The leather of this cartridge box is very good condition, very strong and smooth, with only a few surface scuffs.   Leather on bottom and sides is also excellent.  The Gaylord inspection cartouche is still prominent.  In place of the oval US brass box plate on the outer flap is a large, handsome, deeply embossed, double-bordered oval with 1” high embossed letters “US” inside. Within the border is stamped, “COLONEL MANN’S PATENT REISSUED JUNE 7TH 1864 / E. GAYLORD MAKER-CHICOPEE, MASS.” Very lightly stamped to the left of this is a script “US” and rectangular sub-inspector’s stamp.