✅ SOLVED CS Oval - Real Or Fake?

[Spats]

I need some experts to weigh in on this CS buckle. It appears to have a solder or lead filled back with no sign of attachment hooks. I dug this on a Civil War battlefield in an area that has produced lots of relics including several authentic US buckles and box plates and at least one Louisiana button. This one just doesn't look right and I think it may be modern. I hope I am wrong. In searching the web, I can't find anything that is made like this one except modern pieces. This is not a rope border buckle. The area was bulldozed a couple of years ago which could explain the dings but it almost looks like some needle nose pliers have been applied right in the middle of the S on the front. Any opinions would be appreciated.

 

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[tennessee digger]

To the best of my knowledge, there were no authentic CS oval buckles with a lead back.

 

[Spats]

To the best of my knowledge, there were no authentic CS oval buckles with a lead back.

Thanks Tennessee Digger. That seems to be the consensus of everything I have read while researching this buckle last night and this morning. This appears to be a modern piece lost and then damaged or a modern piece that someone has gone to a lot of trouble to damage and age and then bury in a known Civil War site. I think I am in what must be a very small club of people who have dug fake CS buckles. Incidentally, the spot over the S seems to be solder applied over the brass.

 

[USMC Reaper]

could be from re-enactors

 

[jewelerguy]

with a lead filled back, I would tend to think it's a cartridge box plate. I would also believe it's real

 

[Spats]

Mystery solved. I just found out that it is 100% a modern buckle that was aged and was "planted". Thanks for those who weighed in.

 

[callicles]

Well, I for one congratulate you on not becoming overly excited like some people I've known in relic hunting! There are many folks I have known that would have absolutely refused to be skeptical over the item. Your willingness to question the find and post it here with your expressed humility says a lot about you! People like you are an asset to the hobby! Keep digging!

 

[Spats]

Well, I for one congratulate you on not becoming overly excited like some people I've known in relic hunting! There are many folks I have known that would have absolutely refused to be skeptical over the item. Your willingness to question the find and post it here with your expressed humility says a lot about you! People like you are an asset to the hobby! Keep digging!

Thanks callicles. I leaned toward thinking it was real, but my relic hunting partner questioned it from the beginning and planted doubt in my mind. Having never found a CS oval and having never tried to purchase one, I had never done any research on them. On returning home the other night and referencing some relic books and the internet, I became 98% sure the buckle was modern, but that 2% doubt was why I posted it here. In the meantime, I learned from other sources that it is 100% modern. Thanks again for all who helped with their input. And this adds to the rule that just because it was dug in a Civil War site doesn't mean it is a Civil War artifact.