Civil War Era Cinch Buckle Found in NE Kansas

[High Plains Prospectors]

I found this buckle south of Kansas City in a ghost town that is now a soybean field. After a little research I found another gentleman who had found the exact same one. He informed me it was an upper cinch strap buckle and had traced it back as a confederate artillery officer's cinch buckle from a Texas regiment. This is the before and after picture. I know that some people don't want their finds cleaned up this much but when I dug it, I dinged it a little and could see the underlying metal was still beautiful. I tried a Dremel to clean it but it had little effect on the thick patina. I soaked it in Renaissance De-Corroder overnight and it removed the coating and turned it into a sludge. The result was a dull almost copper looking surface. I took a polisher tool on the Dremel and it shined up bright like the after image you see now. This thing must have been beautiful when it was in use!

Below is a link to the cleaning process:


Below is a link to the actual find video:

 

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Nice job !

 

[Digger RJ]

I found this buckle south of Kansas City in a ghost town that is now a soybean field. After a little research I found another gentleman who had found the exact same one. He informed me it was an upper cinch strap buckle and had traced it back as a confederate artillery officer's cinch buckle from a Texas regiment. This is the before and after picture. I know that some people don't want their finds cleaned up this much but when I dug it, I dinged it a little and could see the underlying metal was still beautiful. I tried a Dremel to clean it but it had little effect on the thick patina. I soaked it in Renaissance De-Corroder overnight and it removed the coating and turned it into a sludge. The result was a dull almost copper looking surface. I took a polisher tool on the Dremel and it shined up bright like the after image you see now. This thing must have been beautiful when it was in use!

Below is a link to the cleaning process:


Below is a link to the actual find video:

Very Cool!!! Congrats!!!