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  • MARCH BULLY BUY - Wambaugh, White, & Co. Shelter Half Blanks

    March Bully Buy - WAMBAUGH, WHITE, & CO. SHELTER HALF BLANKS!

    Dan Wambaugh and Brian White are happy to announce their first Bully Buy in years! During this month’s sale we decided to offer a new product - SHELTER HALF BLANKS - at a limited-time discount price before they are permanently added to our website catalog. A total of three contract styles are available. Each tent blank includes a sewn tent body, buttonholes and grommet holes punched, Manila rope for peg loops and guy line, cotton cord for hand sewing, 23 bone buttons, beeswax, and sewing instructions. These are a great option for those of you who have basic sewing skills, want to save some money, and have a few spare hours to dedicate to hand sewing!

    1.) Joseph Lee Shelter Half Blank: A “Type 2a” style consisting of a three-piece cotton drill body with natural bone buttons, hand-sewn corner reinforcements, and black ink stamp. A New York City contractor, Lee produced 90,000 complete tents in July and August 1862, and 32,000 tents in April and May 1863.

    2.) Henry S. McComb Shelter Half Blank: A “Type 3a” style consisting of a two-piece cotton drill body with natural bone buttons and red ink stamp. McComb was a Wilmington, Delaware contractor who provided 269,000 tents in April, May, and August 1862, and February 1864, delivered to the New York Depot.

    And a new style never before offered…..

    3.) John M. Wade Shelter Half Blank: A unique style not included in Gaede’s typography, the Wade shelter half consists of a two-piece cotton drill body with horizontal seam orientation, natural bone buttons, cotton drill button reinforcements, and black ink stamp. Wade was awarded a July 1864 contract for 50,000 single-seam shelter halves delivered to Cincinnati. An original photograph (below) shows a Wade contract shelter half being used in the field.

    Price per Shelter Half Blank is $50.00 for the month of March. Please visit http://wwandcompany.com/component/content/article/43-garment-kits/305-shelter-half-blanks.html to place your order!

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    Last edited by Eric Tipton; 02-28-2014, 08:48 PM.
    ERIC TIPTON
    Former AC Owner

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    Re: MARCH BULLY BUY - Wambaugh, White, & Co. Shelter Half Blanks

    I'm a long time fan of Mssrs Wambaugh and White, and as I've just got a group of young historians lifting off the ground, I plan to take full advantage of this offer. I would, however, like to request a picture of *exactly* what will be showing up when one orders a kit so that a rank amateur like myself will be able to tell just how much work will go into such a project.
    Eugene Yeo
    “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.” - Dr. Seuss, "The Lorax"

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      Re: MARCH BULLY BUY - Wambaugh, White, & Co. Shelter Half Blanks

      I asked this question on another site and never got the answer I was looking for. Of the Jos. Lee and McComb shelter halves which one would have been more prevalent in the Atlanta Campaign? Or because they went to the NY Depot would either have been used in the Western Theater? 20th Corps?

      Mark Hale
      Mark Hale
      Dept. of Georgia & South Carolina
      SUVCW

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        Re: MARCH BULLY BUY - Wambaugh, White, & Co. Shelter Half Blanks

        To Mr. Hale: I went to W&W's website and when you look at their page, there is a bit more info, and it actually mentions for the John M. Wade one that "these tents can be seen in some photographs of Federal camps around Atlanta in 1864." It is also marked more descriptively as 'John M. Wade/Cincinnati Contract Shelter Half" on their site.
        Not an expert opinion or nothing, but with pictures documenting the Wade one to Atlanta in '64, it might be worth looking into that one.
        Jory Maloney

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