Need Identification of Buckle Found Today

[Oldhunter67]

Hunting with Underdogger all day and found this Buckle near an old school house in upstate New York. Is it revolutionary or Civil war..or neither of the above?

 

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[Nashoba]

No idea what it is or where it is from, but I would have jumped for joy if I had found it!!!
CONGRATS ON A COOL DIG!
HH
~Nash~

 

[romeo-1]

Sword belt plate...CW!! Nice find!

 

[rjw4law]

Civil War great find

 

[crazyjarhead]

Other than the broken part on the back, looks to be a great find. May be a Banner find!! Hope I'm not jumping the gun here

 

[allen]

one great looking cw relic !!!

 

[vayank54]

no offence to anyone but the tongue and the place where the bar would have been dates the buckle from the 1870's to 1920 Maybe a bit later. I checked O' Donnell's & Cambell's book to make sure. Still a cool find though

 

[catskillcomics]

I found two buckles just like yours at www.snyderstreasures.com/pages/cdv.htm
(item number CWIW-15 & CWIW-21) Indian Wars US Army Brass Belt Buckle, no date given though.. selling for 150-175, not a shabby find

 

[Oldhunter67]

Thankyou gentlemen for your quick answers. Indian Wars Cast Bronze Sword Plate sounds like the right answer to me and I accept that. Still wonder how it got to the point where I found it in the middle of New York State. The circumstances behind the drop have always intriqued me...?

 

[garthbfan169]

Sweet find old!! WTG

 

[Kieth-Tx]

There were quite a few men from New York that fought in that battle. Found a New York Staff Officers button in a cotton field in Louisiana...one of my favorites.

 

[vayank54]

Did you find any other miltary relics there? It's possible the grounds was used for a training grounds. It also might just have been that the owner used it after the war and just threw it away or lost it. Or maybe a kid took his dad's old buckle to school to show his freinds and lost it and got a good butt whoopin' when he got home. It is strange where you find things sometimes.

 

[djabend]

Sweet find. Say, you are not that far from me. Nice to see someone who has been hunting a while lives close by

HH,
Donny