First CW buckle

iukams

iukams

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kuger said:
SUPER choice....."cleaning",and these type of relics makes me cringe....I have seen too many RUINED!!!!
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Firstly congrats to the OP for the banner find.

You know me, I do minimal cleaning. However, this needs conserving in my opinion. People are talking about patina & the patina of this piece is the reddish-brown colour under the copper-oxide corrosion. After all it went in the ground a gold/brass colour. I would take off the corrosion & leave the patina. When I say I, on this piece it would be a professional conservator that would do it for me. In the wrong environment this piece could deteriorate. So doing nothing may not be the right option.
 

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CRUSADER said:
Firstly congrats to the OP for the banner find.

You know me, I do minimal cleaning. However, this needs conserving in my opinion. People are talking about patina & the patina of this piece is the reddish-brown colour under the copper-oxide corrosion. After all it went in the ground a gold/brass colour. I would take off the corrosion & leave the patina. When I say I, on this piece it would be a professional conservator that would do it for me. In the wrong environment this piece could deteriorate. So doing nothing may not be the right option.
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Yah it will do some damage if you don't get some of the corrosion off your right about that over time! it is good to clean it with a solution that will stop the corrosion from spreading in the future I don't understand why someone would not want too get this professionally clean but some relic hunters want too keep it just the way they found it and I can't blame em.
 

For your first one you got a good one.
Congrats
Dman
 

Great find! I guess you might as well make your first one your best one!! That will be tough to top.
 

kuger said:
Personally no,not even distilled water.......regardless what anybody tells you,unless you know how your soil forms patina,and how it reacts to water,dont do it...it will flake the patina off
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Thanks for the info Kuger- didn't know, now I do. Congrats again on your great find, hope you have many more. yelnif...
 

FANTASTIC FIND! Congratulations on finding it, and for making a well deserved BANNER! :thumbsup: I still have this on my want list. :) Breezie
 

Wow. Congratulations. You can hunt for that for a life time and never see that CSA. Great find.
 

HutSiteDigger said:
Yah it will do some damage if you don't get some of the corrosion off your right about that over time! it is good to clean it with a solution that will stop the corrosion from spreading in the future I don't understand why someone would not want too get this professionally clean but some relic hunters want too keep it just the way they found it and I can't blame em.
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Exactly, it's at least worth stabilizing if the green is kept.
 

Very nice - I vote banner all the way - congrats!
 

iukams,
MAN! looks like you hit the Holy Grail!!!.....WOW!!! thats an amazing find, Would love to hear the whole story
Keep up the good work........................HH

P.S.
Welcome tho Da'Net.................HH
 

Congrats on the CSA CW buckle!!! That truly is a BANNER find!
 

Stinkin' sweet mother of all finds!! Nicely done!

All the best,

Lanny
 

South Jersey Don said:
Sweet find of a buckle, you must have been excited to see that come out of the ground...
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Yes I was. I didn't clean it till I got home a few hours later, so I didn't know exactly what it was. But after I carefully washed the dirt off, I was ecstatic ...
 

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