Beautiful Civil War Snake Sword Hanger!

[mangum]

Hello all! I got out today for a couple hours to an 1830ish homesite & found this awesome Civil War (or earlier) sword hanger. It was a nice surprise to see a design (looks like a snake) when I started cleaning it! It was my first signal of the day & the best! HH!

 

[Isaac]

Awesome find!!! Beautiful design

 

[VOL1266-X]

Very nice MG. May be plder than CW. WTG, Q.

 

[Garrett424]

Really cool find. It's amazing how sometimes you get your best find right out of the gate.
Congrats.

 

[Vino]

Now thats a great find MAG,
Love the design.

 

[toasted]

Really cool find. It's amazing how sometimes you get your best find right out of the gate.
Congrats.

Or when its too dark to see what you've found

 

[Scrappy]

Wayyyy cool man! Congrats

 

[BuckleBoy]

Great find, and a beautiful cleaning job on that one. Toothpick method?

Cheers,

Buck

 

[mangum]

Great find, and a beautiful cleaning job on that one. Toothpick method?

Cheers,

Buck

I saw your post on this one almost 10 years ago! Yours is a closer match to the Leech & Ridgdon... i still think it is a strong possibility that they made the one I found. Yes, I used ONLY a toothpick on this, NO WATER! (I've learned from the best!) (any wood will do, I honestly used a piece of mulch to start!)

 

[Ahab8]

What an awesome relic find! That will display great

 

[HCW]

Very nice!
Iv'e never seen one before.

 

[Iron Patch]

Very cool, and a good lesson for some about cleaning. Even just water probably would have hurt it. Funny thing is if it needs liquid a peroxide soak with no rinsing tends to hold on to the patina pretty good.

 

[digging440yrs]

Amazing find !

 

[Carolina Tom]

Very nice Mr. Mangum!

 

[jdsly]

Real nice find Mag!!on my wish list.....congrats man

 

[pepperj]

That's a really nice piece of history, congrats on the find.

 

[Valley Ranger]

That's a beautiful piece.

 

[sutphin]

INCREDIBLE CIVIL WAR FIND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!