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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3127905, member: 10461&quot;]I think most of the regular issue CSA belt plates were plain brass - I&#039;ve seen dug examples that tend to be rather dark.&nbsp;&nbsp; But I&#039;m sure there were gilt types of some of the officer belt plates.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any event, there were no belt plates in this imagined version of the Orangeburg Hoard (though I was tempted to add some).</p><p><br /></p><p>There <i>were</i> buttons aplenty, though only of the &quot;Manuscript C&quot; Cavalry and Manchester-backmarked SC State Seal types.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>(It was also very tempting to put some CS Navy and other rare buttons in the strongbox, but like I said before, I&#039;m trying to imagine this as realistically as possible.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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