A Little Bit o' Silver, Brass, and Lead - Good as Gold to Me!

[vferrari]

Virginia hunt in hot dirt at CW site yielded some sweet colonial cooper and brass and some CW brass and lead.

Colonial shoe buckle. Found one of the broken silver pieces first, and subsequently recovered the rest after some searching in and around the initial hole. Not shovel struck. That's my story and I'm sticking to it lol (seriously, the breaks look old based on dirt encrusted/tarnished edges).

A Navy two piece button. (CW period)

Flat brass button. (Likely colonial)

Some CW minie ball bullets including a ringtail Sharps.

Some brass and lead miscellaneous items including a percussion cap.

The silver buckle is like gold to me. Totally unexpected find where I was.

Enjoy...

 

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[A2coins]

That buckle is sweet good job! Ive been in the old slump for a minute!!!!! But we all have our good days. Glad to see you had one Tommy

 

[Argentium]

The silver buckle is a major find ! Nice going .

 

[dirtlooter]

I can see why it as gold to you, awesome buckle. glad that you found the rest of it. I'd be happy with the rest of your finds too. congrats

 

[Truth]

V the buckle is mind blowing. Amazing
True treasure in my book. Congratulations my friend

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Ozark Redneck]

nice finds

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice group of relics.

 

[GB1]

nice

 

[Carolina Tom]

Awesome finds! That silver buckle is absolutely killer. BIG congrats on that!

 

[xcopperstax]

That is a really nice buckle. Probably owned by someone with a good amount of money back then. I think you could probably have a jeweler fix that and you'd barely be able to tell that it was ever broken!

 

[Yak1366]

Sweet finds, Congrats!!!

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Congrats! A silver buckle is on my list...

 

[DeepseekerADS]

I think you could probably have a jeweler fix that and you'd barely be able to tell that it was ever broken!

I agree. That was my first thought. And then you'd have a bounty to be extra proud of.

Update: After drooling for a few minutes, I voted BANNER for the buckle. Never seen a silver buckle like that before.

 

[Hawks88]

The buttons are nice and are great saves and keepers but the silver buckle is the icing on the cake. Definitely a hard one to ever find. Congrats!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Beautiful buckle!

 

[Whyme]

Wow awesome silver buckle! Congrats!

 

[Relicific]

The silver buckle is so sweet.

 

[Dust Eater]

Great buckle, and a very interesting design!

 

[diggerranger]

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