CIVIL WAR PATTERN 1851 DRUM STICK CARRIAGE AND DRUMSTICKS

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This would go well with a Civil War drum or collection of Civil War music related pieces and could be mounted on a period drum sling. This plate is shown in the 1851 regulations and was used throughout the war. The body is a sheet of rolled brass, rectangular in shape with clipped corners. Two lathe-turned brass tubes with raised bands are rivetted to the face of the plate to carry the drumsticks when not in use and a long piece of wire was bent to form three hooks and soldered to the back for attachment to a web drum sling.

The plate itself has a nice, untouched, aged patina and is in excellent condition, with no bends or cracks, with the tubes firmly in place. The wire was likely replaced by a collector for display on a sling. The original iron wire is subject to oxidation, rust and breakage even on non-excavated examples like this. In this case steel wire was used and soldered over the remnants of the old one that show up as some dark brown residue.

This comes with an original pair of drumsticks that appear to be of the period and show the appropriate widening toward the blunt ends that prevents them from sliding all the way through the tubes on the plate.

O’Donnell and Campbell illustrate this as Plate 801 in American Military Belt Plates. Infantry companies were allotted a drummer and fifer throughout the war and even after the abolition of bands at the regimental level in late 1862 the company musicians were retained and functioned as regimental drum corps under leadership of a Principal Musician or Drum Major. [sr] [ph:L]

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