. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 237. propriate for wear l)y Texas Militia. Obviously a stock pattern, it would also have been sold to Militia organizations in other parts of the country. As in the case of most round plates, the outer ring is of a stand- ard design; variation in ])altern would occur on the inner ring. WAIST-BELT PL.\TE, NEW YORK, C. 1850 USNM 604125-M (J-K 2*i). Figurt 239. This brass-struck rectangular plate carries the arms of the State of New York'" with its familiar eagle-on- half-globe device. The whole is superimposed on a sunburst backgro
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 237. propriate for wear l)y Texas Militia. Obviously a stock pattern, it would also have been sold to Militia organizations in other parts of the country. As in the case of most round plates, the outer ring is of a stand- ard design; variation in ])altern would occur on the inner ring. WAIST-BELT PL.\TE, NEW YORK, C. 1850 USNM 604125-M (J-K 2*i). Figurt 239. This brass-struck rectangular plate carries the arms of the State of New York'" with its familiar eagle-on- half-globe device. The whole is superimposed on a sunburst background. The plate originally was made for Militia, but it is conceivable that such a plate may have been worn by early imifornied police. WAIST-BELT PLATE, NEW YORK, C. 1850 USNM 60487-M (J-K 243'). Figure 240. This brass-cast plate with its letters "s n y" for State of New York is copied directly from the 1836 plate for noncommissioned officers of the Regular Establishment. The example is the oldest known use of the letters "s n y" for New York Militia. In later patterns, the letters "s n y" and "n y" were placed on rectangular plates and on oval plates worn on the waist belt and on cartridge boxes just prior to and during the Civil War. Small square plates with silver, Old English letters "ny" are included in the 1900 catalog of the \\'arnock Uniform Co. of New 1 )d w^i)P\ — llj n Figure 240 Figure 239 '" For tlie variations in the arms of New York see Zieber, pp. 166-167. Ill. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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