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Half considered including Steffen's drawings, however those are just as speculative as anything else. His pommel and cantle shapes are significantly 'off' from typical French designs of the time. I would presume that those should be the most likely candidates.

It's telling that Ringgold and Sumner were both in Washington and pushing their design, at the same time as Talcott was trying to get modification costs from Fairbairn. Must have been interesting for Talcott to balance these different interests...

I found a washington dc paper that posted all kinds of information about who was in town and where - the week of Talcott's letter to Ringgold and Sumner, as well as his letter to Fairbairn & Co. about the hussar modifications, both Ringgold and Sumner were announced in the paper as arriving and staying at "Granby's", a hotel also known as the "National Hotel" at 6th and Pennsylvania Ave. I suspect, among other things, that the two officers were stumping for the new horse equipment design that was finally adopted in 1844.

Operational security was not a well-appreciated concept at that time, apparently.

Excellent!