. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. has been found. It is probable that he worked during the Civil War period when there were many such contractors. WAIST-BELT PLATE, INFANTRY, 1839 USNM 604399 QS-K 546). Not illustrand. This plate is identical to those above except that the is stamped with the inakcr's name. "H. .\. ; WAIST-BELT PLATE, INFANTRY, 1839 USNM 604m {S~K 544). Figm-e 92. The reverse side of this plate is fitted with the rather rudimentary wire fasteners similar to those on shoulder-belt plates of the 1812-1821 period. In other respects the
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. has been found. It is probable that he worked during the Civil War period when there were many such contractors. WAIST-BELT PLATE, INFANTRY, 1839 USNM 604399 QS-K 546). Not illustrand. This plate is identical to those above except that the is stamped with the inakcr's name. "H. .\. ; WAIST-BELT PLATE, INFANTRY, 1839 USNM 604m {S~K 544). Figm-e 92. The reverse side of this plate is fitted with the rather rudimentary wire fasteners similar to those on shoulder-belt plates of the 1812-1821 period. In other respects the specimen is identical to the preceding ones of 1839. ^ The 1839 regulations specified a bayonet-belt plate "round, brass, with ; The 1841 ordnance manual was more exact, specifying the plate to be "brass, circular, in. diameter, with an Eagle," and then stating: "The bayonet belt is about to be discontinued . . ." Although not so authorized at the time, this plate, so familiar during the Civil War period, was switched over to the shoulder belt support- ing the cartridge box. Such plates were manufactured in gi-eat quantities and in many variations of the original design by a dozen or more contractors durino the period CARTRIDGE-BOX-BELT PLATE, 1839 USNM 60m-M (^S-K 94). Figure 93. This circular plate, with raised rim, is dominated by an eagle of refined design that is very similar to the eagles appearing on the War of 1812 plates. The eagle has its wings drooped, head to the left, three arrows in the right talon, and an olive branch in the left talon. This specimen can be dated with the earliest cartridge-box plates because of its back- ing and the type of fasteners. Whereas the backs of the later models were lead-filled, this plate was struck in thin brass over tin and the edges of the obverse crimped to retain the backing. The fas- teners are of the bent-wire type typical of the 1812- 1832 period and are not the "2 eye
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