High Quality 1850s to Early Civil War Officer’s Dress Epaulettes – Each in Original Tin Cases

High Quality 1850s to Early Civil War Officer’s Dress Epaulettes – Each in Original Tin Cases – Antebellum to early Civil War officer dress epaulettes were decorative shoulder pieces worn for significant formal occasions; the epaulettes usually were constructed with  a padded wool base, a brass crescent and bullion fringe; some featured, as this grouping does, additional features like buttons, rank insignia and branch of service designations; there were varying modes of attachment to the officer’s frock coat, as exemplified in this selection.  We obtained this impressive group of Civil War period, officer’s dress epaulettes from a renown collection of Civil War insignia and rank straps. All five of the sets of epaulettes remain in their original, “tin” cases; each set of epaulettes is unique and would have been an expensive set in the original period of use. The sets are priced individually, as enumerated below. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.

Attached with the various pictures of the epaulettes is a salient page out of Frederick Todd’s “American Military Equipage 1851 – 1872”, depicting some Civil War period epaulettes. In his brief description, Todd states the following:“Epaulettes were widely worn by officers, regulars and state troops alike, before 1861. Thereafter, they were almost entirely replaced by shoulder straps. Following the Civil War, epaulettes enjoyed a partial revival, but their high cost rendered them increasingly unpopular, and in 1872, they were given up (except for general officers)by the regular army and most state corps.”

Pricing

1. $650 (a-g)
2. $750 (a-i)
3. $450 (a-e)
4. SOLD
5. $650 (a-h)