UNIQUE "CSA" ENGRAVED BELT PLATE

$2,895.00
Originally $3,450.00

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Item Code: 88-206

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This belt plate is of the clipped corner "Militia" type dating circa 1835 to 1850 (see Kerksis' Plates and Buckles of the American Military 1795-1874 Figure 183). It is made of heavy gauge stamped sheet brass and is slightly contoured. It has 3 brass heavy wire hooks silver soldered on the back. The size is 2.30 inches by 3.38 inches. Nicely hand engraved in 1 1/2 inch up-right capital letters is "C.S.A." for Confederate States of America. This was certainly done by a talented Confederate soldier in the field. The work and hand are absolutely Civil War period. The patina is "brassy yellow" with a mellow mixed plum brown. The condition is excellent showing the expected marks and scratches from period use. It is attached to a 1 3/4 inch wide and 34 inch long blackened, on one side, buff leather belt. The buckle has certainly been on this belt a very long time, but if it was on this belt during the Civil War is now impossible to know.

The buckle was for years in the famous Charles Ardinger collection. Ardinger, who lived in Lancaster PA in the later years of his life, was a close associate of William Albaugh. Albaugh acknowledges him in the preface and features many of his buckles in his publication Confederate Arms, pages xi; 166 to 170 and 174 to 178. The verbal history passed is that this CSA buckle was found in Wrightsville, PA. Wrightsville was occupied by General Gordon's Confederates just days before the battle of Gettysburg. Wrightsville is across the Susquehanna River from Columbia PA which was eight miles from Lancaster and about twenty to Harrisburg. The covered bridge that spanned the river was burned by retreating Yankees thus preventing further rebel incursions. This is a really wonderfully rare (unique) Confederate plate. Ex. C. Ardinger, George Gorman IV.  [pe][ph:L]

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