Figure 144 



Figure 145 



Washington in the center (see fig. 139), but this 

 plate, for some other "Washington" unit, bears his 

 likeness in silver metal on a brass sunburst back- 

 ground. This silver outline of the head of Washington 

 is also known on cartridge-bo.x flaps of the period. 



CAP PLATE, ARTILLERY, DIE SAMPLE, C. 1836 



USNM 60288-M QS-K 46) . 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 

 Ijell-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. 



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