Alabama
TG-AL(Smith) - Alabama Two Piece Belt Buckle James Smith and Sons, New York is the original maker. Acorn and oak-leaf design on belt loop. Circa-1861
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TG-AL(SMITH)2 - Alabama Two Piece Belt Plate Original maker James Smith & Sons, New York. No design on the belt loops. Circa - 1861
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TG 70 - Alabama Two Piece Belt Plate (Variant)
Circa 1861-1865
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TG-701 - Alabama Two Piece Belt Plate Circa 1861-1865
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TG- 70 (ONE) Alabama Two Piece Belt Plate
Circa - 1862 Original dug Glendale
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TG-CS Crude Alabama Two Piece Belt Plate circa 1861 - 1865 (note: Cast by a local contractor during the war from a pre-war Belt Plate) Original found Malvern Hill, Va. Antique finish so it will look original in the display case.
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T-70 FANTASY Alabama Two Piece Belt Plate Circa 1968 Never an original like T-70. Used glue and cardboard to make the Alabama seal. I now have several copied from the original belt plates. A very rare plate and took a while to get a original to cast a master pattern. You see these two T-70 and T-702 sold as original.
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T-702 FANTASY Alabama Two Piece Belt Plate Circa. 1970. GW used a button map for the buckle. Never an original like T-702 but it is pictured in the Confederate buckle book with a rarity of 10.
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T68 FANTASY- AVC - Alabama Vol. Corps Two Piece
Circa - 1968
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T-69 Alabama Sword Belt Plate Maryland-Steuart Collection, Virginia Historical Society
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TG-69 (original style) Alabama Sword Belt Plate Circa 1850 & battlefield relic.
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The back of the TG-69 original style. Has the correct applied hook.
The original Alabama Sword Belt Plate used to cast the TG-69 master pattern
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G-59 Alabama Belt Plate Maryland-Steuart Collection, Virginia Historical Society.
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G-59 Civil War type backing with the three hooks.
Original battlefield Alabama Belt Plate.
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G-59 Alabama Belt Plate (Circa 1861-1865) Original style. 1985 I cast a limited edition of the G-59 lead filled. Only cast this Alabama solid brass, no more lead filled.
I used this original Alabama tongue to cast my master pattern.
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G-59 Oval Alabama lead filled with correct backing. No longer in production.
Greg Coco, Gettysburg,PA on the left and GW. Coco wrote several civil war books and a collector.
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T-71(large) Alabama Volunteer Corps Belt Plate & T-72(small) AVC Cartridge Box Plate Maryland-Steuart Collection, Virginia Historical Society
TG-ACC Alabama Cadet Corps Belt Plate circa 1855-1861. The original was cartridge box plates but we cast them as belt plates or box plates.
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TG-71 (variant) Alabama Volunteer Corps Belt Plate
original dug Fredericksburg, Va.
TG-69BB Alabama Sword Belt Plate. Circa 1851
Always kept a ledger of each day's relic hunt. This was from June,1969 to May,1972.
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G-60 Alabama Volunteer Corps Belt Plate
Circa 1861-1865
TG-AVC/Flag Alabama Vol. Corps Breast Plate. Circa 2014.
Original with J. S. Smith & Sons, New York stamped into the brass tongue half. Smith made many different state belt plates before the Civil War. His southern state dies were destroyed when the war began.
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1980-2001 Hanover Brass Foundry cast buckles at the Williamsburg Pottery. Customers could order a custom buckle and pick it up when they leave.
Alabama Belt Plate on display in my Cold Harbor Museum dug from the 1862 Beaver Dam Creek battlefield. Also a Alabama Uniform Cuff Button.
Confederate wearing a "Alabama Belt Plate".
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