Had a good day today... UPDATE: bridle rosette cleaned pics added

[time4me]

Spent 4 hours at the old campground I've been hitting these past months, and had a pretty good day. I'll put up a full post later today with pics of everything I found, but I wanted to get this one up right away as I'm pretty excited about it even though I don't quite know what it is. It is pretty thick, and quite heavy, and appears to be a buckle or plate of some sort with US on it...

Any help identifying it would be greatly appreciated, as well as any tips on how best to clean it.

 

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[Detectingfreak]

Re: Had a good day today... not sure what I've got though - Civil War item?

nice job! I vote Civil War Era even though I don't know much about Civil War items. I am going to tell you not to clean it for obvious reasons because the value may go down or up. But thats just me. Nice job on the find!

 

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[time4me]

Re: Had a good day today... not sure what I've got though - Civil War item?

I found some information in a history book of the town that I found this rosette in, and it turns out that Company M of the 1st Cavalry camped out in the town for two months in 1883. I suppose this rosette could have come from one of their horses.

I very lightly cleaned up the rosette with q-tips dipped in peroxide after running it under some warm water for a bit.

Here are the cleaned pics...

 

[BuckleBoy]

Nice Job on the cleaning

 

[pookie-princess of rust]

nice

 

[shaun7]

Re: Had a good day today... not sure what I've got though - Civil War item?

Have your dog lick it clean, my spit is amazing at cleaning so dog spit must be better.

yep, i can honestly say crusader has spat on all my best finds

 

[kimsdad]

Great find, TFM!!!