CAP PLATE, ARTILLERY, DIE SAMPLE, C. 1836
USNM 60288-M (S-K 46). Figure 149.
Figure 149
This uncut, brass cap plate may have been a manufacturer's die strike sent out as a sample, with others, so that a distant Militia organization could select a pattern. The finished plate is known on a bell-crown cap of the pattern of the 1820's, but its design indicates that it probably should be dated after 1834 when the Regular artillery first adopted the crossed-cannon device. The eagle is distinctly similar to the one adopted by the Regulars in lieu of cap plates in 1821, and the modified sunburst background probably was taken from the 1833 dragoon device.
CAP PLATE, C. 1836
USNM 60292-M (S-K 50) Figure 150.
