Jacket

Object Name:

Jacket

Object ID:

1996.044

Place of Origin:

New Hampshire

Date:

circa 1860

Description:

Jacket, New Hampshire Militia Musician's, fulled wool. Fitted bodice and sleeves, high neck, tails. All blue, with nine, red-on-white horizontal stripes across jacket front. Additional red-on-white decorative patches on cuffs, shoulders, neck, and tails. Nine button front closure. Twenty-two large buttons present on front (5 missing), located on the ends of each stripe and down the center. Smaller buttons on cuffs (two on each present, one on each missing) and neck (two on each side). Seven larger buttons present on tails (three missing). Two varieties of buttons: large (total of 29), and small (total of eight). All have molded brass fronts on disks, with soldered copper shanks. Large buttons: 0.9" diam., and depict the New Hampshire State Seal (boat, sun, people in foreground) surrounded by the words "* NEW=HAMPSHIRE * / VOL. MILITIA". The maker's mark on back of each button reads "* SCOVILL MF'G Co * / WATERBURY". The small buttons are 0.6" diam., and have the same front as the large except with no people in the foreground. Maker's mark on the back of each small button reads "SCOVILL MF'G CO. / WATERBURY." Jacket fully lined, and padded on the front and sides. Bodice and sleeves lined with cotton muslin, tails lined with green cotton and wool/hair. Green velvet cuff lining. Two identification marks on jacket's lining: a sewn-in tag on center front, and a stamp on center back. The tag is polished cotton, with the following information handwritten in black ink, "No 28 [L] A Ba[i]ly / [30] / Muse M. Gaurde". The stamp, black ink, reads,
"N H-STATE-HOSP / NUMBER-9XXX / 97" and handwritten by it, "J.E.C." Small adult size. Moth holes throughout the wool. Several tears in lining.

Material:

Textile
Wool
Copper
Cotton
Wool
Velvet

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase