Box, Cartridge
- Object Name:
- Box, Cartridge
- Object ID:
- 2014.017
- Date:
- circa 1880
- Description:
- Cartridge box, New Hampshire National Guard, c. 1880. Black leather. Rectangular box with slanted top. Large front flap extends beyond sides and bottom of box. Ornate cast brass letters on front of flap, in two pieces, "NH NG", attached through flap with bent brass pins. Brown leather strap at bottom of flap that fits over brass stud on bottom of box. Two brass buttons on bottom of box. Two brown leather belt loops on back of box. Wooden block inside box, with 20 vertical bored cylindrical holes
- Material:
- Leather
Wood
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-4.5 W-7.75 D-2 inches
- Provenance:
- The box, worn by field soldiers, dates from the late 19th century, when several state militias were dissolved into state national guards, becoming more professionally run military organizations and less subject to the whims of state politics. The New Hampshire National Guard was created in 1878 and re-organized in 1901.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund
- Subjects:
- National guards reserves
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