. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 6i SHOULDER-BELT PLATE, INFANTRY, USNM 60248-M QS-K 6). Figure 62. This specimen is of the same design as the 1814 Infantry cap plate, type I (p. 15). It is oval, with raised edge. Within the oval is an eagle with an olive branch in its beak, three arrows in its right talon, and thunder bolts and lightning in its left talon. Below is a trophy of stacked muskets, drum, flag, and shield. The plate is silver on copper, with sheet-iron backing and bent-wire fasteners. As in the case of the Artillery Corps plate, just preceding,
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 6i SHOULDER-BELT PLATE, INFANTRY, USNM 60248-M QS-K 6). Figure 62. This specimen is of the same design as the 1814 Infantry cap plate, type I (p. 15). It is oval, with raised edge. Within the oval is an eagle with an olive branch in its beak, three arrows in its right talon, and thunder bolts and lightning in its left talon. Below is a trophy of stacked muskets, drum, flag, and shield. The plate is silver on copper, with sheet-iron backing and bent-wire fasteners. As in the case of the Artillery Corps plate, just preceding, this must be considered an officer's plate. A similar oval plate bearing the design of the 1812 dragoon cap plate, and of similar construction, is known. SHOULDER-BELT PLATE, I8I4 USNM 6647S-M. Figures 63, 64. Excavated on the site of Smith's Cantonment at Sackets Harbor, Xew York, this plate is interesting in that it differs in both construction and method of. Figure 62 attachment from similar plates of the same period in the national collections. Rather than being struck in thin brass with a backing and fasteners applied to the reverse, this specimen is cast in brass and the edges rather unevenly beveled, with two studs and a narrow tongue for attachment cast inte- grally with the plate and with hexagonal heads forced over the ends of the studs. This means of attach- ment, which indicates that the plate was intended to be utilitarian as well as merely ornamental, is similar to that on British plates of the period between the Revolution and the War of 1812. The plate could have been worn by either infantry or artillery, for both were issued brass plates during this period,*" however, it is more probable that it was worn by the infantry, since the majority of the artillery in the .Sackets Harbor area were stationed nearby at either Fort Pike or Fort Tomkins. "" Letters from Irvine in Records .\GO: To Colonel Bogar- dus, February 16, 1814: to James Calhoun, Janua
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