Soldiers Cup

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Who currently produces/sells the most historically accurate tin soldiers cup. I have a few designs in mind with documented AOT usage, but at this point I want something accuratly produced for the period. Any suggestions?

 

[johan_steele]

Wisconsin Veterans museum has/had tinware copied from Iron Brigade items in their collection.

Regimental QM has frequently had excellent items in their Campaigner corner.

Village Tinsmith or Dakota Tinworks are a couple others that come to mind.
Good luck.

 

[captaindrew]

I've been buying some stuff from South Union Mills lately and really impressed with their quality although I haven't bought any tinware from them, here's a link to their tinware https://southunionmills.com/tinware-1/

 

[Old Breck]

Just don't put it in the fire

https://m.facebook.com/andrew.m.donovan/albums/10100479899111164/

 

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Thank you for the responses. I was wondering about the ones Regimental Quartermaster offered, but had not seen them in the flesh. I am always happy with what RQ offers.

I will take a look at the other suggestions as well.

 

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Just don't put it in the fire

https://m.facebook.com/andrew.m.donovan/albums/10100479899111164/

I dont have facebook to open this Sir, what is this link showing?

 

[Old Breck]

It should be a public album.

Reenactors tend to think that a black, sooty cup that's been cooked in is a sign of authenticity. The album contains 50 some photos of shiny cups during the war

 

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It should be a public album.

Reenactors tend to think that a black, sooty cup that's been cooked in is a sign of authenticity. The album contains 50 some photos of shiny cups during the war

Ok, great good to know! I will try to access the album.

 

[Beltplate53]

Alex Ulrich.

 

[PrivateBrooke]

It should be a public album.

Reenactors tend to think that a black, sooty cup that's been cooked in is a sign of authenticity. The album contains 50 some photos of shiny cups during the war

How does one explain the references to soldiers specifically cooking in their cups? (Or at least boiling their coffee?) Many of those are studio portraits which often have staged props, so should be taken with a grain of salt. The in camp ones...perhaps that's just a new cup?

Here Private Randolph A. Shotwell of the 8th VA Infantry specifically mentions boiling of coffee in tin cups.

 

[Old Breck]

I'm not saying it never happened. In fact I included the photos of blackened cups I could find. However shiny cups, even in the field outnumbered blackened cups.

Other cooking vessels were available, even on campaign. Most reenactors don't worry about quality mess gear, and instead try to rationalize that all they need is a cup and a canteen half.

 

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A mucket or boiler would always be preferable to cooking in a cup if they were available, plus you want to pour the boiled coffee into a new container to dispose of the grounds. Of course there were many times when the men only had a cup, but based on my readings they did consider it a "cup" and not a cooking pot.

 

[PrivateBrooke]

Not at all sure how accurate these are, but they certainly look quite good to me. And at a nice price.

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No tin shop would be complete without the fabrication of tin drinking cups. Although there are various sizes and shapes that were made, this cup was reproduced from an original owned by a church celebrating its colonial heritage. I made 130 of these cups so each member could take home a remembrance

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The tin cup pictured above is hand crafted from high quality U.S.A. tinplate. At the beginning of the Civil War there were various sizes and shapes made that soldiers usually brought from home. This cup was specifically made for and distributed by the U.S. government. It is commonly called the

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Thank you all again for the suggestions.

 

[rli]

Maryland Sutler in Gettysburg just listed a lot of Ulrich tin including cups on the Facebook Trade Blanket

 

[Championhilz]

Wisconsin Veterans museum has/had tinware copied from Iron Brigade items in their collection.

Regimental QM has frequently had excellent items in their Campaigner corner.

Village Tinsmith or Dakota Tinworks are a couple others that come to mind.
Good luck.

I had a cup from the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, it was of very high quality. I lost it at the 2nd Raymond Reenactment going through a creek - I still miss that cup.

 

[j2huggies]

Ulrich has good stuff. I have a cup and some utensils from him.

 

[PrivateBrooke]

I have an Ulrich canteen, and though I haven't had it very long, I'm extremely happy with it so far.

 

[Wanderer in Blue]

It should be a public album.

Reenactors tend to think that a black, sooty cup that's been cooked in is a sign of authenticity. The album contains 50 some photos of shiny cups during the war

Agreed, I noted this mindset on a youtube video produced by a re-enacting group in which they admonished their viewers to dull their cups in a fire for "authenticity". I was puzzled, as nearly all cups in photographs, or period paintings by veterans, are shiny or at least an aged tin gray.

Moreover, I have noticed several variations in style in photographs; from deep mugs, to muckets, to shallow examples resembling a half-cup measure with a ring handle.