Is this part of a confederate buckle??? Found in context with the shell casing and S.C. Button..



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/09/2018 03:17AM by calabash digger.

Yes, its an end of a 3 piece design...Theyre reffered to as blockade buckles. Imported from Europe and they often turn up with South Carolina relics.

nice work dead-lift !

Cool find, CD.....wtg DL, on the ID.

Thanks for the ID do you know where I can find some images? Thanks again!

calabash digger Wrote:
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> Thanks for the ID do you know where I can find som
> e images? Thanks again!


Hey Calabash, I saw this with a google search.

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Hope this helps...

Thanks !

Not sure what it is I've dug one myself out of a war of 1812 Andrew Jackson camp..

The buckle design of blockade runners are bigger and have belt loop...plus a single loop for the snake to connect the other one...yours has two small loops on inside with no belt loop......I almost want to believe they are cape devices..the one i dug about 30 years ago is like yours.and never fully figured out what they are but they attached to something or was linked to something like a chain on a cape..

Heres blockade style




Heres cape pins and what I'm inclined to believe they were..Yours would be the one on the left




There old though no matter what and Bristish 1800s..

I like the button!!

Keith

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
-Nikola Tesla



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/09/2018 05:14PM by Keith Southern.

Thanks! For the info …. gonna go back and beat that place to death !