shoulder boards - but what they are?

[Christian L]

does someone know what kind of shoulderboards these are?

and what the C indicates?

thanks much in advance christian

Edited July 12, 2006 by Christian L

[Chip]

Christian,

They look like the 1866 pattern boards, but there is not much reference about them. I'm sure that the "C" was still being used at that early time, but later became a "K". The colors look Hessian. This is all just pure speculation. Perhaps others have more details about the possibilities from that era (pre 1888).

Chip

Edited July 13, 2006 by Chip

[Daniel Murphy]

Chip you are right about them being the 1866 pattern Hessian officers field boards. The only thing I can think of, is that this was an officer assigned to the corps headquarters and not to a particular regiment. Post 1871 they would have used the Prussian style roman numeral. Before that.....who knows?

Dan Murphy