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Regulations and Notes for the Uniform of the Army of the United States: 1902

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I have owned a copy of this and other booklets by Jacques Noel Jacobson, while he is an honourable gentleman with good intentions, these books were once all there was for collectors who wanted the regulations of the uniforms of the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and United State Navy. Jacobson took the existing regulations and added half-tone black and white photographs to present an image of what the unuforms and insignia looked like at the time it was issued and worn by the troops. By today's standards it is a poor quality booklet and might be added for historical sake to show how much prograss has been made in gathering information as well as better photography, many are now colour photographs with a high resolution. This is a poor man's booklet in that they were produced cheaply and sold at a low affordable cost to the buyer and there were issues for the years dating from 1852 to 1918. The best being the uniforms of the United States Marine Corps which is the most profusely illustrated. Leonard L. Bain was the other pioneer who hand illustrated his booklets in pen and ink, most 3rd Reich insignia, but Jacques Noel Jacobson was quick to answer his correspondence, something not always likely to happen with many of today's insignia and uniform book authors. Jacobson also collected rarer insignia and uniforms of the Light House Sevice and the various State Militias and offered items otherwise not found elsewhere and I would gather his profits were slight at best. oday we can get the regulations governing the wearing of uniforms on the Internet, something that did not exist when these booklets were produced. I'm not sure what they should cost now as I do not know how scarce each edition is, but I know most of them were produced in great number and S&S Firearms in Brooklyn used to sell them among their other stock of U.S. Civil War and Indian Wars items. I found these booklets interesting, but John Philip Langlier and others have greatly improved the quality of books on the uniforms of the U.S. from 1776 to 1919. Henry Alexander Ogden stands alone in quality, but his large volumes are costly, though well worth the price, Jacques Noel Jacobson's booklets were good for collectors with very little money to invest; although the book is unintended poor quality by today's standards, it was all we had decades ago, you be your own judge! Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California