Museum Collections
Luce Center
Belt plate
Object name
Belt plate
Date
1760-1783
Medium
Brass
Dimensions
Overall: 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (6.4 x 10.8 cm)
Description
Rectangular waist belt plate of a Hessian Officer "F.F." (Feurst Frederick) Prince Frederick Regiment, found in 1921 in the British Hut Camp on Seaman Avenue, NYC. Text label in object file.
Credit Line
Gift of Captain Howland Pell, 1920
Object Number
INV.5631.8
Marks
cast: (1) "26" (cartridge box badge; openwork; below crown with beaded border; 26th British Regiment; excavated by Field Exploration Committee at Fort Ticonderoga)
cast: (2) cartridge box badge Royal Regiment of Artillery, British Army
cast: (3) "GR" (cartridge box badge; openwork; below crown; 4 x 2 1/2; no. 1947.293; British Foot Guards; excavated by FEC at Dyckman campat seaman Ave., 1913)
cast: (4) "15" (cartridge box badge; openwork; below crown; 15th Regt.; found 1905 in White Plains, NY)
cast: (5) "45" (cartridge box badge; openwork; below crown; 45th Regt.; replica)
cast: (6, 11) bonnet badge, 71st Fraser Highlander Regt.; circular crown at top and thistle center; "FACE REAUT PATE/IMPUNE/.........QUILQUIDAUT NEMO..." "71" (AT BOTTOM); (found at Riverside Drive and 86th St. in 1840, Gift of Howland Pell, 1920)
engraved: (7) "XXVIII GR REG" (silver sword belt plate, rectangular; 28th Regt. officer; excavated by FEC at Arden St. and Broadway in Manhattan)
engraved: (8) "FF" (foliate; below engraved crown; brass rectangular waist belt plate of Hessian officer, Prince Frederick Regiment; excavated by FEC in 1921 at Dyckman camp-Seaman Ave.)
stamped: (9) crossed cannons (rectangular waist belt plate; brass; prob. Hessian Anspach artillery regt.; excavated by FEC at Fort George, 191st and Audobon Ave.)
cast: (10) "CG" (openwork; brass rect. waist belt plate; British Coldstream Guards; replica)
engraved: (14) "RF" (engraved foliate on front of rect. brass belt plate; British Royal Fusiliers; excavated by FEC at 181st and Broadway)
engraved: (15) &q




