This brass ornament is a die sample or unfinished badge. After the circular device was trimmed from the brass square, it would have been worn as an officer's chapeau ornament or as a side ornament on the round leather dragoon cap of the period. The four arrows in the eagle's left talon are unusual. CHAPEAU COCKADE, GENERAL OFFICER, C. 1840 _USNM 604962-M (S-K 1156). Figure 146._ [Illustration: FIGURE 146] This large, round chapeau cockade with its gold embroidery and sequins on black-ribbed silk and its ring of 24 silver-metal stars appears to be identical to cockades that have been shown as being worn around 1839 by Gen. Edmund P. Gaines and Gen. Winfield Scott[116] but without the added center eagle. Close examination of this cockade shows it to be complete, with no traces of a center eagle ever having been added. The 24 stars would have been appropriate at any time between 1821 and 1836. [Footnote 116: _U.S. Military Magazine_ (May 1841), unnumbered plate; (March 1841), unnumbered plate.] CAP AND CAP PLATE, JACKSON ARTILLERISTS, C. 1836 _USNM 604780 (S-K 925). Figure 147._ [Illustration: FIGURE 147] The Jackson Artillerists of Philadelphia, after the appearance of the regular dragoon cap plate in 1833 and the large crossed cannon of the regular artillery one year later, lost no time in combining these two devices to make their distinctive cap device.[117] It seems probable, however, that the plate was adopted by other artillery units and eventually became more or less of a stock pattern. [Footnote 117: Illustrated in _U.S. Military Magazine_ (January 1840), pl. 26.] CAP PLATE, WASHINGTON GRAYS(?), C. 1836 _USNM 604608-M (S-K 755). Figure 148._ [Illustration: FIGURE 148] The Washington Grays of Philadelphia wore a diamond-shaped plate with a likeness of George Washington in the center (see fig. 139), but this plate, for some other "Washington" unit, bears his likeness in silver metal on a brass sunburst background. This silver outline of the head of Washington is also known on cartridge-box flaps of the period. CAP PLATE, ARTILLERY, DIE SAMPLE, C. 1836 _USNM 60288-M (S-K 46). Figure 149._ [Illustration: FIGURE 149] This uncut, brass cap plate may have been a manufacturer's die strike sent out as a sample, with others, so that a distant Militia organization could select a pattern. The finished plate is known on a bell-crown cap of the pattern of the 1820's, but its design indicates that it probably should be dated after 1834 when the Regular artillery first adopted the crossed-cannon device. The eagle is distinctly similar to the one adopted by the Regulars in lieu of cap plates in 1821, and the modified sunburst background probably was taken from the 1833 dragoon device. CAP PLATE, C. 1836 _USNM 60292-M (S-K 50) Figure 150._ [Illustration: FIGURE 150]