SPANISH AMERICAN WAR KHAKI WEB CARTRIDGE BELT

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This web cartridge belt is made of khaki webbing with narrow dark stripes running along the top and bottom and has 40 loops for .30-40 caliber Krag cartridges. The belt is solid, but shows some fraying along the top edge. The loops are woven with closed bottoms, an improvement designed to keep out dirt. The brass ends of the belt are clearly stamped with the Mills and Orndorff 1867 to 1894 patent dates.

Company saddlers and other leather workers started fabricating looped cartridge belts for non-regulation wear in the field soon after the formal adoption of metallic cartridge arms. Some suggest it might even date to the Civil War, but a point in the later 1860s with the adoption of the .50 Sharps and Allin conversions seems more likely. In any case, the army started catching up in the 1870s with the development of the 1874 Hazen loops, which slid over the leather waistbelt, and the 1876 prairie belt using web cartridge loops covering a leather belt with an open frame brass buckle. This shifted to fully woven belts in the 1880s using cast and then stamped H-shaped U.S. belt plates and finally to patterns like this in the 1890s that omitted the belt plate in favor of a simple wire clasp system. It was not long however, before these passed from use in favor of pocket belts better suited to magazine arms using fixed numbers of cartridges per loading.  [SR][ph:L]

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