Uniform bits identification

TheGreenMan

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I got a few bits of uniform in a recent auction. I am assuming these are from the mid-late 1800s. I might be selling these and would like an identification and a rough price on them would be nice too (I tend to the WWI and WWII eras so I don't really know much about this time period).
Thanks for any help!

The bag on this one says it is an 1872 pom-pom for an artillery shako.
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I'm guessing this bag is of hat cord parts for the 1872 (or maybe an 1881?).
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Sword hanger bits with the clips?
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I looked up this ribbon and fragment and I found them but now I can't remember! :-)
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Some sort of badge. Seems to have been dug. The tag says Shiloh...
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I recognize the last one. It's the shield from the pommel of a McClellan saddle. If it weren't so corroded, you could see a size mark on it. Similar shields were also used on World War I McClellans, and I have no idea how one could date it definitely to the older model, though obviously provenance goes a long way, and there may have been subtle differences in the size or shape.
 
I got a few bits of uniform in a recent auction. I am assuming these are from the mid-late 1800s. I might be selling these and would like an identification and a rough price on them would be nice too (I tend to the WWI and WWII eras so I don't really know much about this time period).
Thanks for any help!

I looked up this ribbon and fragment and I found them but now I can't remember! :smile:
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The Blue/Gray ribbon looks exactly like one I got as a Boy Scout back in about 1961 as part of the Civil War Centennial. It had a gunmetal grey medal hanging from it but I can't recall exactly what that looked like.
 

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