Canteen with sock cover?

[Moonshine]

Hello,

I posted this topic before the BIG CRASH and wanted to look at the picture again posted from the "Civil War Canteens" book. It's the bullseye or smoothside Federal canteen with a sock as a cover.

Does anyone have a good copy they could share?

I'd appreciate it very much.

[Rob]

Re: Canteen with sock cover?

Could this be the one?

[Dignann]

Re: Canteen with sock cover?

For provenance sake, where does the book say the original was located?

Eric

[Jim Mayo]

Stopper String

That is a fine example of stopper string. It does not compare favorably with some of the string I have seen recently supplied with canteens.

[Moonshine]

Re: Canteen with sock cover?

Mr. Griffiths,

That be the one! Thanks a bunch for that.

[markj]

Re: Canteen with sock cover?

I was wondering where my other pair of socks went......

Yours, &c.,

Mark Jaeger

[Jimmayo]

Re: Canteen with sock cover?

For provenance sake, where does the book say the original was located?

Eric

The canteen's owner was Moses F. Carleton, Company I, 4th Mich. Inf. He enlisted as a private on Sept 26, 1864 and mustered out a lieutenant on May 26, 1866 at Houston. The book speculates that the sock is a result of the Schuylkill Arsenal's direction to reprocess used army material or a field alteration. (From Civil War Canteens by Sylvia and O'Donnell)