✅ SOLVED Need some help with this one

[bayou6895]

Has script on the front but to hard to read.

 

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[ctalmadg]

Try a rubbing using some paper and pencil.. Might be easier to read..

 

[ctalmadg]

(Would love to know what it says!)

 

[CTwoods]

Looks really old fancy hand script.

X2-Pencil rub, or if that fails, could flour sprinkled on and wiped off, show more?

some people use whole milk, then let it settle

 

[bayou6895]

Looks like it says Larger Script R Shield On bottom in small script US NAVY

Was looking to see if any one could identify by the back what it went on.

 

[scotter1]

belt buckle

 

[duggap]

The studs on the back sort of eliminates it for being a belt plate. There are some examples of shoulder plates that have two studs on the back, but not exactly like yours.

 

[ctalmadg]

Yeah. I'd rule out belt.


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[ctalmadg]

Maybe mounted.


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[bayou6895]

Kind of what I was thinking with the back looking the way it does.

 

[ctalmadg]

I did a database search of US sailors in the civil war.. No R shield.

 

[bayou6895]

Thank you for the research

 

[duggap]

I don't think it is a box plate. Here is an example of a shoulder belt plate.

 

[A2coins]

Let us know when you figure it out looks old.

 

[sutphin]

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[bayou6895]

I think it may be a shoulder belt plate. 1790 -1805. Thank you for the picture and research.

 

[bayou6895]

DUGGAP do you have any pics of shoulder back plates

 

[CRUSADER]

19th C? Box or luggage tag??