1851 Officers Sword Belt Plate

[pat (chicago)]

1851 Officer's Sword Belt Plate

After years and many hunts of Civil War sites with various hunt groups, I finally found a belt plate !!! And this was found a few days ago in a 1890's house lawn in a northern Chicago suburb of all places! From viewing 100's of 1851 officer sword belt plate pictures online, I still cannot identify the variation. Can anyone help me put the proper tag on this piece? Thanks for any and all info !!

 

[pong12211]

Nice find.. I'm heading back down to berryville west virginia july fourth weekend with the wife to see the inlaws.. Me and my father inlaw will be looking for the same kind of find.. Congrats..

 

[vpnavy]

WOW - one outstanding find pat.

 

[Argentium]

Nice looking plate for sure ! I know jack about militaria , but somebody here will know exactly what it is .

 

[Atomic Ed]

Wow that is totally cool! Congrats!

 

[genlee]

Hey Pat is the background stippled or just smooth brass. Because if it is stippled it is an Officers belt plate and would have been guilded, I own a copy of North South Trader and they did a story on the 1850 Officers Belt plates, and your was a good match, if it has a stippled background.

John

 

[kshollywood]

What does stippled mean? I just found one today!b

 

[monsterrack]

real good find

 

[pat (chicago)]

yes...

Hey Pat is the background stippled or just smooth brass. Because if it is stippled it is an Officers belt plate and would have been guilded, I own a copy of North South Trader and they did a story on the 1850 Officers Belt plates, and your was a good match, if it has a stippled background.

John

the field/background is stippled. thanks for the feed back!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Great find! Used to be that a sword belt plate would draw a lot of replies on this forum. I hope it still turns out to be that way. They are hard to find!

Congrats,

Buckles

 

[okerraine]

Awesome find, congratulations!