Found on a Whitney - anyone recognize it?
Found on a Whitney - anyone recognize it?
Belongs to a bored Reb most likely......
Never squat with yer spurs on!!!
Pat "PJ" Kelly #5795V
Virginny & Texas
540-878-8024
MAYNARDS RULE!! & starr's DROOL!
Hence the rust. MAYNARDAE LAUS DEO!
Naw,,,,,,,thar be ah few of us edumacated types ah-round!
Never squat with yer spurs on!!!
Pat "PJ" Kelly #5795V
Virginny & Texas
540-878-8024
MAYNARDS RULE!! & starr's DROOL!
Hence the rust. MAYNARDAE LAUS DEO!
Looks to be a "V" over "WD" like some kind of ordnance or war department view or acceptance stamp, but not anything I have seen on this side of the pond. Could be a state contract view mark stamped as viewed after the musket was converted to percussion? Trouble is, which state or which country? I don't know of any state associated with a trefoil symbol?
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Maybe a stretch of my imagination, but could that be a three leaf clover? A three leaf clover was the badge of the 2nd Corps of the Army of the Potomac ? Possibly someone's initials inside the clover?
For the time period of a converted Whitney, if it was New York State property I would think the stamp would be "SNY", which was used up into the late 1880's. I don't think they ever used "NYS" as an official property mark.
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