I'lGURE 146 

 CAP PLATE, C. 1836 



USNM 60292-M QS-K 50). Figm-e 150. 



This cap plate is a somewhat wider \ariation of the 

 1833 dragoon device than most of the Militia plates of 

 that type popular in the late 1830's and the 1840's. 

 While the brass sunburst has the usual 8-pointed 

 form, the eagle, applied to the center, is unusually 

 small (1^^ by 1 in.) and gives every indication of 

 having been originally designed as a cockade eagle 

 at a somewhat earlier period. 



CAP PLATE, C. 1836 



USNM 60274-M (S-K 32) . Figure 151 . 



This pattern of the 1833 dragoon eagle on a half- 

 sunburst, struck in brass and silvered, was worn by the 

 Washington [D.C.] Light Infantry "* and possibly 

 by other units of the period. Both the eagle and the 

 half-sunburst were obviously stock items. 



Figure 147 



Illustrated in U.S. .Military .Maga.-Jne (.August 1839), pi. 15. 



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