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MAINE VOLUNTEER MILITIA CARTRIDGE BOX PLATE
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This is an excavated VMM box plate. These plates were patterned after the U.S. box plate, but were stamped VMM for Volunteer Militia of Maine, and are thought to have been issued to Maine’s ten volunteer infantry regiments raised in 1861.
Maine issued two forms of the plate: one with a lead solder fill and one without, the latter simply soldering the iron wire loops in place. This is an example of that first type. On the reverse a moderate layer of lead with remnants of the iron wire remaining, showing rust, of course, and with loop ends missing.
The face was cleaned at some point leaving a brassy-coppery tone. The VMM stands out clearly and the full rim shows several dings. Despite the “cleaned” face, the reverse definitely shows that this plate was “dug”. The recovery location is unknown.
See O’Donnell and Campbell, Plate 558 and 559 for a discussion of the VMM box plates where they note this is the scarcer pattern, that with the solder fill being the “usual” one found. [jet][ph:L]
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