Need Identification of Buckle Found Today

Oldhunter67 · Oct 29, 2009

Hunting with Underdogger all day and found this Buckle near an old school house in upstate New York. Is it revolutionary or Civil war..or neither of the above?

Nashoba · Oct 29, 2009

No idea what it is or where it is from, but I would have jumped for joy if I had found it!!!
CONGRATS ON A COOL DIG!
HH
~Nash~

romeo-1 · Oct 29, 2009

Sword belt plate...CW!! Nice find!

rjw4law · Oct 29, 2009

Civil War great find

crazyjarhead · Oct 29, 2009

Other than the broken part on the back, looks to be a great find. May be a Banner find!!

Hope I'm not jumping the gun here

allen · Oct 29, 2009

one great looking cw relic !!! :thumbsup:

vayank54 · Oct 29, 2009

no offence to anyone but the tongue and the place where the bar would have been dates the buckle from the 1870's to 1920 Maybe a bit later. I checked O' Donnell's & Cambell's book to make sure. Still a cool find though

catskillcomics · Oct 30, 2009

I found two buckles just like yours at www.snyderstreasures.com/pages/cdv.htm
(item number CWIW-15 & CWIW-21) Indian Wars US Army Brass Belt Buckle, no date given though.. selling for 150-175, not a shabby find

Oldhunter67 · Oct 30, 2009

Thankyou gentlemen for your quick answers. Indian Wars Cast Bronze Sword Plate sounds like the right answer to me and I accept that. Still wonder how it got to the point where I found it in the middle of New York State. The circumstances behind the drop have always intriqued me...?

garthbfan169 · Oct 30, 2009

Sweet find old!! WTG :notworthy:

Kieth-Tx · Oct 30, 2009

There were quite a few men from New York that fought in that battle. Found a New York Staff Officers button in a cotton field in Louisiana...one of my favorites.

vayank54 · Oct 30, 2009

Did you find any other miltary relics there? It's possible the grounds was used for a training grounds. It also might just have been that the owner used it after the war and just threw it away or lost it. Or maybe a kid took his dad's old buckle to school to show his freinds and lost it and got a good butt whoopin' when he got home. It is strange where you find things sometimes.