A "folding" or collapsible cap, constructed of green morocco leather and bound with green silk tape of 1/4-inch width. The outer leaves are 12 inches long at bottom and 5 1/4 inches high and essentially an oval of leather folded in half and edge-bound together with tape. The crown is.....
Die-struck brass, oval form, 4 13/16 x 3 3/4 inches. Hompesch's Light Infantry, also called Chasseurs was a corps of light troops consisting of 450 "chasseurs" armed with military rifles and 690 musket-armed fusiliers raised in Germany for British service. They sailed for Martinique at the close of 1796, served.....
[probably Philadelphia]: Quartermaster General, US Army, 1833. 16 x 10 1/8 folio sheet, encapsulated in mylar. Manuscript list with all of the types and forms of enlisted garments to be procured for the United States Army in 1833 and the costs to be assigned for each [not filled in]. Above.....
Watercolor on card, 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches (view) within gilded brass mat inside original, carved, oval frame (4 7/8 x 4 1/8 in. overall). Portrait of an unidentified officer of the elite 5th Battalion of the 60th or "Royal American" Regiment of Foot, circa 1803. He wears the.....
Ink on illustration board, 27 x 19 3/8 inches; signed "Copeland/66" on lower right; conservation matted. A young teen stands proudly before the Williamsburg Magazine wearing his new "LIBERTY OR DEATH" frock and holding one of the blue-painted trade guns issued to his company from the Virginia State Store. Peter.....
1814. 5th. [WAR OF 1812]. William Duane. "Hand Book for Infantry." 5th ed. Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1813. 8vo, original boards; With 12 leaves of plates, figures in text. (i)-vii, (viii-blank), (1)-112 pages, 12 plates. American Imprints 28364 (locating 1 copy); this edition not recorded in OCLC. The rare.....
London: J. & D. A. Darling, 1850. Ashley, Alfred. [1840S BRITISH INFANTRY UNIFORMS]. THE DAYS WHEN WE HAD TAILS ON US. WITH FOURTEEN COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS. DEDICATED TO THE OFFICERS OF THE BRITISH INFANTRY. London: J. & D. A. Darling, 1850. 2nd edition. Original calf binding with title on spine and.....
Watercolor on ivory, 1¾ x 1½ inches, initialed and dated: ‘IP/1789’; within original rose gold case. A superb Peale miniature of an American artillery officer, wearing a scarlet-faced, blue uniform featuring gilded buttons and a “rise-and-fal” cape or collar, with gilt bullion epaulette. The single epaulette on the right shoulder.....
Oil on canvas, 24 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches; within carved and gilded frame. Portrait of Lieutenant Raymond Henry Jones Perry (1789-1826) in the undress uniform of a Navy lieutenant per the 1812 Navy regulations, probably painted to celebrate his promotion to lieutenant in 1813. Raymond was the second son.....
"JOB" (Jacques-Marie Gaston Onfray de Breville). First edition. [JOB COLOR UNIFORM PLATES]. La Tour D’Auvergne: Premier Grenadier de France. Paris : Boivin & Cie, 1905. Artwork by ‘JOB’ (whose full name was Jacques-Marie Gaston Onfray de Breville) and text by “Montorgueil” (Octave Lebesque), who collaborated together on several children’s books on.....
This extremely rare example of the British rifle officer's jacket is, by tailor's measure, for a man approximately 6 feet tall with a size 44 chest and waist!! Who says that "they were all smaller back in the early 19th century"?! The body is constructed of deep bottle green superfine and faced.....