🥇 BANNER Plate Plate Plate!!!! Cincinnati Ohio

[borntohunt460]

So this is one of those finds you see other people dig up on YouTube but never expect to really find one yourself. Well today it happened, I grabbed one of my great white Buffaloes!!! Lol ..The day started by getting rejected at a few places but because of perseverance I ended up at a 1850s mansion in Cincinnati. Right next to that beautiful red brick side of the house I blindly wrapped my hands around this plate at every bit of 8 inches. The dirt is still moist so please advise on how I should clean this since I'm not finding relics like this every day.

 

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[cw0909]

banner,
dont rush to clean or remove nail, great shape for 150+ yrs
more info
Ridgeway Civil War Reference Archive - Ohio buckles & plates

 

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[Scrappy]

Talk to cannonballguy. He's the master of all things relic. He deals relics for a living and knows preservation. Also Vino knows a thing or two.

Congrats and good luck. Keep the dirt moist in the meantime but maybe keep it out of water until you contact Cannonballguy.

 

[Fullstock]

That is one heck of a buckle, very rare. I'm voting banner!

 

[gheenoe78]

Banner vote. Very rare CW buckle. Great find.

 

[fever87]

Fan-flippin-tastic! Congrats on a great find! Something special about a buckeye brass buckle.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Great plate!!! I saw this post this am and looked up OVM...saw a few that had been dug, and others that have sold....lots of money!!! Congrats on your banner find!!!

 

[swamp yankee]

Great find and complete too! I'd be sniffin' around that area really low/slow until it gets too hot if it were me.HH...

 

[Jpro]

Great find and an awesome CW plate.
For display on my plates I've dug ...I just brush dried dirt off with soft brush. I Prefer a hint of dirt on mine.
If you want it cleaner water doesn't hurt it.
NOTE: to do over clean for sure!!!!!

 

[Goldiver]

Absolutely incredible! That is one of my Holy Grail finds, being from Ohio. Looks to be complete with the hooks too. Congratulations!

Steve

 

[Metal Illness]

That is beyond COOL!! That is a Holy Grail find for Ohio CW era relics! Big Congrats from another Buckeye. Congrats on the Banner as well, very much deserved!!

 

[jewelerguy]

incredible find. congrats!

 

[parsonwalker]

From a Virginian who lived in Cincinnati (Price Hill while attending Cincinnati Bible College) I am FLOORED. First, ditto what everybody else said, but I knew a lot of the great Old Timers like Mac Mason, Gary Williams, et al. Even back in the 60s and 70s and OVM drew a LOT of attention, and was considered a killer plate. To find it in Cincy . . . I mean some boy bringing that thing back HOME . . . and then to lose it . . . and all these years later you pull it up. Just WOW. Huge congrats to you. That one will be awfully hard to top. First one I've EVER seen on Tnet. You're at the top of the heap today my friend . . . treat yourself to some Skyline. Or Trottas!

 

[slowwevo]

I am blown away, with the lightning speed for which this made it up top

 

[aka da Prof]

!! WOW!! what a hit----gongrats!---will some one chime in on the history of OVM, please--- da Prof-

 

[cw0909]

relicman put this info up at his site

Ohio oval belt plate, OVM, medium size, left handed, arrow hooks.
Buckle depicts "OVM", Ohio Volunteer Militia, intended for Ohio units. Buckle is oval following the Federal Regulation of 1839, and was designed to secure a belt fitted over a soldier's jacket, used to carry his cartridge and cap box, along with any other items carried on a belt. This pattern is the medium size. Buckle was manufactured before the war, brass plate is stamped on thin sheet brass, solder filled, configured as a left handed buckle, single brass arrow hook, tongue is flat brass and not beveled, with rounded end.
Ref: O'Donnell & Campbell, Plate 553.
more examples
Ridgeway Civil War Reference Archive - Ohio buckles & plates

an img on uniform
http://civilwartalk.com/attachments/ovm-plate-jpg.13755/

 

[Steve in PA]

That is a beautiful relic!! Congrats on the find and the banner!

 

[creekhunter]

Outstanding find and way to make Banner!!!!

 

[fongu]

Excellent find. Congratulations.

 

[Davers]

From a Virginian who lived in Cincinnati (Price Hill while attending Cincinnati Bible College) I am FLOORED. First, ditto what everybody else said, but I knew a lot of the great Old Timers like Mac Mason, Gary Williams, et al. Even back in the 60s and 70s and OVM drew a LOT of attention, and was considered a killer plate. To find it in Cincy . . . I mean some boy bringing that thing back HOME . . . and then to lose it . . . and all these years later you pull it up. Just WOW. Huge congrats to you. That one will be awfully hard to top. First one I've EVER seen on Tnet. You're at the top of the heap today my friend . . . treat yourself to some Skyline. Or Trottas!

Very Well Said PW.
I recall there (or I hear) there was one dug about 10 miles South of me Many years ago, est, 70's early 80's & is still remembered well by Local Relic Hunters .
A Big CONGRATZ!!

P.S
If you don;t mind OP, was the Mansion Occupied / Lived in 'Now'.
To get permission on such a place is an art in it's Self. As I am learning.
Davers

 

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