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	Isaac Royal House Knapsack The Isaac Royal House Knapsack is based on an original painted canvas British knapsack in the collection of the Isaac Royal House. It has two buttoned pockets and a center pocket accessed by a central slit. It was designed to buckle around a soldier's blanket. It comes painted in Spanish red, or a ferric oxide pigment, different batches of paint and different canvasses yield different colors, so knapsacks will very slightly from the color shown on the website. While there is little evidence for them, black straps are available. While the Royal House knapsack doesn't have a chest strap, other original knapsacks and some images show them. Accordingly, they are available, though not recommended. Isaac Royal House Knapsack: $270.85 Benjamin Warner Knapsack The original Benjamin Warner Knapsack survives as just the painted canvas shell, with the remnants of an osnaburg pocket, and marks where the straps used to be. The original has two unbuttoned pockets, one made out of osnaburg, the other made out the canvas folded back onto the canvas shell. The exact nature of the straps is open to some interpretation, but three straps and buckles to close it seems to be the best arrangement that matches images of the New Windsor Catonment. The original was made up completely with straps, and probably sat in a warehouse like most knapsacks. It was only painted after it was constructed, as supply records for that area show commonly. I sell these as both a hand-stitched reproduction and as a kit.         Benjamin Warner Knapsack: $168 Benjamin Warner Knapsack Kit: $88 Morier-Style Knapsack The Morier-Style Knapsack is based on the Morier paintings of grenadiers. It's made of calfskin with its hair still on, a leather shoulder strap with a hand-forged buckle. It closes with a drawstring as images of these and a lot of earlier knapsacks show. Morier Style Knapsack: $121.63