Civil War brass mouth peace

[gtoast99]

I finally got out again for some detecting fun with my buddy Dustin. The rain held off, and the woods weren't too overgrown quite yet, so that was nice. Overall a great escape from life for the aftrnoon. This may be our last outing there for a while - growing season and tick season are here, plus our schedules are rapidly filling up with commitments. Oh well, here was my take for the day.

Badly corroded sharps and hankins bullets and brass case bottoms, one smith, and some assorted pistol bullets. My first barthalow from this site so that's cool. Keyhole and cover have iron on the back, I've seen some similar looking on period padlocks online. Four hole button.

The brass ring is a cool personal relic. I'm not usually one for cleaning my relics any more than. I have to, but I think I might do some electrolysis to bring this one back to the way it was worn. Opinions welcome.

The find of the day was the mouthpiece from a brass instrument. I've seen similar ones called bugle mouthpieces online. A very knowledgeable friend said it was for a coronet. I'm not entirety sure but its pretty cool either way. One of those relics that you wish could tell its story.

Thanks for looking and happy hunting y'all.

 

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[parsonwalker]

Love that mouthpiece! Think of how FEW soldiers carried one, and it's much rarer than a buckle.

 

[BuckleBoy]

That perfect, flawless mouthpiece is one heck of a find. Most certainly a bugle or cornet mouthpiece. I would much rather see that in the hole than a common eagle plate!

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

Yeah not many of those mouthpieces get posted here! Thats the first I've seen on TNET !!

 

[gtoast99]

Thanks y'all! Very few I'm sure, and since I know who was camped her, I'm hoping to narrow it down to a pretty short list. Still working on that research. I'm very blessed to have found it, a cool centerpiece for sure.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice. I remember those ( except mine was from the 1970's ! )

 

[sandchip]

Great find!

 

[pepperj]

Congrats on the mouthpiece it's in great shape. Seeing it makes me wonder if it was a just a loss, or if the person was a casualty?

 

[gtoast99]

Probably just a loss. I'm working a camp site, I don't have any records of battle right there, and I'm not finding fired bullets. Of course that's not to say a soldier couldn't have died of wounds or disease in camp and his effects left behind. We'll never know but it is fascinating to think about the possibilities.

 

[I-DIG-IT]

Nice digs.

 

[N.O. noir et d'or]

GT99, Agree with all in that your mouthpiece is a very remarkable recovery! Would love to uncover one - Thanks for posting!

 

[Mach1Pilot]

Nice finds, Tony! Hope the Bugle mouthpiece cleans up for you.

Can you imagine what you will find when you finally get a GPX to that site?

 

[WHADIFIND]

How interesting! To think, that might've last been touched by a young drummer/bugle boy in the Civil War. What a story!

You'd even have a better chance at finding the possible owner of that piece. I mean, if you know what companies were in that area.
How many buglers could there be?

I could see a whole story being written around that one piece.