PLEASE Help with buckle with heart? solved... harness buckle shield

[traderoftreasures]

Found this buckle with a heart on it today.
It kinda seams horse related.
Does anyone have any ideas on name or age?
Thanks...
harold

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart?

Actually it's a buckle cover and I believe it is horse related. It you google Civil War heart buckle cover I'm sure you will find one. They are quite common.

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart?

I'd guess your's served the same purpose.

"Civil War horse's heart-shaped harness buckle shield According to Howard R. Crouch's Horse Equipment of the Civil War Era, page 168, these items protected the hair of the horse's tail from being pulled out on the buckle tongues. The heart motif was very popular. This piece is just over 2-1/4 inches long and a unique piece of the past."

http://sgtriker.com/cavalry.htm

 

[kuger]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart?

Great I.D I.P!These are commonly mis-ided as Confederate bed roll buckles(first one I dug I really thought I had something!)but like you said they were buckle covers

 

[traderoftreasures]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart?

Thanks guys it just makes my 1860's site a little hotter... Lots of cool little stuff. Some is still covered in corn field... i can't wait.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart?

Thanks guys it just makes my 1860's site a little hotter... Lots of cool little stuff. Some is still covered in corn field... i can't wait.

I think these post date the CW, they are ebayed as such to make money, now people actually believe it.

 

[kuger]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart?

Thanks guys it just makes my 1860's site a little hotter... Lots of cool little stuff. Some is still covered in corn field... i can't wait.

I think these post date the CW, they are ebayed as such to make money, now people actually believe it.

I dunno,they are in Crouche's,and Lords books as C.W.

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart?

Thanks guys it just makes my 1860's site a little hotter... Lots of cool little stuff. Some is still covered in corn field... i can't wait.

I think these post date the CW, they are ebayed as such to make money, now people actually believe it.

I dunno,they are in Crouche's,and Lords books as C.W.

Probably just used for a lot of years starting around the CW.

 

[kuger]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart?

Thanks guys it just makes my 1860's site a little hotter... Lots of cool little stuff. Some is still covered in corn field... i can't wait.

I think these post date the CW, they are ebayed as such to make money, now people actually believe it.

I dunno,they are in Crouche's,and Lords books as C.W.

Probably just used for a lot of years starting around the CW.

Maybe?I can say I have never dug one in a pre C.W. site

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart?

Thanks guys it just makes my 1860's site a little hotter... Lots of cool little stuff. Some is still covered in corn field... i can't wait.

I think these post date the CW, they are ebayed as such to make money, now people actually believe it.

I dunno,they are in Crouche's,and Lords books as C.W.

Probably just used for a lot of years starting around the CW.

Maybe?I can say I have never dug one in a pre C.W. site

I think you meant post CW site?

 

[Deftone]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart? solved...C.W. harness buckle shield

Hope you dont mind. Here is a picture of my collection through the years. Always fun to find. They were found at early 1900's and up sites.

 

[kuger]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart? solved...C.W. harness buckle shield

Well there ya go!I didnt realize they went that late......but I dont hunt many 1900+ sites either

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart? solved...C.W. harness buckle shield

Hope you dont mind. Here is a picture of my collection through the years. Always fun to find. They were found at early 1900's and up sites.

I was quite sure they dated well after the CW, and I guess that's close to proof. People have also tried saying the heart made them Confederate.

 

[Deftone]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart? solved...C.W. harness buckle shield

Hope you dont mind. Here is a picture of my collection through the years. Always fun to find. They were found at early 1900's and up sites.

I was quite sure they dated well after the CW, and I guess that's close to proof. People have also tried saying the heart made them Confederate.

Yeah, someone was telling me I had some nice cw finds and I just lol'd! They are all brass cept that little one btw.

 

[kuger]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart?

Great I.D I.P!These are commonly mis-ided as Confederate bed roll buckles(first one I dug I really thought I had something!)but like you said they were buckle covers

Hey I.P!!!!SOMEBODY SAID THAT (I guess I know as well as anybody even the old pro's got time frames wrong sometimes)

 

[kuger]

Re: PLEASE Help with buckle with heart?

Thanks guys it just makes my 1860's site a little hotter... Lots of cool little stuff. Some is still covered in corn field... i can't wait.

I think these post date the CW, they are ebayed as such to make money, now people actually believe it.

I dunno,they are in Crouche's,and Lords books as C.W.

Probably just used for a lot of years starting around the CW.

Maybe?I can say I have never dug one in a pre C.W. site

I think you meant post CW site?

No thats what I meant.....I dont know the time frame they were popular?I was just saying the couple I have dug,were not from the pre C.W. type of sites I normally hunt.