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M1858 M58 officer's dress Hardee hat badge insignia

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General Service officers eagle insignia. Worn on the right side of a Union officers 1858 Hardee/Kossuth/Jefferson Davis-type hat. Eagle made of gold wire rope and sequins sewn on black velvet formed over an oval tin plate with small ring attached to the back at the bottom.On a paper label pasted on the underside: The State Historical and / Natural History Society of / Colorado. Denver. Handwritten on the same paper label: H-C2.4-1.86 /Accession 10,970

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History Colorado

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Plains to Peaks Collective