Belt buckle? E plurbis unum

[0351USMC]

Found this today at a 1730's homesite near Frederick, Md. It is very thin and rang up in the copper range on the Etrac. Any hints on a date and where it is from? Didn't find anything else worth while.

 

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[deepsecrets]

I'm sure the CW experts on TN will verify for you - but looks like a Union CW belt plate.

 

[CRUSADER]

I'm sure the CW experts on TN will verify for you - but looks like a Union CW belt plate.

I don't know either but will guess pre-CW. (& wait & watch/learn)

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Sorry, but the correct answer is no, that specific version of US Army Officer eagle-buckle is not from the civil war (1861-65), nor from before the civil war. It is definitely a Model-1874 buckle. The attachment-bar and tongue-hook are missing from its back. See photos and info on page 546 in the book "American Military Belt Plates" by Michael J. O'Donnel and J. Duncan Campbell. According to that excellent book, the Model-1874 US Army Officer belt buckles made of "die-stamped sheetbrass" (the specific type found by relic-digger 0351USMC) were in use from the 1890s until 1941.

 

[0351USMC]

Thank you for that information TheCannonballGuy.

I'm lucky it wasn't damaged more because it is pretty thin.

 

[CRUSADER]

Sorry, but the correct answer is no, that specific version of US Army Officer eagle-buckle is not from the civil war (1861-65), nor from before the civil war. It is definitely a Model-1874 buckle. The attachment-bar and tongue-hook are missing from its back. See photos and info on page 546 in the book "American Military Belt Plates" by Michael J. O'Donnel and J. Duncan Campbell. According to that excellent book, the Model-1874 US Army Officer belt buckles made of "die-stamped sheetbrass" (the specific type found by relic-digger 0351USMC) were in use from the 1890s until 1941.

knew I would learn something

 

[kevin.guitars]

I found the same darn thing on my property in Tampa, FL.