A very good condition Ohio officer’s belt plate dating about 1875-1890. See O’Donnell and Campbell, Plates 845 and 846, the latter of which seems a closer match in using a wider border. These follow the change in the US plates replacing the integral belt loop on the side with a bar on the back of the plate in 1874. The plate has a nicely rendered version of the state seal surrounded by a wreath on a stippled ground, showing a blazing sun rising between mountains, with a sheaf of wheat, a canal boat, and cluster of arrows that in larger representations often number 17 to represent the state as the 17^th in the Union. This has pleasing, medium aged patina and good detail to the stippled ground, wreath and motifs in the seal.
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