Devonrex
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Last signal of the year ....... a silver plated star stud to a Texas 2 piece belt rig!! January 02, 2018 12:56PM | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 321 |
The last day of 2017 was super cold but I had been finding unprecedented finds at my new site so I bundled up and headed out. The day was a repeat of all the others at this site. Good signals seemed to be everywhere. Just as it started to get dark I placed my coil under a small holly tree and I got a sweet signal. Moments later I was looking at a 5 pointed star!!! I had no idea what I had, as I had never seen and other one, but I knew I had something special. It was time to go home.......... once home, after a few posts and calls a good friend sent me a picture of a cover of a past North South Trader showing the star stud device on a South Carolina 2 piece belt rig. Apparently the star stud device was used on only high ranking Confederate officers 2 piece belt rigs from several states (here a South Carolina). The design of the one pictured on the cover of NST is a little different from the one I found. I'm being told the one I found more closely resembles a known star device on a Texas 2 piece belt and the fact mine is silver plated points in that direction as well. Another star stud was found by well known digger Meigs Brainard and Lewis Leigh told him this came from a Texas 2 piece belt rig as well. Apparently less than 10 have been dug. The other pictures show all the other finds I made during the Christmas holidays. This site has been one for the books! A total of 4 Ordinance buttons, a coat Eagle R, a staff Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Early one- piece coat Navy, a 12 pound solid shot, hundreds of musket balls and bullets, many rare bullets including 6 CS Austrian 69's, 2 French Revolutionary War buttons, a Revolutionary War silver cufflink set, a gorgeous openended one-piece silver plated Colonial overcoat button, top brass drag to a Confederate Scabbard, 1826 Large Cent, and many more relics! 2017 has been a wonderful year of discovering relics for me! Got out for a short time on the first day of 2018, even though it was a chilly 22, and got another 32 bullets including a nest of Colt Dragoon 44's and a handful of Sharps. Hoping there are a few more surprises for me at this site! Hoping everyone has a great New Year! HH Devonrex
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