SHOULDER-BELT PLATE, C. 1840
USNM 604337-M (S-K 493). Figure 227.
Figure 227
This brass plate with its wire-applied devices obviously belonged to an Irish-group Militia unit. The Huddy and Duval print of the Hibernia Greens of Philadelphia[137] definitely depicts an Irish harp on both the shoulder-belt plate and the cap plate, but the motto "ERIN GO BRAGH" is not included. The specimen would have been suitable for several Militia organizations, such as the Irish Jasper Greens of Savannah, Georgia, and the Montgomery Hibernia Greens. Its devices are wire-applied, and it possibly was a stock pattern.
SHOULDER-BELT PLATE, C. 1840
USNM 604340 (S-K 496). Figure 228.
