CARTRIDGE TROOP OF THE 18th BATTALION OF FOOT HUNTERS OF LINE INFANTRY, model March 1856, Second Empire. 27151

CARTRIDGE TROOP OF THE 18th BATTALION OF FOOT HUNTERS OF LINE INFANTRY, model March 1856, Second Empire. 27151

A box or casket in blackened and waxed cowhide, flowers on the outside, presenting two sides, a front, a back and a bottom with two interior partitions, assembled by stitched seams without borders. Inside, two large compartments to each hold a packet of cartridges, and between the two large ones a small one for the necessary items and the bullet puller. H 14 cm, L 19 cm, thickness 5.5 cm.
A half-fed cow flap, blackened, waxed, flower outside, bent squarely at its assembly with the box and furnished with two corners or side edges, in its curved upper part. A cow girth sewn towards the bottom attaches to a copper button, in a drop of tallow and with a groove, riveted to the bottom of the box, H 16 cm, L 21.5 cm. The back of the pallet is hot stamped with the regiment “2e Bon” scratched and noted “18e CH.a.P.”, registered “2121” scratched then “1170”, “31” then re-registered “1725”, dated 1858 “58” and recounted “1860” and from the manufacturer in difficult to read black ink “… PARIS”.
Passing in strong cow, half-fed, blackened and waxed, sewn to the back of the box, and presenting, expanded, the shape of a trapezoid 12.5 cm high; 11.2 cm wide base, and 12 cm at the top. The large base is sewn with double stitching at the same time as the tab is assembled with the back of the box. The loop is then reused on the outside, and its smallest base is assembled against the back of the box by two parallel seams.
Blackened calfskin capsule bag, garnished inside with a curly lamb collar. It is sewn on the front of the box, and has a small flap, a strap and a small rolled leather button.

France.
Second Empire.
Very good state.