Span-Am Navy Cuff Rank Color Question

[Dave]

This uniform group popped up on eBay and for the life of me, I can't find the reference for the different colors used briefly by the US Navy. 

This group is a bit "Frankenstein" as the rank on the boards is wrong for the coat rank (I'm guessing someone probably mated the jacket to the shoulder boards and hat), but it's still an unusual group. Wish it had a name with it!
 

 

[Justin B.]

White = Paymaster so yeah, not the original epaulettes. In the Span-Am period, the captain's eagle would have been on the epaulette pad, with pay corps devices on either side.

 

The corps colors were used quite a while, 1869-1919.

 

Medical Corps: cobalt blue, 1869-1883; maroon, 1883-1919

Pay Corps: white, 1869-1919

Engineer Corps: red, 1869-1899

Construction Corps: violet, 1872-1919

Professors of Mathematics: olive green, 1872-1919

Civil Engineer Corps: light blue, 1881-1919

Dental Corps: orange, 1913-1919

Medical Reserve Corps: crimson, 1913-1919

Chaplain Corps: "lustrous" black, 1918-1919

 

Also, the changeover from colors to devices:

 

https://www.uniform-reference.net/insignia/usn/usn_ww1_corps_changes.html

 

 

[LYONSJ9]

Beautiful grouping! I love the Naval uniforms of this era.


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