Palmetto button & a saddle badge
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Great finds, Congrats!!!
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Nice finds in nice condition!
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that button is sweet
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Really cool finds. Nice shape too.
Congrats.
Congrats.
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Very nice find. Beats the hell outta most other finds!
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Awesome button!
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Nice finds!
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A little olive oil on that button will make the details stand out even more! One killer button!
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Cbxjon wrote, about his finds:
> Two new lowcountry finds. I think the saddle badge is mid 1800's.
Unlike your find, a saddle badge is just a decoration. Your find is called a saddle shield, which served as a reinforcement around a strap slot. Sometimes, but not always, it was marked to tell the saddle-seat's size... like yours says "12 IN[CH] SEAT."
Your brass saddle shield is from a US army McClellan saddle.
McClellan saddle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That version of Military saddle was designed by US army Capt. George B. McClellan, who became a famous general during the civil war. The first version of it was called the Model-1859. Subsequent versions were produced in the early-1900s, such as the Model-1904 and Model-1913, which were widely used in World War One. The final version of the McClellan saddle was the Model-1928.
I've mentioned the later models because they also had the same saddle shield on them that you found. See the photo of a Model-1904 McClellan saddle, below, showing the same shield marked with the seat's size, on the ridge at right in the photo. So, relic diggers & collectors need to know that tens-of-thousands were manufactured decades after the civil war. That being said, because you found yours near a civil war era South Carolina State Seal button, your McClellan saddle shield is almost certainly from the civil war.
> Two new lowcountry finds. I think the saddle badge is mid 1800's.
Unlike your find, a saddle badge is just a decoration. Your find is called a saddle shield, which served as a reinforcement around a strap slot. Sometimes, but not always, it was marked to tell the saddle-seat's size... like yours says "12 IN[CH] SEAT."
Your brass saddle shield is from a US army McClellan saddle.
McClellan saddle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That version of Military saddle was designed by US army Capt. George B. McClellan, who became a famous general during the civil war. The first version of it was called the Model-1859. Subsequent versions were produced in the early-1900s, such as the Model-1904 and Model-1913, which were widely used in World War One. The final version of the McClellan saddle was the Model-1928.
I've mentioned the later models because they also had the same saddle shield on them that you found. See the photo of a Model-1904 McClellan saddle, below, showing the same shield marked with the seat's size, on the ridge at right in the photo. So, relic diggers & collectors need to know that tens-of-thousands were manufactured decades after the civil war. That being said, because you found yours near a civil war era South Carolina State Seal button, your McClellan saddle shield is almost certainly from the civil war.
