1860 IH and buckle

[jerseyben]

This is a follow-on to this post:
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,423579.0.html

So I hit the same site from my 1909 V nickel eye-ball hunt on Wednesday. Made my way deep into the woods to the site and after a brief stand-off with an empty red pickup truck I started my hunt. Dug a bunch of targets with almost no trash. Dug some cut shards of copper and what looks like estuchen covers for keyholes. Finally got a solid 76 signal. There it was, my first IH penny in pretty good shape too. Moved along through the "highlights" of the site picking up a glazed spout to a clay jug before hitting another good target. Got a choppy but repeatable signal, so I dug. There was my 2nd buckle ever but this one was a nice shoe? buckle. Going back on Sunday for a proper hunt.

I know the IH looks bad but I have not cleaned it other than to rinse it off. When it is wet, you can clearly see 1860 but when it dries it is hard to see the details.
Can someone help me date the shoe buckle (or whatever kind of buckle it actually is)?

 

[kuger]

Here is the IH cleaned up (this is as good as it's gonna get):

Nice going on the finds! Suspender buckle circa 1850 is about right!

As for the early Copper-Nickel Indian Heads (1859-1864) as well as Flying Eagle Cents, there is not much you can do to clean them without damaging them more. I won't even do the Hydrogen Peroxide treatment on them.

Either way it is a good find!

I bet you are glad you were not with me as originally planned.....getting kicked off property that I had permission to hunt! Oh, well! Like the old saying says, "That's how the coil swings!"

.......except it isnt a suspender buckle

 

[Silver Searcher]

Here is the IH cleaned up (this is as good as it's gonna get):

Nice going on the finds! Suspender buckle circa 1850 is about right!

As for the early Copper-Nickel Indian Heads (1859-1864) as well as Flying Eagle Cents, there is not much you can do to clean them without damaging them more. I won't even do the Hydrogen Peroxide treatment on them.

Either way it is a good find!

I bet you are glad you were not with me as originally planned.....getting kicked off property that I had permission to hunt! Oh, well! Like the old saying says, "That's how the coil swings!"

.......except it isnt a suspender buckle

Obviously nobody read the link posted by Hammered

SS

 

[kuger]

Here is the IH cleaned up (this is as good as it's gonna get):

Nice going on the finds! Suspender buckle circa 1850 is about right!

As for the early Copper-Nickel Indian Heads (1859-1864) as well as Flying Eagle Cents, there is not much you can do to clean them without damaging them more. I won't even do the Hydrogen Peroxide treatment on them.

Either way it is a good find!

I bet you are glad you were not with me as originally planned.....getting kicked off property that I had permission to hunt! Oh, well! Like the old saying says, "That's how the coil swings!"

.......except it isnt a suspender buckle

Obviously nobody read the link posted by Hammered

SS

I did,and was just adding to what I know for fact....just once I would like for somebody show me these buckles used in unison(pairs)as suspender buckles....never have found two together or seen supporting pictures

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Here is the IH cleaned up (this is as good as it's gonna get):

Nice going on the finds! Suspender buckle circa 1850 is about right!

As for the early Copper-Nickel Indian Heads (1859-1864) as well as Flying Eagle Cents, there is not much you can do to clean them without damaging them more. I won't even do the Hydrogen Peroxide treatment on them.

Either way it is a good find!

I bet you are glad you were not with me as originally planned.....getting kicked off property that I had permission to hunt! Oh, well! Like the old saying says, "That's how the coil swings!"

.......except it isnt a suspender buckle

Obviously nobody read the link posted by Hammered

SS

Suspender Buckle

 

[Silver Searcher]

Here is the IH cleaned up (this is as good as it's gonna get):

Nice going on the finds! Suspender buckle circa 1850 is about right!

As for the early Copper-Nickel Indian Heads (1859-1864) as well as Flying Eagle Cents, there is not much you can do to clean them without damaging them more. I won't even do the Hydrogen Peroxide treatment on them.

Either way it is a good find!

I bet you are glad you were not with me as originally planned.....getting kicked off property that I had permission to hunt! Oh, well! Like the old saying says, "That's how the coil swings!"

.......except it isnt a suspender buckle

Obviously nobody read the link posted by Hammered

SS

Suspender Buckle

You can only lead a blind Horse to water....

 

[kuger]

Here is the IH cleaned up (this is as good as it's gonna get):

Nice going on the finds! Suspender buckle circa 1850 is about right!

As for the early Copper-Nickel Indian Heads (1859-1864) as well as Flying Eagle Cents, there is not much you can do to clean them without damaging them more. I won't even do the Hydrogen Peroxide treatment on them.

Either way it is a good find!

I bet you are glad you were not with me as originally planned.....getting kicked off property that I had permission to hunt! Oh, well! Like the old saying says, "That's how the coil swings!"

.......except it isnt a suspender buckle

Obviously nobody read the link posted by Hammered

SS

Suspender Buckle

Please Prove that statement

 

[SouthJerseyJim]

Looks like that thing would gouge the heck out of a
suspender. More likely some kind of heavy duty application
mounted on leather maybe.

 

[jerseyben]

Wow...

Here are some pics of the maker's mark which were found exactly where "tennessee digger" said they would be and I can read 1855, exactly what he said the age of the buckle should be.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

very cool find, whatever kind of buckle it is!

 

[kuger]

very cool find, whatever kind of buckle it is!

 

[kuger]

Just wanted to back up my statement.....still waiting to see them on suspenders......

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Nice work on the ID! Now I will be able to sleep nights!

 

[kuger]

Nice work on the ID! Now I will be able to sleep nights!

Just thought you might like to learn something new?Sorry I was mistaken.I like to learn personally