Figure 15. 



-Specimen in Fort Erie Museum 

 Ontario, Canada. 



Figure 16. — Specimen in Campbell collection. 



through them. Most cap plates of this period were 

 pierced at the corners for attachment ijy threads. 



^ The cap plates issued to the artillery regiments 

 (less the Regiment cf Light Artillery) and the rifle- 

 men during the period 1812-1821 are known, but 

 onlv a fragment of one is represented in the national 

 collections. Illustrations of all extant are included 

 to complete the picture. Two of the 1812 plates 

 issued the 2d Regiment of Artillery (fig. 15) ha\-e 

 been excavated at Fort Erie, Ontario, and are in the 

 collections of the museum there. A plate cf the 3d 

 Regiment (fig. 16) excavated at Sackets Harbor. 

 New York, is of an entirely different design. The 

 lower third of a plate of the 1st Regiment (fig. 17). 

 again of a different design, was excavated by the 

 authors in 1961. In 1814, when the three regiments 

 were consolidated into the Corps of Artillery, these 

 plates were superseded by one bearing the eagle-on- 

 cannon device closelv resembling the button of the 



artillery for the period 1814-1821, which has the 

 word ''Corps" inscribed."- Specimens of this latter 

 plate representing two distinct though similar de- 

 signs have been excavated at posts known to have been 

 manned by Regular artillery in 1814 and later (figs. 

 18, 19). The same general design appears also on 

 crossbelt plates and waist-belt plates (see below pp. 

 34-35). 



CAP PLATE, 1ST REGIMENT ARTILLERY, I8I2 



USNM 67240-M. Figure 17. 



The over-all design of the plate of which this brass- 

 struck fragment represents approximately one-third 

 can be rather accurately surmised by comparing it 

 with several of the ornamented buttons issued to the 

 infantry in 1812-1815. It is probably the work 

 of the same designer."'' The plate is rectangular with 



■ See Johnson, vol. 1, p. 45, and vol. 2, pi. 10. 



' See Johnson, vol. 2, specimen nos. 183, 184, 210-213. 



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