Help with authentication

Hello I have had this slave tag for a while now and always thought it might be real and authentic but never could find out any info on the tag until tonight I seen a website that shows a man who donated items to a slavery museum and in the photo has the exact same slavery tag that I have but with just a different name so that is pretty much What I need in my head to think this is an authentic slave tag from 1823 but just thought I would post it here to show other people that might be interested and get other thoughts on if they have ever seen any of the tags that are like mine or if they have any more info about the item thank you and have a Freaking great day out there in the world…

 

Fakes I would think. They look to have no wear whatsoever.

https://www.reddit.com/r/metaldetec...sponse_to_the_slave_tag_guy_the_real_history/

 

And they look cast, whereas the ones in the link were punched from a copper plate.

 

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I live in Virginia and we don't have a Blackstone County.

 

OK, thank you for everybody opinion I was just curious because the man on the website donated his to a slavery museum and it looks exactly like mine and his authentic so I would Think mine would be as well. The photo that I uploaded is not Me that the gentleman on the website holding the exact same tag with a different name on it.

 

I said, do some research and find that website and let that gentleman know that he must be donating fake items to slavery museum because ours are exactly the same

 

I need to. Is what it was supposed to say.

 

It sort of looks like the article might have been from 2003. Or perhaps I'm reading it wrong.
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/...to-the-planned-but-never-news-photo/138789523

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AI says Blackstone County is now "Nottoway County/Blackstone area".

For reference...
There's one shown on this website:
https://ugrrquiltcode.blogspot.com/2015/01/peter-eliza-farrow-sr.html?m=1
Another reddit discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/av3clb/metal_plate_ive_had_for_years_more_info_in/

I find it odd/suspicious that there's no info on the internet about a "Monte Bello Plantation" in Virginia... except in relation to these tags.

 

I believe Blackstone is a town in Nottoway County. Nottoway Couny was established 1788 from Amelia County. I believe the town went by a different name until 1888 when the town was renamed Blackstone, well after the 1823 date on the tag.

A Montebello, in Charlottesville, appears on the link below.

Here is a link to the Virginia Department of Historic Resources with some info on Blackstone and Montebello.

https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/142-0007/

https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/104-0043/

Virginia has many slavery related items in a database if you wish to search.

https://www.daacs.org/about-the-database/daacs-cataloging-manual/

 

Charlottesville is nowhere near Blackstone so I doubt that that Montebello is the one associated with the mysterious Monte Bello in Blackstone County named on the tag.

 

If there was a Blackstone County

 

It doesn't look legit to me. I think it's unfortunate that, like Civil War memorabilia, these are faked and sold to the unknowing and unsuspecting.