Civil War Flag Pole Top

[warguy]

Nice! Based on your post, looks like mine in post 9 might be a match for the Ohio style? Thanks for sharing. 

[ken1967]

17 hours ago, warguy said:

Nice! Based on your post, looks like mine in post 9 might be a match for the Ohio style? Thanks for sharing. 

It looks like it to me though I'm still learning about these eagles. As I understand, the patterns on many of them were continued in production post-war. The difference was the level of detail wasn't the same as during the CW period. While detail level is subjective (IMO), I'm working with Del and another long-time CW finial collector to learn how to tell the difference between CW and post-war versions of an eagle.

[ken1967]

22 hours ago, warguy said:

Nice! Based on your post, looks like mine in post 9 might be a match for the Ohio style? Thanks for sharing. 

I ran your pic past Del and he said it was a Cairns & Bro. New York eagle finial. While there were some made post-war, he feels yours is CW period. 

[warguy]

Wow, thanks so much for doing that. I am really happy to have the information. Kevin

[Outtair]

These are beautiful presentations. I have an Eagle pole topper that Ken has identified as 1890 t0 WWI. I got this in a collection of dug Civil War items from an estate with no history.  I would like to mount it like all of the above. What I hope is someone has a picture of how it mounts.  There are 2small holes for the claws and a large hole in the tail feathers, what am I missing. Can anybody help?

Thanks, 

Tim