CONFEDERATE CLIPPED CORNER – “INVERTED-V”- RECTANGULAR BELT PLATE

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Item Code: 1262-20

This excavated Confederate belt plate is a popular early-war Confederate pattern using a simple sheet brass plate with slightly clipped corners, a style carried over from the militia of the 1830s-1850s and easily replicated by local contractors in the south. See Keim, Confederate General Service Accoutrement Plates, Figures 144 and following for examples. For this plate in particular see especially his Figures 145-148, where the stains from the attachment of the belt hook and belt loop bar are fairly large and the latter form what Keim  calls an “inverted V,” noting its similarity to the backs of the stamped or embossed “VS” rectangular belt plates (Figures 207-209.) Keim’s #209 is the same plate as Mullinax (1991) Plate 362, which Mullinax attributes to Tennessee, understanding the “VS” as “Volunteer State,” though that plate was found at Mine Run, Virginia. Keim’s Fig. 207, however, is a “VS” plate from a camp yielding only Mississippi and Virginia buttons. A similar plate stamped “WG” (Keim 147) was found at Waterford, Mississippi, which might support that attribution but Keim’s #146, with plain face, was found at Newport News, so we are back to Virginia again and it rather looks to us like the verdict is still out on pinpointing an origin for the clipped corner rectangular plates with “inverted-V” style attachment of the belt loop bar and hook.

This is a good example, measures 50 X 70 mm, shows a little waviness to the surface, a very minute chip to one corner, and some thin verdigris and thin gray-light brown to the deeper brown face.   [sr][ph:L]

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