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Thanks Wade. This seems to fit the discription given me....longer body with rounded bottom and a shorter closure flap. The one they were describing was unpainted linen with a button closure, but the body gives me a better visual.
That's it. I was perplexed about that particular original haversack until I talked to Tim Sheads about it. He had several reproductions on sale and when I asked he provided the research and proof that they were the style used in Britain at the time.
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I keep going back to the auction link and look at the excellent large size pictures of this haversack. To me, it looks like there is button hole on the closure flap - just under where the strap is pulling away.
During all my research into British imports to the South, I have never come across one invoice mentioning haversacks. It's not to say some weren't imported, but it seems Huse thought that the one thing the Confederates could provide in numbers was the humble cotton haversack. And so he never ordered any off S. Isaac Campbell & Co or Ross & Co as far as I know.
Dave Burt
David Burt, Co Author "Suppliers to the Confederacy: British Imported Arms and Accoutrements" "Suppliers to the Confederacy II: S. Isaac Campbell & Co, London - Peter Tait & Co, Limerick, Out Now
In "Entrepot" - check out page 86. It talks about the schooner Revere being boarded by the US Navy and finding haversacks listed as harnesses on the manifest. When she was dockisde in NY, they found around 39 boxes of knapsacks and haversacks.
I've got zero idea if this dude is putting out a quality product, but he is putting what he purports to be two styles of British haversacks (M1850 and M1860/65).
Anyone know if the hardware from these style bags pop-up in dig sites?
Paul B.
Paul B. Boulden Jr.
RAH VA MIL '04
(Loblolly Mess)
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[URL="http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer"]Museum of the Confederacy[/URL]
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Inscription Capt. Archibold Willet headstone:
"A span is all that we can boast, An inch or two of time, Man is but vanity and dust, In all his flower and prime."
Here's two originals formerly owned by John Henry Kurtz and sold at auction in 2008. You'll see from the sketches Andrew provided that these are the same style except painted.
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The British haversack must have been quite rare. I have seen more invoices for the waterbottle (canteen) and again they are scarce. If you want anything British try the accoutrement set and the Blucher boot. All of those came in in their tens of thousands.
Dave Burt
David Burt, Co Author "Suppliers to the Confederacy: British Imported Arms and Accoutrements" "Suppliers to the Confederacy II: S. Isaac Campbell & Co, London - Peter Tait & Co, Limerick, Out Now
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