Posted 3 years ago
tintyper
(98 items)
This belt plate is generally seen as slightly older than the arrow back style.
Perhaps early Civil War era. These can be hard to find.
Excavated.
When did I purchase my first excavated Civil War Union buckle?
When I was a not much older than 12 about 1961.
A buckle like this, excavated, cost about $6.00 then, when there were few collectors, but today
one like this is worth perhaps $250 to $350. I excavated my first US plate in Virginia in 1971 with my metrotech detector. It was a
C Box plate.
