PUPPY PAW HOOKS FROM 1839 OVAL BELT PLATE

PUPPY PAW HOOKS FROM 1839 OVAL BELT PLATE

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Item Code: 1000-2548

Offered here is a complete set of belt hooks removed from a Pattern 1839 enlisted belt plate. This is an earlier style known as the “puppy paw” pattern of hooks. In a “complete” belt buckle, these would have been embedded in the lead backing of the plate.

Often, Confederate soldiers in need on materials such as lead, sheet brass, or these hooks, melted captured accoutrement plates for the components. In this case the hooks were likely reused just as they are, for their intended purpose, as a waist belt hook. There is some photographic evidence supporting these being used in this fashion.

Hook set is cast brass with dark “relic” patina. Name of the relic hunter who found it is written on the back. Recovered in Confederate Winter camps in the Orange/Gordonville, Virginia area. [jet] [ph:L]

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