Small uniform plates/postcards

[major bill]

I got these this weekend. I have not seen them before and wondered if anyone knows anything about them. What does P.H.P No. 1 Copr 1958 indicate? Who is Tom Parker?

 

[Jimklag]

Wa

I got these this weekend. I have not seen them before and wondered if anyone knows anything about them. What does P.H.P No. 1 Copr 1958 indicate? Who is Tom Parker?

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Wasn't the 2nd Rhode Island Elisha Hunt Rhodes' outfit?

 

[Jimklag]

I got these this weekend. I have not seen them before and wondered if anyone knows anything about them. What does P.H.P No. 1 Copr 1958 indicate? Who is Tom Parker?

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Copr 1958 is probably the copyright date.

 

[Jayboss1]

Sarge has a straight knights of Colombus style sword and they all have matching red bed rolls. I remember seeing those desert style caps associated with Rhode Island somewhere else. Very cool stuff.

 

[Jimklag]

Wa

Hey! Maybe it's Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis's manager. Lol

 

[major bill]

The over shirts worn early in the war by The 1st and 2nd Rhode Island Regiments are often depicted in books and uniform plates.

 

[UCVRelics]

PHP Parker's Historical Prints

 

[major bill]

PHP Parker's Historical Prints

That would make sense. I did not pay much for them. For 1958 they are not bad as to art and do a good job (ca. 1958) of accurately depicting the uniforms.

 

[Package4]

Major Bill-I thought of your collection of plates when I was in Bermuda last week and saw these for sale for $5 each. Company of Military Historian plates at the Globe Hotel (Runners and Rouges exhibit) which had been the Office of the Confederate Agent (blockade running supplies from England).

Considering what they are going for on EBay, I should have purchased the lot!

 

[Package4]

Sarge has a straight knights of Colombus style sword and they all have matching red bed rolls. I remember seeing those desert style caps associated with Rhode Island somewhere else. Very cool stuff.

Early war militia sword with an ivory handle a knights head and period correct.

 

[James N.]

I got these this weekend. I have not seen them before and wondered if anyone knows anything about them. What does P.H.P No. 1 Copr 1958 indicate? Who is Tom Parker?

Copr 1958 is probably the copyright date.

PHP Parker's Historical Prints

These were published in 1958 and issued in two sets and I own both of them; I don't remember where I got them, probably on vacation in 1961 or 1964. There was a Union set of four prints: this one, 1863 6th N.Y. Cav. fighting dismounted; an 1862 group of Wisconsin soldiers beside a campfire; and a mounted captain of artillery in a snowy 1864 road scene. The Confederate set included a mounted 1864 group of Terry's Texas Rangers; an 1862 cannoneer of the 5th (western) company of the N. O. Washington Artillery; an 1863 campfire group of infantry; and a dismounted officer of the 1st Va. Cav. in 1861. Tom Parker was the artist and I really haven't found any inaccuracies in any of these, which I have had framed on my walls for literally decades and look at every day!

 

[major bill]

Major Bill-I thought of your collection of plates when I was in Bermuda last week and saw these for sale for $5 each. Company of Military Historian plates at the Globe Hotel (Runners and Rouges exhibit) which had been the Office of the Confederate Agent (blockade running supplies from England).

Considering what they are going for on EBay, I should have purchased the lot!

That is a good price especially for the early plates. As a Company members I can but them at 3 plates for $10 including shipping. The problem being they only have about 2/3 of the plates and are our of the rest. I do have most of the plates bur am always looking for those I like that I do not have.

 

[major bill]

These were published in 1958 and issued in two sets and I own both of them; I don't remember where I got them, probably on vacation in 1961 or 1964. There was a Union set of four prints: this one, 1863 6th Penn. Cav. fighting dismounted; an 1862 group of Wisconsin soldiers beside a campfire; and a mounted captain of artillery in a snowy 1864 road scene. The Confederate set included a mounted 1864 group of Terry's Texas Rangers; an 1862 cannoneer of the 5th (western) company of the N. O. Washington Artillery; an 1863 campfire group of infantry; and a dismounted officer of the 1st Va. Cav. in 1861. Tom Parker was the artist and I really haven't found any inaccuracies in any of these, which I have had framed on my walls for literally decades and look at every day!

I have not seen these so the amount of them for resale must be a bit limited. They seem to cover some of the standard units artist cover.

 

[James N.]

I have not seen these so the amount of them for resale must be a bit limited. They seem to cover some of the standard units artist cover.

Keep in mind they were produced for the Centennial and sold in small packets of 4, mainly in souvenir shops, so tended to depict rather "ordinary" subjects but in a well-done and realistic manner.