Product Highlights
This 1:30 scale metal figure by William Britain (16184) depicts a soldier of the Royal Deux-Ponts regiment standing and reaching for a cartridge.
Features
- Figure is approximately 2.5" tall
- All metal construction
- Hand painted and ready for display
About 18th-century cartridge equipment
By the mid-18th century, French infantry carried a leather cartridge box, or giberne, holding a bored wooden block and a tin tray for 30 to 32 paper cartridges, with a small tool pouch on the front flap. The buff leather straps for the cartridge box and waist belt were kept clean with pipe clay, a white powder mixed with soap and water and brushed off once dry.
