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Message:: [QUOTE="pjstack, post: 541637, member: 15872"]I did a little research in George and Melvin Fuld's reference book.  The craftsman who made the die for the ovberse was Emil Sigel of New York City, NY. At that time there was a Fort Lafayette in NY harbor.  The following is from Wikipedia: "Fort Lafayette was an island coastal fortification in New York Harbor, built next to Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is now Bay Ridge in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Construction of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge forced the fort's destruction in 1960; the Brooklyn-side bridge pillars now occupy the fort's former foundation site." Fort Lafayette was also a Union prison during the Civil War. So, my guess is that the lettering on the headband represented Fort Lafayette (with the final "tte" presumed to wrap around the back of the headband). I suppose it's as good a guess as any![/QUOTE]