ID Help On US Plate with Weird Hooks

[FoxHound0985]

Hello everyone,

This piece is going up for sale at a local auction, and I was interested in possibly bidding on it. The auctioneer says that he's not sure if it's real or not. My guess is that it's probably fake, but I figured I'd post it on here to get some other opinions. Has anyone seen this type of hook attachment on the back of a US plate before? The front is stippled and resembles the plates associated with Ohio troops, but those are solid cast. This one has me stumped. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

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[creskol]

There was one stippled plate, but its hooks were not like this one. There was one plate that had similar hooks, but the tongue was completely different.., Additionally, unless I am overlooking it, I don't see one like it in any of me books, so I would place my bets on it being a repro.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Everything Creskol said in his reply is correct. Definitely a 20th-century Reproduction. If you want an authoritative info-source reference for that judgement... there is no match-up for that buckle anywhere in the 616-page book "Ameerican Military Belt Plates" by Michael J. O'Donnell & J. Duncan Campbell. The auction's buckle is a 20th-century imitation of the stippled-front Original oval US buckle shown in that book. The belt-hooks on the auction's buckle are definitely Reproduction-type hooks.