WHITE BUFF CARTRIDGE BOX SLING

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This white buff leather cartridge box sling is rather long, one-piece, about 68” overall with the belt portion 2 5/16 inches wide and about 57 ½ inches long, the remainder of the length being in the narrow billets on the ends, each pierced with five holes for buckles on the bottom of a cartridge box. The sling has an owner’s name in old brown ink inside that seems to read, “G C Perris.” There is a bit of rubbing and the second initial could be a G as well, but the “Pe” seems clear and would eliminate something like “Ferris.” We see small stenciled brown ink “E” near one end and the faint impression of a “K” before that, which might be the remnants of a maker’s stamp, but we cannot make out the rest and a black light has not revealed much. We have labelled the belt English by default.

The belt has not been pierced for a plate, but we note one small hole about ¼ inch in from the edge a bit below the midpoint, most likely for a brush and vent pick used with flint lock muskets to clear the priming pan and touch hole and often secured to the cartridge box sling by a small ring with narrow chains suspending the two tools. This would seem to open up at least the possibility of an earlier, pre-1839, American sling, whether U.S. Army or volunteer militia, though opinion seems to still incline toward English.

In any case, the sling is in very good condition, buff leather, but showing mostly smooth on the exterior from chalk or pipeclay used in whitening, most of which remains, though muted and showing soiling, some rubs, and stains. The lower portions of the sling and the tabs show soiling and bends indicating it was on a cartridge box for a long time. Narrow border lines on those sections were likely obscured by the whitening on the rest of the belt.  [sr] [ph:L]

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