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Bryant Roberts and I visited the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room several months back and came across this cartridge box that had a characteristic that I had not seen before.
The box was captured near Aiken, S.C. in 1865.
On the left side of the box there is the remnant of a leather strap or tab that was sewn onto the box itself. The upper end of the thin piece of leather had been cut or torn off leaving only the 1” X ˝” tab you can see stitched onto the side of the box in the second image.
On further inspection of the opposite side of the box, it is clear that there is stitching which looks just like that which attaches the piece on the left. However, the entire piece of leather is gone on the right and all that remains is the remnant stitches.
We pondered what this could have been but could not come up with anything solid. I hope that someone here will have a better idea of what this could be. It looks like it could have been a strap that ran from one side of the box to the other however this “strap” would have been a narrow piece of leather as it appears to be only ˝ “ wide.
Sorry the images are so poor. They were taken with my cell phone without a flash.
Thanks
The box was captured near Aiken, S.C. in 1865.
On the left side of the box there is the remnant of a leather strap or tab that was sewn onto the box itself. The upper end of the thin piece of leather had been cut or torn off leaving only the 1” X ˝” tab you can see stitched onto the side of the box in the second image.
On further inspection of the opposite side of the box, it is clear that there is stitching which looks just like that which attaches the piece on the left. However, the entire piece of leather is gone on the right and all that remains is the remnant stitches.
We pondered what this could have been but could not come up with anything solid. I hope that someone here will have a better idea of what this could be. It looks like it could have been a strap that ran from one side of the box to the other however this “strap” would have been a narrow piece of leather as it appears to be only ˝ “ wide.
Sorry the images are so poor. They were taken with my cell phone without a flash.
Thanks
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