings in the skirts on either side of the vent, as well as three small Eagle-C buttons on each of the functional cuffs. All have matching Thomas N. Dale backmarks. The interior is fully lined, the lining showing as a olive green, quilted in the chest, sides, and shoulders, with a white sleeve lining. There is one interior pocket in the left breast, opening along the lapel. Two pockets in the tails are accessible from the outside.

The worst moth damage is largely limited to the collar, with a spattering on the upper back and top of the shoulders, with five or six small spots along the edge of the left lapel next to buttonholes, and one on the right elbow. On the back of the coat there are some scattered pencil point nips on the right shoulder, three narrow holes (1/4, ½ a and ¾” long in the small of the back on the right and a 1/8 X ¾” hole at the center rear waist between the two buttons. The edges of the cuffs show legitimate wear from use, as does the lower edge of the skirts, also with a diagonal open seam about 4” long from the bottom edge up toward the bottom button of the left pocket, and the linings of the skirts, which show some holes, wearspots and shredding to the fabric from movement of the wearer’s legs or movement of skirts against them and boot tops while mounted.

There is no identification with the coat, but the owner certainly saw some active service. The shoulders show some very slight shading from shoulder straps that were once on it, either lieutenant’s or captain’s. We note an old laundry tag inside on sleeve, indicating the family must have had it cleaned at least once before finally deciding to let it go. This is a well-used, but completely legitimate Union cavalry officer’s coat deserving some TLC.  Please see our photos.  [sr] [ph:L]

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