US Waist Belt Plate - Supplier Marked "E. GAYLORD" & Inscribed "A M COOK"- High Quality
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Item: US Waist Belt Plate - Supplier Marked "E. GAYLORD" & Inscribed "A M COOK"- High Quality
Construction: Stamped thin sheet brass, with raised stamped letters "US", rear with solder fill and stud type belt attachment hooks.
Condition: Excellent, non-excavated. Its brass front has a dull brass patina. The rim is complete and the rear has all three belt attachment hooks. The rear solder is stamped "E. GAYLORD" representing the accoutrement supplier Emerson Gaylord. Just above the stamp, lightly carved in the solder, is "A M COOK", presumably the soldier's name. The buckle has no cracks, breaks, bends or repairs.
Approximate size: 54 x 84 mm.
Reference: An example is pictured and described in the following reference book:
- "American Military Belt Plates" by Michael J. O'Donnell and J. Duncan Campbell, on page 313, plate 505.
See above page in additional images.
Comments: Most belt, cartridge box and eagle plates, both excavated and non-excavated, are not supplier marked thereby making those that are, a rarity. Of the handful of manufacturers and suppliers who stamped their plates, the Gaylord stamp found on a belt plate, rates a solid 3 or 4 on a scale of 1-10 with 10 the rarest. This marked belt plate will be an excellent addition to any excavated Civil War plate or general relic collection.
According to the above-mentioned reference book:
"Emerson Gaylord supplied the government and states with substantial quantities of 1839 pattern plates of this letter-style before and during the war. Many of his waist belt plates employed these distinctive lead filled "stud" belt hooks. A few used iron washers and some of the wartime studs were solid-cast. Gaylord explained his continued use of "studs" during an April 1863 delivery of 15,000 infantry accoutrement sets to the Springfield Armory: "My Waist Belt plate is of the old style which he (General Ripley, Chief of Ordnance) likewise said would be received." Plates from his final infantry contract (summer of 1864) were struck from the same die and equipped with "new pattern" arrow hooks."
- Product Code:
- PC2717
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