✅ SOLVED what kind of US SWORD BELT PLATE is this?

[wayfas4u]

I'd like to know more about this belt plate. Year? It's bent probable because of the plow. Can this be professionally bent back into shape? If so who does this? Dug today in plowed cotton field. Also posted in today's finds! Thanks.

 

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[villagenut]

Hard to tell the way it is..BTW it is a beauty. Looks like an Federal, Regulation 1851 officer's plate pattern 627. Lots of variants though so may not be right.Yours does have integral wreaths and not the applied wreath version which are often missing when found. Nice plate though.

 

[wayfas4u]

thank you for educating me with your info villagenut! I'm still overwhelmed I found this in south georgia!

 

[fyrffytr1]

I DON"T LIKE YOU!!!!! You sure know how to kick a man when he's down! Let's see now, what else can I say? OH yeah, WOW that is an exceptional find for this part of the country! If I have to crawl I will be on the next hunt!!

 

[wayfas4u]

hahahaha......you always crack me up Fyrffytr1, that's what I like about you - persistence all the way!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Just speaking up in agreement with Villagenut, it is a US Army Model-1851 swordbelt plate, issued from 1851 until replaced by the Model-1874. You found the version made for officers, which has in integrally-cast wreath around the eagle. Yours could have been lost in that cottonfield during the civil war, or during the postwar Occupation by yankee troops during the "Reconstruction" era.

You asked "Can this be professionally bent back into shape? If so who does this?" The only person I know who has enough professional knowledge and experience to tell you whether or not your badly folded solid-cast brass beltplate can be straightened (and properly do the work if it can) is Roland Frodeigh, who posts as RoFro at mytreasurespot.com. Tell him Pete George sent you.

 

[wayfas4u]

thank you kindly Mr. Pete......I am so excited to find this especially in south Georgia. Thank you for responding!