_USNM 604548-M (S-K 695). Figure 161._
[Illustration: FIGURE 161]
This is a variation of the pattern of the preceding specimen in which
silver-metal devices have been placed on a small, gilt, half-sunburst
plate. This was probably a stock pattern available to any Militia
organization beginning about 1840 and worn for the next 20 or 30
years.