Buckle or Brooch? Need Help
Found this on the Charleston, SC pennisula this week. It was in bad shape when I pulled it out. Was roughly 3ft down and also found tons of old pottery, china, black glass bottles, and 2 1798 1 cent coins. I have been working on cleaning it up the past few days and can now make out the emblems on it. The detail is amazing. It is copper from what I can tell, it has a chalice in the middle with two horses heads on each side of the glass facing oppasitte each other. THere is also a conifer tree above the middle of the chalice. The edges of the object have a very detailed pattern engraved.
It seems thin to be a buckle, and has a rivet hole on each side. I feel like with it having a chalivce and the conifer tree on it it may have some religous meaning. I donthave to go into how old it could or could not be being that I found it in Chas, SC. Pre-Colonial?Colonial, Revolutionary, Pre Civil War? Help Please!
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Found this on the Charleston, SC pennisula this week. It was in bad shape when I pulled it out. Was roughly 3ft down and also found tons of old pottery, china, black glass bottles, and 2 1798 1 cent coins. I have been working on cleaning it up the past few days and can now make out the emblems on it. The detail is amazing. It is copper from what I can tell, it has a chalice in the middle with two horses heads on each side of the glass facing oppasitte each other. THere is also a conifer tree above the middle of the chalice. The edges of the object have a very detailed pattern engraved.
It seems thin to be a buckle, and has a rivet hole on each side. I feel like with it having a chalivce and the conifer tree on it it may have some religous meaning. I donthave to go into how old it could or could not be being that I found it in Chas, SC. Pre-Colonial?Colonial, Revolutionary, Pre Civil War? Help Please!
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