Waist belt plate
Waist belt plate
- Description
- Model 1851 U.S. Cavalry Sword Waist-Belt Plate.
- Union regulations called for oval "US" plates to be used on most waist belts and on cartridge boxes, and for circular eagle plates to be used on shoulder belts. Union cavalrymen, however, used a rectangular eagle plate on the waist belt that held their sword.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- insignia
- Other Terms
- insignia; Army; Belt Plate
- associated date
- 1861-1862
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 5.715 cm x.635 cm
- ID Number
- AF.15399
- catalog number
- 15399
- accession number
- 58300
- catalog number
- 287145
- Credit Line
- Louis Lipton
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military
- Civil War
- Military
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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