BuckleBoy
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Hello All,
It is with Great joy that I can make this post. I work hard to help ID finds, both others' finds as well as my own. And some of the ones I can't ID are tough ones. Often it takes months or even years, and then I have to go back through my records and see what else was found at the same site, or when exactly an item was found.
As a rule, I keep any item that is from a site that is made of cast brass. Usually, the stamped brass pieces have some sort of design or markings on them, or they are of a shape that lends itself to an ID (regardless of whether they are a keeper or not). The cast brass items however, are usually something special, once they can get identified--but that is tough, because they are usually poorly marked if at all, and they are usually larger items that make nice targets for the plow.
Such was the case with this one...
I dug several pieces in a cut soybean field back in early November, and they didn't look like much at the time. I saved them, wondered about them, thought about them, and drew an absolute blank. Don't look like much, do they?
Well, today I was paging through the ARH forum's Hallowed Ground Restorations page to give a link to a fellow member here, and there it was!
An officer's spur dug from a CW site at Digging in Virginia X!
http://www.americanrelichunters.com/cgi-bin/repairs/webbbs_config.pl/read/1056
Then I looked back through my records and realized that the pieces came from the same spot that I'd dug a .69 cal minieball, a bridle rosette, a scabbard tip (?), my CW snake belt buckle portion, and a gilded CW eagle button. Those finds fit in nicely with the ID of an officer's accoutrement.
I need your help. I was wondering if any of you are members on the ARH forum and could contact Tony (NC) or huntcav65 and request another photo or two from them. I'd like to see the "neck" of the spur, as well as the inside of the piece so that I know what I'm looking for on my return trip to the site (man, this summer will be a LONG one until the fields are harvested again...![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
). I figure if that much of the spur was there, then maybe I'll get lucky.
Besides, I have a snake to look for too.
The other cool ID this evening is of a piece that I doubt that anyone would've ever figured out. I know I wouldn't have in a million years--even though I've had the answer to the riddle in my possession for a decade...
Here's the piece:
And of all things, this is what it's from (geez us musicians are Dense sometimes.
):
I'm thrilled about the ID's--it's like digging the find up again! (A find is pretty much worthless until it's identified.)
So keep the posts coming in "What is It?" and Happy Hunting to you all!
-Buckles
It is with Great joy that I can make this post. I work hard to help ID finds, both others' finds as well as my own. And some of the ones I can't ID are tough ones. Often it takes months or even years, and then I have to go back through my records and see what else was found at the same site, or when exactly an item was found.
As a rule, I keep any item that is from a site that is made of cast brass. Usually, the stamped brass pieces have some sort of design or markings on them, or they are of a shape that lends itself to an ID (regardless of whether they are a keeper or not). The cast brass items however, are usually something special, once they can get identified--but that is tough, because they are usually poorly marked if at all, and they are usually larger items that make nice targets for the plow.
Such was the case with this one...
I dug several pieces in a cut soybean field back in early November, and they didn't look like much at the time. I saved them, wondered about them, thought about them, and drew an absolute blank. Don't look like much, do they?
Well, today I was paging through the ARH forum's Hallowed Ground Restorations page to give a link to a fellow member here, and there it was!
An officer's spur dug from a CW site at Digging in Virginia X!
http://www.americanrelichunters.com/cgi-bin/repairs/webbbs_config.pl/read/1056
Then I looked back through my records and realized that the pieces came from the same spot that I'd dug a .69 cal minieball, a bridle rosette, a scabbard tip (?), my CW snake belt buckle portion, and a gilded CW eagle button. Those finds fit in nicely with the ID of an officer's accoutrement.
I need your help. I was wondering if any of you are members on the ARH forum and could contact Tony (NC) or huntcav65 and request another photo or two from them. I'd like to see the "neck" of the spur, as well as the inside of the piece so that I know what I'm looking for on my return trip to the site (man, this summer will be a LONG one until the fields are harvested again...
). I figure if that much of the spur was there, then maybe I'll get lucky. Besides, I have a snake to look for too.
The other cool ID this evening is of a piece that I doubt that anyone would've ever figured out. I know I wouldn't have in a million years--even though I've had the answer to the riddle in my possession for a decade...
Here's the piece:
And of all things, this is what it's from (geez us musicians are Dense sometimes.
):I'm thrilled about the ID's--it's like digging the find up again! (A find is pretty much worthless until it's identified.)
So keep the posts coming in "What is It?" and Happy Hunting to you all!
-Buckles
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