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Update: Found the same buckle on worthpoint, but dont have a membership. If someone has one, let me know how much this example sold for- http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/civil-war-era-naval-buckle-horstmann-co-philadelphia
Thats a very nice buckle right there!
Went to a spot I researched and it paid off! It was very hot today and I was dieing out there... First I picked up some cool old glass right off the ground, what are these things? Then I started walking around kind of aimlessly until I found a stream that had a broken dam, must have been the old swimming hole from these homesites.. Found some more old bottles and what looks to be a bar of lead and a lead disc thats been bent. Kept digging up shotgun shells so I started getting pissed off... Found the second homesite I researched on the other side of the stream, didnt find anything, tons of nails in the ground had me nulling like crazy. Went back across the stream started diggin beer cans and pull tabs... ugh, now I'm gettin pissed again, ran out of PowerAid so I started headin back to the car. I took a different way back and noticed another cellar hole I missed, so wtf... dehydration hasn't killed me yet... Started working around it and right away I hit a rectangular copper plate thats says C LOTS, was deep and its old. went all around and hit nothing, started working around where I found the rectangular plate and started finding lantern parts but not much more... Started raining.... Started walking back to the card and got another hit off to the side of the cellar hole, dug the only plug that stayed together all day and bam saw the sword buckle and knew I finally found something special. I did a quick search around for the other half but it started pouring so I had to leave (will be back to scour the area).
When I got to the car noticed it was a navy plate, but dont know much more about it, any help would be great.
Thats a very nice buckle right there!
Went to a spot I researched and it paid off! It was very hot today and I was dieing out there... First I picked up some cool old glass right off the ground, what are these things? Then I started walking around kind of aimlessly until I found a stream that had a broken dam, must have been the old swimming hole from these homesites.. Found some more old bottles and what looks to be a bar of lead and a lead disc thats been bent. Kept digging up shotgun shells so I started getting pissed off... Found the second homesite I researched on the other side of the stream, didnt find anything, tons of nails in the ground had me nulling like crazy. Went back across the stream started diggin beer cans and pull tabs... ugh, now I'm gettin pissed again, ran out of PowerAid so I started headin back to the car. I took a different way back and noticed another cellar hole I missed, so wtf... dehydration hasn't killed me yet... Started working around it and right away I hit a rectangular copper plate thats says C LOTS, was deep and its old. went all around and hit nothing, started working around where I found the rectangular plate and started finding lantern parts but not much more... Started raining.... Started walking back to the card and got another hit off to the side of the cellar hole, dug the only plug that stayed together all day and bam saw the sword buckle and knew I finally found something special. I did a quick search around for the other half but it started pouring so I had to leave (will be back to scour the area).
When I got to the car noticed it was a navy plate, but dont know much more about it, any help would be great.
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Upon ID by some of the experts here, I believe this may be a BANNER FIND!
congrats!
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I dug a simple cuff button a few weeks back and was like floating on a cloud. This kind of find would make my year, as I'm sure it did yours.
