HuntingRelics
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Can someone please help ID the brass buckle thing, and smaller bullet(next to 3 ringer, for scale). Thanks for your help!
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TheCannonballGuy
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Your brass find is one half of the brass 2-piece strap adjuster buckle from a Confederate-imported civil war era British-made S. Issacs Campbell & Co. soldier's knapsack. The other half has a hook which fits into the ring on the half you found. So, search that spot extra-diligently for the other half. It ought to be somewhere nearby. (Unless somebody found it before you got there.)\
The bullet you are asking about is a pre-war version of Sharps Rifle bullet, which civil war bullet collectors call a Multigroove Sharps. Its design was patented before the war by Gomez & Mills. It looks like a .38-caliber one... but I cannot be certain without knowing its precise measurement. (Or... is the 3-groove Minie next to it a .58 or a .69-caliber?)
The bullet you are asking about is a pre-war version of Sharps Rifle bullet, which civil war bullet collectors call a Multigroove Sharps. Its design was patented before the war by Gomez & Mills. It looks like a .38-caliber one... but I cannot be certain without knowing its precise measurement. (Or... is the 3-groove Minie next to it a .58 or a .69-caliber?)
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HuntingRelics
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3 ring minie is a .58. Thanks for your help!
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Great background information by TheCannonballGuy on your Issacs Campbell & Co. knapsack buckle find!
I've found one or two of these over the years as well.
Dave
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