Box, Cartridge
- Object Name:
- Box, Cartridge
- Object ID:
- 1966.545.332
- Date:
- 1770-1780
- Description:
- Cartridge Box. Covered with leather; tooled band around exterior edge of flap and sides. Stitched with hemp. Rectangular body with curved top; wood interior block containing 24 deep holes for holding cartridges; curved on back to fit the hip; two part brass clasp on front at bottom and interior of flap. Separate trapezohedral leather envelope sewn on front beneath flap. One of two vertical straps sewn on back.
- Material:
- Tissue
Leather
Wood
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-4.5 L-9.5 D-3 inches
- Provenance:
- Horace W. Harmon Collection. Harmon catalog entry #332: "Revolutionary Cartridge Box from Whidden family, Rye NH. Bought CW Graham, 1898".
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Horace W. Harmon
- People:
- Harmon, Horace W. (1844-1911)
- Subjects:
- Revolutionary War, Military life, Military service, Military uniforms
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