Continental Factory "New Construction" Cartridge Box, and Bayonet, Carriage, and Belt

Description:

Continental Factory "New Construction" Cartridge Box, and Bayonet, Carriage, and Belt, c. 1777-80, leather cartridge box with ovoid iron turnbuckle clasp opening to a twenty-nine-hole cherry block above a compartment with a small tin tray, the inside of the flap boldly stamped "C:FACTORY" and the front of the bag branded "U:STATES," all suspended from a whitened leather strap to emulate buff and covered with white linen, the strap with a rectangular wrought iron buckle and holding an iron wire vent pick from a coarse linen cord from the base of one strap; the leather bayonet carriage suspended on a linen belt with an American bayonet having a large bore socket, long "L" slot, and French-style blade.

Provenance: An old Connecticut collection.
Estimate $10,000-15,000

Leather is dry but in good condition, the linen strap on the bayonet belt is fragile.


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