DINGEE MARKED ROUND EAGLE CARTRIDGE BOX SHOULDER BELT PLATE

DINGEE MARKED ROUND EAGLE CARTRIDGE BOX SHOULDER BELT PLATE

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Item Code: 2025-1391

This regulation belt plate for the infantry cartridge box sling has an even brownish, deep bronze tone to most of the face, with some rubbing to the high points of he raised design at center, giving the eagle’s upper chest, knees, and top edge of the wing at right a brighter, copperish tone.

The reverse has an even lead-solder fill, showing a dark gray at two sections of the edge, and an even silver gray over most of the back, with no loss of surface and both iron wire loops in place, all indicating the plate was not excavated, but acquired its dark patina from years of neglect or storage. The maker’s stamp, “H.A. DINGEE,” is very crisply stamped in small letters in line with the two loops. The Dingee family were major accoutrement suppliers with Henry A. Dingee taking over the firm in 1851. During the Civil War the company acquired many of its plates from subcontractors, applying their one-line stamp through 1865. See O’Donnell and Campbell Plate 461 for a parallel example.

These plates were adopted in 1826 with hooks on the reverse for the bayonet shoulder belt and made of brass for artillery and white metal for infantry. This was changed to brass for both services in 1831 and when the bayonet was moved to the waist belt around 1842, the plates were redesigned with two loops on the back for wear as fixed ornaments on the cartridge box sling and plates with hooks were relegated to the NCO and musician’s sword shoulder belts. (Some militia versions used hooks at a different angle for wear on the waist belt.) Although in theory the plate was dropped with introduction of the 1864 cartridge box rigs with no plates, the plate remained in use in the field and was not discontinued until the new 1872 sets of accouterments were distributed.

This is a nicely marked example produced by a major supplier to the US government during the war.  [sr][ph:m]

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