CW beautiful carved bullet, rare Walch pistol bullet and Zouave button

[Gregg3131]

Had a great hunt today at one of my favorite CW sites. Pulled my first carved bullet and it's a beauty. Looks like a chess piece pehaps. Also my first Walch pistol bullet and a Zouave button missing the back. Found in Central VA on private property with permission.

 

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[jewelerguy]

sweet finds!

 

[Darby]

Very cool carved bullet! Really great find. Congrats!

 

[A2coins]

Looks like the top of a flag pole Great finds

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some nice finds

 

[diggervet]

very nice, love carved bullets!

 

[CRUSADER]

WE find those civilian ball/globe buttons all the time, no Zouave connections here. The odds are stacked against it being Zouave, its another commonly help myth, which I hope Tnet don't help fuel.
Now we got that out the way, the carved bullet is a top example with very nice patina.

 

[relic nut]

Beautiful carved bullet!! I have one very similar to that. Carved bullets are a favorite find. They are so personal and never two alike. Congrats and thanks for sharing[emoji106]

HH, Relic Nut

 

[against the wind]

Cool finds,
Congrats

 

[thrifty76now]

Just awesome assortment of those old hunks of lead.

 

[CoilyGirl]

Very nice!

 

[Captain Caveman]

Congratz on some awesome CW saves! I really like that carved minie ball!

 

[relic lover]

WE find those civilian ball/globe buttons all the time, no Zouave connections here. The odds are stacked against it being Zouave, its another commonly help myth, which I hope Tnet don't help fuel.
Now we got that out the way, the carved bullet is a top example with very nice patina.

http://52.10.241.151/content/72nd-p...-fire-zouaves-uniform-belonging-private-w-h-s. Why not given the context of civil war finds.

 

[CRUSADER]

72nd Pennsylvania Regiment ("Baxter's Philadelphia Fire Zouaves") Uniform, belonging to Private W. H. Shuster | Fourscore ? Educational Resources. Why not given the context of civil war finds.

Because we may as well say that every civilian button from the mid 20th C was used in the CW. The majority were civilian therefore statistically the odds are against it, but if we all want to bet against the odds & say that a button out of context is CW then fine. But I'm not joining in. The is of course a small chance it is, but it wasn't sold that way. I thought with your experience you would lead this forum to the right conclusions not just those that suit the picture.

 

[CRUSADER]

72nd Pennsylvania Regiment ("Baxter's Philadelphia Fire Zouaves") Uniform, belonging to Private W. H. Shuster | Fourscore ? Educational Resources. Why not given the context of civil war finds.

Lastly the most important piece of evidence to help either way is not present - 'the backmark'

 

[relic lover]

I was under the impression that it was found in context with other Civil War items. That was my only point.

 

[CRUSADER]

I was under the impression that it was found in context with other Civil War items. That was my only point.

I refer to archaeological stratified layer (context), the only way to date objects by association. Finding it on a CW site means very little & is not a true reflection on the word context, at least not from a scientific point of view.

 

[Trockett]

Very Nice finds...the small one one the left is very unik..!

 

[relic lover]

I refer to archaeological stratified layer (context), the only way to date objects by association. Finding it on a CW site means very little & is not a true reflection on the word context, at least not from a scientific point of view.

I'm not a scientist. I just made the assumption on my part that the Civil War items were in a small concentrated hotspot. To me that's context but for all I know the original poster could have searched 400 acres of farmland and found those things spread out by great distances. Just to clarify I was not speaking about archaeological context. Thank you for ever so much correcting my grammar I thought I had a pretty good grasp of the English language.

 

[relic lover]

Anyway nice group of interesting items I've never seen a bullet like that Walsh pistol bullet.