_USNM 604962-M (S-K 1156). Figure 146._
[Illustration: FIGURE 146]
This large, round chapeau cockade with its gold embroidery and sequins
on black-ribbed silk and its ring of 24 silver-metal stars appears to
be identical to cockades that have been shown as being worn around
1839 by Gen. Edmund P. Gaines and Gen. Winfield Scott[116] but without
the added center eagle. Close examination of this cockade shows it to
be complete, with no traces of a center eagle ever having been added.
The 24 stars would have been appropriate at any time between 1821 and
1836.
[Footnote 116: _U.S. Military Magazine_ (May 1841), unnumbered plate;
(March 1841), unnumbered plate.]