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Lot 384
Scarce Militia Lead-Filled Variant of the Model 1851 Sword Belt Plate
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
50 x 83 mm plate, circa 1861, with a conforming brass keeper; the belt leather is 26 in. long.

From a Private Virginia Collection

See American Military Belt Plates by Michael J. O'Donnell & J. Duncan Campbell (Alexandria: O'Donnell Publications, 2nd ed., 2000), Plate 633, page 384.

The rig is in fairly good shape, however the plate's tongue is no longer present.