Confederate Copper CS Cartridge Box Plate

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Confederate Copper CS Cartridge Box Plate – This thin, Confederate, sheet copper belt plate was found in a Mississippi cotton field by a farmer, many years ago. Although the back elements are missing, it appears that this was a cartridge box plate. According to Mike O’Donnell and Howard Crouch, as delineated in their book ā€œThe Hammond Civil War Collectionā€, published in 2020 (this exact plate is pictured on page 277 in the O’Donnell and Crouch book about the Hammond collection), the plate cannot be discerned as having been die-struck or hand-worked. They suggest that the plate was likely a so-called ā€œback-country pieceā€ for use in outfitting a company of home guards. The plate, which retains Hammond’s inventory number ā€œCS 14ā€ on the back, remains in overall excellent condition.