🥇 BANNER Massachusetts milicia officer sword buckle

[pax_in_ma]

Massachusetts militia officer sword buckle plate

First time river hunting. Found one piece of a Massachusetts militia officer sword buckle plate right on the water edge. It's pre civil war. Very little information on the Internet about it so if you have any I'd love to know about it. Relicman has a complete one on his website. Need to go back and see if I can find the other piece.

Thanks for watching,

Patrick

 

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[ANTIQUARIAN]

Congratulations on your find Pax and on making the BANNER!

Dave

 

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[johnnyblaze]

Nice one man

Let me know if you want to sell it?

~Blaze~

 

[pax_in_ma]

I found the keeper. Started a new thread with pictures of both the plate and the keeper.

 

[swamp yankee]

Congrats on a great find! Go find the other half so we can see it altogether please.....

 

[pax_in_ma]

Congrats on a great find! Go find the other half so we can see it altogether please.....

I did find it yesterday. Started a new thread yesterday with pictures of both pieces apart and together.

 

[ContinentalClint]

That's sick!! Did you find it in or around MA?

 

[Meucci]

Amazing!!

 

[pax_in_ma]

That's sick!! Did you find it in or around MA?

Eastern MA

 

[digging440yrs]

Great find

 

[pax_in_ma]

From the book: American Military Insignia 1800-1851 - J. Duncan Campbell



So that all the information is in one place I am sharing everything I was able to find about the buckle. Vino also added pictures from one of his books. See the first few posts in this thread.

Feel free to add anything else you might find.

 

[pax_in_ma]

Book: American Military Belt Plates by Michael J. O'Donnell, J. Duncan Campbell

 

[pax_in_ma]

Book: Plates and Buckles of the American Military 1795-1874 by Sydney C. Kerksis

 

[pax_in_ma]

Picture of a Massachusetts officer wearing the buckle


I really LOVE this picture of a proud Massachusetts officer wearing the buckle.

 

[oxbowbarefoot]

Wow, absolutely a BANNER find!

 

[NEPADIGGER7]

That's just awesome!

 

[vermonster]

Wow..
great recovery.....Now you gotta go back and get the other half....

 

[Ahab8]

Not sure how I missed this but that's an incredible and rare relic find. Awesome man

 

[BomberJohn]

Just wanted to add another example of this rare Mass belt buckle. I found this one 2 weeks ago in Central Massachusetts. I found this thread as I was looking for information on this piece.

John

 

[pax_in_ma]

Well done! Go back to the spot, the 2nd piece can't be too far away.

 

[pax_in_ma]

So that we have all the necessary information about this buckle in one thread, could somebody please post of picture of the page from O'Donnell & Campbell - American Military Belt Plates for this buckle? or type the text from the book? I believe it's plate #352 in the book. Thanks in advance.