Figure 254 



Figure 257 



WAIST-BELT PLATE, C. 1850 



USNM 60478-M (S-K 234). 



Figure 257 . 



As in the case of the preceding plate, the letters 

 "h r" on this specimen cannot be specifically 

 identified. Similar unidentified plates in the national 

 collections have the letters "s o i" and "p b." 



WAIST-BELT PLATE, C. 1850 



USNM 604167-M (_S-K 323). Figure 258. 



This plate is known both in heavy metal stamping 

 and in thin, cheap brass. Examples of the latter type 

 appear to have been struck in the period of the 1890's 

 from a die then 50 years old. A plate similar to this 

 one has been excavated from a Civil War battlefield 

 site. A stock pattern, the design was obsolete for 



Figure 256 



Figure 2^ 



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