Hanover Brass and The Virginia Historical Society.

(Excerpt from Va. Magazine of History & Biography, April 1981 v.89 no.2.)

"Gary Williams, an authority on Civil War belt buckles and owner of the Hanover Brass Foundry; recently cast in sand many of the belt plates from the Society's Maryland Steuart collection. He and his assistants use a process identical to that used in casting the original plates and the copies thus produced are virtually indistinguishable from the originals. The copies will go on exhibit this year, enabling visitors to the galleries to view the Maryland Steuart collection in its entirety while the originals, many of them irreplaceable, enjoy a larger measure of security behind the scenes, You can find this info. in Va. Magazine of History & Biography, April 1981 v.89 no.2."

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