Belt buckle i believe, dug beside a gardener bullet

[crabstang44]

Could this be a confederate belt buckle? It's iron and I see some silver gilt still on it, I electrolysis it once already and going g to do it another 12 hours. I can't see anything on it yet, do you?

 

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[ncsuwolf]

Congrats. Something in the pic for size reference, or measurements would be helpful. Not certain it’s a belt buckle…..the “hooks” don’t look normal to me. Not saying it wasn’t confederate, but without markings it will be impossible (my opinion) to confirm who used it and when. Also….id be careful with the electrolysis. While it’ll clean up the iron, it may well remove all the remaining silver too.

 

[crabstang44]

Congrats. Something in the pic for size reference, or measurements would be helpful. Not certain it’s a belt buckle…..the “hooks” don’t look normal to me. Not saying it wasn’t confederate, but without markings it will be impossible (my opinion) to confirm who used it and when. Also….id be careful with the electrolysis. While it’ll clean up the iron, it may well remove all the remaining silver too.

Yea the hooks are balls and then thin under the ball like you would push the balls through leather to hold and its about 3 inch by 2 inch, I can get exact when I get back home

 

[AU Seeker]

The only "iron" CW buckles known were Confederate and stamped from thin sheet iron and only a very, very few are known, and they were oval but more of longer oval than your piece, that piece looks too thick to be sheet iron, but with no "edge" photo to show the thickness that's just a guess.

 

[crabstang44]

The only "iron" CW buckles known were Confederate and stamped from thin sheet iron and only a very, very few are known, and they were oval but more of longer oval than your piece, that piece looks too thick to be sheet iron, but with no "edge" photo to show the thickness that's just a guess.

It is quite thin, ill get a pic