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[CoilyGirl]

It's a little too early for champagne buuuuttt ...

Please join me in my excitement this morning as yesterday I dug a perfectly beautiful rare CSA Atlanta Arsenal style belt buckle! It was my first target of the afternoon and while I'm amazed at my find, I just happened to be at the right place at the right time. The first CSA buckle like this I had ever seen was a few months ago at the Middle Tennessee Metal Detecting Club meeting and our very own DMan Doug was the proud owner. This is the Atlanta Arsenal style CSA rectangle and was probably issued in Dalton, Georgia in 1863. My buckle even had a little bit of black leather still attached under the two main hooks because copper sulfite was used to cast the plate and it inhibited decay and infestation of insects. I still can't believe my incredible luck this morning. It was laying face up and as soon as I saw the "A" it registered in my mind what I had unearthed and I just had to sit there in reverence a minute before I could get up and go show it to my husband who was equally as shocked and happy.

 

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[Darby]

That's a spectacular piece!!! Would love to find anything with CSA on it! Congrats again

 

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[Lanny in AB]

Fantastic find, that may just be one in a lifetime.

All the best,

Lanny

 

[bill_wabo]

Like said sooner, that is THE RELIC everybody hope for. The patina is ... wow.

 

[flatbutton]

Congrats on the banner CG! Seen it up top and didn't realize it was your score. Really nice piece,and a find of a life time!

 

[rock99]

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[rock]

Neat find, you deserve banner on that 1

 

[cazisme]

Great Find!
I am from California and we dont get many civil war items here! I am curious about belt buckles do you think they are from field buried bodys or were they taken off or abandoned otherwise?

 

[CoilyGirl]

Great Find!
I am from California and we dont get many civil war items here! I am curious about belt buckles do you think they are from field buried bodys or were they taken off or abandoned otherwise?

What I have heard is often the dead were picked up for burial and instead of touching the body the men were picked up with a hook by their belts or clothing and dragged to be buried later,often in mass graves. The Confederates in particular were very proud of their issued belt buckles. Earlier buckles in different campaigns were often thin brass or pewter.

 

[Nana40]

Ugh! I'd just die, I tell ya. What an amazing find!
Nana

 

[lookindown]

I don't know how I missed this thread but I just know found it...congrats on an incredible find...beautiful buckle.

 

[BennyBacon]

That is amazing! Nice condition! I would love to find that!

 

[sutphin]

COILY GIRL COILY GIRL WHAT A RARE FIND. PUT THAT BUCKLE IN A SHADOW BOX AND LET THE CSA MEANING SHINE,VANZUTPHEN