My other weekend finds ! My first Rev war relic ??

MaineRelic · Apr 18, 2011

My friday afterwork hunt that I never had time to post may have pulled out a surprise . At least I hope so . I was back on my home site where I poped the george III the previous sunday. I stopped directly from work and managed to get 4 hrs in. I was happy with my 6 buttons, one with a nice design , suspender buckle, a thimble, a small rossette , a lead seal, a piece of deep peweter and an old looking brass cabinet pull or latch of some kind . At least I thought :icon_scratch:

. I did clean and photograph my finds friday but never had time to post. Between work and digging up that entire farm harness on saturday . :tongue3:

Cleaning up the harness pieces sunday morning ect.. I had pretty much forgot about my fridays finds . Till this afternoon when I was researching an older non related find I came across this pic of what the web site was selling as a Revolutionary war sword belt clip . Mine looks a little different and is in better shape with a nice brown/green patina . What do you think ? Can I call this my first revolutionary war relic ?? The first pic with the red background is from the web site . Thanks for looking MaineRelic

huntinghunter · Apr 18, 2011

Looks good to me...Nice finds...really like the flower buttons

VOL1266-X · Apr 18, 2011

Looks good to me MR!!! Congrats, Quindy.

johnnyblaze · Apr 18, 2011

Relics,Relics i love finding them :thumbsup:

Nice ones

Blaze

CMDiamonddawg · Apr 18, 2011

sword belt hanger clip , could be RW MR :read2:

Iron Patch · Apr 18, 2011

Those always seem to come off good sites! It's a bayonet from clip and I would call it a Rev War era relic, but not a Rev War relic because it's impossible to say what history it has.

MaineRelic · Apr 19, 2011

Iron Patch said:
Those always seem to come off good sites! It's a bayonet from clip and I would call it a Rev War era relic, but not a Rev War relic because it's impossible to say what history it has.

Revolutionary war era then :wink:

Good enough for me I. P. thanks ! Bayonette clip then . ! It's very difficult to prove that any military relic saw action or what history it has , Even a CW 3 ringer found on a known battle site could have been fired by a farmer after the war . M.R.

CMDiamonddawg said:
sword belt hanger clip , could be RW MR

Trying to find another example Dawg ! :icon_sunny:

Iron Patch · Apr 19, 2011

MaineRelic said:
Iron Patch said:

Those always seem to come off good sites! It's a bayonet from clip and I would call it a Rev War era relic, but not a Rev War relic because it's impossible to say what history it has.

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Revolutionary war era then Good enough for me I. P. thanks ! Bayonette clip then . ! It's very difficult to prove that any military relic saw action or what history it has , Even a CW 3 ringer found on a known battle site could have been fired by a farmer after the war . M.R.

CMDiamonddawg said:

sword belt hanger clip , could be RW MR

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Trying to find another example Dawg !

I think I was too tired to make sense last night, or at least get out exactly what I wanted to say.

It's a clip from a bayonet frog.

jamesbibb · Apr 19, 2011

Man that is a good Relic WTG!!!! :hello2:

danthecanuck · Apr 19, 2011

I think you nailed that one!...nice buttons too.

mainer · Apr 19, 2011

Nice relic. M.R. :icon_thumleft:

Deepdiger60 · Apr 19, 2011

nice old finds :icon_thumright:

pic 1 i found the same thing last season still not sure what it is ? Good hunt Jim

MaineRelic · Apr 19, 2011

Iron Patch said:
MaineRelic said:

Iron Patch said:

Those always seem to come off good sites! It's a bayonet from clip and I would call it a Rev War era relic, but not a Rev War relic because it's impossible to say what history it has.

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Revolutionary war era then Good enough for me I. P. thanks ! Bayonette clip then . ! It's very difficult to prove that any military relic saw action or what history it has , Even a CW 3 ringer found on a known battle site could have been fired by a farmer after the war . M.R.

CMDiamonddawg said:

sword belt hanger clip , could be RW MR

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Trying to find another example Dawg !

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I think I was too tired to make sense last night, or at least get out exactly what I wanted to say.

It's a clip from a bayonet frog.

Ok thanks again IP . I managed to find a pretty good example of one . This frog had been converted with an added shoulder strap . The one in this pic is said to be British. Mine looks really close to this one ! M.R.