Artillery Shell Jacket / SOLD

Artillery Shell Jacket - Inventory Number: UNI 153 / SOLD

This Union artilleryman’s shell jacket is an original Civil War article of uniform.  In excellent overall condition, the jacket is constructed of heavy wool material dyed a deep indigo blue that is still bright and vibrant. Jacket front exhibits the typical 12-button closure with twelve original brass ‘Eagle Shield’ cuff-size buttons securely sewn to the flap edge with stitching intact.  Stitching is not original as expected. The 2” high standup collar is edged in artillery-red, worsted herringbone piping and features four rows of 3/8” wide piping at the front collar.  A pair of small ‘Eagle Shield’ brass buttons adorn the edge of the red braiding on each side of the collar. Same red piping decorates the buttonhole side of the front flap and runs along the entire bottom edge of the jacket. Buttonholes are strong and tight with no tearing.   Additional piping decoration, in a chevron design is stitched along each of the functional cuffs.  Both cuffs have two small ‘Eagle Shield’ buttons.

On the backside of the shell jacket, piping rises from the two, belt-rest pads sewn to the waist to each shoulder. Both pads have strong stitching and no tearing.  Jacket’s light brown / beige interior wool lining is in very good condition with virtually no holes, no thinning or seam separation. Jacket lining sleeves of beige muslin material are in very good condition and each inner armpit. Red piping is still bright and tight.

Less expensive than the army frock coats, these artillery shell jackets were a comfortable and durable uniform garment worn by Union mounted soldiers during the war.  This Civil War uniform jacket is an original artillery specimen in fine overall condition.

Inventory Number: UNI 153 / SOLD