Re: Wooden Buttons on Type IIs
Brian,
Rich and I examined the May half awhile ago, and indeed, it has a full compliment of wooden buttons that are very similar to those seen on several C.S. pieces. From a previous discussion on C.S. use of shelter halves:
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Originally Posted by cprljohnivey
I know Craig Schnieder has some information about CS issued shelter halves. Perhaps contacting him. I believe he has even made a few and they are smaller than the U.S. varieties if you can believe that.
Just the Alfred May shelter half, and there's plenty of debate as to exactly what it is and who made it (in fact, we had two curators doing the "Its Confederate! No its Federal!" debate in front of us when we went to see it). Made of three pieces of rather coarse cotton duck, entirely handsewn, wooden buttons that match those seen on a couple Confederate garments, and yes, its a good bit smaller than the halves listed in Gaede's book.
-Craig Schneider
Brian,
Rich and I examined the May half awhile ago, and indeed, it has a full compliment of wooden buttons that are very similar to those seen on several C.S. pieces. From a previous discussion on C.S. use of shelter halves:
Quote:
Originally Posted by cprljohnivey
I know Craig Schnieder has some information about CS issued shelter halves. Perhaps contacting him. I believe he has even made a few and they are smaller than the U.S. varieties if you can believe that.
Just the Alfred May shelter half, and there's plenty of debate as to exactly what it is and who made it (in fact, we had two curators doing the "Its Confederate! No its Federal!" debate in front of us when we went to see it). Made of three pieces of rather coarse cotton duck, entirely handsewn, wooden buttons that match those seen on a couple Confederate garments, and yes, its a good bit smaller than the halves listed in Gaede's book.
-Craig Schneider
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