MINTY CIVIL WAR INFANTRY BELT AND PLATE

MINTY CIVIL WAR INFANTRY BELT AND PLATE

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$975.00

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Item Code: 490-7290

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This is a minty, unissued regulation Union infantryman’s waistbelt with its original 1839 pattern stamped brass and solder-filled oval US plate with arrowback prongs and belt hook in place on one end, and its flat, C-clasp retainer on the other end, serving to keep the belt end from drooping down when worn and still allow for quick unfastening. The belt is full-length flexible, made buff leather, with clean, very light, cream color smooth back and clean black upper side, slightly oxidized toward brown from use of iron in the dye (something that happened very soon after manufacture.)

Both the plate and the keeper have lots of original gilt finish left on them with only minor handling marks or a small thin age stain or two. The belt shows a light, oval U.S. inspector’s cartouche on the surface near the C-clasp, not legible, but with the oval border clearly visible. If you want an example of what the soldier was handed by the Quartermaster or Quartermaster Sergeant when first getting his gear, this is about as close as you are likely to come.  [sr][ph:L]

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